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Captain Durall — Thu, 12 May 2016 22:07:19 +0000

Special reporter Sam Tunabout is deep in the snows of Sobaras

There has been a major battle in the Kazon Territories. The valley behind me is littered with craters as the TEA faction was battling for control with the SPW. SPW and TEA had both claimed the Kazon Territory and SPW today made it clear they intended to win. It is unsure at this time how many ships and ammunition was spent in the bombardment but the area is noticeably deeper.

Teas bunker withstood the bombardment for hours and they kept declaing victory and calling for SPWs surrender. But with no quarter asked or given SPW breached the base and destroyed the last of TEA's infrastructure. Now system refuges TEA is adrift with flash clones and the clothes on their backs.

A charity relief effort was set up for them but no one attended. In a final communication TEA surrendered the system to SPW. Right now I am attempting to get interviews with the members of TEA and SPW to get their perspectives.

Now to (sigh) Stacy Starburst and the VAC report

Stacy: Hellllooooooo Terracon. So like SHO changed their name to VAC I suspect because its easier to spell, but they declared war on KOL and attacked them yesterday. So Captain why the attack?

Captain: Well there was an incident a couple of days ago where we were scouting and we got attacked and rightfully so. A specific member of KOL became very hostile and was speaking very rudely about VAC's honor. So we declared war and decided to start our assault.

Stacy: So you attacked them today?

Captain: Well more specifically we attack the individual and sunk their ship leaving nothing but a hull in space. We usually practice restrained warfare but not this time.

Stacy: Restrained Warfare?

Captain: Yes see its like farming if you destroy everything leaving nothing well those people never come back and you have no one to fight. VAC typically avoids shooting CVs and Bases unless they enter combat with us then we try and disable or destroy guns. Sometimes there are critical hits that destroy cargo or mats but in general we don't. While we want that aggressive playtime we don't want to push people away.

Stacy: So why not this time. Our reports say you completely destroyed one ship while not attacking the other at all.

Captain: More than one faction had reported being angry with this individual and they were going to attack the KOL faction. We at VAC are always conducting patrols and recon of our neighbors. We knew his ship and the owners of the others so we took it on ourselves to attack while at war and use unrestrained warfare. Our hope was with a more surgical strike we could remove the person and not have the entire faction punished.

Stacy: Was it a clean fight?

Captain: Well we were at war we did declare it and also we waited until there were 3 in their faction and then we only attacked with 2 people. When we got close the person decided to leave and the ships were undefended. Loopys ship did respond and fired on us the other did not.

Stacy: That seems kinda crappy shooting at an unmanned CV.

Captain: Well it is actually but when I got within 3km he left and abandoned them. This was a tactic he used before and well we lost all respect for him. we fight like our enemies if they use underhanded tactics so will we. Given the insults we were never going to do anything but complete destruction but we had hoped that he would provide more sport in it.

Stacy: Could you not use your captainy powers to just make him go away?

Captain: Well yea but that's no fun. Besides in the PVP zone we can use a "social" justice. That's what the convention is for to allow for the group to deal with disruptive elements in a more natural way.

Stacy: So he can come back?

Captain: Sure nothing is preventing that.

Stacy: What about your war with KOL?

Captain: Its over. We did what we came to do.

Stacy: Well that's right out of the captains mouth. VAC declares peace with KOL and life goes on. Now to the Wibbildy Blobbity one for the space time continuum report.

Zardizglarb42 here for the foolish meat bag update.

Space seems fine aside from the normal subspace disturbances that plague all you mortals. Remember while some can help they have chores to do as well. Loss should be expected in your caporal existence. However fear not for you can always sheed your meat skins and feed me!

A wave of new bio creatures is expected this weekend but your mightily leaders have determined to NOT allow anyone in without a current citizens recommendation. However any noobz that face punishment this weekend that you recommend will also be faced by you. So keep your meat sack pets in line.

Now I go to nom your ships lost in subspace. On to our new sports caster. Max Power.

Max Power: Max Power here taking it to the MAX. With our new energy drink THUNDER CHUNK. 1/2 caffine, 1/2 rocket fuel 100% THUNDER in a can. THUNDER CHUNK faster than warp drive.

Ok so Terracon Sports!

First Up the very first SV on SV Tournament.

2 Events
The Battle Royale - Last ship standing WINS.
The tournament Single elimination.

Rules: Must have an SV with no hacked stuff. only wusses hack ships and they are so full of wuss not even THUNDER CHUNK can help them.

You are out when you are dead or can no longer fight. So no guns? No Power? No Ammo? No Living? Your out.

