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After losing the corvette HMS Badger to a nefarious fleet of pirates (and sinking the flagship, the Komodo Dragon), Corrington had been outraged to see the pirates parade the prize into the Olean port of Lavalette.

Hence, Corrington had sent an official request to the RNTC authorities to size the unlawful prize and return it to its proper owners.

This had left the authorities of Lavalette in a dilemma, as can be seen from the following official communication.

Official letters:

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To Rear-Admiral Fletcher of Her Most Corrish Majesty's Navy, 

I write to you in the full confidence that you shall maintain the privacy of this letter, and shall only divulge its contents to the proper authorities should it be absolutely and unavoidably necessary to do so. 

The pirate fleet in Lavalette consists of a Class 7 5th-rate frigate, a Class 4 sloop, an unidentified pirate vessel, and your own Class 5 sloop. 

Allow me to express my outrage that these brigands would commit a wanton act of piracy, an act against decency, honor, and Poseidon, and then chose to sail into one of Oleon's ports. This contempt for our laws warrants nothing short of the highest outrage. Nonetheless, I fear that I must inform you that our fortifications in Lavalette are limited to a single fortress of medium strength. I cannot say how it will fare should the pirates chose to engage in battle. 

I am not sure if the pirates have realized the limited military resources I have at my disposal. If they have, I doubt they would take any threat seriously and would likely respond violently towards any attempt to keep them in the port. As such, I suggest that you attempt to work with the pirates to ransom your vessel.

Major Wolfgang Hochstetter

 

To Major Hochstetter,

Dear Sir,

I find it highly alarming that Oleon should find itself unable to protect its own ports, particularly considering the entire Olean fleet seems to be lingering in the west. You may pass to your superiors that Corrington is finding your commitment to keeping the colonial sea lanes safe highly lacking, and that your reliance on Her Majesty's Royal Navy to protect civilian shipping in your territorial waters is unfitting of a nation styling itself an empire. And even more so can be said for your inability to assert sovereignty over your own ports.

As to the current situation, however, I understand your reluctance to put the people at your charge at risk. It would seem that the tactical situation is untenable, and that the fleet now assembled could in fact sack, or even take the settlement, should they be challenged.

But can we allow pirates to use our ports for their foul business? Can Oleon, or the RNTC, abide such a challenge to your sovereignty? Additionally, keep in mind that the fleet now docked in Lavalette is one of the most powerful pirate fleets yet assembled. Can we allow that to pass the Royal Navy blockade that has so far kept it contained around Bastion?

I pose to you that the answer to all these questions is a resounding "no"! We MUST find a way to contain them. To fight them, and to show them that their foul work is welcome in no civilised port. But how?

The Royal Navy now resupplying in King's Harbour will have little chance of arriving in time for a blockade, and La Royale even less. However, I might be able to dispatch you a group of military engineers to help build up field emplacements for coastal artillery that would allow you to enforce your control of the settlement. In such a case, we can make a swift joint build up of the defences of Lavalette, in return for similar favours for a Corlander settlement in the near future.

I shall be eagerly awaiting your reply.

Rear-admiral S. Fletcher

 

Sir,

I assure you that your concern is shared by many of my own officers and myself. The prospect of having to rescue ships that the Corrish navy lost to an undisciplined rabble is most unsettling, largely since we are accustomed to the unparalleled might of La Royal being sufficient to defend Oleon's navigation and trade. 

Should the pirates set sail, I believe their only safe course of action is to flee further east to their lawless abode on The Rock. Any attempt to head west would result in their being intercepted by your fleet in King's Harbour, and they have no safe abodes to the north or south. I am not sure if you have ships to the west east that could assist in intercepting the pirates, but at the very least their options are limited and their fate sealed. 

Your offer to assist in building new fortifications in Lavalette is most welcome, though I must obtain the approval of my superiors before we can officially proceed. Nevertheless, I suspect that the approval shall be forthcoming. 

I shall inform you once a decision is made regarding the fortifications. 

Wolfgang Hochstetter

The outcome had been an agreement that Corrington would dispatch a group of Royal Engineers to assist in building up fortifications to counter the the pirate threat. In return, Oleon would seize the HMS Badger and expel the pirate fleet, as well as assist in the build up of similar Corlander defences at some point in the future.

A plan had been made for a distributed build up of fortifications that would add up to a well-rounded defence of the settlement.

42977365875_d26f00e64c_c.jpgLavalette Fort Headquarters by Tom Gray, on Flickr (32x16 by @Spud The Viking)

Fortifications:

Visitors for Lavalette by @Bregir (32x16)

Lavalette Cannon Battery by @LM71Blackbird (32x16)

Innovative Tactics for Lavalette by @Drunknok (32x16)

Mortar Emplacement by @Bregir (32x48)

Small Fort at Lavalette by @Bodi (32x32)

to be continued...

For now, a large fort will be licensed.

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Great little outpost, Bregir - Lavalette is certainly on its road to becoming the most fortified settlement in New Terra (if it's not already! :grin:)  The dark red roof is excellent (it always is!), and those arches over the windows are quite nice! :thumbup:

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8 minutes ago, Garmadon said:

Lavalette is certainly on its road to becoming the most fortified settlement in New Terra (if it's not already! :grin:)

Pff, Mesabi Landing would like a word with you. And we even made it without any help from outsiders. :tongue:

 

There are quite some more heavily defended settlement elsewhere...

