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Styria Cooperative - Operational Phase.
Summarized Overview: Styria Station, known as the Cooperative to those who crew the structure, is a composite modular aggregate station constructed from 826 to early 827 AS. The station sits within the outer asteroid reaches of the Alps clouds - a dense nebula expanse of gas, dust, edge and Crow nebula matter. Energised by dense radiation bands broadcast by the Munich disaster in 822 AS, the Alps cloud is equal parts astounding in its beauty and treacherous for vessels of all sizes. The fear of being 'lost in the mountains' keeps most shipping out of the Alps - except for the Munich Unioners, who have made their home in the expanse. In early 826, the illusive Kusarian shadow trade network, the Shimonoseki, contacted the fledgeling Syndicate Leagues; the new Union of Unions that united the syndicates under one flag. Both sides hoped to undermine the GMG; minimising the economic shocks to East Rheinland and Kusari caused by the Sigma war, conceptualising Styria as a drop-off point for cross-border goods that could not be obtained elsewhere. The difficulties involved in building a comparatively unprotected modular station in the Alps was not lost to the Unioners - the station took the engineering talents of the Munich's cell's finest to achieve.

Peace waned Shimonoseki investment. The enterprising construction site rapidly became a refuge for Nuremburg's most desperate who, for their own reasons or by reputation, could not seek support from the Bundschuh or the Federal government. The station flourished a veritable space habitat, trading with the nearby Leipheim base. It is rumoured that the LWB has been making best use of Styria's ample storage capacity to create a hydroponic and zoological arc for Nuremburg's megafauna. The station supports itself economically with a series of industrial magnetic 'silt-skimmers', that filter transition elements form the fog, for use in the production of indigenous Unioner spacecraft components. The station's unusual design and critical role in the ideological fight for the hearts and minds of Munich's impoverished with the Bundschuh, has made the station a strategic target. In response, the station is crawling with volunteer strike wings, keen to avenge the lost sons of the Hamburg massacre. The station is run as a worker's co-operative, entirely supported by the efforts of its population.

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THE SYNDIC LEAGUES
(A co-operative of Rheinland's Shipping Unions, retired from a life of piracy.)

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