Friday, September 14, 2012

Contact at 4.5 Million km

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7 CONTACTS FOUND
Scanner 1: 3 Possible Contacts
Scanner 2: 1 Confirmed Contact
Scanner 3: 2 Probable Contacts
Scanner 4: 1 Probable Contact

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Authorization Granted::Welcome AUSPEX SCRYER VLADIUS


System Defense Station 7::Moranus Sector::Gladius System
SCANNER # 3 IMAGE REPORT
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VESSEL APPEARS TO BE HUMAN.  PROBABLY OF IMPERIAL DESIGN.  APPEARS TO BE OF FRIGATE CLASS OR SMALLER, BUT NO SMALLER THAN A DESTROYER CLASS.  NO IFF SIGNATURE DETECTED, NOT A NAVY OR FLEET RESERVE VESSEL.  POSSIBLE PIRATE, RENEGADE, ROGUE TRADER, OR DAMAGED VESSEL.  RECOMMEND INTERCEPT IMMEDIATE.  APPROACH WITH CAUTION PREPARE TO DESTROY OR ESCORT.

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Well, it turns out it was a Rogue Trader ship after all.  None other than The Void Falcon owned and operated by the House Dolphinian.  This is our vessel for the Fantasy Flight game ROGUE TRADER, which is seriously fun.  It's a small ship but armed and equipped very well, it's also proven in battle.


I gave it a rather rough looking paint job, with only some accents picked out in the house's colors, blue and white.  Where the hull is painted there are many scratches and burn marks and patches.  Rogue Traders they may be but theirs is a minor house with only a few ships.  The whole point of our adventures is to help it reach greater fame and fortune.


I also painted a lot of little window lights on this ship, as I do with all BFG vessels.  Not sure if you can even make them out that well.  Those first 2 pictures are actually a result of the glow in the dark paint I put on the antennas and engines.  To the naked eye it's easy to see in the dark and looks pretty cool.  To my camera they are but blurry dots in the void.  So, I messed with the pictures a bit to make them look as they did.


Enjoy for now, the next battle report should be out eventually.



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