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Re: Blacktron Contest Entry: Expropriator
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Wed, 5 Dec 2001 00:56:53 GMT
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Wow... that looks great!
In lugnet.space, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Hi everyone,
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> Here's my happy happy contest entry, in its "raw" form (with no
> page of its own yet):
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> The Blacktron Expropriator (category IV or VI):
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8780
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> best
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> LFB
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> (goofy little blurb below)
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> INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION SERVICES - EDIT BEFORE RELEASE
> Mercantile Liaison, LL-Space
> Despatch ID: 665xQ4438-iiL9
> Subject: "Expropriator" vehicle graphic archive
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> The accompanying image archive concerns Federal Impound Number
> XH-448, a ship taken on the rimward trade routes about three
> months ago. This craft confirms our suspicions regarding the
> recent rise in effectiveness of Blacktron pirate attacks, namely
> that the BT are now dismantling entire ships on-site and have
> devoted significant resources to refining such a process.
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> Blacktron, denied a presence in most commercial systems by effective
> Federal policing, have developed an insidious new strategy that
> uses mass-shadow technology to stop ships in hyperflight, well away
> from friendly bases, allowing them to make off with the whole ship. [1]
> In response to the rise in merchant losses, we have begun deploying
> "Q-ships" among the regular commercial traffic in the hopes that
> Blacktron will stop them, being unable to tell these warships from
> ordinary merchant ships. Our Q-ship program has resulted in the first
> captured example of the mass-shadow device, but little else aside
> from the debris of stock Invaders and Renegades until recently.
> In September, one of our Q-ships, in the process of mopping up a
> Blacktron ambush, stumbled upon a larger ship never before seen.
> This craft had apparently suffered hyperdrive failure when it tried
> to escape at the first sign of trouble. This stroke of pure
> luck brought that craft--XH-448--into our hands.
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> This ship has been codenamed "Expropriator" by Federal authorities.
> It is not a warship, but rather a support craft and mothership to
> four small EVA-buglike industrial craft that are equipped to saw,
> tear, and peel ships apart. Our engineers believe that the debris
> is loaded into waiting Blacktron shuttles, Invaders, and Renegades,
> which cannot themselves make off with whole ships. The Expropriator
> has a small cargo capacity, but it is obviously not intended to
> operate independently. The ship is also based on standard BT
> modules; it uses four Renegade-type engines and a modified Invader
> navigation pod. The EVA-bug section, nicknamed "the tamale" by
> Fed R&D, is a marvel of salvage engineering that we are only now
> beginning to unravel. Please see the complete "exploded view"
> for reference.
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> We welcome any feedback or reports concerning this vessel. It
> is suggested that you add the loaded and unloaded profiles (profile2
> and profile1) to your recognition database as soon as possible.
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> Cordially,
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> DIRECTOR OF MILITARY INTELLIGENCE AND OPERATIONS
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> [1] Our thanks to the Grand Admiral for the intelligence on this
> weapon, for which many Bothans undoubtedly gave their lives.
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