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Posted: 2003-04-28 08:14pm
by Arthur_Tuxedo
NecronLord wrote:The Star Confederacy of the C'tan declares itself neutral in all matters and will accept only biparty agreements at this time.

We have also subsidised the ISIS terraforming corparation to conduct large scale operations on the UPK worlds in question, as an act of goodwill, at the convinience of the UPK, of course.

The confederacy is also open to trade, by any interested party.
We also offer our services for other contract works.
The UPK is grateful for this gesture of kindness, and we extend our hand in friendship and mutual defensive military alliance. Shall we exchange ambassadors?

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:19pm
by Arthur_Tuxedo
HemlockGrey wrote:
I offer my word as a Jedi and an envoy of King Dagnar that they have no physically addicting effects.
Excellant. We also require a large number of well-educated slaves. Can you offer us something of this nature? If not, we will be satistfied with raw metal.
Do not be misled by our name, good sir. We were originally a collection of pirate kingdoms, but now we have a united and progressive society that does not condone slavery. However, raw metal is something we have in great abundance, and I'm told that fleets of private entrepreneurs are already en route, laden with unrefined, hull-grade metal.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:22pm
by HemlockGrey
The Krytos Star Empire has several thousand rebels in custody that recently attempted to commit genocide against one of our outer colonies with a powerful Bio-weapon. Unfortunatly the senate vote Against putting them to death for their crimes and they were fit with cybernetic implants in order to make them obedient. Quite frankly i want them out of our empire ASAFP if you want them they're cheap
While they are not particularly the sort of slaves we are interested in, the caesar and the Senate agree to take them off your hands. We will pay for brainwiping and neural reprogramming and your empire will be compensated with a minimal fee. I trust you have no objections to us putting them to work in the Trajan mineral mines?

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:24pm
by HemlockGrey
Do not be misled by our name, good sir. We were originally a collection of pirate kingdoms, but now we have a united and progressive society that does not condone slavery. However, raw metal is something we have in great abundance, and I'm told that fleets of private entrepreneurs are already en route, laden with unrefined, hull-grade metal.
Excellant. We have entered them in our database and will begin processing atomospheric equipment.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:25pm
by Darksider
HemlockGrey wrote:
The Krytos Star Empire has several thousand rebels in custody that recently attempted to commit genocide against one of our outer colonies with a powerful Bio-weapon. Unfortunatly the senate vote Against putting them to death for their crimes and they were fit with cybernetic implants in order to make them obedient. Quite frankly i want them out of our empire ASAFP if you want them they're cheap
While they are not particularly the sort of slaves we are interested in, the caesar and the Senate agree to take them off your hands. We will pay for brainwiping and neural reprogramming and your empire will be compensated with a minimal fee. I trust you have no objections to us putting them to work in the Trajan mineral mines?
The Prisoners have already been brainwiped and reprogramed. They'll do whatever you tell them too and i have no objections these rebels were planning genocide, they deserve whatever they get

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:31pm
by Thirdfain
Thank you for the generous offer, but our people will not hear of it. While our citizenry has been known to use implants and prosthetics, it is quite hostile to the idea of such large, sweeping changes to our physiology.
While the freemen/bondmen/lovebound of the Free Floater Republics do not undertand the aversion most heavies have to genemodifications, we understand their right to do as they please. We hope that this will not effect our relations in the long term.
The New Roman Empire's citizenry has a constant demand for more slaves. Many wealthy and middle-class citizens would pay handsomely to import slaves from foreign powers, particularly those with exceptional intelligence and business acumen.
Understand this: Slavery is one of the worst crimes in the eyes of floaters, and the trafficing of slaves is one of the few things Floaters seek to interdict.

Both civilian and military Floater units will actively hunt down slavers in ther vicinity of any Floater cluster. Nations which espouse slavery can expect strained relations with the Floater republics.

The treatment of slavers captured by Floaters depends on the system in which they are captured. The relatively organized Zarathrustran Floaters will free slaves and turn captured slavers over to the authorities, for trials followed by expulsion from Floater territory.

