Phaser, if you want to see it in Safari you have to clear your cache the old fashioned way, log out, and then login again.

Magus: still nothing :(

Explorer is doing fine however.

Allow me to say: woot!

/me goes to read it

-Eloi D'Acrayel

hmm just need a section about how there is a huge battle to destroy all the cap ships and a computer virus causing mining bots to go insane. :D Then, by the time the nations had enough time to rebuild cap ships you might have them in the game:)

Also- Some ship designs are probably Serco and some Itani and some NT but we all steal so much from eachother its all available:P

Centurion and Valks are Itani made
Vulture and Proms are Serco
the rest is all different NT corps making them.

Shift-reload for all mozilla-based browsers. It's because Internet Explorer doesn't use a cache for the sidebar navigation, so you don't need to empty its cache. All other browsers do, so you need to manually refresh the page sans cache.

Bingo! Thanks roguelazer

I'm guessing bots are hundreds of thousands of escaped drone soldiers (Guises?)?

I first have to offer a great amount of congrats to the author. that was a FANTASTIC backstory. Very well thought out, well written and very informative. It definatly makes me want to play the game more. I have no criticism, but one question; will the organization and history of the neutral territories ever be expanded and explained? they're given only a minor run down.

But over all, EXTREMELY good. It also got me to change from Neutral to Itani.

I wrote up a little story describing the bots' behavior quite some time ago. We're making them fit with this story one small step at a time.

Icarus
> Looks like Serco get the raw deal. Although i'm happy being an
> arrogant, bloodthirsty, augmented human, I can not imagine many
> others wanting to be seen in the same light. Also, it seems that
> the Serco spacecraft technology is clearly outdated, and they
> only win major conflicts by shear numbers.>>

Yes indeed. I shudder at the thought, since there are no numbers worth speaking of right now, and the overall power of the Serco is dimished. Hopefully Serco will prove a lot more dynamic in another writeup, if not, we will have... issues. ingame.

Serco forever! Wee!
Now drop yer cargo.

Wow, that was a great read. Tragic though; I've lost all hope for humanity. It seems as though we will be RP'ing in a universe consisting primarily of scourge, scum, arrogance and profiteering. What light will guide us through this murky future? Will there be pie?

"... consisting primarily of scourge, scum, arrogance and profiteering."

You mean the ego wars will be justified now? Damn. Never saw that coming.

I believe it is time for me to speak up, as a representative of the so called "Serco dissident faction" I must vehemetly protest the onesided view of Serco history that the Itani monks have chronicled.

This view merely reflects the goverments propaganda agency, Free Orthogonal eXhibits, and not the "true" history of my folks.

As the military strived to stabilize our society, we watched as they slowly built up our national pride and wellbeing, effectively dealing with the looting and problems that issued after the war, however, all was not good. Just because the goverment chose to be silent in the face of the Neutral plight, does not mean everything was calm during this period. There was strong uprising inside our ranks, with many protests about the way the issue was handled. However, there is little one can do as an individual to fight goverment resistance in cases like this.

Students in schools were simply elected for the combat teams, usually for free-combat where accidents are prone to happen. This makes sure that if you disagree with the goverment standard, you are silent about it, lest you get elected to represent your school, class, squad, or group in the arena. The results were usually quite effective.

We became silent. Dissident was kept in the homes of people, in private, and officially we support our nation in pride and strength.

Over the years there have been two, silent, uprisings of protest. Both of theese were effectively pacified, and where the first was simply blanketed out by the media, the second was branded as a terrorist attack by vengeful Neutrals. This led to increased hostilities towards the Neutral groups.

Our goverment is rigid in their ways, they cannot change the policy of past, lest they lose face. They cannot allow themselves to progress, because that is percieved as weakness. If they, braving all forebearing, act in a progressive way, they are eliminated. Karun was a perfect example of the ruthlessness that the triumvat exhibits in their control over our population.

We are loosely organized, and do not keep a following of information to eachother. There is a rumour of a freezone in one of the outer stations, however, that is nothing I have been allowed to know of, And nothing I will research further.

Any attempts to contact us will be met with refusal, we have had many years to perfect silence and uniform appearance.

However, I take this moment, my life to the Lady, to stand up and speak against the misguided chronicles of Erum the blind and his followers.

All hail the Lady Serco!