The Order of Bogatyrs

[Bogdan]

Latest News:

Fleet and Outpost deployments on Light vs Dark have seen a further increase, with 2 more outposts and a further 4 ships deployed over the last few days, as factories work overtime to produce the necessary armour.

Spoiler: Svyataja Krepost Times News

OOB AU Colony has stopped patrols of private OOB outpost territory, following an agreement between AU Colony OOB commander to relax intrusive patrols.

OOB SH Colony is developing a new secure military facility. The estimated progress of completion nears 50% with 2,500,000,000 intergalactic credits already having been spent on material costs.

The recent order of 120 shuttles to service the WIP Bogatyr Trading HUB on Light vs Dark has served to boost the local Space-Vessel construction sectors. At the same time, 2 new Peregrine Class Luxury yachts have been commissioned for the department of Exploration.

Latest reports from official state channels indicate that there has been a surge in manufacturing, related to falling commodity prices in a neighbouring friendly nation.

Spoiler: Latest Financial Data

Economic output has been progressively rising over the past year. After a month of little or no rise in economic output, the general trend was a rapid rise, with a rise of 283T marks across this year.

Average income has also had a rise since last year, with sporadic fluctuations between 6th march and 27th June, with average incomes only starting to progressively rise from early September. That said, average incomes are currently at the historic peak at 142,977 Marks (per month), and, ar evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 4.4 times as much as the poorest.

Total Government expenditure has seen some changes with a larger proportion of government expenditure going towards Defense and Industry, even as there have been marginal decreases in other sectors. Healthcare, Education have remained at moderately high 9.1% and 10.2% respectively with Defense, Industry, Law & Order still remaining the top three sectors receiving government expenditure.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:
Signed a Respect Alliance with the Borg.

SH Colony is undergoing another stockpiling period, with 4,937,529,787 intergalactic credits spent on imports over the past 24 hours.

 

[Calhoun]

Signed a Respect Alliance with the Borg

Well, that's not something you see everyday.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:

Signed a defensive alliance with the Galactic Republic.

On LvD, the OOB_Order Takeover Bid came to pass with 251 million Intergalactic Credits paid to a representative of the Dark Aligned Military faction by the Order of Bogatyrs for the acquisition of 12 Ships and a minor amount of resources. Read more about it on www.bogatyrs.com.

On SH, the OOB SH Colony stockpiling continued with a further 8,615,347,538 Intergalactic Credits spent on resource imports, primarily from allied and NPC factions.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:


Systemhack
Signed on a contractor mercenary faction (name not disclosed for security reasons).
3,957,601,782 spent on imports across last 2 weeks
24 Fortified Military Outposts deployed

1 shop hub in process of being deployed

Spoiler: Svyataja Krepost Times News

Deployment and manouvering of fleets on Systemhack server attracted some attention. The newly combined fleet is formed from ships which had previously formed 3 different defensive divisions, and is said to have been combined to maximise productive potential in patrol movements.

A series of officers holding high positions within the Order have been recently partaking in a charitable initiative towards providing guidance and encouraging discussion amongst the lower ranks of the Order, with a view to maximising teamwork and productive efficiency

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:

OOB has set up foundation posts on a few currently minor servers so as to allow for colonisation in the future, should such a motion be passed.



Thanks to rising sales to a series of up-and-coming trading factions the OOB trading hubs are once again actively trading with NPCs and player factions on systemhack

The OOB has recently signed a non-aggression pact with the escApes.


A series of further OOB Military Fortified Outposts V2 have been deployed on the systemhack server as the OOB once again expanded to its previous extent on Systemhack, taking control of old-OOB systems such as the Bodalocamanus system.

Expedition Vertiform
​

The OOB SH Colony declared war on keineFraktion and subsequently led the invasion of the Cendemcenrorus system. OOB Expeditionary forces faced little resistance in the form of a dozen patrol ships. The nature of the raid described as an expansionary peace-keeping manoeuvre was further reinforced by the ships found at the station, which were stolen ships from other factions.

