Dawson Base

CLASS: Unknown

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

POPULATION: Unknown

The Rogues are a product of over two centuries of systematic lower-class cleansing that occurred on the Liberty planets of Manhattan, Denver, and Los Angeles. Relocated to the Texas prison system, many of them end up planetside on Houston upon release. Some stayed straight and joined the population scratching out a living. The rest returned to their life of crime, often ending up vaporized by a pursuing Liberty police patrol or back in prison for longer stretches, manning the prison factories that are the economic lifeblood of the Texas system.

Some say the massive LPI roundups of even minor offenders in Liberty have more to do with staffing these plants cheaply than reducing crime. Fresh out of the incubator of the Texas prison system, they have limited choices. Either they work in the factories of Houston for a pittance, join the Bounty Hunters and hunt down their former brethren, go radical and hook up with the Xenos, or rejoin their former partners in crime. The latter path is the obvious one for most. Simply put, these are not-too-quick opportunists, people willing to do whatever it takes to make a buck and get by until tomorrow. Usually they end up taking the fall for anything illegal that occurs in Liberty, whether they were involved or not.

The Rogues are generally a disorganized lot. They are responsible for most of the Trade Lane attacks in Liberty space and the adjacent Independent Worlds, usually operating in groups of only two or three ships, without much grasp of advanced tactics. They also provide shelter for the Outcasts in exchange for Cardamine. Recently they have become the smugglers for much of the Cardamine in Liberty space, supplementing or even replacing the Outcasts on certain high-risk routes. This has made them accomplices to the most persecuted criminal group in Liberty space. They admire the Outcasts, wishing they could be as smart and careful as the Edge World faction. But they regard the LPI as their ultimate masters, perhaps aware that soon they will probably be under the LPI's thumb once again.

The primary Rogue base is Buffalo, deep within the confines of the Badlands of New York. Secondary bases are in the Whitney Asteroid Field in California, the Reppu Cloud in Galileo, the Corcovado Field in Cortez, and the Wrangell Field in Hudson. Rogues are frequent visitors to Junker and Lane Hacker bases.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Unioners
* Zoners

## Commodities

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

## Rumors

* Every Rogue likes his gun collection. Most Rogues have several pieces of Detroit death machinery, so we need to supplement our Side Arm shipments from Beaumont with extra shipments from Buffalo.
* The Diamonds we get here from the Rheinland Unioner folk are shipped to Buffalo or Beaumont. They make us a lot of money in New York.
* The Liberty Navy patrols the Trade Lanes from Hamburg to Texas that run through this system. They’ve tried to clear us out many times, but there are too many places to hide. That’s why Hudson will always belong to the outlaws.
* The Xenos and Unioners have been killing each other in this system. The Xeno base is in the Wrangell Field just north of this field, and the Unioners come here to trade Diamonds with us. I don’t care who gets fried as long as the Diamonds keep coming in.
* If you want to get into Rheinland space without attracting much attention, just pop through the Jump Hole in the field east of this base. It will take you right into Hamburg.
* I hear Liberty had plans for making this system the main trade route from Rheinland into Texas because of all the drifting asteroid problems in Bering.
* There must have been plans for making use of the planet Atka here in this system. A Planetform ship came in here to scope out the planet. Then the Xenos swooped in on 'em and blew the ship up. Those Xenos are a crazy bunch, but they crack me up. Heh heh, no more Planetform types have come back here yet.
* Some of the Xenos we run into have dropped hints about trying to get in on the Diamond trade, but it ain’t gonna happen. Diamonds come from Rheinland, and nobody from Rheinland is going to do business with the Xenos, and vice versa. Bad for them; good for us.
* The Diamonds that the Unioners bring to this base eventually arrive in Manhattan for sale on the black market. That’s what the Bounty Hunters are really after. Most of the bounties offered by Republican are pretty small.
* The Unioners are forced to operate on the edges of Rheinland space, not only because of the Rheinland authorities, but also because of another criminal group within Rheinland: the Red Hessians.
* With their old union destroyed after the Popular Revolt, the Unioners reformed to become what they are today: political criminals dedicated to making Republican Shipping pay for the wrongs it committed against its workers.

* Our base is through the Jump Hole to Bering. We don't really like to stay long in this system -- the Xenos hate us for some reason. The Rogues here are a rough, uncultured lot, but they buy our Diamonds.
* We would prefer to live in Rheinland, but Republican is too strong. Fortunately, the Xenos unwittingly help us attack our common enemy, albeit for different reasons.