| Planet New London
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- Our ships haul the raw materials like Basic Alloys to Graves before heading off to the other Houses with Gold. Unfortunately, these commodities are desired by the Mollys and Gaians alike, and there have been a fair number of attacks in recent years.
- Bowex handles many BMM Gold shipments to Liberty. We usually make the return run with Luxury Goods, although that's slowly changing to bringing in Boron and Side Arms. Priorities have to be made I suppose.
- Side Arms are transferred from Universal transports to Bowex ships on New London and are sent straight to the men on the front lines. We used to distribute them evenly around the house, but all shipments go to the Armed Forces these days.
- Some of our traffic consists of Food shipments from Cambridge. We use London as a trans-shipment point, with cargos delivered to Southampton, the Essex and the Suffolk. On the return trip to Cambridge I usually take some Basic Alloys or Mining Machinery to the new BMM installation Peterborough.
- New London used to be a hub for H-fuel exports. Leeds was our powerhouse of industry... now, now every day is just another fight to reclaim territory from endless enemies. I guess Tau-23 was just one gate too far.
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| Battleship Somerset
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- I'm just making my usual battleship delivery run for the week: Side Arms, Food, Oxygen, H-Fuel, and Water. The short hop from New London to here isn't too bad usually. I'll head to the Essex in Dublin next. That may be more interesting.
- I'm heading out with a company of Marines for the Ark Royal in Newcastle. These boys are heroes in the making, every last one of them. They'd better be, or else Bretonia is going to be in serious trouble.
- Bowex has the exclusive contract to supply virtually all military and police bases in Bretonia. Virtually, yes, since the Police Authority has decided to let their installation in Poole be serviced by Gateway. We'll have to have the government put a stop to that. What's good for Bowex is good for Bretonia, I say.
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| BPA Newgate
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- Sheffield is a large distribution point for Commodities in Bretonia, and a clearing house for traffic bound to and from Liberty. Since it is so close, we bring basic supplies to this base from there. It's a simple run, but still requires a heavy escort because of the Mollys that will ambush ships travelling to Newgate.
- The runs that I make for Bowex are the only ones that bring supplies to this base from outside of Manchester. Pharmaceuticals from Cambridge are shipped regularly to this base. We also ship in Synth Paste from Los Angeles.
- It may be nearby, but I have close calls running Side Arms here from Sheffield all the time. On the last run I almost got vaped by some Outcasts. Those guys can smell when you're carrying cargo they want, I swear.
- We use a lot of Oxygen and Water at this base, so Bowex ships extras from Birmingham. The BMM mining operations produce a large surplus of these because those are byproducts from their hydrocarbon extraction from dirty ice.
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| Sheffield Station
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- Want to travel to California and make lots of cash while you're at it? Buy MOX from Birmingham, take it to the Yukon. Then load up with Optical Chips from Los Angeles, and head back here.
- Boron makes it to this base all the way from Pittsburg. If you feel like you haven't had enough adventure, you can always continue your journey to Scarborough or Southampton. They'll purchase the Boron there for use in shipbuilding.
- Pharmaceuticals are in demand at this facility, both for local use by injured Bounty Hunters, and for transfer to Newgate. You can pick those up from Cambridge.
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| Kingston Border Station
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- The demand here for H-Fuel is pretty high since patrols are constantly launching from this base. Police patrols run along the lanes and perimiter of the asteroid fields, and military patrols head into Cortez, as far as Curacao. Those patrols keep us covered as best as they can, so we try to make sure they're well supplied.
- This station is supplied entirely by Bowex. We deliver Light Arms from Detroit Munitions. It's not too far, but the last delivery almost got destroyed by some marauding Liberty Rogues in Cortez.
- Whenever we capture criminals while out on patrol, we toss them in the brig here until they can be transported to Newgate Prison. The run is an easy one overall, though you can run into occasional trouble with Mollys.
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| Planet Cambridge
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- Bowex brings in a lot of Cambridge's vital imports from various locations. Industrial Materials are distributed from Lancaster, Basic Alloys are shipped from Planet New London, Optical Chips come from Los Angeles, and Polymers make the short trip from the Omega-3 system, where we get them directly from BMM at Douglas Station. I suppose we could get Optronics directly from Honshu now, but I wouldn't fancy my chances against the GRN in the Taus. Good money there, if you're brave enough.
