GMG Rumor Library

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Aomori Station
Territory
(GMG) Sigma-13 and 17* are the heart of GMG territory. We will defend it fiercely if threatened, as Rheinland did during the 80-Years War. The wreckage of the GMG fleet remains in Sigma-13 to this day, floating in the vacuum of the Yanagi Debris Field.

Ultimate Goal
(GMG) We are searching of a planet to call home. We thought there was a possibility in the Donryu Cloud, but the twin planets are frozen gas, alas. The Outcasts have also proven very challenging in that region of space. We are now looking further inside the Edge Nebula, where our sensors have indicated another planet may lie.

Corsairs/Hogosha
(GMG) The Corsairs and Hogosha were once our friends and partners in the Artifact business. Then they became greedy and bypassed us to trade directly with each other. We do not forget such betrayals easily. All Hogosha and Corsairs are now shot on sight.

(GMG) The GMG encountered a Corsair raiding party in the Chuyu Cloud a few days ago. They engaged and destroyed most of the fighters, but one heavily damaged ship escaped to the Hiryo Cloud. The GMG set up an ambush near the Sigma-13 Jump Hole, but the Corsair never arrived.

Outcasts
(GMG) This base has come under attack by the Outcasts since they discovered the Jump Hole from Sigma-19. We have attempted to patrol it, but they are fearsome fighters, blasting their way through our blockades with impunity.

Shipping
(GMG) Kishiro has offered us superior gas miners that could double our profits. We will abandon Samura within the next year and deliver our Gas to Kishiro exclusively, ending our centuries long agreement with the old lady of Kusari.

(GMG) We buy our basic supplies in Honshu. For many us, it is difficult to walk planetside, after spending our entire lives in stations that simulate half the normal gravitational force. From here it is a short journey through the Gate to Sigma-17*, the site of our newest field.

Blood Dragons
(GMG) Sometimes Samura can be so naive. They have never understood where the Blood Dragons get their financial support. We are the silent partner; we decided to aid the fledgling movement of the Blood Dragons to exact our revenge for centuries of theft and humiliation at the hands of Samura.

(GMG) Samura thinks that once that the government pulls back from the Chugoku Gate project that Hokkaido will finally be theirs. They are gravely mistaken. The GMG will insure that the Blood Dragons live on, and do not rest in peace until Samura abandons Hokkaido. The victory will be sweet.

(GMG) The GMG has secretly trained many of the best pilots of the Blood Dragons. We gained much valuable tactical knowledge of how to fight in the clouds of the Crow Nebula during our long war with the Rheinlanders.

Fujisawa Mining Facility (Discovery-added)
Corporations
(GMG) The GMG doesn't trust the Kusari government much these days. Samura Industries is always pressuring them to levy more taxes on us in an attempt to make us renew our old shipping contracts with them, but we're not stupid. Kishiro Technologies are more forward-thinking and reliable business partners, and also the more honourable of the two keiretsu.

Samura/Hogosha
(GMG) We don't like the Hogosha, and they are not welcome at our bases. They are rumoured to have a base in the south of this system, but our patrols have as yet been unable to find it. We know that Samura hires the Hogosha to attack its rivals, and both the GMG and Kishiro have had trouble with them in the past, but we can never finger Samura with anything.

(GMG) The Mintaka field's not as harmless as it seems. It's studded with pockets of explosive gas, and I've seen more than a few Hogosha in there. It seems they're trying to sabotage our mining efforts; there are whispers that the New Tokyo crime syndicate has been hired by Samura to confound our expansion in the region. Between you and me, I believe my fellow miners, Samura's infamous for its cutthroat business practices.

Corsairs
(GMG) I ran afoul of a Corsair patrol while hauling Deuterium through Sigma-19. I barely made it out alive, thanks to my escorts, I lost two gunners when a missile penetrated my shields, and our escorts are never seeing home again. Protection in the Border Worlds is nearly non-existent, and the Corsairs have been upping their attacks as of late.


Misc
(GMG) I was born on Aomori Station and worked there for years, until this place opened, whereupon I requested a transfer and got posted here a few weeks after construction was finished. In the time that I have been onboard Fujisawa, I've come to love this station and it is more my home than any planet ever will be.

(GMG) Transporting H-Fuel to Rheinland always makes me grin. Striking isn't it, how their glorious, rebuilt armada's just so much scrap metal without the Guild? Their battleships have massive reactors that spew forth green flame, how silent and cold they'd be if we ever chose to cut off their shipments.

(GMG) We have a remarkable cultural diversity here on board the Fujisawa. We've got miners from practically everywhere, even Rheinlanders, ex-Kruger workers, mainly, ancient prejudices have no place in modern business. We can't include Bretonians in our roster, though; I'd like to, but doing so would be madness in this time of strife and conflict.

* I believe these instances of "Sigma-17" are a vanilla mistake.

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