Ulm Border Station

CLASS: Chapel

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 125

Ulm Border Station is one of two command centers for the Rheinland Federal Police in the Stuttgart system. The Federal Police is tasked with handling the interdiction of all illegal activity in the area, including drug trafficking, smuggling, and pirate activity.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

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

## Commodities

* Food Rations
* MOX
* Pharmaceuticals
* Light Arms

* Water
* H-Fuel

## Rumors

* We are the guardians to the gates that lead into the Border Worlds. We patrol our side, but dare not go into Omega 7. It is grounds for immediate termination. No lives or ships can be spared defending space that Rheinland cannot even lay claim to.
* The Red Hessians pour from the Westnebel in an unending stream. We lack the resources to stop half of them. I used to be disdainful of Bounty Hunters, but if it were not for their actions here, we could be overrun. The only Rheinland military you will see here are captains and admirals sunning themselves in Baden-Baden.
* My family, the Steiners, have grown thin in number. We were once a large group of men and women known as excellent pilots and daring fighters. Now there is just my brother and me left alive.
* My brother is a police pilot in Frankfurt. He says that conditions are worse there. Of course, that is the system that got ravaged by the GMG, but we all lost in "the Eighty." I wish I had been alive to fight in it.
* I have been giving thought to becoming a Bounty Hunter. That way I would be better equipped and much better paid. I see them collecting rewards on every vermin they kill. Perhaps I could go to Liberty and kill Rogues.
* There is a pilot here who wishes to leave our ranks. He has tried to keep it secret but I found out. He wants to become a Bounty Hunter and leave Rheinland. I'm sure it is because he is afraid to fight Red Hessians -- he has trouble killing them.
* We intercepted a Red Hessian supply shipment crossing the system between the Ostnebel and Westnebel. It was quite a boost in morale around here; normally things are rather glum, but we were able to salvage all manner of goods. Of course, we don't turn in everything we find, they barely pay me enough to feed my children.
* One of the other policemen at this station, Steiner, has two brothers, though he will only mention one. The third is a Red Hessian. One day, perhaps the two brothers will face each other out there. I don't know who will win. Steiner is the best pilot here, but his brother...I hear he is an incredible pilot, a soldier in the Corsair Wars.
* Patrol 421 was doing a routine sweep of the Westnebel when it abruptly ceased communications with Ulm Control. Red Hessians are suspected as the culprits, but no one is sure. The Federal Police have been unable to locate any debris so far.
* The Nurnberg was making a gun run from here to Omega-11 when it was attacked by a Federal Police patrol while crossing the open area in the center of the system. The ship was pursued into the Westnebel, where it lost contact. Because it never arrived in Freital, the police must have destroyed it.

* Premium Daumann weapons make their way to the hands of the Rheinland Federal Police via Republican convoys from the Ring in New Berlin.
* The Rheinland government is always several months behind in its payments to the Commodity brokers that keep their bases supplied. It is appalling to see our sovereign nation fall into such terrible times.