SFE - Southern Fortress Engineering - Armour Engineers

WELCOME!

- Arkadia -

Shop #3, Sanctuary Cove
Booth #3, Celeste Quarry


- Calypso -

Shop #10, Level 1, Port Atlantis Mall
Shop #10, Level 1, Twin Peaks Mall​

SFE specializes in creating crafted armour to meet the varying requirements of Entropians – protection, economy and looks! We cater for all crafted armour tastes: Unlimited, Limited (L) and boutique.


Our goals:

• To be a reliable and consistent source of crafted armour;
• Fast and reliable service;
• Fair and competitive prices, based on cost of production;
• To enhance everyone's access to manufactured protection; and
• To educate the EU community.

For more information on our Business Mandate and Philosophy or to learn about the origin of SFE, please visit our websites General Info section.

 

CONTACT INFO
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General
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Orders and Enquiries - orders@southernfortress.com.au
General business and order information​

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Staff
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TimUnleashed - CEO
ceo@southernfortress.com.au

EwoK - VP Logistics
logistics@southernfortress.com.au

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Prices Updated for August

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Hi Everyone,

YES! I've finally got round to putting a basic thread for SFE here at PAF - Not much effort but amazingly, it has consistently slipped my mind each month when I've been doing our updates. Anyway, it'll be here and updated from now on!

Not much to tell you this month. RL keeping us busy as usual.

I've had to put the events and competitions on the back burner again as I simply haven't been able to get enough time to myself to bash it all out. Rest assured that we will get things moving sometime soon.

Some news that a few people have been waiting on however - Aquila (L) will be added to our range soon!!! We are in the process of securing the last UL blueprint and we will then release it fully to our range. It will be stocked both at Sanctuary Cove #3 and PA Mall once we have sufficient stock to get it out on the shelf. We had a lot of enquiries about it last year around Mayhem but were unable to fulfill the orders due to the UL blueprints not being available and very limited clicks around on the L blueprints. This will not be the limiting factor this time around though, so if you want it for Mayhem or anything else, it will be available soon.

Notice to Miners of Arkadia: Let us know if and when you have Dianthus Crystal Powder for sale as we will need it for Aquila!

Don't forget that our ENTIRE Arkadian range is now available on Calypso at our PA Mall shop on Level 1.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for August.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Hi Everyone,

We will also be releasing Aquila (L) to our range sometime in the next couple of weeks, though depending on material availability, it may not actually hit the shelf in large quantities for a while - plus I'm yet to actually shift things around in Santuary Cove and PA Mall to make room for it.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

Want to know more about we are up to each month? Head over to our webpage by clicking on the banner above or the link in my signature below and sign up for our monthly newsletter!

See you around the Universe!

EwoK

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Prices Updated for September

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Hi Everyone,

Well, the word this month is: AQUILA!

Yep, that's right Aquila (L) is finally here. It took us awhile to gather a complete set of Unlimited blueprints, but now we have them and now we can add this fantastic armour to our already impressive range of crafted armours.

Initially it will be available from our Sanctuary Cove shop on Arkadia and our Port Atlantis Mall shop on Calypso. Later on we may increase the coverage to Celeste Quarry as well but that remains to be seen.

Speaking of Celeste Quarry, we have requested an upgrade of our Booth item points for the next VU. This will also allow us to bring another 2 armours to the Quarry so if you have any opinions on what they should be then please let us know. We will also be needing more shopkeepers for them so if you have any for sale, let us know about them too

Events are coming. We haven't forgotten, we just haven't had the time to devote to doing it yet.

We will get there in the end!

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for September.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Hi Everyone,

Well, the word of the month WAS AQUILA.

Unfortunately, Tim and I have been flat out and what with the new VU issues (some of which are still not fixed!), we are yet to actually get a stock of Aquila on the shelf at Sanc Cove and PA Mall. For those eagerly waiting for it, our sincere apologies. It will be here in time for Mayhem as we know how much demand there was for it last year when we didn't have any of the unlimited blueprints.

The VU issues have further delayed other projects too, such as the event we have been planning to run. We haven't forgotten, we just haven't got there yet........Yes, I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record here but we will get round to doing it.

Something we have managed to get done (one of few things in fact) is a revamp of all our marketing graphics. My intention is to upload everything in one hit (in world), once we have our new uniforms (supplied by Anthony Ranger Morris). The more observant of you will have noticed a few new graphics already uploaded to PAF and our website

For those interested, all the graphics have been redone by Iulia Robotzelul Pitic. We have been absolutely blown away by the quality of the work and can't wait to unveil it to the world. Check out his awesome service here. We'd like to go on record as saying that Robo's service is officially supported and endorsed by us; this is not something we do lightly or on a whim - those of you who have known us over the years know that we take our EU reputation and business very seriously.

