| Waterloo Station
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- This is civilized space here. The Borderworlds are much more risky. I hear the company is gearing up for another construction project in Omega-3. I won't sign up for that - I saw my share of Hispanic pirates back in Tau-23. Vicious bastards, those Outcasts. I hear the Corsairs are even worse.
- I've decided to ditch ship and head for Rheinland. Apparently Gallia isn't too interested in them right now. I saw firsthand in Tau-23 what's headed this way. If you're smart, you'll leave as well.
- One of the company rules for as long as I can remember is that nobody touches Trade Lane or Jump Gate construction without LSF clearance. Not that anyone respects it anymore. Not after what the LSF was rumored to have pulled in that conflict in 800 AS - couple of powerhungry bastards, the lot of them.
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| Planet Sprague
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- None of the people I've seen here seem very happy. Mind you, I don't suppose I would be, either. They're ripped from their homes on Leeds at the say-so of BMM and the Crown and sent to New London. Then the government approves Nottingham for settlement and they're uprooted again and moved down here. Then there's the squalor. I've seen the inside of their flats here, and it ain't pretty.
- Building the docking ring here gave me horrrible visions of the Tau-53 re-allignment job in Hokkadio. I've really got to stop taking these crappy assignments - I'm going to end up blown to bits if I keep it up. The only real motivator is the ludicrous pay cheque. Say what you like about my bosses, but they really do know how to negotiate a contract.
- DSE was is mostly in the area for maintenance of the docking ring now. Ageira are pressing us to survey the space between here and Freeport 1 for a short trade lane line, but the Bretonians don't seem particularly interested. I don't think they can afford the project. Mind you, Interspace might be tempted to give them a loan. I hear they miss the debt-leverage they had over the Houses during the early centuries.
- Have you seen Rhodes, the Interspace rep for this area? What kind of halfwit wears shades indoors? Doesn't help that he's about as abrasive as sandpaper in a birthing canal. You'd think Interspace would have worked out why his deals keep collapsing by now. Perhaps that's why they've marooned him on Nottingham.
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| Scalpay Outpost
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- There is still a DSE engineering staff assigned to this site, however Ageira are running this show directly. The egg-heads don’t usually like to get their hands dirty, but they couldn’t resist the chance to play with a fully functional Gallic Jump Gate. Our role here is more mundane than normal -- this Gate is continually springing leaks that need patching and welding.
- Scalpay is probably our most dangerous assignment since the Hokkaido job back at the turn of the century. Drop your guard for a moment and you could be iced by Outcast pirates, GNI spooks, Corsican assassins, or even disgruntled miners. You’d think they at least would appreciate having a stable Jump Gate back to the markets where they sell their goods…
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| Roppongi Wreck
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- I'm on a crew replacement and supply run to the Tau-53 Gate. We've been burning through a lot of spare parts and construction machinery up there. Talk about bait-and-switch advertising! For years the gate was planned to go to Chugoku, then at the last minute Samura unveils new plans to connect to a system we never even heard of before? We could have saved countless credits, and lives, if they were upfront about this. Nothing like telling some criminals you're coming to get them by building a trillion credit jump gate to the middle of nowhere.
- I'm hoping to transfer to duty in the Sigma-19 area soon. It's supposed to be much easier now we have new access to Okinawa in the system. At least you aren't in the middle of some nebula with desperate Kusari terrorists fighting to the death -- although being in a nebula with a bunch of suicidal Outcasts probably ain't much better. Guess that's why they call it hazard pay.
- You see Golden C. out there in Hokkaido also. I guess that's where they've got their base. They are just a crazy bunch, in my opinion. Bartender, give me a shot of whiskey for the road.
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| Planet Manhattan
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- DSE is an important part of the machinery of Liberty power in Sirius, so you will see that we have adequate protection within her space. Unfortunately, many of our Trade Lane and Jump Gate construction projects are found far outside the safety of Liberty, where our affairs can often fall victim to pirates and vandals.
- We keep Ageira's Pueblo Station in Colorado well stocked with the Basic Alloy produced here on Manhattan that is used to build the massive structural supports used in Gate and Lane Parts.
- Here in Manhattan DSE purchase the supplies necessary to run our New York bases. We ship Basic Alloy to Pittsburgh, and Oxygen to Baltimore. Men die every week protecting shipments of basic supplies. I know the criminals need them too, I just can't get used to the idea of dying over a shipment of Water.
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| Planet Pittsburgh
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- The Mining Machinery we use in our mining operations here is shipped to us from Hamilton Station in Ontario. There are all kinds of scumbags in Ontario that make life difficult for us shippers. And once we get into New York, that doesn't mean that things necessarily get any better.
- We ship Basic Alloy from Manhattan to our operations here. It's a basic supply that all industrial facilities require for maintaining their operations. It's surprising how many people die trying to ship or steal the most basic things.
- The Trade Lane technology that Ageira uses to run its Jump Gates is its most sensitive secret. We manufacture the Trade Lanes, but the real technology, the Jump Gate "engine" if you will, is housed in a black box that is plugged into the Ring that we construct. Any attempt to open the box will cause it to self-destruct, and it usually takes whoever was trying to open the box with it.
