Stokes Mining Station

CLASS: Wellington

GRAVITY: Partial

DOCKING: Yes

AMENITIES: Limited

POPULATION: 800

Stokes Mining Station, run by Bretonia Mining and Manufacturing (BMM), is the largest orbital facility in all of Bretonia and has operated continuously for centuries. Aside from BMM, representatives from Kusari shipping companies are also present, negotiating for the basic materials required to fuel their own industries.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

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

## Commodities

* Copper
* Oxygen
* Water
* Food Rations
* MOX
* H-Fuel
* Mining Machinery
* Pharmaceuticals
* Polymers

* Beryllium
* Toxic Waste
* Hydrocarbons
* Niobium
* Basic Alloy
* Super Alloy
* Ship Hull Panels
* Terraforming Gases

## Rumors

* You want a nice easy run in-system? Usually BMM will ship the Basic Alloys produced here to Leeds. There we purchase supplies for our mining and smelting crews. There's no reason you couldn't pick up those Commodities and deliver them.
* I'm only telling you this because you are a trusted friend of BMM. Some of the MOX produced at LD-14 is shipped to this base. You know MOX contains Plutonium, right? Well, that means you can't let the Mollys get their hands on it. They have threatened to make a bomb and blow it up over New London.

* I know the chap who runs the Basic Alloys and Ship Hull Panels to Freeport 6 in Tau-29. He usually continues the run to Yokohama in New Tokyo with the extras he hasn't delivered there. He's pretty good, but he's also pretty new. The last guy didn't last too long.
* Bowex ships Basic Alloys down to Cambridge and New London. On the return flight we usually pick up Boron from Sheffield. It is a decent run that could make you some money if you had the inclination to burn some fuel through Bretonia.

* If I didn't know better, I'd swear Bowex controls the Armed Forces. Here we are getting attacked from all sides by the Corsairs. There are flames pouring out of my ship, and the Armed Forces patrol flies right by to help a Bowex transport sending a distress call from thirty minutes away! When will the time come that we start getting a fair shake around here? Gateway Shipping has had to struggle from the very start because of all the history Bowex has with London.
* You think the Outcasts are bad? You should try going up against a Corsair. They are the meanest lads I've ever encountered. They make the Mollys look like schoolyard bullies. Once we left Freistadt with a convoy of eleven. By the time the Corsairs were finished with us, there were only five ships that limped into Cambridge a week later.

* Kishiro is slowly beginning to take command of Kusari corporate power. Samura made a terrible mistake by angering the GMG. Perhaps now Kishiro will be the one that supplies Sirius with the fuel that drives all of its engines. This keiretsu is better because we are more innovative than Samura, which has grown lazy.
* Poor Wang, one of my gunners. I don't think he is going to survive. I barely lived myself, but the Outcasts will chase you as far as they can. Luckily we were able to make it to the Jump Gate. Once we entered the system, Mollys almost finished us off. All three of my escorts were dead, but a Bretonian Navy patrol was coming by at the time of our entry. If they hadn't chased off the Mollys, Wang would be dead for sure. I hope he lives, because he is supposed to marry my sister. If he dies, no one will marry her.

* Ah, dear sweet Perth, nestled in the heart of Gaian space. That's right, Perth is in Edinburgh, so I must fly into that dreaded chunk of space to deliver Terraforming Gases to our engineers there. One day an inhabitable Perth will be growing crops for the people of Bretonia.
* The Bounty Hunters in this system have been paid a lot of money to kill Gaians, and I love it. Bounty Hunters are not kind, and it makes me feel safe to know that my corporation has hired them to exterminate the Gaian threat. We are a noble company at heart, but sometimes you must deal with the repugnant to destroy the repulsive.

* We were plagued by Hessians and Corsairs across the Omega worlds, and then by Outcasts as we entered this accursed pit. My co-pilot was killed near the smog clouds. It's a sad fact of life, but a Republican shipper's first Border World flight is often his last.

* The Basic Alloys crafted here are shipped by Samura Industries to our Yokohama Shipyard in New Tokyo. It is a dangerous trip, and I'm thinking of retiring soon. The Border Worlds kill many fine Samura employees, but we must do what we are ordered for the good of the company.
* The men who work for Kishiro have an easier journey than we do. They don't need to fear the Blood Dragons as much as we do. Those vicious pirates have a blind hatred for our noble company that stretches back hundreds of years.