Thereafter, the Brave Cowards' territory was freed from the control of the keineFraktion.

The OOB has now secured control of the primary hostile system and has confiscated the stolen goods from the hostile base to go towards the exploration department's budget.

In total over 6 decoy stations and 2 outposts were destroyed, whilst another outpost was captured by OOB forces.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest news:
Signed a Non-Aggression pact with Shattered Reality.
Signed a defensive alliance with Union of Worlds.
Signed on a mercenary contractor faction on Systemhack server to protect our outer rim outposts.

History strikes back
​

In a striking moment of deja vu, OOB scanning technology pics up a series of ships on radars set up to protect the recently acquired archaeological site of the aptly nicknamed 'Grey Palace'. A moderately sized structure remains of some lost civilisation, it had gained the interest of the Galactic Authority and it was for the purpose of overall enlightenment that OOB forces volunteered to secure the palace, clear our occupying pirates and provide a safe workplace for GA archaeologists to work.

Peace and prosperity, concepts so unlike the rest of the war-torn Light-Dark area seemed to be once again prevalent in OOB space. That status quo, however, was not to last.

Upon securing the station, the Ethereal Space Navy and the Divine Corps were moved to provide safe coverage for the palace in the event of pirate incursions. Knowing the recent armament trends amongst pirates, 3 security outposts were also deployed in case of an organised assault by local miscreants. No major fleets were deployed as it was deemed to be unnecessary in the greater state of affairs for the sole protection of the site against local pirate forces.

-Divine Corps

Then, as per the usual, the serenity and tranquillity of one small part of the world trying to fight against the onslaught of conflict, barbarity and vandalism were broken once again. This time it was not a lone terrorist fighting against the Order [Dr_VoidGullet, don't even think about it], nor was it a pirate navy that broke the silence. Forces of the Formiden Colonial Mandate arrived.

The Order is first and foremost a trading and diplomatic faction. Conflict is rarely profitable and the unnecessary destruction of expensive equipment or assets is usually something associated with what are called 'savages' in the wider realms of space. Malicious assaults carried out not for profit but for the sole gain of the destruction of architectural beauty, of causing terror and chaos and anarchy - common signs of said less civilised behaviour.

Upon the arrival of the FCM fleets, accompanied by 3 military vessels, the ambassador to FCM was immediately called and instructed to negotiate an arrangement with said faction so as to avoid any unpleasantries. His attempts, however, fell on deaf ears for the orders were already in place and, merciless as any other experienced militaristic faction, members of the FCM opened fire on the Divine Corps patrol fleet. Within minutes, the system of Bapaprinombeda had become an active warzone.

The Grand Master did not sanction the introduction of heavy armaments into the system for fear of damaging the palace and bringing about damage to the very system itself [lag concerns], so it was left to the Ethereal Space Navy and the highly acclaimed OOB ally Aeron Empyrean commander Morviuz to diffuse the situatio. The appearance of two major FCM fleets in the system prompted concern which also led to the diversion of the Morale Reserves, a fleet of two Paladins currently undergoing repair, to also divert to the scene of the action.

Ethereal Space Navy

It was too late to save the three security outposts in the area, who were under heavy fire from the combined force of first two, then three Formiden Navies and 3 larger Formiden vessels.

Morviuz arrived, subsequently followed by the Morale Reserves and the Ethereal Space Navy, and the real battle for the Grey Palace began.

After prolonged battle FCM forces were retreating from the scene. By then, support from the nearest Brave Class had arrived to provide last minute assistance,

-Supporting Smirnov ship destroying a series of ~7k mass ships remaining after Morviuz had forced FCM forces to start retreating.

Significant damage was dealt to the offending Barbarian fleet

From the three security outposts, only one remained functional with half of the factories having suffered significant damage and the main office having been completely destroyed. For this reason, the outpost was decommissioned.

After the battle was concluded, and a series of threats levied against the Order by the retreating force, the Palace was secured and slightly repaired by OOB medical crews before OOB forces, with the exception of the Morale Reserves 2-Paladin fleet, left the system.