- The Junkers around Pittsburgh keep to their scrap-collecting most of the time. But don't be fooled, they do plenty of illegal trafficking, too. Scrap Metal isn't all they haul.
- Though Deep Space is primarily a manufacturing firm, we do dabble in mining. And this base is an example of that since we extract Boron here for shipment throughout Sirius. The war with Rheinland severely disrupted the supply routes to The Ring, Ingolstadt, and Freiburg.
- Deep Space employs a large part of Liberty's labor force; some would call them the lower class. But the employees at Deep Space are not underpaid; we take good care of our people, even the miners in the boron fields.
- The Pittsburgh Debris Field is mined out in the north, but there is still plenty of scrap in the south, and that's where you'll find the majority of Junkers who come into our fields.
- We ship some of the Boron produced here to Planet New London. It is a relatively short run up to the safety of Fort Bush, but that doesn't mean it's easy. Rogues come barreling out of the Pittsburgh Debris Field all the time.
- This corporation is the backbone of Liberty industry. Deep Space Engineering builds luxury and prison liners, military ships, and Trade Lanes and Jump Gates under contract from Ageira.
- The Rogues in the area can make it difficult for us to keep our operations running smoothly. The LPI at Ft. Bush are spread too thinly in this area to interdict all the Rogue attacks on our Trade Lane.
- The contracts we have with Ageira have kept Deep Space at the technical and manufacturing edge of Liberty. Every Trade Lane you use is a quality Deep Space product.
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| Norfolk Shipyard
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- Deep Space Engineering maintains the only civilian shipyards in Liberty space: Baltimore Shipyards. We manufacture components that are shipped here and used at this military shipyard, so you can see that Deep Space builds or helps build the finest ships in Sirius.
- Deep Space ships Uranium from Isehara in Sigma-59 to this shipyard. That gives us a profitable return trip after delivering Gate and Lane Parts.
- Sometimes we supplement our shipping routes with MOX. BMM supplies most of our needs from LD-14, but before the war with Rheinland ALG supplied us large quantities from Dortmund.
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| Fort Bush
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- This is the main transfer point for Prisoners in Liberty. The LPI processes many of them here and conducts interrogations before shipping them off to the Texas prison population, where their fellow inmates instruct them in all the fine arts of extortion, piracy, kidnapping, murder, you get the idea. Sugarland is like a PhD. program for crooks. What a glorious system!
- In the old days, they didn't need Ft. Bush. We just had the Baltimore Shipyard out here. With the rise of the Rogues they had to do something. Too many ships were getting wasted right in front of our eyes. If they hadn't let that debris build up so close, there wouldn't be all the problems around here. Where there's debris, there are roaches. That's what I say.
- One of these days they'll have all the Rogues in prison, and the debris fields will be gone. Then all we'll build is cruise ships, and they'll shut this place down. Yeah right.
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| Baltimore Shipyard
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- Ageira don't treat DSE with any respect. They think we're just a bunch of mechanics or something. The navy's okay. They know that someone has to build their ships, and it can't be criminals or foreigners.
- We need to hire Freelancers and Bounty Hunters on occasion to keep Junkers from swiping resources from our Baltimore Shipyard. We are, after all, near a debris field that is prime Junker turf.
- The primo jobs at DSE are the Trade Lane and Jump Gate construction crews. They get loads of hazard pay, plus free room and board. It's all secret and such. Aren't supposed to ask questions on what's inside the guts of those Rings. Just swap them out with new ones from Ageira if they're busted.
- Baltimore isn't a bad place. Could be worse, like Houston. Houston is the pits. They get some hellacious dust storms there. Real hot, too. You got one foot in a prison cell there, the other on some factory line with the warden trying to make his monthly bonus.
- I got a friend over at the Norfolk yard. They do a lot of the Hull Panel fabrication onsite to keep everything secret. Once you start building ships for the navy, you're in for life. Can't ever tell your family what you do. Too much stress for me.
- Building prisons is big business in Liberty. When they're done, they fill them with all the people that they just laid off from DSE. There's something wrong with that, but I can't do nothin' about it, so why worry? Who knows, maybe someday I'll be living in one of the cells I helped build. Now, ain't that ironic?
- Liberty used to mine most of the materials we use here. Now it's all shipped in from far away. All that debris you see around here is old scrapped ships and junk that everyone threw away for centuries without a thought. Now they're starting to salvage it. It's about time.
- I'm just stopping by on the supply run from Honshu. We bring the usual stuff like Engine Components and Optronics. Sometimes I bring more Ship Hull Panels up from Kyushu. Pretty easy runs, except for the trip through Galileo.
- This is the last of the commercial shipyards in Liberty. We had to specialize in prison and cruise ships to survive. Kusari took over the general transport business a while ago. That's when they shut down the Edison Yard in Colorado. Lot of good people lost their way of life on that dark day. Now they're Rogues and Xenos.
