Birmingham Station

CLASS: Wellington

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

POPULATION: 600

Birmingham Station is a sizeable ice processing facility run by Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM). Frozen Methane, CO2, and Hydrocarbons are mined from the nearby ice asteroid fields, processed, and stored until transported to their ultimate destination in Bretonia or Liberty. As a byproduct of processing Hydrocarbons into Polymers, Birmingham also produces substantial quantities of Oxygen, which are often sold to terraforming operations in the California system.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Independent Miners Guild
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Border World Exports
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Universal Shipping
* BMM
* Planetform, Inc.
* Gateway Shipping

## Commodities

* MOX
* H-Fuel
* Mining Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals

* Oxygen
* Water
* Polymers
* Terraforming Gases

## Rumors

* The Outcasts must be rich from the Cardamine trade. I don't understand why they would risk their lives attacking convoys of basic supplies and other low-priced Commodities. They either hate everyone, or they just enjoy fighting.
* If you are a BMM grunt, then this is the place to be. Don't get me wrong. The workers here spend long hours on unsavory tasks, but at least here there isn't a short life expectancy.
* The Bounty Hunters here are filthy chaps who curse and drink too much, but it makes us pilots feel a bit safer to know that they are nearby. More than once my ship's hull has been close to imploding from pirate attacks, when one of these boys swooped in to help.
* The nearby ice asteroid field is the source for most of this plant's raw materials. Sometimes huge chunks of ice from the fields drift into the Trade Lanes. If a ship moving at Lane speed plows through a sizeable enough piece of ice... well, you can imagine what happens.
* It makes me nervous working and living in the same system as the most infamous prison in Bretonia. I know that it's supposed to be impossible to escape from Newgate, but the idea of all those murderers right here in this system just gives me the chills.
* I'm glad I'm not stationed in Leeds anymore. My family has suffered enough from the five years I worked there. It is the filthiest system in all of Bretonia, in all of Sirius. It is also incredibly dangerous. I still fly shipments there, so I get to see the danger first-hand.

* I am paid to kill Mollys near this base, but that may change. A group of BMM executives got mashed by a giant ice cube last week. They were here doing a routine inspection, and on their way back, their ship collided with an ice asteroid. The word is that the Gaians towed it into the Trade Lanes.
* Did you hear about the transport that got blown open just outside this base a short while ago? I found them fighting off a couple of Outcasts that they must have dragged in from the Trade Lanes. I got there too late. Just as I was about to engage the Outcasts, the transport's engines went critical. Too bad, I knew the pilot; he was a good guy.
* Peace is maintained in this system by the police and the Bounty Hunters. The Bretonian Armed Forces keep a battleship the *Essex*, in a nearby system, but it is up to us to regulate order here.
* The Mollys hit the Trade Lane between here and the New London Jump Gate quite frequently. I specialize in killing Mollys. My brother was onboard the Newgate as an inmate when Mollys attacked it trying to free one of their own. He got killed in the raid, with only six months left to serve.
* I was patrolling the Sheffield North a few weeks ago when I stumbled across three Lane Hackers. They were caught by surprise, too busy waiting on a Gold shipment that was coming by. I bagged one of them before they knew what hit 'em. The other two punched it for the Jump Hole to Magellan and escaped.

* Polymers are a valued Commodity in Liberty. Those produced here are shipped to the New York shipyards. The Liberty Navy is responsible for patrolling the Independent Worlds, but I can tell you her fleet ain't big enough to get the job done.
* Polymers and Hydrocarbons are shipped regularly to Los Angeles from this base. The trip through the Independent Worlds is a white-knuckle affair that leaves my nerves a little more shot each time.

* Planetform has just increased bounties for Gaians in this system. Their attacks are becoming more accurate and frequent. I believe if they could just understand exactly what it is we are doing and why, they would cease their attacks against us.
* The Terraforming Gases produced here are kept in open depots next to this base so that they stay cooled to space temperature. Unfortunately, these open gas depots are very tempting for Gaians.