- We transfer a lot of the Republican cargo from Rheinland to Bowex ships here, including Engine Components going to Southampton, and High-Temperature Alloys going to Gateshead. Occasionally, there's the odd Diamond shipment bound for Lancaster or the BMM Mining Machinery factories. You can pick up the latter two from Rheinland yourself, if you're so inclined.
- My convoy is holding here overnight to pick up Luxury Food. We're headed out in the morning for the Hawaii in Sigma-19, so I better have a drink tonight, since it could be my last. Corsairs and Outcasts are drawn to the Sigmas like flies - it's a real trial by fire getting through.
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| Cambridge Research Station
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- It's too bad Bretonia has to depend on a Libertonian company for our drugs. Just before the war with Kusari, the Cambridge Institute was putting Bretonia back on the map scientifically. Then the declaration went out, the Armed Forces mobilised and all those bright young minds got sucked away to Sunderland and the like. Cryer then filled the Institute up with Libertonians again. Considering we've got a war against the Gauls on our hands now, I doubt those fine Bretonian minds will be back any time soon. It's a real shame.
- We normally stop by Cambridge to pick up a load of Pharmaceuticals for the frontlines on our return trip up north. That doesn't interest the Outcasts up there as much, so its not worth their time to attack. Even the Gauls don't seem too interested in hitting a medical transport. Guess they have some semblance of dignity still.
- Three or four years back, a group of terrorists launched an attack on Planet Cambridge. They crashed a hijacked transport full of MOX into the southern hemisphere. In any case, the incident set some fairly prime pieces of real estate on fire. Cambridge's governor lost his job over the debacle. At least it prompted the government to invest in serious planetary defences. The whole thing rather stole the Molly's thunder, I dare say. The Mollys had been boasting they'd do just that to New London for years.
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| Battleship Norfolk
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- We had a rough MOX run on the way in. Mollys attacked us as we left LD-14. The Armed Forces saved the day on that one. Then the Mollys bit us again in New London. This time it got dicey, since all we had were police in the area. I lost an escort on that one. We're fortunate we got through Cambridge without trouble - Mollys have been moving in on this system too.
- Normally, transporting Prisoners from a ship like this one is not an attractive target, but those Mollys think they can free their brethren so they keep harassing us. Fortunately, Corsairs don't seem to have any real use for Prisoners. That won't stop them trying to put a hole in your hull though - most of them seem to enjoy destruction for destruction's sake.
- We are delivering supplies from Cambridge for the battleship. It's not much of a run, but it keeps me busy. The Corsairs rarely bother us along the Cambridge line. We bring the Side Arms and H-Fuel in from further afield as needed. Detroits' a good place to pick up Side Arms if you want to go direct. You can get H-Fuel straight from the GMG in Okinawa if you travel through Rheinland, too.
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| Peterborough Mining Facility
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- Finally a familiar run again. Albeit with a slightly changed starting point. Delivering Beryllium to Liberty was one of the runs I was often assigned to before the Tau war. Good folk, down in Liberty. Well, except the Xenos of course. And the Rogues. And Lane Hackers. But otherwise, good folk! Always kind enough to set me up with a load of Light Arms or Superconductors to bring back to Bretonia.
- Those Gateway boys must be seething now that we're cutting into one of their prime traderoutes. Delivering Beryllium to Rheinland and undercutting the IMG and Gateway would be a major blow to their business. I wonder if the bosses could persuade the Crown to offer a few "incentives" to get Peterborough going...
- The Corsairs are a bigger problem on this side of the system then the Mollys are. Near the Keswick that changes, so I guess they come from there. Another reason to take this route rather then to pass by Cardiff - you only have one set of ruffians to deal with.
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| Planet Sprague
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- Gateway Shipping has proven to be even more of an irritant than Bowex ever envisioned. The war has wreaked havok with our finances. One ill conceived method for restoring them was to place the blueprints for the Bretonian transport line on the open market. Gateway and the damnable IMG closed the transaction and now have production rights on Aland Shipyard! What on earth were the directors thinking?
- Bowex's Royal Charters and trade monopolies were recently revealed to be a double edged sword. The Queen herself decided that Refugee evacuation efforts were to be given a maximum priority before Leeds fell. The government forced us to shift a good portion of our luxury commodity trade fleets to the task, putting a huge dent in our profit margins. We've had to make several humiliating concessions to our rivals in order to refill our coffers.
