Peterborough Mining Facility

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Peterborough Mining Facility
Owner
Bretonia Mining & Manufacturing
Location
C-5, Cambridge

CLASS: Shelby

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

CREW: 350

Peterborough is a Beryllium mining and processing station recently established by Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing to take full advantage of the Beryllium deposits discovered in the asteroid field north of Planet Cambridge. Most of the Beryllium processed at Peterborough is being shipped by Bowex, BMM's main shipping partner.

Bribes & Missions Offered


Commodities

Exports
Commodity Price
Deployable Mining Container 50,000$
Beryllium 15$
Crew 218$
Toxic Waste 19$
Mining Machinery 19$


Ships sold


Ship Class Price


News

[833 AS] Cambridge on the Line

NORFOLK -- 833 AS -- The number of recorded Corsair incursions across Cambridge has increased by 193%% in the last 3 years. According to Captain Edwards of the Battleship Norfolk, this is simply a result of the successes in detecting and reacting to attacks. "You can't respond to a Corsair you don't know is there," he noted. "The Cambridge Line ensures we know when and where to deploy our resources for maximum effect." Retired Major Jane Gilliam disagrees. "The Line was never fit for purpose," she says. "The Regents lobbied London to keep it, and so the pantomine continues." It is speculated that the spike in Corsair raids may have been prompted by increased resistance elsewhere, or a shift in their internal politics. Regardless of their true motivations, Interspace Commerce has recognised the elevated peril and adjusted its premiums accordingly.

[831 AS/747 AGS] Gate Corps Clash Over 'Blackout'!

ABBEVILLE -- 831 AS/747 AGS -- EFL's 'Resilience Taskforce' today reported its findings on The Blackout, claiming to have gathered forensic evidence that proved the cause as Ageira negligence. A spokesperson claimed that the destruction of the Dublin jump gate by Molly separatists had created a hyperspace feedback loop that was propagated and amplified through the Ageira gate network.

Ageira disputed this finding in their own press release, calling EFL 'fantasists' and countering that their own scientists had narrowed the cause to a rare 'hypernova' stellar event that originated outside the Sirius sector. Both corporations claim that network-wide hardware safeguards have been implemented that would prevent a similar occurrence in the future. Independent researchers have sharply criticized the corporate announcements, accusing both of self-interested misdirection.

Professor Sophia Nagel from Heisenberg Research Station called EFL's accusation 'incoherent' and the hypernova explanation 'nonsense' that did not explain the characteristics of the 'Blackout Pulse'. Despite multiple different Pulse recordings being widely disseminated across the neural net, public efforts have so far failed to triangulate its source.

[831 AS] Bretonia Announces Poole Draw-Down

NEW LONDON -- 831 AS -- The Bretonian government has announced a controlled withdrawal from the Poole system, citing ballooning costs and an increasingly strained state budget. Poole was once of critical importance to Bretonia, briefly hosting a Super Gate to Liberty during the Gallic War, and acting as a launching point for Bretonia's colonial ambitions in Omega 48.

With the end of the war and Bretonia's withdrawal from Planet Gran Canaria, Poole's prominence waned. The cost of policing the system and maintaining infrastructure has significantly outweighed collected tax revenue in recent years, with Planetform's Terraforming Gas operations reporting disappointing year on year returns.DSE has already confirmed that it will begin deconstruction operations shortly, with the dismantling of the Cambridge jump gate expected to be completed by 833 AS.

Planetform has confirmed its intention to withdraw prior to this point, while settling shareholder anxiety with the announcement of promising preliminary findings for a replacement site in Newcastle.
[831 AS] Bretonian Focus Turns on Mollys

SHEFFIELD -- 831 AS -- The Bretonia Police Authority has announced that the eradication of the Molly movement is their top priority. In light of the loss of the Dublin system and the seemingly connected 'Blackout', the dangerous terrorist movement has leaped to the top of Bretonia's most wanted board. Bounties on Molly terrorists have doubled, with Bounty Hunters flocking to the beleaguered House. Guild Master Tina Hale of Sheffield Station commented that, "this is a good deal for a job that's less dangerous than many of our Edge World boards." Despite this, prospective Hunters should be cautious, as the Mollys are notoriously cunning and brutal fighters. The bounties and Police crackdown do appear to be having some initial effects however, with reports of Molly attacks on shipping in the Cambridge and Newcastle systems falling over recent weeks.

