Bautzen Station

CLASS: Sanctuary

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

POPULATION: 900

Bautzen Station supports the Kruger Minerals operation in the Dresden system. Smaller than the rival Daumann facility at Leipzig, Kruger chose to focus solely on the extraction of Diamonds from the shifting clouds and rogue asteroids that populate Dresden.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Daumann Heavy Construction
* Kruger Minerals
* Bounty Hunters Guild

## Commodities

* Water
* Food Rations
* MOX
* High-Temperature Alloy
* Mining Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals

## Rumors

* If you want some real trouble, you might try heading to Omega 11 -- there are Diamonds and Hessians all over that system. It's one of the most dangerous places in Sirius. If the pirates don't kill you, the solar flares usually will. The Jump Hole is in the Lavafeld.
* You can kill LWB and Red Hessians in the Giftnebel. There are Jump Holes in there as well as a Hessian base. It is extremely dangerous, though; you must excerise caution if you go. I tell newbie Bounty Hunters I don't like, that it is the place they need to be.
* I've almost got enough saved to retire. I don't know what I'm going to do or where I will go. I might go to Liberty. I don't really want to, but I always get paid in Liberty coin so the currency doesn't lose value before I can spend it.
* I'm doing the guys I kill a favor. If they got caught by the police they would have to go to Vierlande for the rest of their days. It is much better to die fighting than to rot away in a dark hole.
* I'm one of the few men who went to the Vierlande and came back out again. Almost all of the sentences are for life, including mine. But I got a reprieve after I helped the guards put down a riot. After being there, I prefer getting blown away by Hessians to breaking the law again.
* The Danzig is a long lost Kruger freighter that strayed into the Giftnebel in 450 while returning from the Diamond fields. The cloud’s hostile conditions prevented any thorough search. Pieces of debris have been spotted drifting occasionally within the area, but no one has been able to determine if they are the remains of the Danzig.

* Our mining vessels require H-Fuel, like any other non-capitol-class ship. We supply our base with H-Fuel from Mannheim.
* The best-quality Diamonds mined here are sent to New Berlin to be used in the Luxury Goods market. Our convoys leave with holds full of Diamonds, and return with basic supplies.
* Everyone knows that it was Daumann's fault that the miners in this system revolted. But the chain reaction swept through all of Rheinland. The reparations we were forced to pay, along with the crippling losses we incurred in the Eighty-Years War, have left us struggling to stay afloat.
* The police station Pirna has some excellent pilots, and they are honorable officers who know that Kruger is their friend, but they do not have the power to hold back the tide of Red Hessians in this system. We are forced to hire mercenaries. I do not respect the Bounty Hunters Guild, but I appreciate their work.
* Of course Kruger was somewhat strict with its workers before the revolt, and I suppose we still are now to a degree. But that is the way you must be to run a successful company. We could not have remained competitive if we didn't push our employees to work the hours that Daumann required of their employees.
* The most recent Red Hessian attack on our operations was horrible. They caught a whole team of miners working a large asteroid in the Schwefelnebel. The miserable Hessians didn't stop firing until there was nothing moving but body parts, all thirty of the miners dead.
* The Kruger Lavafeld is too close to the sun to send miners out in vac-suits. It is far too hot and dangerous to traverse. Instead we do our mining in the Schwefelnebel. I would say that that field is too dangerous too, but only because of the Red Hessians.
* Employees die, that is just how industry is. We encourage our labor force to take breaks when they are too tired to work safely. It is their choice to keep working, and therefore it is their risk. Though some may say it is unfair, we could not remain soluble if we paid employees for resting on the job. No work means no pay.
* The Danzig is a long lost Kruger freighter that strayed into the Giftnebel in 450 while returning from the Diamond fields. The cloud’s hostile conditions prevented any thorough search. Pieces of debris have been spotted drifting occasionally within the area, but no one has been able to determine if they are the remains of the Danzig.