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From @Bodi:

To Rear-Admiral Fletcher of Her Most Corrish Majesty's Navy, 

Early this month, I was informed that a pirates fleet had moored at Lavalette, alongwith the corvette HMS Badger. The fact that those pesky pirates had chosen to sail into one of Oleon's port with their prize is completely outrageous and inacceptable. The local RNTC garrison would have detained all the pirates if their defense wasn't reduced to a sole medium fort. This was why we've accepted to work with your men to reinforce our defense at Lavalette.  According to our agreement, Corrington had dispatched a group of Royal Engineers to assist in building up fortifications to counter the the pirate threat. In return, Oleon had seized the HMS Badger and are currently working to expel the pirate fleet. We will also assist in the build up of similar Corlander defences at some point in the future.

The RNTC garrison has ordered the pirates fleet to leave Lavelette without the Badger and we are ready to hand over that ship to you.

Duc d'Ablette
Secrétaire d'État des Colonies, Grand Officier de l'Ordre Royal de Saint-Arltrees

 

@MKJoshA: OOC this means that the HMS Badger is being detained in port in Lavalette, and that your pirate fleet (ex. the badger) must leave the settlement.

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14 minutes ago, Bregir said:

 

@MKJoshA: OOC this means that the HMS Badger is being detained in port in Lavalette, and that your pirate fleet (ex. the badger) must leave the settlement.

Wow. Corrington has to hide behind the skirts of another nation to do their dirty work. They can't accomplish their task of stopping a pirate so they drag an innocent nation into the conflict to try to finish what they can't. For shame Corrington. For shame. As the now legal owner of the HMS Badger I will take this up with Oleon and proceed to view all Corrington ships as my enemies until my ship is released and Corrington pays to have it escorted to the location of my nearest vessel.

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4 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

legal owner of the HMS Badger 

We do not quite agree on the concept of legality, it seems... :P

5 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

proceed to view all Corrington ships as my enemies 

"continue to" I think you mean... Not exactly breaking news! :D

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10 minutes ago, Bregir said:

We do not quite agree on the concept of legality, it seems... :P

By legal I mean following the rules:

 

On 5/14/2017 at 3:19 AM, Kolonialbeamter said:

Ships captured or purchased from other players:

  • MOCed ships captured in the MCRA can be reused as ships as they are.

 

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Any faction has the right to keep any ship in one of its harbour. If those ships want to "break free", they can try to fight their way out - against the forts of those harbour. Are those not the rules of this game?

 

If Corrington - by using diplomacy to strike a deal first, then combining its players to set up a cooperative build - manages to rescue one of its ship that has fallen into pirates hands... where is the problem? I think Oleon is much better off here: they got a large fort out of this, seriously bolstering up the defense of Lavalette.

 

This has also been a great cooperation between players of different factions. I appreaciated every step of it! :thumbup:

 

I am also slowly running out of popcorn...

Edited by Drunknok

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17 hours ago, Drunknok said:

Any faction has the right to keep any ship in one of its harbour. If those ships want to "break free", they can try to fight their way out - against the forts of those harbour. Are those not the rules of this game?

 

If Corrington - by using diplomacy to strike a deal first, then combining its players to set up a cooperative build - manages to rescue one of its ship that has fallen into pirates hands... where is the problem? I think Oleon is much better off here: they got a large fort out of this, seriously bolstering up the defense of Lavalette.

Sure you say that's fair for Corrington. But when the Sea Rats tried to do something very similar with the Prio ships in their harbor, we were hailed as the scum of the earth. Why does one nation get to be lauded for this kind of action and another villainized?

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18 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

Sure you say that's fair for Corrington. But when the Sea Rats tried to do something very similar with the Prio ships in their harbor, we were hailed as the scum of the earth. Why does one nation get to be lauded for this kind of action and another villainized?

Just like, to me, it was absurd when Mesabi sailed two Corrie warships into Bastion after fighting the Sea Rat black flag ships, it is, to me, absurd that a pirate fleet should anchor in a national port and expect to be treated as a peaceful trader. Particularly when bringing in a prize just recently taken in a piratical attack.

As to the Prio case, there was obviously some misunderstanding, that seems to have been cleared now, but who actually reacted? As far as I remember, only Prio really did? (And Maxim ;) )

So I am not really sure I see how there is any bias here?

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2 hours ago, MKJoshA said:

Sure you say that's fair for Corrington. But when the Sea Rats tried to do something very similar with the Prio ships in their harbor, we were hailed as the scum of the earth.

Do some diplomacy of your own, find allies supporting your point of view, take action as you see fit.

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58 minutes ago, Drunknok said:

Do some diplomacy of your own, find allies supporting your point of view, take action as you see fit.

Tried that. But I'm tired of swimming upstream. The point of a game is to have fun, not play politics all day. I do enough of that for work and real life without needing to add that to my hobby.

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9 minutes ago, MKJoshA said:

Tried that. But I'm tired of swimming upstream. The point of a game is to have fun, not play politics all day. I do enough of that for work and real life without needing to add that to my hobby.

Fair enough.

I do not share your point of view that the Sea Rats were in any form "victimized". Your faction made some major blunders over the whole Prior affairs, including some unreasonable claims - and so did the other side. Quite amusing from an outside perspective, but obviously frustrating for those "inside".

 

Use AMCRAs and challenge builds to develop your stories. And if you are looking for a fight: the WTC can provide one. I promise we will not drag the rest of Corrington into it. Terms and conditions apply. :pir-grin:

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