====Juneau Shipyard (Alaska)====
->Rumor #131381:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We need to hire Freelancers and Bounty Hunters on occasion to keep Junkers from swiping resources from our Baltimore Shipyard. We are, after all, near a debris field that is prime Junker turf.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131838:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG disposes of the waste that this shipyard produces. Toxic Waste and Scrap Metal are shipped by us to Dortmund in New Berlin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/Rep. John Guentzel
->Rumor #131839:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Scrap Metal produced here at this shipyard is shipped by ALG to the Sugarland. Our freighters in Texas then bring Ship Hull Panels back to this base from Houston. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/Rep. John Guentzel
->Rumor #131840:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>MOX and Ship Hull Panels are brought to this base from Dortmund by ALG for Deep Space Engineering's use in the construction of ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/Rep. John Guentzel
->Rumor #131841:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex brings this shipyard the finest in Polymers from Birmingham. Yes, we brave the Rogues to ship these components to Liberty space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Eric Price
->Rumor #131842:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our corporation is the cornerstone of Bretonian shipping. We have always competed fairly with other shippers from outside of Bretonia, but the filthy young upstarts at Gateway Shipping have neither the experience nor the intellect to make a successful venture of their firm. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Eric Price
->Rumor #131843:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This company received the first royal shipping charter from the Crown; we have hauled and shipped material throughout Bretonias long and illustrious history. Through it all we have remained steadfast and vigilant to the needs of our customers, often times not only shipping but insuring precious Commodities. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Eric Price
->Rumor #131844:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the last of the commercial shipyards in Liberty. We had to specialize in prison and cruise ships to survive. Kusari took over the general transport business a while ago. That's when they shut down the Edison Yard in Colorado. Lot of good people lost their way of life on that dark day. Now they're Rogues and Xenos. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131845:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The primo jobs at DSE are the Trade Lane and Jump Gate construction crews. They get loads of hazard pay, plus free room and board. It's all secret and such. Aren't supposed to ask questions on what's inside the guts of those Rings. Just swap them out with new ones from Ageira if they're busted. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131846:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Building prisons is big business in Liberty. When they're done, they fill them with all the people that they just laid off from DSE. There's something wrong with that, but I can't do nothin' about it, so why worry? Who knows, maybe someday I'll be living in one of the cells I helped build. Now, ain't that ironic?</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131847:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Prison and cruise ships. That says a lot about Liberty society. We don't build all the miners or transports. That went to Kusari and Rheinland over a century ago. A lot of my old buddies that got laid off joined the Xenos to fight back. Personally, I think they should go after IC and all the rich people using these cruise ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131848:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just stopping by on the supply run from Manhattan. We bring the usual stuff like Oxygen and Water. Sometimes I bring more Construction Machinery up from Houston. Pretty easy runs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131849:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Deep Space Engineering is the exclusive manufacturer of machinery and shipping in Sirius private sector. If you want something huge or luxurious, then we are the ones to contract. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131850:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Baltimore isn't a bad place. Could be worse, like Houston. Houston is the pits. They get some hellacious dust storms there. Real hot, too. You got one foot in a prison cell there, the other on some factory line with the warden trying to make his monthly bonus. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131851:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got a friend over at the Norfolk yard. They do a lot of the Hull Panel fabrication onsite to keep everything secret. Once you start building ships for the navy, you're in for life. Can't ever tell your family what you do. Too much stress for me.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131852:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Liberty used to mine most of the materials we use here. Now it's all shipped in from far away. All that debris you see around here is old scrapped ships and junk that everyone threw away for centuries without a thought. Now they're starting to salvage it. It's about time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131853:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira don't treat DSE with any respect. They think we're just a bunch of mechanics or something. The navy's okay. They know that someone has to build their ships, and it can't be criminals or foreigners. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131854:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex will tell you that we dont have the experience or expertise to be prominent shippers of Bretonian Commodities. But the truth is they realize what a threat we are to their firm. We do the same business they do, but for less. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Devin Price
->Rumor #131855:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gold is brought to this base for use in wiring the ships built here. We have the pleasure of shipping it in from the Hood in Dublin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Devin Price
->Rumor #131856:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ive heard that some of the Rogues in this system have been tipped off about our Gold shipments to this base, not by the Lane Hackers but by Bowex. I wouldnt put it past those corporate bastards. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Devin Price
->Rumor #131857:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This stations proximity to Ft. Bush and the Trade Lanes that feed her make this area dangerous for the shipping companies that bring in supplies used to build the ships and machinery churned out by this station. Thats one of the reasons why the Bounty Hunters maintain a presence here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131858:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rogues in the area seem to know which ships are bringing the Gold into this base. They must be getting the information from the Lane Hackers. Whenever Gateway ships Jump into the system, some of us are contracted to escort them into this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131859:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Xenos dont really come this far east into the system from the Jersey Debris Fields, but they will harass the Kusari Rheinland and Bretonian firms coming to this base via Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131860:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers in this area will try to steal machinery and components left unguarded. They arent too dangerous unless you tangle with several of them in some lonely space with no witnesses around. They will kill you without a thought.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131861:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I killed four Rogues trying to escape into the Pittsburgh Fields last week. They almost made it, but I blew out the engines on one of their ships, and the other three came back to tried and save him. They must have been high on Cardamine the way they were flying. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131862:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro put up some contracts for us Bounty Hunters to exterminate the Rogues who were attacking their shipments on the Trade Lanes. Here is something to think about: We are to engage and destroy all Xenos that we encounter, unless theyre attacking Samura shipments, in which case we are to break off.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131863:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>H-Fuel is shipped to this base by Kishiro from Ogashawa. We are proud to contribute to Libertonian industry. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Takashi Momoko
->Rumor #131864:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Optronics and Engine Components are brought to this shipyard by Kishiro from Honshu in Kusari space. These Kusari products that will be used in the luxury liners and prison ships will be reliable for many years. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Takashi Momoko
->Rumor #131865:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not all of the Engine Components brought to this base by Kishiro come from outside of Liberty; some of them are from Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Takashi Momoko
->Rumor #131866:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My father was a joint fitter who worked on the Shetland when it was under construction here. They laid him off, and our family struggled for many years. When I got old enough I joined the LPI because I knew there would always be work catching criminals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Samantha Sanford
->Rumor #131867:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A lot of the workers here think about turning to crime between contracts when Deep Space will lay off a few hundred or even a thousand employees. Then if they arent careful, they will end up making toys on the Sugarland instead of making ships in Baltimore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Samantha Sanford
->Rumor #131868:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The employees who work at this station are prime examples of the disappearing working class in Liberty. If you arent an ultra-rich Manhattanite or a technocrat, you are working too hard for your money. Some of the labor force here is temporary. Between big contracts they do other things, like fly for the Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Samantha Sanford
->Rumor #131869:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican Shipping is relied upon by DSE to bring Engine Components crafted at the Ring in Rheinland to this base. After all, Rheinland Engine Components are the best around. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ralf Krechting
->Rumor #131870:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos are a thorn in our side at Republican Shipping, and yet the Liberty government does next to nothing to curb their piracy. It is obvious they are being bribed by Liberty corporations who do not want outside competition. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ralf Krechting
->Rumor #131871:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have been the premier Rheinland Shipping firm since before the 80-Years War. Back then we were known as Imperial Shipping, but alas, no more empire. Now we represent our mighty republic in shipping concerns throughout Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ralf Krechting
->Rumor #131872:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We risk many dangers shipping H-Fuel to this base from the refineries in Osaka, but Deep Space Engineering pays well for the Commodities it consumes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Katsuyoshi Nakayama
->Rumor #131873:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The best Optronics that Kishiro makes are used at their own manufacturing facilities in Kusari. They would never sell Liberty the best of what they produce. I have told DSE this many times, but they seem satisfied with their inferior Kishiro products. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Katsuyoshi Nakayama
->Rumor #131874:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We used to provide this station with all of its H-Fuel. Unfortunately, Deep Space in their wisdom allowed Kishiro to come in and sell their H-Fuels. Kishiro, being the fools that they are, have lowered their prices to try to force us out, so we must lower our prices also. DSE ends up paying less while both Kusari companies lose. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Katsuyoshi Nakayama
->Rumor #131875:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gateway is not the only company that ships Gold here. Universal brings Gold to this shipyard from New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Tim Hogun
->Rumor #131876:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Universal ships many materials and components to this yard from around Liberty.  We bring in Optical Chips from Los Angeles; Basic Alloys from Sugarland; and Engine Components from Denver. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Tim Hogun
->Rumor #131877:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not only do these guys build all civilian ships in Sirius as well as the majority of heavy construction in Liberty, they hold the exclusive contract to build Jump Gates from Ageira. Deep Space Engineering, even though its not known as one of the big three Liberty corporations, has more power than almost any other corporation in Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Tim Hogun
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====Kodiak Research Station (Alaska)====
->Rumor #491536:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some members of the political elite complained that a lot of money was wasted during the construction of this facility to buy certain non-essential goods. I don't know why they kept thinking that, since as far as I can see all the money was carefully distributed and accounted for.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT>On another subject, have you tried our pool table that is in the next room? It is made out of fully matured Terumi wood. It also has a diamond sanded frame and slate to ensure the best playing surface. Oh and don't worry if you break something, we have a lot of spare equipments.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Bruce Nettles
->Rumor #491537:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Nomads keep getting more interested in the work we are doing here. Lately, there have been several attempts to infiltrate our staff, and the attacks on the stations have become more aggressive. Hopefully, this base is sufficiently well defended to repel these attacks indefinitely, although the navy has stepped up patrols recently to counter it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Dorothy Fears
->Rumor #491538:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Last week, a man infiltrated our base and left with some classified information. I believe he tried to gain some plans related to a recent technological development in antimatter research. However, the foolish spy didn't get far. A patrol managed to intercept his transport and neutralize it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Jessica Harrell
->Rumor #491539:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Working here is an honour. Being in one of the most high tech research facilities in Liberty is something that all scientists inspire to. However, it is very hard to live so far from our own families and more civilized areas, for periods of up to a year without a break. I haven't seen my daughter for a long time, and our calls are restricted to one per month over a monitored line.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Fred Hook
->Rumor #491540:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Visitors are extremely rare here, since few people are trusted enough to keep this base and all it contains a secret from the public. All the knowledge held here is like Pandora's Box. If you opened it, it could have severe consequences for the entire Sirius sector. I'm sure you remember what happened when citizens all across Sirius were told that many members of their government and military were being controlled by aliens? Panic and pandemonium gripped them. We can't allow that to happen again.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Robert Mccorkle
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====Prison Station Fairbanks (Alaska)====
->Rumor #132083:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system is a Bounty Hunters dream. Point your ship in a direction, start flying, and sooner or later youre going to run into somebody who is wanted for a bounty -- especially on the west side of the system. West Texas is a dangerous cesspool.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132084:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I like to patrol out by the Negra Pequena and the North Dallas Debris Field. You can find Rogues, Outcasts, Xenos, and Junkers in that area. There is a Jump Hole around there that leads to New York, I believe. Somehow a lot of the criminals find their way into this system from California in that general area, too. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132085:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The radiation pocket in the center of the West Dallas Debris Field will fry your ship quick. One of my favorite things to do is chase the scumbags Im following into that area, and then I let the radiation do my work for me. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132086:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>IC pays me well to protect their interests in Texas. They dont have any people or offices here, but this is a very important system for them. The majority of the crime that goes on in Liberty goes on right here in this system. And since most of the stolen cargo is insured by IC& well, you get the idea.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132087:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I believe that an Outcast would rather die than go to prison. I dont know of any currently at this facility. I think that any Outcasts who do happen to get captured go to the Sugarland. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132088:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ive seen the Jump Hole in this system that leads to California. It is in the West Dallas Debris Field, just north of the radiation pocket.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132089:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I oversee the workers in the textile wing of this prison facility. The clothes you are wearing right now were made by convicts who work under my supervision. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132090:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This facility houses all the Xenos we apprehend in Liberty space. The Xenos are a relatively small faction, but their numbers are constantly growing. This place is where they do their recruiting. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132091:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Any Outcasts that are captured are sent to the Sugarland; if they come here they will die. Xenos hate Outcasts because they are so different and foreign. So any Outcast who comes will be killed within days by the Xeno population. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132092:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The convoys that run prisoners to this base from other systems in Liberty are under constant attack. Criminals are always trying to break their comrades out before they reach this base. Once they get here the apprehended criminals are here to stay. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132093:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All of the work done at this ship actually takes place onboard. If you were ever to find yourself an inmate on the Sugarland, you might be put on a work detail clearing radioactive debris from one of the debris fields in this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132094:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We dont do a lot of security patrols in his system; we leave most of that to the navy or Bounty Hunters. This is more of a corrections area for LPI than anything else. We are most concerned with keeping the prisoners here and putting them to work once they arrive, not necessarily catching them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132095:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the patrols that we make in this system is the Trade Lane from Houston to the New York Jump Gate. There are too many attacks on that small part of Texas space to ignore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132096:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The East Dallas Debris Field is where many inmates are transported from the other penal ship Sugarland to clean up the scrap. The radiation has died down quite a bit in that field since the Dallas incident, but it is still too dangerous for civilian workers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132097:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the civilians in this system have four choices: work for LPI on one of the penal ships, become a Bounty Hunter, work at Houston in the Fertilizer plants, or become a criminal. I chose working for LPI; it was the safest choice. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132098:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base receives Pharmaceuticals, Side Arms, and the usual supplies from Houston. While Im here between shipments I get a chance to see the scum who harass our shipping concerns. They're behind bars or making toys in the factory. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Aidan Williams
->Rumor #132099:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the only safe zone in Texas, behind the F-Zone boundary of weapon platforms and satellites controlled by the military. No Universal ship would ever be caught over there. That's criminal country. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Aidan Williams
->Rumor #132100:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It is a wonder that anything arrives or leaves this system. Most of the criminals in Liberty reside in Texas. The navy and LPI do their best to curb piracy and theft within Texas, but its not enough. All our shipments that pass through here are insured by IC, so I suppose it becomes their problem -- except for our pilots, who get killed in pirate attacks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Aidan Williams
->Rumor #134341:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not too long ago there was a prison break by some Rogues from a Sugarland work convoy in the East Dallas Debris Field. They fled into the Pequena Negra Cloud, pursued by a Bounty Hunter named Annie Shorty Davis. She flew a nice rig called the Avenger. The Rogues eventually doubled back and escaped through the California Hole. Annie must have gotten confused in there, or maybe her ship was damaged by some enemy fire. Either way, she never emerged from that dark cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
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====Prison Station Mitchell (Alaska)====
->Rumor #132131:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are a Rheinland company committed to disposing of all of Sirius waste. Just think of the future when there will be no more toxic radiation areas in space, no more debris fields for criminals to hide in. All of Sirius will be clean, thanks to ALG. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Peter Brinkop
->Rumor #132132:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our transports will pick up Scrap Metal from Norfolk and Baltimore in New York and bring them here to be used in the smelters, which will convert the scrap into alloys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Peter Brinkop
->Rumor #132133:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring MOX to fuel the giant furnaces aboard this manufacturing platform from Dortmund, then take the Toxic Waste produced here back to Dortmund to be reprocessed into new MOX fuel pellets -- a highly efficient process that is more cost-effective than that used at LD-14 in Leeds. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Peter Brinkop
->Rumor #132134:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The largest concentration of Bounty Hunters in the system is hanging out around the North Dallas Debris Field. There is a Junker base in there, and where you find Junkers you are going to find other criminals too. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Tara Woods
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker John Smith
->Rumor #132135:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you patrol the Trade Lanes leading from New York to Bering and Hudson, you are going to run across Xenos. Those guys hate outsiders; anyone who is not Liberty is an enemy in their eyes. So if you have been hired to kill Xenos, just watch the foreign shipping convoys moving through. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Tara Woods
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker John Smith
->Rumor #132136:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of my buddies was chasing some Outcasts near the West Dallas Debris Field a few weeks ago. He tried to cut across the edge of the Negra Pequena to catch up with them, but he stayed in too long and bought the farm. Too bad, he was pretty good. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Tara Woods
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker John Smith
->Rumor #132137:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Aside from Trade Lane activity, most of the crime that takes place in this system goes on west of the warning buoys that the navy put up to protect people from flying into dangerous space. Going past those buoys used to worry me when I was green, but now I dont even notice them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Tara Woods
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker John Smith
->Rumor #132138:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rogues like to come into this system since there is so much shipping passing through. They come in from New York I believe, and run their sorties from the Junker base somewhere in the North Dallas Debris Field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Tara Woods
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker John Smith
->Rumor #132139:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG hired me to kill all the Xenos and Rogues I run across, with a bonus for every Xeno. The truth is that Outcasts do a fair bit of pirating and raiding in this system, too. They probably drop their Cardamine with the Junkers and instead of going back home with empty hulls, decide to pick up some goodies on the way home. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Tara Woods
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker John Smith
->Rumor #132140:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring Scrap Metal to this ship from the Beaumont within this same system. If you wanted to haul scrap, you could always come by the Beau. She is tucked safely into the recesses of the North Dallas Debris Field. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Ronald Spitzer
->Rumor #132141:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Believe it or not, there is a large black market within the prison population aboard this ship. The only incarcerated Outcasts in all of Liberty are here. We sneak them small shipments of Cardamine to keep them alive. Their brothers and sisters look after them well. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Ronald Spitzer
->Rumor #132142:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos in this system make life difficult for us, but we fend them off by using our varied business contacts. Of course, it costs us money to do this, which is aggravating. Junkers shouldnt have any enemies; we want to be friends with everyone. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Ronald Spitzer
->Rumor #132143:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship produces the Basic Alloys that Liberty uses in Houston and New York, and all our labor is done by convicted criminals. Thats how we offset the cost of their housing. Without LPI, Liberty would be overrun with lawlessness, and would not be competitive with the other Houses. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sugarland Bartender/Jamie Larsen
->Rumor #132144:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our inmates are clearing the debris fields left by the Dallas incident. Many of the fields have pockets of radiation and are too dangerous to clean yet. The first one to get cool enough to begin clearing was the East Dallas area. It is still too hot for civilian workers, but our inmates do the job. We stock plenty of anti-radiation pills in the dispensary. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sugarland Bartender/Jamie Larsen
->Rumor #132145:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship holds all the captured Outcasts. Most of the Outcasts that come here end up dying for some reason we cant figure out, but some of them survive long enough to serve their time. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sugarland Bartender/Jamie Larsen
->Rumor #132146:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The other prison ship, the Huntsville, produces the majority of Consumer Goods in Liberty, although they're sold down on Houston. We manufacture the Basic Alloys. These ships were built to alleviate the overcrowding of prison facilities planetside in Houston. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sugarland Bartender/Jamie Larsen
->Rumor #132147:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I run the escort patrols around the East Dallas Debris Field. The work convoys we send out to clean the debris are vulnerable to prison escapes and criminal raids. That is the point from which they can most easily free their captured fellow criminals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
