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February 3, 3066 – We take a meeting with Brooks Incorporated, the company on Liberty that is making the Defiance and Ironsides fighters for us. We need another fighter line for the Coalition and for us.
They have factories in a bunch of places in the Free Worlds League where they make tanks, VTOLs, and such, but we are the only factory where they make fighters. So they don’t have the right to any other fighters.
So we can do a new design, or acquire an existing one.
They suggest us contacting someone in a nation we are allied with to license a fighter, since that would be easier and faster.
We all agree to a perfect solution…
February 6, 3066 – We announce that Brooks Incorporated and Andurien AeroTech have agreed to allow Brooks to license their 100 ton Riever aerospace fighter. We are licensing, strait up without changes, the F700 version of this fighter, from 3050, and we’ll build two lines of it here, and they should be up and running in around a year or so, since we are using existing blueprints, and making no changes. The only rule is that we cannot sell them to the Lyran Alliance or Federated Commonwealth, often seen as an enemy of the state of the Free Worlds League.
Here are the reasons why this was a perfect fit:
1). Our two existing lines are both medium fighters with a 55 and 65 ton body. This gives us that nasty assault, Atlas story fighter.
2). We have a long history of an alliance with the Duchy of Andurien, so this makes them money, and is easy to do.
3). Brooks Incorporated’s main FWL factory is on Andurien too.
Because Brooks is there on Andurien as well as Liberty, and we have close Andurien ties, this just makes a lot of sense.
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