IDF Shipping

**ALLIES:**

Gallic Navy, GNI, Gallic Corporations

**ENEMIES:**

Gallic Brigands, Outcasts,The Maquis

Ile-de-France Shipping was founded in 501 AGS during the First Gallic War, where old shipping companies refused to participate. IDF dominated in risky wartime logistics, and as a result they quickly began to curry favor with the Gallic Crown. In the years that followed, IDF became the leading shipping corporation in Gallic space, accounting for the majority of the civilian transportation market.

When the Confederacy formed, IDF's downfall had begun. A plethora of independent shipping companies began to surface who competed against IDF. In mere months, IDF's market share plunged catastrophically, making the corporation secretly supply the Gallic Royal Navy in hope for a day of redemption. When Kusari occupied La Charite at the break of the Kusari Invasion, it left IDF in a crippled economic state. Market experts estimate IDF's future is very, very short.

## Rumors

* The new jumpgate makes this mining operation very interesting for IDF Shipping. These miners used to ship a lot to Bretonia, and that surplus is now going to Gallia instead. If we'd needed to conquer mining bases like these, it would have been years before they would be operational again.

* It's helpful to have an EFL refueling post on this station. Most of the Sirian stations do not carry our fuel, and once in a while our fuel tanks get hit in an Outcast ambush. This system is not a place you want to go dry in.

* Freeport 6 is neutral territory between Kusari and Gallia. I am glad to have access to this station - it makes face-to-face meetings with my Kusari counterparts very easy and informal. Relations are still rather new, and we're still in the process of making new business deals and arrangements. Some have been done officially with lots of press, but for a quiet chat, this station is not a bad place.

* IDF brings Manifolds from Languedoc down here to exchange for Sirian goods like Synth Paste. Gallic Junkers make the Manifolds, but aren't liked too much deeper in Sirius because of our history of spying on the other Houses. Zoners don't seem to care too much here, I guess they always assumed that Junkers are untrustworthy spies for someone, somewhere. That or they just plain do not care.

* These miners will sell anything to anyone. To them it does not matter who is in charge, just as long as they get paid for their labor. The Gallic Navy has let them be, and is now using them for their own purposes. Battleship Guillestre will make sure they don't doublecross us.

* The Outcast attacks are intensifying here in Tau-31. With Carcassonne gone, patrols have to be sent from Guillestre. I suppose this system is just not important enough. A barely habitable planet and a half-wrecked mining station isn't worthy of our Navy.

* Quite convenient how the Navy arranged for the supply line to be ran. Now that there is a jumpgate in Tau-23 to Languedoc, we can run a nearly unlimited number of ships through there.

* The miners here mine water and oxygen which helps us supply our fleet. While many supplies have to come from Gallia, at least these most basic supplies can be bought here. We ship it from this base to our various battleships in the region.

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