->Rumor #132148:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We used to house Xenos at this base, but somehow they always managed to get to the Outcasts no matter how much we tried to keep them separate. In the end, the only way to stop the two factions from killing each other here was to put them on two separate ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sugarland Bartender/Jamie Larsen
->Rumor #132150:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Xenos attack the Outcasts and Junkers in this system, so sometimes they actually make our jobs easier for us. The Rheinland government, though, has been kicking up a fuss about the Xeno attacks on foreign shipping. The foreign corporations are pretty angry about it too, except for the Liberty companies that benefit from the Xenos attacking foreign shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sugarland Bartender/Jamie Larsen
->Rumor #132151:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Even though the name of our company uses the word police in its title, Im more of a factory manager than a law enforcement officer. Im more concerned with squeezing all the production I can out of the miscreant workers here. Usually they are more inspired to work if I hold back their Food rations for a day or two. That always helps boost productivity. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Mike Weber
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Conrad Gernale
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tammy Jones
->Rumor #132152:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>From Pittsburgh and Ft. Bush we bring Boron for use in the Basic Alloy production aboard this ship. Of course, we make more money hauling Commodities here from Rheinland, but the supplemental income from these smaller runs is worth our valuable time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Christoph Höfler
->Rumor #132153:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship much-needed Commodities to this base all the way from Rheinland. It is a long journey but well worth it. Mining Machinery is brought here from Essen, and Copper is imported to this ship from the Ring. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Christoph Höfler
->Rumor #132154:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is no system in Rheinland with this much widespread crime and violence. And we certainly dont have any dark matter pockets like the ones found here. Also look at all the debris. This system is the armpit of Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Christoph Höfler
->Rumor #132155:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Universal ships Basic Alloys to Pueblo, Colorado. On the way back we pick up Hydrocarbons from Los Angeles to be used in the smelting process. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Wesley Randall
->Rumor #132156:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Basic Alloys throughout New York from this base. Then we pick up Water from Manhattan and ship it back here. Texas always needs Water. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Wesley Randall
->Rumor #132157:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic Alloys produced here are shipped to Houston; supplies are brought up on the return trips. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Wesley Randall
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====Fort McMurray (Alberta)====
->Rumor #131658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers' Leiden base provides us with all of our supplies. Their base is located in the Komatsu Cloud due north of the Reppu Cloud that hides this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make a run to Leiden every third week to pick up the essentials that keep this base going: Waters, Consumer Goods, H-Fuel, Engine Components, Pharmaceuticals, and Food. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are two Jump Holes in the Komatsu Cloud, which hides the Lane Hackers' Leiden base. The northern Jump Hole leads to Shikoku, the other to Kepler. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131661:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rochester has plenty of Side Arms to sell, so we pick them up and run them here. The Side Arms we bring in usually head on over to Leiden, where we trade the Lane Hackers for cash or info on ship cargoes headed through the system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131662:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Artifacts to this base from Leiden. They are highly illegal, and the LSF will smoke you if you get scanned with 'em. But the demand is high on Manhattans black market, all the Manhattanites love 'em. From here we ship them out to Rochester. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131663:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We dont like dealing with the Hogosha, and they dont like dealing with us. But we get along with the Lane Hackers alright, and they cut us into the Artifact trade. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131664:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Watch the black matter in the system. If you fly into some, you arent gonna fly back out. Black matter is what led to all the Trade Lane trouble with Ageira and the corporate venture that blew up in its face. To pin it on somebody, Ageira canned a few of its top-level execs and a development team; those guys now operate the Hacker base in Leiden. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131665:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers appreciate the good things in life -- the Cardamine -- just like us; difference is, they got things all figured out. Me, Im just having fun. After my last trip through the Huntsville I didnt really care what happened to me, I only knew Id be damned if I was gonna play by the rules anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
->Rumor #131666:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our guys was gonna rat the Hackers out to a Hunter that had credits to burn. He didnt make it to the rendezvous. The Hackers are too valuable to us to scrape for some temporary cash. Too bad I was the one who had to smoke one of our own. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
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====Red Deer Station (Alberta)====
->Rumor #131986:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love it out here. I grew up on Houston, but I always dreamed about going to the Barrier. It's so beautiful in the skies of Liberty. Who would've known it was chock-full of nasties? I use this as my base for popping into Magellan. Id rather have the LPI as roommates than the criminals on those Freeports. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131987:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got the Jump Hole routes down in this part of Sirius. The Outcasts run their drugs from Manchester through a Hole to Magellan, then across to Cortez. From there, into the Tahoe Cloud, then across this system to the Texas Hole. Pretty good, eh? I dare you to follow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131988:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild does a regular "fishing" trip into the Cloud every day. We usually snag something. A Rogue or two -- once in a while you get an Outcast. Like catching one of those giant black two-finned sharks they have on Curacao. You have to let it run the line till it tires out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131989:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say if you want to get in with the Outcasts, get friendly with the Rogues. Then graduate to the Lane Hackers. Run some drugs. Then you're on your way. Hard to turn back at that point, since you'll be a Cardamine addict for life. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131990:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm doing long-range recon patrols into the Whitney Field. We do a lazy loop around it, keeping our distance from the Rogue base. Our usual path runs right along the Outcast smuggling route, so you have to be real careful. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131991:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs are a tough lot. Best chance to get in with them is with the Junkers. Whatever you do, stay away from the Hessian and Outcast alliances. As I said, hard to do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131992:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Talk about bad luck& I got posted here six months ago. LPI shouldn't even be here. This is practically Border World territory. We got a huge cloud full of nasties separating us from civilization. Can't just go for a pleasure run to Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131993:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They send all the problem people here, literally to kill you. Our western patrol goes right into the thick of the cloud west of the Lane. I've seen more than one of my buddies disappear in a puff of smoke. One moment they're joking with you about their next vacation, next thing, poof! </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131994:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They set up this border station to keep a watch on the Magellan Gate, since it's so isolated from everything else in the system. Then some genius planetside decided that we needed to do patrols into the Tahoe Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131995:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The eastern patrol goes through some old abandoned paths from the ice mining days. Then it loops back towards the Trade Lane. I just grit my teeth the whole way and hope that no baddies show up on radar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131996:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just countin' the days. I got thirty-two left before I go back to a life. The attrition rate here is real bad. So far, twenty guys this month got vaporized by Outcasts, Hackers, or Rogues. That's some bad odds. I need to look for a new line of work if I make it through this. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131997:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I may as well join the Bounty Hunters if I'm going to get posts like this. When they told me back on Sugarland that there was a combat opening in California, I jumped at the chance. Now I know why. I was replacing some other fool who lasted all of three days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131998:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just dropping off some basic supplies from Los Angeles. We usually stop at Willard first. Today we're bringing in Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel. I'm getting out of here as fast as I can. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #131999:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They ordered some Side Arms, so we're obliging. I wish they could just come to Los Angeles to pick them up; it would make life a lot easier. I guess the replacement rate for new recruits is pretty high, so they need a lot of new issues on Side Arms. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #132000:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I guess the Universal contract with LPI and the navy is real lucrative. Half the time we're flying half-empty. I don't care. Just give me my paycheck. At least the pirates don't hassle us too much. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
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====Pueblo Bonito (Baffin)====
->Rumor #133201:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>To the west are the Sabana Fragments. You can get to Omega-41 from there -- a good idea if you are trying to avoid the Corsairs. They are still all over, since this is their space, but you won't be going through the Corsair home system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133202:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've been contracted by Cryer to come down here and kill a few Corsairs for them. Their base, Atka, got hit a few weeks ago. Usually its the Outcasts who hit Atka, but this time it was the Corsairs. Corsairs, Outcasts -- it doesn't make any difference to me. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133203:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Head for the cloud south of here and you will find Artifacts, but that's not why I go there. The cloud to the south hides the Jump Hole to Omicron Gamma. If you do go in there, get ready to fight or you'd better be good at hiding. No matter what you do, don't stay in there too long, because its just a matter of time before your number gets punched. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133204:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have come to this place looking for a Corsair named Jardin. He is an infamous killer and pirate. Many say he cannot be stopped, but if anyone can drop him, I can. He is just a man, and a man can die, no matter how tough he is. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133205:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My brother joined the Bounty Hunters Guild a few years ago. He's not tough enough to take on Corsairs yet; he should still be popping Rogues. The idiot sent me a message telling me he was ready for the big leagues in southern Sirius. I'm trying to find him before he gets killed. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133206:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I was a Red Hessian for many years. I became pretty good at killing Corsairs, so I decided to get paid for it. Besides, I had grown weary of piracy. I became a Hessian for political reasons, before they sold out. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133207:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sigma-17 is the next stop between here and the Junker bases where we offload the Artifacts marked for Rheinland. Youll find the Jump Hole in the Orinoco Cloud. The other distribution point for our Artifacts is aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Hawaii</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. The Hogosha on that ship will fence our goods into Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133208:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Napo Cloud in this system is filled with Artifacts, but the Zoners here know better than to try and get them. Artifacts are Corsair business. The objects we get from that cloud have been funding and feeding the Corsairs for centuries. You had better be a good friend to us if you decide to go there. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133209:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole that leads to our home system is in the Napo Cloud. Unwanted intruders who get taken alive have it worst of all, we keelhaul them. Try to imagine being in a vac-suit lashed to the outside of a ship thats headed into a Jump Hole. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133210:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get many of our basic supplies from this base. The biodomes here provide us with the Food we consume throughout our space. Corsair leadership has decided that the next step for the Corsair Brotherhood is to build our own biodomes so we will never have to worry about Food again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133211:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Side Arm you see me carrying came from Yanagi. It's a Rheinlander piece, because I'm an eastern Corsair. The western Corsairs get Detroit weaponry from Bretonia. The Yanagi Junkers supply this base with Engine Components, too. We use those at Tripoli. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133212:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Felix, of my sons, was killed at Cadiz fighting the Hessians. His brother, Cesar, died during initiation. Cesar was a good pilot and a strong man, but his sensors were damaged. He trusted them instead of his own instincts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133213:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just between you and me, I'll kill the occasional Zoner if he's alone and there are no witnesses. Why pay for something when you can just take it, eh? They shouldn't be here anyway. This is dangerous space for anybody, even you. You should be very careful around here, especially with that nice ship and all of your cargo. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133214:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can't kill anyone onboard or in the immediate area of a Zoner base. Thats why the Bounty Hunters are still breathing here. I would like nothing better than to walk over to a Bounty Hunter and eliminate them with my Daumann Devastator. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133216:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The biodomes we invested in here have paid off in spades. Everyone in this part of space comes here for Food, and we get the profits. Well, us and Synth Foods, of course. We ship Food to Atka in Sigma-17 and Freeport 5 in Omega-41. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133217:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get many of our goods from the Junkers at Yanagi. Our boats haul Engine Components and Consumer Goods from there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133218:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship the Alien Organisms found in this system to the Cryer base in Sigma-17. Cryer also needs our Polymers, and we return with Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133219:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our brothers in Freeport 5 send us Polymers, Fertilizers, and Consumer Goods. Its a Zoner's duty to help other Zoners where we can. This is a dangerous part of space; only by sticking together can we make it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133220:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Don't ask me where the Jump Hole is that leads to the Corsair homeworld. I've said too much already. The Corsairs would cut my throat if I dared to utter where the entrance to their system is. Just stay away from the Napo Cloud. I mean & it isn't in the Napo Cloud, it's ... I'm a dead man. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133221:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Artifacts that you can find in this system are not worth taking. We don't touch them; they are Corsair property. If you think differently, I recommend that you make sure you aren't behind on your policy payments to IC. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #134313:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Jesse Casas was truly an original. Captured as a young Corsair on his first mission to the inner house systems, he spent years imprisoned in Vierlande. He eventually renounced his Corsair vows and joined the Bounty Hunters Guild. Flying the Rebel, Casas used his intimate knowledge of the pirate ways to full tactical advantage. He finally met his demise somewhere in the Napo Cloud in 791. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
->Rumor #134314:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 550 AS the Bretonian government chartered the exploratory/research ship Fearless to explore the fringes of the mysterious edge nebula. After several years spent crossing the outer Omega systems, they discovered Omicron Theta and its sole planet, Pygar. Upon completing a brief survey of the planet and retrieving several strange Artifacts that were sent back by courier ship to Cambridge, they continued on into the mysterious clouds that traversed the eastern end of the system. The Fearless was never seen again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
->Rumor #134319:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>"Lucky" Logan Conner was one tough nut, as anyone will tell you. He would take on an entire patrol of Corsairs, picking them off one by one. Based out of Freeport 5 to be close to his favorite prey, he liked living life on the ragged edge. His luck finally ran out in 780, when he ventured too far from the safety of the Gredos Cloud in the Corsairs home territory of Omicron Gamma. A mass of Corsairs pursued him back into the nebula. It was rumored that they didnt actually dispose of Conner on the spot, but merely disabled his ship and let him die a slow death by asphyxiation. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
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====Sedona Station (Baffin)====
->Rumor #133180:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I specialize in killing Corsairs. If you want one dead I can do it for you, but its going to cost you. It's a family business, really. My father was killing these heartless cretins before me. It's not easy; these guys are incredible pilots with excellent ships. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Jim York
->Rumor #133181:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Obviously you have the skills required to survive if you have come to the edges of Sirius. As a Guild instructor I train newbie Bounty Hunters the skills that you and I already have. The first thing I teach them is that becoming a good pilot is a gradual process. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Jim York
->Rumor #133182:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The trick to killing Corsairs is catching them off guard. Go into their home system, find a spot to hide, and ambush one or two as they cross in front of you. Once you've made your kills get out of there, because more are probably coming. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Jim York
->Rumor #133183:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm following a couple of Corsairs back from Dublin, where they stole a shipment of Gold. The bounty on these two guys will put me on easy street for months. Once I'm done refueling and resupplying I'm headed into Omicron Gamma. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Jim York
->Rumor #133184:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The trick to killing Corsairs is taking them head on. They aren't used to someone getting in their face and fighting them squarely; it throws them off balance. Then you have the advantage. I know. I've killed two Corsairs already. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Jim York
->Rumor #133185:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is my first time in this part of Sirius. I couldn't believe it when I saw my old instructor here. He told me that knowing the Jump Holes to this system didn't mean I was ready for them yet. I'm not going home like he said I should I'm good enough for these Corsairs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Jim York
->Rumor #133186:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring Artifacts to this base from Crete. It is not as lucrative a run as others, but the Zoners will find buyers for them. Either way we make our money. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
 * Zoners/Freeport 5 Bartender/Jack Phillips
->Rumor #133187:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the Zoners here at this base fell in love with my daughter. When she told me of her love I sent her back to Crete. She can never return here. My son has gone looking for the man who dishonored my family. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133188:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters at this base are fools. Granted, we cannot attack them while they are here, but most of them will soon find themselves in Corsair ambushes when they have left the no-fighting zone that surrounds this place. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133189:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The shipyard Tripoli requires many different Commodities to maintain production of our vessels and raiding crafts. We ship Polymers and Engine Components there from this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
 * Zoners/Freeport 5 Bartender/Jack Phillips
->Rumor #133190:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day the Corsairs may destroy this base if we find we have no more need of it. The Zoners do not realize what kind of people we are. Death is so familiar to a Corsair that delivering it is second nature. It would trouble no Corsair to put every Zoner at this base to the sword. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133191:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Soon I will be headed to Omega-5 to fight the Red Hessians in that part of Sirius, where it is vital that we gain control. It is every Corsair's responsibility to fly a tour of duty in the Hessian War. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133192:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>People often wonder how Corsairs can have such excellent ships when they are all pieced together from other stolen and salvaged vessels. Corsairs are masters of making something from nothing, and we have an advantage. Not all Artifacts are useless; many we recovered offered insight into the science of ship building. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133193:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Every firstborn Corsair carries the family's ancestral blade. The knife is a symbol of our struggle to live and the solidarity of each line. The blades are made from the remnants of the first ship that landed on Crete. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133194:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Do you know what it means when I tell you that I am a Ventru? I doubt you would understand my full meaning. Travel deeper into our worlds and perhaps then the horrible truth will make itself clear to you. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Alberto Cordero
 * Corsairs/ Flor Soto
 * Corsairs/ Rico Santini
->Rumor #133195:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get many of our goods from Freeport 1 in Omega-3. We ship Polymers, Engine Components, and Fertilizers here from that area. The Corsairs must fight the Red Hessians to enter that space, but we may pass unhindered. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #133196:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Zoner goods flow between this base and Freeport 9 on the other side of Omicron Gamma. The Corsairs let us pass because we supply them with many of the goods they use themselves. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #133197:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Outside of colony space you don't have the luxury of Jump Gates. You must use Jump Holes to travel between systems. Omega-41 is a crossroads in this part of space. There are Holes that lead to Omega-11 and Omega-5 on the western side and to Omicron Theta and Omicron Gamma in the eastern half. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #133198:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a very dangerous radiation zone in the center of the system. Even very good shields will not hold up very long in there. Be careful when traveling through that you avoid it, or you may end up dead. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #133199:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My son had to flee this base. He had to get as far away from this part of Sirius as he could. He made a terrible mistake and fell in love with a Corsair woman. Though the girl loved him, too, the Corsairs would never accept such a union. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #133200:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs and Red Hessians have been fighting a vicious war against each other to the west and north of here. As Zoners we do not get involved; we must sell supplies to both sides to make a living. My cousin is a proprietor in Omega-3 and often deals with Red Hessians. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #134311:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Drifting just beyond the inner edge of the planetary fragment field, the Independence was the part of the IMGs failed effort to establish a Diamond mining operation in Omega-41. The debris has been left untouched for some time now, mostly due to its highly exposed location near the neutron star. It is rumored that there were Diamonds onboard, but no one is certain. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #134313:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Jesse Casas was truly an original. Captured as a young Corsair on his first mission to the inner house systems, he spent years imprisoned in Vierlande. He eventually renounced his Corsair vows and joined the Bounty Hunters Guild. Flying the Rebel, Casas used his intimate knowledge of the pirate ways to full tactical advantage. He finally met his demise somewhere in the Napo Cloud in 791. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #134314:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 550 AS the Bretonian government chartered the exploratory/research ship Fearless to explore the fringes of the mysterious edge nebula. After several years spent crossing the outer Omega systems, they discovered Omicron Theta and its sole planet, Pygar. Upon completing a brief survey of the planet and retrieving several strange Artifacts that were sent back by courier ship to Cambridge, they continued on into the mysterious clouds that traversed the eastern end of the system. The Fearless was never seen again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
 * Zoners/ Juan Carlos Marquez
->Rumor #134319:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>"Lucky" Logan Conner was one tough nut, as anyone will tell you. He would take on an entire patrol of Corsairs, picking them off one by one. Based out of Freeport 5 to be close to his favorite prey, he liked living life on the ragged edge. His luck finally ran out in 780, when he ventured too far from the safety of the Gredos Cloud in the Corsairs home territory of Omicron Gamma. A mass of Corsairs pursued him back into the nebula. It was rumored that they didnt actually dispose of Conner on the spot, but merely disabled his ship and let him die a slow death by asphyxiation. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Liz Becker
 * Zoners/ Ibrahim Piniones
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====Shasta Orbital Skyhook (Baffin)====
