GMG Rumor Library

[DeathsOverture]

Yanagi Base
(Junkers) The Kruger gas mining area was abandoned early in the 80-Years War, almost overnight. In their haste to depart, the Kruger personnel left several cargo pods intact. As far as anyone knows, they are still out there, scattered among the debris. The south oxygen pocket has since drifted over the site, making recovery a difficult proposition at best.

Helgoland
(ALG) We have been contracted by the Rheinland and Kusari governments to remove the debris remaining from the 80-Years War battlefields. Much of if poses hazards to shipping in the area. The GMG has allowed the Helgoland Scrap Metal shredding and sorting facility to be based in the Yanagi Pocket.

(ALG) ALG was reluctant to take this job, but the contract was quite lucrative. It is eerie dismantling all of these tombs of Rheinland sailors. The interiors of the ships look like the day they were destroyed over 130 years ago. There are plenty of bodies still floating about.

(ALG) ALG would like to see better relations between Rheinland and Kusari; that's why we agreed to this job. It has also been the most ambitious salvage operation ever undertaken in the Sirius Sector. Many of these ships were just left as is by the GMG, engines still intact. We will have enough material here to supply ALG needs for years to come.

(ALG) Beware of the oxygen pockets in this area. The GMG used them with devastating effects against the Rheinland fleet during the war. There's a big one in the clouds just to the east of our base. Rumor has it there's a Hole to Sigma-17 on the other side of it.

(Junkers) We're taking our time. That was the plan all along. GMG wants us out of here as soon as possible, but that would create problems for our little import/export business of Artifacts and Cardamine.

(Junkers) The great battlefield in Sigma-13 is the site of Rheinland’s most shameful defeat of the 80-Years War. The entire First Fleet was reduced to smoking hulks within several hours by the GMG. In the high radiation areas, the debris is relatively untouched to this day, but salvaging it is very dangerous and unpredictable.

(Junkers) It makes me wonder how Rheinland messed up the Yanagi campaign so badly. They had a huge advantage in ships and men. Chalk it up to imperial arrogance and a lack of appreciation for the local terrain.


Kyoto Base
(Blood Dragons) The GMG has been invaluable in providing financial assistance and training to the Blood Dragons. At first they were reluctant, but once the government forced them to pay a reparation tax for the 80-Years Wars, they changed their minds.

(Blood Dragons) Samura's plan was to open Hokkaido to gas mining in order to compete with the GMG, a partner whom they have exploited for centuries. I assure you that Hokkaido will not be a good place for Samura to do business for many years to come. The GMG will make sure of that.

(Blood Dragons) The GMG has trained us in many nebula fighting tactics that they learned during the 80-Years War. This is why we can fly circles around the Kusari Naval Forces in Hokkaido. Nansei is a different story. The Research Station is very protected and difficult to attack in the style to which we are accustomed.

Sapporu Station, Hokkaido
(KSP) I hear that the GMG was forced to pay a special "reparation" tax to the government to help Kusari recover some of the loans given to the GMG during the 80-Years War -- more specifically, to pay for the immense costs of constructing the Hokkaido and Chugoku Gates.

Battleship Matsumodo
(Samura) Why do the Blood Dragons hate the government and Samura so much? They seem to tolerate Kishiro and the GMG. I'm just a soldier following orders. I want this war to end so that I can go home to Kyushu. Unfortunately, it seems like there will be no simple resolution to this conflict.

Narita Outpost
(Republican) The only reason Samura doesn't buy all of their Boron and High-Temperature Alloys from Mainz is to save more of their ships from being lost. The Corsairs and Outcasts have become quite troublesome in that system, and there seems to be little that the GMG can do to control the problem.

Roppongi Station
(Interspace) Roppongi was established in New Tokyo following the resolution of the 80-Years War. Previously we had no physical presence in Kusari, unless one considers all of the Trade Lanes that IC financed here, which the Kusari incorrectly claimed were their own during the trade dispute in the sixth century.

(Interspace) We use this station to monitor the Trade Lane network within Kusari, Tau-29, and Sigma-13. The Tau Lanes are most affected by the Outcasts, who seem to have been disturbed by the opening of the Tau-29 Jump Gate in Tau-23. Sigma-13 is threatened by Corsairs and Outcasts, though the two groups do not seem to be acting in concert.

(Interspace) The most troubling development in this sector is the growing strength of the Outcasts and Corsairs in Honshu and Sigma-13. The military seems distracted by the Blood Dragons, and the GMG is not capable of controlling these Edge Worlds pirates, who are far more vicious and cunning than the Imperial Rheinland Navy ever was.

I can't figure out where I found this one:


Mainz
(Samura) The foolish Rheinland people tried to wrestle the control of H-Fuel production from the GMG. They could never do so; even today if you want H-Fuel you must travel to the Border Worlds and do business with Kusari companies. Samura Fuel comes from Naha, so you can purchase from the source if you like.

(Kishiro) Go to Ogashawa. There is the main source of Kishiro H-Fuel. You will find the best prices at the source. Every station needs H-Fuel, including this one.

Holstein
(Daumann) One day the Rheinland Navy will be as powerful as it once was. Our day of reckoning is only separated from us by an expanse of time. Every day that passes, the expanse gets shorter. Rheinland will rise from the ashes like a phoenix from the flames. Then the GMG will pay -- and so will Kusari and the rest of Sirius.

(Daumann) Life must go on, even after defeat. No one really cared about the GMG once the rebellion started. It could have been quite horrible but the life’s blood of Rheinland -- her companies -- were not dissolved. It would have been chaos if that had happened. Who knows who would be running things now.

(Daumann) The GMG who come into this system are scoundrels. If they wanted Frankfurt, they could have taken it. If they come here now with their guns armed, then they are just looking to fight for no reason.

The Ring
(Daumann) The truth is, Daumann viewed the Eighty-Years War as an excellent way to make large amounts of money in the ship-building business, which ultimately supports all our primary extraction operations. The ships lost during the War may have been costly for Rheinland, but were very profitable for the owners and shareholders of Daumann Heavy Construction.

(Republican) Kusari shippers are still not allowed into Rheinland space; the only concession from Kusari that Rheinland was able to be granted in the treaty that ended the Eighty-Years War. Samura and Kishiro offload their Optical Chips, Optronics, and H-Fuel at the Mainz Outpost in Frankfurt. (Has apparently changed.)

Ruiz
(Outcasts) This is Outcast space, and any ships that come into this system better be welcomed by us. The GMG has been sending ships into our turf looking for Alien Organisms. It’s no doubt they are working for Planetform or Samura, maybe even Cryer. When we catch them we kill them.



Now open to comments. If anyone has additional rumors, mention the location and I'll go search for it.

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