Planet Leeds

DIAMETER: 10,723 km.

MASS: 5.11 x 10e25 kg.

TERRAIN: Terrestrial

TEMPERATURE: -30°C to 63°C

ESCAPE VELOCITY: 9.21 km/sec

Soon after settlement, Bretonia needed raw materials, and Leeds was quickly recognized as the most resource rich system under Bretonian control. Companies were formed and given royal charters -- near carte blanche -- to develop the system in any way they saw fit, while settlers were handed generous incentives to move to Leeds and serve as the workforce. Over the centuries, however, unchecked industrial progress has led to significant environmental pollution as exemplified by the omnipresent smog clouds. Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM) operates the bulk of the planetside mining, smelting, and manufacturing facilities, while Bowex handles transportation of finished goods throughout Bretonia.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Border World Exports
* BMM
* Planetform, Inc.
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Kishiro Technologies
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Samura Industries
* Gateway Shipping
* Deep Space Engineering

## Commodities

* MOX
* Basic Alloy
* Optical Chips
* Polymers

* Water
* Food Rations
* H-Fuel
* Mining Machinery
* Construction Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals
* Optronics
* Consumer Goods
* Light Arms

## Rumors

* BMM makes sure that the Stokes base gets all it needs to keep running smoothly. Everything's in this system, so that's nice for me. You don't look like you care, but I've got a lot of family in Stokes -- maybe too much family. We send our own Leeds-produced Mining Machinery up to Stokes and usually haul Basic Alloys on the return trip.
* Those damn dirty Outcasts almost blew my ship in half in Manchester. I was making my way to Birmingham from New London. I had just unloaded a shipment of Mining Machinery in Thames and was going to pick up a load of Polymers to bring back here. All of a sudden my ship dropped right out of the Trade Lanes and I was buried in Outcasts. I'm glad my escorts were sharp, or BMM woulda been sending my teeth home to the family.

* I make the Bowex supply run to the police base Aberdeen in Edinburgh. You'd think they would take better care of their supply shipments, but I usually come into the base limping with a few gunners dead or dying.
* Glasgow sells H-Fuel and buys Consumer Goods. It's a nice run if you enjoy hauling more expensive Commodities than just the Oxygen and Water, and it keeps you in-system too, if that's what you are looking for. Oh, I almost forgot, mate... York needs Pharmaceuticals.
* If you'd like to visit the capital, I know how you can get there and back and make decent coin doing it too. Bowex ships Construction Machinery to New London and Southampton regularly. On the return, you can haul Diamonds for the Leeds Mining Machinery plant, which uses gems for all those drills and grinders. Hauling cargo like Diamonds is quite dangerous though, so I hope you like action. Every pirate that runs a scan on you is going to come in firing.
* Ooh, fancy yerself a tough one do ya, laddie? Well, how do you like the sound of the Border Worlds, eh? I though that might get your attention. Bowex supplies Freeport 6 in Tau-29 with Mining Machinery. Yup, there's money to be made out there if you've got the sand for it. My guess is you'll be dusted before you ever make landing in Freeport 6.
* I hate them Cambridge folks. They are all stuck up cod livers, with their datapads and degrees and their "Oh, I'm a smart one aren't I?" attitudes. Here in Leeds a datapad is best used for breaking over somebody's head. Well, if you wanna run to Cambridge doing the same thing Bowex does, then I recommend picking up some Optronics here and returning with Food.
* Manchester is a fine system, it is. We need their Optical Chips too. Sheffield has some of the finest in all of Sirius. Careful though, it's right on the edge of the Independent Worlds and a lot of bad traffic flows through there. I almost bought it on that run. I think there was one bolt holding my ship together when I set it down.
* You ever want to head into Kusari space? It's quite a different bag of socks, I'll be the first to say. But if you want to get out there and see Sirius, like every young buck, then off ya go to Narita. We need their Optronics here at this base.

* The Bretonian Police patrol this sector for unlawful activity. The military takes care of the northern part of Leeds mostly around the Trade Lanes leading to Tau-31 and LD-14. It's more of a military matter protecting the processed MOX nuclear fuel produced at the plant there.
* My folks and their ancestors all come from Leeds. We've been workin' the foundries in my family as long as I can remember -- except me. My father was always moaning about getting the rake from BMM, so I figured I'd get out from under that thumb. I apprenticed myself to a freelancer and learned to fly. After a bit I took the opportunity to join the authorities.

* Kensington buys some of the Mining Machinery produced in Leeds. It is a nice, easy run once you make it past the smog clouds and are about to hit the Jump Gates. Of course, making it past the smog clouds is the trick, isn't it? All manner of scoundrel lay in wait for you in there.
* Ever heard the saying "Keep your head down"? Of course you have, but it doesn't seem like it would matter in a spaceship, does it? I mean either you decompress or you don't, right? No head ducking is gonna save you if the hull caves in. Well, that's what I used to think until the last run I made. Old Charles, my tail gunner, got his head taken off by a chunk of metal that blew free of a relay panel on my ship. Charlie always was a bit too tall.

* We ship Optronics to this base from Honshu. It is better than having to ship H-Fuel here, which is a longer flight. Don't misunderstand. It is a long and dangerous flight from Honshu. Any travel across the Border Worlds is risky.
* When you cross Kusari space you have to be careful of the Hogosha. You are Gaijin and therefore unprotected, and I have to be careful because I work for Kishiro. Yet Samura does not have to be wary of the Hogosha. What does that tell you?

* Construction and Mining Machinery, that's what Perth in Edinburgh needs as soon as possible. You look like just the one to do it, too. You don't mind fighting off a few rich snobs who've read too many datapads for their own good do you? That's right, you'd be doing me a personal favor if you could kill a few of those lilies. Gaia might not bleed, but Gaians will.
* Planetform is working on making another planet for Bretonia to grow crops in. Cambridge is helping to alleviate the Food shortage in this sector of space, but it is only a temporary fix. If we don't create more arable land, then Bretonia will have major Food shortages within two hundred years. That is a fact, at least according to our data.

* The corporations in this part of Sirius have no true power if they let the criminals run rampant like this through their systems. I lost my last escort to Mollys as we were coming into this system. The first two escorts died back in Tau-29 fighting Outcasts.
* I keep hearing about the Gaians and I know they operate in this system, but I have not seen any yet. Maybe they do not operate along the Trade Lanes I use. Thank goodness. It would be too much if I had to fight the Gaians along with the Outcasts and Mollys.