High Noon Smuggler's Run

[[bass]-The Black Knight]

High Noon Smugglers Run/size]

When: September 23rd, 2006, 12pm (High Noon)

What: A convoy of Artifacts from Luxury Liner Hawaii, Sigma 19, headed straight to agents of the Order on planet Manhattan

Goal: Get the Role Playing moving again on the server.

Role Playing Details: The Order has discovered that there are Artifacts which hold the key to a Nomad neutralizing field. These artifacts were left behind by the Nomad's creators as a fail safe system against their creations. Nomad agents have smuggled a massive load of them from Omicron Gamma to the Hawaii, but had to sell them there to escape detection. Scattered throughout the tons upon tons of artifacts, are the ones that are the key to a perfect Nomad defense.

Years after the Nomad War, restrictions on artifacts still exist, and elements of the Order in the four governments have been unable to get the transportation of artifacts legalized--the argument being it would funnel too much money to the criminal Corsairs. Arguments that this could allow the Corsairs to take on a more positive role and develope more positivly have been ignored, and there is suspicion that the Nomads still hold some influence in the governments.

Thus, the Order has contracted Base and System Services to organize the trade of Artifacts, and get them to their agents on Manhattan, New Tokyo, New Berlin, and New London.

Rules: I'm leaving it loose. Anyone who wants to fly escort can. Anyone who wants to run Artifacts can. Anyone who wishes to role play the opposition can. If you would rather run from Cadiz, be my guest. I picked Hawaii so that newer traders can face easier AI resistance, and don't have to deal with mines or rad fields.

See you there,

TBK

[[bass]-The Black Knight]

So far the following clans have replied (roughly in the order I remember them posting:)

BoB: promote Artifacts, may escort

OSG: May run a simultaneous Cardi run.

TL: Offered escorts for sale.

Atredies: No offical policy, are leaving it up to the individuals what they want to do. They coudl escort, could shoot on sight.

Viper: Going to attack us.

Assasins: Slayer will come to blast us; I assume others may also.

More will respond as the week goes on, and it's shaping up to be an awesome event!

Assuming I can get some droms going... ;D

TBK

[Hans Solo]

My guys will likely assemble their droms/escorts at Hawaii ahead of schedule, discipline/organisation/planning seems to be rubbing off. That said, as we have three battles that day (the first at 2pm) it's likely most of our fighters will be tied up so we'll be hiring escorts. OSG will only have time for the one run before the Cambridge warm-up.

And with Pheo directly contradicting my support (nothing new there! ) it could be an interesting day... Smugglers are much more efficient at tracking and ambushing smugglers than the coppers are, which is why Traitor Blakmane is so deadly..

[[bass]-Steven]

Just a thought TBK and Hans Solo.

What do the two of you think about using Teamspeak for this event.

If we were able to confirm who is going to be doing the artifact run and who is going to stop us then we could use TS to coordinate the run more efficiently as we wont be distracted by having to type messages while avoiding the AI.

The use of TS in this way so long as we prepare for the fact that those trying to stop us might get hold of the password and listen in on our TS channel then we could potentially turn this into a type of Server scale System battle (except that we would not be fighting over systems but rather trying to get the artifacts, and in the case of OSG Cardi/Coke into Manhattan intact)

The TS channels would of course not be our clan TS channels but rather new ones that we would create for the event.

[Hans Solo]

TS is a great benifit to the smuggler, and should be considered essential. The password usually hasn't been a problem, occassionally on mass multi clan pirate events it's gotten out later in the game, but we always genereate a channel for convoys.

Depending on how many escorts there are it's usually protocol to have one scout ahead for an ambush, especially at holes/gates. The remainder with the fleet, the scout is sacrificial with the sole purpose of warning the droms over TS. I can fill you in on some other smuggling techniques in game that I'd rather not discuss on a public forum

But TS, definately, it's saved many a tonne of cardi

[[bass]-ramBler]

OOOOHHH

away from the server for a couple months and look what happens

Ill b in this

IF I can get on at the time, and assuming I'm not to late already

[Hans Solo]

NO! Your not late! and hell, if you we're we'd run it again, hey TBK?