Intergalactic Summit

Today, the Bosena Accords has taken our first major step in Operation Avalon by establishing our first permanent foothold in space. Through great effort and massive personal expense from our signatories we have succeeded in extending our reach to the stars from the shattered and war-torn tribal nations below.

Situated in the nearby system of Teonsude along a well-traveled spaceline, the Bosena Accords Warclone Refuge will act as our staging area for our operations in Molden Heath as we continue our quest to reconnect with cut off and stranded mercenaries on distant planets, build up the warclone community, and bring law and order to Molden Heath. With two seperate space-superiority missile batteries, a full electronic warfare suite, a rapid-replication and manufacturing plant, a standalone Clone Reanimation Unit lab capable of producing legions of prefabricated warclones, a docking bay capable of servicing a flotilla of warbarges, and a massive fighter wing staff by some of the most seasoned veteran pilots of the pendulum war the Warclone Refuge stands as the first major hub where our kind can rally to in the hopes of building a better future. While it pales in comparison to the machinations of major empyrean alliances it will serve as a constant reminder of our existence in the face of CONCORD and every other major agency that, at one point or another, wished to see us eradicated.

The christening itself was rather unceremonious, with a handful of our most dedicated signatories and pilots sympathetic to our cause congregating together to haphazardly launch a cluster of nanites that would begin the process of assembling the superstructure to our citadel. So it came to be that as the process began and the structure started to form our kind crowded together on three small ships at the edge of civilized space drinking, singing songs, and reminiscing of battles passed and rivals long lost to history. In the absence of fireworks (I had a convoy sent for that exact reason, but it had been ganked by local thugs before arriving in system) and with the encouragement of liquor one of us came to the decision to fire off a volley of unguided rockets at each other to mark the event. Shortly thereafter, a CONCORD patrol arrive on scene to enforce punishment for the unsanctioned action. Though one of our ships was lost to their patrol for a brief shining moment we stood there laughing together joyously while, seemingly under police escort, our citadel was being born.

I, Galm Eskola-Fae, on behalf of The Bosena Accords wish to extend an invitation to all immortal infantry scattered across New Eden to join us here at the Warclone Refuge. Here, you will find sanctuary and a new family dedicated reunifying the mercenary community and returning us to our former glory. Here, you will find a place where all are welcome. A place that, if the Maker wills it, will continue to grow until the day that we can once again reclaim the planets where we once shed so much blood, this time as a single faction dedicated to the betterment of immortals everywhere. Here, you can live a life outside the constant cycle of death and destruction.

Welcome home, old friends.

I'm afraid you're reading that the wrong way.

As our goal is to provide gainful employment for immortal soldiers in fields that benefit from their abilities, such as dangerous construction and rescue jobs, the need to replace the bodies they will inevitably lose in such endeavors is essential.

If for whatever reason we were attacked, we would respond in kind, but the ability to produce replacement clone bodies for those we're taking in is not for military purposes.

That is of course the intention. My statement wasn't meant to suggest carelessness.

I thought Gobbins said Horde was going to create 'zombeans'.... like 'ZOMG, these coffee beans are great'...

Was that not what that was?

The moment you state your attempt is to reclaim control of sovereign territory for your own betterment, you are perpetuating the violence that caused the purges in the first place.

You ignore the billions, trillions of baseliners in favor of mere thousands of Elysians.

You may cloak this in more laudable work, but to conclude on the note of conquest...? You betray your desires, soldier.

A few things.



I'll address this first, as I believe the seperate accusation of the Accords being a militant faction is something that will tie into a larger point I want to make. The Warclone Refuge does, in fact, feature a fully operational cloning facility capable of producing high-grade clones typically reserved for Alpha and Omega state capsuleers. The level of detail and genetic fidelity required to produce these clones, much less the cost of materials and resources involved, can also make these systems act as clone vats capable of creating highly detailed "prime" clones for many of our immortal soldiers.

By comparison to these highly advanced systems, retrofitting them to produce warclones was child's play. For those of you unfamiliar with the process, as I'm sure most capsuleers are, warclones are often extremely simplified bodies stripped down to the bare essentials needed for bodily function without creating the mental disconnect that comes from existing in a foreign body. Bones are replaced with metallic alloys, blood is replaced with a synthetic substitute, and sinew is replaced with a nanite mesh. Often times physical characteristics are foregone in favor cheap, rapidly mass-produced sacks of biomass. Upshot is, they're extremely easy to produce to the point that they can be assembled in-theater by Clone Reanimation Units dropped planetside from low orbit.

Downside is we have a rather short shelf life. Our bodies degrade at an alarming rate, with several optimistic projections giving a soldier living inside a warclone as little as three years before death. That itself doesn't account for the numerous hazardous conditions we face on the battlefield or the carcinogens that we are exposed to on a near constant basis. From your position of privilege, I may see how the thought of us producing mass blank copies for immortal soldiers may make you feel uneasy. But you need to realise that while I and our signatories have the good fortune of building our future among the stars countless heroes are literally wasting away on the ground. Cut off, alone, incapable of receiving the logistical supplies they need or even the bodies they require to make sure they survive in the toxic hellscape they are currently stranded in.

These bodies aren't made for an invading army. They're made to be the vessels by which we can bring our heroes home.



With respect, while our kind have been prosecuted time and time again simply for doing combat with other immortals in limited engagement zones the capsuleer has been permitted to annihilate large swaths of baseliner populations across the cluster while wielding the power of a mad god. I'm willing to bet that as a member of Mercenary Coalition you've killed more people in the last month than I have in my lifetime career.

By comparison with the atrocities I've seen capsuleers commit, any fear and skepticism directed towards warclones is completely unfounded. In fact the outrage I am beginning to see at the announcement that we, a warclone organization, has succeeded in establishing a mundane outpost in comparison to the war machines built by capsuleers just goes to show me that many empyreans will view us with open contempt regardless of our actions. To that end, I hope you understand that the weapons loaded onto the citadel itself are meant only as defensive armament and as a deterrent to anyone that might see our congregation as an excellent opportunity to eradicate a large portion of the mercenary community all in one go.

In fact, I think you'll find that many of our assets previously dedicated to waging war on the ground have been (or are currently in the process of being) liquidated to fund all humanitarian aid we provide. The weapons defending the Warclone Refuge, or those absolutely necessary for conducting peacekeeping operations, being the obvious exception.

Let me be clear here. While I encourage skepticism of our cause, I will not tolerate the thought of someone regressing our dream back further. You, sir, are in fact completely welcome to hire goons to stand in the way of progress.

And we are liable to mow them down.

To clarify, I understood your point and I respect you and your beliefs. In fact, I carry a certain admiration for conscientious objectors. I just felt like my point needed to be made, so long as the occasion called for it.

If we continue to squabble over Molden Heath in our fractured clans, we will not endure. Nor will the people that call the region home. That is why this operation is so critical, and why I will not stand idle and let anything stand in our way.

Don't let your ambitions of unification fail the memory of the common man - those mortals beneath you. They are the reason we exist and thrive at all.

Pixy this will not end well for you.

Saw you fight in Shoashu Sasaanko, you were handy with that knife from your boot but it's a different arena here on the forum. Talking about reclaiming lands you bled for as a merc is just plain nonsense. You got paid to bleed as a merc, paid well unless you were stupid.

You are a capsuleer now, maybe just an alpha but a capsuleer, leave the past behind you and build a future among the stars.

Don't screw up your first impression chances Pixy, people around here have long memories.