The Union of Soviet Socialist Planets

[golden veldt]

I shall be playing USSP as if it is a pirate faction

Ahoy ye capitalist dogs; I’m here to steal your money

[balmy meteor]

Full disclosure I dont really treat stc as a command role icly or oocly. If Ace has on-station authority he doesn't really use it much, generally its everyone else in USSP leading the ship and Ace just following along. He just manages traffic and the station guns

[river nebula]

Really? STC on camelot seems to have quite a pull on people most of the time

since its a somewhat central role to keeping the station running

[balmy meteor]

Yeah I mean he was hired initially by Emeric to do it, on paper he might have authority but ngl its sortve an all-for-one thing, he takes direction from USSP comms and the people in it hes worked with for a while.

[golden veldt]

To be fair here, the guy sitting on the gun console is generally gonna have a lot of sway if you don’t want him to accidentally misfire your ship 30 times

“misfire”

[river nebula]

he has misfired my ship on occasion

tore it in half actually

[balmy meteor]

USSP ships get one more warning than other ships at least

[river nebula]

xD

[golden veldt]

Misfires rip ships apart

Focused fire has destroyed Wyverns

[balmy meteor]

Just one

But yes

[golden veldt]

From Ace, have seen a few Wyverns get crippled to the point of jumping to drone territory

[balmy meteor]

Pretty sure ive only fought one Wyvern

The others I tried to bait in all adhered to their population center programming

[golden veldt]

It doesn’t happen often enough my STC friend

[balmy meteor]

It doesn't

[golden veldt]

If only those cowards had the gumption to push Camelot

[balmy meteor]

But I also haven't upgraded Camelot in a while

[river nebula]

does camelot even stand a chance?

[balmy meteor]

We won last time

[river nebula]

I'm pretty sure it has been "disarmed" a few days back

[balmy meteor]

Yeah

Thats mb

New stc rule is Asakim ships get it on sight

Ive been too polite

[river nebula]

but i was working medical that shift so i couldnt investigate, lots of work on other "disarmed" vessels

[thin marlin]

Camelot is close ties to halcyon in terms of ship defense strength

Its basically only beat out in range, which camelot struggles REALLY badly with

[balmy meteor]

Yeah thats mb. I have a habit of not glassing Asakim if they silently dock when its not an NFZ, cause technically I lack justification. But at this point Im willing to profile. We know thats what they are there for when chims arent about, so going forward Aces stc policy for the super recognizeable unknowns is "If it doesnt hail it ceases to exist"

[fossil arrow]

I don't consider Luka to really be a "leader" either, originally he was a intelligence officer sent by ussp high command to covertly keep tabs on ussp activities. While the commissar lead he was in the background taking notes. Now hes more of a station admin/attendant making sure the lights are on while staying out of the spotlight. Though sometimes i do stc when ace isnt around, especially in the early days of us being a company

[golden veldt]

Was told to stop talking in lore so now I come here

USSP Privateer gaming

Union of Soviet Socialist Pirates

[fossil arrow]

Id say comparing it to station side servers, if the defacto "leader" is captain and nova cygni is centcom Luka is like a covert ntr

[cinder rapids]

The Poslanik observes 🥰

[golden veldt]

I see most people wearing USSP Officer attire acting like 14 year olds, it’s hard to feel like anyone’s really in charge. More just a collection of people acting towards a common goal for the collective.

Less getting/giving orders and more suggesting and requesting.

The only one that truly has any real authority is who ever is on the gunnery console during the round.

Everyone fears the man that can reduce most ships to several pieces of wreckage in under a few seconds.

[pulsar wagon]

I mean, that last line was pretty much why I enjoy USSP, the common goal is basically ensuring our own survival at this point, the collective is a real mixed bag of people that make up the company.
USSP as a faction was kinda aimless, which was the appeal to me back then. Beyond prepping for port strike and turning Camelot/Baikal into a fortress, we were largely passive in the war, which meant we had time to do other things.

Wanna yap at civvies and respond to sector threats? Sure
Wanna research or run chems and medical? Go ahead
Wanna sit on overwatch for hours waiting for the moment to glass something? Why not
Wanna go patrolling and frag the TSF? Absolutely

As a company, that still seems to be the case

If anything, the fact we don't have to prep for the faction war opens up more freedom to do stuff

[golden veldt]

USSP is fun because it’s just a bit of everything. Makes playing it more enjoyable because it’s more tailored to the individual experience. Works best if everyone works together as a collective. But it also works really well if everyone just peaces out and does their own thing. As most of the time they all eventually reconvene to unify as some funny hodgepodge of people pissed off enough to strike at the bigger factions.

Me going around as Hans and stealing a ton of stuff from others is bad, but it also pays to have a Drakon with an ultra gunnery console, an extra 3 layers of plastitanium, a Titan shield and enough 90mm’s and 57mm’s to make a Flashpoint blush.

Call him a Pirate if you want, but he will glass anything that fucks with Camelot/USSP

[pulsar wagon]

This was most of my faction rounds, most of the time, you could just say on Comms, I'm going to go do xyz Commissars and Serzhants would generally be cool with it as long as you stay active on Comms.
There would come a point, where you would be ordered back, the Commissar would slap the side of a Ledokol, basically saying This bad boy can fit so much PLOT in it
A fleet would form, shenanigans would ensue. Would we win? Sometimes. Was it fun? Always.

[golden veldt]

Hell yeah

I’ve been spending rounds lately getting the Hammer operational, funny af when it shows up at the station and people freak out about it

You need 8 SUPER Packmans and 1 Peregrine Engine to get the damn thing to full operational status but

God damn, it was worth it. Loved FTLing into the middle of ADS fights and they’d have to fuck off due to the absolute armament I slapped on it

[low plover]

Gosh, I need to clock another shift as STC

That was amazing

Besides, with Camelot seeing so much fighting these days, it would be good practice!

[balmy meteor]

Good STC tip for Camelot, remember: Too many guns is never too many guns, the gunnery server can always handle more. Even if you gotta slap some new lattice on the station, we could quadruple the cannons and still have room for more. All hail the station gunnery server, the main reason I work stc lmfao

[low plover]

I understand my mission

https://tenor.com/view/snake-salute-mgs3-gif-9277925

[thin marlin]

You will also probably do friendly fire a little (a lot)

[balmy meteor]

Accidents happen

[low plover]

Sacrifices must be made for the greater good

[river nebula]

to paraphrase the Maxims for highly effective mercenaries

STC and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart

[balmy meteor]

Station safety takes priority over docked or incoming ships, if a possible Chim or silent Asakim ship be trying to dock, I just hit select all and let God figure out if they were a threat or not.

[river nebula]

There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload

I forgot how many more of those golden maxims I've forgotten

[golden veldt]

Can’t forget the “Fuck you all and your ships, I gave you all a warning that if Chimera’s showed up I would slag the fuck out of it regardless of what ships get hit.”

[balmy meteor]

I say it nicer than that, but yes, correct

[golden veldt]

Hans has been cloned to many times to still have a filter

Mf will tell you that you deserved to have been swallowed

[violet cloak]

I will still sometimes go Rrrr! over shortband to fuck with everyone

Even if it means I get shot out of the sky

[tulip cloak]

I need to come back here and play a few USSP rounds

I’ve been mostly playing on Goob, getting a little bored

[thin marlin]

Yippeeee!!!! Tunguska replacemnt merged

[golden veldt]

Show the class it’s greatness

[thin marlin]

i would but uhh the map renderer hates me and im scared of it

[cinder rapids]

?!?!?!?!?!!!

WHAT

WHAT REPLACEMENT

[golden veldt]

Tunguska

[golden veldt]

[cinder rapids]

...................

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-wtf-tom-delonge-wtf-blink183-wtf-hayat-gif-16782731

[violet cloak]

TSF glassed the Jupiter and I bought the wreckage

Mimi Bingle and I spent the rest of the shift fixing it up, docked it at Camelot, then tried to dock it at MD

I got to pilot the fucking Jupe as USSP

[low plover]

WE STAY WINNING

GLORY TO THE USSP

[violet cloak]

[low plover]

https://tenor.com/iz2t1AfIsn9.gif

[pulsar wagon]

Hyped to test it out, I might boot up local host later and give a Flyssa or Wyvern a few broadsides
Hopefully you'll join the pink gang soon (Yell at Avalon/Fluffen if someone forgets to give the role when the Changelog goes up)

[glass falcon]

Indeed looks great

[violet cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/lenin-vladimir-lenin-soviet-union-ussr-cccp-gif-18128544897993071507

I feel like I've been the official-unofficial newbie wrangler lately

the uchitelnitsa, as it were

[thin marlin]

ouugh

[river nebula]

What is thi remapped drakon?

[thin marlin]

yuh

[golden veldt]

Based rework, might still be able to modify this during a round to make it a worthwhile broadsider

[cinder rapids]

:D hell yeah!!!!!

great job comrade

[river nebula]

you modify my drakon Ill mald

add is as Drakon mk.2 if you must

[thin marlin]

drakon needs to be replaced

[river nebula]

why?

[thin marlin]

ship that was requested to be changed by original creator

[river nebula]

grim

fucking grim

[thin marlin]

yep, im trying not to change it massively

i lobe the drakon

[river nebula]

one request in that case

leave the big room in the middle

[thin marlin]

j

hmmm

[river nebula]

cause with this remap my biggest gripe is the new engineering tbh

[thin marlin]

what about the engineering is disliked

size?

layout?

[river nebula]

the fact that it doesnt really exist

Dont wanna be that guy who does jack shit and tells people what to change, so take my points lightly ofc

But maybe add a wall to the AME, so its entirely in its own compartment with only the console showing, than make that small room next to it engineering?

