Persei-Aries War Resumes

The ever-turbulent world of Darkstar: Tactical Starship Combat has shifted and yet again, the empires of the Second Colonial Age are in a mood best described as disagreeable.

The scene of combat this time is the Perseus-Aries Strategic Command Sector (SCS).  Here, colonies belonging to the United States (winning few local friends through the corporate behavior of United Energy and Transport) have come under attack by the “Black Dragons” of the Khitan-Tunguska Free State.

The colony under attack is Kinkaid’s Outpost (51 Aries system), where an American battlegroup was heavily defeated an the light cruiser USS Austin exploded with a tremendous loss of life.

For three weeks, only the rapid-deployment response force “Task Force Oriskany” was able to hold the line in Kinkaid’s Outpost.  Immediately, however, overtures were made to nearby British star systems for help.

Through a cigar-smoke shrouded back-room campaign of neo-Victorian shenanigans, the British have agreed to help, which brought Black Dragons into mining their shipping lanes out of Alpha Aries … a system with planets also owned by the Japanese … and when a mine took out a Japanese passenger liner with the loss of 1200 civilians …

Now the Japanese are at war with the British for bringing Black Dragon into the shipping lanes and indirectly causing the loss of many Japanese citizens.

So far we’re six battles in.  Mostly Americans vs. Black Dragons, but now a major battle has been fought between Japan and Great Britain as well at Blackwell’s Treasure (Alpha Aries-C … look for a full battle report tomorrow.

Meanwhile, here is the PDF that lays out in detail the camapign in progress.  Included is a map of the real-life stars and their approximate locations, who controls what, and where some of the major battles have taken place so far.

Myself, Ramsu, Damon, and Hegemongary are signed up to particate so far, but more of course are welcome.  Factions so far are the United States, Black Dragons, Great Britain, Japan, and the Arab League is about to jump in as well.

The full PDF is below, or the first few pages (lower-res) available for a quick preview.

Hope you like it!