Far Frontiers Gateway sector

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215-2510 Gateway News Service- Gateway

Oliver Unwin, the Chief Post Officer for the Gateway Mail Service said that at this time the service has 100% coverage of the sector to include Grande France and Broken Drive. The latest Pony Express class mail boats with the Jump 3 drives have finally reached areas in sufficient quantity that they can move across areas that formerly required a carrier to move them.

The new ships, which are 250 tons, with Jump 3 engines, and 6g’s of power are essentially just a crew cabin attached to engines and fuel tankage. Able to carry a maximum of 4 tons of cargo, the newest mailships are granted access to every world by treaty.

Mr. Unwin tells us that the mail service can now reach each planet at least on a bi-weekly basis, if not even sooner, with some worlds getting mail within a week of it leaving Gateway since the mail service uses the Pony Express fuel stations which are located at the jump points, transshipping mail and downloads to a Type S for transit into the system.

While package delivery is still unrealistically expensive, Mr. Unwin hopes to be able to drop costs within a decade, while still living up to the motto of the service: Mail, delivered fast, reliably, despite ion storms, black holes, pirates, and giant space amoebas! The mail must go through!

 

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210-2510 Gateway News Service- Britomart

The government of Britomart, has voted to allow their planetary security to be handled by the Black Sun Group. The company Black Sun Security will be taking over the starport contract from Omega Tech in what some are describing as a hostile takeover where Omega Tech was given a mere 8 hours to vacate after being told that their contract to run the starport which includes both the downport and orbital port, the main Starport hospital, and the EMS service for the capital city of Stonerwood. There is an apparently great deal of confusion as to why the sudden change when Omega Tech had run their starport for the last 35 years with no issues.

But experts agree that New Drakkensburg and its associated companies is becoming much more aggressive in seeking contracts to run starports, customs services, provide private military contractors, mercenary services, and military advisors to balkanized worlds across the sector as a way to gain influence, flex their muscles, and also allow for New Drakkensburg companies to gain traction on those worlds.

Omega Tech has vowed to not let this stand since the reasoning behind the sudden dropping of their contract appears to be some not so very subtle influence on the rulers of Britomart. Rumors are flying that in exchange for allowing New Drakkensburg essentially a free hand, certain members of the government have been gifted “specially talented female assistants” or male assistants as requested. We are being told that the assistants are exceptionally attractive, eager to please, and generally skimpily dressed.

Also large sums of money have been found to have been spent on “greasing the skids” over the last six months. As recent as the new year, Britomart has directed that cargoes from New Drakkensburg get diplomatic protection, which had led to rumors that slaves are being shipped out via Britomart instead of New Drakkensburg to allow for some deniability if they are indeed shipping genetically modified humans as slaves. It is known that shiploads of the “special cargo” have been intercepted as far away as New Africa.

New Drakkensburg is also eagerly courting many of the governments on Shiva, which has caused a level of concern on New Paris, New Joseon, and Freedonia. Just why New Drakkensburg has undertaken this aggressive diplomacy is unclear, but has caused concern across the sector.

 

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giant space amoebas!

Amoeba Wars shout-out!

 

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Amoeba Wars shout-out!

I actually have that game! though never played (like so many of my games)