Prizes:
1st place a full stack of rations
2nd place an epic weapon of your choice
3rd place 3 full stacks of refined ore. (Your choice)

Register your name and ships name on the event by commenting. Must register for each event and have 1 ship per event. So you cant use the exact same ship in both. Can print 2 versions of the same one but we are not waiting on repairs.

next sports event after the Battle Royale is the Terracon Hunger Games.

Rogue system deep in the middle of no where. 1 Starter planet. 4 hours to die. Only for the most hardy of the hardcore like those that can shotgun a THUNDER CHUNK upside down while doing something extreme.

You enter with only your starting gear. Last one standing wins. 1 Death for any reason and you are out. No Factions allowed Character reset required.

HVs and SVs will be down there BUT no fuel no ammo. You gotta fake it until you make it. Winner is the last one alive and after 4 hours everything is wiped. Set yourself up for success and prepare for combat.

You can go back to your safe and comfy homes once its all over. Any levels lost are your own deal and will not be refunded. its a brutal mission are you up to it. Respond to the event to sign up.

Now ive gotta pound some weights and hit some THUNDER CHUNK good luck out there.

That's all for TNN

TNN News Update

Captain Durall — Mon, 09 May 2016 01:20:50 +0000

TNN News Corporate Actions

This is Rikler velsor Reporting on Corporate actions it seems today
the Faction known as Aurora Prime was absorbed by the Red Sun Tea
Party A Large Corporation in the Universe. During actions taking
Place upon the moon of Akua the Faction Aurora Prime Aidded the
Coporation tea in endeavers in taking a foot hold on the Lunar
Surface. As Such and olive branch was given Leading to Communication
through secure channels which ended with Aurora Prime Being merged
into the Universe wide Company.

This is Rikler Velsor with Corporate Actions Tnn I wish all of you
A Great Week and Stay tuned for more Corporate Actions with Rikler
Velsor.

TNN the new day is on us

Captain Durall — Sat, 07 May 2016 07:42:19 +0000

Zardozglarb42 here with an update for the time space continum.

Foolish mortals have wrecked the subspace layer with the constant repriniting of obsolite ships bases and otherwise general nonsense. My overlord self has wiped out your civilzation and placed a secret code in order to get in. FEAR ME MORTALS FOR I CONTROL ALL

To get this code if you are established in the Terracon universe see a MOD or Admin. For a new peoples yet to be assilimated into the terracon culture read the rules THEN see a mod or admin.

Th ever sweating people of the universe have provided a revoery cargo ship to sooth the flames of clensing from your eathling butts. Again see a mod or admin for those.

BOW BEFORE MY MIGHT PUNY HOOMONS.

TNN Breaking News

Captain Durall — Wed, 04 May 2016 17:31:24 +0000

Patrick, Patrick I have the live feed

Hello Terracon this is Patrick Allgrottenpotatos with a live report deep within the TSG territory. Just a few moments ago we heard alarms that a threat force had entered TSG airspace and was somewhere on the planet. Defense forces lead by 2EZ have launched and are looking for the intruder now.

Background: "This is 2EZ actual we are searching the western front."
Background: "Rlaw22 on your six."
Background: "Phiile standing by in the frigate for fire support. Anyone know who it is?"
Background: "Listening outpost reported Captain Durall."
Background: "What's he doing here?"
Background: "Recon or acting like a jackass"
Background: "Cut the chatter look in the fog I'm sure he hid there."

Patrick: "Right now we know that Captain Durall of the SHO has entered the planet for reasons unknown. It appears at the moment that he is acting alone. Its a well known fact that the SHO is a highly militarized organization. it would not be uncharacteristic for them to recon other nations or former battle sites. we are trying."

Background: "I got something to the south west. Looks to be the top of a CV."
Background: "Yea that's a CV alright. Comms give me system wide. SHO depart our system or you will be fired on."
Captain Durall: "Shoot me down and ill leave."
Background: "This is 2EZ actual all fighters weapons free."

Patrick: "Captain Durall is rising out of the fog. His ship is jet black and called the Apex. His engines flared and his attacking into the fighter cluster. Shots have been fired from all ships. The maneuvers are intense. Captain Durall is trying to gain altitude but Rlaw is pinning him down with laser fire.

The captain has struck R law there are some minor explosions but the ship is still in the air. Rlaw and 2EZ are working to corral him or move the captain or something."

Background: "CV be ready we are bringing him right over you."
Background: "I'm on station"
Background: "When he is 500 meters away join the......"
Background: "Command to Rlaw. 2EZ is down. the op is yours."

