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[Thorasta]

Comstar shows up at the last minute? I sense a snitch in the organization tipping them off. I mean, the place has been abandoned for years and years, and we can't get even a day to ourselves while we explore the treasure trove and grab at least a few mechs?

And they jump in using a pirate point? Yeah, NO WAY. You have to have perfect stellar navigation data to pull those off, and you can't have that if nobody has been to the system before.

Edited by Thorasta, 26 December 2019 - 04:20 PM.

[DrxAbstract]

Thorasta, on 26 December 2019 - 04:19 PM, said:

Comstar shows up at the last minute? I sense a snitch in the organization tipping them off. I mean, the place has been abandoned for years and years, and we can't get even a day to ourselves while we explore the treasure trove and grab at least a few mechs?

Same thing happened in a certain other stompy robbits game, just substitute Comstar with rogue Taurian commodore. /shrug

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And they jump in using a pirate point? Yeah, NO WAY. You have to have perfect stellar navigation data to pull those off, and you can't have that if nobody has been to the system before.

*cough* People have been there before, hence the ancient man-made base. Comstar had been scanning the area for quite some time and probably already had the celestial bodies of that system plotted, which makes a pirate-point jump possible, just extremely dangerous. It's not unheard of to use pirate points in covert operations because standard jump points, while being far safer, are a lot more visible because they're only done in one or two very specific locations relative to the gravity wells present in-system. The only reason they were after the coordinates was to figure out which system was their goal. Determining potential jump points after that is a piece of cake.

[Koniving]

Comstar isn't known for being fast to snatch up something if nobody knows about it.
But they seriously get off their ***** once someone else finds it.
Edit - self censorship because apparently it's pretty easy to get words past the censor.

Edited by Koniving, 27 December 2019 - 01:49 AM.

[Koniving]

Unfortunately, the story is exactly the same as the Helm Memory Core in 3028.
The only difference is its you found it instead of the Wolf's Dragoons saying "Hey, we're gonna slip some intel on merc net about this cache of star league tech that the IS will need to have a chance against Clan Wolf and the others..." followed by it being you to give it to Spears to have him disseminate the info around the IS instead of the Gray Death Legion being the ones to get there, take the moral high-ground, and give chunks of it to different merchants and escort them to various systems to sell off the data to the various houses of the IS.