Hey. I don't know who to forward this to exactly... It's going to all sound a bit nuts. Or you will perceive it as the genius I think it could be. The following is a classified request to LFR High Command.
I'm Jimmy Predsman, I used to work for the XA logistics before I got locked up. I've been out of slam a couple of months now and a lot has changed. I don't have much hand in combat these days, but I'm the guy that makes sure you've got enough Black Market Munitions to go around when you're stuffing those hellfire rockets into those pods on your ships.
And now that I'm out, I've been looking for new opportunities to advance the Liberty Free Republic. And I think I've found one.
It's no secret that Toronto Station has been abandoned for some time, or that the Junkers have parked up a Sally in the wreckage to deter others from scavenging the station to pieces. I've done a few fly-bys of it now and can see the main hulk of it is picked clean of any useful modules. While it could be repressurized eventually, it is beyond the Free Republic's resources to attempt such a thing.
However there is something of use that may have been overlooked as station debris, something the Junkers have left to drift away. The orbital refinery has drifted several clicks from Toronto Station, and is currently in a degrading orbit around Planet Huron. It appears to be largely intact, if inactive. Calculations suggest it may last another few months before entering the upper atmosphere and being destroyed.
I propose a heist. Using the current orbit trajectory of the refinery, there is a possibility it could be towed out of its current geostationary orbit and through the Georgian Ice field to Blezard Valley with a pair of hegemon mining vessels or similar transports with high inertia capabilities, ships that are able to shunt ice asteroids out of their way or break them up as to not cause too much damage to the refinery during the tow.
Then it could be used to process the spoils of unrefined ore we normally reluctantly jettison or blow up.
While the surface mining of Blezard Valley will take time to establish and configure, and would take months, perhaps years before significant yield is achieved, this goal is secondary to the main purpose of stealing the refinery. Choosing Blezard as a location for the Refinery simply means it will eventually process ore from multiple sources and won't need to be relocated again.
Immediate use could be made of it processing unrefined ore that is often seized by our activities from foreign entities. The situation of having to dump or destroy these high value goods would change if we were in a position to process the ore into salable ingots to more easily fence.
Additionally, Blezard Valley has long been a veritable goldmine of untapped resources, and the only reason Deep Space Engineering had left it alone was because of our immediate presence. Let us seize what they could not, and in time reap benefits from that as well.
Capturing the refinery and utilizing it for stolen ore is just phase one of this plan, I would also need to make several trips in atmosphere-rated freighters to Huron to collect compatible surface-bound mining equipment abandoned by DSE. We may also need some quantities of Counterfeit Software to reactivate the refinery and resync the mining equipment once it is in place. Such a venture is the long term benefit of this idea but is not the main pressing reason for this proposition.
This heist could pave the way to providing resources directly to Fort Ramsey and allow the Xenos to refine hijacked ores without external assistance, or even those mined locally such as the Copper deposits in Coronado. This would provide a steady income to a faction that has long had to toil and fight for every resource, every gun, every scrap of asset. We could finally birth our own enclosed economy, unreliant on external influences of those that think they are our betters.
And so I come forward to the Liberty Free Republic leadership with this idea, seeking sanction and permission to proceed, and perhaps some assistance to perform this plan.
I may no longer hold the rank I once had in years gone by and am currently designated as a Volunteer. That said I have great and proven experience in days past of similar escapades for the Xeno Alliance. I await your response humbly, but hopefully.