In the less well organized systems, Slaver vessels are occasionally found floating dead in space, with their crews nailed to the outside, bodies turned inside out by the explosive depressurization which most Floaters see as the fitting end to all slave traders.

This being the case, if you value your ill-gotten human cargo, please order your slave trading vessels to avoid systems with floater military presence of any sort.

Keep in mind that this is not negotiable. Even if the Floater governments were to issue edicts allowing slaver vessels to pass unharmed, Floater citizens would violate such a law, and kill slavers regardless.

May the peace of the Void be with you, and the poor souls who are deprived of freedom by immoral bondage.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:34pm
by Darksider
The Krytos Star empire does not openly trade slaves.
This was a special ocassion where we had several thousand brainwiped rebels and no place to put them

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:35pm
by HemlockGrey
Both civilian and military Floater units will actively hunt down slavers in ther vicinity of any Floater cluster. Nations which espouse slavery can expect strained relations with the Floater republics.
Any attack on a Roman vessel will be considered a valid casus belli.
In the less well organized systems, Slaver vessels are occasionally found floating dead in space, with their crews nailed to the outside, bodies turned inside out by the explosive depressurization which most Floaters see as the fitting end to all slave traders.
Should this happen, we demand that the offenders be extradited to Imperial territory for crucifixiction.
May the peace of the Void be with you, and the poor souls who are deprived of freedom by immoral bondage.
Our slaves are for the most part well-treated. Many earn their freedom. Your aversion is noted but any interference will be met with anger. Any violence against our people will be met with bloody retribution.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:35pm
by Pablo Sanchez
Thirdfain wrote:May the peace of the Void be with you, and the poor souls who are deprived of freedom by immoral bondage.
Likewise, trafficking of slaves through any territory controlled by the Pan-Slavic Republic is illegal, and punishable by no less than a 20 year sentence without parole, and in extreme circumstances, execution. The English word "slave" is a derivation of our ethnic name, and no citizen of the Pan-slavic republic can forget this.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:38pm
by HemlockGrey
The English word "slave" is a derivation of our ethnic name, and no citizen of the Pan-slavic republic can forget this.
How fortunate, then, that our esteemed empire does not speak English as a primary language.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:51pm
by Thirdfain
Should this happen, we demand that the offenders be extradited to Imperial territory for crucifixiction
Should that happen, the brave Floater soldiers will enjoy the plaudits not only of the slaves they liberated, but of all civilized nations. Slavery is an abomination.
Our slaves are for the most part well-treated. Many earn their freedom.
Many of the first floaters came from the North American continent, from the nation-state of the United States of America. They remember how similar words were used to rationalize the enslavement of people of the African breed. Vessels carrying criminals whom are serving out their sentences as laborers will not be harmed. Vessels carrying innocents pressed into slavery will feel the wrath of the Unbound.

Posted: 2003-04-28 08:52pm
by Stormbringer
Any vessel trading in slaves or carrying them aboard found in ASE terrirtory shall be seized, the slaves freed, and the slavers/owners sent to work in the terraforming of the mercury-like second planet of the Vahalla system. Any slavers found in neutral terroritory shall be seized and turned over to the local authorities.

And the ASE shall place %200 tariffs on all NRE goods sent to the ASE.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:00pm
by Pablo Sanchez
HemlockGrey wrote:How fortunate, then, that our esteemed empire does not speak English as a primary language.
:roll:

It is unfortunate, however, that the esteemed New Roman Empire is unfamiliar with the concept of illustrative language.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:06pm
by HemlockGrey
Many of the first floaters came from the North American continent, from the nation-state of the United States of America. They remember how similar words were used to rationalize the enslavement of people of the African breed. Vessels carrying criminals whom are serving out their sentences as laborers will not be harmed. Vessels carrying innocents pressed into slavery will feel the wrath of the Unbound.
Our vessels will remain out of your territory. Attack them and we will destroy you.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:09pm
by Thirdfain
Our vessels will remain out of your territory. Attack them and we will destroy you
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His Imperial Majesty would do well to remember what has happened to the slave-holding regimes that came before him- including the Roman Empire on which he bases his culture!

