Captain Acrebo's Treasure

Captain Vince Acrebo was a tugboat skipper at the Bdakra Shipyard, a minor outlying facility mostly used for storage and ship-wrecking. A civilian, Acrebo worked for the Foundation during the late Fifth Age. He is most famous for masterminding the most valuable heist in history, and secondarily famous for getting just four years of rehabilitation for his crimes.

Theft

Acrebo stole seventeen capital-class warships from the Foundation's Ghost Fleet. While various efforts have been made to place an exact price tag on the warships, the Foundation's official statement is that the number is incalcuable. The warships were considered to still be well within their prime at the time of the theft, and while in long-term mothball storage, it was thought that they would definitely return to service.

In total, Acrebo absconded with six battle ships, four carriers, two battle cruisers, and four dreadnoughts. A sizeable attack force, if re-fitted and restored to full operational readyness. In addition, sources close to the Foundation have confirmed that the deralict ships were in a state of "soft" mothballing, and had not been full stripped of all fittings and accouterments. An undisclosed cache of munitions, specifically torpedo and missiles in the N1 and N1.5 designations are known to be on board. In addition, it is likely the heavy weapons, though partially dismantled, could be made operational with relatively little effort.

An undisclosed and unverified source has claimed that nova weapons may be on board, however this statement has been harshly contradicted by the Foundation. There is supporting evidence; in the pre-N2 era, it was common for flagships and some dreadnoughts to carry Nova weapons in case very heavy fire support was required.

What makes Acrebo's crime especially curious, however, is his method: he apparently had no plans to retrieve and sell the ships himself. Rather, he used his tug to take the ships under tow, getting them on to a course to take them outside of the solar system - then abandoned the ships to proceed on their own.

Treasure

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