Patrick "Captain outmaneuvered 2EZ and struck him hard down the center of the ship. Everything exploded and the ship crashed to the ground.. The condition of the pilot is unknown. The CV is rising out of the fog. Its a monster brimming with. Oh my god. The Captain was inverted and fired at the CV the shot penetrated all the way though. She's listing hard and falling to the ground. no power or another signs of life can be seen."

Background: "Command to Rlaw can you give a condition on the CV?"
Background: "She's down hard. Took a direct hit to the CIC from a full plasma barrage."
Background: "What about the pilot?"
Background: "I'm kind of busy fighting this jerk right now. Sweet lock."

Patrick: "Rlaw just got a great position and fired hitting the captain's wing. We saw some damage but don't know the extent. The captain is turning into and charging. There is a shot and .... Huge explosion Rlaw22 is down his cockpit is for sure destroyed. The SV is crashing to the ground in flames. Captain Durall is turning and air traffic is switching to an outpost. He looks to be landing on a CV.

Background: "Incoming transmission."
Captain Durall: 'Well Fought TSG. Clear your airspace and I will depart peacefully."

Patrick: 2EZ has a new flash clone walking into the command center now.

2EZ: "Captain before I let you go I have to know. how did you kill that CV?"
Captain Durall: "Honestly I did not know it was a CV I thought it was one of your fighters. It came out of the fog and my reflexes took over. How bad was it."
2EZ: "She's down hard"
Captain Durall "Well I don't feel right counting that kill"
Phialie: "No you can it was a beautiful shot."
Captain Durall: "Thanks man. Am I clear?"
2EZ: "You are cleared for lift off."
Phialie: Muttering "not like we could stop you"

Patrick: "The SHO CV is lifting out of the fog. She's still lifting. Oh my she's huge its like a flying city. The insignia is clear along the side. USS Defiant. She's clearing the atmosphere and orbital tracking stations report that she is setting up for an exit jump. Confirmed the USS Defiant has left the Romulan Zone.

Fallout from the incident is unknown at this time. Moments ago Captain Durall sent photos of the damage R law did to his ship and also his kill record of 4 SVs and 1 CV painted on the side of his Apex. he also sent the following note.

"I Captain Durall entered Romulan territory and was asked to leave. I did not and was legally and rightfully fired on by the TSG. While I may have carried the day the valiant and worth warriors of the TSG were aggressive enough to drive me off. SHO has noticed the on going tensions in the Romulan Zone and will operate listening posts to ensure that we can monitor the conflict in the interest of our own national security. My mission was to install one of these posts.

Valiant Warriors of the TSG I salute your bravery and attempt however SHO will not allow such lawlessness to go unmonitored. Good job guys :) HAIL SHO."

We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.

TNN News Update

Captain Durall — Tue, 03 May 2016 17:42:47 +0000

This is Patrick Allgrottenpotatos here deep in the Romulan Zone. There has been a major battle and a siege on the TSG headquarters. Its hard to tell from this distance as the fires are still burning, but we know there are many flash clones on the field of battle along with more than a few SVs.

Wave after wave of SOS fighters attacked but they were unable to penetrate the defenses. While there were many explosions its impossible to tell how bad the actual damage is. I was also informed that a counter attack on the SOS base that prevented them from retreating and caused them to use flash clones on the field of battle.

SOS never requested a time to fall back and there was brutal fighting on the ground. TSG has called for a declaration of Outlaw on the SOS fleet but SOS has called the accusations baseless as they broke no convention laws. Captain Durall of the SHO has offered an amendment disallowing the uses of flash clones on the battlefield to reduce tensions in the area.

Only time will tell as tensions ebb and flow in the region. Now onto Stacy Starburst with an update on a SV Duel in the DMZ

Thank you Patrick Oh My God Space is sooooo big. I just saw Captain Durall of the SHO land on the deck of the Defiant and I'm going to get his side of the story. Captain Durall ewwwww what's all that red stuff?

Captain: Its blood I got shot

Stacy: Who Shot you?

Captain: Rlaw22. He was the other duelist and I must say a valiant combatant

Stacy: You forgot to dodge to something?

Captain: No he was trying to shot me he was a good clean shot

Stacy: did you shoot him?

Captain: yes I managed to shoot him out of the cockpit on a charge maneuver. He did well I just did a little better today.

Stacy: Wow that's really awesome are y'all like bff's now?

Captain: Hey Walking

Walking: Yea?

Captain: you think if I told her there was a spider in her helmet she would take it off?

Stacy: SPIDER!!!!

*Static*

OK and this is Trader Joe with the travel update we will get back to Stacy later. Right now I have some great updates from the astro navigation department. We have identified three more PVP jump points. Once we have stabilized the coordinates you will have them added to your map hud automatically. In addition we are tracking a comet that will be passing through the system for a short time. It will only be here for a while but we expect it to be very mineral and resource rich.