->Rumor #133201:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>To the west are the Sabana Fragments. You can get to Omega-41 from there -- a good idea if you are trying to avoid the Corsairs. They are still all over, since this is their space, but you won't be going through the Corsair home system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133202:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've been contracted by Cryer to come down here and kill a few Corsairs for them. Their base, Atka, got hit a few weeks ago. Usually its the Outcasts who hit Atka, but this time it was the Corsairs. Corsairs, Outcasts -- it doesn't make any difference to me. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133203:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Head for the cloud south of here and you will find Artifacts, but that's not why I go there. The cloud to the south hides the Jump Hole to Omicron Gamma. If you do go in there, get ready to fight or you'd better be good at hiding. No matter what you do, don't stay in there too long, because its just a matter of time before your number gets punched. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133204:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have come to this place looking for a Corsair named Jardin. He is an infamous killer and pirate. Many say he cannot be stopped, but if anyone can drop him, I can. He is just a man, and a man can die, no matter how tough he is. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133205:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My brother joined the Bounty Hunters Guild a few years ago. He's not tough enough to take on Corsairs yet; he should still be popping Rogues. The idiot sent me a message telling me he was ready for the big leagues in southern Sirius. I'm trying to find him before he gets killed. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133206:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I was a Red Hessian for many years. I became pretty good at killing Corsairs, so I decided to get paid for it. Besides, I had grown weary of piracy. I became a Hessian for political reasons, before they sold out. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
->Rumor #133207:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sigma-17 is the next stop between here and the Junker bases where we offload the Artifacts marked for Rheinland. Youll find the Jump Hole in the Orinoco Cloud. The other distribution point for our Artifacts is aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Hawaii</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. The Hogosha on that ship will fence our goods into Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133208:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Napo Cloud in this system is filled with Artifacts, but the Zoners here know better than to try and get them. Artifacts are Corsair business. The objects we get from that cloud have been funding and feeding the Corsairs for centuries. You had better be a good friend to us if you decide to go there. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133209:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole that leads to our home system is in the Napo Cloud. Unwanted intruders who get taken alive have it worst of all, we keelhaul them. Try to imagine being in a vac-suit lashed to the outside of a ship thats headed into a Jump Hole. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133210:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get many of our basic supplies from this base. The biodomes here provide us with the Food we consume throughout our space. Corsair leadership has decided that the next step for the Corsair Brotherhood is to build our own biodomes so we will never have to worry about Food again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133211:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Side Arm you see me carrying came from Yanagi. It's a Rheinlander piece, because I'm an eastern Corsair. The western Corsairs get Detroit weaponry from Bretonia. The Yanagi Junkers supply this base with Engine Components, too. We use those at Tripoli. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133212:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Felix, of my sons, was killed at Cadiz fighting the Hessians. His brother, Cesar, died during initiation. Cesar was a good pilot and a strong man, but his sensors were damaged. He trusted them instead of his own instincts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133213:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just between you and me, I'll kill the occasional Zoner if he's alone and there are no witnesses. Why pay for something when you can just take it, eh? They shouldn't be here anyway. This is dangerous space for anybody, even you. You should be very careful around here, especially with that nice ship and all of your cargo. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133214:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can't kill anyone onboard or in the immediate area of a Zoner base. Thats why the Bounty Hunters are still breathing here. I would like nothing better than to walk over to a Bounty Hunter and eliminate them with my Daumann Devastator. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Josefina Ferrer
 * Corsairs/ Manuel Llorens
 * Corsairs/ Maris Guzman
->Rumor #133216:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The biodomes we invested in here have paid off in spades. Everyone in this part of space comes here for Food, and we get the profits. Well, us and Synth Foods, of course. We ship Food to Atka in Sigma-17 and Freeport 5 in Omega-41. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133217:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get many of our goods from the Junkers at Yanagi. Our boats haul Engine Components and Consumer Goods from there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133218:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship the Alien Organisms found in this system to the Cryer base in Sigma-17. Cryer also needs our Polymers, and we return with Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133219:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our brothers in Freeport 5 send us Polymers, Fertilizers, and Consumer Goods. Its a Zoner's duty to help other Zoners where we can. This is a dangerous part of space; only by sticking together can we make it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133220:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Don't ask me where the Jump Hole is that leads to the Corsair homeworld. I've said too much already. The Corsairs would cut my throat if I dared to utter where the entrance to their system is. Just stay away from the Napo Cloud. I mean & it isn't in the Napo Cloud, it's ... I'm a dead man. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #133221:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Artifacts that you can find in this system are not worth taking. We don't touch them; they are Corsair property. If you think differently, I recommend that you make sure you aren't behind on your policy payments to IC. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Ivan Parks
 * Zoners/ Sam Ralston
 * Zoners/Freeport 9 Bartender/Ruben Walton
->Rumor #134313:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Jesse Casas was truly an original. Captured as a young Corsair on his first mission to the inner house systems, he spent years imprisoned in Vierlande. He eventually renounced his Corsair vows and joined the Bounty Hunters Guild. Flying the Rebel, Casas used his intimate knowledge of the pirate ways to full tactical advantage. He finally met his demise somewhere in the Napo Cloud in 791. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
->Rumor #134314:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 550 AS the Bretonian government chartered the exploratory/research ship Fearless to explore the fringes of the mysterious edge nebula. After several years spent crossing the outer Omega systems, they discovered Omicron Theta and its sole planet, Pygar. Upon completing a brief survey of the planet and retrieving several strange Artifacts that were sent back by courier ship to Cambridge, they continued on into the mysterious clouds that traversed the eastern end of the system. The Fearless was never seen again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
->Rumor #134319:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>"Lucky" Logan Conner was one tough nut, as anyone will tell you. He would take on an entire patrol of Corsairs, picking them off one by one. Based out of Freeport 5 to be close to his favorite prey, he liked living life on the ragged edge. His luck finally ran out in 780, when he ventured too far from the safety of the Gredos Cloud in the Corsairs home territory of Omicron Gamma. A mass of Corsairs pursued him back into the nebula. It was rumored that they didnt actually dispose of Conner on the spot, but merely disabled his ship and let him die a slow death by asphyxiation. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Brooke Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Gina Utaki
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====Guard Station (Bastille)====
->Rumor #132560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We go further into the clouds than the Armed Forces do. I've gone right by the Omega-5 Jump Hole more than once. That takes some guts, let me tell ya. The Corsairs get really nasty if you get too close to their access points. I've never been in Omega-5. Not too many Hunters survive to tell their tales of that area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Word from Freeport I is that the Corsairs are losing their turf war with the Hessians in Omega-5. That'll save Bretonia's rear. Once the Hessians cut off Omega-5, the Corsairs won't have an access route into Cambridge anymore. Hessians don't much care about this corner of the woods. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our group went on a long-range patrol along the Corsair Artifact smuggling route to the New London Jump Hole. I got one of 'em in my sights, but his buddies laid some wicked covering fire that forced me to break off. Those Corsairs are a wily lot. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are some top Hunters of the Guild out in the Omega Sector. I was talking to one of 'em last week on Freeport 1 -- said he'd made it all the way to Freeport 5 in Omega-41. That's on the edge of nothing, that is. He talked about a neutron star's deadly radiation that'll fry ya in a couple of minutes if you aren't properly protected. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to be an IMG miner in Cardiff. This is much better work -- yeah, a little more dangerous, but a lot more rewarding. They recruited me for my knowledge of the Grasmere and Keswick Clouds. I grew up on Cambridge, so I know 'em like the back of my hand. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild is gaining membership in Rheinland. It was tough for a while, but the pay is better than the Federal Police can offer, and you have more freedom to boot. Of course, the Red Hessians are growing, too, so it's not an easy job. The Mollys and Gaians would be chicken feed for that lot. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are delivering supplies from Cambridge for the battleship. It's not much of a run, but it keeps me busy. The Corsairs rarely bother us along the Cambridge line. We bring the Side Arms and H-Fuel in from London as needed.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132567:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We had a rough MOX run on the way in. Mollys attacked us as we left LD-14. The Armed Forces saved the day on that one. Then the Mollys bit us again in New London. This time it got dicey, since all we had were police in the area. I lost an escort on that one. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132568:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Normally, running Toxic Waste from a ship like this one is not an attractive target, but those Mollys think they can build a dirty bomb with some of this nasty stuff. So, we have to deal with stress both ways from LD-14. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132569:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Norfolk serves as a keystone in the defense of Bretonia against the scourge of the Corsairs. The Cambridge Line stretches between here and Cambridge to offer additional protection for ships traveling along that Trade Lane. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132570:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Omega-3 is a sea of ice asteroids. Corsairs are more of a problem in our end of the system; the Red Hessians take over at the east end. Apparently, there's no Jump Hole between Omega-3 and here, or between Omega-3 and Omega-7. That keeps things a little bit more controlled. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
->Rumor #132571:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We patrol the Trade Lane into the Keswick Cloud, a favorite crossing point for Corsairs, and the Lane to Cardiff. The Omega-3 Gate area is particularly contentious right now. We've allocated an entire squadron to patrol just that vicinity. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132572:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Captain Edwards says we're going out into the Grasmere tomorrow on a search and destroy mission to look for Corsairs. Guess I better record a message for my momma, in case I don't come back. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
->Rumor #132573:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've extended our patrols into Omega-3 per the conditions of the Omega Trade Lane Pact with Rheinland. Problem is, they aren't holding up their end in Omega-7. The excuse is not enough money. We're itching to go in there, but London won't allow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132574:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cambridge used to be such a peaceful place, and then the Corsairs showed up. They've built that Cambridge Line to assure all those university types in Cambridge that everything is under control. Fact is the Line's useless. The weapon platforms are too far apart, and the Corsairs just go around the ends of the Line. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #134284:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
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====Navy Prison Station (Bastille)====
->Rumor #132083:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system is a Bounty Hunters dream. Point your ship in a direction, start flying, and sooner or later youre going to run into somebody who is wanted for a bounty -- especially on the west side of the system. West Texas is a dangerous cesspool.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132084:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I like to patrol out by the Negra Pequena and the North Dallas Debris Field. You can find Rogues, Outcasts, Xenos, and Junkers in that area. There is a Jump Hole around there that leads to New York, I believe. Somehow a lot of the criminals find their way into this system from California in that general area, too. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132085:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The radiation pocket in the center of the West Dallas Debris Field will fry your ship quick. One of my favorite things to do is chase the scumbags Im following into that area, and then I let the radiation do my work for me. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132086:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>IC pays me well to protect their interests in Texas. They dont have any people or offices here, but this is a very important system for them. The majority of the crime that goes on in Liberty goes on right here in this system. And since most of the stolen cargo is insured by IC& well, you get the idea.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132087:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I believe that an Outcast would rather die than go to prison. I dont know of any currently at this facility. I think that any Outcasts who do happen to get captured go to the Sugarland. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132088:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ive seen the Jump Hole in this system that leads to California. It is in the West Dallas Debris Field, just north of the radiation pocket.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Pauline Saab
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
->Rumor #132089:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I oversee the workers in the textile wing of this prison facility. The clothes you are wearing right now were made by convicts who work under my supervision. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132090:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This facility houses all the Xenos we apprehend in Liberty space. The Xenos are a relatively small faction, but their numbers are constantly growing. This place is where they do their recruiting. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132091:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Any Outcasts that are captured are sent to the Sugarland; if they come here they will die. Xenos hate Outcasts because they are so different and foreign. So any Outcast who comes will be killed within days by the Xeno population. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132092:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The convoys that run prisoners to this base from other systems in Liberty are under constant attack. Criminals are always trying to break their comrades out before they reach this base. Once they get here the apprehended criminals are here to stay. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132093:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All of the work done at this ship actually takes place onboard. If you were ever to find yourself an inmate on the Sugarland, you might be put on a work detail clearing radioactive debris from one of the debris fields in this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132094:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We dont do a lot of security patrols in his system; we leave most of that to the navy or Bounty Hunters. This is more of a corrections area for LPI than anything else. We are most concerned with keeping the prisoners here and putting them to work once they arrive, not necessarily catching them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132095:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the patrols that we make in this system is the Trade Lane from Houston to the New York Jump Gate. There are too many attacks on that small part of Texas space to ignore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132096:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The East Dallas Debris Field is where many inmates are transported from the other penal ship Sugarland to clean up the scrap. The radiation has died down quite a bit in that field since the Dallas incident, but it is still too dangerous for civilian workers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132097:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the civilians in this system have four choices: work for LPI on one of the penal ships, become a Bounty Hunter, work at Houston in the Fertilizer plants, or become a criminal. I chose working for LPI; it was the safest choice. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Huntsville Bartender/Larry Blanton
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Trevor Pruett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Kathy Bateman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Tristan Sofen
->Rumor #132098:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base receives Pharmaceuticals, Side Arms, and the usual supplies from Houston. While Im here between shipments I get a chance to see the scum who harass our shipping concerns. They're behind bars or making toys in the factory. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Aidan Williams
->Rumor #132099:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the only safe zone in Texas, behind the F-Zone boundary of weapon platforms and satellites controlled by the military. No Universal ship would ever be caught over there. That's criminal country. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Aidan Williams
->Rumor #132100:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It is a wonder that anything arrives or leaves this system. Most of the criminals in Liberty reside in Texas. The navy and LPI do their best to curb piracy and theft within Texas, but its not enough. All our shipments that pass through here are insured by IC, so I suppose it becomes their problem -- except for our pilots, who get killed in pirate attacks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Aidan Williams
->Rumor #134341:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not too long ago there was a prison break by some Rogues from a Sugarland work convoy in the East Dallas Debris Field. They fled into the Pequena Negra Cloud, pursued by a Bounty Hunter named Annie Shorty Davis. She flew a nice rig called the Avenger. The Rogues eventually doubled back and escaped through the California Hole. Annie must have gotten confused in there, or maybe her ship was damaged by some enemy fire. Either way, she never emerged from that dark cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kevin Holmes
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====Police Prison Station (Bastille)====
->Rumor #132672:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The inmates aboard this ship are considered so dangerous that all guards have the right to shoot and kill any prisoner at any time. That may seem somewhat brutal, but it is necessary to maintain order among so many violent felons. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132673:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The prisoners do not cross Mollys aboard this ship, especially the Mollys that carry the Maguire spike. That weapon is a filed down metal splinter. When we found one on an inmate last week, the guard shot him on the spot.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
->Rumor #132674:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Mollys don't attack this base as much as they used to now that we have installed weapon platforms and a minefield along the Newgate's perimeter. The current problem is that they try to rescue their captured comrades by attacking the convoys headed into the base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132675:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Aye, the Mollys aboard this ship are a mean lot, but the main problem is the free ones who keep trying to liberate their fellows. The worst attempt I can remember was about two years ago when one of the attackers' missiles penetrated the hull and a whole cell block underwent explosive decompression. Everyone in there died, including guards and prisoners.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132676:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever hear of Willy "The Snake" Logan? He's the prisoner some say escaped off this hulk. Me, I don't buy it. I say his corpse is out floating around somewhere in the vac-suit he fashioned.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
->Rumor #132677:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The guards who work this prison are the best in Bretonia. Most of them are incorruptible, though there are always bad apples. One crooked guard is now serving time here for delivering George Good's orders. He's the leader of one of the New London crime syndicates.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132678:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We try to keep the Mollys separated on this ship. Anytime you have more than two of them together, trouble is just around the corner. We learned this only after three of them killed two guards, stole their weapons, and tried to fight their way to the bridge.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132679:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the guards here used to know Willy Logan. He was an escape artist who some people say busted out of the Newgate. Maybe he did. His cell mate says that the vac-suit he made looked pretty good. The closest base sure is a long way to go using a stolen fire extinguisher as propulsion.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
->Rumor #133058:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I haven't really put many inmates in this prison; that's more of a police job. The chaps that I've collected my bounties on are dead. It's just easier like that and that's how most companies prefer 'em. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133059:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to collect lots of bounties on the Mollys who'd attack the ship trying to free their mates. Not anymore. I hang out at this base to hear about incoming convoys of newly captured prisoners. That's where they try to make the breaks these days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133060:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My first trip to the Newgate I spent some time wearing a number. I decided then to go straight. After I finished serving my time I knew I'd never come back -- not as a prisoner at least. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133061:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I may be a Bretonian Bounty Hunter, but I've been making a lot of good money from a Liberty company. Ageira is paying me big bucks to dust any Lane Hackers that I catch in this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133062:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you find Mollys in this system, they are either sitting here doing time or they came through the Leeds Jump Hole. That Hole is tucked away nicely in the Birmingham Ice Field.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133063:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I sat down at a bar in Piccadilly once and met the only man to escape from this prison -- Willy Logan. It took him ten years to make his vac-suit, and then he escaped through the waste disposal system and was flushed into space with the garbage. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133064:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Sheffield is a large distribution point for Commodities in Bretonia. Since it is so close, we bring basic supplies to this base from there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133065:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It may be nearby, but I have close calls running Pharmaceuticals and Side Arms here from Sheffield all the time. On the last run I almost got vaped by some Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133066:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use a lot of Oxygen and Water at this base, so Bowex ships additional supplies from Birmingham, a large producer of Commodities in this part of Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133067:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The run that I make for Bowex is the only one that brings supplies to this base from outside of Manchester. H-Fuel from Cambridge is shipped regularly to this base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133068:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship, the Newgate Deep-Max Penitentiary Vessel, is a high-security prison for the worst of the Bretonian criminals. The terrorists, serial felons, escape artists, and others too dangerous to house planetside come here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
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====Freeport 2 (Bering)====
->Rumor #131471:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Lhtml&gt; I tell you, there's a lot of work for Bounty Hunters in these parts. The navy covers the north Trade Lanes and Texas Jump Gate okay, but they aren't around a lot of the time. Xenos and Rogues hit the northern Trade Lane, Unioners the south. Yup, lots of work.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sandra Bassett
->Rumor #131472:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioner base is out there in the southwestern part of the system. You'll know if you've stumbled onto that hornet's nest, believe me. The Xenos and Rogues tend to be more in the northwest part of the system -- guess the Jump Hole to Hudson is somewhere out there.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sandra Bassett
->Rumor #131473:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a good thing the Zoners let us land on their bases. The criminals don't like it, but fair is fair. If the Zoners didn't allow us to land, IC and the Liberty Navy would shut this Freeport down in a second, and the Zoners know that.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sandra Bassett
->Rumor #131474:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>From Houston we ship in Fertilizers to the biodomes here and return with Food for the prison factories.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ Dwayne Simmons
->Rumor #131475:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're kind of new to the long-distance Food-shipping business. Until we got Stuttgart handed to us by the Liberty government, we had little business outside of Liberty systems. Now we have better ships and escorts, so we can handle these tough Independent World crossings. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ Dwayne Simmons
->Rumor #131476:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners and Xenos don't bother us too much here. Nothing like that damned LWB in Stuttgart. The Rogues, on the other hand, are not very discriminating in their targets.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ Dwayne Simmons
->Rumor #131477:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run supply shipments of Food, Oxygen, Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, H-Fuel, and Water to our base out in the southern asteroid fields of this system. Just watch out for Bounty Hunters. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Hartmut Rosa
->Rumor #131478:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We left Hamburg for this system after we reformed into the Unioners, but too many of us flooded onto this Freeport. It was an obvious target for the Rheinland Military, so the Zoners eventually asked us to leave. We put our skills to use and carved a hidden base out of an asteroid in the Tanner Asteroid Field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Hartmut Rosa
->Rumor #131479:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The current workers in the Alster Shipyards and Altona hate us for the attacks we make against their manufactories, but they dont understand the way they are being exploited by Republican Shipping. If only they could open their eyes, wed have more strong hands to join us in our cause. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Hartmut Rosa
->Rumor #131480:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is one of the only bases around that lets us land. Those Zoners are good people, although they do seem to like foreigners a bit too much. We run supply shipments for basic needs like Food, Fuel, Oxygen, Pharmaceuticals, and Water from here to our base in Hudson. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Gill Harries
