[QXMX]

This is something I've compiled for a campaign idea.  It's pretty long, but I just got carried away  


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The History of Exodus Fleet

Long before the outbreak of war between the GTA and the Vasudan Emperium, the GTI, then under the command of Admiral Allenson, was tasked with the advance exploration of potential star systems for colonization.  They had many resources at their disposal including the full backing of the GTA security council and their own base of operations in a remote area of Delta Serpentis.  From there, they launched many expeditions to uncharted systems, but soon discovered the logistics of such expeditions were extremely hard to meet using the smaller craft supplied to them by the military.  They petitioned the GTA for permissions to begin research into larger craft.

Over the next 17 years, the GTI conducted research into large-scale reactor systems, stabilizing devices, jump drives, and high-stress framework.  There were many failures, including the GTXS Andromeda and the GTXS Hixos, until a new prototype, the GTXS Nebus, became the first Terran capital ship put into active service.  This flying colony spanned over 2 kilometers in length and was fully equipped to deal with the hazards of exploring new terretories.  It was equipped with enough life support and and cargo space to support up to 10,000 passengers and crew for up to 6 months at a time, with space left over for sample storage heavy machinery.

However, a short time after that, in 2303, a historic meeting took place in the Ribos system.  The GTSC Tendros, making routine surveys in the Ribos, detected an energy signature of unknown configuration.  Several minutes later, the Science Cruiser was face to face with a small alien cruiser.  It took several days just to set up a method of communication.  The species, identifying themselves as "Vasudans" in the Terran Language, were an intriguing lot, very sophisticated, cultured, and advanced.  Meetings were set up in both Sol and the Vasudan Home System of Vasuda Prime, and soon the two species became trading partners, exchanging knowledge and learning about each other.

The GTA security council, however, took a sharply different view of this development.  They knew that another sentient species so close to Sol could and will eventually result in conflict.  So, while fostering good relations with the Vasudans diplomatically, they instructed the GTI to create more powerful and advanced weaponery and warships in preparation.  The GTI undertook several projects, fully funded by the GTA SC, and this netted several outstanding new weapons.  The ML-16 Laser became the GTA's newest weapon, capable of destabilizing the molecular bonds between atoms, and also the disruptor Cannon, capable of knocking out electronic subsystems.  The Apollo fighter and the Angel Scout craft entered their Op-eval phases, and, most importantly, the GTXS Nebus was modified to incorporate more weapons turrets, a stronger hull, and combat spacecraft and became the very first Terran Destroyer, the GTD Orion.

Even with these new advances, the GTI began to go further, researching how to build even bigger and more powerful warships and weapons.  However, the outbreak of the T-V war shifted the GTI's main focus to intelligence gathering and sabatoge, which severely cut into its weapons research programs.  All but the most crucial were cut, and work on the larger warships was suspended until further notice.

That notice never came.  The war dragged on for nearly 14 years with no end in sight.

The GTA Security Council desired a new avenue of attack.  They charged the GTI to seek out new territories from which to attack the Vasudans, hopefully finding nodes that the Vasudans hadn't yet discovered.  Antares, Ikeya, and Ross 128 became launch points for these expeditions.  Barnard's Star and Gamma Draconis were discovered at this time, but lacking any real jump nodes into Vasudan Territory, these systems were largely ignored.

In the year 2333, a GTI scouting wing in the Ross 128 system came accross a small asteroid field.  They detected strange power signatures coming from inside.  Assuming a possible Vasudan Ambush position, they entered the asteroid field.  Contact was very shortly lost with the wing, and all available fighters were deployed to the area.  The GTI cruiser in the area, the GTC Zane, found little trace of the Wing Gamma, and also found something alltogether strange.  A strange looking fightercraft sat in the nebula, apparently completely disabled.  There was nothing to suggest anything that it was this ship that destroyed Gamma Wing, and black boxes recovered from these craft showed bits and pieces of a violent first contact.  The fighter was commandeered by GTI special ops forces and all evidence of the meeting was erased from records.  The fighter itself was towed back to the Sol System and underwent extensive research.  This, too, was, however, a second string project that was soon suspended to bend more resources to war.

