Barrow Base

CLASS: Unknown

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

POPULATION: Unknown

This group was originally comprised of heavy manufacturing and mining workers within Colorado and Texas. Many of their ancestors also worked in the research station, which was a good employer for generations. But Liberty increasingly made money from its information technology licensing and Trade Lane associated monopolies rather than hard, manufactured goods. Over time most of the blue-collar workers became unemployed and were pushed to the economic fringe of Liberty society. As the Liberty rich moved to Colorado to escape the paradise lost in California, the Xenos were displaced to a small base in the mined out Silverton Asteroid Field. Once there the Xenos launched sporadic raids focused against foreign shippers.

Whenever they were captured they were sent to Huntsville prison in Texas, where cross-fertilization with other inmates only helped to swell their ranks. Xenos also hate the foreigner Outcasts that feed the habits of Liberty's morally corrupt rich. For this reason, most of those declared NCR for drug crimes are placed aboard the Sugarland to keep the two groups separate.

Because of the Xeno preference for other Houses' ships, Universal Shipping has actually benefited from the attacks and has lobbied the government to take it easy on them. It is rumored that some of their attacks on foreign shipping were not Xenos, but actually mercenaries hired by Universal to harass the competition.

There are two additional Xeno bases in the Independent World systems of Hudson and Kepler. Here the Xenos have been able to operate more freely, with only occasional Liberty Navy patrols and Bounty Hunters to secure the areas. They make hit-and-run attacks into Texas frequently, especially to attack the Junker base at Beaumont and confront Outcasts.

The Xenos are currently one of the poorest of all the criminal factions, so they have little resources to buy better ships and weapons. To gain a more stable income stream, they hope to evict the Junkers from Texas, and ultimately New York, and thus control a crucial market for Cardamine.

The Xenos’ love of Side Arms has brought them into conflict with Ageira, especially around its Detroit Munitions plant. They also regularly attack Junkers in the Jersey Debris Field of northern New York.

## Commodities

* Water
* Food Rations
* H-Fuel
* Pharmaceuticals
* Consumer Goods

## Rumors

* There weren’t many of us Xenos when we first began, but LPI solved that problem for us. The first of us captured were sent to the Huntsville in Texas, where we found others that saw the truth. Our numbers grew as we recruited from the prisons. LPI got wise after a while and started isolating Xenos from other inmates. They realized that for every Xeno they put away, three more converts would walk out five years later.
* Liberty’s plans for terraforming the Hudson system’s planet Atka came to a rumbling halt in 771 when one of our attack squads blew up a Planetform terraforming vessel. Now those pitiful Bretonians won’t even come into the system until it's more secure, which isn’t going to happen anytime soon. This system will one day be the Liberty Free Republic -- for people just like us, who want to be left alone.
* The LPI embodies everything that is wrong with Liberty. It shouldn’t surprise anybody that most of the "criminals" that operate the Texas factories where rounded up for slave labor, not for any real crimes they committed. We used to get paid for our work in the former times; now we get thrown in prison and are forced into slave labor.
* One day we will be victorious and the Junkers will be gone. Then the northern and southern clans of the Xenos will unite and rule the Independent Worlds, free from the corrupt grasp of the LPI.
* As much as Xenos hate Junkers, we aren’t strong enough to get rid of those scavengers. They run the shipping points for inbound drug shipments into Liberty. First we gotta push the Junkers out of Texas, and then we need to find a way to kick the Junkers out of Liberty. Once that’s done, no one will be able to stop the Xenos. We'll control the Cardamine that enters Liberty space, and those rich elites that run the show in Manhattan will be at our mercy.
* Hudson is perfect for our operations in this sector. The Jump Hole to Bering and our supply point at Freeport 2 is in the Wrangell Field -- where you’ll find plenty of Rogues, though they don’t bother us too much. The Texas Jump Hole is in the Sitka Field. It's our portal for conducting business in Texas -- liberating our comrades from Huntsville, and hitting the Junkers and Outcasts.
* We make supply runs and attack runs into the Bering system. We get our supplies from the Zoners at Freeport 2 and attack the Unioners. The Unioners should go back to Rheinland where they come from. This is Liberty space, and they got no business coming here. When we see Unioner ships we attack them. This is our space -- they can find some other place to steal.
* A lot of Diamonds get mined in the Walker Nebula systems, especially in Dresden and Omega-4. Liberty buys a lot of them Diamonds from the Rheinlanders -- legally and illegally. The Unioners and Rogues travel across our system with Diamond shipments every so often. Those are the ones we really try and stop. The Diamond business sure could help us buy new ships and get the equipment we need to run our operations.