Are there any Hessian Miners?

[Fat.Igor]

I'm guessing Hessian miners will start popping up more and more as crashes subside and player bases start being enabled.

you can expect 7 bases in and around Omega 11 that are hostile to Hessians. its time to take my system back.

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GUESS

WHO'S

BACK

!?!?!

[Govedo13]

Make the Hessians to mine Blood Diamonds- it is pure win idea.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)

[Unseelie]

@Unseelie: Hessians and Bowex ain´t really on friendly terms, and 3k is way too little. Better bring a Junker, but don`t expect discount prices.

I guess that`s your answer, but every Junker buying our Ore is welcome.

I am pretty sure its a royal pain sitting there with a pile of ore, and no Junkers around to move it!

It would be, yeah. And as for the possible in with the most active shipping faction in the game, which has only so/so decent relations with the house you're at war with, hates the guts of your other main enemy, noo, can't even consider trading with them.

We can bring in, after a proper workup toward such rp, rather more cargo capacity than you can fill, for competitive rates, day in and day out. That is, for you hessians, money. Or you can ignore my offer, and I'll find a daumann bloke.

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[Blodo]

you can expect 7 bases in and around Omega 11 that are hostile to Hessians. its time to take my system back.

It would be, yeah. And as for the possible in with the most active shipping faction in the game, which has only so/so decent relations with the house you're at war with, hates the guts of your other main enemy, noo, can't even consider trading with them.

We can bring in, after a proper workup toward such rp, rather more cargo capacity than you can fill, for competitive rates, day in and day out. That is, for you hessians, money. Or you can ignore my offer, and I'll find a daumann bloke.

We'll cross that bridge when we get to it I think. Right now we only sell ore when we get it from Daumann/Kruger miners, there is no organised enterprise currently running in that particular avenue, just a "we sell, you buy" approach for individual Hessians. That said, it is one of my plans to set up some kind of an enterprise so that money can flow in to the faction through means other than smuggling diamonds.

Not ruling out shady deals with different trade factions that don't particularly like Daumann or the Rheinland government.

[Unseelie]

Right, well. If any hessain gets into their head that they want to mine, please remind them that Bowex)Underbridge has been looking for an omega 11 connection for a route for quite a while, and would be absolutely charmed by a contract.

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[cmfalconer]

Addendum: Back in the day Bowex and the Hessians did have an under-the-table deal where Bowex would transport in x amount of food, weapons, and other supplies in exchange for the opportunity to transport out Blood Diamonds. One of the caveats to this arrangement was that the Bowex shipper could only use a Percheron or smaller vessel (to not attract attention). In addition to this, Hessians agreed not to attack or tax Bowex vessels traveling through the Omegas.

Sounds good on paper don't it? Well, in practice it didn't really pan out unfortunately. Independent Hessians didn't really want to adhere to the stipulations of the contract (as is their right), and indie Bowex players would b*tch when taxed by the RHA (as is their right). Added that Freital was a long way off the beaten path for Bowex, the small ships required, the rather low rate-of-return, and the chances of being caught with your pants down didn't do well for the plan overall.

That being said, this whole deal, including the fallout of not seeing it through, does open the door (rather wide) to renewed negotiations between Bowex and the RHA, if either party sees fit to start something up.

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[Unseelie]

Personally, I'm a bad person.

I've flown routes for a long time, longer than I was actually a Bowex tagged ship, so there's some legacy there, that skip Stuttgart and omega 7 in favor of Dresden and Omega 11, placing Vonnegut and Frietal well on my beaten path. I wrap in as many short routes as possible into my courses, and have often found myself hauling consumer goods and rations and water to FP5, which I assume is the major point in omega 41 from which Hessians source such supplies.

All of this is done aboard, first an Ltrain, then an Atrain, and now a Shire. These are, yes, large ships. I'm a powertrader by heart, and rather frustrated that I must come up with a secondary ship, a whole new RP, et cetera, just to loop the Hessians in. It defeats my whole interest in looping them into my route, which is to tie them into my roleplay.

As I said in the OP, I am interested in doing more than simply trading with the blokes, and would like to find people interested in participating in such. It may well be quite banal, as I drag out my roleplay in an odd manner, with a focus on daily life.

Furthermore, I don't view myself a Bowex vessel so much as I consider my vessel its own soveriegn place, signatory to the Bowex Combine for the insurance rates and cheap contract seeking that the Combine does. I expect, as Jammi has made clear, that if the illicit enterprises of the Hallorans ever come to light (and there is some) that said Combine would leave me to the dogs. It may even be a twist that might be fun, if it comes to that. I am getting quite sick of tradelanes..

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