Groundbreaker

UDL-001 The Groundbreaker or simply Groundbreaker was the first colony ship to arrive in Halcyon during the Crossing. By 2355, it has been converted into an independent orbital station, and is the only place in the entire Halcyon system that is not controlled by the Halcyon Holdings Corporate Board or any other corporation.
==Background==
The crew of the Groundbreaker is fiercely protective of their independence from the corporations, and the corporations value the station's role as a thriving freeport enough that they are willing to deal with it on relatively equal terms. In practical terms, while the Groundbreaker rules itself, it cooperates with the corporations to an extent, such as by impounding ships that the Board happens to flag.
The Groundbreaker is commanded by engineer-turned-captain Junlei Tennyson. Udom Bedford is the Halcyon Holdings Corporation representative stationed aboard.
According to Junlei, lots of corners were cut when the ship was built, prompting Captain Guiying Tennyson to spend half of her career attempting to patch the ship back together after the Crossing from Earth to Halcyon.Fluid Circulation Pump Terminal, Cobbled Together, Maintenance Shaft (Groundbreaker) In addition, the ship has tinkerings and bypasses that only the Tennysons know about.Junlei Tennyson, after completing Happiness is a Warm Spaceship, Groundbreaker Engineering
===Faction Relationships===
; The Board
The Groundbreaker maintains a somewhat tense relationship with the Board, owing to their declared independence from Board authority, as well as their control of shipping routes outward from the Halcyon System. Nonetheless, given that Groundbreaker lacks any semblance of military might against the Board beyond the mardets stationed aboard the ship, the loose hierarchy in charge of the Groundbreaker often seeks to find (illicit) ways of delaying, stymieing, or pitting corporations under the Board's thumb against each other, usually through black market fences like Gladys Culkelly. Nonetheless, the Board maintains an embassy aboard the Groundbreaker run by bureaucrat Udom Bedford. Depending on the actions of the Stranger, the Groundbreaker's crew may be compelled to rebel against the Board's system-wide authority.
; Sublight Salvage and Shipping Corporation
The Groundbreaker is generally neutral to Sublight Salvage and Shipping Corporation, and allows them to operate an office and warehouse aboard the ship, helmed by Lilya Hagen.
==Overview==
The entrance to Groundbreaker is always by the Groundbreaker Docking Bays in the south of the location. Felix Millstone can be recruited in the Docking Bays. To access the rest of Groundbreaker, one must pass through Groundbreaker Security before reaching the Promenade - the central area of the ship. Groundbreaker Security is also connected to the Stevedore Quarters and Repair Hangar.
The Promenade is filled with corporate establishments and businesses. On the southern end of the Promenade is the Rest-N-Go, The Lost Hope, Grounderbreaker's Medical Bay (where Ellie Fenhill can be recruited), a Spacer's Choice Vendor, Belle's Shells and the entrance to the Groundbreaker's Waste Disposal. The northern end of the Promenade is home to SubLight Salvage and Shipping Corporation's headquarters, the Halcyon Holdings Corporation Embassy, Auntie's Kitchen, Ike's Armory and a Spratwurst Vendor. 
At the northernmost exit from the Promenade is the entrance to Groundbreaker Engineering. Junlei Tennyson and other Groundbreaker staff can be found in Groundbreaker Engineering. 
Near the entrance to Groundbreaker engineering is an elevator which provides access to the Back Bays. The Back Bays are the semi-abandoned lower decks of the Groundbreaker which generally provides a home for orphans and outlaws. They are currently occupied by a group of outlaws led by Gunnar MacRedd. 
== Key Items ==
=== Unique weapons ===
Icon	Name 	Location
 	Montag 	Pickpocketed or looted off of Captain MacRedd.
 	Salvager's Helper	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Prismatic Hammer 	In the sealed Repair Hangar which can be accessed via a loose panel in the back of the Stevedore Quarters.
=== Unique armor ===
Icon	Name 	Location
 	Defective MoonMan Helmet	In the locked (Lockpick 20) storage room in the Spacer's Choice Vendor.
 	MoonMan helmet 	Purchased from Martin Callahan or looted off his body.
 	Sublight VP Armor 	Received for completing The Chimerist's Last Experiment.
 	Welder's Goggles 	Received for completing Happiness is a Warm Spaceship.
=== Quest items ===
Icon	Name 	Location
 	Battered Mardet Datapad 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Byzantium Estate Key 	Given by Lilya Hagen at the start of The Chimerist's Last Experiment.
