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Corsair secret

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Post Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:09 pm

Corsair secret

I was on Browclopsia the other day milking the rumor mill for all it was worth at Tripoli Shipyard, and I found out something interesting. I was talking to this one guy, and he admitted Corsairs are actually sucked shipmakers, but the really interesting thing he said was that they actually get much of their technology from the artifacts they've found.

You guys can go to Tripoli and verify it, but if this guy's telling the truth, the Corsairs secretly are "inventing" alien technology and using it on scrap metal. If this is the case, then the Corsairs severly got the Outcast beat on cool ships.

Jose Cristiano
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Post Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:25 pm

i told some that the titan is a peace of scrap, and i'm happy that u confirm that

ow, before u think that u think they know about nomads, but they don't know anything about that is the excistance of the jumphole, that's all...

the outcast has severly times explored their unknown system... they know about the strange looking ships , they know about the rings around the sun (star)...

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Post Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:09 pm

1. I love making bad jokes about my favorite ship, read my sig.

2. It would seem quite a few people on this board believe the Corsairs know nothing about the nomads, and I tend to agree (except the NPC Corsairs patrolling near the Graveyard battle them all the time). A Corsair rumor says one person went into the jumphole and ran back with stories about the nomads, but no one believed him. The Corsairs in my opinion only know that their artifacts are alien, and that's about it. They find them quite useful, and they're not exactly explorers so who really cares where they came from.

Jose Cristiano
Corsair Vaca 7
Official Corsair helper cow

The Eagle is for people with the attention span of a gnat. FLY LIKE A COW!

Crete - Selling YOU the highest quality flying coffins around for 700 years!

Post Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:11 pm

BTW, the Outcasts have ships that are used by the Hessians, the Lane Hackers, and Lord knows who else. The Corsairs are original.

Post Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:30 pm

To answer this question, I will:

The Corsairs and Outcasts traveled on the Hispania to Sirus. When the nomads attacked the Hispania, they left many artifacts in the border worlds which Corsairs and Outcasts use today.

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:08 am

the corsairs don't let othres have their ship. Corsair children used to get an artifact to be a corsair

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 6:59 am

or maybe those artifacts are from the other aliens that made the Nomads... do we all remember the storyline? Their name escapes me but they made the artifact Trent got.. so wouldnt it make sense they made the others as well? Dont we all remember the storyline?

Sometimes the glass is half full, other times its half empty. Usually its just twice as big as it really needs to be

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:31 am

Storyline, storyline, hmm.

Dom Kavash perhaps?

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Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 5:46 pm

Hey, now this getting interesting... Im my honest opinion, Corsairs are idiots... I mean, they coulda stayed on Hispania and become Outcasts an smoke Cardamine all day... But nooo they go and screw up Ommicron Gamma... and they have no idea what to do with does artifacts.... "Oooh pretty", stupid Corsairs.... and that damned Titan flies like a hog tied cow trying to swim.....

Bein an Outcast is about doin things you wanna do: Kill, Terrorise, Murder, Destroy, Smoke Cardamine, ya know, normal stuff.....

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 7:39 pm

The alien artifact description says they were made by beings that were here before us, aka Dom Kavash, at least that's how I interpret it.

As for the Corsairs being stupid, I couldn't have heard a more incorrect statement. Most of these artifacts are indeed utterly useless to humans, and the ones that aren't they've gotten the best ship lineup period from. I'm sorry, but the Corsairs just have the best ships. The Edge world/border world scum ships come in second and they are completely outmatched. The Legionnaire can torch the Dagger in a second, and even trying to compare the Stiletto and Centurion is rediculous.

I'll admit Sabre and Titan are pretty even, it's all give or take between the two, maybe I'll even say the Sabre's better on account that the Titan does have SERIOUSLY sucked manuvering. But overall, the Corsairs just have the best lineup. That doesn't come from being stupid, they knew what to do with some of the artifacts that they could actually get data from, and they knew to ditch the ones that were useless to the nearest House idiot. That's not stupid.

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:18 pm

Ahhh, if this game was built on propotion, instead of Leveling Up-Getting Better Ships, the ships would all be nicely even... in there own way... And Corsairs are stupid.... I mean, the Outcasts have four factions that would fight to the last, just for Cardamine... who do the Corsairs have?? The outcasts have influnces everywere, the Corsairs only the Edge worlds, and Bretonia...and cardamine makes for exceptionly good reflexes... and Cardamine is thought to be something left by the Dom Kavosh... and the Outcasts know the truth about Nomads... and Outcast ships dont all look like demented clones of the Civillian fighters... an they dont have a freighter... beat that Corsair.

Bein an Outcast is about doin things you wanna do: Kill, Terrorise, Murder, Destroy, Smoke Cardamine, ya know, normal stuff.....

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 8:56 pm

1. Corsairs can actually go somewhere and not drop dead if they don't have their daily pill. Take away an Outcast's drugs, and what do you have? A seriously dead Outcast. What happens when they run out of supplies?

2. Corsairs actually fight for their people and have a government. The Outcasts, on the other hand are a band of drug dealers that would be completely without any influence anywhere if it wasn't for their low-life braincell killing capsules.

3. The Corsairs have artifacts left by the Dom Kavash, and we've seen just how useful those things sometimes can be, aka what the entire Freelancer story was about. It wasn't about Cardamine.

4. lol, being rather subjective aren't we? Outcasts have ships that look like the Hackers ships, the Hessians ships, they probably didn't even make the Dagger/Drom/Stil/Sabre series, they wouldn't know how, they're too drugged.