->Rumor #131481:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Zoners run Side Arms from Hamburg to this Freeport. That's a big help for us, as otherwise we'd have nowhere else to get our guns for our base in the Hudson system. An unarmed Xeno doesn't last long in Barrow. Only problem is that the guns are Rheinland made; it's just too hard to get proper Liberty hardware in these parts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Gill Harries
->Rumor #131482:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We like to hit Republican convoys in Bering whenever we can. Those Unioners hate 'em even more. That's what we like to see -- them killing each other off. One day this system will belong to just us and the Zoners, soon as we get the Rogues to see the light and join our cause. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Gill Harries
->Rumor #131483:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make supply runs to Hamburg to import essential Commodities like Oxygen, Water, Consumer Goods, and Pharmaceuticals.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131484:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners have a base out in the asteroid fields in the southwestern part of the system. They visit us frequently to purchase supplies.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131485:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are two Jump Holes into this system. Both of them lie in Unioner territory, so be careful. The one to Hamburg is in the southwestern quadrant; the one to Hudson is straight across on the western edge of the system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
->Rumor #131486:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our main activity on Freeport 2 is Food production. Synth Foods brings in Fertilizers from Houston and buys much of our excess to feed the burgeoning prison population in Texas.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131487:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos visit our base to buy all of their supplies and to purchase Side Arms. They grumble about them being Rheinland made, but buy them anyway. A strange lot.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131488:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Xenos, Rogues, and Unioners attack the Trade Lanes within this system. Bounty Hunters and the Liberty Navy keep them somewhat in check, but it's still not a very safe place to be. We are truly the sanctuary in these parts.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131489:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run Side Arms in from Hamburg. The senior council of the station is split on that policy, as Zoners do not condone violence. However, it's profitable and it fulfills a need for the criminals that visit our base.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131490:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This station originally belonged to Republican Shipping, who used it as a supply and repair depot before the Trade Lanes were built in 550. In 650 our ancestors drifted in from Texas and Hamburg and refurbished the abandoned station, naming it Freeport 2, the second in the Sirius Sector.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131491:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Zoners firmly believe in the concept of Freeports -- places where anyone, regardless of their criminal or political affiliation, is welcome. Unfortunately, the authorities in the House systems do not subscribe to this philosophy, so there are none within House boundaries.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131492:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Synth Foods has been good for us. They helped install and maintain the biodomes, provided the special seeds, and sold us the processing and flavorant units that turn inedible crops into digestible food. Until they came along, the Zoners and other free thinkers struggled with the starvation caused by the lack of arable planets in the Independent and Border Worlds.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131493:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system only exists as a way point on the Jump Gate routes because the distance between Hamburg and Texas was longer than the six-light-year limit of early Jump Gates. Before the Trade Lanes were built, the asteroids caused constant problems with shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #131494:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We sheltered the Unioners when they first fled Hamburg in the years following the Popular Revolution, but they soon became too numerous for us to support. When Republican hired Bounty Hunters and the Rheinland Military started to harass us, the Unioners left and established their own base at our request. They still come for supplies, though.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
 * Zoners/Freeport 2 Bartender/Jim Millam
->Rumor #134321:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Xeno patrol got too close to the Unioner base and was attacked a few days ago. Two ships fled back through the Jump Hole, but the third didnt make it. The Unioners have little use for Xeno weapons, so they probably just left the ship carcass adrift out there in the Tanner Asteroid Belt. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Elijah Martin
 * Zoners/ Jeff Zabor
 * Zoners/ Mitchell Wood
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====Pacifica Base (Bering)====
->Rumor #131460:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic Alloys produced here are shipped to Houston, and supplies are transported on the return trips. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131461:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We smuggle Diamonds from the Junker base in Berlin to the Rogue base Dawson in the Hudson system. This is our main source of income to carry on our war against Republican Shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131462:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The union that formed after the Alster Tragedy of 512 gained well-deserved benefits for the shipwrights and welders who built the transports that shipped goods throughout Sirius. In the decades that followed, the union grew stronger. When the 80-Years War broke out, we were sitting pretty on a mountain of government subsidies and contracts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131463:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run shipments from the Junker base in New Berlin; they supply us with superior Rheinland Side Arms and Kusari H-Fuel. Not an easy run through Hamburg, but decent profit. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131464:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster Shipyards are home to the Unioner movement. In 412 AS it was established by Imperial Shipping to supply the Rheinland Empire with transport freighters, lifters, and repair ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131465:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When the 80-Years War came to an end the Union joined the Popular Revolt to overthrow the Imperial government. There were no more government contracts, and unemployment skyrocketed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131466:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 512 AS an explosion in the Alster Shipyards killed hundreds of workers. They formed a union and walked out on the Imperial Shipping executives. It was then that Imperial Shipping realized how valuable its workers were. Production ground to a stop, and they started losing millions of credits for each day production was halted. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131467:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our old boss Imperial Shipping became Republican Shipping after the Popular Revolt. It was a dark time for the common laborer, and within months we lost all the rights we had been working to create for the past several decades. Republican Shipping really stuck it to the worker, using the weak economic situation to strong-arm the faltering union. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131468:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners are a political organization fighting like many others throughout Sirius for the fair treatment of the working classes. We cannot allow the type of exploitation that is common practice of the corporations </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131469:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>With our old union destroyed after the Popular Revolt, we reformed and called ourselves the Unioners. We were formed to make Republican Shipping pay for the wrongs it had committed against its workers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131470:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use this as our primary base to attack Republican Shipping in Hamburg via the Jump Hole just south of this base. The asteroid fields in the northern part of that system provide good cover. We also attack them on the Trade Lanes that pass through this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
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====Battleship Moselle (Braunschweig)====
->Rumor #133910:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver MOX to the Westfalen every few months or so. Berlin has been having difficulty making their payments lately. ALG would like to improve our relationship with the military, so we often waive the transport and installation fees. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133911:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The structural integrity of this ship is suspect. It suffered a lot of damage during the Eighty Years War, but was forced to remain in service, since all of its sister ships are now Scrap Metal in the Sigma-13 system. We are always nervous when we have to enter the reactor compartments of this ship. Especially since the recent accident. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133912:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our most lucrative runs for MOX are into Colorado. One must first survive the Xenos in the Independent Worlds, however. The Rogues would also like to get their hands on bomb-making material -- especially the group found in Hudson. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133913:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military's brought us in to help them out in the Nordheide. They don't pay us too much, though. But they have good, long-range scanners and a strategic position in this area, so it's worthwhile for us. Most of the actual bounties are put up by Republican. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133914:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are a few reformed Hessians among us here in Hamburg. They're the lucky ones who got out of Vierlande before their sentences were up. One guy had some story about some neutron star in Omega-41. That's way out there in the Edge Worlds in Corsair land. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133915:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole to Bering is up in the Nordheide. If you're looking for diamond smuggling Unioners, then that's the place to be. There isn't a direct route between here and Hudson, which keeps the Xenos and Rogues out of Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133916:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Hunters use this as a base for journeys into Hudson. Most of the bounties up there are for Xenos and Rogues. Republican posts the bulk of them, though Universal and IC chip in on occasion. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133917:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just came back from Hudson. We were cruising for baddies in the gap between the Wrangell and Kenai Fields. Ran right into a little skirmish going on between the local thugs. I got me two Xenos and a Rogue. Buy you a drink? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133918:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hudson is a little rougher than Hamburg. No safe havens, not even any military in the Rheinland part of the system. Liberty Navy's putting a lot of pressure on them, but they can't do much about it. You can see why. Look around at this dump. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133919:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a quick trip from Hamburg. We run in supplies on a regular basis. Sometimes they can't pay us, but we usually can arrange something. Maybe four dead Unioners for a container of Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133920:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is competing with ALG to win the contract for constructing the next generation of Rheinland battleships. We have a clear advantage in ship design and practical construction experience. But they have a definite strength in alloys and specialized Hull Panel fabrication. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133921:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Although it's not far to Hamburg from here, the Unioners will attack us if given the opportunity. Their preferred method is to disable a Trade Lane ring near the center of the stretch, then flee back into the Nordheide at the first sign of a military patrol. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133922:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> is the last battleship still operational in the Rheinland fleet. We are always short of spare parts, and the men are paid only once every three months. Some enterprising pilots have taken to moonlighting for Republican or Synth Foods in order to make ends meet. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133923:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is a deathtrap. They had an explosion last week in Fusion Reactor 6. Had to seal off the entire A Deck. They're not even going to fix it. That's a sorry state of affairs. The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> will never be able to make a jump again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133924:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are rumors circulating that ALG is planning on building a new shipyard in Dortmund to build the Bremen and her sister ships. They're willing to build them at cost in order to gain entry into this new market. That's an attractive proposition for Berlin at this point and time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133925:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland Military is tasked with patrolling the northern areas of Hamburg and the adjacent Independent Worlds of Bering and Hudson. But we only have enough working fighters to cover the Trade Lanes in the immediate area, plus a daily patrol into the Nordheide. We assign Bounty Hunters to handle many of our other patrol routes in the area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133926:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever since we lost the war, Rheinland just hasn't been the same; the entire colony feels beaten and bereft of vigor. Look around, there is no one smiling or enjoying themselves. What will it take for my House to heal? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133927:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann is the real culprit in the Eighty-Years War. The Imperial Navy Command had grave doubts about the wisdom of fighting a guerrilla-style war in the Crow Nebula against an enemy that was so well-supplied by Kusari. But Daumann saw the huge profits to be made in lucrative shipbuilding contracts, and bribed hundreds of key government officials. The rest is history. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133928:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the young officers are leaving the Rheinland Military, tired of the poor conditions and low pay. Most of them end up flying commercial transports for Republican or Synth Foods. The rest end up with the Bounty Hunters Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133929:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland public doesn't respect the military anymore. We lost the Eighty-Years War to a ragtag bunch of gas miners as far as they're concerned. That is one reason it has been so difficult for Berlin to increase our budget -- the politicians backed by the Bundschuh always vote it down. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133930:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh continues to attack this floating piece of junk for some reason. We usually run them off after a few minutes. I guess they don't have any other obvious military targets left in Rheinland -- except maybe the Oder Shipyard. Have to have an enemy to keep the cause going. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
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====Mecklenburg Station (Braunschweig)====
->Rumor #133931:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is the exclusive supplier for all Federal Police installations in Rheinland. We've had to augment our weekly shipments to accommodate the swelling population here. The Pharmaceuticals supply has become critical with all the illness and disease sweeping through the prisoner population.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ August Schober
 * Republican Shipping/ Bert Koppe
->Rumor #133932:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's nice to see so many Unioners locked up in their solitary cells. Maybe that will dissuade others who are considering joining the cause. Somehow I think not. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ August Schober
 * Republican Shipping/ Bert Koppe
->Rumor #133933:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've had Unioners try to sneak out of here in our empty cargo containers. Unfortunately, the vacuum conditions and extreme cold of outer space generally mean death for most stowaways within a few minutes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ August Schober
 * Republican Shipping/ Bert Koppe
->Rumor #133934:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Vierlande is the new maximum-security prison for hardened criminals. It was built in the Hamburg system to put it out of reach of the Hessian hordes in Berlin and Stuttgart. Unfortunately, they seem to have found a secret access route into this system, so we still get prison-break attempts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133935:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Federal Police prison warden sees little hope of rehabilitation for most of these criminals, so most sentences are extended indefinitely. There are standing orders from Berlin to not release Bundschuh under any circumstances. The only planet those poor brutes will ever see for the rest of their lives is Hannover. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133936:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Truth is, most of the people in here haven't committed that many crimes, especially the Bundschuh. Some of them look like Berlin University kids who decided to join a demonstration on a lark without thinking much of the consequences. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
->Rumor #133937:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a special political section for the Bundschuh. The government doesn't want them mixing with the other inmates and stirring up trouble. Don't want any more Popular Revolutions now, do we? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133938:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Sudheide has become a veritable cesspool of humanity. The Red Hessians, Unioners, and Bundschuh all stage their prison breakout attempts from that field. I don't know why they try. This prison has a triple hull, with outer walls more than two meters thick. No prisoner has ever escaped Vierlande alive. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133939:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners and the Bundschuh pretty much keep to themselves. The tough guys are the Red Hessians. They control the area inside the inner-security perimeter, where guards rarely venture. You'd never know that some of them were regular working folks before they went bad. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
->Rumor #133940:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The prison convoys have been shipping them in pretty fast from all over Rheinland. As a result, Vierlande has become very overcrowded. There have been hunger strikes to protest the conditions, but there's no money to build an extension. So we keep packing them in a little tighter. One day, it'll all explode. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133941:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the older prisoners that come in from Berlin look more like politicians than hardened criminals. Rumor is that they're whistle blowers and reformers from the government that were getting a little too honest for their own good. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
->Rumor #133942:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We keep just enough LWB examples in Vierlande to show and tell for the Synth Food execs that come through here on their Rheinland inspection tour every few months or so. They want to see progress on the LWB problem on Rheinland. That means a steadily increasing number of LWB inmates at our lovely facility. So we show them a few LWB mixed in with a crowd of Unioners. Works every time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
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====Battleship Westphalia (Bremen)====
->Rumor #133913:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military's brought us in to help them out in the Nordheide. They don't pay us too much, though. But they have good, long-range scanners and a strategic position in this area, so it's worthwhile for us. Most of the actual bounties are put up by Republican. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133914:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are a few reformed Hessians among us here in Hamburg. They're the lucky ones who got out of Vierlande before their sentences were up. One guy had some story about some neutron star in Omega-41. That's way out there in the Edge Worlds in Corsair land. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133915:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole to Bering is up in the Nordheide. If you're looking for diamond smuggling Unioners, then that's the place to be. There isn't a direct route between here and Hudson, which keeps the Xenos and Rogues out of Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133916:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Hunters use this as a base for journeys into Hudson. Most of the bounties up there are for Xenos and Rogues. Republican posts the bulk of them, though Universal and IC chip in on occasion. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133917:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just came back from Hudson. We were cruising for baddies in the gap between the Wrangell and Kenai Fields. Ran right into a little skirmish going on between the local thugs. I got me two Xenos and a Rogue. Buy you a drink? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133918:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hudson is a little rougher than Hamburg. No safe havens, not even any military in the Rheinland part of the system. Liberty Navy's putting a lot of pressure on them, but they can't do much about it. You can see why. Look around at this dump. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133919:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a quick trip from Hamburg. We run in supplies on a regular basis. Sometimes they can't pay us, but we usually can arrange something. Maybe four dead Unioners for a container of Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133920:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is competing with ALG to win the contract for constructing the next generation of Rheinland battleships. We have a clear advantage in ship design and practical construction experience. But they have a definite strength in alloys and specialized Hull Panel fabrication. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133921:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Although it's not far to Hamburg from here, the Unioners will attack us if given the opportunity. Their preferred method is to disable a Trade Lane ring near the center of the stretch, then flee back into the Nordheide at the first sign of a military patrol. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133922:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> is the last battleship still operational in the Rheinland fleet. We are always short of spare parts, and the men are paid only once every three months. Some enterprising pilots have taken to moonlighting for Republican or Synth Foods in order to make ends meet. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133923:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is a deathtrap. They had an explosion last week in Fusion Reactor 6. Had to seal off the entire A Deck. They're not even going to fix it. That's a sorry state of affairs. The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> will never be able to make a jump again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133924:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are rumors circulating that ALG is planning on building a new shipyard in Dortmund to build the Bremen and her sister ships. They're willing to build them at cost in order to gain entry into this new market. That's an attractive proposition for Berlin at this point and time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133925:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland Military is tasked with patrolling the northern areas of Hamburg and the adjacent Independent Worlds of Bering and Hudson. But we only have enough working fighters to cover the Trade Lanes in the immediate area, plus a daily patrol into the Nordheide. We assign Bounty Hunters to handle many of our other patrol routes in the area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133926:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever since we lost the war, Rheinland just hasn't been the same; the entire colony feels beaten and bereft of vigor. Look around, there is no one smiling or enjoying themselves. What will it take for my House to heal? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133927:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann is the real culprit in the Eighty-Years War. The Imperial Navy Command had grave doubts about the wisdom of fighting a guerrilla-style war in the Crow Nebula against an enemy that was so well-supplied by Kusari. But Daumann saw the huge profits to be made in lucrative shipbuilding contracts, and bribed hundreds of key government officials. The rest is history. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133928:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the young officers are leaving the Rheinland Military, tired of the poor conditions and low pay. Most of them end up flying commercial transports for Republican or Synth Foods. The rest end up with the Bounty Hunters Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133929:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland public doesn't respect the military anymore. We lost the Eighty-Years War to a ragtag bunch of gas miners as far as they're concerned. That is one reason it has been so difficult for Berlin to increase our budget -- the politicians backed by the Bundschuh always vote it down. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133930:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh continues to attack this floating piece of junk for some reason. We usually run them off after a few minutes. I guess they don't have any other obvious military targets left in Rheinland -- except maybe the Oder Shipyard. Have to have an enemy to keep the cause going. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
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====Cloppenburg Base (Bremen)====
->Rumor #134037:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get everything we need from the Junkers. Either we go into the Border Worlds to Yanagi, or to New Berlin, where we will find the Kreuzberg Base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134038:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those who go to Vierlande seldom return; most sentences are for life, and its not just pirates, but the political opponents of the corporate elite as well. The Bundschuh fly attack raids on the prison ships and inbound convoys. We fight to liberate our brethren who have been unjustly incarcerated. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134039:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh is a political organization founded by New Berlin university students who were tired of the corruption of the old regime. Decades later we still toil under the yoke of an oppressive government, though its name has changed. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134040:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh need not lower itself to common piracy like the Red Hessians. Instead, we are funded by the enlightened Berlin intelligentsia looking to do away with the burdens of a corrupt government. This frees us to work directly toward our political agenda without being sidetracked by financial necessities. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134041:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The corporations, though exploitive and uncaring, arent truly at fault for what they do. Corporations are intrinsically self-serving; its the governments role to keep them in check. As long as the government is corrupt enough to accept corporate bribes, the workers cannot be free. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134042:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is located in the Taunus Asteroid field of Frankfurt. Within the same cloud is a Jump Hole to Sigma 13. Nearby is another Jump Hole that leads to Hamburg. In Hamburg there is the Vierlande Prison Ship, the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfallen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> battleship, and the Berlin Jump Gate. These are all priority Bundschuh targets. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134043:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh recruits new members from the Red Hessians, LWB, Unioners, and even disgruntled Daumann and Kruger workers. But the people we take in must care about our cause, because they wont get rich flying for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134044:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 700 AS, the Dresden Revolt sparked the Popular Revolution that would do away with the Rheinland Imperial Government and replace it with a coalition of the people. The Bundschuh was a key player in the Dresden Revolt, running supplies to the rebels. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134045:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>After the revolution, the Bundschuh found itself sidelined by the new government. The coalition wanted the support of the wealthy aristocrats who headed Daumann Industries and Kruger Mining. By 715 AS, the Bundschuh was forced to go underground again, this time by a government it had helped to create. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134046:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Because we have taken the high road, and not one of piracy like the Red Hessians, our ranks have dwindled. But the members of the Bundschuh are purists, committed to a political agenda -- unlike other underground organizations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