 	Byzantium NavKey 	Given by Udom Bedford for completing Balance Due.
 	Byzantium Travel Authorization Papers 	Given by Udom Bedford for completing Balance Due.
 	Classic Rose-ish Beauty Basket 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Distress Call 	Given by Gladys Culkelly during Passage to Anywhere or can be looted from her corpse.
 	Elevator Keycard 	Looted off Udom Bedford.
 	Groundbreaker Customs Databank 	Retrieved from the Mardet Docking Security Terminal in the Groundbreaker Docking Bays' security office.
 	Hephaestus Mining - Archive Cartridge 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Junlei's Keycard 	Looted off Junlei Tennyson.
 	Lost Hope Bar Keycard 	On a shelf inside the locked storeroom in The Lost Hope.
 	MacRedd's Lighter 	Looted off Gunnar MacRedd's body or acquired during Who Goes There?, with a Persuade 40 or Intimidate 40 check.
 	Medical Bay Keycard 	On a shelf in the restricted drug storage in the Medical Bay.
 	Message to Rosana 	Looted off Rosana Trask.
 	Mock-Apple & Synthamon Beauty Basket 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Official Seal of Halcyon Holdings Board	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly or stolen from her safe.
 	New Ship Beauty Basket 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Override Cartridge 	Given by Lilya Hagen at the start of The Ice Palace.
 	Radiator Parts 	On the upper level of the Back Bays.
 	Relay Diagnostics Manual 	Given by Edna Ingmire at the start of The Silent Voices.
 	Repair Hangar Keycard 	Looted off the Outlaw Squad Leader in the Repair Hangar.
 	Rest-N-Go Keycard 	Five in total can be found in various locations throughout the Groundbreaker.
 	Stellar Bay Navkey 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Udom Bedford's Passcode 	Looted off Udom Bedford.
== Logs ==
Icon	Name 	Location
 	Auntie Cleo Food Service Automechanical Repair Manual 	On a desk next to an Auntie Cleo worker in Auntie's Kitchen.
 	Battered Mardet Datapad 	Purchased from Gladys Culkelly.
 	Byzantium Travel Authorization Papers 	Received from Udom Bedford during Balance Due.
 	Crumpled Instructions 	Next to the corpse of a Stevedore in Waste Disposal.
 	Dangerous Frontiers, by Ophelia Sweeney 	On a crate in Lilya Hagen's office.
 	Halcyon News - Chairman Salutes Earth Minister Clarke 	On a coffee table in the Stevedore Quarters.
 	Halcyon News - Media Circus Surrounds CircusTime Clowns	On a desk in the Stevedore Quarters.
 	Junior Mycologist's Log 	In the Back Bays, in an upper floor room containing a garden.
 	Junlei's Locket 	On a desk near Junlei Tennyson in Engineering.
 	Maintenance Work Order 	Next to a dead engineer in the upper levels of Groundbreaker, near some mantipillars.
 	Patient's Medical Chart 	On a cart in the Medical Bay.
 	Radiator Parts 	In the Back Bays, on the wall of an upper-level room.
 	Squatter's Journal 	In a maintenance shaft behind the Rest-N-Go.
 	SubLight: A Legitimate Business 	On Lilya Hagen's desk.
 	WANTED: Gunnar MacRedd 	Posted on a pole near the vending machines in the Groundbreaker Docking Bays.
 	WANTED: Phineas V. Welles 	Posted on a pole near the vending machines in the Groundbreaker Docking Bays.
== Notes ==
* One Rest-N-Go Keycard can be used to open any of the three safes located in the storage room behind the counter in Rest-N-Go. Two can be found in the open (must be stolen), and a third is pickpocketed from Milo Ottinger.
* Raising your reputation on The Groundbreaker will substantially lower prices at shops on the Promenade.
* Groundbreaker used to have a self-destruct mechanism, but Junlei repurposed it some years before.Junlei Tennyson: "I gelded that thing years ago. Now it brews stim that goes down stronger than Nanner Spank. Family recipe.
==Related achievements-trophies==
Icon	Name 	Description 	Gamer Score	Trophy
 	SubLight to the End	Completed the Sublight quest lines.	15 	Bronze
== Gallery ==
Groundbreaker from outside (Name.png|Name on outside
Groundbreaker from outside.png|Outside view
Groundbreaker Loading Art.png|Loading art
Groundbreaker top floor view.png|Market viewed from the top floor
== References ==
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