{"id":788,"date":"2017-06-10T16:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T21:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/?p=788"},"modified":"2017-07-10T19:15:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T00:15:32","slug":"the-merchant-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/story\/the-merchant-fleet","title":{"rendered":"The Merchant Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vast armies of the Pegasus Gulf are carried to\u00a0each theatre of war in the great starships of the 41st Millennium. Some, such as the innumerable regiments\u00a0of the Imperial Guard, are ferried by the Imperial Navy. Others, such as the Tyranids, are spawned by their ships and form the appendages of a greater living entity. More still are fleet based armies,\u00a0such as the Elder Corsairs,\u00a0who travel upon ancient ships acquired through aeons of intrigue and guile.<\/p>\n<p>The Rogue Trader Marcus Antonio Polo Polaris maintains a vast trade fleet to support his widespread economic empire.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the fleet is composed of\u00a0small cargo ships that ferry goods, people, and supplies back and forth across the Gulf.\u00a0Some are armed frigates, designed to make\u00a0pirates think twice\u00a0before raiding\u00a0them. Due to\u00a0the Pegasus Gulf&#8217;s state of perpetual instability, these ships are vital to advancing the\u00a0Lord Merchant&#8217;s interests &#8211; running blockades, rapidly moving supplies, and ferrying messages to locations of strategic importance.<\/p>\n<p>But under the command of such an\u00a0old and venerable trading family, there are\u00a0large capital ships, designed to move vast\u00a0amounts of cargo and apply strategic pressure to worlds or even entire systems. Though unable to form a battle line that\u00a0matches the battleships or cruisers of the Imperial Navy, these ships are more than enough to strike fear into the heart of a planetary governor, or to smash an ill-equipped pirate fleet to pieces.<\/p>\n<p>The Lord Merchant&#8217;s\u00a0flagship\u00a0is <em>The Adventure Capital.\u00a0<\/em>As much a base of operations\u00a0as a ship, its oversized cargo bays and gilded halls house shrines, forges, barracks, and a myriad of other components that make up the great machine of Imperial Trade.<\/p>\n<p>These ships are a mish-mash of designs and styles. Some are ancient, dating back to the Great Crusade itself, while others are nearly new, only recently built or refitted in the great orbital factories of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Most\u00a0are chartered, privately owned by captains or trade consortiums who have plead their allegiance to the Rogue Trader. This alliance is a tenuous one, required\u00a0strength, coercion, and above all, steady profits to maintain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-790 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19073264_10211278808740789_1540745067_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19073264_10211278808740789_1540745067_o.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19073264_10211278808740789_1540745067_o-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19073264_10211278808740789_1540745067_o-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/19073264_10211278808740789_1540745067_o-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast armies of the Pegasus Gulf are carried to\u00a0each theatre of war in the great starships of the 41st<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,35,52,30],"tags":[87,8,6],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fleets-of-the-pegasus-gulf","category-forces-of-the-pegasus-gulf","category-house-hippu-tippalus","category-story","tag-battlefleet-gothic","tag-fluff","tag-rogue-trader","type-3army-fluff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasus-gulf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}