Planet Holstein

DIAMETER: 14,320 km.

MASS: 6.00 x 10e24 kg.

TERRAIN: Terrestrial

TEMPERATURE: -29°C to 17°C

ESCAPE VELOCITY: 12.11 km/sec

Holstein was ignored for centuries until the government decided that it would be politically advantageous to develop the planet as a hedge against encroachment by the Gas Mining Guild (GMG). However, the 80-Years War doomed the project before its completion; Holstein was rendered marginally habitable, if not pleasant. However, Daumann engineers performing a routine survey recently discovered the presence of large amounts of valuable mineral salts in the oceans and a small extraction facility was constructed planetside.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Daumann Heavy Construction
* Republican Shipping
* Samura Industries

## Commodities

* Food Rations
* MOX
* H-Fuel
* Construction Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals

* Oxygen
* Water

## Rumors

* The only thing we need shipped here from outside of this system is Mining Machinery. That gets shipped in on transports from the Ring in New Berlin. They pick up the Boron we mine here and take it back.
* The Oder Shipyard uses our Boron to build ships. I don't know what ships they might be building there, I haven't seen anything worth a mention. All our finest ships were destroyed in "the Eighty."
* I guess Daumann came back to this system because Kruger was here. After the Richtofen went up everybody left -- that was it, the war was over. After a while Kruger came back, and that means Daumann had to follow suit, didn't they?
* My father died in "the Eighty," and his father before him. I guess most of my family was killed by them GMG. It ain't their fault though. We shouldn't have been going to where we didn't have any business. Damn the empire and damn the new government -- a republic...ha!
* The GMG who come into this system are scoundrels. If they wanted Frankfurt, they could have taken it. If they come here now with their guns armed, then they are just looking to fight for no reason.
* Long ago Frankfurt was the jewel of the empire. Everyone had their eye on this system -- we were going to lead the way to a glorious Rheinland future from this place. Now look around you. This is what arrogance and avarice will bring. Look, I say, at this empty place of broken promises.
* The Bundschuh built a base here because they knew that the government was too poor to put enough police here to stop them. No one cares what happens in Frankfurt. Republican is the only one that does decent business here and that's the reason you'll see Unioners.
* I mine Boron here because every other Rheinland system I go to makes me sick. I hate seeing rich Rheinlanders, or anybody who actually gives a damn about this House. Just leave me be to mine my Boron. You can try and fix whatever you want, but don't bother me about it.
* Life must go on, even after defeat. No one really cared about the GMG once the rebellion started. It could have been quite horrible but the life’s blood of Rheinland -- her companies -- were not dissolved. It would have been chaos if that had happened. Who knows who would be running things now.
* One day the Rheinland Navy will be as powerful as it once was. Our day of reckoning is only separated from us by an expanse of time. Every day that passes, the expanse gets shorter. Rheinland will rise from the ashes like a phoenix from the flames. Then the GMG will pay -- and so will Kusari and the rest of Sirius.