Gun rack to armour rather than by that door

and access to the right docking port without going through engineering would be nice

The new thruster layout is great though

As I said, my personal preference

[thin marlin]

no yeah those are good points

i was already intending to move those gyroscopes and suit lockers, just wanted to get something down so i could see how it felt flying

[river nebula]

Suit lockers can stay imo

Since those are presumably military suits for the crew- stand to reason for them to be in the armoury next to the main crew compartment

[thin marlin]

i will now be moving the ame about till i can get a larger central room

[river nebula]

what do you think?

Its a shitty paint copypast i know, but it gets the idea across

the smaller main room is offset with the new, bigger side rooms

[thin marlin]

?

a wall between ame could work, i think the extra space is nicer though

[river nebula]

I am a big fan of the walled AME version- they in universe explode so it would be reasonable to want one shielded from the rest of the ship as much as possible

[thin marlin]

oh bud, if this AME explodes ship is dead

it reaches easily in the cockpit

[river nebula]

Yes

Oh

xD

would it change if you moved the FTL drive and added a wall there?

[thin marlin]

prolly not

ame explosion is huge

[river nebula]

i know

hm

how do AME explosions work?

remove all in tiles or do walls offer some resistance, as with the conventional explosives?

[thin marlin]

from what im seeing youd need about 3-4 layers of plastitanium to stop an AME explo

right side is about 2 ish layers of plastita

so basically if AME goes kaboom, shuttle console and all of your power is going with it

[river nebula]

perhaps

[river nebula]

But does it kill the pilot?

Cause the ship is dead in the water without AME anyways, point is to keep the pilot alive for the recovery

[thin marlin]

it will kill pilot yes

plastitanium is somewhere between 2-3x stronger than reinforced walls

so youd need 6 ish layers

[river nebula]

Damn

[thin marlin]

the simple trick is never have your ame exploded

[river nebula]

still dead?

[river nebula]

That is a good ship design mindset hah

[thin marlin]

let me test!

but probably still dead

[river nebula]

the idea is to let the pilot survive

since its easier to get a new ship than train a new pilot

[thin marlin]

results are not great

[river nebula]

damn

although

i think that is survivable

if you were is a USSP hardsuit

[thin marlin]

heh 35%

explo resist

[river nebula]

not enough?

[thin marlin]

youd maybe survive with bombsuit

[river nebula]

damn

[thin marlin]

not set on decals

decided to keep the glass barrier for AME, i love extra space

i am also unsure on whether or not to have it keep the CTLA-160 or not

[river nebula]

keep it 160

it was one of the defininf drakon parts, at least for me

[violet cloak]

With discord switching to "teen by default" ID verification I'm switching to Matrix

[pulsar wagon]

Just have some ideas for the interior

• as memey as the toilet is, I'd probably nuke it in favour of one of those bed rolls, go for a crew quarters like the Pluto, maybe include a bottle of vodka as a sleep aid, move the sink to the kitchen
• I'm not sure if it's in the fridge, but USSP Naval Doctrine mandates each vessel comes with a potato ration
• I think the gas can vend thingy could be nuked, replace it with more wall or make it symmetrical with the other dock (more floor space)
• I'm not sure how much thrust the big thrusters give, but I'd think about replacing the 6 rear thrusters with 2 big ones, might need to extend the rear of the ship slightly, try and keep the same amount of grille layers

Otherwise, I like it, it's a good replacement for another fan favourite

...After writing this, I just realised there's bedrolls included that you lay out as you need

[thin marlin]

There is indeed a singular raw potato in the freezer

Obligatory bottle of vodka near the co driver(?) seat

I need to change those docking areas anyhow, i dont like how the shape of them turned out tbh

Ill have a look at the pluto the domestic crew area feels empty

[pulsar wagon]

Pluto is literally just a bed roll in the engine room, I was thinking that because the atmos tanks are in the bathroom in the current design
I was thinking along the lines that crew comfort is sort of an afterthought in a military design (A real world example would be the T34, great design for fighting and mass production, but notoriously awful to be in)
How could I miss the fly better booze in the cockpit

[fossil arrow]

i love casually slipping in some good publicity when people start shitting on TSF and PDV, the propaganda writes itself

we had like 2 soldiers and BOTH were helping with the chimera, meanwhile tsf and pdv were just fighting and occasionally harassing civs and DoC (no idea what they did🤷‍♂️ )

[glass falcon]

Another ussp w

Glory to the union!

[fossil arrow]

GLORY!!

[golden veldt]

USSP has been falling off lately, not very many gamers spreading the Soviet propaganda these days.

[golden veldt]

Pretty sure Ace, our only STC main, has quit.

[thin marlin]

i saw ace earlier today

ive been pretty burnt out lately and been enjoying playing borg

[golden veldt]

Ye, he messaged me and told me he was done and left the server.

[thin marlin]

ah, shame

[marsh island]

i had to save DoC because nobody else was

i had to fix Chimera as a Spasaka because TSF weren't helping

i am still pissed about that round because PDV kept spawning and trying to raid Halcy instead of listening to me saying "help with Chimera, they took MD and CC"

that round was horrible

[fossil arrow]

Real

[fossil arrow]

Does anyone else feel like this servers going down a "strange path"? Like I've been playing on it since the PDV were rogues and i can't help but feel like shits gotten more bleak for lack of a better word i guess. Like old mono felt like "the world is shit, but theres a glimmer of hope" to "man i really want to kill people, bathe in their blood and do the most unspeakable things to their decapitated head. Hope is DEAD, GOD IS DEEEEAAAAD!!!1!!1!". Like the more i hear the words "hugbox" and "larp" the less i like this server. When did we all suddenly enter a fucking dick measuring competition to see who can be the biggest murder hoboing piece of shit, what the fuck does "larp" even mean in the context of playing a god damn ROLE PLAYING GAME, i joke about spreading propaganda but this shit isnt even propaganda anymore, we legit ARE the only ones that care about civs, the god damn remnants of a bygone era where "public relations" were actually a thing. Anyway sorry for the rant its just.... FUCK man... i miss old mono

[cinder rapids]

100%.

agreed

I am hesistant to return

because all of my old friends have left

and the server just feels... weird

so much has changed

I don't even recognize the damned place anymore.

for example

Where the FUCK is my Sabine?!

the NORMAL civvie Sabine!?

what the fuck are drones?

what is a PDV?

Why can't ship guns shoot inside stations anymore?!

Why are half of the "USSP" (I don't consider them my comrades) turning to piracy?

[thin marlin]

i will say ive never seen any faction besides USSP care about civs anyway, so not much has changed there

im pretty fine where the server is changing to

just needs more time

[thin marlin]

i think sabine got killed due to needing to change out roster of ships

[cinder rapids]

Sabine is better

[fossil arrow]

Fair, but i swear it was never like... THIS bad

Also doesnt help that one of the admins (not naming names, you and everyone here knows who you are) blatantly hates us and will stop at nothing until we are just nothing more than a band of mercenaries "larping" as USSP because apparently we dont even deserve the dignity of actually being USSP. This will be the only time i acknowledge this individual because i dont like poinless bickering and frankly from what ive seen its simply not worth my time.

[fossil arrow]

Because thats apparently what we're "supposed" to be now to be more in line with the new (to quote myself here) "man i really want to kill people, bathe in their blood and do the most unspeakable things to their decapitated head. Hope is DEAD, GOD IS DEEEEAAAAD!!!1!!1!" vibe of the server

[fossil arrow]

Bleak grimdark, that's what I'd describe it as, ya, thats the current vibe

[old zenith]

Yea, that's not good for USSP. It was the last bastion of civilization and it's why USSP not being a proper faction is maybe the best thing for it.

Because factions don't RP it's just TDM. USSP being seperate from that allows it to focus on the RP of things.

[fossil arrow]

True

[golden veldt]

Yeah, we all know who that is.. don’t know why the server staff are so against players having fun. Combat is fun as hell. I enjoy RP as well, you’d think most would on an advertised MRP server. But right now the mindset seems very much set for the TSF to continue being harping pricks about how great they are while nuking civilians and being an overall pain to deal with in any capacity. And the PDV being at least semi-competent but having another identity crisis while still maintaining the goofy Muslim Jihadist vibes. USSP is a nice middle ground because it allows for you to kind of just do your own thing and still can get aid at just about any time through calling on the radio.

USSP is funny because it’s a freedom role, and it fits more in line with how the lores written anyhow. Every citizen can/is apart of the military, but each id their own individual and can pick and choose what they want to do based off their own preferences and experiences, so long as it benefits the whole collective and not just fills your own boots.

Fuck, frankly if they want to make the server more Grimdark, I’ll start playing a Russian that has the Foreigner perk (can’t speak common) and will proceed to glass any ship not Civilian or USSP affiliated. Only gotta give you ten seconds after I start yelling at you over shortband before I can begin firing.

USSP as a whole should start doing the same, we’re basically on course to become the System Privateers and Bounty Hunters. May as well start making a more hardline, aggressive stance.

[fossil arrow]

Honestly, that wouldn't even be too OOC for us, we'd still have our pro civ stance but we'd just be hyper aggressive against other military/merc groups. I dont hate that idea. Considering most of the servers "problem children" (imo at least) tend to play tsf or pirate it would probably be the LEAST fun for them when they cant even get close to camelot without getting yelled at and glassed

Hell we could even act as a sort of "counter thieving/pirate" force, killing pirates, taking their things and redistributing it to civs

Robin hood type shit

[golden veldt]

That's what I've always played Hans as, roll up to civilians making sure they're safe, be super aggressive and try to goad other militaries to fire on me first so I have justification to slag a mfer.