- Prison and cruise ships. That says a lot about Liberty society. We don't build all the miners or transports. That went to Kusari and Rheinland over a century ago. A lot of my old buddies that got laid off joined the Xenos to fight back. Personally, I think they should go after IC and all the rich people using these cruise ships.
- Deep Space Engineering is the exclusive manufacturer of machinery and shipping in Sirius' private sector. If you want something huge or luxurious, then we are the ones to contract.
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| Planet Houston
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- Deep Space Engineering builds all the greatest of Liberty's technological marvels. From the Jump Gates and Trade Lanes that enable high-speed travel throughout the Sirius Sector, to the luxury liners that bring her joy, we are Liberty construction.
- The majority of our operations are found in New York, yet Texas is where you must come if you are looking for Nanocapacitors. This makes us vulnerable to attacks from the pirates and thieves that litter this system.
- This factories on this planet provide us with a great deal of the Nanocapacitors we use in all our operations in New York. From this base we ship to Newark and Trenton.
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| Cordova Shipping Platform
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- It makes no sense for Ageira to build a production facility so way out in the middle of nowhere like this. Sure, their bioneural processors are supposed to be a technological leap past the competition, but what's the big deal about all the secrecy? Their lane and gate parts are secure and they're made in Colorado. Oh well, I'll take the extra pay and they can keep their hush-hush activities for all I care.
- From the moment I signed up for this job I had a bad feeling that the extra pay involved a catch somewhere. When Red Deer was attacked I thought I knew what it was, but since then everything has been quiet. Sure, there's the usual piracy attempts, but the corporate security is pretty good here. I'll admit though, I felt a lot better when I saw some BHG arrive on Camrose.
- A friend of mine says he saw the strangest thing last week when he was leaving Leduc Station. Another transport was lining up to dock so he had to steer wide around it, taking him further out on the far side of Leduc than he had been before. He says for just a few seconds his scanners picked up all sorts of strange energy readings, but then they just vanished. He was pretty jumpy about it, but no matter what the shipyard's warranty says you can't trust these fancy optronics to never go haywire on you.
- I don't get it. Why did the Rogues risk bringing down the unholy wrath of the Liberty Navy on their filthy hides by blowing up Red Deer Station, but haven't made a move since? I feel like everybody in this system is just waiting for doom to strike, but nobody knows where it's going to come from next.
- I used to think that the LPI and Navy pilots could spin some tall tales, but these bounty hunters put them to shame. One of them claimed that he had singlehandedly destroyed five Rogue Werewolves with his Piranha, all in the same ambush! I don't hear any of them bragging about any kills since they arrived in Alberta though.
- If it wasn't so boring, a trip to Leduc Station would be a milk run. But they hussle you out of there so fast I wonder sometimes why we don't just jettison the cargo while we cruise past and let them tractor it in! That'd ease my mind too, those bioscanners give me the creeps.
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| Philadelphia Station
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- The LPI maintains a garrison here on Philadelphia. This trade lane hub is a convenient spot from which to patrol to the New York Gate, Erie, and Bethlehem. The Rogues cause a lot of disruption in these parts, without constant patrols. The Prisoners brought back in by the LPI get transported off to the Texas prisons. Most of of them are actually from Erie. The Zoners talk and talk about peace and neutrality, but they sure do like their brawls with offworlders down there.
- Have you seen the Dublin races finale? Pretty intense! I loved how nearly every one of those ships ended up wrapping themselves around one of the course rings. But I bet its all fixed long before they even start the engines.
- If you've got your own ship, then you should talk to the dealers down at the space port. Erie's main export is Neon. You can ship it to Freeports, research stations, storage depots, all the major planets. People are mad for Neon, brother. Stark raving mad for the stuff!
- Life used to be different here, before all these corporate windbags moved in. Us Zoners don't like being told how to live, but that's exactly what Liberty does all over Sirius. Manhattan fashion. Yech. I'd sooner go skyclad.
- A few days ago, the captain of the Anaconda told me that they had just discovered new properties of Hessian Tears. Yes, I guess its just about weapons research again... but the point is that due to those new discoveries the prices have increased significantly.
- ALG handles waste disposal here at Philadelphia. Their HazMat Canisters are irreplaceable. Since we started storing Toxic Waste in them, we haven't had a single hazardous leak. ALG is prompt picking them up to haul out of here too.
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| Bonn Station
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- Had to send out a crew to fix the Omega-11 Gate in Stuttgart last week. Hessians got into it with a Daumann Armored Transport coming in from Solarius. The ship tried to re-enter the Gate, but was caught by the raiding party while docking.
- We do day runs to Dresden as needed to repair rings. It's a hell of a place to have Trade Lanes, I'll tell you. The system is an inferno, full of lava asteroids and hostile Hessians.
- DSE had to station a permanent repair crew in Omega-7 to deal with all of the Trade Lane ring damage that's been happening in all of the Corsair and Red Hessian attacks. We're on the supply transport just in from Freistadt. They don't bother us on the return trip, just when we have a full load.
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