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CommanderA9 — UNS Cybertek
Published: 2013-02-16 18:24:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 647; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 4
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Behold the glory of space (or maybe just EVE Online)!This is one of my favorite ships, a Providence-class Freighter, the UNS Cybertek, named for the song "Cybertek" from Frank Klepacki's "Morphscape" album (song is here: [link] ). My other freighter, my Charon, is named for "Machines Collide," a song from Klepacki's "Rocktronic" album. Both names seemed fitting. The acronym of "UNS" stands for United Nations Ship, as I have brought my sense of the Global Defense Initiative into EVE.
Freighters are flying refrigerators, meant specifically to transport large amounts of cargo. Entire space stations, capital ships, and alliance assets can fit inside freighters, and I've hauled about as much through public courier contracts and private transportation jobs. I can haul the universe in these things!
The problem is they can't mount weapons, so they make tempting targets for organized fleets. Most notoriously, certain illicit alliances regularly target these ships in less secure systems by ramming them and propelling them away from stargates and stationary guns before opening fire. I've lost two friends to such attacks.
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Apologies for the low-low quality. The only way I can comfortably run EVE on my laptop is my lowering all the settings.
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that is one sweet ship... all it needs now is some worn gold paintwork and a nice big eagle symbol down by the stern...
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There's a GDI corps in EVE, but they've gone pirate...not exactly sticking true to the ideals.
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yeah, that's not even the canon GDI ambiguity they've run off on.
Is there a NOD corps too, i wonder?
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Yes, but I popped into the channel chanting "Peace Through Power!" and they had no idea what I was talking about.
They're both dead corps or operating outside canon, so, not even worth it.
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that's a let down.. And what's more, the names are officially taken!
It'd be interesting to see how a canon-based, semi-RPing NOD corp would be handled, actually.
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They'd probably get hunted to death by the Amarrians. I think they'd go pirate, or planetside...
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Piratical sounds about right, at least while they draw up a resource/population base and build a network of semi-legal contacts.
So along those lines, how would a speed/stealth approach work in EVE?
Also, Tiberium Essence is brilliant. From the jumpjet infantry, classic SAM sites, and specialised upgrade lines to the cathartic potential of a veteran Mammoth II or Cyborg Commando, it's wonderful. Thanks for pointing me to it, and for your textual contributions!
By the way, I can tell the text you've added because it's both factual and far longer than the vanilla, good work there! However there's no mod-specific 'intel' or tooltip text I saw in the NOD campaign. There's also still an Intel doc explaining that CABAL (and supposedly cyborgs) was finally wiped out and another which covers the retirement of the Mechanised Battle Walker program. These may need editing, perhaps?
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