; ; Sid Meier’s ALPHA CENTAURI ; ; FACTION FILE: Nautilus Pirates ; ; Copyright © 1999 by Firaxis Games, Inc. ; ; ALPHA CENTAURI reads the rules of the game from this file at ; startup. Feel free, at your own risk, to experiment with editing ; this file. We recommend you make a backup copy of the original. ; #PIRATES Nautilus Pirates, The Buccaneer, Pirates, M, 2, Svensgaard, M, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, TECH, Mobile, TECH, DocFlex, SOCIAL, -GROWTH, SOCIAL, -EFFIC, FREEFAC, 28, AQUATIC, 0, FREEABIL, 26 Values, Power, SUPPORT nil, nil, nil Nautilus, Nautil. Ensign Jones, Lukas, Jones’ Locker Captain, heroic, bloodthirsty, intrepid, barbarous, Outmoded Misfit exploit the riches of the sea to harness the vast potential of the oceans strangling the sea lanes and depriving us of our trade strangling the sea lanes and depriving us of our trade openly violate interfactional laws in the name of free trade swilling rum and feeding Mind Worms to his parrot swilling rum and feeding Mind Worms to your parrot brazen thievery brazen thievery, M1 aquatic ambitions, M2 latest expeditions, M2 tariff, M1 protecting your shipping from undeserving brigands my privateers the Law of the Sea #BASES Deadman Tavern Landlubber Inn Buried Treasure Sunny Oasis Sailor’s Rest Freshwater Springs Marque City Land Lock Far Horizons Crossbone Way Sailor’s Warning Red Sky Roberts’ Dread Ulrik’s Hideaway Pirate’s Siege Grasshome Drunktown Merchantman Run Shanty Town Penzance Skull Crossroads Sailor’s Delight Plunder Cache Cannon’s Thunder #END #WATERBASES Safe Haven Port Svensgaard Crow’s Nest Provision Point Parrot Landing Barbary Coast Capetown Point Blood Meergard Cutlass Cay Sextant Cove Privateer Quay Dry Dock Frigate Base Drake Landing Storm’s Lee Pennant Shoals The Anchorage Lorcha Roads Skeleton Key Slave Raid Violence at Sea Privateering Commerce Raiding Treasure Taken Gan Ning Jean Fleury Buccaneer Base Edward Teach Jack Rackham Henry Morgan Bartholomew Roberts Hendrick Lucifer Jean Lafitte Roberto Cofresi Boysie Singh Zheng Qi Orang Laut Moro Raiders Viking Age Zaporizhian Sich Zaporozhian Cossacks Don Cossacks Stenka Razin Pier Gerlofs Donia Wijerd Jelckama Fraxinet Moors Narentine Raiders Slavic Piracy Victual Brothers William Maurice Novgorodian Ushkuiniks Maniots Barbary Corsairs Hayreddin Oruç Reis Turgut Reis Dragut Koca Murat Reis Jan Janszoon John Ward Samuel Mason Bully Wilson Harpe Brothers Peter Alston Wiley Harpe Jonathan Brown Colonel Plug James Ford John A. Murrell Dan Seavey Kanhoji Angre Jolly Roger Buried Treasure Plank Walk Captain Kidd Pieces of Eight Treasure Map Thomas Tew Charles Vane William Fly Jack Rackham #END #BLURB The sea … vast, mysterious … and full of wealth! And the nations of Planet send their trade across it without a thought. Well, the sea doesn’t care about them, so it lets them pass. But we can give the sea a little hand in teaching the landlubbers a lesson in humility. ^ ^ —Captain Ulrik Svensgaard ^ “The Ripple and the Wave” #DATALINKS1 ^LEADER: {Captain Ulrik Svensgaard} ^BACKGROUND: {Unity Astrogator} ^AGENDA: {Pillage and burn} ^TECH: {Doctrine: Mobility, Doctrine: Flexibility} ^ #DATALINKS2 ^-1 EFFICIENCY {Individualistic mentality opposed to central organization} ^-1 GROWTH {Culture does not place high emphasis on family} ^Free {Naval Yard} with discovery of {Doctrine: Initiative}: skilled shipwrights ^Enhancements may be built in ocean and trench squares with the discovery of Advanced Ecological Engineering: {Trained for life at sea} ^Sea colony pod & sea former prototypes {free}: advanced oceanic technology ^Bonus mineral from ocean shelf squares: {Culture and technology adapted for the ocean} ^{Marine Detachment ability} free for all naval combat units upon discovery of {Adaptive Doctrine} #FACTIONTRUCE #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 “Planet offers far greater adventures for us than this tedious conflict. Let us pledge Blood Truce and return to our explorations!” “Agreed. Forth to adventure!” “There is no greater adventure than the defeat of a meddlesome foe. Prepare to be annihilated!” #FACTIONTREATY #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 “Your ambitions seem to lie outside our sphere of influence, $TITLE0 $NAME1. We’d like to sign a Treaty of Friendship to cement our common bonds.” “We would never think of encroaching on your interests, $NAME3. Let’s sign that Treaty.” “We’d like to reserve judgement. Our expansion plans may yet come into conflict.” #ALIENFACTIONTRUCE #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 “Planet offers far greater adventures for us than this tedious conflict. Let us pledge Blood Truce and return to our explorations!” “Exploration of Manifold Six: much more important. Agreement!” “Already familiar: Manifold Six. Best adventure: your destruction!” #ALIENFACTIONTREATY #xs 440 #caption $CAPTION7 “You don’t seem very interested in the sea, $TITLE0 $NAME1. Though you are alien to us, it seems that among all the human factions, I am your logical ally, since our spheres of influence are different. Let’s sign a Treaty of Friendship and formalize what is already manifest.” “Land: Progenitor. Sea: $NAME3. Treaty: agreed.” “All Manifold Six: possible conflict. Treaty: unwise at this time.” # ; This line must remain at end of file