Ruiz Base

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Ruiz Base
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Owner
Outcasts
Location
E-5/4, Omicron Beta

CLASS: Carbonera

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

CREW: 240

Ruiz Base was established by the Outcasts somewhere between 300 and 400 AS, but records from that period have largely been lost. The asteroid and most of the surrounding fragments orbit Planet Elysium slowly, suggesting that Elysium itself is the gravitational heart of this region of space. Scattered pockets of common minerals have been found among the asteroid fields, which allowed the Outcasts to build a greater number of ships as early as 500 AS

In more recent times, Ruiz has become an important defensive outpost, repelling frequent Gas Miners Guild (GMG) incursions.

Bribes & Missions Offered

Bribes
Missions


Commodities

Imports
Commodity Price
Robotics 22$
Black Market Munitions 143$
Hessian Tears 182$
Energy Field Equipment 30$
Medical Equipment 71$
Rum 40$
Detroit Light Arms 127$
Vodka 56$
Whiskey 49$
Military Surplus 1,328$
Counterfeit Computerware 192$
Oxygen 10$
Water 10$
Diamonds 173$
Food Rations 27$
Luxury Food 73$
MOX 55$
Basic Alloy 32$
Mining Machinery 38$
Construction Machinery 37$
Pharmaceuticals 51$
Hull Panels 38$
Consumer Goods 39$
Luxury Consumer Goods 113$
Daumann Side Arms 76$
Gallic Enfer Blasters 126$
Black Market Blasters 165$
Kemwer Technologies 225$
Volgograd Ordinance 200$
Gaian Wildlife 406$
Holotainment Bands 139$
Black Market Augments 88$
Pineal Amulets 110$
Synth Paste 37$
Tobacco 73$
Wine 77$
Cigars 151$
Hypnotainment Bands 197$
Industrial Materials 33$
Munitions 41$
Tea 47$
Xenobiotic Filters 54$
Helium-3 70$
Fire Pearls 32$
Shigeakiki 168$
Xeno Relics 161$
Exports
Commodity Price
Deployable Mining Container 50,000$
Casualties 58,603$
Black Market Pharmaceuticals 187$
Alien Organisms 2$
H-Fuel 80$
Cardamine 145$
Black Market Light Arms 200$


Ships sold


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News

[834 AS] Dons applaud Crayter military

MALTA -- 834 -- Crayter and IMG efforts to extract the slave rabble from Freeport 10 have proven to be an amusing diversion. Acting on a plan devised by Dons Wenceslau and Ricci, our warriors allowed the slave transports to slip away while inflicting a devastating toll on their escorts. Tau-37 is now littered with Crayter corpses. Don Ricci applauded Crayter leadership from his Maltese villa. “It’s very impressive, the Republic managed to take a cheap publicity stunt and turn it into a diplomatic crisis,” he noted, referring to the destruction of the liner Nagapasa. “Of course, the best is yet to come.” Many of the slaves aboard Freeport 10 were Liberty Insurgency prisoners of war, trafficked by the LPI; the paraded slaves are living, breathing evidence of Liberty malfeasance.

[833 AS] Decisive Victory Over Stabiline Menace

SIGMA-17 -- 833 -- For decades Atka has been a thorn in the Outcasts’ side. Nuisance became an existential threat with the release of Stabiline - Cryer’s pale imitation of Cardamine. Four years ago we damaged production, but failed to finish the job due to intervention by both the GMG and the Corsairs, who we suspect Cryer had bribed as mercenaries. To ensure success in our current campaign, the Dons committed to a masterful strategy of deception. An attack on the Corsair-occupied Freeport 9 emboldened Zoner Militants to take up arms, prompting the Corsairs to draw in reinforcements from across the Sigmas. While the Zoners spent their lives as a sacrificial distraction, our own ships redeployed to the true objective, achieving Atka’s complete destruction.

[833 AS] Cardamine Shortages

MALTA -- 833 AS -- While the slave rebellion has been crushed after more than a year of fighting, many plantations and their warehouses were burned or severely damaged. Fortunately, the Dons had prepared for this eventuality - the cartels were required to pool supplies to service the distribution network in "maintenance mode". This means maximum emphasis is placed on supplying fully dependent pawns, with Cardamine stocks distributed on a key-by-key basis to ration out supply. Despite these measures, demand for Cardamine skyrocketed, triggering armed conflicts between the various network participants and driving prices to dizzying heights. While we have slowly suppressed these prices as supply recovers, they remain an impediment to orderly market function. The Dons expect production to return to pre-rebellion levels over the next four years as destroyed infrastructure is rebuilt.

