Konstanz Border Station

CLASS: Chapel

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 130

Konstanz Border Station is one of two command centers for the Rheinland Federal Police in the Stuttgart System. The Federal Police is tasked with handling the interdiction of all illegal activity in the area, including drug trafficking, smuggling, and pirate activity.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

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

## Commodities

* Food Rations
* MOX
* Pharmaceuticals
* Light Arms

* Water
* H-Fuel

## Rumors

* The LWB are not really our problem unless they come to this side of Stuttgart. Our concern is the plague of Rheinland: the Red Hessians. I've heard that they are fighting a war against the Corsairs in the Border Worlds. By their numbers, I'd say they aren't losing.
* Any navy Rheinland had to speak of was destroyed in the Eighty-Years War, and we lost that too, didn't we? They can't help us here. We are good enough pilots and honest men; not like the LPI in New York. But there are too few of us and our ships are falling apart.
* We don't take as many criminals in as we used to; we cannot afford to. The price is too high -- in ships and in men. It is always more difficult to capture than to kill.
* I have no real beef with the LWB; they are just doing what they think is best for Stuttgart. It's the Hessians I don't like -- they are simply murderers and pirates. Too bad the LWB has fallen in with them. Makes me wonder if I won't be cursing them in twenty years as well. If I last twenty, I guess I'll be lucky.
* At Konstanz we have a saying: “If the engine fires up, it’s good enough to fly.” I used to believe that with the faint optimism of a man with no choice, but after I saw Wattenbarger's ship go up last week when his shields failed him...well, I've been thinking I *do* have a choice.
* There is a Hessian who has killed a few of our pilots. He is a formidable adversary and knows how to take on more than one opponent. Another Hessian we captured, when questioned about the first, was obstinate. After a little persuasion he told us that his comrade would never be found north of the Westnebel, but he would not tell us why.
* During the Eighty-Years War, that Daumann was unethical in its labor practices in the shipyards and smelters. But that does not excuse the barbaric slaughter and pillaging the Red Hessians commit in the name of revenge. Fallen empire or not, we will stop them.
* It is my duty to complete my job to the best of my ability. This is in spite of the condititons that may befall me due to circumstance. To blame other things is only an excuse and the tool of a weak man; I am a Rheinlander of the sleeper ship Rheinland. Perhaps we lost "the Eighty," but that does not give us license to quit.
* Patrol 421 was doing a routine sweep of the Westnebel when it abruptly ceased communications with Ulm Control. Red Hessians are suspected as the culprits, but no one is sure. The Federal Police have been unable to locate any debris so far.
* The Nurnberg was making a gun run from here to Omega-11 when it was attacked by a Federal Police patrol while crossing the open area in the center of the system. The ship was pursued into the Westnebel, where it lost contact. Because it never arrived in Freital, the police must have destroyed it.

* From the Ring in New Berlin come the Daumann Side Arms that keep the police safe when they are not shielded and armored within their ships.
* I may be bringing supplies to a police base, but trust me, our convoys are no safer than any other. The Red Hessians will attack anyone if they are carrying what they are looking for, or even for sport, the villainous *schwein*.