[831 AS/747 AGS] 'Blackout' Causes Jump Network Fail

MANHATTAN -- 831 AS/747 AGS -- Two days ago Jump Gates failed simultaneously across Sirius, freezing commerce and neural net access across the sector. When the network resumed 31 hours later, restored communications broke the news of Bretonia's loss of the Dublin system. This twin shock has plunged the market into chaos, prompting fears of sector-wide economic recessions. Interspace estimates indicate that the stoppage alone caused billions of credits in losses. Gallia immediately accused Liberty of culpability for the outage, claiming the destruction of Dublin's jump gate instigated a cascading failure in faulty Ageira infrastructure. Ageira has sharply refuted the allegation, claiming such a systemic effect would be physically impossible. Independent researchers in Cologne and the Edge Worlds have also announced that a hyperspace pulse of unprecedented strength was detected moments before The Blackout, with data about 'The Pulse' being widely shared across the neural net in recent days. House authorities have remained tight lipped, refusing to comment on their own observatories' data.

[831 AS] Cost of Rebuilding too High?

NEW LONDON -- 831 AS -- Bretonia continues to face a difficult and lengthy recovery process following the conclusion of the Gallic War. The Bretonian people initially accepted this, and quietly pledged to come together and struggle on. While Bretonia is now witnessing an extraordinary rate of growth, it has come at the cost of severe cuts and harsh industrial quotas. Professor Timothy Ball of the Economic Review Institute says, "the recovery we've witnessed so far has been uneven, mainly benefiting Bretonian corporations and Crown agencies. If dividends of recovery are not felt by the average citizen, this inequality could become a major point of domestic political contention."

[829 AS] Marauding in Manchester

MANCHESTER -– 829 AS -- Reports from the Manchester system have now been confirmed by BPA and Bretonian intelligence officials: Liverpool Border Station, guarding over the Magellan jump gate and serving as the command center for police operations in the system, has been destroyed in what is being deemed a terrorist attack.

Yesterday at 2200 hours SMT, nearby Sheffield Station and Kingston Border Station received automated distress signals from Liverpool, indicating an emergency aboard the station. Guild patrols redirected from Sheffield arrived on the scene within minutes, finding the border station destroyed. Search and rescue operations headed by Guild and BPA units commenced immediately and successfully salvaged several escape pods bearing several dozen survivors, who were immediately delivered to hospitals on New London.

BPA spokesperson Sandra Halling held a press conference earlier this morning. According to joint police and BIS investigations, Liverpool was destroyed by antimatter explosives planted aboard the station. Their detonation caused a catastrophic chain reaction, resulting in the station's own reactors melting down and exploding. Of the estimated one-hundred-twenty persons on board at the time of the attack, seventy-eight have been reported as dead or missing. \So far, no party has taken credit for this heinous attack. However, Bretonian police surmises that it was likely perpetrated by either the criminals known as the Mollys or the infamous pirate organization, the Lane Hackers. The attack occurred following a significant redeployment of local Armed Forces units to the Cortez system for the purpose of joint operations with Libertonian security forces. This, says Halling, may have allowed terrorist sympathizers to exploit undermanned BPA patrols and smuggle illegal explosives through Manchester's ice fields, onto Liverpool Station.

While investigations continue, Bretonian Police Authority has reinforced patrols within Manchester and established traffic controls at Kingston Border Station and Birmingham Station. Traffic to and from Liberty has been advised to reroute through the Cortez system.

[816 AS] Terrorist attacks rising in Omega-3

FREEPORT 1 -- 816 AS -- Omega-3 has a long and turbulent history of being a lawless space. In recent days there have been a particularly brutal spate of killings, with several BMM and Bowex convoys massacred. The Bretonia Armed Forces has been on the case for weeks, and yesterday successfully intercepted the mysterious attackers mid-ambush. Major Helen Hardy identified the assailants as Rheinland Military vessels, commenting that, “it was like 800 all over again” -- referring to Rheinland’s assault on Omega-3 during the Colony Wars. Following a complaint to the Rheinland government, defense officials were quick to deny responsibility for the attacks, pointing instead to the Military deserters-turned-terrorist group commonly known as The Wild.

