Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:17 am by ???VivaHispa?a16!!!
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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