Difference between revisions of "Free Fleet"

Perhaps not surprisingly, this made no difference to the [[Song Dominion|Song]] - their people had suffered and fought for years against the [[Celestine Ascendancy|Celestines]], and whatever crime the Celestines didn't commit to start the war, the Song believed the Celestines had done far worse since in the following war.

For nine years, the Free Fleet searched for somewhere suitable to live. Ideally, they wished to find a system with at least one broadly-habitable planet that was unoccupied, but none they found met their requirements, and eventually, with resources running low, they agreed to establish a permanent civilization in an asteroid field. These asteroids were found to be rich with raw materials, that they could trade for other supplies, and as a bonus many of the asteroids were nothing but huge chunks of water ice, which could be broken down into its component atoms for oxygen and fuel, or melted to supply the burgeoning civilization with water. Effectively, they had found a source of recoverable water larger than anything a planet could provide.

Resentful of this control and popularity the Human race seemed to enjoy in the Fleet, despite being a small minority, a sizable population of its non-Human members mutinied, led by Harris's second-in-command, a fiery W'hoorn named [[Sere Umox]]. After a brief skirmish, the former Lieutenant Umox took with him nearly half of the fleet's ships and mercenaries. Under [[Sere]] these mutineers became the [[Iron Corsairs]].

In 422 A.E. the Fleet was hired by [[Temejin Corp]], a [[Shen]] megacorp, to blockade a remote planet under [[Selassian Hierarchy|Selassian]] control. Once the Fleet was on duty and far from a [[Voidgates|Voidgate]], the [[Iron Corsairs]] emerged from a nearby asteroid belt and completely wiped out the Fleet in an overwhelming ambush.