5. "I mean, the Outcasts have four factions that would fight to the last, just for Cardamine..." Rofl, the Outcasts have screwed the entire Sirius sector over to kingdom come. The Corsairs at least just kill their enemies. The Outcasts drug their allies, ruin their lives, then go out and slaughter convoys mostly just for a thrill. The Corsairs need the supplies to feed their people. The Outcasts just want to screw every living breathing thing to be as utterly ruined as they are.

6. ROFL, the Outcasts know about the Nomads, sure you bet. They practically pay tribute to the very race who wants to utterly demolish all of humanity. They are complete traitors to the human race, which is a bit worse than being ignorant...

To summarize, the Outcasts only have one thing in mind, to completety drug or annihilate every human in existance, then screw anything else they possibly come into contact with into non-existance. Nice people.

The Corsairs on the other hand, even if they don't care about anything else, care about their people. They want to make biodomes to feed their people (so Synth Foods won't be lacking quite as much in shipments), they have made rituals, they have made laws, they've made themselves a culture. All the Outcasts have done is feel sorry for themselves by sucking as much Cardamine as they can possibly get their hands on.

The Corsairs at least care about their people, all the Outcasts care about are their drugs.

Edited by - Jose_Cristiano on 26-09-2003 21:56:57

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:50 pm

The Outcasts are one race. We are not human anymore. That ended the day we were left to die. The Corsairs abandoned there brothers and fled, in fear of their own lives.
The Outcasts have struggeled to build a society from nothing and have succeded. The Cardamine disrtibution is our means of revenge... something you will soon feel.
The Borderworld fighters were created by the Outcasts. Superior technicians to the Corsairs. You need Alien Artifacts to upgrade your technology, Outcast technicians have a century of experiance. See the difference?
So, who cares if you take the Cardamine we need? Well kill all when the time comes for us to die.
The Dons are our organisation. The populaous as a whole is dedicated to Cardamine distribution, a common cuase wouldnt you say?
And how can we be trators to humanity, when the genetic alterations make sure that we are no longer of your race? The Nomads have been our protectors.
Come Corsair, speak up, I want to hear your pathetic argument.
(Man this is cool, just hope noone takes it to seriously)

Bein an Outcast is about doin things you wanna do: Kill, Terrorise, Murder, Destroy, Smoke Cardamine, ya know, normal stuff.....

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:15 pm

A society based on drugs... interesting. "The Outcasts have struggeled to build a society from nothing and have succeded." On the contrary, they have built a society from Cardamine. That raises something interesting though... what happens when the Cardamine is used up? Every planet has a limit, what happens when Malta dies? What would happen if it was conquered, or some biological virus was introduced. Kinda on shaky ground, aren't we?

"The Corsairs abandoned there brothers and fled, in fear of their own lives." Well, that's an interesting perspective. My answer to this is, people make mistakes. The Corsairs could have been druggies along with the Outcasts, and with the combined force, the human race would probably about this time cease to exist in the Sirius Sector. Hmm, I like mistakes...

"The populaous as a whole is dedicated to Cardamine distribution, a common cuase wouldnt you say?" You could also say Hitler united the people under a common cause. Doesn't help your case much.

"The Borderworld fighters were created by the Outcasts. Superior technicians to the Corsairs. You need Alien Artifacts to upgrade your technology, Outcast technicians have a century of experiance. See the difference?" Corsairs would have made their own technology if it was nessacary, only expend what you need to. BTW, where did you get the info the Borderworld fighters were made by the Outcasts?


"And how can we be trators to humanity, when the genetic alterations make sure that we are no longer of your race? The Nomads have been our protectors." Ok... so you're aliens who ally with the equivalent of demon aliens and parasites. Like the nomads actually want to protect you. I wonder what they really want, wait, no I have the answer, they're waiting for you to do exactly what you're trying to do. Kill off the entire human race. Lovely little people, aren't you?

(btw, I second that this is all fun, don't worry people. We could use some company though lol...)






Edited by - Jose_Cristiano on 26-09-2003 23:15:26

Post Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:41 pm

Read the description of the Sabre, it clearly states ( Or it does in my memory) that Outcasts made it. And surely they wouldve created the rest of the range? And a society based on drugs? Hah, I luagh at your accusations!! Ours is a society based on revenge ... and we get to use cool Godfather refrences.... and who is to say Malta is not a planet specifically created for the manufacture of Cardamine by the Dom Kavosh? Who is to say that after 800 years the Outcasts havent developed efficient growing and preservation techniques? Malta will last a long time, it already has, and will outlive you...
You keep mentioning Cardamine as a downfall! How wrong are you??? But, being an arrogant Corsair, Ill let you off...
The Outcast influence has touched the Lane Hacker population! We can fully co ordinate our raids!! Corsairs rely on base rumor and luck!! Sure, your trying to take over Rhineland... the saying is "The more the man wants, or the bigger it is, the bigger his feeling of faliure in some way" Looking at you Corsairs, that says alot dosent it?? Whats the problem? Not satisfying your women??Hahahahaha....

And the Nomads may not be our allys but they have not yet destroyed us, even though we intrude on their domain with our strongest ships! And if we did drug all of Sirius with Cardamine, basic food, water and oxygen would contain it!! We dont need Cardamine in its pure form!! Take our Cardamine but not our Rations, an well live on an give you hell!!
And our peoples can live beyond 100!! The oldest being 150!!! Our aces have seen more Corsairs come an go more than anyone!!
So, reallly, who do you think you are to p**s off your superior brothers?? We gave you the chance to rule Sirius, but you went your own way! That day, the forces of your doom were angered... and you shall not live much longer!! Beware Corsair! Were everywere you want to be.....

(Man this is really coool!! I changed my sig becuase of this discussion!! Any one else wanna get involved?? Gotta choose a side though... I get all Hackers, Rouges, GC and whoever.... he gets ummm errr noone?)

BURN CORSAIR BURN!!!!

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