Liner Hausbruch

Liner Hausbruch

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Owner

Unioners

Location

G-4/5, Hamburg

CLASS: Pilgrim

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Partial

CREW: 120

The Hausbruch is one of the Unioners’ mobile salvaging vessels. These ships can often be found ranging across Bering, their crews tearing apart wrecks for useful components, or towing away transports disabled by Unioner pirates. Following the loss of Vierlande Prison in 830 AS, the Unioners were left without a forward staging post in Hamburg. In a reversal of its normal duties, the Hausbruch has recently been deployed to the Wedel Wreck in the Alsterfeld to begin repressurising the station. The Unioners hope restoring Wedel will bolster their presence in the system, and help curb Hessian intrusions.

Bribes & Missions Offered

Bribes

Corsairs Liberty Rogues Unioners Zoners

Missions

Unioners

Commodities

Imports

Commodity Price Ablative Armor Plating 36$ Light Arms 74$ Black Market Pharmaceuticals 35$ Counterfeit Computerware 58$ Oxygen 19$ Water 19$ Food Rations 57$ H-Fuel 103$ MOX 25$ Construction Machinery 27$ Pharmaceuticals 33$ Hull Panels 41$ Consumer Goods 27$ Engine Components 46$ Black Market Munitions 37$ Black Market Augments 28$ Synth Paste 24$ Munitions 59$ Xenobiotic Filters 26$ HazMat Canisters 31$ Xeno Relics 221$

Exports

Commodity Price Deployable Mining Container 50,000$ Toxic Waste 9$

Ships sold

Ship	Class	Price
Arbeiter	Very Heavy Fighter	25,029$
Solidaritat	Bomber	70,176$
Tiger Shark	Light Fighter	17,022$

News

[834 AS] Seeds of discontent sprouting in Stuttgart?

STUTTGART -- 834 -- The LWB collapsed a decade ago, only knitting itself back together with support from Kusari's Farmer’s Alliance. While the LWB were initially grateful for these foreign patrons, discontent appears to be growing. The FA imposed its own officers on the LWB, and has been calling the shots since. One anonymous LWB pilot bitterly complained that the FA “only care about stopping Synth exports to Kusari”, with Rheinland farmers a distant afterthought. This tension has come to the forefront after Kusari commanders prohibited the LWB from targeting Gallic food imports. While the competition has damaged Synth Foods, it has also driven Stuttgart’s remaining independent farmers to breaking point.

[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] Take What You Can, When You Can

PACIFICA -- 829 -- It was inevitable, but Rheinland has outlawed the movement once more. This comes as no real surprise -- while they initially paid us off to keep Bering and Hudson under control, Imperial bribes alone don't cover the bills. There's simply more money on the other side of the law. Now we've no reason to play nice and Imperial Shipping is back on the target list. Despite grand promises to the unions during the war, they failed to follow through on any of those commitments. Conditions on Alster are as bad as they've ever been. It seems our support during the war wasn't worth much respect in the Reichstag when corporate bribes are involved.

[826 AS] Victory turns to ash at Vierlande

PACIFICA -- 826 -- This should have been a day of momentous celebration, marking the occupation of the despised Vierlande Prison. Sadly, we were betrayed. Our supposed comrades in the Red Hessians and Coalition turned on us in the moment of victory. A full accounting of those lost is still being gathered, but initial reports confirm that Wedel Station has been destroyed, along with the Battleship Undine. Krefeld reports a massacre aboard, perpetrated by pre-positioned Hessian agents. The scale of this treachery is beyond belief, and a grievous wound that can never be forgiven.

[824 AS] Kielfeld Losses Continue

PACIFICA -- 824 -- Unioner smugglers are advised to steer clear of the Kielfeld - if you need to get to Barrow, route through Bering. Over the last six months, losses in the area have jumped over 300%, mainly hitting our Artifact and Diamond freighters. Crimson Squadron were sent in to investigate, with only Crimson leader Lea Nacht surviving. She says, “there’s a new breed of Bounty Hunter out there, likely ex-Unioners that know our routes.” Nacht successfully retreated deep into the field after her wing was ambushed, field repairing her Eagle’s engines and comms over the next 5 days before she could limp home. While we mourn the loss of the veteran Crimsons, Nacht’s tenacity allows their legacy to live on.

[803 AS] Driven to desperation

NEW BERLIN -- 803 -- As Rheinland falls further into economic crisis, many face financial ruin. Desperation has driven political radicalism and crime. Where tens of thousands of Military personnel were laid off in the aftermath of the Colony Wars, huge numbers of trained pilots have found themselves unemployed. As local corporations stop recruiting, some have turned to the Bounty Hunter’s Guild, however many have resorted to the Bundschuh, Red Hessians and Unioners. The RFP has already noted a sharp increase in criminal activity across Rheinland and the surrounding border worlds.

Rumors

Unioners

Running Alien Artifacts from the Sigmas is much more dangerous these days. We've been doing this route for a few years now, but since the betrayal at Vierlande, the Bundschuh and Hessians will both gun for our smugglers on sight. Can't go through Hamburg's Kielfeld either, there's something bad in there. We’re set up as salvagers on the Hausbruch. Normally that involves working on Bering's Liberty Navy or Insurgency wrecks, but it also makes us well qualified to try and shore up Wedel Station. We’re trying to patch the holes in the hangar so a crew can work out of it, freeing us up to head back to Independent Worlds. The Hausbruch is one of several Pilgrim Liners the Unioners maintain. We’re usually tasked with picking up salvage or disabled transports in Bering. Then, we’d either drag them back to Pacifica or field strip any useful parts. Ransoming captured transports and crew was always fairly profitable work. We’re rebuilding Wedel Station as a forward staging post in Hamburg. We can launch attacks on Alster Shipyard from here, and repel Bundschuh and Hessian raids on our territory. The Hessians don’t like us because we’re happy to smuggle Artifacts and take Corsair credits. The Bundschuh are more complicated. We crossed swords during the Civil War, and they’ve held a grudge since. The Unioners received an amnesty when the Civil War ended. Nothing really changed for us though - Imperial Shipping wouldn’t recognise the Alster Union, and any other work we could do paid a fraction of smuggling and piracy profits. For a while the government paid us off to ‘keep the peace’ in Bering, but crime was easier and paid better. The movement was outlawed again within a year, but it was a great time while it lasted. For many years the Hamburg Unioners launched from Wedel Station, however that was destroyed when the Red Hessians betrayed us in '26. After that, we patched up Vierlande Prison, which lasted up until the Civil War ended and the Military pulled itself back together. Now we’re looking at Wedel again. Wedel is a sore point for many Unioners. It was lost after the attack on Vierlande, when the Hessians and Coalition stabbed us in the back during the Betrayal of ‘26. They killed everyone aboard, no survivors. Before, the Corsairs were occasional and uncomfortable business partners. After, they became allies against a common enemy. We run Artifact shipments direct from the Corsair base in Simga-15. We don't need Junkers as middle-men any more. Not an easy run through Frankfurt and New Berlin, but decent profit. We sell some Artifacts locally to the Junkers, but most to the Rogues in Hudson. We used to smuggle Hessian Tears to the Rogues, but that all came crashing down when the Hessians stabbed us in the back in '26. These days, the only time we can ship Diamonds out is when we can hit Hessian smugglers and steal theirs, or sneak a patrol into Dresden and grab them from the source.

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