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Yes and no. In the short term, yes, but it'd be an income hit that persists. You could reverse it, but that'd take an action.
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Yes and no. In the short term, yes, but it'd be an income hit that persists. You could reverse it, but that'd take an action.
Nicholas Brooks
Redeemer and Destroyer
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Would taking over other worlds with civilian shipyards negate the hit?
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It wouldn't negate it directly, but it'd lead to an income increase that'd counteract it.
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I thought we couldn't expand our fleet until the reforms are complete?
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You can't, I'm just assuming Nick's questions are assuming you could expand the fleet.
Nicholas Brooks
Redeemer and Destroyer
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@Daemon Hunter Will fleet expansion be available after Farryn's locked-in actions are through or will it only happen after her reform action has completed in its entirety?
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After the locked in part is finished.
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- Back in Cali
Converting civilian ships is not something you want. The Mon Cal got away with it because they built their ships with a bull and structure to survive the depths of the deep ocean which strain far more than space and combat.
Our ships aren't the same. We just need to get the reforms and restructuring of the economy done and we can start building new expanded shipyards. For now we need mostly smaller ships and if we can find the Katana fleet we can rebuild those into the Assault Frigates that are better preforming.
Our ships aren't the same. We just need to get the reforms and restructuring of the economy done and we can start building new expanded shipyards. For now we need mostly smaller ships and if we can find the Katana fleet we can rebuild those into the Assault Frigates that are better preforming.
Nicholas Brooks
Redeemer and Destroyer
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To be fair, other models like the CR-90 and the Consular-class cruiser took pretty well to military retrofits. But regardless, I was not intending to convert the ships themselves but rather upgrade the civilian production facilities to make military-grade vessels. Like how factories in wartime could be modified to pump out weapons and ammo.
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Huh...
That's a very interesting idea.
What would we need for that. Befriending that smuggler guy?
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The CR-90 and the Consular were actually built to be military ships. They had the structure for it but because CEC is all about modularity they are more used for non-military roles. And like I said upgrading the yards is fine because even then it is just making them bigger so they can build warships and still build civilian ships.
There are two people that know about the location right now. And because we have the NR infiltrated we can find out about one of them since Garm Bel Iblis has the Katana ships as the center point of his fleet.
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He didn't actually know where they were. He was buying them from someone who did. Karrdes shipmate on the ship that found it by accident.
And Garm didn't join the new republic till around the time of Thrawns original return as I recall. Disagreements with Mon Mothma I think?
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The fact he has them at all will tell that someone found them dude. That is all that is needed. And it wasn't a shipmate it was the captain. And they still know about him and his Katana Dreadnoughts.
That's right. Without Bail Organa to smooth over their personality conflict, Bel-Iblis took off to do his own thing. I guess for now the Katana question comes down to how much penetration does Thrawn's shiny new intelligence network have of third-tier organizations like Garm's Corellian Resistance? At this point, Corellia is still firmly under Coruscant's thumb, so he's basically still a guerilla cell leader, not a government figure in his own right. Maybe the mainline Empire's intelligence service knows about his dreadnoughts? All Thrawn really needs is that first clue and he can start chipping away at the mystery. I hope it does happen, because 200 dreadnoughts are exactly what the EotH needs right now to stop looking so fat and helpless to all the predatory powers out there.
Btw, I've never actually participated in one of these quests before. Is there a particular etiquette for joining that I should know about? Or is it just free-to-post for everyone who's interested?
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Just join and post as you please. Voting is more or less done for this part though so we are just waiting on the next interlude updates.
Awesome, thanks! I'll keep an eye out for that then.
Nicholas Brooks
Redeemer and Destroyer
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@Daemon Hunter Do we know who were those Holocrons' creators?
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6 members of the Dark Council that served near Nox's time. For the light side ones, those are Jedi holocrons spread through time. They're good, but not to the level of Dark Council members.
Well Holy Shit. That is quite the find.
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I hope we can also do some research into what Darth Nox was like during his lifetime. It would be great to see whether he's a more pragmatic villain that sees our value as an ally or he's actually the Sith equivalent to the Joker that I talked about before.
Also, I find the idea of a Force Order that utilizes both the light and dark sides of the Force to be genuinely fascinating and it would suck if it ends up being destroyed should Kaunas try to betray us.
Also, I find the idea of a Force Order that utilizes both the light and dark sides of the Force to be genuinely fascinating and it would suck if it ends up being destroyed should Kaunas try to betray us.
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Well, keep in mind, Darth Nox is one of the playable characters from Star Wars: The Old Republic. Specifically, the Sith Inquisitor.
Now, the Sith Inquisitor is someone who started out as a slave, was discovered to be Force-sensitive, and was shipped to the Sith academy on Korriban. His career as a Sith largely involved trying to survive a powerful Sith traditionalist trying to have him killed.
At the end of the Sith Inquisitor's story, he is made a member of the Dark Council and given a title - Darth Imperius if he mostly made Light Side choices (i.e., was largely an Imperial patriot that tried to avoid bloodshed), Darth Oculus if he was mixed, and Darth Nox if he mostly made Dark Side choices (loooots of using Force Lightning as a conversation option, lots of cruelty).
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I'm well aware of all this, it's just that we don't know what Darth Nox was like in the universe of this quest. We don't know if he underwent some amount of character growth during the years of the Eternal Empire, and we don't even know whether or not he became The Outlander. That is the reason why I think we should be doing some research on what he was like in life.
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I continue to be a fan of the idea (and hope it will be adopted here) that Nox would go on to be the highly self-important Sith equivalent of Tacitus (i.e, a politician and greatest historian of an ancient evil empire). How often are the history books and their subjects and authors forgotten - even when the civilization they are written in have collapsed - after all? Which also adds the metagamey and expositiony option of 'oh the far-outsiders? Is that what there ships look like? As I'd written in one of my books about unexplained galactic anomalies -that you clearly have read (and if not go and do so now)- You can find the earliest reference to them in the later writings of Mandalore the Preserver, which includes an account of his encounter with them. Show that to the masses and use it to terrify them into compliance'
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So…is the vote over? Nobody's voted in a while and the QM always closed the vote when it was clear what the winning choice/plan would be.