- If I can, I'll try and get one of the overnight convoy departures after a delivery here. The loose wires hanging from the ceiling and shabby state of the staff quarters leave a lot to be desired. I'd rather have a good night's sleep on Cambridge or get tagged by Corsairs trying. I've heard Refugee housing is even worse than ours, poor blighters.
- It seems appropriate that Bowex should take such a position of influence here on Nottingham - after all, Bowex probably discovered the planet however many centuries ago. We trace our roots back hundreds of years, all the way to 66 AS and the Bretonia Exploration and Trading company. We're field experts in pioneering new systems and pushing back Bretonia's borders. Nottingham is no different.
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| Portsmouth Drydock
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- I used to do the Border World run to Kusari, then the supply run to Leeds. Nowadays, I stay within the confines of New London, piloting a small freighter for the local hops. This is my last job until retirement. I've got my eye on a nice cottage in the Cambridge countryside.
- You are reasonably trustworthy in Bowex's eyes, so I don't mind telling you that the MOX on this ship comes from Birmingham. We ship them back Toxic Waste to reprocess. BMM had to start doing it after over 7 centuries of dumping because of ALG - the government does not want a second Leeds to happen. Makes things a bit more expensive. If you ask me they shouldn't bother regulating things in Manchester, there's no inhabitable worlds there anyway.
- I've just delivered a load of Engine Components. This ship and it's escort fleet was heavily damaged during the fighting in Leeds - it's amazing she held together. Shipboard engineers are patching her up so that when the time comes, she's ready for offensive duty. Meanwhile York serves as a rearguard carrier. Molly, Outcast and Gaian raiding parties aren't a match for even a damaged Dunkirk.
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| Durham Outpost
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- While Glasgow used to be our headquarters, I don't think corporate intends to make the same mistake with Durham. It's ended up becoming the hub of sorts for all the reconstruction efforts in Leeds, but that's mostly because there's nowhere else to go with the supplies. I don't think anybody from the C-suite is gonna visit here anytime soon.
- There's been a lot of Kusari traffic in this system of late. Really seems like they're more interested in building something new here than the Crown ever was. Personally, I'd much rather see a Bretonian Leeds for Bretonia's sake, but I suppose I've always been a little more patriotic than most.
- I can't help but feel weird about working here. It's like... rebuilding a commercial highway directly over a burial ground. Tune your comms the wrong way and your net gets flooded with memorial messages from low orbit.
- I worked on Glasgow Outpost before the Tau War, all the way through to the Gallic invasion. Of course, I wasn't on the station when it was boarded, but it's hard not to be confused by the whirlwind of times. You can still find wrecks of Kusari and Bretonian fighters that skirmished on the outer reaches of the system, and now we're jointly enforcing an embargo together.
- It's going to be a while yet before the Stokes project is completed, and who knows who will end up actually running that show. For now, we're mainly concerned with bringing in Kusari imports, handling LD-14's exports, and keeping the Ark Royal supplied.
- The routes are always changing these days, what with the beancounters upstairs constantly trying to find the least expensive trip in terms of insurance. For a while Interspace wasn't even interested in insuring any trips through Leeds, that's how bad things got.
- Leeds has been a lot of things to a lot of people, and very little of it pretty. I remember a gruff old foreman telling me Leeds would eventually choke to death, overcrowded and picked clean of value. Sometimes I wish that was how things turned out.
- Have you seen what BMM is up to down in the Stokes field? They're really dragging their feet with the rebuild there. LD-14 went from a scuttled wreck to a fully operational facility in the time it took them to put down a couple depots. And all the ships out there now are mining vessels, not construction ships. Looks an awful lot like they're grabbing whatever they can before someone else moves in.
- Looking for Gold? You and the rest of Sirius, buddy. The Mollys locked what's left in their own little slice of hell when they blew the gate, and now we're fighting over the scraps.
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| Planet Carlisle
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- Our transports carry a range of goods to the colonies of Carlisle, including Food Rations and Pharmaceuticals. Maybe one day Bretonian scientists will genetically engineer crops that thrive here, but until then Cambridge remains our primary breadbasket. Pharmaceuticals are vital to treat the multitude of tropical illnesses harbored here. Even with the most dangerous bacteria eradicated in the Clean Zone, there are still all manner of things that will make you sick on an alien world.