A few hours later, Formiden forces returned in force, drawing upon their additional resources to bring to bear a series of 200k class destroyers, which they subsequently used to destroy the archaeological site. OOB tacticians are puzzled by this move but have attributed it to decisions taken not by the FCM leadership, but by local enforcement forces, who, due to some misunderstanding, understood Archaeological Site of pure beauty as something that should be destroyed.

OOB Historians are already suggesting links to the civilised behaviour of some of FCM's pilots to those of the Visigothtribes in year 410 on planet Earth. [Sack of Rome 410AD]

Head of Exploration and ambassador to the FCM Bagatur, when asked about whether the situation can be diffused, replied "Yes I think the situation can be diffused" suggesting that 'miscommunication' and 'trigger-fire' were at fault, rather than the general assumption that the attack on OOB security forces was directly intentional.

Head of Diplomacy Jotonex has also stated that the situation is salvageable and that hopefully all will be solved soon.

In the meantime, in light of these battles and the unfortunate risk that Formiden will not be willing to discuss peace in the meantime, OOB are trialling a member for the position of Warlord.

 

[Calhoun]

Head of Diplomacy Jotonex

Nelly is your head of diplomacy?

Good God man, what have you done!

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:
OOB-FCM Non-Aggression Pact passed into effect. A non-aggression pact between the OOB and the FCM has now been signed off and confirmed by all respective parties. The pact has been signed for a period of 12 months.

OOB Engineers are experimenting with ship design assistance for OOB allies towards helping them to maximise the efficiency of their military vessels.

A further 2.1billion intergalactic credits was spent on imports on systemhack over the past 2 weeks.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:

Upon the orders of the Magnus Commendator, censuses of OOB faction fleet strengths shall be taking place over the next few days.

In light of recent turblence between Light and Dark Forces within the LD Universe, following the advise of the Head of Exploration, OOB High command has commissioned a series of fleets to be deployed to protect OOB trading interests.

Sentry Armada Fleet commissioned on OOB LD Colony

Pinnacle Defense Force commissioned on OOB LD Colony

A series of military outposts have also been deployed

OOB Systemhack colony has turned most of the commercial-outposts into public trading hotspots, with a further 8,625,389,759 intergalactic credits spent on imports over the past few days.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:

LvD
Signed a respect alliance with Gailandian Empire.

OOB Stockpiles on Light vs Dark are for the first time being used up faster than they are replenished by our and allied miners. Following the armament of a series of factions on Light vs Dark and the increased pirate activity around OOB mining outposts, the OOB LvD colony has responded appropriately by increasing the size of OOB fleets.

So far the Exploration Department and the Military Departments have responded by increasing their respective fleet sizes.

OOB LvD Patrol Fleet 6 launched

OOB LvD Patrol Fleets 1-5 have also been reinforced in number, having been assigned to the increasingly wealthy exploration department.

At the same time, the derelict Merc Fleet has been assigned to be managed by the department of management and finance, with the assistance of tactical adviser MegaMonkey. (This venture has raised eyebrows among OOB High Command, due to the fact that few of the management and finance department have significant military service experience)

Current estimates indicate the Exploration Department controls 163 ships.
Data hasn't been received yet from the Military Department
Data hasn't been received yet from the Financial Department

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:

LvD

Signed a respect alliance with Aquatic Industries.

Finance Department launches the Market Regulatory Force

Military Department undergoing reform

Current estimates indicate the Exploration Department controls 167 ships.
Current estimates indicate the Military Department controls 153 ships.
Current estimates indicate the Finance Department controls 35 ships.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:
Work on the OOB Ship Manufacturing Plant draws on while in the meantime OOB Design is experimenting with a few drone rack designs towards quick fleet deployment.

Likan123 has been recruited. Please contact an OOB officer to choose a department.


LVD

To this end, the following patrol fleets (as shown above) have been deployed: Aurora Squadron, Judgment Division, Star Shield Division


-Current estimates indicate the Military Department controls 201 ships.-


SH

The OOB Finance department has set a target of 21billion intergalactic credits for exports this month on Systemhack. Rumours indicate this is a move by the Systemhack department to keep investor confidence up following a decrease in FDI into the Systemhack territories. OOB trading agents are rumoured to be selling advanced armor and moving into luxury products such as salvage computers and astrotech computers.