Over to Zardozglarb42 for the time space continuum update

Zardozglarb42 speaking to you from the great beyond puny humans.
Your Pre Alpha ban has stabilized your weakling matter based area to where you can support more o2 breathing prodigy. We predict that your population will grow.

However we see your "POIs" Still infect your time stream and for this we laugh. Your leaders have issued a contest with prizes. That might be your only salvation as it will fix your final problem with the pre alpha issues.

Back to war correspondent Patrick Allgrottenpotatos

Patrick Allgrottenpotatos here good luck and good morrow Terracon from all here at TNN

Multi POI Server Contest.

soup238 — Tue, 03 May 2016 06:33:23 +0000

We are Haveing a POI contest so we can remove current Pre-Alpna POIs
se need to replace all POIs both on planet and in space, so we need alot of POIs, and yes there will be Prizes for the POIs used. Prizes are still to be determined. Eleon has said they could provide us with keys.
See Forums for more info

Pre Alpha Ship Ban

Captain Durall — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 05:28:14 +0000

All Terracon Citizens

Do NOT use or print any ships made before the alpha. Drop date was 4-15. These old blueprints have hull blocks that were causing memory leaks. We can sustain a few like the POI's but after that we got an massive ammount of errors and ship losses that we have seen.

T and P stop working, moving playfields loses ships, server deletes and roll backs, crashing play fields all were more or less ended with the destruction of pre alpha ships.

Soup and I have created new Terrracon Starter BP (available on the steam store) that are safe to use. DO NOT use the one supplied by the game. we will be allowing people to move stuff and request destruction for now but once the rule goes live we will delete ships without warning if they are pre alpha.

How can you tell? Simple take a texture tool, set it to clear all textures (Top left hand corner box, and hit a suspected block. If it goes smooth you are good. if not it has bad blocks.

We know this sucks, but we saw instant positive benifits. the error rate fell hard and fast and stability was great! it was this or a total wipe. Frankly i think we made the right call.

Thanks!

The First SV on SV Battle

Captain Durall — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 13:30:47 +0000

Citizens of Terracon.

After the most recent upgrade to the universe we call home or sandbox many of us have been building new and better ships. Shy challenged my self Captain Durall to an SV on SV battle yesterday in the Gorn System.

It was a heart pounding conflict with both sides fighting hard. I was able to damage the enemy ship and remove many of its weapons and a few of its engines but I will have to concede the day to Shy who managed to place two rail gun rounds into my cockpit taking me out of the fight.

SHO congratulates you on winning the day and offers a rematch anytime you are ready.

Hats off to Shy.

Terracon Group Refresh!

Captain Durall — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:54:13 +0000

Ok all with the Alpha dropped and the server updated here is the refreshed Steam group. Rules (as few as there are) have been posted. The conventions of war for PVP are up. They are not rules per say but if you don't follow them well the admins will pay large bounties for your destruction.

Also the first event will be happening very soon! be on the lookout for the Morse code with the signal from deep space!

For those of you wanting a Morse translator its an easy Google search. So why do it? well it a bit of flavor in the unforgiving vacuum of space.

TNN Terracon News Network Skirmish in the Asteroid Field

Captain Durall — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:49:03 +0000

Last night the IDK and SHO empire engaged in one another in a ferocious battle in the asteroid field. While the IDK was able to inflict some damage the SHO Empire downed all three of their fighters. SHO engaged first coming out swinging. The IDK maneuvered well but was unable to overcome SHOs superior technology.

Cold was the first to fall in the knifes edge unable to maintain his combat turns and bear down on the enemy. Captain Durall was able to target the cockpit and kill the pilot leaving the ship adrift but functional.

CrazyTiger was the next to fall flying an already damaged vessel. he took additional damage from Lieutenant Walking and was finished off by a brutal laser strike from Captain Durall. However CrazyTiger was able to inflict some damage on the enemy before falling to the SHO.

Razor Joe was the last of the IDK standing and did not hesitate to take on three of the SHO. Lieutenant Walking was stalled due to a weapons systems breakdown and had to leave the battle. Lieutenant Dac was in the flight along side Captain Durall. Razor put up a good fight but was destroyed by the accurate fire and skill of Captain Durall.

In the end all of the SHO fighters returned home under their own power. They remained in system to assist with repairs and S and R of the downed pilots. While it was no contest against the advanced technology and skill of the SHO they left with a new respect for the pilots of the IDK and look forward to seeing the burning hulks of their ships hulls burning in the back ground of space.

All Hail the mighty SHO Empire