- Military Surplus from the Gallic War is stored in large BAF stockpiles outside of Carlisle’s Clean Zone. Our freighters ship them from there to the space port, and then up to Gateshead Station in orbit where they await export to their final destination. Whenever making these trips from the wilderness, our ships have to be thoroughly decontaminated to ensure there is no possibility of bacterial contamination.
- Bowex comes with a long heritage of reliability. We have been integral to Bretonia’s good fortune all the way back to 66 AS. That kind of longevity is vital for the development of a new colony. A logistics contract with Bowex will be as valid in five centuries as it is in five months. A pale imitation like Gateway simply does not have the staying power. They will be gone with the wind in a matter of years, like the countless failed upstarts before them.
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| Luxury Liner Shetland
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- I'm happy to see the Shetland almost fully repaired. Gaia and the Edinburgh loop were more suitable to what she was built for than the Gallic war fighting. Now that she's capable of being a tourist attraction again, it's time to go back to the lush life.
- Bowex handles most of the cargo runs to this ship. Shipments of Pharmaceuticals and Food from Cambridge, and occasionally a ferry flight to New London with tourists who've had their fill, or lads recovered enough to be transported. The passenger flights are usually done with a heavy military escort - the Mollys would love nothing more than to blow up a ship full of Armed Forces pilots who aren't in their own fighters. Savages, the lot of them.
- Here's a little irony for you - during the Gallic war tours of the most pristine planet became tours of duty. An interesting turn of events, but a good reflection on the state of Bretonia as a whole. I hope I won't have to live through a similar experience ever again.
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| Battleship Essex
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- Bowex is the primary supplier of the Bretonia Armed Forces, and unfortunately that means in times of war, we get sent to the front. It was true during the Gallic Invasion, and it's true now too. Today I was shipping H-Fuel to the Essex, which meant I didn't need to go through that horrendous Jump Hole into Dublin.
- Gold was one of Bowex's largest and most lucrative exports. To say that it is imperative that the trade is resumed as soon as possible fails to capture the urgency of the issue. Fortunately BMM are already launching expeditions into the Graves Field, under armed guard.
- These new jump hole generators the Armed Forces have conjured up are thirsty contraptions. By our estimates, fuel tankers make up most of the tonnage that's jumping to Dublin. I understand that this avoided the need to fight our way in through the asteroid fields, but the cost must be exorbitant.
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| Battleship Ark Royal
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- With Glasgow gone, there's nothing but the odd patrol from the Ark Royal to keep you company heading into the Border Worlds. It used to be dangerous to take a convoy through the Taus - now it's practically suicidal.
- We operate a converted passenger liner to transport workers to and from LD-14, but we also transport prisoners on occasion. They used to have their own prison and naval garrison, but after the war they've only really got a few guards and holding cells. It doesn't seem to bother them much, though -- can't remember the last time I saw 'em take a Molly alive.
- The military is stretched thin, to say nothing of the poor constables. All the good policemen got used up fighting the war, so now all the warfighters have to play police. I'm mostly just here to make sure the squadrons here have what they need, as the Ark Royal is essentially the only thing keeping the LD-14 corridor from falling to anarchy.
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| Gateshead Station
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- Newcastle is an important system for Bretonia. Scarborough is second only to Portsmouth in terms of productive capacity, and the mining platforms on Middlesbrough are stemming some of the bleeding from the loss of Leeds. We're slowly rebuilding our industrial heart here, but it'll be centuries before that job is finished. The loss of Leeds will be felt for generations.
- Bowex has a number of supply contracts with Gateshead Station. This covers everything from Police supply needs for H-Fuel and weaponry, to the export of Military Surplus, or importing the precursor chemicals needed by Cryer and Planetform for the onboard aerosol fabrication plant.
- Gateshead was built in 692 AS to accommodate scientists that were studying Carlisle, and the police patrols needed to keep them safe. During The War, Gateshead was heavily fortified and placed under the Battleship MacDuff's command. Our transports used it as a forward distribution point for supplies headed to the BAF front lines.
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| Scarborough Shipyard
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- Bowex primarily uses Trains for its merchant fleet, but we don't produce those locally here. That market is comprehensively locked down by Kusari. Instead, Scarborough's civilian output focuses on the Shire and Shetland, heavily armored designs that proved themselves during the wars. These are a sort of "premium" offering that we deploy when we need that extra bit of survivability to ensure the arrival of priority or high value cargoes.
