A Synth Foods station

[Dab]

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.

Explained above.

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...

I was unsure of the 'knowledge' of the system by others, and originally discarded using the system until I found that there really weren't any other alternatives. I didn't see Synth Foods using Inverness either, but there isn't anywhere else to put the food production plant.

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...

As I said before, Synth Foods is really Libertonian and Rheinland at this point. They have no official stance on the war and have major food-producing planets in both houses. They also have a trade partnership with ALG and Kruger. And I really don't see how RM could interpret this as a 'spy nest.' It's about as far from the frontlines as you can get and still be within distance of a Rheinland station. Any information they could give Liberty would be useless, as Liberty can't get to Omega-15. Furthermore, if the RM had issues with that, they should be having major issues with Stuttgart, since it is only two jumps from Texas ans Synth Foods has a major planet and loads of trade ships heading into and out of the system. The only thing Synth Foods could do in Omega-15 is make fertilizer and.. Shoot Corsairs. Both of which aid Rheinland, and there is no harmful things Synth Foods can do to Rheinland in Omega-15.

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

Then suggest them. I have a hard time listening and taking stock in what people say when they don't offer any suggestions or solutions. I think if you spend some time looking at the nav map, you'll find that there aren't better locations than Minnesota for this base.

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.

Ontario explained above.
Synth Foods station above Planet Stuttgart? Why? They have the entire surface of the planet for what they need in that system. Furthermore, what would it be? A food production plant that buys and sells the exact same commodities as the planet that is less than a K away? Fertilizer base that would make the best traderun possible? Taking fertilizer from station to planet and back? We'd have to gimp the price on the fertilizer produced there which defeats the point. Biodome manufacturing plant? Why right above Planet Stuttgart? That station will take a lot of space, and there isn't that much available above the planet.

Anyway yeah I disagree with the Omega 11 base also. Just wayy too risky placement wise. Right between the Hessian's guard system and one of their bases. Not to mention close to a stream of attacking Corsairs, and far, far away from anything friendly.

It's meant to be far far away from anything. It's a research base using radiation generated by the sun. It's hard to find sufficient radiation levels within the houses to make a base like this possible. It has to go in the Omegas.. And Omega-41 is definitely not an option. By using the radiation as a protection, the station can defend itself pretty well from the fighters the pirates can send, if they even send any, since it is out-of-the-way, no threat, and doesn't have anything valuable coming or going.

Gotta say all of Dab's suggestions are a bit weird. Synth is extremely closely tied to populations. Because it sells food. And people eat food. Not sure of the merits of having their bases away from significant populations, just seems like it would decrease profits, and then also increase risk from pirate attacks, which would decrease more profits. It's not like they're OS&C or Cryer or something that have a need to have a base out in the sticks.

The only station that would need to be closely tied with populations is the food production plant. The biodomes manufacturing center and research station need to be far away.. The fertilizer doesn't matter. I'd love to have these stations close to populations, but all the places close to populations are either in Bretonia or Kusari, or are Liberty and Rheinland areas already saturated with more bases than we know what to do with. The problem is that DA and Microsoft left out any Synth Food stations when they created the game, and left scant few places for us to put them.

Again; If you guys have better suggestions to put these bases, say them. But we have little options right now.



EDIT: Split into two posts, quotes were breaking.

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