[832 AS] Righting Past Wrongs

AUGUSTA -- 832 AS -- The fires of revolt still smolder on Malta, but we have no time to count our losses and mourn our dead. We are forced to steel our hearts and once more rise to defend ourselves from outsiders who would see the Outcasts destroyed.

We of course speak of the Corsairs, who exploited our people's moment of tragedy to seize Freeport 9 as a forward base. The Corsair occupation of the Freeport represents an existential threat to the Maltese people, and their raids upon our very home cannot and will not be tolerated. The Battlecruiser Augusta has led a force into Omicron Theta with orders to destroy the station and its biodomes, disrupt the Corsairs, and annihilate the Artifact trade that funds them.

Already we have won a great victory by striking down the Battleship Fes, with the Battleship Delos surely soon to join it in the grave. The Dons have promised a handsome payment to the cartel of each pilot that kills a Corsair in Omicron Theta.

[831 AS] Corsair Threat Looms over Theta Aggression

IBIZA -- 831 AS -- The barbaric Corsairs have made their move in the Omicron Theta system, seizing control of Freeport 9. While this does remove another Bounty Hunter hive from our borders, it provides the Corsairs with an unacceptable forward staging ground for their own raids.

Ibiza Station has been reinforced with additional guard squadrons and placed on high alert, in case this is the precursor to a larger Corsair fleet movement. Once the current disarray on Malta is resolved, the Cartels will turn their attention to matters of security, and the fleets will be free to strike terror into the hearts of our foes once more.

The Corsairs may feel they have won themselves a great prize in Omicron Theta, but the Freeport is no fortress and a biodome is a fragile thing. The Corsairs say they were forced to act to secure their territory. Soon enough they shall learn that men in glass houses should not cast stones.

[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.

[831 AS] Malta Ablaze!

MALTA -- 831 AS -- A slave rebellion has raged for months on the planet Malta as increasingly-organized rebel slaves have managed to take over some of the more sparsely populated and difficult-to-traverse areas. Our operations have been further complicated by the slaves' acquisition of sensitive planetary defense installations; our own defensive installations have been turned against us!

While it remains unclear how the rebels learned of the orbital installation locations, it is possible that some of the more benevolent masters did not consider their slaves to be a serious security threat and allowed them access to portions of critical infrastructure. The Dons do not know how they will approach this pressing fact, but it is clear that the laxity of their brothers and sisters has allowed the rebellion to put up unexpectedly strong resistance.

Despite this, the slaves themselves seem to realize the futility of their struggle as Outcast forces in Omicron Alpha have managed to disable most of the IMG and CR ships that attempted to smuggle aid and reinforcements to the besieged rebels. As the Outcasts succeed in gaining tactical and strategic superiority and their forces regain lost territory, the end of this rebellion is only a matter of time, blood and sweat.

As a final act of revenge, the slaves aimed their weapons not only against the Outcasts themselves, but also against the reason they were brought here: Cardamine. As such, plantation fires stretch from horizon to horizon across the rural regions of planet Malta.

[831 AS] Slave Uprising on Malta I

MALTA -- 831 AS -- Across the planet Malta, widespread fighting rages as more and more slaves join the rebellion against their Outcast owners. Armed slaves have found it easier to conquer rural solitudes and vast swaths of plantations while the major cities have managed to quell the rebellion in its infancy.

The slave rebellion itself began in the mines of the planet Albegna when the Benitez Cartel executed 200 slaves for sabotaging a mining facility. This cruelty resonated throughout the mining colony, even among the usually trouble-free slaves, and they quickly gained control of the mining facility, including Don Juan Benitez himself, who was to oversee the execution. When the Benitez Cartel learned that their Don had been executed by the slaves instead, they ordered the liquidation of the mining colony.

Although the Albegna mining colony revolt was resolved in less than two weeks, promises by other Dons of 'precautionary measures' across the board, which most slaves interpreted as more mass executions, sparked a widespread slave uprising across Malta. Although the slaves themselves would hardly have been able to resist the well-armed Outcasts, the rebels had the element of surprise in the form of caches of smuggled weapons and other military equipment.

