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− | == PRIVATEER TIMELINE ==
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− | == Rationale: ==
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− | Note that it takes the Winterrowd 086 - 068 = 18 days to travel from 7th Fleet territory to Perry.
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− | We can guess a starting location for the Winterrowd by looking at where other 7th fleet events are
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− | reported from. 7th fleet does NOT include the Armageddon, as she's stationed at Proxima Centauri;
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− | nor The TCS Eisenhower or Kennedy as these are probably at Sol; nor the Concordia or the Coral Sea,
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− | which are part of the 14th Fleet at Enigma. And the Valiant is sent together with the Winterrowd.
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− | This leaves the Quinson, Bradshaw, Kinney, Roosvelt, Liberty, Hermes, Invincible and Illustrious.
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− | Wonder Chicken says:
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− | Paranoid by Kilrathi raids and fearing another attack on the inner homeworlds, the civilian government
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− | refused to deploy the Third Fleet’s five major carriers to the front. The TCS Armageddon, Saratoga,
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− | Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Lincoln stayed behind to defend Earth under direct Presidential order
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− | as the core to the newly christened "Terran Defense Fleet".
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− | So, it seems we haven't missed any. But we only hear again of:
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− | * TCS Illustrous destroyed by new Kat bomber at Aloysius
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− | * TCS Roosvelt - shot down at Munro
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− | * TCS Invincible - victory in Morpheus
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− | But! Notice that Ludmilla Petranova leaves Proxima for Hell's Kitchen 8 days after the Winterrowd
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− | and Valiant depart for Gemini. Was the kat raid there due to the vacuum left by either ship? It
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− | would seem so: Hell's Kitchen is about half way between Munro and Morpheus. We later hear about
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− | losing ground at Port Hedland, Chang-Du, and Gimle. Hell's Kitchen is pretty much in the middle,
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− | so I'll measure distance to Perry by counting jumps from Hell's Kitchen. So we go, Enyo, Krieger,
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− | Luyten, Weslyn, Mastif, Oxford, Saxtogue, New Detroit, Perry. Nine jumps in 18 days. Now, too bad,
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− | we don't know the class of the Winterrowd nor Valiant, but if we assume a speed of 125 as typical
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− | for carriers, a Centurion's cruising speed is 4 times that, so, for the purposes of estimating
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− | Privateer plotline dates, we'll use a rule of thumb: 2 jumps per standard day. And we will work
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− | backwards, since the first part of the game is devoted to trading and upgrading the ship. For the
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− | second part, Righteous Fire, we'll work forwards, since the game can be completed without additional
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− | trading or taking of non-plot, paid missions.
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− | (Note: I will assign 1 jump worth to local, in-system missions)
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− | I chose the date 2669.125 as the earliest possible end to Privateer Part 1. This is because the
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− | TCS Winterrowd is destroyed in Gemini, by a "kilrathi superweapon" on 2669.122; which has to come
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− | before Greyson Burrows cracks the green egg. So, the latter event is set at 2669.124, now.
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− | I chose 2669.007 as the start date, as the game happens in 2669, this we know; and the earlier we
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− | start, the better.
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− | == The Timeline: ==
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− | 2669.007 Greyson Burrows arrives to Troy, Gemini, claims his Tarsus
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− | (69 days interim to trade and upgrade ship)
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− | 2669.076 meets Ernesto Sandoval,newdet
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.077 liverpool delivery
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.078 tayla 1, newdet
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.079.5 tayla 2, oakham, pentonville
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− | 4 jumps
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− | 2669.081.5 hector, troy
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− | 4 jumps
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− | 2669.083.5 tayla 3, oakham
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.085 newcons
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.086.5 tayla 4, oakham
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.088 newcons
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.089.5 tayla complete, oakham
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.091 lynch 1, newcons
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.092.5 seelig, pentonville
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.094 lynch 2, newcons
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.095 kroiz & siva, rikel
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.096 lynch 3, newcons
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.097 romulus, castor
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.098 lynch 4, newcons
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.098.5 newcastle
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− | 3 jumps
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− | 2669.100 masterson 1, oxford
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.100.5 masterson 2, oxford
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.101 masterson 3, oxford
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.101.5 masterson 4, oxford
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.102 masterson complete, oxford
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− | 5 jumps
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− | 2669.104.5 monkhouse 1, palan
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.105 murphy 1, basra
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.105.5 murphy 2, basra
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.106 murphy 3, basra
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.106.5 monkhouse 2, palan
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− | 1 jump
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− | 2669.107 murph+monk complete, basra
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.108 cross 1, rygannon
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.109 cross 2, rygannon
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− | 4 jumps
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− | 2669.111 cross 3, rygannon
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− | 6 jumps
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− | 2669.114 cross 4, rygannon
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− | 4 jumps
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− | 2669.116 delta prime
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− | 4 jumps
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− | 2669.118 cross complete, rygannon
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− | 4 jumps
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− | 2669.120 goodin, mcabee, nexus (nearest mining base)
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.123 goodin, terrel, perry
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.124 blockade pt tango
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− | 2 jumps
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− | 2669.125 terrel complete, perry
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