2335.  Everyone remembers the year that we first encounter the Shivans, and the year of the Great War.  Never before had either the Terrans or the Vasudans encountered a species of this great of power and technology.  When they pulled together, they shared ideas and technology, and discovered that each other weren't so bad after all, but even stealing and adapting Shivan technology didn't appear to be enough to stop them.  The appearence of the SD Lucifer and the destruciton of Vasuda Prime was a deciding factor in reopening the the old GTI Technology project, renamed project Exodus, classified Level Omega.  This called for the remodification of 2 Orion Ships and several smaller craft in preparation for a mass exodus from Terran-Vasudan Space.  This proved to be unecessary, however, with the destruction of the SD Lucifer and the collapsing of the Sol Jump Node.  The GTI HQ in Delta Serpentis shifted focus again, gathering together all shivan technology they could get their hands on, which led to the GTI Hades Rebellion of 2336.  The GTI lost this war, and their records were largely destroyed.

Ten years later, work began on the GTVA Collossus.  This was largely a result of of analyzing Shivan Technology and combining the best aspects of both Terran and Vasudan sophistication.  In preparation, the newly formed GTVA and GTVI took a look at some of the former projects of the Rogue GTI, and came accross Project Exodus.

During the Collossus construction period, several large ship secrets were discovered, including massive fusion reactor technology.  The GTVI believed in the Collossus, but they also needed a contingency plan for the survival of both species.  In 2253, Project Exodus, renamed GTVI Directive Omega 18, was revived in the now lightly travelled Delta Serpentis System.  The project, which called for a modification of 2 Orions, now called for the construction of a ship much larger than the Colossus.  The design was originally redesigned for a Juggernaut about 5 kilometers in length, but as more advances were made with the Colossus project, and as more needs were added, the craft underwent several redesigns, getting bigger and bigger.  The final design, the GTWS Exodus could, if necessary, serve as a colony ship for over 100,000 Terran and Vasudan Soldiers and Civilians, with its own escort fleet.  Those who would go were pre-chosen, and the list was updated every 5 years.  The ship itself, a monument to engineering, spans over 16 kilometers in length, and sports a Subspace Stabilizing Drive based on scans taken from the Lucifer and the Hades.  A fully functional colony equipped with living space, cargo space, factories, processing plants, 2 fighterbays and 1 heavy launch bay, hydroponic and agricultural domes, Entertainment and business facilities, medical facilities, and everything else that it might need for self-sufficiency.  The ship itself has its own division of over 600 fighters and bombers and pilots, soldiers, and other military installations, as well as a sizeable escort fleet(see details on concept art) and an elite detachment of marines and security forces.  Completed early in 2365, it sat in dry-dock in Delta Sepentis awaiting the fateful order that everybody hoped that nobody would have to give.  Gradually, the GTVA brass became confident that the Shivan threat was over, so plans were made to strip parts of the Exodus for parts and supplies.

Unfortunately, those dreams were shattered in the Spring of 2367, when the NTF re-established contact with the Shivans in the Gamma Draconis System.  This time, it appeared that there was no stopping them, they poured from the Nebula, through the Knossos, into GTVA Space.  The contingency plan was put into motion, with all selected personnel and civilians being ferried to the Exodus.  Its escort fleet formed, including the GTD Delecroix(wasn't destroyed in the fight with the SD Ravanna), the GVD Aldebaran, and several smaller cruisers, corvettes, and transports  Following the near loss of the Aquataine and the Appearance of the Shivan Juggernaut, Exodus Fleet made its departure through an uncharted jump node found during the reconstruction period.  Contact has been lost with GTVA Space, and we fear the worst.  We may very well be the last surviving Terrans and Vasudans in the universe.  That was 23 years ago.

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Now, 2390, is a year like any year.  We've been adrift for some time now, and we're still no closer to finding our new home.  *sigh*  I guess it's back to swapping the deck again.  At least I'll be in the military in a few weeks; maybe I'll get to fly one of those new fighters next year. *sigh*  Can't wait.
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Really?  Is that in the FS Reference Bible?

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Originally posted by QXMX:
Really?  Is that in the FS Reference Bible?

No, actually, but it's in FSURP's old webpages, so I'd assume it's canon.  eishtomo wrote the 14 years war outline there, so I'd assume he's got a good source.

[QXMX]

Well, I can always claim GTI  

How was the writing and stuff though?

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I like it all.   Shrike, are you getting this?