Sandur Base

Sandur Base

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Owner

Gaians

Location

C/D-3/2, Tau-31

CLASS: Stremoy

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

CREW: 120

Sandur Base is a new staging ground for the Gaians, built as a self-sufficient outpost in the Tau-31 system. It houses Gaian raiders and close affiliates who need a place hide away from the law or stay clear from monitored trade routes. Sandur is arguably the most secure facility that the Gaian movement owns.

Due to its strategic position in a former warzone, the Gaians are able to recover much needed scrap and looted weaponry from wrecks. Sandur utilizes these materials in the production of new Gaian ships and guns, something that has ended up saving them a lot of money for use elsewhere.

Bribes & Missions Offered

Bribes

Gaians

Missions

Gaians

Commodities

Imports

Commodity Price Gin 45$ Medical Equipment 42$ Sake 36$ Light Arms 95$ Black Market Pharmaceuticals 48$ Counterfeit Computerware 64$ Oxygen 14$ Food Rations 43$ H-Fuel 164$ MOX 25$ Mining Machinery 33$ Pharmaceuticals 42$ Consumer Goods 36$ Black Market Munitions 77$ Black Market Augments 43$ Synth Paste 29$ Munitions 65$ Xenobiotic Filters 64$ Xeno Relics 225$

Exports

Commodity Price Deployable Mining Container 50,000$ Energy Field Equipment 77$ Water 12$

Ships sold

Ship	Class	Price
Bretonia Transport	Transport	126,006$
Gaian Gunboat	Gunboat	900,006$
Chameleon	Heavy Fighter	22,603$

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

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! 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. 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... 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. 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. 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. 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. 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'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.

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