[fossil arrow]

(Wall of text alert) Yknow, I've been ghosting around and thinking, if i had complete control over the direction of this server, what would MY "ideal monolith" look like, ppl always talk about how things suck but never how they could be better so, how would I make it better? Well first thing, I'd completely nuke the faction system entirely, lets be honest no matter how much the maints admins SAY its different TSF and PDV are just reskined NFSD and pirates and thus share the sort of isolated feeling between faction and non-faction, second, id HEAVILY buf (or completely rework) the company system, ive said this before but the longer we've been a company the more i feel it was for the best, if we make it so picking a company gives you access to comms, door access and perhaps even spawns (more on that in a bit). There could be a system where companies could have unlockable ranks like factions that give you more loadout items almost like a prestige system (think uniforms, medals, the already existing special guns tab and stuff) id be mostly be cosmetic and in my personal and maybe controversial opinion NOT limited to companies (ie once unlocked you can wear it regardless of current company) mainly because, and im no coder, i can already see it being a nightmare to code. And finally (of what i thought of atm) this ones a hot take, remove faction/company STATIONS and instead, (this would need contributors) company FLAGSHIPS, giant, fully flyable, maybe ftl capable flagships, companies can move their POIs wherever they want, if 2 companies want to work together they can move their ships close.

The third one mainly comes from the fact that i REALLY like PDVs jupiter ship as a concept

Halcyon wouldn't need to change much, as a matter of fact there are already spots where thrusters would be, youd just have to mabe change some things to add the new bigger thrusters

Im thinking for us it'd be a massive military cargo carrier retrofitted to be more civ welcoming

Wish that monolith sandbox server was still around

Anyways TL:DR 1: obvious frontier faction system👎 2: better company system to replace it👍 3: unhinged hopium fueled ideas guy pitch

[fossil arrow]

Helios im pretty sure is supposed to be a ship too (or at least ship adjacent) it certainly looks like one, though no pre-existing thruster spots, so it'd probably need a few adjustments

Hell its not even too much bigger then the jupiter

[cinder rapids]

absolutely

[low plover]

Anyone who is both USSP and a pirate has my strong and immediate disdain

Always happy to protect anyone that asks, including pirates, but damn you do not gotta be out here slanderin' our good name like that

[golden veldt]

Privateer = / = Pirate

Ain’t the same, even though it is.

[fossil arrow]

Its sort of an "all x is y but not all y is x"

[golden veldt]

Legal piracy, under the flag of a nation.

Robin Hooding is a good way to put it

Will absolutely lay waste to other companies (who don’t align with USSP) and military groups. But will also break my back for the civilians of the sector.

[fossil arrow]

Like, all pirates are privateers but not all privateers are pirates

[golden veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/feel-me-think-about-it-meme-gif-7715402

[fossil arrow]

like technically speaking most of our fleet are by definition privateers (depending on what specific lore you base from most ships are repurposed civ ships and vice versa)

technically paradise's wiki doesn't say anything about volunteers/conscripts using their own SHIPS, but is does say they use their own guns so, not too unreasonable to assume if they got a ship they'd use it

also we aint paradise, we can change it up

[river nebula]

Easy Access to mil ships

[cinder rapids]

disgusting.

[cinder rapids]

we're different.

yes

the lore is only comparative, not appliable

[violet cloak]

This last shift made me so happy

Even though we fed ourselves to a woodchipper

USSP comms was the busiest I've ever seen and we went to war for the first time since I got here

[pulsar wagon]

Was it another diplomatic incident with the TSF?
USSP players, regardless of what kind they are, will always unite against some kind of threat and fragging the TSF usually ranks as the most peak

[fossil arrow]

Please don't call it that, we're not state sanctioned pirates, when i said "counter piracy" i meant we go after people who have actively committed piracy (and usually only against civs, if they're robbing militaries its more forgivable because, yknow, revolting against authoritarian militaries and imbalanced power dynamics is literally how the USSP started, and I'd say we should DEFEND those people)

If "soviet pirate" is more your speed, paycheck bratva is right over there

Im already sick and tired of people saying USSP are "just mercs and criminals larping"

[thin marlin]

considering the turn the USSP has taken and being in a less well funded state, piracy becoming more of an option is pretty in fine by me

people need money and desperate people will be taking more drastic measures

[fossil arrow]

Yes, more drastic measures like joining paycheck bratva

https://tenor.com/view/the-door-is-open-you-may-leave-gif-15357849

[thin marlin]

oops baycheck bratva is having a larger influence on the remaining USSP

[golden veldt]

Nah nah, at this point the USSP has to embrace the Privateer way of life. We’re a Soviet-styled faction cut off from all the benefits that the wider USSP would have. We can’t get out of the system but new stuff can come in predicament. Those who could not get out of the system be it through desertion, left behind, or stranded while their comrades escaped or died like the Hammer of The Union. We’re becoming exactly what would become of the remnants of a military organization that suddenly lost all its authority and oversight but still has a lot of the equipment from the military. They become Mercenaries, Pirates, Privateers or other forms of rogue. Paycheck Bratva is a drug cartel type organization, they’re slippery fuckers and shady dealers. USSP are still very much like a hammer and sickle in their combat approach. We protect the civilians of the sector but will fly around and glass rival groups like Bratva, Hive, TSF, Midnight and a few others (only if they’re flying military vessels). Hell, last night we had 3-5 ships attack Halcyon by rallying the USSP into a murder frenzy. We lost horribly but everyone had such a great time they spawned in and went for round two. The factions gotta change from “we don’t do anything except mine and exped with the occasional shitter doing things”

Last night I feel like a good fair few people woke up to the possibility that even though the USSP aren’t the central figures, we can still have big impacts in rounds.

[thin marlin]

though i do have a question for any ussp aligned privateers/pirates, what kind of vessels do you prefer using?

[golden veldt]

Depends on intent. Mudskipper is a pretty good fast ship with a decent arsenal of 4 90mm’s and 4 of the Dravok(?) Minigun things. Makes it a great harasser ship.

Drakon is what I tend to use when my intent is to slag ships. Has 2 220mm cannons, if you remove 4 walls on each side then you turn the Drakon into a great broadsider ship and 4(?) 57mm’s. Medium speed, but upgrading thrusters always helps.

Burans is my new favourite ship to use, Capital Frigate, has 6 220mm cannons, 3 on each side and 6(?) 57mm cannons. Slow, has thick armor, works as a good forward operating base. Way better than the Ledokol. Bring this expensive death ray if you plan on overwhelming firepower.

[violet cloak]

I'm usually just a radnik but if I'm doing warfare (against drones or otherwise) I prefer the Drakon.

[violet cloak]

I need to photoshop together USSP propaganda, especially in light of the active attack on TSF the other day. I'm still a hardliner on a USSP-PDV "save you for last" style treaty

[golden veldt]

[cinder rapids]

I appreciate you so much

<3

for being a radnik :>

as for combat ships

I am a wildcard.

I prefer the Akula the most.

[fossil arrow]

Ey, a fellow Akula enjoyer

Love that tiny thing

[tulip cloak]

I have never bought a combat ship for express fighting purposes in my life

There was this one time me and 2 other people (I think Nick was one of them) bought a large combat vessel to go on a sector-wide manhunt for someone who made Chimera serum

It was insanely fun

God I wish we were a faction again

Anyone up for doing something this weekend, I’m in a very communist mood rn

[violet cloak]

All of my free time goes into either the ussp or playing just enough pdv to unlock the anaconda as a starting gun (so I can mine for the USSP)

[golden veldt]

Communist Weekends sounds like a funny time

Anytime I play it’s also for the USSP

Next time I play imma try to make another Fleet like I did last weekend

Maybe have more than 1 Buran

[golden veldt]

Brothers and Sisters of Our Most Glorious Union.

This weekend, I don’t know what day or what time (likely after 8PM EST), I shall pull together a USSP/Affiliated Fleet with the intent on holding most/all POI’s and destroy one or both of the Faction Flagships. We might not be a faction, but by the Grace of Ratvar, we shall heavily influence the round as a company.

https://tenor.com/view/lenin-vladimir-lenin-soviet-union-ussr-cccp-gif-18128544897993071507

[low zodiac]

The Guns of the people shall sing a song of victory

[golden veldt]

@pulsar wagon Can you do the USSP a great service, comrade? Can you put the USSP Banner/flag into the crafting menu so I can begin claiming shit in our name?

[pulsar wagon]

I forgot banners are a thing
Unlikely to be merged before the get together, but I'll see what I can do
Should be easy to copy an existing one... I'll take a look soon

[golden veldt]

That’s fine if it isn’t in before (literally) this weekend, merging takes time, just for future memery.

Bless 🙏

If you can’t find the USSP banner sprite, just grab the Communist poster sprite, copy the hammer/sickle and paste it over the red banner. Ensure the colors match up and it should be quality enough for implement.

[pulsar wagon]

Oh, spriting
Yeah I'll look into it anyways, spriting or no, like you say, I can Goida together existing sprites

[cinder rapids]

[golden veldt]

We will frag.

[tulip cloak]

It is now canon that Ratvar is the predominant deity in the USSP

[golden veldt]

@balmy meteor Rejoice, the predominant deity of the USSP is now Ratvar.

[thin marlin]

i feel like this has been mentioned before and that ratvar IS supposedly cannon in monolith still

[balmy meteor]

Hes canon until the brass chunks cease to be a thing, can find his plushies on them

[thin marlin]

either way, im all for it

[balmy meteor]

Praise be upon our Lord in Brass, he who dreams in Reebe

[golden veldt]

Me and Zimmer have been praises our glorious god of technology zealously

[golden veldt]

Glory be.