[812 AS] Rheinland warns about “Wild” attacks

FREISTADT -- 812 -- For many years rumors have spread about attacks on Omega shipping by a group known as The Wild. Now their ships have been sighted marauding across Stuttgart and New Berlin. Rheinland has announced that MND intelligence has identified these menaces as traitorous Colony War deserters and war criminals, who stole Military hardware and vanished into the border worlds to enrich themselves. It is unclear what prompted the renegades to extend their attacks into Rheinland core space, however it is speculated that they may have been driven out of their old hunting grounds by other pirate organizations such as the Red Hessians or Corsairs.


Rumors

Bretonia Mining & Manufacturing
  • As far as BMM postings go, this station isn't half bad. Sure, it's a new facility and bound to have a few teething problems. But I'd rather be here then on Graves. We're smackdab in the middle of a busy trade route, which means that in case of attacks, we'll have Police and Armed Forces from Planet Cambridge not too far away.


  • If you handle any broken storage containers which contained Beryllium, don't forget to wash thoroughly afterward. Beryllium is toxic and will slowly poison you. Handling Beryllium is part of the job here. Staying alive however isn't in the job description - it's just common sense.


  • Beryllium is essential to the Bretonian economy because it's used many ways - Engine Component construction, Nuclear Reactors, Radiation Shielding. But most essentially for us, it is part of the Bretonian Super Alloy synthesis. BMM and Bowex refused to be dependent on the IMG for their supply of Beryllium, so the Crown nationalised the Beryllium deposits north of Cambridge for exclusive use by us.


  • If you ask me, the Crown should simply have nationalised Cardiff. That would have both given us all the infrastructure we need, and put an end to the IMG operations in the system so that all profits from Cambridge could go to the Crown. The IMG decided against siding with Bretonia. That makes them as bad as the enemy.


  • A Molly and a Corsair are both aboard a ship. Who's driving? Well?

    Why, the Constable of course!


  • Welcome to Peterborough, youngest station in Bretonia as of 819 AS, and still under construction. But that doesn't mean we don't have any fair Bretonian Stout here. Or an abundance of Beryllium for that matter. The boys in their mining ships are quickly tagging the richest deposits of Beryllium in the field. Early mining operations always start with a high yield before mining begins in earnest.


  • With the first three smelters operational, we can produce roughly 15 isotons of ore at a variable purity on the refined product. Once the other 9 come online, we'll have at least 30 percent more capacity then Cardiff does. That will allow us to undercut the IMG operation, so long as we get enough raw materials delivered.


  • One of these days I'm going to visit Trafalgar, and make a Corsair snack on a Cardamine-laced crumpet, and cam the whole thing. I bet that would be a hit on NeuraTube! Ten thousand thumbs up at least!


  • There's rumors of another increase in the worktimes due to the ongoing war. Not sure what it'll accomplish - people can only be pushed so far, you know? Before soon people will start napping or drinking on the job, and that's when accidents start to happen.


  • They say that space is dangerous. I believe that, so I signed up for stationboard duty. Sure, the view isn't as great in the smelter 3 control room, but at least you don't get your ship shot out from under you by Mollies, Corsairs, Hessians, Gaians... need I go on?


  • Mollys and Gaians have both started to show an uncanny interest in this station. So far nothing serious, but it is a sign of things to come. The Gaians probably worry that we'll end up damaging Planet Cambridge, but there's very little risk since we barely do any smelting on this base. The Mollys are just being their destructive selves.


  • I once knew a joke about paper, but forgot what it was about. It was... tearable.


Border World Exports
  • Finally a familiar run again. Albeit with a slightly changed starting point. Delivering Beryllium to Liberty was one of the runs I was often assigned to before the Tau war. Good folk, down in Liberty. Well, except the Xenos of course. And the Rogues. And Lane Hackers. But otherwise, good folk! Always kind enough to set me up with a load of Light Arms or Superconductors to bring back to Bretonia.


  • Those Gateway boys must be seething now that we're cutting into one of their prime traderoutes. Delivering Beryllium to Rheinland and undercutting the IMG and Gateway would be a major blow to their business. I wonder if the bosses could persuade the Crown to offer a few "incentives" to get Peterborough going...


  • The Corsairs are a bigger problem on this side of the system then the Mollies are. Near the Keswick that changes, so I guess they come from there. Another reason to take this route rather then to pass by Cardiff - you only have one set of ruffians to deal with.


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