Anyway, there's no rest for the wicked, so I best get my nose back to the coalface

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for October.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Hi Folks,

Due to a number of bugs that managed to ride in on the back of the recent VU, SFE's shops are currently suffering a bit of a display issue.

All of our armours that are normally stocked on Tron Display Columns are experiencing some visibility issues or just straight out glitching graphically (in the case of gloves). However, any armour that is currently sold from a Shopkeeper is unaffected by this bug and should be able to be purchased normally.

This bug is currently affecting our Sanctuary Cove, Port Atlantis Mall and Twin Peaks Mall shops.

Support has been unable to give us an ETA on when this will be fixed nor has their suggested solution helped.

So at this point, if you need something from us that normally is stocked on a Tron, please PM me here or at PCF (ACEwoK) or email us on orders@southernfortress.com.au and we will custom make what you need and arrange a time to meet up.

Other than that, all we ask is that you are patient and wait/hope that Support can sort this out soon.

We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause, but its all in the hands of Support (and Lootius) at this stage.

TTFN

EwoK

 

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Hi Everyone,

As usual, Tim and I have been flat out with RL, and with the continuing VU issues from last month, several of our new projects (including a stock of Aquila) are still on hold. However, since the update yesterday, the main bug that was causing us grief, seems to have been fixed so we are getting ourselves back on track. Checking in this morning, both PA Mall and TP Mall shops are now correctly displaying all items and so I have restocked both stores.

There are a couple of holes in the line up, but we are working to plug them as soon as possible.

Like everything else (due to the VU issues), the events we have been planning to run have been further delayed but will get under way at an appropriate time. We will work this out so that it doesn't conflict with current community events on Arkadia and at a time where we are also available to actively support the goings on. In the meantime, we are looking for people interested in running sponsored events for us on Arkadia. If you are interested, then please contact me here @ Planet Arkadia Forum or email.

The revamp of all our marketing graphics, is all but complete. I only need to take a screenshot of both Tim an myself (EwoK) so that we can update your shops exit sign and I can then upload everything in one hit and make it all nice and new and shiny!!!

For those interested, all the graphics have been redone by Iulia Robotzelul Pitic. We have been absolutely blown away by the quality of the work and can't wait to unveil it to the world. Check out his awesome service here. Once again, we'd like to go on record as saying that Robo's service is officially supported and endorsed by us; this is not something we do lightly or on a whim - those of you who have known us over the years know that we take our EU reputation and business very seriously.

Anyway, as always, there's no rest for the wicked so I best get my nose back to the coalface

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for November.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Hi Everyone,

RL is keeping us extremely busy, so please accept our apologises for the breaks in usual service. Several of our new projects are still on hold, but we are hoping to have things running well again after Christmas and New Year bedlam.

Anyway, it's back to the coalface for me for the time being.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for December.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Happy New Year!

Goodbye (and good riddance in some respects) to 2013 and hello to 2014!

Now that the seasonal silliness is (hopefully) over, we can (hopefully) get back to normal operations around here! Unfortunately, Aquila (L) is STILL not on the shelf and our new graphics are STILL sitting in the directory waiting to get uploaded, so those are our main focuses this month and going forward.

We will also soon (hopefully) be completing the BP set and releasing BOTH Pegasus (L) and Perseus (L) armours into our range. Once we have established starting stocks of them, they will join our current Lorika Tek range in both Sanctuary Cove Shop #3 (on Arkadia) and Port Atlantis Mall, Level 1, Shop 10 (on Calypso). So keep an eye out for these new additions!

Don't want to worry about keeping alert to our goings on? Well, why not let us do the work for you and sign up to our monthly newsletter? That way, as soon as we make an announcement, you will be among the first people in EU to know! Sound good? If so, see the link below or head to the frontpage of the website to signup now!

So here's hoping that 2014 brings all good news and luck....Hmmm there sure seems a lot of hoping going on in this update?!?!

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for January.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Into February already?!

If you aren't ready for the new year yet, then you better hold onto your hat because it's barrelling along like an out of control train!

Material prices seemed fairly stable last month except for a couple of out-layers so almost everything stayed put....which you would assume would mean that we could take a little bit of a breather.

Far from it! In fact, we completed our acquisition of the last of the blueprints needed for Pegasus (L), meaning that not only can you now order this high-end ARKADIAN armour from us (which is a quite good in its PvP stats) but now I have more materials to add to my ever growing list. Work for me, yes, but also a boon for the Arkadian mining community!

Also on the horizon is Perseus (L)....the ultimate of the IFN armours released on Arkadia. Previously it was available from the Arkoin Brokers but now is only available from crafters like us. We are just 1 blueprint away from making this little beauty available to the Entropian community, so stay tuned in the weeks to come.

Lastly, we are also still looking for anyone interested in running some events for us, so please contact us if you are interested in learning more.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for February.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Not much to tell you this month folks.

RL is incredibly busy for us both so EU stuff is having to take an increasing back seat at present.