[thin marlin]

i would very much love if ratvar was included in the official lore of the ussp as its religious deity

[golden veldt]

official lore

fine, I’ll write it myself

[thin marlin]

looks official enough to me

[balmy meteor]

GLORY TO THE CLOCKWORK UNION! TICK! TOCK! TICK! TOCK!.... Anyway back to work, that is neat though. Ill be treating it as canon at least, mwaha

[violet cloak]

Alright gamers new shift starts in an hour

Who's ready for war?

[violet cloak]

Hey can I get an export of the Ace Zimmer sprite for a propaganda poster?

[balmy meteor]

I play on steamdeck, can screenshot and share that way but no way to properly export.
I mean just slap a mowhawk/afro/cia haircut and goatee on a male sprite and set the color to something on the rainbow and itll be accurate to a few of his iterations at least tho

[violet cloak]

Fair

What gear do you start with?

[balmy meteor]

Sapper modsuit, ussp jumpsuit, cowboy boots, electrical gloves, engineering goggles, sidearms

[violet cloak]

You're the USSPs strongest soldier to be playing ss14 on a fucking steam deck

ty

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/HQyogpJqirSMhTxrg4pW0IQAJDTLRrj-DDSO8HOQHJc/https/www.allworldwars.com/image/011/Poster113.jpg?format=webp&width=800&height=546 We're doing something based off this to commemorate your time as STC

[balmy meteor]

Lmfao the tagline is just "Where the did everybody go? Night shifts suck!"

[violet cloak]

Lmao

Tagline was gonna be something to the effect of "Hail before approaching Camelot! Our home is not your dumping ground!"

[balmy meteor]

But nah thats pretty neat, cool to hear

[violet cloak]

Really lean into the verbiage of soviet posters

[balmy meteor]

That works lmao, basically a refined: "Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood Morning Colossus sector, Camelot stc is now online. Be sure to hail and remember: A clean station is a happy station, use the disposals or Ill shoot to kill" so that works pretty well, I dig it.

[violet cloak]

I have to ask how often friendly fire happened because friendlies in mil ships didn't hail

because that happened to me this shift

as in I'm the idiot that shot them

What makes it worse is I know the guy I shot lmao

[balmy meteor]

I mean Ace told Emeric a few times "Some of those friendly fire accidents were more a case of me being bored" so youre fine, ngl youre already doing a better job. Ace is a fun character but also like, he probably shouldnt be allowed control of ungodly firepower. Ngl I didnt keep track. Generally one or two a round, depending on chimera/pirate activity and how far into the round it was.

[violet cloak]

It was pirates that had me on edge

[balmy meteor]

Ngl that feeling is why I kept working the job so long. Strap extra cannons to Camelot and watch it cut bigger ships in half. Won't lie, there were some ships where when they'd hail and Ace would be like "God damn it- Clear to dock."
The station cannons are fun, don't be afraid to use them. Maybe don't use them as liberally as I did, but remember: Watching a ship get atomized is a very pleasant experience

[violet cloak]

Real lmao

I fill the boredom of STC with station bounties and talking mad shit on comms

[balmy meteor]

Helps you say sane. Good strategy is to do that, and then go deathly silent. Let a few USSP/Known friendly ships dock and ignore their hails, let the sector think SSD has claimed you....
Meanwhile keep a list of reported pirate ships on your pda and keep all guns selected.
No better feeling as STC than
"So & So is a pirate vessel"
"Glassed."
The moment they try to dock and sell their stolen wares or re-arm themselves.

[violet cloak]

I got a taste of that when the Rat took your ship

[balmy meteor]

That was funny as fuck

Good stc work

Starzimmer no longer qualified as a ship after that

For a while anyway

[violet cloak]

@balmy meteor This look right?

[golden veldt]

Beard should be blue, he needs his funny cult cloak.

[balmy meteor]

Beard should be the same shade as the hair but otherwise ye

Or can make the hair the same shade as the beard. Either or.
Clone degeneration, his liver can't handle alcohol anymore and his hair comes out random colors, eventually more negative traits until the character is a nugget in a chair

[violet cloak]

Realll

I had a lancer character like that

Jhonny Litletimmmy (sic), an illegally created clone mass produced for combat who was fated to die every time he was sent on a mission

Eventually instead of waking up in his Everest he wakes up in a Manticore that Castigates against his will

The goal was for the GM to play him as a comedy relief NPC and it gets revealed he's been my actual character this whole time

[balmy meteor]

Very nice! Ive always enjoyed characters with the lifespan of immortals, but with none of the perks, all of the drawbacks.
Honestly Ace is basically just my eternia (other byond game) character recreated for Ss14.
Greg Fantabulous, a Zombie that died (again) serving his lord. Lore dictacted if a Zombie dies they stay dead forever, soul remnants fade. Then @golden veldt and I got really high and posted a joke application: *They refused to leave;*defying lore Greg and his brother Dave would return in the forms they loved most... Fashion and weed (sentient suit, sentient marijuana plant golem).
In the sequel games Id bring Greg back once per sequel, his lack of lore preventing him from passing on after 3rd death. Now he wakes up at level 0 in the body of a random infant he accidentally steals the body of, and has to re-level and age normally back to usefulness. Dave Kushman planted himself in an island, became Davetopia, and ascended to Godhood between games.

Ace is basically just low effort, less in-game backstory Greg. NT worker who volunteered for an early cryoclone bluespace experiment, didnt read the fine print, and is still stuck in a clone loop years after his bosses died.
Did not expect him to take over as Camelot STC as long as he did, but USSP is a fun company to be a part of.

@golden veldt I guess that makes Hans the future Dave

[golden veldt]

Yes

[violet cloak]

Dave Kushman is crazy work I love it

[carmine crown]

Dear USSP mains, lets collectively agree to kill nerds who try to use camelot for piratery.

And contest multifab+server being stolen roundstart.

[marsh island]

kill

[golden veldt]

USSP are Pirates

[marsh island]

Grok, delete this message

[thin marlin]

Roundstart camelot fighting between pirates and non pirates

[golden veldt]

The Book Burnings may not begin on this day.

[marsh island]

Grok, give me a gibchem recipe that will fit in a cryostasis beaker

[golden veldt]

Grok does not have the list of chemicals available for this server.

[marsh island]

Grok, assume vanilla chemicals

[golden veldt]

Generating. . .

Gib Recipe (120u Total)

Primary Kill Agents:

Lexorin 30u
Stops oxygen processing.
Massive airloss damage.

Plasma (liquid) 25u
Heavy toxin damage ticks.
Extremely hard to counter quickly.

Tritium 20u
Radiation stacking damage.
Damage Amplifiers

Hyperzine 20u
Speeds metabolism.
Forces reagents to metabolize aggressively = damage stacks faster.

Impedrezene 10u
Brain impairment.
Slows response and self-rescue.
Delivery / Chaos Component

Nitrous Oxide 15u
Immediate unconsciousness.
Prevents escape or treatment.

Total:

30 + 25 + 20 + 20 + 10 + 15 = 120u

Perfect Cryostasis Beaker fill.

[tulip cloak]

who up communing they ism

[golden veldt]

Y'all needa get some moneys damn

[tulip cloak]

CLEARLY, u aren't a real communist

needing money? smh

[golden veldt]

Comrade, I despise currency, however in order to live in this rough and tumble sector which does not support our way of life. We must adapt.

How else are we to order a fleet of Burans?

[tulip cloak]

feir enouf

[cinder rapids]

I will amongus expell you

through an airlock

[golden veldt]

The truth hurts

[cinder rapids]

https://tenor.com/view/chainsaw-man-makima-chainsaw-man-makima-stare-chainsaw-man-makima-stare-gif-27273344

If I hear

that you've harassed civvies or neutral mercs

The pits of hell and 109 years of AM's torture chambers will be child's play in comparison of the retribution coming

beyond that

proceed.

[golden veldt]

Civilians are fine, Mercs who aren’t affiliated/allied are free game.

[cinder rapids]

Unaffiliated mercs are civs.

they're just civs with a gun permit.

just like our radniks have rights to bear arms

so do other civs in our eyes.

[golden veldt]

Unaffiliated Mercs are Company bois

[cinder rapids]

(and you need to be a merc to be able to buy a gun on mono)

[golden veldt]

(Oh good they can fight back)

[cinder rapids]

incorrect, unaffiliated mercs are just civs with guns. the denomination "merc" is wrong for them to begin with

[golden veldt]

[cinder rapids]

Mercs are meant to fight in expeditions

[golden veldt]

I guess im glassing civilians, life goes on

[cinder rapids]

I guess I'm glassing you.

[golden veldt]

[cinder rapids]

@tulip cloak @carmine crown @fossil arrow @violet cloak Gentlemen, please erase this creature

Glory to the USSP.

[golden veldt]

The times have changed, old man, the USSP only exists in name, the ideology has shifted. Most USSP play the Privateer game now, if you aren’t with us, you’re against us.

[cinder rapids]

ok no yeah it's on sight.

[golden veldt]

Mercenaries aren’t Civilians, Mercenaries are Mercenaries. They pick up their guns for their companies, I reclaim it and give it to the USSP.

[thin marlin]

in trying times we must prioritise ourselves

[cinder rapids]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1250642553435324538.webp?size=128

bro rn

[golden veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/bike-head-ding-ding-gif-14702293

Here I fixed this for you

[cinder rapids]

thanks for the self portrait :D

either way I think you fail to understand the point of mercs as a thing.