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====Alesia Station (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504876:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands are now so numerous that they have become a danger even for the strongest convoys. Two officers that I was friends with were killed in an attack near Alesia last week. I am afraid for my own life. They said it'd be an easy life in the police, but boy am I a fool. There are many days when I wish I had never joined.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Marc Fallet
->Rumor #504877:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Maquis are terrorists, plain and simple. Their attacks are sporadic, but quite masterful and dangerous when they occur. Luckily, unlike the Unione Corse, the Maquis tend to avoid the excessive killing of civilians. They prefer to disable the ships they are raiding, not blow them up. Although this wasn't always the case, admittedly. The Maquis were originally members of the Council until they were kicked out for killing over thirty thousand people, so perhaps they learned something from that.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Yves Blundell
->Rumor #504905:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When people come to work for the GMS, they just want better pay. But we get much more. The Company becomes our family. Those who take the risks to work in space earn quite a lot as well.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Metal Service/Marc Lafargue
->Rumor #504906:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Pirates and the Council? They are an annoyance to our trading convoys, but they are also aware that we are not offering as much help to the Royal Navy as the other companies do. We mind our own business, and this saves the lives of many of our pilots.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Metal Service/Marc Lafargue
->Rumor #504908:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Of all the pirate groups of Gallia, the Unione Corse are the ones I hate the most. They are extremely cruel, totally unpredictable, and strike only if their success is assured. Attacks are rare, but the Corse target the most valuable cargoes that we have, and rarely leave any survivors behind.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * IDF Shipping/ Beatrice Fournie
->Rumor #504909:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've been employed with the GMS since I was twenty two. Two years ago, my wife and only child were killed by a suicide bomber in a cafe. They said that the Maquis were responsible for it. I asked for a transfer into the Border Worlds, and now I'm waiting for an opportunity to find out the location of one of their bases, fill my transport with explosives, and run directly into their primary airlock.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Metal Service/Richard Gauguin
->Rumor #504910:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My colleagues are quietly spreading rumours about our senior managers entering into deals with the Junkers in order to protect our convoys from pirates. I don't know if this is the main reason why we get less pirate attacks than the other corporations. Probably there is more to it than that, though what it might be is anyone's guess.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Alesia Bartender/Jean-Marie Jade
->Rumor #504914:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council are a pirate group, much like the Maquis or Brigands. I have always found it strange that most of the citizens of Gallia don't understand that they are nothing more than mere criminals.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * IDF Shipping/ Alain Morarou
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====Avallon Station (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504850:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of our officers have defected and joined the Council. They betrayed their country in the most shameful way, and politics has nothing to do with it. I don't understand how could they even think about treason.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Sylvie Delors
->Rumor #504855:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now that the secret of Gallia is revealed to the whole of Sirius, what will our leaders do? What will we do? I'm completely bewildered, and many of my fellow officers share similar doubts about our future.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Avallon Bartender/Olivier Delorme
->Rumor #504856:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The nearby Champagne system is completely under the control of the Council, and we are not yet able to re-take it, but it is only a matter of time before the resources of Marne will be exhausted.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Lucas Charnock
->Rumor #504857:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Lorraine is much better defended than Languedoc ever was. Despite numerous attempts by the Council to breach our defenses, they have always failed. None of our stations in Lorraine have ever been captured by the enemy, and it is unlikely any ever will be.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Laure Dalle
->Rumor #504862:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Me and my fellow officers are following the reports from the Core Worlds very closely. Had there been any sightings of the newcomers' ships in Lyonnais, Berry, Orleanais, Picardie, maybe even Ile-de-France? The future of our House may depend on the security of the Core World paths right now.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Thomas Winchcombe
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====Battleship Beuvray (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504846:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council accuses us of various atrocities. In fact, the Council themselves have frequently breached the rules of war by attacking civilian ships and stations, and torturing captives. I admit that we have also done such things, from time to time. War is cruel, but why does the Council need to be so hypocritical?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Sebastian Houdon
->Rumor #504850:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of our officers have defected and joined the Council. They betrayed their country in the most shameful way, and politics has nothing to do with it. I don't understand how could they even think about treason.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Thomas Winchcombe
->Rumor #504851:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council have turned the whole Champagne system into a pirate haven. Pirate groups openly build bases there, and the Council uses their help in defending the system. Once any of our ships enter Champagne, we've got the Maquis, Brigands and the Council acting in unison against us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Sebastian Houdon
->Rumor #504856:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The nearby Champagne system is completely under the control of the Council, and we are not yet able to re-take it, but it is only a matter of time before the resources of Marne will be exhausted.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Thomas Winchcombe
->Rumor #504864:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council stands no chance against our capital ships in open space. Their forces in Burgundy though are fighting a guerilla war of sporadic raids; ships come from asteroid fields, attack our patrols, and retreat into the fields before reinforcements arrive. Our capital ships cannot venture inside those fields, which makes Council bases there impervious to harm.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Gerard Duras
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====Battleship Rocroi (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504849:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Royal Police prefers not to mess with the pirates here in the Border Worlds. It is way too much danger for them to bother with. The Navy ends up doing all the dirty work that they are paid to do. Sometimes I think that the pirates and the Police might have signed some sort of non-aggression pact.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Christian Bovie
->Rumor #504854:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council in Languedoc are isolated. An offensive fleet is being prepared by the Royal Navy in Dauphine, and we expect that Nimes station will be re-captured soon enough. Quillan and Montelimar might be more difficult to deal with, though. The rebels had plenty of time to prepare for a long siege and defend the mine path.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rocroi Bartender/Joachim Cendrars
->Rumor #504861:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Gates into our Core Worlds had been sealed to prevent the intruders from reaching our main planets. Only authorized ships are allowed to pass, and they are searched thoroughly both at the Jump Gate and at their destination point. But I'm concerned that some might be hidden too well for the authorities to find them...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Christian Bovie
->Rumor #504862:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Me and my fellow officers are following the reports from the Core Worlds very closely. Had there been any sightings of the newcomers' ships in Lyonnais, Berry, Orleanais, Picardie, maybe even Ile-de-France? The future of our House may depend on the security of the Core World paths right now.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Suzanne Neal
->Rumor #504865:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Is it really possible to destroy the Council controlled space stations? Destroying a base, even one built in space using artificial parts, is a complex task that requires a lot of firepower of the sort only battleships or heavy transports can carry. And battleships cannot reach a base inside an asteroid field. Moreover, most bases within those fields are built inside asteroids. What can possibly destroy a large rock asteroid?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rocroi Bartender/Joachim Cendrars
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====Bourbon Base (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504926:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse don't spread rumours around like gossiping housewives. Get lost, before we make you.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Gustave Prevert
 * Unione Corse/ Jose Theobald
->Rumor #504927:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We stay away from politics, wars and other stuff like that. We mind our business. Go away and mind yours before it's too late.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Gaston Voynet
->Rumor #504928:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council are idealistic fools destined to lose. The Brigands are not trustworthy, but they've certainly got the musclesto flex, if only they could co-ordinate themselves effectively. The only group we are willing to deal with are the Maquis, who at least have a spine.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bourbon Bartender/Michel Lescout
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====Bourg-en-Bresse Space Port (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504937:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The actions of the Council has plunged our whole faction into an uncertain future, where we now face the inevitable crisis that we had half hoped would never come. Aside from their leaders, the Junkers in Sirius have never heard about the Junkers from Gallia, and they became much more powerful and wealthy than we ever could, stuck in here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bourg-en-Bresse Bartender/Gregory Summers
->Rumor #504938:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The leaders of the Sirius Junkers are aware of our agenda. But what choice will they have when every single Junker will know what they were doing? It is inevitable: if those same leaders will not betray our cause, they will have to disappear. Forever. New leaders will arise, who will undoubtedly be hostile to us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Austin Elzner
->Rumor #504939:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Even here in Gallia, we Junkers don't know much about what is happening in Sirius. I participated in several minefield runs, but I was never allowed any farther into Sirius than the far side of the minefield. Many of our men died during those runs, you know. It's a matter of luck and extreme precision.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Steven Maloy
->Rumor #504940:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The minefields separating Gallia and the rest of Sirius have been breached, and now we might lose whatever support we had from the Gallic government. Now, since our secrets have been unveiled for all to see, we are no longer necessary. This whole situation is very dangerous for us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Steven Maloy
->Rumor #504941:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our agenda in Sirius could remain secret if the Junkers could keep their secrets. Many of the Junkers with whom I work came from the ranks of the Brigands or even the Unione Corse, seeking more wealth for less effort. Once the Council was victorious in Languedoc, many of those cowardly fools began to sell information in attempt to gain money, quit our cause, and disappear. We will find them, though.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Ian Watson
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====Dijon Station (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504866:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Stations that are listed as controlled by the Police are actually under the administration of the Gallic civilian authorities. However, it's the task of the police to defend the station, preserve order and control all docking procedures.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Hector Darlan
->Rumor #504867:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police forces play an important role in the current war with the Council. We are in charge of protecting many military convoys until they reach areas controlled by the Royal Navy. Also, police special forces form the front line of space station defences in case enemy marines manage to board a station.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Civilian/ Alix Dewaere
->Rumor #504875:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The attacks by the Brigands have gotten more and more brutal lately. The chaos caused by the war in the Border Worlds have served them well, for they are getting more and more new recruits from Marne. The damn Council doesn't do anything to stop this, and I sometimes think that it is even part of their plan, although what purpose it will serve them in the end is anyone's guess.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Dijon Bartender/Romain Guitry
->Rumor #504877:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Maquis are terrorists, plain and simple. Their attacks are sporadic, but quite masterful and dangerous when they occur. Luckily, unlike the Unione Corse, the Maquis tend to avoid the excessive killing of civilians. They prefer to disable the ships they are raiding, not blow them up. Although this wasn't always the case, admittedly. The Maquis were originally members of the Council until they were kicked out for killing over thirty thousand people, so perhaps they learned something from that.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Yves Blundell
->Rumor #504879:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers are not exactly pirates, although they are heavily involved in the Gallic black market. Neither the government officials nor the pirates trust them completely, but their intermediate position grants them many benefits that they could never gain if they were allied with any one particular side.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Valery Braudel
->Rumor #504905:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When people come to work for the GMS, they just want better pay. But we get much more. The Company becomes our family. Those who take the risks to work in space earn quite a lot as well.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Metal Service/Marc Lafargue
->Rumor #504906:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Pirates and the Council? They are an annoyance to our trading convoys, but they are also aware that we are not offering as much help to the Royal Navy as the other companies do. We mind our own business, and this saves the lives of many of our pilots.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Metal Service/Marc Lafargue
->Rumor #504910:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My colleagues are quietly spreading rumours about our senior managers entering into deals with the Junkers in order to protect our convoys from pirates. I don't know if this is the main reason why we get less pirate attacks than the other corporations. Probably there is more to it than that, though what it might be is anyone's guess.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Metal Service/Marc Lafargue
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====Macon Base (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504887:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Isn't it ironic? International English was the only language used for communication within the Alliance for centuries. When we arrived on New Paris, every citizen could speak English perfectly, and the younger generations studied French as a foreign language. Now, of course, it's different, but most Gallic citizens speak English well enough. The day has come when we can finally put this knowledge to good use.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Nino Ethelbert
->Rumor #504891:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>How can we fight a war with the most powerful Navy in Sirius with considerable success? The answer is: resources. Many of the Council are former military officers. We have the money, the manpower and the ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Captain Charles Aiton
->Rumor #504892:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now I realize that the war was inevitable right from the start. There was never really much hope that we could convince those government pigs to change their minds. Someday we should overthrow the government and dispose of the King. Yeah, that simple. History repeats itself, you know.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Raoul Bussey
->Rumor #504893:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The economy of the Council is based on smuggling and illegal trade. This might not match the ideas and long-term goals of the Council, but sometimes you have to make compromises in order to achieve your objectives.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Macon Bartender/Guillaume Wibert
->Rumor #504894:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We split up with Maquis for political reasons, to distance ourselves from their terrorist ideals. But I understand them, and why they do what they do. Many of those who joined the Maquis lost their families and friends when the government started repressing the populations of the central planets. They have nothing left to lose.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Marie Debord
->Rumor #504895:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The history of Gallia is a sad mixture of glory and despair. Technological breakthroughs and unmatched military power were bought for the price of widespread poverty and suppressing the last remnants of democracy.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Marie Debord
->Rumor #504898:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers are a faction trusted by no one, yet needed by everyone. By lawfuls, to gain information on pirates; by pirates, to gain information and goods from lawfuls; and even by us, to support our economy that has become an integral part of the Gallic black market.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Nino Ethelbert
->Rumor #504899:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Have you ever heard about a corporation named Solar Engineering? It's one of the major economical powers in Gallia with extensive ties with the Royal Family, the Royal Navy and some of the prominent members of the Cabinet. You won't see any of their ships in the Border Worlds. The war is bad for business. What is surprising is that they cancelled all their Border Worlds endeavours long before the Second Gallic War had started.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Captain Charles Aiton
->Rumor #504920:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our leaders say that the Council is heavily dependent on our help. This is only a small part of the unpleasant truth: in reality, we need the Council far more than the Council needs us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Pierre Dabney
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====Montbard Base (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504918:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If not for us, the Gallic mass media probably wouldn't even report about the events going on here. After a couple of buildings explode in the neighborhood, the population becomes more attentive to the frontier reports, and the government can no longer conceal the truth.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Montbard Bartender/Bernard Auric
->Rumor #504919:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say that the monarchy was selected as the most efficient political regime to base our new nation on, shortly after we arrived on New Paris. Thousands of dissidents rotting in prisons all over Gallia is a perfect example of where this efficiency leads us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Gaspard Flaubert
->Rumor #504934:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Who are the Junkers? And why don't the Royal Police prosecute them, despite all the illegal activities they are involved in? I'm almost certain that the Junkers have ties to the Gallic special forces, but I have no way to prove it. They might even be spying on the other unlawful groups of Gallia, although again, there is never any proof.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Guy Lacan
->Rumor #504935:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands are the most numerous pirate force in Gallia, and with the path into Sirius finally open, we will push to broaden our horizons. Bretonia, Kusari, Liberty, Rheinland. Those words promise plenty of riches.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Simone Pagnol
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====Planet Nevers (Burgundy)====
->Rumor #504871:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many journalists say that the police are corrupt, that they make treaties with pirates and are involved in smuggling rings. I can admit that I have contacts among the Junkers. But how can you survive in space if you haven't got some backup from a direction that your enemies don't expect?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Thomas Alden
->Rumor #504873:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Navy sometimes says that we are cowards. Fear is the mind killer, they say. You know what? Those Council freaks sacrificed thousands of their men to remove a couple dozen of mines that was all that stood between them and their ultimate goal. I openly admit that we are not ready send our officers to stop those psychos. It is suicide.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Renee Careme
->Rumor #504874:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Maquis are our primary target in this system. The King is really upset with their recent actions and wants them to be dealt with swiftly and efficiently. Too bad that it requires some unnecessary risk on our part.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Berthe Barret
->Rumor #504875:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The attacks by the Brigands have gotten more and more brutal lately. The chaos caused by the war in the Border Worlds have served them well, for they are getting more and more new recruits from Marne. The damn Council doesn't do anything to stop this, and I sometimes think that it is even part of their plan, although what purpose it will serve them in the end is anyone's guess.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Civilian/ Claudine Maigny
->Rumor #504878:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse might be less numerous compared to the other pirate groups in Gallia, but even their membership has nearly doubled in the last 15 years. Originally they were just a covert group, but now they are daring enough to attack us openly.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Nevers Bartender/Jerome Honnecourt
->Rumor #504907:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands attack our convoys just like everyone else. In most cases they are easy to scare away, but sometimes you  can encounter a truly enormous gang. If our escort fighters are losing the fight and try to retreat, the Brigands sometimes go on the rampage, chasing down and killing everyone. They have occasionally been known to forget about the convoy itself in their bloodlust, which often allows it to escape.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ile-De-France Shipping/ Patricia Gary
->Rumor #504911:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The EFL are not present here as much as in the Core Systems. In terms of the oil trade, only Planet Nevers poses some interest to us. As far as station building is concerned, the war has put an end to our construction plans in this area.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * EFL/ Daniel Livarot
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====Alcatraz Depot (California)====
->Rumor #131147:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is one of the richest systems in Sirius. On our way back home well hit shipments cruising through the Trade Lanes here; we have plenty of cover in the ice fields that populate the system. They cover us as we smuggle our way in and steal our way back out again. I love California. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #131148:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Liberty battleship </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Yukon </TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>might scare a lot of thieves and petty criminals, but it doesnt bother the Outcasts. We can lose her patrols in the ice fields as we cross the system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #131149:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Gold stolen by the Outcasts and Lane Hackers in the Barrier on to Buffalo. It eventually gets sold by the Junkers planetside -- a nice, clean operation.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131150:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We supply Side Arms to the Rogue base out in the Barrier. The Outcasts also buy from us. Nothing cheaper than Detroit Side Arms.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131151:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Alcatraz ships Cardamine to Buffalo and Beaumont. I'd like to make that run myself one day, but I'm not good enough yet. The Outcasts tend to get angry when you blow one of their Cardamine loads.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131152:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is a good home to the Rogues. First off, theres ice asteroid fields all over the system, which makes for good cover when traveling through the system hauling illegal goodies. Our base is hidden in the same asteroid field that hides the Jump Hole to Texas, and from Texas you can jump into New York space, no problem.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131153:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our boys here in Alcatraz like to "tax" all the goods moving through the Trade Lanes between Bretonia and Liberty. Los Angeles is filled with those snobby successful types who buy loads of Luxury Goods from Manhattan. It aint right that they get all the good things in life just 'cuz they were born with money, so we take some of it off their hands. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131154:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can reach Padua in Cortez by running to the Tahoe Ice Cloud on the western edge of the system, where the Jump Hole to Cortez is hidden. The Trade Lane to Magellan travels by the same field, so you might be able to hit a shipment or two on the way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131155:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts know we need their Cardamine, and they look down on us for it. I can see it in their eyes, even if they dont say anything. I dont like them holding the Cardamine over us, but I need it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #131156:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rogues live life for the day, not for the future. We dont dwell on the past neither. If I got money in my pocket and some Cardamine stashed, then what do I gotta worry about tomorrow or yesterday for? Besides, I cant always remember what happened yesterday and I might be dead tomorrow. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #131157:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Theres been talk of a Liberty Rogue who is uniting all of us together. I dunno if its true or not, but Ive heard people say hes got over 100 kills and more and more Rogue pilots are joining under his command. If I get a chance Ill join with him. I think hes in New York. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #132001:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to really make some money with us, come to Cali in Tau-23. Its exact location is up to you to discover.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132002:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those annoying Xenos seem to think that they will be able to defeat the Junkers and force us to use them as our intermediaries. They are sorely mistaken in that assumption.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132003:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm running a Cardamine load in from the Lane Hacker base in Magellan. Just taking a Cardamine break before I head on to Buffalo in the Badlands. It's a very long journey to Liberty from where I come from. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132004:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few of our brethren are prisoners at Sugarland. The supply of Cardamine in the prison is adequate to keep them alive. Those that have been sent to Huntsville with the Xenos don't last long.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132005:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do quick hops across these systems. I'm on a convoy headed for Beaumont in the Texas Debris Fields. We started in Cortez yesterday at the Rogue base. Normally the Rogues do these runs, but they were losing too many shipments. Sometimes you just have to do it yourself.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #134340:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few days ago, the Outcast ship Balboa was damaged by an LPI patrol that surprised it in the Tahoe Ice Cloud. It escaped its pursuers, but the failing control systems eventually caused it to hit an ice crystal and explode -- at least thats what theyve been able to piece together from radar and the pilots last words. The wreckage was scattered and drifted over a large area. The Cardamine cargo remains missing, probably still in the hold of the ship. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
