Well, I did hear a rumor. Here's what's going on:

The Corsairs and Outcasts originate from the 5th sleeper ship, The Hispania. The wreckage can be found in the Omicron Alpha system.

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Well, I did hear a rumor. Here's what's going on:

The Corsairs and Outcasts originate from the 5th sleeper ship, The Hispania. The wreckage can be found in the Omicron Alpha system.

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*Trent voice* "Uhhhh huh"

The Corsair's aren't all too big in terms of numbers. Red Hessians have many, many more. However, the Corsairs have the better pilots, weapons, and ships. In other words, they are powerful, but they don't have the numbers. They may have an empire, but it has little in the terms of guards.

"Good to know, could come in handy"..

also- in regards to the hessian comment; if im not mistaken, the hessians are just a group of postal miners.. im pretty sure they've got their roots in rheinland as well.

oh ya? you say corsairs dont have big numbers well i'd love to see you go hostile with them and try to go through sigma 13... heres a nice story for ya... i was once swarmed by about 7 of them and they had centurians against my dragon in sigma 13(guess who won?) they with a few shots killed me and sent me back to the depot that was in sigma 13. i then had to keep coming out and dieing in the hopes that one of the times i wouldnt die and sure enough once i came out the second time there were 4 more out there waiting for me (those pking bastards!!!) but i somehow managed to shoot out enough counter measures to avoid there misles and cruise disruptors and was out. shortly after that me and a couple of guys decided to take on a couple of missions in stuttgart against the red hessians (for those who dont know they are enemies with corsairs) i then became neutral to them and had no problem in the sigma system anymore. now can anyone guess the next fun part? (translation the next part where i get trounced) im an explorer and i still gotta go through those omega systems sooner or later and anyone whos been there will verify that if you go to omega-5 ITS A HESSIAN HELL HOLE, its like a constant war ground agains you and the corsairs. anyways wish me luck (ill need it)

Edited by - undead-xeno on 15-03-2003 10:12:41

Yeah I actually thought the whole "hidden plot" about the Hispania, the Corsairs and the Outcasts was really fun. When I finally made it to the Outcasts homeworld and read the info file on them i was fascinated. It was a very interesting thing to mention about the Cardamine, and how they genetically changed to require it as much as water... and how they live longer and have a reduced birth rate (this is the outcasts, who were "now, ironically, truly separated from the rest of society." I didn't like the way the game made them the bad guy by saying they "developed a plan to expose the entire universe to the poison and make lots of money." I wanted to be their friend.

A trick to become friends with basically everyone is just travel to... colorado I think, find the Xenos base there (in the asteriod field in the bottom left part of map) and blast every Xenos ship there for about 30-45 minutes. You should only be hostile with a few people then (including Xenos of course) then go exploring and take the Outcast bribes (because you will be green with all the liberty people before, and the bribe just brings them down to the middle while making you green with the Outcasts. So you should have basically no enemies while you explore (seeing as how the Border Worlds are mostly Bounty Hunters=green, Outcasts=neutral before bribes, Corsairs=neutral, Zoners=neutral before bribes) other than the occaisonal red hessian patrol, which could be tough before you get some suped up ships, and of course, since this the spoiler forum, the occaisonal Nomad wing (especially around that jumphole in Omicron Alpha, near the 'graveyard', to some weird uncharted system that has some nomads in them... it is breathtaking tho).

Back to the topic at hand, I wonder how the Corsair's managed to become separated from the Outcasts and not become addicted to the Cardamine? Was there a part of the Hispania that broke off or something? They have two very different homeworlds, and yet they are enemies. Odd.

Thanks for reading my bantering

Hispania got damaged on the way. Some chose to abandon it and continue in Hispania's shuttles. They became corsairs. Those who stayed on Hispania made it to Omicron Alpha and became outcasts.

ownage is such a capitalistic term.
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Just a rumor, I heard, but well, if the corsairs are really that low in numbers, why they plan to invade frankfurt, and do not think that rheinland police or navy will stand a chance ... aswell they have their own shipyard that produce 24 hours a day new ships for them ... and they have more than enough ppl even for each ship, actually they rate a ship higher than a live ... must be cause they use those ships for generations. and they producing ships for generations, they have the artifacts, they have the highend tech, they are extremly rich from their artifacts. the only thing they lack is space, and they seem to change this soon enough aswell.

though a direkt conflict is at least better than the way the outcast went, they controll by now most of the "house" syndicates, and somehow I am sure that they corrupted aswell a good amount of politicians, which man or woman with power would not accept a offer to nearly iternal life, which is something cardamine can give you. ain´t it funny that the 2 most powerfull factions are both from the hispania? though, maybe the zoner are nearly equal in influence, cause it seems that they have their eyes and ears everywhere, and aswell have to fighter to stand a chance against nearly anything that try to piss them of.