[thin marlin]

what if i made one of the USSP ships into a dedicated privateer vessel used to disable victims...

[golden veldt]

I think you haven’t been playing the game and are gonna try to lecture me on how the game should be played

[cinder rapids]

Mercs with company tags are not the same as mercs without company tags

firstly

and secondly

not all companies are hostile to us

[thin marlin]

yet

[golden veldt]

He hasn’t been playing and it shows.

[cinder rapids]

normal mercs are exped crews and the occasional security crew for a ship/a station/for MD

or a pirate crew which is free game.

and their engagement rules still forbid them from no escalling.

[thin marlin]

no escalling sure, still liable for plundering

[cinder rapids]

And you're liable of being erased :D

[thin marlin]

shhhh, shhhhhhh

the winds of change have come

[cinder rapids]

also you guys feel free to ask me for the discord invite, it's still up and running just as much as before

The USSP had harsher times than this.

[golden veldt]

The USSP found in the Monolith Sector are the abandoned comrades of the pullout. Left and forgotten, that alone would be enough to push most to desert entirely. After being reduced to being “larpers”, they opted to push back and have been actively lanching attacks against both TSF and PDV with decent success. The USSP is in good standings with most companies, MD and CC to the point where we’ve actively made alliances that have stretched out weeks. But regardless of all that, only things that remain are the Union Spirit and the determination not to be snuffed out. What they once were isn’t really capable of existing without the support of the Union in the sector. Instead they look to themselves, becoming more akin to Privateers with each passing day, legal pirates, essentially.

[cinder rapids]

Right.

And that's fine

[golden veldt]

You may not like it, but this is what has been happening. USSP have and will raid other company ships, so long as it has the Military tag we determine it as free game, mercenary or not.

[cinder rapids]

but you can't be plundering any and all mercs.

because chances are they're affiliated with MD, or are indipendent/civilian working for CC to do expeditions, or are just a station security force / doing oddjobs and need to be armed to survive

[cinder rapids]

My whole point wasn't about company tag ships, it was about mercs in general

I think there was a miscommunication.

Like

I wasn't talking about company ships

[cinder rapids]

Unaffiliated mercs are... unaffiliated.

it's in the name.

not a part of a company and not working for PDV/TSF

[tulip cloak]

I bet my left testicle you don’t take Nova Cygni as a language, don’t grab a TACCOMM encryption key, and couldn’t care less about anything other USSPs are trying to do

[golden veldt]

I play Hans, and actively lead the USSP most rounds unless I’m looking to get my money back.

[tulip cloak]

Lead them to do piracy and get people to hate us?

“We have to privateer” my ass
Go mine or fight the big factions instead of picking on civs

[golden veldt]

I never once said I pick on civilians.

[thin marlin]

the internal schism of beliefs is so peak

[golden veldt]

It’s pretty funny

Because in game it’s very much “yeah fuck it lets ball” with no pushbacks

[tulip cloak]

You said you do piracy???????

[golden veldt]

But no, I’ve encouraged the slagging of hostile Merc Companies primarily. Civilians are protected and given aid whenever I can. I said do Privateering. Legal piracy. Pick on the TSF, PDV or companies that don’t ally.

I don’t fight expedition ships or civilian vessels

But if you’re a military vessel of a non-allied group imma take your shit and give it to my guys

[cinder rapids]

Which is why I said there must've been a miscommunication

because clearly you haven't listened to what I asked/said

[cinder rapids]

neutral mercs.

AKA.

Fucking exp ships.

[golden veldt]

Miscommunications are bound to happen.

[cinder rapids]

and mercs that aren't flying company flags on their ships

[cinder rapids]

(it was on your end. I tried to confirm 3 times that I'm talking about neutral mercs that have nothing to do with companies or factions.)

(and you kept saying mercs are free game ignoring the "neutral" part)

[thin marlin]

but exp ships are the juiciest...

[cinder rapids]

....Hans

execute this man

[golden veldt]

But he ain’t wrong, they do be thick…

[cinder rapids]

....

ALEXEI

GET THE CANNON.

the 520 mm cannon.

[golden veldt]

[thin marlin]

woah woah buddy this is a 220mm household

[golden veldt]

Oh that’s a funny thing, the Buran Capital frigate fucks pretty hard.

Laughs in 6 220mm’s

It’s slow but god damn will it turn most ships to Swiss cheese

[cinder rapids]

sounds like MD needs one :D

[golden veldt]

If MD asked we’d buy them one

[cinder rapids]

I loved doing that for Chimera shifts

[thin marlin]

then loot it later whilst wearing a mask...

[cinder rapids]

with tunguskas

Medi-Warfare

[golden veldt]

Good times

[cinder rapids]

A tunguska with a full med, chem and botany bays in the cargo bay

and its butt reinforced to all hell

against ramming

[thin marlin]

alas the tung got taken out back and shot

[cinder rapids]

wait what-

WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY TUNG

[golden veldt]

The Buran replaced it, was a Wizden ship so they had to replace it

[cinder rapids]

NOT MY FUCKING TUNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[thin marlin]

starch ship

[cinder rapids]

Ugh.

Starch cooked with the Sabine.. I loved the Sabine to death

[thin marlin]

wizden catching strays as usual

[golden veldt]

Starch

Shit

Wizden used ChatGPT for his lore, he deserves the flack.

[cinder rapids]

It's good he's gone

bruh

the USSP lore is all ✨ handwritten with passion and love ✨

by yours truly <3

except the

[thin marlin]

we have lore?

[cinder rapids]

fucking

company flavor text.

[golden veldt]

We have lore?

[cinder rapids]

the company flavor text is ugh.

[thin marlin]

i thought we were all just deluding ourselves

[cinder rapids]

yes we have lore.

I wrote it

[thin marlin]

wait is this the background lore of the ussp and not the current sector lore

[golden veldt]

I’m kidding, I know the lore well enough for a German Exchange Hire

It’s the old lore, yes

[cinder rapids]

it's the Background * lore

it's not outdated, just not pertaining the sector itself

[golden veldt]

The USSP back in their territory are way different than the dregs left behind in Monolith

[cinder rapids]

well

yeah

[thin marlin]

i hunger for in sector lore

[cinder rapids]

bet

on it.

also where the hell is the #lore channel

there used to be a channel just called Lore.

[golden veldt]

@quick bay Get Nick in on the SUPER DUPER TOP SECRET PROJECT THAT WILL DOOM THE SERVER TO GREATNESS, please.

[cinder rapids]

He plays foxhole

....

warden or collie?

[tulip cloak]

Yes, comrade?

[tulip cloak]

Right away, comrade

[cinder rapids]

I love you comrade ^^

[golden veldt]

More funny USSP developments

[tulip cloak]

Dawww, you’re making me blush, comrade

[golden veldt]

There are a decent chunk that have taken to worshipping Ratvar

Funny times

[tulip cloak]

Hell yeah

[cinder rapids]

who/what is Ratvar?

[thin marlin]

the guy

basically god

but he has a really big hankering for brass

[golden veldt]

Tech God of Progress, The Brass King

[cinder rapids]

hm......

Bah
matters not what comrades worship
comrade is comrade

[golden veldt]

My god says your god is illegitimate

[fossil arrow]

@cinder rapids Ya its been like this since around december i think, grok and bot have basically been trying to turn us into bootleg russian pdv who actively rulebrake by disregarding escalation by pretending to be a faction

[cinder rapids]

Well. I say F that

It doesn't make much sense anyway. You would think the USSP would hunker up and try to survive instead of painting a red target over themselves.

especially if it affects the whole of the faction

[fossil arrow]

I kinda understand why admins dont like us, it literally says in the description we aren't a faction and have to follow ROE and a bunch of us are like "nah i'll just frag anyway"

[cinder rapids]

^ also throwback to this o7

and USSP Lore ^

[cinder rapids]

do you know which admins dont like us?

I defo want to have a talk.

[fossil arrow]

Also piracy is a form of capitalism btw, all the same exploitation, just illegal and direct instead of relying on manipulation

[fossil arrow]

I dont like naming names or thowing shade but they're in this group, thats all i'll say

One in particular, different colored name

[golden veldt]

That’s a blatant lie, but go off.

The one time I “broke” escalation was when I chose Foreigner as a trait (can’t use common), proceeded to yell at Midnighters for 30+ seconds before blasting their shit.

And then they malded about it.

[cinder rapids]

if a party doesn't clearly understand what you're up to

you're breaking escalation

[golden veldt]

Foreigner and Mute both negate the ability to properly escalate in this case. Screaming in all caps and yelling at someone for 30+ seconds should probably give you the indication you’re about to be fired on. Not to mention the 2 times I fired near the ship but didn’t hit it. If anything I proved why those traits shouldn’t exist at all.

And that people will bitch and moan about their own short comings.

[fossil arrow]

ya that was pretty much the consensus in general

also doesn't foreigner give you a translator?

[golden veldt]

If it does, it didn’t the one time I tried to use it.

(It probably spawned in the massive pile of garbage in the Camelot spawn areas)

[cinder rapids]

it.. does not.

it just gives the indication someone is riled up / panicking

also

many languages have no distinction between caps and no caps.

[cinder rapids]

you're just malding

[cinder rapids]

you were in the wrong lmfao

[golden veldt]

My brother when a Capital Ship flies straight up to you and the pilot begins screaming at you in all caps, and you don’t get the hint to vacate, i don’t know what will.