As war rages on planet Malta between desperate slaves and their surprised masters, all Outcast forces from Sirius are recalled to planet Malta to quell the rebellion as quickly as possible. With the IMG and CR taking advantage of weakened Outcast influence in the Tau Region, the question arises as to whether this was all planned by their neighboring foes.

[830 AS] Cardamine Operations Expand In Response To Falling Profits

MALTA -- 830 AS -- The Maltese Cartels are scrambling to increase Cardamine production after a meeting between heads of influential families that revealed a general downturn in their profits, caused by a cascade of issues in our distribution network.

Our smuggling routes have come under increased scrutiny from law enforcement throughout the Sirius Sector, causing an increase rate of failure for our smugglers. The independent smuggling contacts are also increasingly reluctant to continue their work as the risks begin to outweigh the rewards. That in turn, has a secondary effect of making people turn to the filthy Cryer for their Stabiline, a fake remedy for Cardamine withdrawal that we can only describe as snake oil, filling up pockets with false promises.

Dissenting voices painfully point out that this is the first time in a century where we have seen three consecutive quarters of falling profits, with several minor Cartels allegedly facing bankruptcy amid the disaster. The Dons have quickly silenced such assertions, reassuring the public that the Orange Dream will continue to grow.

To address the situation, the Dons demand ever-greater Cardamine yields, launching unprecedented expansion efforts. Steps will be taken to secure the product's shipping. In addition, they plan to import a large labor force from the colonies to bolster the Maltese plantations. This undertaking will require a coordinated effort from Maltese Navy captains, independent smugglers and subverted Sirian assets to acquire and ship slaves en masse to Malta.


Rumors

Outcasts
  • This is Outcast space, and any ships that come into this system better be welcomed by us. The GMG has been sending ships into our turf looking for Alien Organisms. It's no doubt they are working for Planetform or Samura, maybe even Cryer. When we catch them we kill them.


  • I have killed more than a thousand men and stolen a kingdom of riches. Even now there are two veteran Bounty Hunters that stalk me: one for revenge, the other for reward. They will have to follow me across the stars, for I am bound to another place. Neither one will live beyond Tau-37; Benitez will see to that.


  • Freelancer base Newport supplies us here at Ruiz with almost everything we need to keep this place running and our men and women properly equipped. Whatever surplus we bring in goes to our home, Malta. Many of the Commodities we send to Malta will be used to build our attack craft and support Cardamine smugglers.


  • We have lived so long on Malta that our genes have mutated, and now we require Cardamine to live. On Malta it's in everything: our Food, soil, air, and Water. After a while it got so we needed it. Somehow the Cardamine also had a negative effect on our birth rate. Fewer and fewer Outcasts are being born, though we live much longer.


  • The Alien Organisms we get here are sent to Malta to boost our Cardamine cultivation on the plantations. The organisms we don't need in Malta are shipped to Freeport 10 and sold for extra income.


  • Orbital's Hawaii liner in Sigma-19 draws a lot of unwanted visitors near our territory. Sometimes we'll run attacks against the liner if they come too close. It is also a hindrance to our drug trade, because our smuggling route requires us to pass through Sigma-19. There'd be a lot fewer eyes in that system if the Hawaii weren't there.


  • I am Santiago Llorens. Perhaps you have heard of me? My Don, Don Miguel of the Benitez Cartel has asked me a favor, and I cannot deny him. I will soon leave this base and cross the Edge Worlds to kill a man he asked me to.


  • Our sworn enemy is Cryer Pharmaceuticals. Cryer is trying to replicate Cardamine so they can take over the drug market with their harmless alternative. It will be legalized, regardless of how dangerous it is. Their ships in this system or in any Outcast space will be destroyed immediately.


  • Once we discovered how to use Alien Organisms, the agriculture on Malta boomed. The creatures make for a kind of super fertilizer that causes the Cardamine grasses to grow twice as fast and become twice as potent. They even allow more Foods to grow on Malta.


  • The Cardamine we receive here from Malta will be shipped to different destinations throughout Rheinland via Yanagi. I miss the orange grasses swaying softly in the warm winds of my home, but I must do what my Don has asked of me.


  • This is the stopover for Cardamine shipments that will be delivered to the Junkers at Yanagi. We get the Cardamine from Malta, where it is processed. Malta is one system over through the northern Jump Hole.


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