Corp-DutchDukes / DUKE

2913, The start of a Foundation

This Corporation was born and founded in the Year 2913. It all started as a small “transport corporation” with existing good bonds with the UEE military. Dutch Dukes were there to transport soldiers from ground towards their designated ships hanging around in orbit, transporting ammo and etcetera. The other activities were supplying troops on the ground and SaR missions.

2921, June 21th – A founders tragic death

All was well, there was plenty of work to be done. The four friends gathered together to discuss the latest job they were ask to do. The UEE wanted us to SaR a lost squad of soldiers that were patrolling the “Caliban” system, which is up to this point still military classified. As the signal was lost with the ship (UEE Slipstream, a military Carrack). The Dukes had nothing more than a last known location on the planet “Crion”.
The discussion took hours as this was not just a simple supply run. From which ships they had to take to how many men and how many supplies. It was from this moment one of the friends took the job upon him self.
The founder was accompanied by:
A Terrapin – Duke “Copperhead”
A Prowler – Duke “Nightshift”
A Catterpillar – Duke “Supplier”

He took off on what, he knew, was going to be a dangerous mission. Once stationed in the System for days, “Duke Copperhead” found a weak distress signal from the surface of the planet. With all ships going towards the signal they quickly found out they were looking at a crashed ship. It was the “UEE Slipstream”
The founder realized that the ship was taken down by enemy fire, with scorch marks all around the ship. With no sign of life to be found near the crashsite. As all entries were blocked the Founder ordered the “Supplier” to land next to it, and started chopping up a way into the ship. In a few hours the crew managed to get into the ship. But all seems to be…. to late.

“All right boys, let’s go home” ordered the Founder.
Via the comms could be heard that everybody was ready to take off
“Engines are hot sir”
“Ready for take off “

While taking off and entering orbit we had send out towards homebase we were coming back. As the jumpdrives of all ships were spooling up and ready for jumping. We heard a massive explosion and the next thing we saw was gunfire and torpedos slinging at our ships left and right. A massive Vanduul driller showed up taking down the “Supplier’s“ engines. With the massive panic that was created in just a second, our founder ordered us to get away and jump as quick as possible.
“GET AWAY RIGHT NOW ! JUMP. TELL MY FRIENDS I … … … signal lost “.
While in a last attempt i saw the founder disconnecting the command module from the main ship, right before we jumped out of there.

This is my story – Pilot of the Prowler – Duke “Nightshift”

2921, Juli 5th

The “Friends” came together to pay their respect, and promised each other this will not happen again… ever.

2922, November 25th- the Galactic show

With the loss of their friend, the founders set of towards the UEE militairy show. Trying to forge new bonds with future Organisations and Corporations.
Founder :” Its not the same…” ~ I know brother… i know ~
While headed over to the RSI manufacturer to look for new ships they could buy for the Corporation.
It was from that moment the “Friends” set their eyes on the RSI corvette class “POLARIS”

Founder “You still know about that promise we made? “

And without a second they signed the papers. With a new flagship at their disposal, there was also a question that was raised.

Founder “what are we going to call it ?” ~We will call it “Saudarah” which means “Brotherhood”, and with this the friends felt they paid their respect to their lost brother.

Present
Still in service, ready to protect and serve.
If you need us, we will find you.

Future events
Corp Dutch Dukes will be active during “OPERATION PITCHFORK”