However, rest assured that we still look at things as often as possible. That said, there are some rather nasty material cost changes this month on some of our long time stable armours. Not huge, but significant enough that they did warrant a change.

Hopefully I'll have more to natter about next month!

TTFN


EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for March.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Not much to tell you again this month folks.

RL is incredibly busy for us both so EU stuff is having to take an increasing back seat, but we are doing our best to keep up.

The drop in a couple of vital materials saw some nice drops this month, Lich being one to return to a nice cheap price again.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for April.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Not much to tell you again this month folks.

We are still incredibly busy IRL but we are doing our best to keep up.

The drop in a couple of vital materials saw some nice drops again this month, Spectre being one to return to a nice cheap price once more. We also shaved some cost of several Arkadian armours.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for May.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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Wow, blink and 3 months goes bye-bye!

Sorry for the lack of news folks but Tim and I are both exceptionally busy these days IRL so we've been doing the absolute minimum when it comes to EU (Those of you who are members of PAF will have noticed I'm around the forums less too). Hopefully this will change when we are both working in the same office (in the not too distant future) and I'm in front of a computer most of the day instead of playing in the Operating Theatres at night!

Anyway, over the last couple of months we've seen minimal movement on the majority of materials, but with the odd exception so there has been little to report in regards to prices. However the couple that have changed were slight at best or we are holding tight to see if they change again next month (at which point we will react to them).

On a positive note, we finally got Aquila on the shelf at Sanctuary Cove! This wasn't so much a case of not having it as opposed to a case of having to completely rearrange the entire shop and being unable to do due to both time and priority....same goes for the new graphics that Robo did for us months ago.

We will get it done though, hopefully sooner rather than later...

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for July.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

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One word for you this month folks: TAMING!

The long awaited pastime is apparently back with this latest VU (or at least its first phase is). I for one am looking forward to seeing what they (MA) have done with it as I have not only a number of existing pets in my inventory but also aspirations of getting a couple of the new ones too!

As I mentioned last month, I finally took the plunge and resigned from my hospital job after 18.5 years and am now working in our RL business with TimUnleashed. Whilst I was hoping that this would mean that the frequency of our communication would improve again, unfortunately (or fortunately depending on you PoV!) we have been very busy!
But, I promise that once we get the hang of things again, the communication will be back to its best levels.

Speaking of new and shiny things, have you checked out the NEW look at Planet Arkadia Forum? Go check it out!

Anyway, to EU stuff, the continuing trend of the last couple of months has continued with minimal movement on the majority of materials, but significant movement on a select few.
Also, after observing the medium to long term trend on some materials, we've realigned a couple of armours that don't see much action on the shelf.

This may change with some of the balancing coming in with this VU (VU15.0) but only time will tell.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for October.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.

Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -

P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

OMG is nearly Christmas! Where the heck has the year gone?

As I mentioned last time (October), I finally took the plunge and resigned from my hospital job after 18.5 years and am now working in our RL business with TimUnleashed. We have been very busy (which is great for us!) but that also means we have had less time for EU

Fortunately, with thing quieting down a little for the next month, this will mean I have some time to get into EU and do some work on our shops. YES, I finally will have the time to get the new graphics sorted and rearrange the layouts in order to make way for Pegasus and Perseus.

That's right, SFE can now supply the ENTIRE Lorika Tek range from Arkadia. For now Pegasus and Perseus are available to order only, but hopefully post festivities, they will both start hitting the shelves.

Anyway, we hope you all have a safe and Merry Christmas and a Happy and prosperous New Year.

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for December.

The Monthly Price Guide is available here, or subscribe to receive it via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -
P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

Well, Christmas and New Year are done for another year and people are all heading back to work for the grind of the year ahead.

The holiday break wasn't quite as quiet as I had imagined so things didn't quite go to plan, but the more observant of you will have noticed a fairly significant layout change at the Sanctuary Cove, PA Mall and TP Mall shops.

Signs are yet to be uploaded, as I hit a little snag late in the job, but the new setup looks great! Feedback is welcome and encouraged.

Aquila has finally got itself a shopkeeper @ PA Mall (though a little under dressed!) and is already selling. Pegasus and Perseus are not far behind either.

So lets all look forward to what 2015 brings us eh?

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for January.

The Monthly Price Guides are available here, or subscribe to receive them each month via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -
P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!

 

I know, I know, wth is with such a late update?

All I can say is that having done the review early in the month that RL got very busy and I just plain forgot.

I'll try to do better next month folks

TTFN

EwoK

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The Price List & TT Values have now been updated for February.

The Monthly Price Guides are available here, or subscribe to receive them each month via email here.

As always, everything we make/stock is also available as an email order.Did you know SFE are on Facebook? If you have a Facebook account then why not look us up and give us a "Like"!

- The SFE Team -
P.S - We've listed the locations for our entire range on the Price List. That way, you can find what you want without having to take the time to run around looking for yourself!