- I don't like being assigned to this system. Super Alloy is one of Bretonia's flagship exports, one of the few success stories in these difficult times. Bowex has a lot of crews on Alloy routes, so Newcastle is regularly on the flight roster. Whether you come in from Leeds or Manchester, you'll be under attack by Gaians or Mollys the whole way. If you're really unlucky, you might even run across an Outcast. Then you're really in for it.
- Producing Super Alloys at Scarborough... It certainly puts this place on the map. Bretonian Super Alloys have been the standard for decades, after Pueblo Station ended its own production and signed cheaper supply contracts instead. I think that was one of the many reasons the other Houses -- especially Liberty -- couldn't afford Bretonia's fall to Gallia. The economic dysfunction would have been disastrous.
- The Super Alloy plants here are the pride of Bretonia. For decades we'd trailed behind Liberty, and it was really only state subsidies that were keeping us in the market. Everything changed in 806 AS, when a brilliant team of Bowex and BMM engineers discovered a miraculous new fabrication process. Within ten years, it was Pueblo falling behind - they struck a supply contract and shuttered their own plants.
- The Jump Gate to Leeds was the original entrance to the system. When Leeds fell during the Gallic War, Ageira pulled some black magic to redirect the connection to New London. Impressive, but I remember the service outages -- the connection was rough as hell, and I heard stories of some ships vanishing completely. I don't know if that's true, but they were pretty quick to restore the old route as soon as the war ended, even though it made travel time significantly longer.
- The IMG like to say they discovered Newcastle, but that's a lie. Bowex's astronomical survey identified Newcastle as a colony candidate first, and our deep space expedition set off first. All the IMG did was stumble through a Jump Hole. Nevertheless, South Shields had already been constructed by the time the Bretonian government built the Leeds Jump Gate.
- Scarborough was originally built to work in close partnership with Belfast Production Facility, Stokes Smelter and Planet Leeds. It was all modeled on Samura's example of profitable "vertically integrated supply chains". The fusion of locally produced Ship Hull Panels, Basic Alloy, Super Alloy and Polymers was supposed to supercharge Bretonian commercial shipbuilding. So much for that, huh?
- After Planet Harris and Leeds fell, Scarborough was on the front line of the Gallic War. We weren't a military shipyard, but needs must -- we'd patch-repair gunboats and cruisers from the MacDuff and Grimsby fleets to keep them in the fight. That put a crosshair on our facility -- the end of the war was the worst, when New London was cut off and the Battleship Embrun was lurking nearby. I can still hear the raid sirens in my sleep.
- When Belfast was captured by the Mollys - oh, excuse me, "abandoned", Scarborough was directly connected by a Trade Lane. That line was quickly disabled and stripped for the parts later used for the Carlisle lane. We faced a sharp increase in attacks regardless. It's darkly ironic that it was apparently Gallia that eventually solved the Belfast problem for us. Serves the Mollys right, really. Lay with dogs, catch fleas.
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| Battlecruiser Livingston
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- With Leeds as it is, the nearest Bretonian popultion center to get some rest on is New London. Carlisle is slowly getting populated but it is not much to write home about yet.
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| LD-14
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- I stay just long enough to load up a tanker full of MOX, and then I'm gone. I know they say it's all shielded and all that, but... their watered-down alcohol-free ale isn't worth sticking around through a rad-storm for.
- This is perhaps BMM's most important operation, and we're more than willing to support them with shipping. MOX tankers are a bit unwieldy, and it's never fun when a trigger-happy pirate holds one up.
- Part of the crown's recycling and reconstruction effort involves large-scale toxic waste reprocessing at LD-14. What that really means is we get hazard pay to haul around extremely volatile garbage that's one stray shot from smearing you across the system.
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| Battleship Harlow
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- I make the run from New London and Portsmouth to this ship. She's surprisingly hungry, considering how few crew I see about. Far more Food Rations and spare parts than you'd expect, too. The weirdest part is regular orders of bespoke Mining Machinery and high tech goods -- I can't fathom what a battleship needs those for!
