Brandenburg Border Station

CLASS: Chapel

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 250

Brandenburg Border Station is the command center for the Rheinland Federal Police in the New Berlin system. Without a substantial military, it falls to the Federal Police to handle Red Hessian attacks against Trade Lane traffic.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Gateway Shipping
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Universal Shipping
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Daumann Heavy Construction
* Kruger Minerals
* Synth Foods, Inc.
* Republican Shipping
* ALG Waste Disposal

## Commodities

* Food Rations
* MOX
* Mining Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals
* Light Arms

* Water
* H-Fuel

## Rumors

* We do two field patrols out of here; one along the northern end of the Saar, the other into the Harz. Neither one is a walk in the park. The Hessians and the LWB lurk everywhere.
* Privately, the people of Rheinland are very unhappy with the greedy Liberty companies -- especially Synth Foods. They have destroyed the traditional way of life for the growers of the WVS on Stuttgart and stolen one of Rheinland's most precious assets from her people.
* Daumann and Kruger convoys coming in from the Dresden Gate have been attacked numerous times in recent weeks. The Hessians patiently wait in the fields on either side until they enter the Trade Lane. Then they come out, guns blazing.
* I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Jump Hole in the Saarfeld. It sure seems to get a lot of criminal traffic. My guess is that the Hole accesses Dresden or Stuttgart. Hard to tell which.
* Synth Foods pays us well to keep the LWB under control in this area. At least they've got money, unlike our police force. We wouldn't get paid at all if it weren't for the foreigners. So I guess I can protect their shipping.
* There are many of us torn by our orders to dispose of so many of the Rheinland workers who have fallen onto hard times during the last eighty years. The LWB is a good example. They were once prosperous farmers on Stuttgart. Now they have resorted to violence against the foreign corporation of Synth Foods, which has occupied their homeland. Is that so wrong?
* Many of my comrades are joining the Bounty Hunters. They say you can make as much in one day killing Hessians as we get paid in a month. That is, if we get paid at all. The rich aristocrats of Berlin do not seem to be feeling our pain at all. There is money in Rheinland, but it is concentrated in the hands of an elite few.
* The asteroid fields around us were once the pride of Rheinland. Generations of early settlers mined the metals that brought riches to all. Then the rich and powerful grew greedy, and decided that they needed more. So they took it from the common man, instead of expanding their companies through innovation and sensible investment.

* This is as far as Republican goes. The Trade Lane south of here and the Dresden system are off limits to our ships. Too dangerous out there. Daumann hauls its minerals and alloys to the Ring. We pick up the cargo there for the remainder of the journey to Liberty or the other houses.
* We don't get the Unioners so bad in this part of the system. They prefer to operate out of the Ruhrfeld. Guess that's where their Jump Hole to Hamburg must be.