[cinder rapids]

.....please say sike

[golden veldt]

No sike to be had, just a Russian man in a capital ship screaming in his not so native language

[cinder rapids]

.....

have you ever even seen

nova cygni spoken when unknown

[fossil arrow]

also i keep trying to tell them that "USSP that became pirates because no money and abandonment" is LITTERALLY paycheck bratva, but they obviously want the title, drip and easy ship access so their doing all this instead

[golden veldt]

Schisms be like

[cinder rapids]

"schism"

looks inside

two new players wanting to larp as russian pirates in the non-russian-pirate group

while a russian pirate group already exists

[golden veldt]

[cinder rapids]

also like

you can make your own faction and request access to USSP gear.

[golden veldt]

You see what you’ve allowed yourself to see. The inside of this discord, and nothing else. Play the game, you’ll see that the two players is actually just the majority.

[cinder rapids]

it really aint that hard gang.

[fossil arrow]

despite the fact that EVERYTHING i mentioned besides title is still available to them

[cinder rapids]

ah so PB also has access to USSP gear!

good, as it should be

literally

if you want to be a pirate

go make a pirate gang

[golden veldt]

I’ll play USSP.

Thank you for your recommendation, OG.

[cinder rapids]

[golden veldt]

But I think this is where we’ll be flying until you get back and tangle control.

[cinder rapids]

bet.

[golden veldt]

I look forward to it.

Maybe the new lore team will revert the changes made to the existing lore..

[fossil arrow]

oh and fake-faction larping, thats another reason they're doing it

[golden veldt]

You done just making random shit up?

Aid the faction you complain about and maybe it wouldn’t be in the Privateering business.

[fossil arrow]

this you?

[cinder rapids]

"aid the faction you complain about"

we're not complaining about ourselves, we're complaining about you.

[golden veldt]

I don’t know what this is supposed to represent other than me taking steps in pulling the faction out of the mud.

[cinder rapids]

"out of the mud"

looks inside

"at the admin chopping block"

[golden veldt]

Has 1 note
My ass is chopped oh no

[fossil arrow]

"pulling the FACTION out of the mud" my point made

[golden veldt]

I don’t see a point made other than you not having one. Faction-Company, can you even call the USSP a true Company?

I don’t understand people like you, genuinely.

[cinder rapids]

oh I don't give a flying fuck about your ass

[golden veldt]

Has been accomplishing great feats inside the game
Has made mistakes along the way absolutely
Trying to bring life to a COMPANY (since you’re a stickler)
Is upset that I’m actually getting players to return to the USSP

[cinder rapids]

I'm talking about them removing the company because of people like you larping as a faction

[golden veldt]

? Removing the company because I’m larping a faction?

[cinder rapids]

yes.

[golden veldt]

What does that even mean

[cinder rapids]

They can and WILL remove this.

because of your behavior

[golden veldt]

You don’t even know my behavior man, you don’t even play.

Neverplayer with opinions, who woulda thought

[cinder rapids]

This behavior,

is grounds for company removal.

[cinder rapids]

ragebait used to be believable

[golden veldt]

Fuck, you’re all braindead.

Helps civilians
Attacks other Mercenary groups who use military ships

AH YES

THATS GOOD TO REMOVE THE COMPANY

[fossil arrow]

says the person desperately dying on the "i want to make the communists into capitalist pirates instead of joining the already exsisting ex-communist pirate group" hill

[cinder rapids]

it's 5 AM, I'm a "neverplayer" because I play a different timezone?

lmfao

[golden veldt]

The game runs off of currency man, you can’t get around that.

You can’t buy a ship without money

[cinder rapids]

yes.

here, it is

not because I said so

[golden veldt]

It’s not about the capitalist aspect, it’s just the only fucking way to be able to get ships

[cinder rapids]

because Admins said so.

to others before you.

that already left.

because they weren't allowed to do what you're doing.

right now.

[golden veldt]

Christ, if playing a Company the way companies are meant to be played will get them removed then what’s the point of companies?

[cinder rapids]

literally just flavor.

nothing else.

[golden veldt]

So, if it were up to you, you’d do fuck all and accomplish nothing, but be happy because shit stayed the same?

[cinder rapids]

no

[golden veldt]

That’s not progress. Or anything. That’s stupid.

[cinder rapids]

if it were up to me we'd keep doing what we do.

which is varied.

most times we're doing our thing collectively, helping people in need, and protect the place from world ending threats

sometimes we go into conflict with a faction RARELY Because it's supposed to be rare. we're a rogue element, sure, but not a FACTION.

[fossil arrow]

bro glassing ships and attacking factions is not what companies typically do

[cinder rapids]

and most important of all

we don't touch the civvies.

and companies, too, are classified as Civvies or Civvie+.

which is as I just said

flavor.

[golden veldt]

Most companies aren’t the soldiers left behind by a military organization.

[cinder rapids]

the USSP is not a military organization

[golden veldt]

[cinder rapids]

it's a country.

the tag "USSP" just means you're from the Union.

That flavor text is a change I asked for that never happened because whoeverthefuck forgot to change it from the stupid ass placeholder

(the text of the USSP company when selecting it. it's still wrong.)

[fossil arrow]

i do agree with you there, im happy mono isnt as money focused as frontier, but ya ships do still cost money. HOWEVER i think if you want to do piracy just, dont do it in the USSPs name.

[cinder rapids]

There's normal ways to get money. Like helping MD. Or just doing expeds.

or, and this might sounds crazy:

Just helping people.

People give money!! :000000000

Crazy !!!!!!!!!

also

literally skill issue.

I ONLY play Ironman.

like any self respecting USSP should.

[golden veldt]

Can really tell you haven’t played in awhile.

[fossil arrow]

honestly if it were up to me and we were still a faction i'd probably make the ships cost recourses or something, like buying vouchers with an uplink or something

[cinder rapids]

I literally made 675 k $ in one shift not even a week ago.

In ironman.

so uh

you can cut the ragebait

[golden veldt]

[golden veldt]

Voucher life would be preferable tbh

No one would like it though

[fossil arrow]

i want to try ironman one day but i have no idea how it works, does it pull from your account or straight up give you cash? might be good since i main being camelots QM and dont really need bank accsess

[cinder rapids]

it gives you 10k every spawn but no credit card access

I love it

it's the accurate USSP play.

we don't HAVE currency

that's the WHOLE POINT

WE DON'T USE FUCKIN CURRENCY

unless someone

gives it to us

[golden veldt]

I’d believe this, but you’re so unbearably out of touch with what’s transpiring in game it’s kind of goofy to have this conversation with you. I’m not mad either, I get why you’d be upset with all of this, you’re watching your lore get warped into something that wasn’t your intent. Unfortunately, that’s how life tends to work, you create something, move away from it, others will bastardize it if it isn’t actively upkept. If it wasn’t for the state of the server/the tossing out of basically all lore, this wouldn’t have been the case. Preferably, I’d like to play a proper USSP Soldat-esque character. But that possibility has sailed with each interaction in character driving the company (not even just me pushing) towards the darker aspects because that’s basically ALL THE SERVER IS NOW.

[cinder rapids]

by their own will.

[golden veldt]

The whole server is just a fuckin RDM shithole and it was that way waaaayy before I got here.

[cinder rapids]

Alright tell you what.

tomorrow

after I sleep

I'll get on. you come with me.

and the rest.

I'll show you how USSP used to play and generally plays.

what we do.

why we do it.

[golden veldt]

Fuckin GLORIOUS, direction, I love it.

[cinder rapids]

...oh dear, all the Voiniks in a 5 kilometer radius just turned their head at my statement....

[golden veldt]

Big issue the USSP has rn is that there are no old timers left. The oldest players are me and Ace and we’re on like month 2 in the server.

No direction or course.

[fossil arrow]

its kind of a tricky subject, like on one hand the whole money system in general kind of bad, the more money matters the worst rp gets imo, but i understand why it shouldn't be COMPLETELY useless, its imo one of the MANY flaws frontier has, just grind for 10 hours, rp and lose like 80% in 2, repeat

[golden veldt]

So true

[cinder rapids]

guh, yeah, I left just because my internet completely died for 2-3 months in a row

and then I struggled catching up with everything besides just mono

[golden veldt]

It do be like that

[cinder rapids]

for example:

[golden veldt]

I don’t know what this is but it looks like a clusterfuck lmfao

[cinder rapids]

it's just my 40 planes, 160 torpedoes, 120 20mm boxes of ammunition, 4000 liters of fuel and 80 men I gathered in 1.5 hours and built all with my boys myself ! o7

Glory to Callahan

xDDD anyway

since the war has been going hard, I've had little time for else since the 9th of this month

[fossil arrow]

not to mention people using exploits, if money dosent matter, exploits are useless

[cinder rapids]

we've been fightin for 2 weeks now and it's been hard

[golden veldt]

The servers in a really weird place rn in a lot of aspects

The power creep is kind of insane tbh

[cinder rapids]

power creep?

[fossil arrow]

id say money should exist, but it shouldn't MATTER. imo if it were me id make the most expensive ship like 5K or something

[golden veldt]

TSF / PDV ships are LEAGUES ahead of current ship designs. I get they’re the focus, but like, most ships would crumble over either sides smallest vessels due to the arsenal alone.

[cinder rapids]

I mean, yeah, that's always been the case

the USSP has always had terrible, civilian+ equipment

that's why I actually quite welcome us becoming a Company.

us moving back towards being a faction will only make the admins kill it off fully

which I would rather hate.

[golden veldt]

Yes, as it should, but most TSF/PDV vessels are so much MORE than anything else available, most things can’t get near them or do enough damage unless you’re pulling out a Burans.

The disparity grows

Every larger

[cinder rapids]

ehh I'd beg to differ

[fossil arrow]

its like a weird mix of frontier and rmc with a little hullrot sprinkled in

[cinder rapids]

I solo'd 2 razors and a nebula in an Akula

and won the fight

they are strong

but ehhh

there's always bigger fish.

