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Citizens of the USC have been launching expeditions into the old QV Rockbreaker stations in Nyx for many months now. These missions have repeatedly proven successful, clearing the stations of nefarious criminals—if sometimes only temporarily—while recovering large quantities of valuable minerals and other materials useful for crafting. Until now, most of these expeditions have been…
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The most pressing topic on the Senate floor of the United Space Confederation right now concerns the stormwals of Crusader — and whether to establish a Protection Act on their behalf, and if so, what form that protection should take. Should it be full and total protection? Or something more relaxed, allowing limited hunting for…
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It started like any other day in Stanton. Cargo manifests filed. Jump points plotted. Haulers running the same routes they had run a hundred times before. Nobody was watching the skies any closer than usual. Nobody had any reason to. Then the first convoy stopped responding. Then another. Then the emergency channels started filling up…
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Intro The current debates within the United Space Confederation (USC) all center on the first-ever nomination of a Consul of War. While this position has always existed on paper, written into the USC’s constitution, it has never actually been filled — making this a genuine first in our history. There is little doubt about Director…
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SpaceTomato Stream from the Scavenger Hunter The United Space Confederation, represented by Farrister, recently participated in a scavenger hunt hosted by SpaceTomato. Five teams competed in total, each tasked with solving riddles to find locations across Stanton — flying to discover items, solve challenges, and collect objects to bring back to the finish line. Each…
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Drake Interplanetary probably has one of the worst reputations in the verse. Pirate ships. Cheap junk. Tin cans held together with ambition and duct tape. That’s the shorthand, and it follows Drake everywhere: from the Magnus shipyards to the shadier corners of Grim HEX, from UEE Navy briefings to landing pad small talk across the…
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The closing weeks of April have been busy for the USC fleets. Across multiple operations, commanders and crew alike have been tested on everything from large-scale naval coordination to post-combat salvage logistics and community crafting initiatives. These efforts are laying the groundwork for even more ambitious endeavours in the weeks ahead. Here are the highlights.…
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“…[Radio Static]…. Pirates boarding the ship…[Radio Static]…Object found and we fear pirates will seize…[Radio Static]…Request assistance…[Radio Static].” This was the last transmission received from the USCS Black Horizon, a Carrack-class exploration vessel that had been conducting a deep undercover, classified Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) mission in the Pyro system. The vessel had been tasked…
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Operation Dark Echo was, by all accounts, a resounding success. However, the methods by which it achieved its goals remain deeply questionable. A large number of bombs were dropped throughout the operation, destroying ancient natural sandcaves and obliterating an entire outpost on Pyro IV. While some initial explanation had been offered in our first interview,…
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They drift in the dark between asteroids, silent and hollow — relics of an age most have forgotten. To the untrained eye, they are little more than ruins. But to those who know where to look, the QV Stations tell a story that stretches back centuries. A story of ambition, collapse, refuge, and slow decay.…