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====Battleship Yukon (California)====
->Rumor #131945:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're here to pick up this ship's Toxic Waste for shipment to our Dortmund reprocessing facility in New Berlin. You'd think Liberty would take advantage of all this potentially valuable material, but they were throwing it out in the debris fields of Texas before we started our program.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Alan Zelsman
->Rumor #131946:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Running MOX in from Dortmund is pretty risky for us in Liberty. The criminals would love to get their hands on it, especially the Xenos. At least there aren't any of those annoying people in California.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Alan Zelsman
->Rumor #131947:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California doesn't offer us much in the way of useful Scrap Metal or Toxic Waste, outside of this ship. Nothing like the other Liberty systems. Liberty has been very profitable for ALG, which is helpful for our company, as BMM has locked us out of Bretonia.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Alan Zelsman
->Rumor #131948:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm pretty new to the Bounty Hunters Guild. They call me a "reformed" Rogue. Spent ten years in Sugarland rolling Sheet Metal. Now I'm out here hunting my old comrades down. At least it's legit work. I can live on a real planet instead of inside a stinky rock somewhere out in an asteroid field.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker David Stowlot
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Frank Boltz
->Rumor #131949:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just got back from Cortez. Did an assault patrol into the Corcovado Field. It's crawling with Rogues. We got a bunch, but there were plenty more. They should send the military in there to clean it out. Its like a rat's nest.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker David Stowlot
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Frank Boltz
->Rumor #131950:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a good spot for hunting Hackers and Outcasts, probably the best in Liberty space. They all collect in the Tahoe Cloud to the west of the Lane. Happy hunting!</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker David Stowlot
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Frank Boltz
->Rumor #131951:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The navy guys don't give us access to a lot of this ship. Guess they're suspicious of a lot of the Guild members; a lot of them have done time in Texas. I don't blame 'em, some of the Hunters can be pretty rough looking.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker David Stowlot
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Frank Boltz
->Rumor #131952:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bounty Hunters have a difficult job and we certainly aren't a very popular group, but the best of us are the finest pilots in all of Sirius. Many will look down upon us, because most of our ranks were once criminals, but that is their mistake. It is just as honorable to fall and rise again, than never to fall at all.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker David Stowlot
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Frank Boltz
->Rumor #131953:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm a second-generation Bounty Hunter. My dad was famous; he made it all the way out to the Edge Worlds before gettin' toasted by those Outcast bastards. Me, I'm going to hunt them down till the day I die. I'm gonna stuff that Cardamine down their throats until they gag.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker David Stowlot
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Frank Boltz
->Rumor #131954:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just got out of West Point last week. This is my first assignment. I'm patrolling the Lane between here and the Cortez Gate. So far it hasn't been as interesting as I thought it would be.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
->Rumor #131955:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We could clean up all the Independent Worlds like Cortez and Magellan in a flash if the other Houses would just let us base our battleships there. Guess they're afraid we'd annex them eventually. Not much there to exploit as far as I can tell. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
->Rumor #131956:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our toughest patrol in the system is the Tahoe Cloud circuit. We usually see somebody in there. Tough to track them down, though -- short visibility and lots of asteroids. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
->Rumor #131957:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcast smuggling route goes right along the Trade Lane in the Tahoe Cloud for some reason. We've caught a few that way. Guess they can't resist the temptation to snag some cargo. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
->Rumor #131958:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We handle the west side of the Trade Lane to the Magellan Gate, LPI, the east. In my opinion, we should handle everything in there. They wouldn't know what to do with a Lane Hacker or an Outcast if they caught one. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
 * Liberty Navy/Yukon Bartender/Dan Atkinson
->Rumor #131959:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just got reassigned from the Mississippi based in Texas. We were in Hudson chasing down Xenos and Rogues. The Rheinland Military doesn't help at all in that area. Guess they're broke. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
->Rumor #131960:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm doing patrols into Cortez. We usually just hang around at the Gate, but sometimes we venture down to Curacao. After that the convoys are on their own. I call it the "Cortez gap." </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
->Rumor #131961:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We could clean up this second if the Guild would just tell us where the Jump Holes are. We know one is in the Tahoe Cloud, but have been unable to locate it. New York doesn't let us vary our patrol routes as much as we would like. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
 * Liberty Navy/Yukon Bartender/Dan Atkinson
->Rumor #131962:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I don't know what they're doing on that research base Willard. I hear it's something with those Alien Organisms they ship in from Sigma-17. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain William Paris
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jan Spanik
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Justin Kreen
 * Liberty Navy/Yukon Bartender/Dan Atkinson
->Rumor #131963:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm bringing in a load of Pharmaceuticals and Food from Los Angeles. A typical Liberty battleship has a lot of people to take care of.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Ben Harper
->Rumor #131964:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just making a quick stop by the bar while they unload my ship. I do the Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel run from Los Angeles to Willard Research Station once a week. I drop most of it here. They don't have much storage, so they need pretty frequent visits.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Ben Harper
->Rumor #131965:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm based in Detroit. Just making my monthly rounds to all the police and military bases to deliver Side Arms to the new recruits. At least there aren't any of those pesky Xenos in California.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Ben Harper
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====California Minor (California)====
->Rumor #131924:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Planetform folks let us use their site as a forward base for our operations in the central part of California. They're mostly interested in stopping the Rogues who prey on their Silver shipments from Los Angeles.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Angela Clark
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tyrone Booth
->Rumor #131925:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Fastest way to some quick bounties? Head straight for the Trade Lane to the Magellan Gate, around the middle of the Tahoe Cloud. You'll get some strikes pretty fast in that area.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Angela Clark
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tyrone Booth
->Rumor #131926:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a good location to launch into the Tahoe Cloud. You don't have to go far to find trouble in there. It's also a straight shot across the system to the Whitney Field, if that don't offer enough action for you. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Angela Clark
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tyrone Booth
->Rumor #131927:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I made it all the way to the Texas Jump Hole in the Whitney Field yesterday. I didn't hang around for long. Didn't even a take a shot at the Rogues in the area. I'll go back next time with a posse.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Angela Clark
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tyrone Booth
->Rumor #131928:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The air's a little thin here still. I like to sleep in my ship at night. It's warmer and there's more air. Those Planetform people are kind of uptight sometimes. Guess that's how all Bretonians are. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Angela Clark
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tyrone Booth
->Rumor #131929:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Heaviest action in the system is by the Cortez Hole in the Tahoe Cloud. You better come in with your guns blazing if you want a chance of going home that night. Been trying to talk a few of my buddies into doing it, but they all keep backing out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Angela Clark
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tyrone Booth
->Rumor #131930:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run patrols around California Minor. I think it's a waste of time. Not enough bad guys around here. I heard that the real reason is that Synth Foods wants to move up the schedule on Planetform a lot. They been resisting, saying there were too many shipping losses.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Craig Oberst
->Rumor #131931:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hate this place -- cold, it's always windy, really thin air. I get headaches all the time. We're supposed to make Planetform happy by being here. What did I do to get this transfer? Must have pissed someone off back in Los Angeles.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Craig Oberst
->Rumor #131932:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is as far off the Trade Lanes as we get in Liberty. They'll build one to the planet once Planetform is finished. Then Synth Foods will shift Food production here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Craig Oberst
->Rumor #131933:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in the bulk of our supplies like Food, Pharmaceuticals, H-Fuel, Construction Machinery, and Oxygen from Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131934:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Oxygen is mostly used for the terraforming machines, which run around the clock. Their purpose is twofold: to increase Oxygen content in the air around the base, and to introduce various atmosphere forming gases like carbon dioxide and nitrogen into the atmosphere. We still have at least fifty years before this operation is completed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131935:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in our Terraforming Gases from Birmingham in the Manchester system. At least there aren't any of those dreadful Gaians in this corner of space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131936:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some time ago Planetform discovered that the Alien Organisms found in the Edge Nebula systems had very high reproductive rates, and could exist in quite hostile conditions. One of their primary functions is to dissolve the carbonate rocks found in abundance here, releasing elemental oxygen and carbon dioxide in the process.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131937:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Most of our Water is hauled in from Freeport 4 in the Magellan system. The thin snow layer that covers this planet is actually quite recent, a product of our Phase I cloud-seeding efforts. California Minor is still too cold and arid for sustainable agriculture. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131938:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Planetform, Inc. has operations in two Bretonia systems in addition to this one: Edinburgh and Tau-31. The Edinburgh project has been plagued from conception by terrorist activity in the area. Our headquarters is in the New London system at Canterbury. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131939:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Liberty has been quite accommodating to our needs. We certainly haven't had to contend with anything like the Gaians. They are more pragmatic here. The primary use of this planet following the completion of our project will be synthetic Food production, now that Los Angeles is becoming too dry. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131940:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The use of Alien Organisms dramatically accelerate the terraforming process. Original estimates for California Minor were in the 400-year range. We now think we will be able to complete it in 840 AS, less than a quarter of the original estimate. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131941:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our hope is that some even more robust and prolific Alien Organisms can be discovered in the mysterious clouds of the Edge Nebula. It's as if they were tailor-made for the process of making planets habitable. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./California Minor Bartender/Arthur Saunders
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. Aaron Barth
 * Planetform, Inc./Asst. David Nuun
 * Planetform, Inc./Dr. Monty Blain
->Rumor #131942:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in supplies to augment Planetform's operation here -- mostly Oxygen, Food, Construction Machinery, and H-Fuel.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Ryan Dust
->Rumor #131943:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just made the monthly Silver run from Newark. Always gives me the nerves. Everybody out there is your enemy when you start hauling high-value stuff. Guess they use it for their cloud-seeding operations.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Ryan Dust
->Rumor #131944:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in the Alien Organisms from Newark that Planetform uses to jumpstart the process. The Sirius Commerce Act prohibits any import of Alien Organisms onto planets with indigenous life forms like Manhattan, but sterile planets like this one don't apply. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Ryan Dust
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====Planet Los Angeles (California)====
->Rumor #131878:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the center of the universe for Ageira. Company HQ. I do my little part by shipping in Side Arms from Detroit. I take Optical Chips to Norfolk on the way back to New York. Only tough part of the trip is getting the Side Arms past the Xenos on the first stretch to Manhattan.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Elijah Conrey
->Rumor #131879:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear the Lane Hackers get lonely for California sometimes. They got some asteroid base out in the Barrier someplace, where you never see the sun. IC and Ageira are determined to catch them. They might start right here. Word is, the Hackers got some secret friends inside still. That's how they are keeping up with all the security patches that Ageira releases.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Elijah Conrey
->Rumor #131880:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is where they do all of the software development for Ageira. Few years back, some programmers got uppity and took off with a bunch of source codes for the USI tracking software. IC was furious; came in and had a big investigation done. Hasn't stopped the Lane Hackers.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Elijah Conrey
->Rumor #131881:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just made a circuit of the Sierra Field. We like to troll for Rogues close to the Trade Lane to Mojave. They like to hang out there at the edge of the field, waiting for ships to come along. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131882:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We know there's a Rogue asteroid base in the Whitney Field. Problem is getting close enough to nail someone without disturbing the hornets' nest. Believe me, you'll know if you did. There's Outcasts around too. So ya gotta be careful. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131883:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bagged me a trophy Outcast the other day just inside the Tahoe Cloud to the west of the San Diego Lane. Just an escort for a smuggler, but still a pretty good bounty. Drinks are on me tonight. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131884:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's hard to get to, but there's a Jump Hole to Texas pretty close to the Rogue base. Tough to hang out there for long; Rogues and Outcasts will swarm you pretty quick. Only the gutsy guys risk it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131885:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm new to the system. Got tired of New York. Only way to move up there in the Guild is to head into the Badlands. Nasty, that dark cloud is. I prefer open asteroid fields, personally. I think I'll head out to the Whitney Field for a look. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131886:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading off to Cortez. I hear there's Rogues as far as the eye can see out there. A big group of ex-LPI guys is based at that resort Curacao -- keep asking me to join them. They expect to cash out pretty quick, although two of them already bit it. Definitely some risk involved. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131887:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We know there's a Rogue asteroid base in the Whitney Field. Problem is getting close enough to nail someone without disturbing the hornets' nest. Believe me, you'll know if you did. There's Outcasts around, too, so ya gotta be careful. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Fred Rigg
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Ellen Hammond
->Rumor #131888:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We just came in with a load of Polymers and Hydrocarbons from Birmingham, across the Barrier in Manchester. I'm turning the ship back for Sheffield Station tomorrow with a load of Optical Chips. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Garrett Twidell
->Rumor #131889:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I haul Luxury Food from Cambridge all the way here. You really have to push it to make it before the Food spoils. We typically pick up a load of Luxury Goods for New London on the return. That's less time-sensitive but more dangerous for the Lane Hackers in Cortez and Magellan. They always seem to know when we're coming. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Garrett Twidell
->Rumor #131890:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've hauled Superconductors and Boron from New York to New London and Leeds as long as I can remember. I usually pick up a load of Polymers or Hydrocarbons in Manchester for the return trip across the Barrier. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Garrett Twidell
->Rumor #131891:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I handle Gold and Luxury Goods runs between New London and Manhattan. It gets pretty stressful. The armored transport helps, but it also serves as a flashing billboard for every criminal in scanning range to come and take a look. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Garrett Twidell
->Rumor #131892:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is our turn-around point in Liberty. We run Pharmaceuticals from our Denver plant to Ft. Bush and Manhattan, then continue on to Los Angeles. We pick up raw materials like Hydrocarbons and Polymers that are produced in Manchester here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. David Haverla
->Rumor #131893:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day Liberty will rid itself of the Outcasts and its Cardamine habit. There will be much safer ways for users to feel good using future Cryer products, without funding the activities of illegals like the Rogues and Outcasts.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. David Haverla
->Rumor #131894:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cryer transports don't handle small shipments to police and military bases. We also don't go to Cortez or Magellan. So Universal, Gateway, and Orbital Spa perform distribution duties for us in this part of Sirius.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. David Haverla
->Rumor #131895:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My ship has been running Beryllium into Colorado for some time now. We pick it up in Kensington, New London. That's just a way point. It gets mined in the Cambridge system. We usually stop here and pick up a load of Optical Chips for the Cambridge Consumer Goods factory on our return. Sure beats hauling Food to Freeport 4. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Alan Lester
->Rumor #131896:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just got in on a Gold run from the Hood in Dublin. Everything was fine until we got to the Barrier Cloud in Magellan. The Lane Hackers were waiting as usual -- pounced on us as soon as we entered the Trade Lane to Freeport 4. We got lucky when a Universal convoy showed up. Still lost one of my escorts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Alan Lester
->Rumor #131897:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gateway supplies most of the IMG bases in the Sirius Sector and hauls their products to market. Take Freeport 4 in Magellan, for example. We ship them their Food, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Engine Components, and H-Fuel. We bring Water back. Not a killer run, but it pays the bills. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Alan Lester
->Rumor #131898:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm on leave from the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Yukon</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. That's the battleship parked in orbit above LA. They gave a group of us some time to recuperate after doing patrols into Cortez. Liberty is a joke compared to the Independent Worlds. The LPI wouldn't last two seconds out there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Chris Waltrip
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131899:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm on leave from the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Yukon</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. They gave my squadron some time to recuperate after doing a month of combat patrols in Cortez. Liberty is a joke compared to the Independent Worlds. The LPI wouldn't last two seconds out there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Chris Waltrip
->Rumor #131900:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's frustrating trying to stop the Cardamine smuggling. All of those rich New Yorkers keep buying the drugs, then they turn around and tell us that it's a big problem that has to be fought. Rumor is that Cryer is doing some pretty hard lobbying back in Manhattan to keep the drug war going. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Chris Waltrip
->Rumor #131901:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Los Angeles is the dream post for an LPI trooper. Nice climate, and they give you a special cost of living adjustment for all the high prices. Living quarters are kind of tight, but you take what you can get. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131902:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sometimes I really can't take the superior attitude of the Synth Food and Ageira types with their fancy houses and all. They expect us to keep their little world perfect, but at the same time, stay invisible. We're just honest, hardworking Joes trying to make a living. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131903:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Had a long patrol today. Went all the way to the New York Gate. We ran into some Rogues at the Mojave Trade Lane bend. Seems to be a popular place for the criminally minded. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131904:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're pretty sure there's a Rogue base in the Whitney Field, but the higher ups say that's a Bounty Hunter problem. We should just find it and clear out the nest. My guess is that Bounty Hunters are paying off the LPI execs back in Houston. They don't want the criminal population to be reduced too much. Bad for business. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
 * Liberty Population/Los Angeles Bartender/Bill Greenwood
->Rumor #131905:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is Rogue central. We got 'em in all the asteroid fields. No Xenos, though. Never been any mining or manufacturing workers in this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
 * Liberty Population/Los Angeles Bartender/Bill Greenwood
->Rumor #131906:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We think there's an illegal access route from Cortez into the Tahoe Cloud somewhere, but that's not our problem. I won't set foot off the Trade Lane in that area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
 * Liberty Population/Los Angeles Bartender/Bill Greenwood
->Rumor #131907:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading out on a patrol into the Sierra Ice Field tomorrow. It'll be my first time on an assault crew. I'm pretty pumped. We're looking for Rogues to fill this week's prison convoy bound for Texas. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131909:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They got me on California Minor patrol. Pretty boring. Nothing like the Tahoe Cloud. That's the hardest place LPI goes in all of Liberty. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131910:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military handles most of the tough Lane Hacker and Outcast areas of the western Tahoe Cloud. They don't want us interferin', they say. Just a bunch of privileged, arrogant hotheads in my opinion.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
 * Liberty Population/Los Angeles Bartender/Bill Greenwood
->Rumor #131911:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Next week they're transferring me to the Los Angeles-San Diego Trade Lane patrol through the Tahoe. You're liable to run into Rogues, Lane Hackers, even Outcasts. It's an assignment for gung ho young 'uns straight out of the academy, or bored vets about to join the Bounty Hunters. I'm neither. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
->Rumor #131912:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Last week the Rogues attacked the prison convoy bound for Texas somewhere near the New York Gate. It's tough keeping that area under control -- no bases nearby. They didn't succeed, but it was close there for a while. It shut down the Trade Lane for a couple of hours.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dana Lindman
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Travis Macson
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Josh Hackett
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Linda Kennedy
 * Liberty Population/Los Angeles Bartender/Bill Greenwood
->Rumor #131913:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We purchase most of our supplies like Food, Oxygen, Pharmaceuticals, and H-Fuel from Los Angeles. It's a short run, but off the Trade Lanes, so it takes a while. Not too much risk from Rogues with these cargos. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Michael Bruunt
