Oder Shipyard

CLASS: Mosel

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 11K

One of the first large-scale projects undertaken by Daumann Heavy Construction, the Oder Shipyards, is the largest in Sirius. In the past the majority of the Rheinland Navy was constructed in its massive bays, but after the destruction of the Navy during the 80-Years War and the economic crash that followed, Daumann has been forced to transition into the less lucrative fields of commercial and civilian ship construction.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* ALG Waste Disposal
* Gateway Shipping
* Kruger Minerals
* Universal Shipping
* Daumann Heavy Construction
* Republican Shipping
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Synth Foods, Inc.

## Commodities

* Gold
* Oxygen
* Water
* Diamonds
* Food Rations
* H-Fuel
* Basic Alloy
* Super Alloy
* High-Temperature Alloy
* Superconductors
* Optical Chips
* Mining Machinery
* Construction Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals
* Ship Hull Panels
* Polymers

* Scrap Metal
* MOX

## Rumors

* ALG is in negotiations with the military to build a new shipyard near Dortmund to produce the next line of Rheinland battleships. Engineers recently demonstrated locally produced Super Alloys that met the stringent requirements set by the Bremen ship design team. Soon Rheinland will be free of importing that particular Commodity from Liberty.
* Our original mining areas in New Berlin have been exhausted for 300 years, and Bretonia has supplied all of Rheinland with its Basic Alloys and Ship Hull Panels ever since. We are proud to once again produce these manufactured goods in Rheinland at our Dortmund facility.

* It is an arduous journey from Omega-3 to New Berlin. We must contend with Red Hessian attacks along the entire route. All for some simple Polymers.
* It seems like all the cargo runs into Berlin are difficult now. The Red Hessians have become too strong. Crossing Dresden is becoming a tenuous proposition, at best. Last week, two successive convoys outbound from Leipzig with High-Temperature Alloys were set upon and annihilated by Hessians.

* The Oder Shipyard built all the ships of the great Imperial Fleet --now just shattered hulks and wreckage drifting through the clouds of Sigma-13. My great-grandfather was serving on a cruiser that was lost with all hands during the Battle of the Yanangi Cloud.
* We know Kusari has been trying to decipher the alien technology that Liberty has so jealously guarded for many centuries. Our government has a similar research plan, but no money to spend on it. We did send several expeditions into the Edge Worlds in search of Alien Artifacts -- with mixed results.
* We were once a proud force, serving all of Rheinland. But we now limp toward oblivion. The ships are old, there are many accidents, and nobody is paid for months at a time. All the government's money goes to repay the Liberty debts that Rheinland incurred more than a century ago.
* Rheinland must find a way to manufacture the Superconductors that are produced exclusively by Liberty. It seems wasteful to ship our cheap raw materials halfway across Sirius to Ageira's plant in Pueblo. Our new ship design is far more advanced than the *Westfalen*, and will require development of new propulsion and shielding technologies.
* Our newest battleship, the *Bremen*, has not even passed the design stage. No money, they say. Rheinland has only one operational capitol ship, the *Westfalen*. It is serving as a large police post to patrol northern Hamburg.
* Because we have no money or ships, we cannot patrol the Trade Lanes in Omega-7 or protect the Daumann operations in Dresden and Omega-4. The police must make do as well as they can, but that's not always sufficient when Red Hessians are involved.
* The Rheinland Military was once the envy of all the Houses. Now we are the topic of jokes even in Bretonia bars. Rheinland has many resources, it just lacks a coherent government policy and strategy to guide us into the future.
* Daumann has been our partner for as long as anyone can remember. There are murmurings from the High Command that we should investigate ALG. They are developing superior materials at lower cost than Daumann. And their workers seem more motivated and productive.

* Republican and Daumann relations have never fully recovered since we've hired away so many of their top ship design engineers over the years. The dissatisfaction among Daumann personnel has become acute since the end of the Eighty-Years War. We can't help it if there's no work for them here.
* The Unioners are Republican Shipping's biggest problem. There are other pirates out there to fend off, but when we are going up against Unioners it gets personal.
* Republican supplies Oder with its basic needs. Berlin is the cheapest place to buy most of those items in the immediate area. You have to be careful of Unioners and the like, even in the shadow of Berlin. They will attack any Republican ship within range.