Universal Industries offers good prices to newly starting freelancers who deliver basic supplies needed for base maintenance, as well as high rewards for space-weathered transport captains who bring raw materials needed for equipment production from afar. Cloaking devices, jump drives, and hyperspace survey modules will be available here once the necessary components were acquired and processed.
The station needs basic alloys delivered from planet Manhattan for upkeep and repairs. Every 10 hours the crew consumes 800 units of oxygen, water, and food, which can be bought on planet Erie. If all supplies are in full stock and the station doesn't accept any more, reasonable profit can be made by mining helium in the Hallam Nebula behind planet Erie, to sell it at the planet or Philadelphia Station.
Once freelance captains have earned enough credits, they may want to look for ships with more cargo space, to increase their work efficiency. Successfull entrepreneurs keep several ships which they use for different purposes, for example one for exploring, one for trading, one for mining, and one for defending. (// make several characters and transfer money between them with the /givecash command)
For captains who command a ship that has more than 3000 units of cargo space, and which can survive prolonged journeys through the dangers of space, delivery of the more rare and exotic goods found throughout the Sirius sector will become the most lucrative source of income. Check the Neuralnet (http://universalds.freeforums.org) to find out about those trade routes.
Universal Industries is licensed to buy alien technology to produce cloaking devices, jump drives, and hyperspace survey modules. Only the brave should attempt to obtain these alien remains in the Omicron systems, as entire fleets of cruisers and battleships have been annihilated by unknown forces there. One should not forget to request a license for legally carrying these alien remains from the liberty government, although Universal Industries doesn't really ask questions when buying them.
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