->Rumor #131914:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I run the Silver to California Minor for the cloud-seeding operation, which will need to go on for another few decades at least. The Rogues wait patiently for the Silver run. I've been attacked so many times I don't even think much about it anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Michael Bruunt
->Rumor #131915:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California Minor gets their Terraforming Gases and Water from Magellan and Manchester. All the Water here is so full of toxic, dissolved mineral salts that it's too expensive to attempt desalinization. That's why they mined out so much of this system's ice asteroids over the centuries. All that's left is low grade, dirty stuff.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Michael Bruunt
->Rumor #131916:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Fertilizers from Houston, then ship out Food to Denver, Manhattan, and Houston. Synth Foods is the future. I wish the farmers of Kusari and Rheinland could see that. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/Dr. Carson Mothis
->Rumor #131917:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is Synth Foods' home base. We still produce a fair amount of Food here, although not as cheaply as Stuttgart. Our plan is to eventually phase out growing operations on Los Angeles. The soil and climate just can't support the sustainable production levels that we need. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/Dr. Carson Mothis
->Rumor #131918:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are committed to enhancing Food production throughout the Sirius Sector, whether it is through increased use of biodomes in the Independent and Border Worlds, or the introduction of more efficient use of technology to traditional growing areas like Stuttgart and Kyushu. We will prevail.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/Dr. Carson Mothis
->Rumor #131919:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They got me running basic supplies to all the bases in California. There's the Yukon, the Police border station, California Minor, and then that research base, Willard. Gets a little exciting in the clouds, especially when I'm hauling Food and Pharmaceuticals. They don't care much about the Oxygen and Water. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ John Dangelo
->Rumor #131920:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I do the New London to Manhattan Gold run inbound, Luxury Goods on the return trip. Gets rough crossing the Barrier. Pretty much a breeze inside of Liberty. We usually stop in L.A. because there's always a lot of demand from all the luxury boutiques here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ John Dangelo
->Rumor #131921:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading out in a couple of hours to do an Optical Chip run from the Ageira plant to Houston. I hope to pick up some Construction Machinery and return next week sometime. Otherwise I could be stuck on Houston for a while. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ John Dangelo
->Rumor #131922:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading out in a couple of hours to do an Optical Chip and Polymer run to Houston. I hope to pick up some Construction Machinery and Engine Components and return next week sometime. If I'm lucky, they might give me a Silver shipment for the cloud-seeding programs here in California.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ John Dangelo
->Rumor #131923:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just passing through from Trenton HQ with a load of Superconductors bound for Southampton in New London. It's more interesting than the Water run from Manhattan. Now that's a bore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ John Dangelo
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->Rumor #131730:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship in our basic needs like Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel from Denver. Usually these shipments are pretty uneventful, which is just how I like it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131731:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira Technologies produces the most sophisticated technology in the Sirius Sector. We have exclusively designed and manufactured all of the Trade Lanes and Jump Gates that have made hyper-fast, long-distance space travel feasible for the first time in human history. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131732:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There has been one most unfortunate occurrence in Ageira's past: the Dallas Incident in 500 AS, a Jump Gate research project in the Texas system that went horribly wrong. Thousands of dedicated Ageira employees were lost in one dreadful moment. To this day the Texas system remains mostly off-limits due to the radiation and debris hazards. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131733:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira ships its primary products of Super Alloys, Superconductors, and Trade Lane Parts to Trenton, where Universal distributes them across the Sirius Sector. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131734:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Pueblo is our primary Trade Lane Parts manufacturing facility. We also produce the latest Super Alloys and Superconductors for use in Liberty Navy Ship Hull construction and engines. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131735:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira products like the Jump Gates have been developed through the centuries based on advanced technologies unlocked from Alien Artifacts found at an excavation site in Manhattan during the early days of Liberty. It is Liberty's most valuable secret, and one that is jealously guarded. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131736:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We handle the shipment of Superconductors and Super Alloys to the Norfolk Shipyard in New York, and Denver. These high-tech components become the armor of Liberty ships. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131737:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira has a long and distinguished history. Its founders were among the initial population of Liberty, soon after planetfall on Manhattan in 0 AS. All scientists and engineers -- they were handpicked by the Liberty government to exploit and develop new transportation technologies for the future. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131739:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers are a misguided group of software and hardware development engineers that never appreciated the opportunities that Ageira presented. They stole extremely valuable Ageira intellectual property and used it to their own personal advantage. Due to their shortsighted actions, the criminal scourge has spread like a plague throughout the entire Sirius network of Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
->Rumor #131740:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG delivers large quantities of MOX to this facility. This is far and away our largest customer for this product. It is used as a base energy source for Trade Lanes and Jump Gates, although there is no way that fusion alone could create the energy required to operate these monstrous creations. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Stefan Hütte
->Rumor #131741:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We haul tremendous amounts of Toxic Waste away from this plant. The Xenos are always waiting in the asteroid field it seems. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Stefan Hütte
->Rumor #131742:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG would like to produce Super Alloys at our Dortmund plant in the near future. We are perfectly willing to handle other people's garbage for a chance to eventually learn exactly how their products are made. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Stefan Hütte
->Rumor #131743:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Polymers and Hydrocarbons from Manchester, site of our Birmingham manufactory, via Newark. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Bryce Streymoore
->Rumor #131744:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the sole location where Superconductors are produced in the Sirius Sector. None of the other Houses could stay competitive with Liberty. We ship them to Los Angeles, and eventually Southampton Shipyard in the New London system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Bryce Streymoore
->Rumor #131745:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex feels that Bretonian Super Alloys are superior to those produced here, so we don't feel the need to import any. House Kusari and Rheinland unfortunately do not agree with our assessment. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Bryce Streymoore
->Rumor #131746:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in the Beryllium to Pueblo all the way from the Cardiff mine in Cambridge, even though we have no outbound cargo here. It is a quick shot back into New York where we can fill up for the journey home. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/Sales Rep. David Harris
->Rumor #131747:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We'd like to break into the Trade Lane Parts-hauling business, but the Liberty government and Ageira will not allow it. They say it must be a Liberty company that handles their precious cargo. I smell something fishy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/Sales Rep. David Harris
->Rumor #131748:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Liberty does seem to have a lot of criminal problems -- not as tough as our Mollys, and certainly nothing like the Corsairs -- but plenty of them, especially those Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/Sales Rep. David Harris
->Rumor #131749:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Niobium in from Deshima. On the return journey we bring Terraforming Gases for the biodome farms there. We also transport Superconductors, which are shipped onward to the Yukawa Shipyard in Honshu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kimitoshi Kawamoto
->Rumor #131750:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've attempted to reverse-engineer Ageira products at our Kansai research center, but so far, unsuccessfully. If we could duplicate the Trade Lanes, we could finally be free of Liberty's stranglehold on that most critical technology. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kimitoshi Kawamoto
->Rumor #131751:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get attacked on the way down from Shikoku by Lane Hackers and Rogues, and both ways by Xenos. Kusari space is certainly much safer than this. We don't have crime problems like this. I wish Liberty would clean up the Independent Worlds, since the criminals come from here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kimitoshi Kawamoto
->Rumor #131752:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just finished a very difficult run from the Ring in New Berlin with a load of Daumann-mined Cobalt and Copper. First we have to deal with the Unioners in New Berlin and Hamburg. Then the Xenos take over in Hudson and Texas. Then they hit us again just down the Lane in the Silverton Field. You'd think they wouldn't care about a bunch of ore, but they just hate us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Hans Grüber
->Rumor #131753:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're heading out tomorrow for the Ring and the Oder Shipyard with a load of Superconductors and Super Alloys. I need a drink before pondering that journey. Wish I could find a decent beer around here; that Liberty ale is awful. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Hans Grüber
->Rumor #131754:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's too bad Rheinland can't manufacture these goods herself, because we certainly have the raw materials. Rheinland innovation and entrepreneurship has lagged since the 80-Years War. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Hans Grüber
->Rumor #131755:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura ships Niobium to Pueblo all the way from Freeport 6 in the Tau-29 system. We're picking up a return shipment of Superconductors bound for the Nansei antimatter research center in Kyushu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichiro Ogami
->Rumor #131756:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura uses Super Alloys and Superconductors for construction of Kusari naval force ships in the Yokohama Shipyard. House Kusari would love to manufacture these items internally, but we have been unable to duplicate Ageira's manufacturing techniques, which are truly a mystery. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichiro Ogami
->Rumor #131757:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos are a constant thorn in our side in Galileo and Colorado. We've had to invest in better ships and more escorts to protect ourselves. Samura doesn't understand why the Xenos blame us for their misfortunes. Most of it can be blamed on their own Deep Space Engineering and Ageira, who did not respond to the Kusari challenge in commercial ship building. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichiro Ogami
->Rumor #131758:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring additional supplies of Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel from Denver via the Rio Grande to supplement what Ageira ships here. We pick up Superconductors outbound for Trenton. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Jamie Collins
->Rumor #131759:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Trade Lane parts to Roppongi in the New Tokyo system. There they get offloaded to a DSE freighter for the final leg of their journey to the Chugoku Gate construction site in Hokkaido. That's way out there, some pretty hostile territory. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Jamie Collins
->Rumor #131760:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Boron in from Pittsburgh, Copper from Houston, and Basic Alloys from Texas or Ft. Bush. Universal is willing to ship throughout Liberty to keep her in the forefront. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Jamie Collins
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====San Diego Border Station (California)====
->Rumor #131986:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love it out here. I grew up on Houston, but I always dreamed about going to the Barrier. It's so beautiful in the skies of Liberty. Who would've known it was chock-full of nasties? I use this as my base for popping into Magellan. Id rather have the LPI as roommates than the criminals on those Freeports. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131987:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got the Jump Hole routes down in this part of Sirius. The Outcasts run their drugs from Manchester through a Hole to Magellan, then across to Cortez. From there, into the Tahoe Cloud, then across this system to the Texas Hole. Pretty good, eh? I dare you to follow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131988:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild does a regular "fishing" trip into the Cloud every day. We usually snag something. A Rogue or two -- once in a while you get an Outcast. Like catching one of those giant black two-finned sharks they have on Curacao. You have to let it run the line till it tires out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131989:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say if you want to get in with the Outcasts, get friendly with the Rogues. Then graduate to the Lane Hackers. Run some drugs. Then you're on your way. Hard to turn back at that point, since you'll be a Cardamine addict for life. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131990:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm doing long-range recon patrols into the Whitney Field. We do a lazy loop around it, keeping our distance from the Rogue base. Our usual path runs right along the Outcast smuggling route, so you have to be real careful. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131991:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs are a tough lot. Best chance to get in with them is with the Junkers. Whatever you do, stay away from the Hessian and Outcast alliances. As I said, hard to do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131992:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Talk about bad luck& I got posted here six months ago. LPI shouldn't even be here. This is practically Border World territory. We got a huge cloud full of nasties separating us from civilization. Can't just go for a pleasure run to Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131993:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They send all the problem people here, literally to kill you. Our western patrol goes right into the thick of the cloud west of the Lane. I've seen more than one of my buddies disappear in a puff of smoke. One moment they're joking with you about their next vacation, next thing, poof! </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131994:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They set up this border station to keep a watch on the Magellan Gate, since it's so isolated from everything else in the system. Then some genius planetside decided that we needed to do patrols into the Tahoe Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131995:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The eastern patrol goes through some old abandoned paths from the ice mining days. Then it loops back towards the Trade Lane. I just grit my teeth the whole way and hope that no baddies show up on radar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131996:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just countin' the days. I got thirty-two left before I go back to a life. The attrition rate here is real bad. So far, twenty guys this month got vaporized by Outcasts, Hackers, or Rogues. That's some bad odds. I need to look for a new line of work if I make it through this. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131997:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I may as well join the Bounty Hunters if I'm going to get posts like this. When they told me back on Sugarland that there was a combat opening in California, I jumped at the chance. Now I know why. I was replacing some other fool who lasted all of three days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131998:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just dropping off some basic supplies from Los Angeles. We usually stop at Willard first. Today we're bringing in Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel. I'm getting out of here as fast as I can. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #131999:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They ordered some Side Arms, so we're obliging. I wish they could just come to Los Angeles to pick them up; it would make life a lot easier. I guess the replacement rate for new recruits is pretty high, so they need a lot of new issues on Side Arms. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #132000:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I guess the Universal contract with LPI and the navy is real lucrative. Half the time we're flying half-empty. I don't care. Just give me my paycheck. At least the pirates don't hassle us too much. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
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====Willard Research Station (California)====
->Rumor #131966:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This place makes me feel real unwelcome. Them navy folks just don't want us here. They're all suspicious and secretive. We're just performing a necessary duty -- waste disposal. That's what I would call it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Kate Wolfe
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Nick Barnes
->Rumor #131967:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm getting bored around here. Same old stuff with the Rogues and Hackers. I want to get out to the Border Worlds. The Corsairs and Red Hessians are supposed to be nasty in the Omega systems. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Kate Wolfe
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Nick Barnes
->Rumor #131968:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just taking a breather. Been floating around this cursed cloud for weeks. There's lots of bad guys out there; it's just tough to nail them. Half the time you're just trying to avoid ice crystals appearing out of the mists. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Kate Wolfe
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Nick Barnes
->Rumor #131969:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a good base to intercept Outcasts doing their smuggling runs from Cortez to Texas. Their main route passes just south of here. That doesn't make it guaranteed, but definitely a better chance. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Kate Wolfe
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Nick Barnes
->Rumor #131970:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those white coats gave me a strange request last week. They said to bring back an Outcast with their Cardamine. Guess they want to study them more closely. Sounds kind of creepy to me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Kate Wolfe
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Nick Barnes
->Rumor #131971:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're not too far from the Whitney Ice Asteroid Field. The main Rogue hideout in California is there. They also got the Jump Hole to Texas. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Kate Wolfe
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Nick Barnes
->Rumor #131972:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm here to patrol the area and look for Rogues and Outcasts. I have no idea what research they do. That area of the base is restricted access, scientists only. They have some biological quarantine barrier between the labs and the rest of the ship. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
 * Liberty Navy/Willard Bartender/Chris Logan
->Rumor #131973:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard they had an accident down in the lab last week. Some sort of unknown pathogen released from one of their samples. Guess that's why they keep it so closed off. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131974:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They used to attack this base a lot before we placed a regular squadron on it. We run a patrol through the cloud daily, letting them know who's in charge here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
 * Liberty Navy/Willard Bartender/Chris Logan
->Rumor #131975:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear they got all sorts of bizarre plants no one's seen before growing in a greenhouse down on Level B. They're all sorts of strange orange and purple colors. Cryer's supposed to be interested in that one.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131976:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Most of this ice around us is ammonia. Not much help for California's water problems. They mined the Sierra and Whitney Fields for a long time, however. Nothing left there now but some old, abandoned equipment and Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
 * Liberty Navy/Willard Bartender/Chris Logan
->Rumor #131977:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The LSF has brought in some of those strange Artifacts to the lab. We never heard what happened, but I suppose they did some experimenting or something. I never have figured out exactly what the LSF does. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131978:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I can't stand being penned up on this rock for weeks. We only see the sun as a hazy apparition most of the time, unless we're on patrol. Those Bounty Hunters get stinky, too. Guess they don't learn proper hygiene in prison. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131979:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some top-secret folks came in from Alaska last week. All interested in the Alien stuff going on here. Sometimes I think there's a lot more going on in Liberty than I ever imagined. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131980:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The navy is a great place for someone to move up in Liberty society. We're held in great respect by the big corporations, defending their interests wherever they may be. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
 * Liberty Navy/Willard Bartender/Chris Logan
->Rumor #131981:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base was opened up in 700 to more carefully study the Alien Organisms that are brought back from the Omicron systems. They figured this field would be a good place to study their interaction with ammonia and methane, which are far more common frozen gases than water in the California system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131982:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to work for the Bounty Hunters before joining up with the navy. I don't fit in too good with these squeaky-clean military types, but I've saved their butts a bunch of times out in Cortez. They need people like me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Hollie Welch
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Jack Bently
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Andy Lords
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Jay Richards
->Rumor #131983:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is my second stop on the California supply run. We bring Food, Water, Oxygen, Pharmaceuticals, and H-Fuel to the military and police bases in the system. Last stop is the San Diego Border Station at the Magellan Gate. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Steve Willingham
->Rumor #131984:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not sure why they want these Alien Organisms here. We bring them in from Newark. I thought all they used these things for was terraforming. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Steve Willingham
->Rumor #131985:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I think the military should handle its own supplies for bases like this. Too much risk for us. Why did they have to build a base in the middle of the second nastiest cloud in Liberty space anyway? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Steve Willingham
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====Battleship Norfolk (Cambridge)====
->Rumor #132560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We go further into the clouds than the Armed Forces do. I've gone right by the Omega-5 Jump Hole more than once. That takes some guts, let me tell ya. The Corsairs get really nasty if you get too close to their access points. I've never been in Omega-5. Not too many Hunters survive to tell their tales of that area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Word from Freeport I is that the Corsairs are losing their turf war with the Hessians in Omega-5. That'll save Bretonia's rear. Once the Hessians cut off Omega-5, the Corsairs won't have an access route into Cambridge anymore. Hessians don't much care about this corner of the woods. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our group went on a long-range patrol along the Corsair Artifact smuggling route to the New London Jump Hole. I got one of 'em in my sights, but his buddies laid some wicked covering fire that forced me to break off. Those Corsairs are a wily lot. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are some top Hunters of the Guild out in the Omega Sector. I was talking to one of 'em last week on Freeport 1 -- said he'd made it all the way to Freeport 5 in Omega-41. That's on the edge of nothing, that is. He talked about a neutron star's deadly radiation that'll fry ya in a couple of minutes if you aren't properly protected. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to be an IMG miner in Cardiff. This is much better work -- yeah, a little more dangerous, but a lot more rewarding. They recruited me for my knowledge of the Grasmere and Keswick Clouds. I grew up on Cambridge, so I know 'em like the back of my hand. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild is gaining membership in Rheinland. It was tough for a while, but the pay is better than the Federal Police can offer, and you have more freedom to boot. Of course, the Red Hessians are growing, too, so it's not an easy job. The Mollys and Gaians would be chicken feed for that lot. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are delivering supplies from Cambridge for the battleship. It's not much of a run, but it keeps me busy. The Corsairs rarely bother us along the Cambridge line. We bring the Side Arms and H-Fuel in from London as needed.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132567:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We had a rough MOX run on the way in. Mollys attacked us as we left LD-14. The Armed Forces saved the day on that one. Then the Mollys bit us again in New London. This time it got dicey, since all we had were police in the area. I lost an escort on that one. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132568:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Normally, running Toxic Waste from a ship like this one is not an attractive target, but those Mollys think they can build a dirty bomb with some of this nasty stuff. So, we have to deal with stress both ways from LD-14. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132569:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Norfolk serves as a keystone in the defense of Bretonia against the scourge of the Corsairs. The Cambridge Line stretches between here and Cambridge to offer additional protection for ships traveling along that Trade Lane. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132570:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Omega-3 is a sea of ice asteroids. Corsairs are more of a problem in our end of the system; the Red Hessians take over at the east end. Apparently, there's no Jump Hole between Omega-3 and here, or between Omega-3 and Omega-7. That keeps things a little bit more controlled. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
