Jorien Kanta
| You're brought before what can only be described as a throne, tastelessly backlit in blood-red for maximum effect. The caps, badges, and insignia of various naval officers are impaled on fused blossoms of trophy weapons. You recognize kit from all of the polities of the Persean Sector. | ||
–Description of Kanta's throne room[1] | ||
Warlord Jorien Kanta is the most powerful Pirates leader in the Sector.
Biography
Kanta was a Domain Armada logistics officer who was alive prior to the Collapse, and joined the Hegemony when the Fourteeth Battlegroup arrived at the Persean Sector.
During the invasion of the Sector by the warlord Onesimos Loke, Kanta betrayed the Hegemony and turned over the base in the Magec Star System to Loke. When Hegemony officer Phillip Andrada defeated Loke, Kanta again turned traitor, spacing the remaining Loke loyalists and established herself as a pirate warlord over the remains of Loke’s fleet.[2][3].
"Doctor" Wyatt Cydonia created a defective clone of Loke for Kanta as a "pet".[1]
At The Gates
Kanta also kept the engineer Elissa Zal as a favored prisoner. When Scylla Coureuse required Zal's assistance to complete the Janus Device, the player travelled to Kanta's Den to secure her release.
If the player does not choose to rescue Zal by force, Kanta offers to give her up in exchange for recovering the Loke clone, who had been abducted by the Pather terrorist Livewell Cotton. She then reneges on the deal, but Zal uses the opportunity to escape with the player.
The player can choose to space the Loke clone with or without a helmet, the latter will anger Kanta (& Pirates as a whole) making the deal below impossible to obtain.
Gameplay
The player can make an offering to Kanta to permanently (unless the player later betrays her) remove the pirate contribution to the Colony Crises meter, and give the "Piracy Respite" market condition to all player colonies with a 20% accessibility bonus.
Up to 5 potential offerings will be displayed at once.
A list of allowed offerings:[4]
- 1,000,000¢
- 1,000 Volturnian Lobster
- A large [SUPER ALABASTER] weapon
- A [REDACTED] capital ship (turned into a trophy, becomes part of the station description)
- The ISS Hamatsu from "Project Ziggurat"
- Combat Drone Replicator (for the arena)
- Dealmaker Holosuite ("adaptable for medical experiments")
- Orbital Fusion Lamp (as an execution device)
- Pristine Nanoforge, installed at Kapteyn Starworks (Kanta's Protection will be revoked if the player raid it back for whatever reason).
- A ship blueprint (must not be already known to Pirates, and must be a military-grade capital, Hyperion or Doom)
- Betray a High or Very High importance contact (contact will be lost)
There are several gifts which Kanta will refuse, but will still appear in the list:
- 100,000¢ (will also cause -1 reputation)
- Corrupted Nanoforge
- [VERY REDACTED]
- [VERY REDACTED]
If at least one gift option is presented, the player can also offer Kanta a 'favor' for 1 SP 100% XP. This will later lead to a mission to tactically bombard a faction market, refusing to do so will led to Kanta's Protection be revoked.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "At The Gates", Starsector.
- ↑ "A True and Accurate History of the Persean Sector" - Starsector Blog
- ↑ Bar Historian: "Kanta", Starsector.
- ↑
rules.csv; Kanta's protection section. Starsector API.
