Leiden Base

CLASS: Unknown

GRAVITY: Complete.

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Yes

POPULATION: Unknown

A Lane Hacker base. Lane Hackers use their proprietary technology to interrupt and seize shipments from Trade Lanes.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Hogosha
* Lane Hackers
* Liberty Rogues
* Samura Industries

## Commodities

* Water
* Food Rations
* Artifacts
* H-Fuel
* Pharmaceuticals
* Consumer Goods
* Engine Components
* Light Arms

## Rumors

* Although we sell much of the information we retrieve from Universal's data banks, we use some of the data ourselves to attack the most tempting targets. There are three Jump Holes in this system. The two most valuable to the Lane Hackers are the Jump Holes to Colorado and Kepler.
* Ageira wonders how we can keep up with its advances in Trade Lane technology and security. Truth is, everybody who was sympathetic to the Lane Hackers didn’t necessarily stop working for Ageira. That’s right -- we’ve got insider friends who keep us one step ahead of the game.
* We get shipments of H-Fuel from the Golden Chrysanthemums in Hokkaido and ship them Food, Side Arms, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, and Luxury Goods. Those Golden Cs love their Luxury Goods.
* The Golden Chrysanthemums get most of their supplies from us. We keep them living in the style that they are accustomed to. In return, they supply us with all the Cardamine we can use from their Hokkaido base.
* Cardamine has changed my life. It's the greatest stuff you can imagine. You have really strange hallucinations with heavy doses -- flying across alien landscapes, seeing creatures and places that you can't imagine. It's truly an amazing trip. I've noticed that I'm gradually losing interest in eating regular old Synth Paste. I've heard that Outcast Food is more palatable to heavy Cardamine users. Not sure why.
* We get most of our basic supplies -- such as Food, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, Consumer Goods, Oxygen, and Water -- from the Zoner Ames Research Station.
* This base serves as the primary trans-shipment point for Artifacts inbound from Sigma-17. The Hogosha run them through Kusari space, terminating their long run here. The Rogues then haul the Artifacts into Rochester via their base in the southern end of the system. Don't know why people love those Artifacts so much.
* The Lane Hackers are disinterested in politics. We do not fight for any cause or rally behind a flag. The only thing that is important to a Hacker is money so that any wants are fulfilled.
* The Kobe Maru was making its weekly Artifact run across the Shikoku system when it was ambushed by the Blood Dragons. The ship is presumed destroyed, and its whereabouts are unknown, although it’s been rumored to be drifting somewhere in the Shiun Cloud.

* Down here we run Cardamine and H-Fuel from our base in Hokkaido in exchange for many of our basic supplies. Leiden indirectly supplies the Blood Dragon base in Chugoku via Ainu. That's the real reason we have to make so many runs down to this alien place. They often protect us from hostile attacks, so it's worth it.
* The Jump Hole to Shikoku is very close, just to the north of this base. It is the first of three jumps to get to the dangerous but beautiful Hokkaido system.

* This is the cheapest place to buy Side Arms within Hogosha territory, if you can call this black rock fragment in a dark matter cloud "territory" in the conventional sense. Within Kusari space Side Arms cost considerably more.
* We use the Jump Hole to Shikoku, then skirt the west end of the system through the nebula clouds to avoid detection by the Blood Dragons -- our mortal enemies. The police and Bounty Hunters rarely bother us. At the far end of Shikoku is a Jump Hole to Kyushu, followed shortly by a Hole to New Tokyo. Very convenient.

* The Artifacts that the Lane Hackers receive from the Hogosha at this base are taken by us to Rochester or to Padua.
* The Golden Chrysanthemums that hang out at this base are into their Luxury Goods, probably the daughters of rich Samura and Kishiro executives in Kusari. I like 'em. They’re all into Cardamine and stealing -- my two favorite past times.