Waterloo Station

CLASS: Zeus

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 5K

Waterloo Station acts as headquarters for the local branch of Interspace Commerce (IC) as well as foreign shippers such as Republican Shipping and Universal Shipping. It is a busy, bustling place, constantly humming with activity as business transactions are conducted around the clock.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* BMM
* Gateway Shipping
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Cryer Pharmaceuticals
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Universal Shipping
* Deep Space Engineering
* Planetform, Inc.
* Interspace Commerce

## Commodities

* Oxygen
* Water
* Food Rations
* MOX
* H-Fuel
* Pharmaceuticals

## Rumors

* The Corsairs are pretty occupied with the Red Hessians in Omega-2 right now. That's a good thing for Bretonia. If the Corsairs didn't have to devote all those ships and manpower to protect their right flank against the Rheinlanders, there would be some serious pillaging going on in this system.
* I just got back from enforcing a little IC directive in Leeds. Some Gaians were hitting the Trade Lane to the Edinburgh Gate a little too readily. Planetform lost two convoys in a row, so they sent us up to take care of business. We can't rely on those polite Bretonia police types.
* I've been on the Outcast trail for a couple of months on deep recon for IC. We've mapped it all the way from Edinburgh to New London. Next month Operation Hailstorm commences -- loads of Bounty Hunters, Bretonian military, and police going to clear out the Outcasts from Bretonia for good. Me, I'm a bit skeptical.
* IC pays the best of all. You better be good, but they'll reward you well if you can get the job done. The Bretonian government is broke -- too much terraforming is my guess.
* IC doesn't care much about what happens off of Trade Lanes or Jump Gates. That's why Junkers and Hogosha never really register on their radar. IC doesn't see the obvious role the Junkers play in supplying and harboring criminals.

* One of the company rules for as long as I can remember is that nobody touches Trade Lane or Jump Gate construction without LSF clearance. I never did figure that one out. What do they have to do with us?
* This is civilized space here. Tau-23 is some wild country. Outcasts are buzzing around like hornets out there. I watched a Skye-22 Ring crane get demolished by the Outcasts last time I was up there. They lost a lot of people on that project. That's for the thrill-seeking DSE types. Not me.

* We have information that the Corsairs and Hessians are engaged in some sort of territorial dispute in the outer Omega systems. This has distracted them somewhat from fully exploiting the vulnerable position of the Trade Lanes through Omega-3 and Omega-7. Apparently, there are no Jump Holes directly linking those systems.
* We developed USI technology in tandem with Ageira. It allows us to track shipments anywhere on the Trade Lane grid using powerful ship-sized scanners. There is no easy way for shippers to cheat us by overstating the value of their cargos in case of loss, or attempting to ship high-value cargos without our knowledge. This allows us to set our rates at a premium and minimize fraud.
* The newly constructed Tau-23 to Tau-31 Jump Gate pair is currently the highest risk IC investment in the Sirius Sector. BMM's exploitation of mineral resources in the system has presented a serious threat to the Outcasts' sense of territory, and the Outcasts appear to be fighting back with a vengeance.
* The Lane Hackers' theft of our proprietary technology has been most unfortunate. Ageira is in the process of patching the software and modifying the hardware scanners to make it Lane Hacker proof, at which point we feel that full confidence in IC and Ageira will be restored.
* Bretonia has been quite agreeable to the terms of IC, unlike Kusari and Rheinland, who defaulted on our perfectly legal Trade Lane financing terms in 521. Because Liberty was not ready to back us up, we lost significant leverage and were forced to transform our company from finance to insurance.
* We work in tandem with the Bounty Hunters. They perform the unpleasant job of criminal disposal, much like the Deep Space simpletons handle the manual labor of building and maintaining the Trade Lanes and Jump Gates for Ageira, and ultimately, us.
* There is currently one hotspot in this sector. The Trade Lane stretch through the Keswick Cloud in the Cambridge system has been the site of several successful attacks during the past few weeks. Several repeat Corsair offenders have been identified and marked for deletion.
* In southern Leeds between the smog clouds, a certain pair of Outcasts has grown accustomed to preying on that Trade Lane, resulting in several large claims. We have Bounty Hunters in the area, but additional guns are always welcome.

* Universal hauls Trade Lanes Parts wherever there are Trade Lanes between Liberty and the minor House capitols. Then Deep Space takes over and ships them to the actual construction or repair sites.
* I'm glad we don't have to go any farther than here. Deep Space is having a lot of problems out in Tau-31 and Tau-23 with this BMM project. Outcasts -- that says it all.