- As far as runs to warships go, this one isn't so bad. Mollys and Gaians tend to lurk near the Leeds Jump Gate, so I prefer to come in from Manchester. Security around the Harlow is surprisingly heavy too, which is reassuring. I've been scanned so many times, I might as well skip my next medical examination. If there was anything wrong, I'm sure our diligent military would have found out by now.
- I've had some puzzling assignments here recently. Once, I was asked to wait for almost four hours for a return cargo, at which point an unmarked Clydesdale docked and offloaded a shipping container. A monstrously reinforced thing that was sensor shielded. The manifest simply read "septic tank sewage", bound for Cambridge University. It felt like those army chaps were playing a joke on me.
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| Freeport 1
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- It's a shame the Zoners established a presense in this area first. This station would make an excellent Bowex trade relay between Rheinland, Nottingham and Cambridge - it's a suggestion I'll have to forward to my line manager. Do you think we could "persuade" the Zoners to leave?
- It really is a shame about that Gateway convoy that was set upon by Corsairs last week. All hands lost, truly a tragedy. Ha! They shouldn't be meddling with Bowex business; I say it serves them all right. Fine by me their wives are widows, that's what you get for marrying an idiot.
- Cambridge supplies this base with almost everything the Zoners and Orbital Spa and Cruise want on Freeport 1: Luxury Food, Fertilizers, even Passengers who want to take a space tour of Nottingham. Then we take other Passengers here back to Cambridge. It works out rather tidily.
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| Scalpay Outpost
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- For years we’ve tried to stabilize this system through consortium funding for bounties on the Outcasts and Gallic pirates that terrorize the area. Bowex, BMM, Crayter and Samura all contributed significantly. Would you believe that Cryer recently joined the arrangement and doubled our combined contributions for killed or captured Outcasts?
- Planet Harris is considered a bad assignment to be given, and this is substantially worse than that. We drop off Water, Food Rations and Consumer Goods here at Scalpay before heading on to the BMM and Samura mining site nearby to collect their ore. On just that short stretch, we lost an escort to an Outcast ambush.
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| Planet Curacao
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- I'm normally based on Glasgow, that's our corporate headquarters. The Leeds system doesn't offer the recreational opportunities that this place can. We are close to the cruise ship in Edinburgh, but you can't land on the planet there.
- Bowex is holding its company executive retreat here for the fourth consecutive year. It's a little dicey getting here, but great once you've arrived. They should convert one of those crazy Bretonian terraforming projects into a pleasure planet like this.
- The reefs here are stupendous. We took the five-day sail and sea package. They dive for all sorts of strange creatures and prepare absolutely amazing meals every night. The night sky is just incredible here. You can see the Barrier in all of its glory stretching off into space.
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| Planet Manhattan
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- Bowex ships Gold into Ft. Bush from Graves Station. This is one of the most dangerous runs you can make between Bretonia and Liberty. Think about it -- you're hauling Gold, something everybody wants.
- Bowex transports Basic Alloy from here in Manhattan to Pittsburgh, where we pick up Boron for delivery to Ship Hull Panel factories. I was hired by Bowex to pilot their freighters, but I've been thinking about going into a new line of work. I was almost killed a few days ago when Lane Hackers attacked my ship in the Independent Worlds.
- Bowex deals in Luxury Goods acquired from Newark. Only the finest products are shipped by Border World Exports. Unfortunately, these are the very items coveted by the villainous Lane Hackers. They attack our shipments in the Independent Worlds of Cortez and Magellan between here and New London.
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| Planet Pittsburgh
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- We ship Boron from this plant into Bretonia, specifically Stokes and Thames Outpost. It's a long and brutal run to those bases. You got Rogues here, Mollys there, and Outcasts in between. And they will all try and kill you for your cargo. In the past few years, half the time it seems like there's a shooting war going on too!
- Bowex is really a high-cost item shipper, but our contracts for the Boron here pay us reasonably well so we do it. Many of our ships haul Luxury Goods, Luxury Foods, and Gold. But I like hauling Boron. Pirates don't usually care as much about a shipment of Boron and will let me pass.
- The problem with the run to Pittsburgh is I have to travel through the Pittsburgh Debris Fields. It always puts me on edge moving through debris; you can't see hostiles until it's too late, and usually the police can't move in fast enough to help.
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| Norfolk Shipyard
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- Bowex is one of the oldest and most reliable shipping firms in all of Sirius. We have more ships and greater hauling ability than the upstarts at Gateway Shipping. Their company will not last the test of time, as Bowex has.