The Government’s ambition of almost doubling SH exports to £21 billion is a “big stretch”, admits the Magnus Commendator, Markonius.

He states that the Management and Finance Department, OOB’s major trade arm, was “too independent” from the other departments and must work more closely with other divisions of the Order to promote the Order's image. His statement cast doubts upon the feasibility of this goal, however, when questioned on his opinion about the matter, Head of Exploration Bagatur stated that such action was "long overdue".

3,347,644,043 spent so far.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:
Signed a defensive alliance with Merc Dragon.

New Renovated and finally released industrial cargo transport vehicle for the OOB Trading Company Artificial Intelligence Development plan.


LvD
Alongside the previous 'Light Fleet Deployment Rack', a new rack the 'Medium Fleet Deployment Rack' is out.
The first fleet of this calibre, the Specter Star Division has been launched
Latest News:
Signed a defensive alliance with Merc Dragon.


The OOB Auto-Ship-Manufacturing Facility, a complex logic construction by SgtWisky is nearing finishing testing stages. This construction is aimed towards mass producing ships at a faster rate than ever before.


LvD
Alongside the previous 'Light Fleet Deployment Rack', a new rack the 'Medium Fleet Deployment Rack' is out.
The first fleet of this calibre, the Specter Star Division has been launched

The exploration department has been dedicated 150,000,000 credits by the BDB towards finding a suitable system for BDB Headquarters Bank

SR
The OOB SR Colony has officially declared that they will not provide any opposition against the rumoured invasion plans by the TSA.

SH
A second megashop has been established to work in conjunction with the primary megashop. Both are Bogatyr Lease Shop Designs
4,194,917,847 spent over the last week. That brings total imports spending by the SH colony so far this month to 7,542,561,890.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News:
Signed a respect alliance with Insync

LvD
A matter of a few days ago, the Thryn, a re-birth of the famous Thryn Monarchy faction rose to power within the Light vs Dark galaxy. Headed by ex-Thryn Monarchy co-founded Jaaskinal, this faction, after breaking apart from FCM, led an assault on OOB outposts as a show of its strength and successfully inflicted damages in excess of 5,000,000,000 intergalactic credits.

The matter has been resolved with a ceasefire and armistice signed with a view to reaching a better final solution at a later time. This agreement was overseen with the Rebuilders Administration, the predominant legal authority in the LvD galaxy, acting as witness to the signing by both parties.

Costs of damages will be covered by FCM and OOB relief funds operating together to facilitate the repair and re-deployment of damaged assets.

SR
The Terran Spacial Armada has been granted indefinite fleet basing rights within the OOB SR colony for a one-time payment of 100,000,000 credits to the SR colony.

SH
A further 3,614,858,243 intergalactic credits were spent on imports over the last week. That brings total imports spending by the SH colony so far this month to 11,157,420,133.


BR
A minor diplomatic colony is to be established on the BR (Brierie server) with a view to allowing the OOB greater access to trading and diplomatic opportunities in the Brierie operational sphere of the Greater Starmade World.

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News (to-be updated):

SH
Since the last Systemhack report, 34,359,888,352 intergalactic credits worth has been spent on import transactions as exchange payment in the form of computational and weapons sales, which have been sold for ores and building materials. That brings total imports spending by the SH colony so far this month to 45,517,308,485. The huge amount of imports value spent was explained by the OOB buying from Scavenger, Outcaster factions as well as buying from large-scale mining firms such as EscApes, Orion Federation. Trading also was carried out with the TSA wherein a lot of building materials and raw minerals was exchanged for more military arms.

Magnus Commendator Markonius has refused to comment on his earlier statement however he did express congratulations to the systemhack colony on its initiative in selling off all excess computational stock


LvD
Date on current OOB losses on LvD is in the process of being compiled. Due to a series of factions recently waging war on the Order, the total value of damage is yet to be seen. Current estimates indicate over 30 military outposts destroyed and there are rumours that an OOB patrol fleet was also destroyed, however, this has not been confirmed by OOB administration yet.