[golden veldt]

Tbh it makes engagements more fun when you got a large fleet consisting of mostly civilian and exped ships.

[cinder rapids]

and there's totally space for that! just, maybe not all the time.

that gets admin feathers ruffled.

[fossil arrow]

like it feels like the server is trying to be a focused game mode with a proper round structure (hour 4 portstrikes for example) while also being an open space sandbox

[cinder rapids]

I loved when portstrikes were at hour 6 instead

4 hours to equip Camelot was a nightmare

[golden veldt]

To be fair every assault we’ve launched we’ve died horrible, very funny deaths. We accomplish little but it’s still good fun. Yesterday I was able to destroy 2 Hoplite(?) ships docked with Halcyon by overloading their reactors.

[cinder rapids]

muh terrorism. ((without escalation that also counts as failure of escal btw))

((that's the problem))

[golden veldt]

Worry not it was an active fleet engagement

[cinder rapids]

o7

[golden veldt]

My ship was destroyed, I boarded

[cinder rapids]

just laying it ther

[golden veldt]

Was funny

Had like 10 players ghosting me when I died

Got cheered on in the afterlife

Glory greatest

[cinder rapids]

xD

civs

reeeeeaaaally hate factions

and factions dgaf about civs

that's where we come in

the people ™

anyway

I eep now

good night

[carmine crown]

Ok but, we refuse that goofy ass lore.

Commnd left, we stayed, we wait until they return, but for now we do our best.

[cinder rapids]

want the disc invite btw comrade?

[carmine crown]

Uhhh

Eh why not

[cinder rapids]

o7

[carmine crown]

Btw, merc fab being able to print USSP tech is real or not?

I read someone wanted to make it like that, but I have no idea

[cinder rapids]

done

[cinder rapids]

no clue tbh

didnt try

[carmine crown]

@pulsar wagon is mercfab being able to print USSP real yet?

[thin marlin]

this is the lore we have been given, and likely the lore we will be getting with the supposed camelot rework ive seen being made

camelot will no longer be only USSP

if the USSP want to keep their hold, theyre gonna need to fight for it

see that stinky U.I worker?

shoot him with a four gauge

do it.

also i feel like there are some very scewed beliefs on what ROE are in here

currently for robbing civs it is quite literally 10 seconds to say, you are being robbed and then you can rob em

if its a mil ship you can disable the mil ship

[quick bay]

what role

[carmine crown]

Ok but, we refuse that goofy ass lore.

Command left, we stayed, we wait until they return, but for now we do our best.

[cinder rapids]

incorrect. its the lore you made the fuck up

[thin marlin]

im working with whats currently happening in game

if you want that lore to be canon its recommended to write it up an PR it into the guidebook or somin

[cinder rapids]

Bot , Hans already decided to be normal and see what's up.

You step on the USSP, the USSP will step on you.

work with the union

[thin marlin]

whar, no im all for the USSP piracy and the people trying to keep the USSP alive state

neither are wrong imo

[cinder rapids]

your opinion is

[cinder rapids]

btw, who do you play.

[thin marlin]

atm? borg

[balmy meteor]

I like seeing the fleets we've thrown together recently to combat to TSF, it always ends in ruin but is a good time. Should probably focus on the PDV at some point, ive only seen us gun it for the Halcyon, but overall, nice to see the USSP refusing to go silently into the night. Looking forward to the next engagement.
I mean we're only a company because we're not a faction, but from an ic standpoint.... We have no ceo, no specified output or input, just a bunch of random mercs working together on different things. A company requires structure and goals. We're a remnant alliance. Should def try to avoid piracy and messing with civs- Which yes, hypoctrical of me to say, as I was Hans' gunner on that Nova-Cygni-Only "hail or become shale" run, but eh, I told him oocly "No way this will reflect well on us or go over well" I enjoy glassing, just following orders.
But that one off round aside, targetting the Factions makes the most sense. My ic atm is that they are warring for control of the sector. We live in the sector and have been abandoned by our government, better to be fighting than let NT v2 or Sultan Syndies become our overlords.
Tldr We should def avoid piracy or mindlessly glassing, but Im all in favor of the USSP's recent habit of occasionally rallying and reminding the sector that they were also a faction at one point.

[cinder rapids]

we're not a company

we're a minor faction

the denomination of company is there due game mechanics, not actual denomination

occasionally rallying that being said is fine

as long as we don't do it all the time

and I hate.

the denominator of "privateers" or "legal piracy"

we ain' pirates.

we're heroes of the people

[balmy meteor]

I know we're not a company, thats what im saying, its a game mechanic so im not going to pretend its a thing ic and allow it to influence my guys actions

[cinder rapids]

for sure! and I agree with that :D

[balmy meteor]

Yeee

[cinder rapids]

As current Poslanik I'll definitely be doing things to redirect our efforts away from looting and towards civilian interest

that being said.. I will also teach you to throw hands several leagues above you :>

o7

[dawn crystal]

Groks privateering is based honestly

It feels realistic and fun

[golden veldt]

Glad staff agree it’s more fun to accomplish something than sit around all shift doing fuck all.

[golden veldt]

Tip to Good USSP Privateering:

-Dont target crewed Civilian or Expedition Ships. Unless they are a known hostile company, then they’re prey. Treat Civilians with respect, Recruit Mercenaries and Spacers if at all possible or at least win their hearts and minds.

-Uncrewed/Derelict Civilian and Expedition Ships can be looted for their haul, so long as their captains/crew are (likely) dead or left it adrift.

-Military Ships have been determined as free loot, but should be approached with olive branches before slagging, unless TSF or PDV. (I frag both on principle, but focus on the TSF until they’re dead or AFK).

-Make sure to use common language when exploding other people’s ships. (This was a funny test and I enjoyed the admin interaction )

-Distribute the worthwhile loot amongst the wider group, sell the rest.

-Hunt down your local pirates with your mates to get bounty money goodness for better equipment. Sad capitalist Monolith society hours.

-Use a Mudskipper for high speed, good handling and low-medium DPS, good Harasser/Interceptor. Use Drakon for its low-medium speed, 2 220mm frontal firepower, isn’t super fast but can pack a good punch and acts as a good Gunship. Use Burans only if you have an other ship support, it’s quite slow by itself and very large, good target for rammers and heavy hitting weaponry. Has 3 220mm guns on each side (6) and a small armies worth of 57mm, can take a beating but also dish it out, an overall decent Capital Frigate. Don’t bother fixing up the Hammer or researching the Ledokol, it’s not good for anything other than using it as a giant, slow, fuck off ram.

[cinder rapids]

"-Uncrewed Civilian and Expedition Ships can be looted for their haul, so long as their captains are obviously not present. "

Absolutely not.

the rest is fine

:3

[cinder rapids]

I was.. hoping you guys would've done the things I asked .. :/

the old flavor thing is still here

[golden veldt]

They’re claimed under Dereliction. If a ship you dock at is outta power, has been drifting for awhile, it’s a derelict vessel whose owner likely died on an expedition/other and they won’t be recovered. Civilian vessels tend to just.. have nothing worth taking anyway.

But if they are vacant and also lack crew/ownership, they’re free to be claimed. A victimless crime.

[cinder rapids]

oh those yes

[golden veldt]

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

[cinder rapids]

Derelicts yeah

just clarify the derelict bit

o7

[golden veldt]

That’s why I said Uncrewed

[cinder rapids]

an uncrewed ship could be just parked-

we both know bot would use that as a "tee hee didn't know"

[golden veldt]

Generally if they’re uncrewed in space they died to space carp

[cinder rapids]

"-Uncrewed Civilian and Expedition Ships can be looted for their haul, so long as their captains are obviously not present. "

just fix this with adding "and the ship is unpowered/drifting"

:3

[golden veldt]

-Uncrewed/Derelict Civilian and Expedition Ships can be looted for their haul, so long as their captains/crew are (likely) dead or left it adrift.

We ball

[hollow inlet]

Bro no one is going to force players to act how you want them

Even when USSP was a faction if someone pirated with proper roleplay and escalation they'd not be banned

Stop threatening admin action

[fossil arrow]

I've been here since August

[fossil arrow]

Agreed, which is why me and nick are against the two newbies that just showed up one day and declared that we are paycheck bratva 2.0

[golden veldt]

Laughs in haven't forced anyone to do anything, just raised the need to explain and have gotten a following.

[violet cloak]

Thank fuck. I was starting to worry my commissar work the other night was crossing a line when it led to the collapse of the whole sector by round end.

That really took a lot out of me, I'm gonna have to not do war ops for at least a week

I don't like all the pirate shit either for the record, piracy is counter-revolutionary

[balmy meteor]

Nah that was peak round end, no complaints

[low zodiac]

Ideally if we can get a proper fleet up of say, two Burans and a Arkansaws that actually did research, maybe a hammerhead or two

then that could run the shit of even TSF/PDV

[violet cloak]

We definitely expedited the collapse of the TSF

that's for fucking sure

[balmy meteor]

Next time we should target PDV, unless I missed a Helios run so far we've just hit the Halcyon. Keep it fair

[low zodiac]

On the note of engaging TSF more than PDV, idealogically we align with them more to a degree, plus PDV generally don't have as many players

TSF is WAY more active on the regular

[golden veldt]

You did good, got a hit uncoordinated towards the warping to TSF part but that's usually how it goes. Last time I led it, someone flew their ship into the ass of mine and fucked my engines. So you did better than I lmfao.