- Bowex ships Deuterium here from Gran Canaria in Omega-49.
- The Mollys in Dublin hit the last shipment headed here before this last one. All hands were lost, but that is the cost of shipping valuable Commodities like Gold. That is what Bowex is known for -- um, the shipping valuable Commodities part, not the dead-employee part.
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| Newark Station
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- Bowex ships Silver here from Freistadt in Omega-7. The bloody Xenos are always a problem when it comes to making our various shipments in Liberty space. What is just as infuriating is Liberty's apparent apathy concerning the Xeno issue.
- This station is our trading center for operations in Liberty space. We supply high-demand items to Ageira in Pueblo, but first we come through this point. We insure many of our shipments through IC at this base.
- Bowex ships Hydrocarbons to this base from the Birmingham facility in Manchester. We supply all of Liberty's needs with these important Commodities.
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| Fort Bush
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- I'm returning to Ft. Bush after dropping off a load of Prisoners at Sugarland. It's not too bad here in Liberty space. At least there aren't any of those pesky Corsairs. I refuse to do any Border World runs anymore. It's just not worth it.
- Normally I run Luxury Goods from Newark to New London. That is a cargo more befitting of a senior Bowex captain. Unfortunately, I lost a recent shipment in Magellan to Lane Hackers, and was promptly demoted to the Pittsburgh to Stokes Boron run. Maybe it's a hint that I should get out of the shipping business.
- Ft. Bush lies on our Boron route that starts in Pittsburgh and goes all the way to Bretonia. I just brought in a shipment last night. We'll be heading off to New London after a few beers. Makes the drive a little less boring.
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| Baltimore Shipyard
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- Our corporation is the cornerstone of Bretonian shipping. We have always competed fairly with other shippers from outside of Bretonia, but the filthy young upstarts at Gateway Shipping have neither the experience nor the intellect to make a successful venture of their firm.
- This company received the first royal shipping charter from the Crown; we have hauled and shipped material throughout Bretonia's long and illustrious history. Through it all we have remained steadfast and vigilant to the needs of our customers, often times not only shipping but insuring precious Commodities.
- Bowex brings this shipyard the finest in Super Alloy from Scarborough. Yes, we brave the Rogues to ship these components to Liberty space.
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| Planet Los Angeles
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- I'm heading out with Optical Chips for Waterloo, which always has Passengers ready to head out to Dublin's Graves Station, and from there it's back to Fort Bush with Gold. The LPI recently started leasing part of the station for Consumer Goods distribution, and Los Angeles is a major consumer.
- We just came in with a load of Polymers and Hydrocarbons from Birmingham, across the Barrier in Manchester. I'm turning the ship back for Sheffield Station tomorrow with a load of Optical Chips.
- Sometimes we stockpile Optical Chips at Glagow Outpost if the Bretonian processing stations have full inventories. From there we distribute Super Alloy wherever its needed. Duluth Shipyard in the Minnesota system has several outstanding orders.
- The scientists at Cambridge Research Station really prize Ageira's Optical Chips. There are always Pharmaceutical orders waiting for delivery when you arrive.
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| Pueblo Station
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- Ageira is the most lucrative producer of Superconductors in the Sirius Sector. None of the other Houses can stay competitive with Liberty. We ship them from Denver to Southampton Shipyard in the New London system.
- Bowex feels that Bretonian Super Alloys are superior to those produced here, so we don't feel the need to import any. Ageira still produces some for use here locally in Liberty, but we are working on acquiring the remaining market share. Hey, they did it to use with their Superconductors, so they're just getting back what they gave.
- We bring in Beryllium from Tau-23.
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| Freiburg Station
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- From New London Bowex brings Gold to this distribution depot in Rheinland space. It's good cash if you don't get your ship blown inside-out by Hessians or Corsairs.
- Border World Exports, or Bowex as we are more commonly known, brings the Diamonds gathered here in Rheinland to our solicitors in New London. Hazardous run, I can promise you that, but not without its perks -- basically, the cash you get for making it there with Diamonds.
- From New London, Bowex brings Gold to this distribution depot in Rheinland space. It's good cash if you don't get your ship blown inside-out by Hessians or Corsairs. While you're here, you might think about taking Engine Components into the Southampton Shipyards for the trip there.
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