Freeport 9

CLASS: Unknown

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 100

Freeport 9 is very nearly the only human population for hundreds of light years in every direction -- which is exactly the way the Zoners like it. Despite its location in a system filled with strange nebula and forbidding black crystals, however, Freeport 9 is a frequent stop for criminal organizations looking to buy Food from the Freeport's biodome, while Cryer Pharmaceuticals has shown an intense interest in the Alien Organisms that colonize many of the asteroids in the system.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Corsairs
* Red Hessians

## Commodities

* Water
* Terraforming Gases

* Food Rations
* Artifacts
* Fertilizers
* H-Fuel
* Pharmaceuticals
* Polymers
* Consumer Goods
* Engine Components
* Light Arms

## Rumors

* I've been contracted by Cryer to come down here and kill a few Corsairs for them. Their base, Atka, got hit a few weeks ago. Usually it’s the Outcasts who hit Atka, but this time it was the Corsairs. Corsairs, Outcasts -- it doesn't make any difference to me.
* Head for the cloud south of here and you will find Artifacts, but that's not why I go there. The cloud to the south hides the Jump Hole to Omicron Gamma. If you do go in there, get ready to fight or you'd better be good at hiding. No matter what you do, don't stay in there too long, because it’s just a matter of time before your number gets punched.
* I have come to this place looking for a Corsair named Jardin. He is an infamous killer and pirate. Many say he cannot be stopped, but if anyone can drop him, I can. He is just a man, and a man can die, no matter how tough he is.
* My brother joined the Bounty Hunters Guild a few years ago. He's not tough enough to take on Corsairs yet; he should still be popping Rogues. The idiot sent me a message telling me he was ready for the big leagues in southern Sirius. I'm trying to find him before he gets killed.
* I was a Red Hessian for many years. I became pretty good at killing Corsairs, so I decided to get paid for it. Besides, I had grown weary of piracy. I became a Hessian for political reasons, before they sold out.
* "Lucky" Logan Conner was one tough nut, as anyone will tell you. He would take on an entire patrol of Corsairs, picking them off one by one. Based out of Freeport 5 to be close to his favorite prey, he liked living life on the ragged edge. His luck finally ran out in 780, when he ventured too far from the safety of the Gredos Cloud in the Corsairs home territory of Omicron Gamma. A mass of Corsairs pursued him back into the nebula. It was rumored that they didn’t actually dispose of Conner on the spot, but merely disabled his ship and let him die a slow death by asphyxiation.
* "Lucky" Logan Conner was one tough nut, as anyone will tell you. He would take on an entire patrol of Corsairs, picking them off one by one. Based out of Freeport 5 to be close to his favorite prey, he liked living life on the ragged edge. His luck finally ran out in 780, when he ventured too far from the safety of the Gredos Cloud in the Corsairs home territory of Omicron Gamma. A mass of Corsairs pursued him back into the nebula. It was rumored that they didn’t actually dispose of Conner on the spot, but merely disabled his ship and let him die a slow death by asphyxiation.

* The Napo Cloud in this system is filled with Artifacts, but the Zoners here know better than to try and get them. Artifacts are Corsair business. The objects we get from that cloud have been funding and feeding the Corsairs for centuries. You had better be a good friend to us if you decide to go there.
* The Hole that leads to our home system is in the Napo Cloud. Unwanted intruders who get taken alive have it worst of all, we keelhaul them. Try to imagine being in a vac-suit lashed to the outside of a ship that’s headed into a Jump Hole.
* We get many of our basic supplies from this base. The biodomes here provide us with the Food we consume throughout our space. Corsair leadership has decided that the next step for the Corsair Brotherhood is to build our own biodomes so we will never have to worry about Food again.
* The Side Arm you see me carrying came from Yanagi. It's a Rheinlander piece, because I'm an eastern Corsair. The western Corsairs get Detroit weaponry from Bretonia. The Yanagi Junkers supply this base with Engine Components, too. We use those at Tripoli.
* Just between you and me, I'll kill the occasional Zoner if he's alone and there are no witnesses. Why pay for something when you can just take it, eh? They shouldn't be here anyway. This is dangerous space for anybody, even you. You should be very careful around here, especially with that nice ship and all of your cargo.
* You can't kill anyone onboard or in the immediate area of a Zoner base. That’s why the Bounty Hunters are still breathing here. I would like nothing better than to walk over to a Bounty Hunter and eliminate them with my Daumann Devastator.
* I will let a ship go if it drops it's cargo without trouble. If you kill everyone you come across, everyone starts to run, and that means more work. Of course, if they try and get heroic or greedy, I blast them. It works both ways.

* We get many of our goods from the Junkers at Yanagi. Our boats haul Engine Components and Consumer Goods from there.
* We ship the Alien Organisms found in this system to the Cryer base in Sigma-17. Cryer also needs our Polymers, and we return with Pharmaceuticals.
* Our brothers in Freeport 5 send us Polymers, Fertilizers, and Consumer Goods. It’s a Zoner's duty to help other Zoners where we can. This is a dangerous part of space; only by sticking together can we make it.
* Don't ask me where the Jump Hole is that leads to the Corsair homeworld. I've said too much already. The Corsairs would cut my throat if I dared to utter where the entrance to their system is. Just stay away from the Napo Cloud. I mean … it isn't in the Napo Cloud, it's ... I'm a dead man.
* The Artifacts that you can find in this system are not worth taking. We don't touch them; they are Corsair property. If you think differently, I recommend that you make sure you aren't behind on your policy payments to IC.