My pilot, Joe Pike, and I were running our normal route of Diamonds from Solarius to Planet Los Angeles, Luxury Goods from Los Angeles to Planet New London, then Trade Lane Parts from Waterloo to Solarius ($30,471,268 profit for about an hours work, with 4955 cargo space), when we ran into a friendly Daumann miner who offered to supply us with a cargo of uncut diamonds for a reasonable fee.
Looking at the sell price back in New London this looks to be a far more profitable route with a shorter flight time and fewer hazards. If we could work out a congenial relationship with some Daumann miners it would be to our mutual benefit.
Any advice in this regard would be welcome.
Log: #4
ID: Bruno Gehard, Head of Security
Ship: Gateway|-Bombs.Away
Hi, Elvis
I am afraid the issue between Gateway and Daumann is quite a grim one in terms of the fact we are officially on poor relations with eachother in particular the DHC-. The reasons for this are simply because Bowex and Daumann have formal trade relations in the same way we are allied to the IMG, Bowex are to Daumann.
This means our access to highly prized Rheinland sourced raw materials like those of Uncut Diamonds is much harder aswell as Aluminium Ore. Two products of which Daumann are a main supplier of to low and behold Bowex!!!!
To show how sour relations actually are with the DHC-, Gateway| requested docking clearance to their Aluminum Ore Storage facility in Munich, a facility our recon teams already know Bowex) has access to. After a few days of waiting for a reply we were subsequently but not unsurprisingly denied access to that base.
Their main reason was it would "upset" the trade ties which they have with other groups if were allowed in. What they meant though was Bowex) !
Also Daumann are rivals of the IMG and Kruger in Omega 7 thus our alliance with the IMG does not go down well either.
Solution:
Thus I am afraid your only hope in gaining access to a supply of Uncut Diamonds is to either find a Independent Daumann Miner in Omega 11 who will mine some for you OR head over to the Dresden System. Kruger have an Uncut Diamond mining operation there and Kruger maybe a little more pleasant to deal with!
