RE: A New Anglian Confederation Interstellar News Network Report

Oooh, more pirates to add to my listing.
I take it that it's a ~70 mass Q-ship with 2 PT + 1 class-4 & several
class-1 batteries with heavy armouring?

'Neath Southern Skies - http://users.mcmedia.com.au/~denian/
Commodore Alfred K Hole - RNS Indy's Folly [CB]
Captain Nicolette O'Teen - RNMS Golden Spear [CB]
EBD Medusa

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>	    LTT 9001 Wreck Is Dated To Blackbeard's Time
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>	      :::From New Anglian Interstellar News Network:::
>	      Updated 04:17 Albion Standard Time June 27, 2179
> 
> Fomalhaut (Albion Times) - Metal taken from wreckage believed to be
> Blackbeard's "Revenge" dates to the time the pirate's flagship was
> built as a Federal Stats Europa 'merchant vessel' in the early 2100s,
> scientists said Wednesday.
> 
> Star charts and maps from the early 2100s also bolster archaeologists'
> belief that the wreck, found strewn across the surface of LTT 9001
III,
> is the remains of Blackbeard's flagship, which disappeared in 2137.
> 
> "So far, everything we've found seems to correlate pretty much to the
> time period the starship would have been built or the same period the
> construction techniques would have been used to build the ship," said
> Henry Nathan, a conservator with the Royal Stellar Archaeology Unit.
> 
> Blackbeard, whose real name was Sir Warren Teach, ruthlessly prowled
> the spacelanes between Santa Maria and Fomalhaut before he was killed
> in November 2137 in the Fomalhaut asteroid belt by NAC naval forces.
> 
> Since the wreck was discovered in October 2176, archeaologists have
> been racing to confirm it is the "Revenge", a medium-sized cruiser
> that Blackbeard armed with 2 PF-9 Starlance beams for preying on
> merchant ships.
> 
> A number of anti-ship guns, ranging from some Mk 8s to the massive
> Mk 30 beam cannon, have been found at the site, and titanium plates
> and other artifacts link the wreckage to Blackbeard's day.
> 
> Scientists are studying the results of a recent stellar cartographical
> survey to determine whether other weapons or artifacts are lying
buried
> in the ground around the wreck, including any of the dozen smaller
> anti-ship cannons the ship was armed with.
> 
> The search was slowed after government legislators cut off funding
> earlier this year, and researchers said metal from the wreck is being
> ravaged by the corrossively toxic atmosphere of LTT 9001 III.
> 
> Although work at the site has come to a standstill, Royal
archaeologists
> hope funding will be found to salvage sections of the hull lying under
a
> protective layer of dust and sand, before the planet's atmosphere
corrodes
> everything.
> 
> "I'm hoping that there's enough hull structure left down there to at
> least determine where exactly the ship was manufactured," Nathan said.
> "The hope is that we can fully salvage it, bring the whole thing
back."
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