the founders day revolt? I have never heard of that one.

Ahhhh yes....I remember these like it was yesterday...
Well two of them anyway

The Dallas Incident was the result of a failed Jump Gate project in Texas. The Dallas Research Center and the Jump Gate we both destroyed when they activated the Gate. For some reason, the Gate malfunctioned and exploded, creating a massive Dark Matter Cloud. The cloud split in two, creating the two Neqre(SP?) clouds. The radiation found in Texas is a direct result of this accident.

The Founders Day Revolt happened in Bretonia and marks the begging of the Mollys terrorist group. The Mollys were originally BMM miners who worked onboard Graves Station, but grew restless at there poor treatment and revolted. The Mollys and the Millitary fought, ending with the Hood being crippled. The Mollys created Arranmore base and added the minefield. THey now fight to claim Dublin and its gold for themselves

Dark Matter Storm occurred in the Kepler and Gallileo systems. Basically, it was a huge storm of dark matter. Because of the storm, there are now several hidden wrecks littered over the two systems.

The two clouds in the Texas system are called Grande Negra and Pequena Negra. (spanish)

strafe!

Edited by - VroomZo on 8/19/2004 8:07:24 AM

Edited by - VroomZo on 8/19/2004 8:09:09 AM

Bit more detail on the founder's day revolt. Like was said, the Mollys were originally BMM miners in the Dublin gold fields. However, with no local millitary or police (the battleships came later) there was massive corruption. Many of the officials took tons of the gold for their own purposes and then pushed the common workers to the brink to make up for the lost quotas. As a result, many died within 5 years of coming to Dublin (something like an 80% mortality rate at its worse). The worse slavedriver of them all was an aptly named man called Graves, who pushed the future Mollys beyond the brink. Sick of it all, the miners revolted and fled into the system, taking down the few millitary patrols that were there including a gunboat with all hands (called the Storm I believe) using a mined booby trap. Well, the Crown wasn't just going to sit arround and watch the most valuable system in her territory secede, and lauched the battleship Hood, the flagship of the fleet, in retaliation to qwell the rebellion. What ensued was the defining battle of the revolt, where many a brave molly lost their life, but it was not in vain. They managed to set off yet another trap, detonating the Hood's reactors and crippling the ship. The remaining Molly forces fled to regroup in the gold field they would later mine and call home. The hood was abandoned until it was re-presurised by the IMG. Graves station is still there, producing just as much blood as gold in their shipments, and the Bretonian Millitary has since deployed either the Essex or the Sussex to the system to deal with the rising number of Mollys. They have been fighting their bloody civil war ever since, and despite being hopelessly outnumbered, they have held the crown to a standstill. Soon, the tide will turn, and Dublin will be ours! I mean theirs. --- VH16

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