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Monthly Archives: January 2011
The Struggle For Freedom Makes For Strange Bedfellows
– Admiral, what I am saying is that we have three major deficits at the moment: manufacturing, viable bases and manpower. The anti-shipping raids net us lots of supplies, but we have to consider the fact that the Imperials are … Continue reading
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Ship classification in the Federal Fleet
Both the Empire and the Rebel Alliance have rather non-standardized ways of referring to ships: for instance, both call the Sienar Fleet Systems-built Guardian-class patrol ship a cruiser, despite the fact that the term is mostly used for referring to … Continue reading
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Battlestars, a new take on an old concept
When Tirdan Cassell joined the Federal cabinet, he presented an idea that he had been fiddling with for a long time when he worked at Sienar Fleet Systems. Namely, the conversion of obsolete ships to battlecruisers. Essentially he had figured … Continue reading
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Project RED BRUALLKI
What led to project RED BRUALLKI was a combination of a near-magical stroke of luck and a near-genius command decision by Commander Laz Moehner, who was the CO of the CR90 Corvette Longprobe. The Longprobe is part of the 1st … Continue reading
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The Use Of Weapons: Nukes, Missiles, Combat Shuttles and Defense Guns
– Huh, looks like our new friends mean business, Captain. – How so? – Every radiological alarm I have just went off. They’re launching nuclear weapons at that ImpStar. -Two Alliance officers observing the 2nd Battle of Stilgan The math … Continue reading
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Glimpses of the near future: Operation BLUE DESOLATION
Note that part of this article is off-limits to players. Anyone who wants to read it, just highlight the white text between the SPOILERS-notices. Note that since this is an RPG, there are many possible outcomes to BLUE DESOLATION, but … Continue reading
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Military Training In The Federation of Independent Worlds
The Federal Military is currently, like mentioned previously, to a large degree staffed by officers and enlisted who have at least a full standard year of military service under their belts for the Imperial military, local auxiliaries or even the … Continue reading
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The Plant, The Secrets and how to keep them.
“The Plant” is what Lt. Colonel Vassa Hool is frequently called. Never to his face, though. Technically, it has a modicum of truth in it despite being a nasty thing to call someone. Lt. Colonel Hool is a Ho’Din, who … Continue reading
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Federal Marine Infantry Corps
Traditionally, Marine infantry has played two major roles in combat operations: boarding enemy ships and planetside drop operations. The Federal Marines follow this tradition, though the boarding side of their job is more focused on. Marine infantry units are “lean” … Continue reading
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A Short History of the Galaxy
As we all know, the prequel movies are really bad. For the purposes of Imperial Center Does Not Hold, we need at least some history of the galaxy though, so here is a short version of differences between this setting … Continue reading
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