| Bristol Bay Station
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- This is our company headquarters and we're quite proud of what we managed to build here. It's a pretty sweet deal, plenty of traffic going through here now that the lanes are up and running again. Unfortunately that does also mean that there's a lot more going on, both good and bad. The Rogues in particular are becoming a bigger problem, the Navy can only do so much and when you leave the regulated zone, you really are just on your own.
- I work with security onboard the station, you might see some of us out in space too, either running patrol patterns or responding to distress calls from our salvage crews. Truth is, working out here is harsh as hell, there's all kinds of people who want to either rob you blind or just straight up murder you. Can't afford to ever hesitate in putting them down, even when they just seem like people who are desperate. And don't get me started on how difficult it can be trying to keep our diverse guests from killing each other.
- Hi there! What do I do around here? Oh, I help coordinate some of our salvage efforts in the system, it's not glamorous work but it makes a pretty penny and there's nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty. We're getting attacked more often recently by pirates who think we're easy pickings, but our security wings usually make quick work of them. It's the only help you can count on beyond either border.
- When our operations here first started things didn't look good. The view out the office windows was just the wreckage from the last time people tried to operate in the system. I'm glad to see that we didn't end up like them, and I hope it stays that way. Lots of interesting deals to be made if you're not so quick to judge like the House Governments are.
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| Frigate Keystone
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- One of the reasons we were able to find our feet in Bering is because we come from the same background as a lot of Xenos. There's common ground in Liberty's working class. Now, they ain't fond of our welcoming recruitment policies -- particularly where Rheinlanders are concerned -- but we sweeten the pot with supplies and a place to offload some of their, ah, "legitimately acquired goods".
- The Bulwark is a big gamble for Bristol. We're still a small company, but we're nimble and innovative -- like the IMG! There's obviously a huge investment sunk into the Bulwark project, but if we can showcase how effective our design is, we could make an absolute mint selling it to the IMG, Zoners, or anyone else pushing into the frontier. Of course, if it doesn't sell... Well, let's not think about that.
- I'm on one of the mining crews that handles the runs into Galileo. When we're hitting Platinum, we drop buoy chains that can give us a heads-up about incoming contacts, long before onboard sensors would cut through the dark matter. If we get a ping, we don't wait for an ID, we take off. Better safe than sorry.
- Bristol got started as a salvaging outfit in Bering, mostly picking up the military reclamation jobs DSE wouldn't touch directly. Too dangerous, see? For those we were subcontracting for DSE, as they held the actual contract with Liberty. That... wasn't a good time. The way DSE tried to run our operation soured relations pretty bad.
- Before this we were working at Hallam, acting as a glorified hangar for the shuttles from the mining site. We were hoping to strike it rich there, but the promised motherlode hasn't shown up yet. There's enough metals being found to break even, but that doesn't exactly lead to thrilling employee dividends.
- A lot of us worked for DSE during the wars, when they spun up the mining sites in Ontario. When the war ended, they laid us all off, and the so-called "blue collar revival" died. If you were on Toronto at the end, Liberty's corps blackballed you, so good luck getting another job. Those of us who didn't end up in prison or with the Xenos landed with Bristol instead.
- This was the first Bulwark completed for Bristol. HQ hopes that one day we'll be able to build them in-house, but for now Kress Industrial handles manufacturing at Alster Shipyard. They're renting a berth for the project, although neither of us are happy about being so beholden to Imperial Shipping's whims.
- I had to abort a mining run yesterday, before we even got to Gaileo! By chance, my navigator caught a weird reading near the Jump Hole -- I'd have dismissed it as a chunk of debris. He had a bad feeling and pinged it with active scanners. It was a Kusari fighter with its transponder powered down! We didn't hang around to see what it wanted.
- Taking aim at Galileo is a big play for us. There's been some court fight rattling around for years, and DSE, Kishiro and Samura are all likely to shoot anyone they catch trespassing in their Platinum claims. Quick and quiet is the name of the game. Crack the nodes, grab the ore, and run.
- We'd be in pretty hot water if we were caught moving "DSE's" Platinum, so we're careful to get it to market discretely with freighters, or through Freelance intermediaries. That takes a cut out of the profit, but Platinum prices are soaring because of the showdown between Kusari and Liberty, so that's something we can live with.
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