2nd GVB War + pods

spork · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:23 am Post subject: 2nd GVB War + pods

This is the History of the 2nd GVB War as told by Brother_Io during GrimGriz's Blue GVB event prior to the blessing ceremony that was interrupted by the Hyperial terrorist Nelson's failed nuclear attack.

It is interesting that the day that many younger pilots learned the history of the 2nd GVB War for the first time was also the day that sparked yet another conflict over the same region. Let us pray that Hyperial comes to its senses and ceases hostilities before this current struggle grows into a Third Jihad al Din.

These words were transcripted from recordings of f3 channel that night. The history is obviously told from a Quantar perspective.

spork · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:32 am Post subject:

A close look at the chronology Io gave us puts the start of the conflict with Hyperial at 73 AT. This also happens to coincide with the first single pilot jump capable ships being introduced by TRI. Hyperial had refused TRI membership in 40 AT. Hyperial used modified TRI factional ships to construct their fleet which they aparently had captured and reverse engineered.

The Quantar GVB Trade Depot began construction in early 85 AT. It was captured by Hyperial forces and converted to a military base and POW prison. Over the next nearly two years, Quantar forces were fighting a holding effort and secretly constructing the huge Fleet Brother Io tells us about. This Fleet liberated GVB and destroyed the entire Hyperial fleet in retaliation for their destruction of the station holding the POWs, thus ending the Second Jihad al Din in a single day, 86.10.28. Countless lives were lost on both sides.

It was not until after the perfection of escape pod technology that TRI began limited open recruitment of pilots from the civilian population during 99.5 AT, and not unitl 101.7 did TRI begin its massive recruitment period.

Prior to this time, all fleet actions described above were carried out only by factional military conscripts who faced death when their ships were destroyed. Facing the inability to ever return planetside, and certain death in space after a single ship loss, not many from any faction's military volunteered for the space fleets.

The escape pods have put an end to meaningful space warfare which is why the factional governments no longer have massive military space fleets and prefer to use the civilian pilots of TRI to do their bidding in space. And the citizens of TRI now volunteer in droves to become TRI pilots because a single ship loss does not mean instant death and the rewards for flying as a member of the Reconstruction are great indeed. Many pilots are able to assist their families back home with thier new found wealth.

The funding saved by the factions on military expenditures have allowed for the Reconstruction to flourish. Credits are seemingly created out of nowhere, and often spent on a contrived, manipulated demand for products a station simply does not need.

The history of the economic system as a motivator for pilot recruitment is tied closely to escape pod technology. It will be interesting to watch as TRI goes through growing pains in the years to come. Knowledge of the failings of the past and Hope for a better future is often all that drives us through the Trying times of the present.
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