BPA Newgate

CLASS: Whitechapel

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Restricted

AMENITIES: None

POPULATION: 7K

The BPA Newgate is a deep-max penitentiary, specially built as a high-security prison for those inmates deemed too risky to house on inhabited planets -- usually serial felons, terrorists, and escape artists. Not only do several meters of armored plate stand between Her Majesty's guests and freedom, but a thousand miles of hard vacuum in every direction provide an effective deterrent to escape. The Newgate is also the headquarters for the Bretonia Police Authority in the system, and is usually host to more than a few bounty hunters.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Universal Shipping
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Gateway Shipping
* Bretonia Police
* BMM
* Planetform, Inc.

## Commodities

* MOX
* Pharmaceuticals

* Water
* H-Fuel

## Rumors

* I used to collect lots of bounties on the Mollys who'd attack the ship trying to free their mates. Not anymore. I hang out at this base to hear about incoming convoys of newly captured prisoners. That's where they try to make the breaks these days.
* My first trip to the Newgate I spent some time wearing a number. I decided then to go straight. After I finished serving my time I knew I'd never come back -- not as a prisoner at least.
* I may be a Bretonian Bounty Hunter, but I've been making a lot of good money from a Liberty company. Ageira is paying me big bucks to dust any Lane Hackers that I catch in this system.
* If you find Mollys in this system, they are either sitting here doing time or they came through the Leeds Jump Hole. That Hole is tucked away nicely in the Birmingham Ice Field.
* I sat down at a bar in Piccadilly once and met the only man to escape from this prison -- Willy Logan. It took him ten years to make his vac-suit, and then he escaped through the waste disposal system and was flushed into space with the garbage.

* It may be nearby, but I have close calls running Pharmaceuticals and Side Arms here from Sheffield all the time. On the last run I almost got vaped by some Outcasts.
* We use a lot of Oxygen and Water at this base, so Bowex ships additional supplies from Birmingham, a large producer of Commodities in this part of Bretonia.
* The run that I make for Bowex is the only one that brings supplies to this base from outside of Manchester. H-Fuel from Cambridge is shipped regularly to this base.

* The inmates aboard this ship are considered so dangerous that all guards have the right to shoot and kill any prisoner at any time. That may seem somewhat brutal, but it is necessary to maintain order among so many violent felons.
* Mollys don't attack this base as much as they used to now that we have installed weapon platforms and a minefield along the Newgate's perimeter. The current problem is that they try to rescue their captured comrades by attacking the convoys headed into the base.
* Aye, the Mollys aboard this ship are a mean lot, but the main problem is the free ones who keep trying to liberate their fellows. The worst attempt I can remember was about two years ago when one of the attackers' missiles penetrated the hull and a whole cell block underwent explosive decompression. Everyone in there died, including guards and prisoners.
* The guards who work this prison are the best in Bretonia. Most of them are incorruptible, though there are always bad apples. One crooked guard is now serving time here for delivering George Good's orders. He's the leader of one of the New London crime syndicates.
* We try to keep the Mollys separated on this ship. Anytime you have more than two of them together, trouble is just around the corner. We learned this only after three of them killed two guards, stole their weapons, and tried to fight their way to the bridge.