Re: Outrim Coalition

I like this.  Do you want to do a 'Pedia blurb on it?

JGH

Alan and Carmel Brain wrote:
> 
> Regarding the OutRim Coalition,no-one has done any blurb for it.
> 
> What do people think of this :
> 
> "The ORC is a loose alliance of many different colonies that were
> left to fend for themselves when the major powers all but abandoned
> defending them to concentrate their forces on the Core Worlds after
> 2185. The original nucleus was a band of extra-legal (read Pirate)
> forces that raided the KV supply lines, then joined up with small
> colonies that had been by-passed by the main KV assault. As such
> their first forces were old, obsolete designs and repaired wrecks.
> However the low-tech designs they had access to were perfectly
> fitted for dispersed, non-centralised production. Even colonies
> that had had most of their industries wrecked could produce parts
> for early 22nd century ships, so many of the ORC fleet were actually
> new production of old designs.
> In fighting the KV, they have become like them. Their Pirate origins
> have led them to raid even Core worlds, and should the KV menace be
> ended, they are likely to be a theat in their own right. Because they
> feel betrayed by the rest of humanity, are proud of their "frontier
spirit"
> that saw them through tough times, and see the "soft decadent
core-dwellers"
> as being sheep for the slaughter.
> 
> They call themselves ORCs."

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