Hello neighbors, it's Marsha Singer, administrator of Memphis Industrial. I've been doing a bit of a review of our stocks, routes, and supply planning. As you know, it's difficult and expensive to get uranium this far out in the fringes of the Edge nebula, with no natural occurrences we've been able to find anywhere even remotely close to our region. Which is of course why fuel is so expensive in the first place, and still worth making. I digress.
Now, we have recently set up shop near Madeira to supply the IMG with fuel - just a small manufactory, nothing special -, after prospectors found uranium deposits around the Aarhus planetoid in fifty-five. As I understand, you've been exploiting these deposits yourselves from Sparta.
The route from Memphis to the southern Omegas is long and dangerous, but so is the route to Miura. And if we could source our uranium from long-time trusted partners, that would of course be preferred.
We could have some of the miners based at Atlantik in 47 work for Sparta part-time, and I would offer to send some experts to review your storage situation as well, maybe make recommendations? We trust you know what you're doing, but this is fissile material we're talking about, and if there's anything our company is experts on, it's that.
Basically, we'd like to know if it's possible for Sparta to make available roughly one transport shipment of uranium a day for export. We'd be willing to pay your miners good rates - or good storage rates, if our own miners are working. And, of course, we will pay your own ships very well at Memphis if you're doing the shipping yourselves, we recently bumped our price up by quite a bit.
Ah. That explains your recent installation nearby. We did not expect news of our discovery to spread quite so quickly. Even before factoring in the Infected and the Corsairs, exploration of that field was already heavily constrained by the extreme radiation. With our new armor plating, however, we’ve been able to push much deeper into it. We began exploiting the field last December and have already advertised the sale of its output.
We would not oppose another joint venture with ALG. We already ship uranium mined in the deep Omicrons, and if memory serves, Memphis has already received some. I’ll notify our trade department regarding the price changes.
As for your proposal, we should be able to make room for a few Hegemons if required. Because of the sensitive nature of Sparta’s industrial operations, access would be highly restricted, but rest assured: we handle materials far more problematic than uranium ore without incident. Sparta has been operating since September without a single leak or major issue.
That said, uranium remains a side operation rather than Sparta’s primary purpose. At present, we can allocate only one armored storage unit with a capacity of 25,000 units, and only a single Hegemon has been assigned to extraction. It is yielding roughly 25,000 units per week.