Sandur Base

Sandur Base

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Owner

Gaians

Location

C/D-3/2, Tau-31

CLASS: Stremoy

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

CREW: Unknown

Sandur Base was established by the Gaians in 819 AS, with support and funding from the Hogosha. Initially conceived as a staging post for joint raids on the supply lines of Bretonian hold-outs on Planet Harris, these plans were scuppered by the Gallic Invasion in 818 AS. With the Kusari Naval Forces largely destroyed, the Tau War -- and Hogosha privateering in Bretonia -- abruptly ended. Despite this, the Hogosha upheld their pledges of support, seeing Sandur as a strategically useful stopping-off point for shipping supplies to the stranded Exile fleet in Leeds, or purchasing stolen Bretonian goods.

Since then, the steadily growing volume of trade has drawn a range of visitors, including Maquis and Brigands from as far afield as Roussillon. As a result, Sandur has become a prime destination to swap illicitly sourced Bretonian, Gallic or Kusari goods. This has become particularly profitable for the Gaians in recent years, due to the so-called “Green Gold Road”. This scheme sees Gaian smugglers purchase Wildcat Gold from Trafalgar Base for sale to the Hogosha.

Sandur has also seen a spike in funding from concerned Cambridge activists, who urge the Gaians to “take action” against the growing Synth Foods presence on Planet Harris. The idea of Synth gaining a foothold on Bretonia’s border is disquieting to Cambridge’s farmers and academics alike. As a result, Sandur has been expanded with passive sensor arrays to better coordinate raids on the near-complete terraforming operation with a new and ferocious intensity.

Bribes & Missions Offered

Bribes

Gaians

Missions

Gaians Hogosha

Commodities

Imports

Commodity Price Robotics 33$ Ablative Armor Plating 136$ Black Market Munitions 195$ Hessian Tears 215$ Medical Equipment 40$ Molybdenum 149$ Military Surplus 467$ Black Market Pharmaceuticals 158$ Abductees 670$ Hybrid Equipment 2,054$ Counterfeit Computerware 167$ Gold 163$ Silver 155$ Hydrocarbons 10$ Copper 141$ Oxygen 5$ Diamonds 164$ Food Rations 20$ H-Fuel 83$ MOX 22$ Basic Alloy 22$ Mining Machinery 25$ Construction Machinery 34$ Pharmaceuticals 32$ Hull Panels 42$ Optronics 91$ Consumer Goods 38$ Black Market Light Arms 152$ Kemwer Technologies 236$ Azurite Gas 199$ Xeno Relics 206$ Volgograd Ordinance 192$ Gaian Wildlife 222$ Black Market Augments 146$ Iridium 240$ Platinum 200$ Prometheum 25$ Synth Paste 25$ Aluminium 174$ Industrial Materials 40$ Promethene 37$ Xenobiotic Filters 60$

Exports

Commodity Price Deployable Mining Container 50,000$ Energy Field Equipment 51$ Sake 38$ Titanium 31$ Whiskey 13$ Wildcat Gold 202$ Niobium 133$ Water 7$ Engine Components 87$ Black Market Blasters 112$ Wine 56$

Ships sold

Ship	Class	Price
Chameleon	Heavy Fighter	22,603$
Anaconda	Very Heavy Fighter	23,129$
Panther	Bomber	74,612$
Leatherback	Freighter	80,083$
Bretonia Transport	Transport	126,006$

News

[831 AS] Jump Hole Upheaval Causes Chaos

HEISENBERG -- 831 AS -- Jump holes across Sirius have become increasingly volatile and chaotic over the last year, with Professor Sophia Nagel from the Heisenberg Research Station linking the unusual phenomena to the Pulse. The Pulse was an unprecedented blast of hyperspace energy that was detected immediately prior to last year's jump gate Blackout. Professor Nagel and her team are certain the Pulse originated from outside Sirius, but are otherwise no closer to identifying its source or mitigating a future Blackout event. "Following the Blackout, we began to see immediate signs of jump hole destabilization in multiple different regions, with many ultimately falling out of phase alignment altogether", she commented. The dramatic upending of Sirius' jump hole network has already prompted many groups to abandon stations and withdraw from systems that appear to risk being cut off. While months-long trips between the stars are possible thanks to the Liberty Engine and many centuries of innovation, few ships are designed or provisioned to make such arduous journeys. Those who were displaced by Sirius' redrawn map hope that system connections will return, while adventurers and explorers rush to discover new routes.

[829 AS] Tau In Transition

Freeport 6 -- 829 AS -- Bretonia and Kusari have been quiet in recent weeks as the Tau cluster continues adjustments, partly by design, into a new reality. Kusari has abandoned Tau-53 completely as trade with Gallia is frozen indefinitely, a nearly depleted hydrocarbon deposit seemingly not worth the investment in itself. Misaki Station has seen its manufacturing facilities detached and towed to a new location as Samura attempts to recoup some of its investment in Tau-53. Meanwhile, both Gallia and Bretonia have readjusted their Tau focus to Tau-23 as Orkney descends into chaos. Existing gate infrastructure in Tau-31 and Languedoc have been redirected to Tau-23, and a collective deja vu is felt among Tau denizens and observers from all Houses as the resources of Tau-23 are eyed by competing mining interests. Trade between the houses however, as in Kusari, is completely off the menu. Independent trade factions have also been warned against attempting to cross the divide.

Rumors

Gaians

Sandur is the heart and soul of the Gaian movement now. Our brightest minds and most gifted pilots, and their families, make their homes here. We're slowly evacuating those sympathetic to our cause to this base. Given the strength of the enemy that Bretonia faces, I'm not sure New London, and even Cambridge will be safe much longer. Did you ever think you would live to see the day? I keep hearing talk on the stations about Gaian trading. I can see the logic of it and all, but come on. Seriously? We're fighters, not truckers! It's quite stunning to view the Sandoy field from the edge. I sometimes take my Starflier out to the edge and watch where the solar winds meet the nebula perimeter. The ionization of the charged solar particles causes a wild number of hues to form in the nebula. It also causes intense lightning - nothing the shields can't handle, but it's just...stunning to watch. I've applied to the Gaian elite squadron three times now and I keep getting passed over. I've always heard how grueling the first part of the initiation is. Snatched without warning, smuggled onto Gaia and left for two months in the wilderness with just a knife, a bottle of water and the clothes on your back. I'm on leave from our space training facility and man, those new fighters are great! I hope they assign me one of those and put me on a good patrol route after I finish. It is so serene out here, you'd almost forget that you are inside a man-made structure floating in an almost pefect vacuum. Not that we get many people that walk out an airlock without an EV suit. It's chilly out there... I can remember the day of the invasion like it was yesterday. Controlled chaos it was. I've never seen so many Gaians in the sky at once. I flew with the rear guard during the exodus here to Faroe, and watching it at the time was like seeing a gigantic school of fish swimming within the tide of a black ocean. This base is the place to go when things just become too much for you, if you're a Gaian. Not much going on here aside from the occasional debates in the tavern. Oh, and the occasional freighter docking, of course. Most excitement we saw was Rick West almost running his freighter into planet Dreines. Folks really ought to place a few warning buoys, 'cause that planet can REALLY sneak up on you. What will our future be? Will we, like a failed star, cool until our light dims so much that it can no longer be seen? Or will we burn brightly, in the times to come? Or will we, like a dying star, go out in one blinding burst of glory? Time will tell, but I fear, if the former or the latter, I will live to see those ends.

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