MIN and TEL civil war!!

[Y-llian]

Ok, so I started a new game today and out mapping. Noticed something was up in Profit Centre Alpha, only to find MIN and TEL shooting at each other. It’s one heck of a light show, but what caused this civil war? Did the Teladi CEO fire someone in the ministry he shouldn’t have? News wires are going nuts and broadcasting the craziness all over the jump network! They’re calling it the ‘Alpha incident’ and insurance companies everywhere are bracing themselves for heavy losses.

Anyone ever seen MIN and TEL fighting each other? The MIN EQ and TEL SY are quite close together. I think one of the two stations, at some point, took out a SCA ship only to also hit a friendly ship, and things escalated from there.

[Buzz2005]

As Teladi always do everything for profitsss, certain someone was smuggling illegal goods, of course those MIN can always sniff those individuals somehow.
Since that certain criminal was also very cheap he didn't even wanted to bribe the MIN patrol ( even worse he offered them measly 10 credits ).
Quickly dismissing the laughable bribe Ministry commander issued the very well know order: eject the cargo or face the counsences!
Nearby disguised SCA pirate was like: Hey! That's my line!

And now you have a cheap criminal, very fair Ministry police and scoundrels SCA in the mix.

What else is going to happen but CIVIL WAR!

[Y-llian]

Indeed and billions of credits are being turned into metal slag.The area is littered with drones, fighters and capitals of every persuasion.

OOC: I think this may be compounded by VRO, as the L Gauss canons have an effective range of 18k which means the SY and EQ are in firing range of each other… so, it seems, mutual annihilation is the order of the day…

[Buzz2005]

had the same situation but it kind of resolved after some time, was even afraid that TEL wharf and shipyard would be destroyed

[Baddieus]

I've seen them go at it in more than one game start. For whatever reason I'll park on the MIN Wharf in 18 billion and manage remote ships or something and suddenly hear lots of radio chatter & explosions outside. Open the map to find the MIN & TEL ships are the ones going at it. Upon leaving the sector they seem to calm down and within 5min or so can re-enter and they will have quit fighting, but if you stay in sector that fight will go on until the last ship.

[Alan Phipps]

Yes, how does it feel to know that YOU are the cause of all this? These 'Hey, you shot me!' wars tend not to happen if the player is not being nosey.

[Wargear]

Most likely the station or one ship or another accidentally landed a hit reps tanked and they started brawling. The Terrans are really bad about this in one mission in my spacesuit I accidentally shot a station instead of the lockbox I was tasked with opening rep instantly went to -30 and everything in the area and the station started attacking me! I'd been toast if I hadn't teleported back to the ship and beat feet!
My shipyard and trade station seem to develop firestorm brawls like this as well leaving a sea of dropped containers around the docks.

[Bozz11]

this is kinda funny, I remember In family zhin there was the equipment dock with 4 teladi destroyers that were staying next to it waiting to repair or something, I was in Family zhin for a while managing my empire and defending the sectors against xenons with a small fleet.

At some point the teladi destroyers started shooting the equipment dock and taking it down, a split fleet came with a raptor to deal with them and then I see some firework in the northern part of the sector, thinking it's some xenons, I go there and see lots of teladi destroyers now taking out the split defense platform and later they even claimed the sector for themselves (they already had claim on family nhuut since xenons took out the defense platform.

[Pilot_napping]

This just happened for the first time in my game.

Funniest thing I have ever seen.

It all started with an escort mission as I wanted to increase my MIN rep. Thought it world be the standard milk run escorting a MIN trade ship between stations in Eighteen Billion. Maybe a tussle with a corvette or 2 along the way, as is my usual experience. I'm flying a heavily modded Dragon Raider.

The game had *cough* other ideas.

Mid mission, no less than 8 VIG Barbarossa class Ice Union scavengers decide to go hostile & accost the trader I am escorting. 30 seconds later, the trade ship is dust and I am on the run with 50% hull.

The ensuing battle was glorious. It started with MIN police fleets swarming the VIG ships which were drifting towards a pair of stations. One TEL & one MIN. After engaging my destroyer fleet into the fray, I successfully boarded a Barbarossa and then watched as a huge TEL fleet and a huge MIN fleet arrived & attacked the remaining VIG ships.

While trading insults & explosives with the VIG, stray shots went flying into the nearby stations from all parties (except my fleet ... they bugged out quickly) and wouldn't you know it, the MIN & TEL decided they were done with each other for good.

Over the next 4 hours, TEL destroyers arrived in Eighteen billion by the dozens. Any resistance MIN put up was removed with extreme prejudice. Both the MIN shipyard & wharf were forcibly deconstructed by plasma.

I was long gone from TEL & MIN systems at this point. Despite being far out of system, the TEL fleet is now (8 hour mark) erasing every single MIN station in their space.

MIN can't even build new ships as the TEL shipyards they might use are hostile.

There are maybe 2 MIN stations left in Profit Center Alpha. The TEL fleet is arriving shortly ...