In a continuation of the war with Vaygr, following Vaygr's invasion of OOB territory, 3x OOB Trading Class Damascus Destroyers of 196k mass faced 2x Vaygr MK3 Despoiler Classes. Unfortunately, no data is available except for a rather morose report. No images were taken as no reporters were present near or around the area from OOB's side.

Pre-battle stats:
OOB Forces:
3x OOB Trading Class Damascus Destroyers (176k mass)

Vaygr Forces:
2x Vaygr Despoiler MK3 Class (~465k mass)


OOB Losses:
2x OOB Trading Class Damascus Destroyers completely destroyed instantly upon entry
1x OOB Trading Class Damascus Destroyer overheated and sustained major damage.

Thanks from the OOB LvD colony go to Likan123 and Gqz for showing up to participate in the battle. Additional thanks go to Aceface from the opposing faction for his precise operational skill and his approach to battle, where, having seen that all foreign vessels in said skirmish were defeated, he left the scene of battle, allowing OOB civilian forces to retreat.

OOB Public Statement from Bogdan:

Unfortunately, due to the poor technology in the form of ancient jump drives and weak shielding, our trading class destroyers were wiped from space in seconds. This is a very disappointing reminder of the poor quality of some of older OOB shields and we hope that some OOB builders will take it onto themselves to work big in the form of large vessels so that the Order has something which could counter-balance foreign military ships of masses above 250k.

 

[greatmatt]

//Receiving transmission//

/Origin: Cassius IV Military Station A07/

=> Attention ALL vessels heading to the Cassius system!!! DON'T COME!!! This system is no longer habitable by any form of life be it organical or not. I don't have much time so i'll be brief. 43 days ago we successfully created the perfect biomechanical life form, an organism designed to repair mechanical structures as if they were living creatures. Our scientists immediately injected some of those organisms into a ship to test their efficiency, to our surprise these organisms were capable of not only repairing but also enhancing the vessel. We docked the ship and went to sleep. We were woken up by the station's alarm a few hours later only to find that the organisms had contaminated most of the ships and part of the station. Me and a few colleagues escaped in a dropship and went to the closest military base in the system. When we got there we told what happened to the military and for 37 days we stayed there while they launched several incursions to destroy the research station and it's ships but no vessel returned. A few hours ago we started receiving SOS transmissions from all stations in the system reporting that they were being attacked by "infected" ships of all classes. I can hear the soldiers being attacked by monsters. This is my final warning, don't come to this system! Don't come to this sy... [Man Screaming][Explosion]

//Transmission Cut//

 

[Mortiferum]

So.....

Exterminatus?

 

[Reilly Reese]

 

[Bogdan]

Latest News (to-be updated):
After negotiations finally proved successful with a set of OOB contact factions, the Order has now got access to a series of outpost blueprints. These shall be used as interim mercenary designs until the date when a larger partner alternative to the current OOB Military Fortified Outpost V2 is released.

LvD
Blockposts 18 through to 27 have been refurbished and in the case of some being destroyed - redeployed.

A design has been acquired from the Knights Hospitaller faction, which has been modified with the needed living quarters for an OOB garrison commander. To supplement the already well-developed defences of said outpost design, two HS Ultimus Class turrets have also been added to it. A series of said outposts have been deployed to restore OOB control over OOB systems surrounding the central OOB territory on LvD.

These will, of course, continue for the meantime to be supported by their weaker counterpart the standard OOB outpost design shown below

As, however, the OOB Military Fortified Outpost V2 shall be undergoing its last official month of deployment, plans are already in motion for new outpost design (s) to replace to replace this design.
Currently this style of outpost is built to be a defensive facility but to also allow the garrison to live in moderate comfort featuring offices, kitchens, a dining room and a large open area for internal testing, as well as a developed factory setup to allow for local industrial companies to subside the maintenance costs of said facilities.