Vierlande Prison

CLASS: Abbey

GRAVITY: Complete

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: 6K

When the unpleasant necessity of protecting the fledgling Rheinland Republic required the construction of a special prison for handling violent radicals, the Vierlande Prison was stationed in Hamburg in 715 AS. Its extreme isolation and lack of appreciable sunlight make it one of the more dreaded destinations for captured Red Hessians, Unioners, and other criminals. Sentences are almost always for life.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* ALG Waste Disposal
* Orbital Spa and Cruise
* Republican Shipping
* Universal Shipping
* Synth Foods, Inc.

## Commodities

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

* Water
* H-Fuel

## Rumors

* The Federal Police prison warden sees little hope of rehabilitation for most of these criminals, so most sentences are extended indefinitely. There are standing orders from Berlin to not release Bundschuh under any circumstances. The only planet those poor brutes will ever see for the rest of their lives is Hannover.
* Truth is, most of the people in here haven't committed that many crimes, especially the Bundschuh. Some of them look like Berlin University kids who decided to join a demonstration on a lark without thinking much of the consequences.
* There is a special political section for the Bundschuh. The government doesn't want them mixing with the other inmates and stirring up trouble. Don't want any more Popular Revolutions now, do we?
* The Sudheide has become a veritable cesspool of humanity. The Red Hessians, Unioners, and Bundschuh all stage their prison breakout attempts from that field. I don't know why they try. This prison has a triple hull, with outer walls more than two meters thick. No prisoner has ever escaped Vierlande alive.
* The Unioners and the Bundschuh pretty much keep to themselves. The tough guys are the Red Hessians. They control the area inside the inner-security perimeter, where guards rarely venture. You'd never know that some of them were regular working folks before they went bad.
* The prison convoys have been shipping them in pretty fast from all over Rheinland. As a result, Vierlande has become very overcrowded. There have been hunger strikes to protest the conditions, but there's no money to build an extension. So we keep packing them in a little tighter. One day, it'll all explode.
* Some of the older prisoners that come in from Berlin look more like politicians than hardened criminals. Rumor is that they're whistle blowers and reformers from the government that were getting a little too honest for their own good.
* We keep just enough LWB examples in Vierlande to show and tell for the Synth Food execs that come through here on their Rheinland inspection tour every few months or so. They want to see progress on the LWB problem on Rheinland. That means a steadily increasing number of LWB inmates at our lovely facility. So we show them a few LWB mixed in with a crowd of Unioners. Works every time.

* It's nice to see so many Unioners locked up in their solitary cells. Maybe that will dissuade others who are considering joining the cause. Somehow I think not.
* We've had Unioners try to sneak out of here in our empty cargo containers. Unfortunately, the vacuum conditions and extreme cold of outer space generally mean death for most stowaways within a few minutes.