A Synth Foods station

[Blodo]

Omega-11 is besieged by Hessians and Corsairs. Daumann thinks establishing a trade lane is too risky, their station survives only because it was built in 400 AS, long before the Hessians existed, and they had time to entrench it since. A new station by Synth Foods? It would need to be in one of the asteroid fields, and would need expensive anti-rad shields (the Solarius station defends from radiation by being in the shadow of an entire planet, the Hessian base is carved into a thick rock which protects them from radiation), but in the asteroids it would get blown up by the Hessians, since all of them are basically controlled by the Hessians. So it's nonsensical.

Inverness is a system that should be unknown to most except the Junkers. It's one of the few backwater systems in Discovery, without any house interests, and serving as pretty much a hideaway. Suddenly it gets a jump gate + lane? Not only would it be a bit ridiculous, it would also ruin a nice system...

Omega-15 is a pirates nest. The Schwerin is sitting there to safeguard Dresden (mostly Leipzig Station) from falling under Corsair attacks. Why would the Military of all organisations allow a Liberty company to build a base next to their own battleship in a system that has nothing to offer to nobody, except maybe a passageway for criminals into the mining heartland of Rheinland? This one on the other hand reeks of a spies nest, and the RM would have to be grossly incompetent to be fine with that...

And now that I think about it, a Synth station in Minnesota would also be meh. Could think of better locations than that...

A Synth Foods station would make sense in Ontario though. Perhaps in Stuttgart as well, orbitting the planet itself. Could also move the battleship away from the planet, maybe remove it altogether and say that it was withdrawn to the Liberty front. Then LWB could strike at the base itself, as well as the orbit of the planet. Would no doubt give LWB some more Synth encounters.