Planet Hamburg

DIAMETER: 13,552 km.

MASS: 6.00 x 10e24 kg.

TERRAIN: Ice

TEMPERATURE: -62°C to 8°C

ESCAPE VELOCITY: 11.99 km/sec

Despite its forbidding cold and gray skies, Hamburg is a cosmopolitan environment of suits, traders, dock workers, security, and freelancers. Hamburg is the place to go if you want to buy something in Rheinland space, hire a Bounty Hunter, or maybe just hear a rumor; however, Republican Shipping levies a tariff on all transactions for the continuing maintenance of facilities both planetside and in orbit.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* ALG Waste Disposal
* Universal Shipping
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Synth Foods, Inc.
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Republican Shipping
* Bundschuh
* Junkers
* Red Hessians
* Unioners
* Zoners

## Commodities

* MOX
* Mining Machinery

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

## Rumors

* Hamburg's a good place to be based. It's a criminal crossroads of sorts, because of the nature of the Jump Hole network in Rheinland. You can find plentiful work without having to go into the heart of the Walker Nebula. Those clouds can change the odds quite a bit, usually in the bad guy’s favor.
* Republican pays most of the bounties around here. That means we hunt down Unioners. The only reason to chase a Junker is a chance at some contraband. We don't get paid enough by the military to bother that much with the Bundschuh.
* There's a Hole into Frankfurt in the Alsterfeld. That's where you'll see Junkers running contraband and the odd Bundschuh raiding party headed for the Westfalen. And there are always plenty of Unioners to keep you company.
* Vierlande doesn't produce that many ex-cons who could become Bounty Hunters, for the simple reason that most sentences are for life. Personally, sounds a little harsh to me. They don't even put them to work, like the LPI. It's a pretty grim place.
* It's not real exciting work around here; chasing down Unioners and the odd Bundschuh for the most part. If it's excitement you're looking for, go to Omega-11. I'd buy me a pretty strong shield, though. The sun's gone red giant, going to go planetary nova pretty soon.

* Republican pays us well to clear out the Unioners and keep the peace in Hamburg, so we can't complain. I hear that other Federal Police stations have been caught extorting passing ships for "security" money. Berlin sent a crew of them to Vierlande last month to appease the Liberty companies.
* They've got me on prison convoy duty this month. We're usually hauling a load of Unioners picked up from the North Field. Their comrades wait for us in the Sud Fels, which we have to pass to get to Vierlande.
* The real reason we've got so many Unioners is simple -- no work. Hamburg's got a 30-percent unemployment rate currently. Hard times and empty stomachs lead to anger and resentment, mostly directed against Republican Shipping. They broke the union after the war, which effectively ended the good times in Hamburg.
* We've got two regular field patrols. One goes up into the North Field -- mostly Unioners up there. The Alster Field patrol will sometimes see Bundschuh or Junkers. And lots of Unioners, of course -- they're the dominant criminal species of Hamburg.
* We have a lot of Bounty Hunters on Hamburg. Gives this place a bit of a hard edge. The ones in from Texas can be a rough lot. A few of my comrades have joined the Guild, mostly to make better money. They're definitely a little more casual about killing people than they were as police officers.
* Republican used to require foreign shippers in Rheinland space to unload all cargo at stations like Altona. There were dock workers that packed and unpacked ships all day long. Talk about an unnecessary job. Now it's all automated, and Liberty ships often bypass Altona and Hamburg.
* If we catch a Junker with Cardamine or Artifacts, they usually try to run for it. Their ships are not very fast, so we often can catch them quickly. They almost always refuse to surrender, though. Guess they prefer to die rather than be interrogated and imprisoned.
* The Rheinland military patrols the Trade Lanes in the northwestern part of the system. It's one of the few places in Rheinland space where we get any assistance from them. There is little we can do about the Independent Worlds, though. You're on your own until you reach the Liberty Navy patrols in the northern portions of those systems.

* Hamburg planet is the primary distribution point within this system for Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, and Oxygen. We also ship Side Arms in from the Ring for use at Vierlande, or on the Westfalen.
* The most lucrative Commodities in Hamburg are Diamonds and Silver. Inbound cargos come in from New Berlin. We often switch to better-armored ships with escorts for the run across the Independent Worlds to Houston.

* We always make a stop in Hamburg to deliver the weekly food supply from Stuttgart. It's a relatively quiet system for us, with no LWB about. The Unioners couldn’t care less about what's happening in that part of Rheinland. Everyone needs to eat, after all.
* There are two reasons Synth Foods took over Stuttgart: Less expensive Luxury Foods for the Liberty elites, and cheap food for the prisoners of Texas. That about sums up Liberty society.

* The Zoners’ philosophy is to not antagonize anyone. We wish to coexist in peace with all factions in the Sirius sector, whether they are criminal or government. Zoners who cannot abide by this code are asked to leave. They often become Bounty Hunters. So we have a special relationship with the Guild.
* You should visit our Freeport in Bering. Be careful of the Unioners, though. They often prey on shipping in the southern end of our system. There are no military patrols along the Lanes until you reach Freeport 2.