[Official Event] Prior Preparation...

[jammi]

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Prior Preparation...
New York, Sigma-13
Trade boost event

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H-Fuel, Side Arms

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DATE & TIME

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Oct 8 2024 - Oct 13 2024
(Config and rule updates active from Oct 12 - Oct 13)

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OVERVIEW

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Something has Liberty spooked. Bumper orders for H-Fuel have been placed by Liberty's government, military and corporations - for the Gas Miners Guild this looks like a firesale that is bordering on mania. Not one to look a gift-horse in the mouth, the Guild has begun diverting deliveries to fill this unusually voracious demand while production is ramped up.

In return, the Guild has stocked up on Detroit Side Arms, to better equip its security personnel for checkpoint inspections and ship boarding - both important elements of their campaign to persuade the outside world that their grip over the Sigmas has not weakened in recent years.

Of course, Liberty has a motive for this seemingly irrational hoarding.

Liberty's political leaders seem resigned to there being an inevitable confrontation with Kusari, whether militarily or otherwise. The sword of Damocles that has long hung over the Republic is its reliance on foreign imports, something Kusari exploited to its benefit during the embargos caused by the Trade Lane Nationalisation Crisis of 500 AS. Since then, Liberty has hardened its supply lines and developed a network of strategic reserves to create a supply buffer should a conflict with the other Houses arise again.

Despite this, H-Fuel remains a dire strategic vulnerability. Liberty had been exploring a range of options to try and relieve this concern, however unsettling intelligence briefings provided by the LSF have honed Liberty's fears to a razor-sharp point. President Hawthorne has issued a sealed executive order diverting black budget funding for the construction of the Eielson Strategic Reserve in Alaska - the largest H-Fuel stockpile to date.

Of course, market movements of this size are conspicuous, and worried murmuring is already spreading through the Colonies.

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DETAILS

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Incentives:

• The price of H-Fuel is boosted at Norfolk Shipyard ($183 - 12csu), Buffalo Base ($175 - 10csu) and Fontana Freeport ($189 - 10csu).
  
• The price of Detroit Light Arms is boosted at Gas Miner Naha ($123 - 12csu) and Newport Station ($112 - 10csu).
  
• All Liberty corporations will receive an additional $15 bonus on the sale of both commodities at Norfolk and Naha, respectively.
  
• KOI and Hogosha will receive a bounty on kills of liberty corporate ships in Bering, Galileo, Hudson, and Sigma-13.
  

Rules:

• KOI and Hogosha will be able to engage in piracy against liberty corporations in Bering, Galileo, Hudson, and Sigma-13.
  

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