Planet Cambridge

DIAMETER: 10,723 km.

MASS: 5.11 x 10e25 kg.

TERRAIN: Terrestrial

TEMPERATURE: -49°C to 73°C

ESCAPE VELOCITY: 10.21 km/sec

This lush green world is home of the Cambridge Research Institute -- an institution devoted to pure scientific research. Bretonia's epidemic Food shortages required the planetary regents to place farmers with scientists to develop more bountiful crops, making Cambridge the primary Food producer for Bretonia. Now several Cambridge scientists sympathize with the Gaian eco-terrorist movement, igniting bitter debates among researchers over terraforming.

## Bribes & Missions Offered

* Border World Exports
* Gateway Shipping
* Cryer Pharmaceuticals
* Republican Shipping
* Bounty Hunters Guild
* Independent Miners Guild

## Commodities

* Basic Alloy
* Optical Chips
* Construction Machinery
* Optronics
* Luxury Consumer Goods
* Light Arms

* Hydrocarbons
* Oxygen
* Water
* Diamonds
* Food Rations
* Luxury Food
* Fertilizers
* H-Fuel
* High-Temperature Alloy
* Pharmaceuticals
* Polymers
* Consumer Goods
* Engine Components

## Rumors

* I'm just dropping a bit of Gold from New London. We're headed out in the morning for Rheinland so I better have a drink tonight, since it could be my last.
* We bring in the raw materials for Consumer Goods production from various locations. Basic Alloys are shipped from Stokes, Optical Chips come from Los Angeles, and Optronics are shipped from Kusari via New London. Polymers make the short trip from Freeport 1 in the Omega-3 system.
* We transfer a lot of the Republican cargo from Rheinland to Bowex ships here, including Engine Components and High-Temperature Alloys going to Southampton. Occasionally, there's the odd Diamond shipment bound for the Leeds Mining Machinery plants.
* Cambridge imports Fertilizers, Side Arms, and Luxury Goods from New London -- quite an eclectic mix of needs there, if I don't say so myself.
* The Henry Jones Gold convoy was bound for Rheinland when it was attacked by Corsairs near the Omega-3 Gate. Its escorts were destroyed, and the ship was commandeered. An Armed Forces patrol responding to the initial distress call intercepted the raiding party near the edge of the Grasmere Cloud, and a bloody firefight ensued. The heavily damaged armored transport was the only pirate ship able to escape into the safety of the Grasmere Cloud. Its crew is believed to have perished in there before establishing contact with other Corsairs in the area.

* The Grasmere Cloud patrol is a volunteer-only assignment -- mostly young hotheads out to prove themselves. They've got plenty to do with all the Corsairs in there. There are heavy casualties on that one, sometimes 20% a week. The folly of youth...
* Cambridge is a very nice posting for one of us police types. It's not industrialized and all like Leeds and London. It does have those Cambridge University snobs, though. They help support the Green Front, which is the "official" arm of the Gaians. They provide financial support and sustain the media war with Planetform and BMM back in London.
* Synth Foods hasn't arrived in Bretonia yet because nobody wants what happened to Rheinland. Consequently, the Cambridge growers are trying to be more efficient and lobbying London to insure that Liberty, Inc. doesn't get a foothold here.
* At least the Police Authority doesn't have to deal with Omega-3. The Armed Forces has its hands full with Corsairs and Red Hessians out there. I've never been out of Bretonia and plan to keep it that way.

* Cryer uses Cambridge as our trans-shipment point for Pharmaceuticals produced on the station. In addition to our research activities, we supply all of Bretonia's needs.
* Cambridge is a good recruiting center for Cryer. The University provides us with many eager graduates who do not want to be far from home. There is a daily work shuttle expressly for that purpose.

* We run the supplies to the IMG base Cardiff across the system. From there we pick up Beryllium for shipment to Kensington or Rheinland.
* From here the Trade Lanes get much more difficult. I'm heading out to the IMG base Freistadt in Omega-3. We ship Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Goods there. That's if the Hessians or Corsairs don't intercept me first.

* The highest value cargos shipped between Rheinland and Bretonia are Diamonds and Gold. Corsairs and Red Hessians plague us the entire way.
* We only do business with established, reliable shippers like Bowex. Gateway is a brash upstart company that has unwisely chosen to partner with the renegade IMG.