We will not invade your space to free your slaves- but any slave ships which enter Floater systems will find themselves in a most uncomfortable position.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:10pm
by HemlockGrey
His Imperial Majesty would do well to remember what has happened to the slave-holding regimes that came before him- including the Roman Empire on which he bases his culture!
You would do well to remember the fate of the Carthaginians.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:24pm
by Stormbringer
HemlockGrey wrote:You would do well to remember the fate of the Carthaginians.
You would do well to observe courtesy. You are quite clearly not in the right of things. Your trade in slaves, how ever well treated, is repugnant to civilized nations and will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to liberate the wrongfully imprisoned where ever we might find them.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:30pm
by Darksider
While we do not approve of slave trading (except in the case of Lifetime prisoners serving out a labor sentience) the Krytos Star Empire will respect the NRE's sovrign rights to conduct trade within it's own territory and will simply not purchase slaves from the NRE

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:32pm
by Sea Skimmer
HemlockGrey wrote:The New Roman Empire's citizenry has a constant demand for more slaves. Many wealthy and middle-class citizens would pay handsomely to import slaves from foreign powers, particularly those with exceptional intelligence and business acumen.
The Kokand Empire could sell you the necessary cloning technology to forever remove your need to import slaves. However due to the need for them to age them would not be a short-term solution.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:34pm
by HemlockGrey
The Kokand Empire could sell you the necessary cloning technology to forever remove your need to import slaves. However due to the need for them to age them would not be a short-term solution.
What is the cost of this technology?

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:40pm
by Straha
The Nation of Monacora bans slavery in all forms, however we will not force our will on your ways, and will let your use of slaves slip. The two warnings I have for you, though, are that you shouldn't take slaves from us, and that you shouldn't send slaving ships through our teritory, though you might not have laws against slavery we do, and customs will act before we can stop them.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:43pm
by HemlockGrey
The ambassador from Rome requests an audience with the ambassador from the Reynari Empire, to discuss the terms of a military alliance.

Posted: 2003-04-28 09:48pm
by Sea Skimmer
HemlockGrey wrote:
The Kokand Empire could sell you the necessary cloning technology to forever remove your need to import slaves. However due to the need for them to age them would not be a short-term solution.
What is the cost of this technology?
For the amount you require, the cost would be considerable, your operating costs would be as well due to the need to raise the clones. However the same warrior clone might be created thousands of times required, and the need for slave trading with other star nations would be removed as the clones began to come of age.

Posted: 2003-04-28 10:56pm
by Raxmei
The Holy Skaven Empire expresses sympathy for the diplomatic difficulties experienced by Rome. In case there is any doubt, the Imperial fleet guarantees safe passage to peaceful foreign vessels, regardless of their cargo.

Posted: 2003-04-28 11:03pm
by Alyrium Denryle
Durandal's Empire

Holdings

1 M class planet (Durandalia) with pockets of high density population

5 other small. but heavily populated worlds...domestic dwellings and non- industral occupations have artificial gravity. these have been terraformed to be habitable

9 small colony worlds, sparsly populated...mostly reserch stations, and military testing facilities.

Mining operations in the systems under our control

Military bases spread throughout the system under our control

Orbital shipyards around all worlds under our control.

Weapons and tech:

We are possessed of gravity based drives, and shielding...as well as conventonal shielding.

Our more powerful weapons include particle beams(64 megaton each), mass-drivers(140 mt each) and fusion missiles(40 mt each). As well as laser based point defense.

Durandal Heavy Cruisers

Length: 800 meters

Armament::
70 point defense lasers
30 fussion missile lanchers(turrets)
40 particle beam cannons(turret mounted, 20 twin mounts)
10 railguns (forward fire arch)

These are in limited production, and guard the core system

Sinful class Frigates
Length: 400 meters

Armament:
80 point defense lasers
30 particle beam cannons
20 Missile Launchers
5 railguns forward firing

these are our standard production vessels

Godless class fighters

length: 20 meters

Arms:
2 fussion missile launchers
2 paticle beam cannons
5 gattling lazers