[violet cloak]

I'm a lot better strategically than tactically

[balmy meteor]

Yeah idealogically we have more in common, TSF should get it more, still, don't wanna leave them out of the fun

[golden veldt]

Strategically is realistically the only way you can plan. Once engagement begins it's a free for all, no plan survives the initial stages of combat.

[violet cloak]

Agreed, it would just be a TSF + USSP stomp on the PDV. But it would be nice to win one of our wars if for no other reason than morale

[golden veldt]

Am I the only one that finds it hilarious that the USSP morale seems to go up after we lose a fleet?

[hollow inlet]

Ignore them or disrupt their piracy. Rogue USSP elements? Traitors? Just plain bad soldierly behavior?

Choice is yours smh

[violet cloak]

the call of the void really fucking gets us lmao

[golden veldt]

Its funny af

It was nice to be able to destroy a few TSF ships as an infiltrator, that shit was funny

[violet cloak]

Oh yeah that was great

[balmy meteor]

I was so proud

[golden veldt]

Pries open your ship piece by piece and detonates your engines! Then does it again.

[balmy meteor]

Never knew the AME flashes "Shit" on the screen before it explodes

[violet cloak]

only reason I got caught when I did was I had to hide for a biobreak

[golden veldt]

That's funny af

[violet cloak]

And I got very close to killing the TSF that got me

shout out heavy pulse pistol

heavy pulse pistol my beloved

[balmy meteor]

The temptation to build another brass ship next time we form a fleet is real, ngl. The Warzimmer sucked, I loved it. Pretty sure a charon round hit it, whatever it was, the ship ceased to exist as more than lattice real quick

[golden veldt]

Have yet to see this happen, but it would be interesting to have SOME pushback if y'all fuckers are all so truly, woefully upset with being coordinated to take on the factions.

Try steering the ship instead of sitting in the thrusters, maybe?

Hearing a lot of shelling from the peanut gallery, but don't see them actually doing anything.

[balmy meteor]

I mean all ive seen is
"We taking on TSF/PDV this shift?"
"WAR!!"
"RAAAAHHH"
And me
"BLOOD FOR THE BRASS GOD!"
If people are upset at the direction the ship is being steered, the wheel is right there. Atm people seem to be enjoying it, the rare times there are enough of us to gather

[violet cloak]

I feel like coordinated war action - revolution - and individual piracy while flying the USSP flag are different things entirely

[balmy meteor]

I sorta see us lately as a natural revival of the old rev type from ss13, with less flashes and more communism

[violet cloak]

I may be missing a lot of context though, I've been avoiding this conversation because I'm relatively new at 200h

[golden veldt]

Absolutely, but from what you’ve seen of Hans, is he truly a pirate or more just a looter that will occasionally glass a fucker for being in one of the more troubling companies?

[violet cloak]

A looter for sure, but the only company I have beef with is Paycheck Bratva

[golden veldt]

Paycheck Bratva is glass on sight. Hive tend to release the Chimeras, so they’re also getting it. Midnight Co are more akin to Pirates than their weird arms dealer angle they got going.

[violet cloak]

I've bought some good shit from a Midnight Co ship!

Buddy gave me a death squad lasgun

[golden veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/fade-away-oooooooooooo-aga-emoji-crumble-gif-20008708

If they’re played properly they’re fine, t’is why hailing and demanding company intent is generally my go to, my issue is I tend to see more of them using it as a piracy company.

[violet cloak]

I've only had one pirate encounter. Two if you count me shooting Ace's ship after it got hijacked

And the first one was within my first 30h

[golden veldt]

Poor Starzimmer

Wasn’t even classified as a ship at the end

Ace was so proud

[violet cloak]

[balmy meteor]

Lmao youll miss that feeling. Some shifts Ace would have 3 screens open. Advanced radar, firing console, pda notekeeper to keep track of reported pirate ships announced over broadband.

Because he took pride in his station, and strove for excellence on the job...
Or because he liked glassing, and a paper trail would help explain why said reported ships got glassed even after hailing.
Either or.

[cinder rapids]

yes

[cinder rapids]

its not about that dont worry

the way youre currently doing it is fine

I just dont want it to devolve

and

I dont want us to be known as "pirates" or "privateers"

we're the people's protectors

glory to the USSP.

that and if we hear someone fuckin with civvies from our guys we yeet him into the sun :3

[cinder rapids]

I'm coming soooonnnn I have an operation tonightttt

[golden veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/infinity-war-avengers-spider-man-death-vanish-gif-12094481

Me about to go to the Laundromat cause my kid pissed the bed again

[cinder rapids]

air dominance over Caoiva must be maintained

[golden veldt]

Make it so!

[cinder rapids]

behold!

aircraft carrier

[old zenith]

Well, realistically if that's what the USSP was now. The factions would just glass Camelot and that would be the bitter end of it.

I liked the commune concept of USSP. That's what we were doing until recently. And it's because of that we had the support and manpower to be as aggressive a faction as we have been. I think leaning too heavily into the pirate gameplay will attract the worst players, and also a long lasting meta grudge against the USSP.

[old zenith]

They don't want to be paycheck brava because it would mean they are actually an enemy of the USSP.

[hollow inlet]

oh I fully agree that pirating is a bad idea for the long term

sure civilians aren't super relevant but they do have influence

and over time they probably will gain a bit more

[golden veldt]

Privateering = / Piracy

Understanding the difference is key.

[hollow inlet]

says no one ever

[golden veldt]

Then you know nothing about what the topic we’re on is.

Privateering is similar but entirely different.

[hollow inlet]

privateering is government approved piracy

its still piracy

if you get caught by the opposing government you will be treated the same or worse

[golden veldt]

Yes, we still adhere to all the same laws and regulations. We aid the civilians and other helpful companies but attack the Imperialist TSF and Degenerate PDV along with hostile companies. I don’t know how that doesn’t sound like what we should already be doing.

[hollow inlet]

which government approves your piracy

here

[old zenith]

Yes, but you are talking about targeting civilian factions. Maybe the only one the USSp would be aggressive against is the actual larper, the American guys.

[golden veldt]

Which government doesn’t exist here?

[golden veldt]

You haven’t read any of the messages but you have a big opinion.

[old zenith]

What message

[golden veldt]

I’m not targeting MD, CC, Civilians or non-hostile Companies.

[golden veldt]

[hollow inlet]

If you are like getting commisions from the TSF or PDV to pirate and harass the other side I'd reckonn to call that privateering

maybe the Overseer I guess but that's a bit silly

[hollow inlet]

this is what we call an insurgency then

smh

[old zenith]

Yea you said you were if military class. But a lot of Merc companies have military class, but they are still basically civies in comparison to the factions.

[golden veldt]

It’s Privateering. Insurgency assumes we’re rebels.

[old zenith]

USSP beef should be with the other factions. The factions suck and should be our only ops.

We ain't rebels it's our sector. PDV and Marines need to get the hell out.

[hollow inlet]

this is pedantic

piracy is piracy no matter how you dress it up

unless you are not doing piracy you are doing piracy

[old zenith]

Lol

[hollow inlet]

harassment? guerilla warfare? warfare?

raiding?

[old zenith]

Well, the difference is pirateers were sanctioned pirates. Meaning they were actually actors of war. While pirates are just criminals.

Normally the people getting pirated don't care too much about that difference.

But, it does matter dramatically to the pirates in question.

Mainly in legal protections and material support.

[hollow inlet]

your legal protections is that your backers won't try to kill you

maybe you could claim POW, not that that's a big thing back then

[golden veldt]

Glory to the Privateer Union.

In all seriousness, this is just the progression of just about any abandoned military group left behind after a war throughout most of known history. They’ll either become Mercenaries (which the USSP has done thus far). And when things become more desperate, they’ll strip more of their ideology to adapt to the new environment. The USSP doesn’t exist in this sector. They pulled out and abandoned the remnants on Camelot. The most aid we get is Bluespaced USSP ships that we have to purchase out of what appears to be a blackmarket(?). We’re still quite similar to the OG USSP, we aid civilians of the sector, while combating corporations (because in lore we should hate most corporations) we attack TSF because we are at war with them in lore. We are semi-friendly to the PDV but will take pieces of them for ourselves because of the lack of support and resources calling for desperate measures. We are either loyalists or separatists. And none seem like they want to go against the “hey guys wanna kill the TSF today?” Mob mentality I’ve been able to conjure up with that single sentence.

Just stuck on words. Pirate. Privateer. USSP. Remnant. We are comrades that seek to aid the collective (who are sided with us), that’s really all that matters. Those that aren't with us are either against us or are neutral parties which we probably won't interact with much throughout most rounds.

If I called it a War, I’d get less pushback on this needless back and forth. But that’s not what this is. We are not the USSP Military. We are those that got left behind and must adapt. We’re not even true communists, we utilize the credit system and sell shit daily.

[cinder rapids]

not hate

simply disagree.

I don't know if you've read the actual USSP lore yet

also

we weren't in war with the TSF in lore.

We would've been erased otherwise.

you're most likely looking at the year-old outdated flavor text that was around and no one read anyway

you're lacking information

"taking pieces" off of PDV is nonsensical

[golden veldt]

If I find a ship adrift in space, I’m taking the pieces worth taking.

[cinder rapids]

...which is stupid and shortsighted as you could bring those pieces back, get gratitude and assistance and alliance in return and not be forced into said measures 😭

either way

you need a massive catch-up.

[golden veldt]

You’re funny

[cinder rapids]

I'm not funny, I can show you in practice

[golden veldt]

I’ve read your lore, the Paradise lore, the other lores dropped by other players and have existed in the muck of the game.

[cinder rapids]

We have never been at war with the TSF.