->Rumor #132571:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We patrol the Trade Lane into the Keswick Cloud, a favorite crossing point for Corsairs, and the Lane to Cardiff. The Omega-3 Gate area is particularly contentious right now. We've allocated an entire squadron to patrol just that vicinity. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132572:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Captain Edwards says we're going out into the Grasmere tomorrow on a search and destroy mission to look for Corsairs. Guess I better record a message for my momma, in case I don't come back. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
->Rumor #132573:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've extended our patrols into Omega-3 per the conditions of the Omega Trade Lane Pact with Rheinland. Problem is, they aren't holding up their end in Omega-7. The excuse is not enough money. We're itching to go in there, but London won't allow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132574:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cambridge used to be such a peaceful place, and then the Corsairs showed up. They've built that Cambridge Line to assure all those university types in Cambridge that everything is under control. Fact is the Line's useless. The weapon platforms are too far apart, and the Corsairs just go around the ends of the Line. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #134284:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
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====Cambridge Research Station (Cambridge)====
->Rumor #132547:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cryer used to ship its own Organisms from Leeds. Unfortunately, that little spat with the Outcasts led to a lot of its ships being destroyed in Smog Alley, that stretch of Trade Lane between Leeds and the New London Gate that runs between the clouds. Now we handle it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harvey Jordan
->Rumor #132548:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We normally stop by Cambridge to pick up a load of Food or Consumer Goods for Leeds on our return trip up north. That doesn't interest the Outcasts up there as much. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harvey Jordan
->Rumor #132549:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's too bad Bretonia has to depend on a Liberty company for our drugs. Just goes to show you how we've fallen behind over the centuries. Maybe some of these young researchers will see the light and head off on their own. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harvey Jordan
->Rumor #132551:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This station gets all of its basic supplies from Cambridge. We ship the Pharmaceuticals produced here either to Cambridge or directly to New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Cambridge Research Station Bartender/RBT-117
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132552:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cryer is the sole Pharmaceutical producer remaining in the Sirius Sector. We closely guard our secrets here. We feel that we charge very reasonable prices for our products, given the lack of competition. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Cambridge Research Station Bartender/RBT-117
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132553:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a special secret lab that I'm not supposed to talk about. That's where all Organisms first go when they arrive. The scientists verify whether the particular strain has been characterized before releasing it to the rest of the researchers in the station. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132554:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are not allowed to land on any planet inhabited by Alien Organisms that we use for our research purposes here, so we have to ship them from the Glasgow Outpost in Leeds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Cambridge Research Station Bartender/RBT-117
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132555:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cambridge Research Station was created to provide a stimulating research and development environment in zero-g and to enable us to study the Organisms from the Edge Nebula. These opportunities were unavailable on our planetside locations due to the Alien Import Prohibition Act of 500 AS, which prohibits the importing of any Alien Organism onto inhabited planets. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Cambridge Research Station Bartender/RBT-117
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132556:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cryer is trying to synthetically derive Cardamine from the Alien Organisms. Cardamine is naturally harvested by the Outcasts within the Omicron systems of the Edge Nebula. If Cryer can reproduce it here, but in a milder and more socially acceptable form, then all the Cardamine addicts in Sirius will be able to switch to our legal version. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132557:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One focus of the zero-g research here is to improve drugs for those workers and travelers that frequently must exist in both environments concurrently, such as the police, military, and other pilots of small spacecraft that lack the aid of artificial gravity. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Cambridge Research Station Bartender/RBT-117
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132558:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our efforts to synthesize Cardamine have not gone unnoticed by the Outcasts. The Atka Research Station in Sigma-17 is under constant attack. We definitely have a dangerous criminal enemy, which has led management to suspend direct shipments outside of Liberty unless Outcast activity is minimal along the route. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #132559:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The zero-g production environment has enabled us to produce many exotic drugs not possible planetside. It also aids in researching diseases peculiar to space-dwelling humans. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ David Bond
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Stephan Key
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Cambridge Research Station Bartender/RBT-117
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. Nigel Booth
->Rumor #134284:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harvey Jordan
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====Cardiff Mining Facility (Cambridge)====
->Rumor #132575:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're unloading supplies from Cambridge, and then we'll reload with Beryllium and head for the ALG smelter in Dortmund. It should be a smooth trip once we get past the Corsairs in the Keswick Cloud and Omega-3. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Steve Barry
->Rumor #132576:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The IMG has been good for us. We were really struggling, shipping Water and Oxygen to corporate bases and Freeports, until they selected us as their shipper of choice.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Steve Barry
->Rumor #132577:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gateway hopes to surpass Bowex someday, but that'll be a tall order with all of the aristocratic friends they have in London. IMG has the same problem with BMM. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Steve Barry
->Rumor #132578:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the first IMG base established. BMM surveyors somehow missed it during the great mapping period in 450 AS. A couple of Cambridge geology professors on research sabbatical stumbled across it in 654. Lacking the practical experience to develop it, they persuaded some BMM mining engineers to start a new company. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Cardiff Bartender/Charles Coddington
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132579:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The IMG is a consortium of former BMM workers, independent miners of various creeds, and more recently, the unemployed legions of Rheinland workers resulting from the collapse of the Rheinland economy in 702. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Cardiff Bartender/Charles Coddington
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132580:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The IMG has encountered unexpected resistance in the Edge Worlds. The very territorial Corsairs and Outcasts view any incursions into the outer Omega or Tau worlds as direct assaults on them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132581:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cardiff produces the bulk of the Beryllium in the Sirius Sector. Gateway ships it to Rheinland, while the IMG handles the short run to Kensington. For the return journey, the IMG purchases Mining Machinery. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Cardiff Bartender/Charles Coddington
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132582:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Until quite recently, the IMG lacked the shipping capabilities to compete with BMM and Republican. Now that Gateway has joined forces, we are a much stronger entity. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Cardiff Bartender/Charles Coddington
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132583:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG has recently joined our cause, which makes our loose alliance very powerful. It has the most advanced refining capabilities in all of Bretonia and Rheinland. We now have all the pieces to establish a more progressive corporation than our competitors. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132584:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The IMG has been forced to conduct patrols since the arrival of Corsairs in our space. They have destroyed mining ships and illegally mined Beryllium directly from the field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Cardiff Bartender/Charles Coddington
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132585:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The IMG feels that the Mollys were wronged by BMM. We should know, since most of us were exploited for years. Our Rheinland brethren can tell much the same story. Part of the Guild's charter is to share the wealth with as many of our rank and file as possible. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Cardiff Bartender/Charles Coddington
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
->Rumor #132586:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hood, Freistadt, and Freeport 4 are open to all. This is part of our Freeport philosophy that we adopted from the Zoners. It is very effective in the Border and Independent Worlds and allows us to coexist with most criminal factions, unlike BMM, Daumann, and Kruger. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Bert Porter
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Jim Levine
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. Alyssa Banta
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====Lisburn Rock (Cambridge)====
->Rumor #132652:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Why dya think the police dont come into the system? Well skin em is why. They dont have the stomach for the type of fightin that goes on here. Ever since we were founded its been us against the military, and we aint exactly losin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132653:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys were established right after the Founders Day Revolt. All we were trying to do was let the government know how bad we were being treated by BMM. The government didnt care. We werent worth anything in their eyes, just like the BMM executives. We knew that Bretonia wasn't our home, and if we ever wanted to have a home we would have to carve it from Bretonian space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132654:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can process tiny amounts of weapons-grade Plutonium from MOX. We steal the MOX as it gets shipped from BMMs LD-14 base in Leeds. Soon well have enough MOX to detonate a bomb in the skies over New London. Maybe then theyll leave Dublin to us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132655:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys hate BMM. They were the ones who worked us to the bone. The life expectancy for a miner before the revolt was less than six years. If youre gonna have a life expectancy for a job, you might as well be a soldier. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132656:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Well, we lobbed old man Graves's head off in the Founders Day Revolt, but now his daughter runs GS&amp;M. She is just as bad as he ever was, but she is more dangerous because she is smarter. One day I will see her dead. Our attacks at their base are getting closer and closer to blowing the whole station. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132657:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our lads got captured last week by Bretonian military in Leeds during a MOX raid. Hes one of our best -- Roger Patiences his name. Hes on a prison convoy on its way to Newgate Prison. Were gonna crack him out in Manchester as the ships break from the Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hood supplies us with our basic Commodities. We also get Mining Machinery and Consumer Goods from the folks at that filth-infested base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We send our people through the Jump Hole to New London to deal with the Junkers at Trafalgar to get the basic supplies that keep Arranmore running. They bring back Side Arms and Engine Components from Trafalgar. Junkers are always willing to trade those goods for the Gold that we've mined here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Any MOX you can get your hands on will be much appreciated by us here. What we do with it is none of your business. And you aren't gonna mention who you sold it to if you ever get pinched. If ya do -- well, we have boys in Newgate, too. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #134282:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Molly fighter Vanguard was on a Gold run from Dublin to Trafalgar when it was intercepted by a Bretonia Armed Forces patrol in the Cumbria Asteroid Field. They gave chase and he fled into a known gas hazard area. Unfortunately, his luck ran out that day when he encountered a particularly dense pocket. The ship still lies there, awaiting anyone foolish enough to knowingly enter a volatile gas zone.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #134288:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonia Armed Forces Gunboat Storm was pursuing the culprits responsible for the Founders Day Revolt of 752 when it blundered into a large booby trap laid by the fleeing rebels within the future Molly Gold Field. The number 2 fusion reactor was breached, resulting in a huge explosion that vaporized the ship instantly. Several of its nearby escorts were caught in the shock wave and destroyed as well. To this day their debris lies somewhere in the mined area, which is officially off limits to Armed Forces salvage crews.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
->Rumor #134289:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Scargill was participating on a Gold poaching run into the GS&amp;M Gold Field several weeks ago when it was caught by the company security patrol. They pursued the fleeing ship into the minefield, where it blew up. There may still be looted Gold in the cargo hold; the GS&amp;M patrol left it in place as a warning to other Mollys.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
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====Planet Cambridge (Cambridge)====
->Rumor #132527:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cambridge is Bretonia's breadbasket and Consumer Goods production center. We have various crews shipping Foods and Luxury Foods out to London. Consumer Goods shipments are consigned for London and Leeds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Dennis Downs
->Rumor #132528:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Dennis Downs
->Rumor #132529:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Dennis Downs
->Rumor #132530:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Dennis Downs
->Rumor #132531:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Dennis Downs
->Rumor #132532:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The prison convoy bound for Manchester got attacked yesterday. Corsairs came out of nowhere and ambushed them along the Lane to the New London Gate. They figure they were waiting on the nightside of Cambridge. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Amy Jolie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Charles Simms
 * Bretonia Population/Cambridge Bartender/Galen Warren
->Rumor #132533:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The patrol to the Norfolk isn't too bad. You've got the Cambridge Line between you and the bad guys in the clouds, and the military not far away. You've just got to keep an eye out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Amy Jolie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Charles Simms
->Rumor #132534:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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... </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Amy Jolie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Charles Simms
 * Bretonia Population/Cambridge Bartender/Galen Warren
->Rumor #132535:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Amy Jolie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Charles Simms
 * Bretonia Population/Cambridge Bartender/Galen Warren
->Rumor #132536:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Amy Jolie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Charles Simms
 * Bretonia Population/Cambridge Bartender/Galen Warren
->Rumor #132537:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Amy Jolie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Charles Simms
 * Bretonia Population/Cambridge Bartender/Galen Warren
->Rumor #132538:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use Cambridge as a convenient supply source for the Cambridge Research Station, which is high in orbit above this planet. Hydrocarbons and Polymers are shipped from Omega-3. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. John Nathaniel
->Rumor #132539:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. John Nathaniel
->Rumor #132540:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/Dr. John Nathaniel
->Rumor #132541:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm on the Kensington circuit. We usually import H-Fuel or Gold. On the outbound trip it could be Food, Pharmaceuticals, or Consumer Goods. We don't make a lot of profit, but it's a fairly safe trip. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ronald Madden
->Rumor #132542:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run the supplies to the IMG base Cardiff across the system. From there we pick up Beryllium for shipment to Kensington or Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ronald Madden
->Rumor #132543:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ronald Madden
->Rumor #132544:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is Republican's main terminating point in Bretonia. We deliver Engine Components and High-Temperature Alloys from Berlin and Dresden. The rise of the Corsairs in Bretonia has persuaded us to let Bretonians handle the cargo for the last leg to New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Alexander Evers
->Rumor #132545:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The highest value cargos shipped between Rheinland and Bretonia are Diamonds and Gold. Corsairs and Red Hessians plague us the entire way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Alexander Evers
->Rumor #132546:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Alexander Evers
->Rumor #134284:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Dennis Downs
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====Attica Station (Cassini)====
->Rumor #131147:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is one of the richest systems in Sirius. On our way back home well hit shipments cruising through the Trade Lanes here; we have plenty of cover in the ice fields that populate the system. They cover us as we smuggle our way in and steal our way back out again. I love California. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #131148:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Liberty battleship </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Yukon </TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>might scare a lot of thieves and petty criminals, but it doesnt bother the Outcasts. We can lose her patrols in the ice fields as we cross the system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #131149:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Gold stolen by the Outcasts and Lane Hackers in the Barrier on to Buffalo. It eventually gets sold by the Junkers planetside -- a nice, clean operation.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131150:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We supply Side Arms to the Rogue base out in the Barrier. The Outcasts also buy from us. Nothing cheaper than Detroit Side Arms.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131151:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Alcatraz ships Cardamine to Buffalo and Beaumont. I'd like to make that run myself one day, but I'm not good enough yet. The Outcasts tend to get angry when you blow one of their Cardamine loads.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131152:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is a good home to the Rogues. First off, theres ice asteroid fields all over the system, which makes for good cover when traveling through the system hauling illegal goodies. Our base is hidden in the same asteroid field that hides the Jump Hole to Texas, and from Texas you can jump into New York space, no problem.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131153:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our boys here in Alcatraz like to "tax" all the goods moving through the Trade Lanes between Bretonia and Liberty. Los Angeles is filled with those snobby successful types who buy loads of Luxury Goods from Manhattan. It aint right that they get all the good things in life just 'cuz they were born with money, so we take some of it off their hands. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131154:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can reach Padua in Cortez by running to the Tahoe Ice Cloud on the western edge of the system, where the Jump Hole to Cortez is hidden. The Trade Lane to Magellan travels by the same field, so you might be able to hit a shipment or two on the way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131155:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts know we need their Cardamine, and they look down on us for it. I can see it in their eyes, even if they dont say anything. I dont like them holding the Cardamine over us, but I need it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #131156:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rogues live life for the day, not for the future. We dont dwell on the past neither. If I got money in my pocket and some Cardamine stashed, then what do I gotta worry about tomorrow or yesterday for? Besides, I cant always remember what happened yesterday and I might be dead tomorrow. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #131157:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Theres been talk of a Liberty Rogue who is uniting all of us together. I dunno if its true or not, but Ive heard people say hes got over 100 kills and more and more Rogue pilots are joining under his command. If I get a chance Ill join with him. I think hes in New York. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #132001:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to really make some money with us, come to Cali in Tau-23. Its exact location is up to you to discover.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132002:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those annoying Xenos seem to think that they will be able to defeat the Junkers and force us to use them as our intermediaries. They are sorely mistaken in that assumption.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132003:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm running a Cardamine load in from the Lane Hacker base in Magellan. Just taking a Cardamine break before I head on to Buffalo in the Badlands. It's a very long journey to Liberty from where I come from. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132004:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few of our brethren are prisoners at Sugarland. The supply of Cardamine in the prison is adequate to keep them alive. Those that have been sent to Huntsville with the Xenos don't last long.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132005:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do quick hops across these systems. I'm on a convoy headed for Beaumont in the Texas Debris Fields. We started in Cortez yesterday at the Rogue base. Normally the Rogues do these runs, but they were losing too many shipments. Sometimes you just have to do it yourself.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #134340:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few days ago, the Outcast ship Balboa was damaged by an LPI patrol that surprised it in the Tahoe Ice Cloud. It escaped its pursuers, but the failing control systems eventually caused it to hit an ice crystal and explode -- at least thats what theyve been able to piece together from radar and the pilots last words. The wreckage was scattered and drifted over a large area. The Cardamine cargo remains missing, probably still in the hold of the ship. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
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====Foster Base (Cassini)====
->Rumor #131381:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We need to hire Freelancers and Bounty Hunters on occasion to keep Junkers from swiping resources from our Baltimore Shipyard. We are, after all, near a debris field that is prime Junker turf.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131838:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG disposes of the waste that this shipyard produces. Toxic Waste and Scrap Metal are shipped by us to Dortmund in New Berlin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/Rep. John Guentzel
->Rumor #131839:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Scrap Metal produced here at this shipyard is shipped by ALG to the Sugarland. Our freighters in Texas then bring Ship Hull Panels back to this base from Houston. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/Rep. John Guentzel
->Rumor #131840:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>MOX and Ship Hull Panels are brought to this base from Dortmund by ALG for Deep Space Engineering's use in the construction of ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/Rep. John Guentzel
->Rumor #131841:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex brings this shipyard the finest in Polymers from Birmingham. Yes, we brave the Rogues to ship these components to Liberty space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Eric Price
->Rumor #131842:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our corporation is the cornerstone of Bretonian shipping. We have always competed fairly with other shippers from outside of Bretonia, but the filthy young upstarts at Gateway Shipping have neither the experience nor the intellect to make a successful venture of their firm. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Eric Price
->Rumor #131843:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This company received the first royal shipping charter from the Crown; we have hauled and shipped material throughout Bretonias long and illustrious history. Through it all we have remained steadfast and vigilant to the needs of our customers, often times not only shipping but insuring precious Commodities. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Eric Price
->Rumor #131844:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the last of the commercial shipyards in Liberty. We had to specialize in prison and cruise ships to survive. Kusari took over the general transport business a while ago. That's when they shut down the Edison Yard in Colorado. Lot of good people lost their way of life on that dark day. Now they're Rogues and Xenos. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131845:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The primo jobs at DSE are the Trade Lane and Jump Gate construction crews. They get loads of hazard pay, plus free room and board. It's all secret and such. Aren't supposed to ask questions on what's inside the guts of those Rings. Just swap them out with new ones from Ageira if they're busted. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131846:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Building prisons is big business in Liberty. When they're done, they fill them with all the people that they just laid off from DSE. There's something wrong with that, but I can't do nothin' about it, so why worry? Who knows, maybe someday I'll be living in one of the cells I helped build. Now, ain't that ironic?</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131847:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Prison and cruise ships. That says a lot about Liberty society. We don't build all the miners or transports. That went to Kusari and Rheinland over a century ago. A lot of my old buddies that got laid off joined the Xenos to fight back. Personally, I think they should go after IC and all the rich people using these cruise ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131848:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just stopping by on the supply run from Manhattan. We bring the usual stuff like Oxygen and Water. Sometimes I bring more Construction Machinery up from Houston. Pretty easy runs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131849:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Deep Space Engineering is the exclusive manufacturer of machinery and shipping in Sirius private sector. If you want something huge or luxurious, then we are the ones to contract. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131850:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Baltimore isn't a bad place. Could be worse, like Houston. Houston is the pits. They get some hellacious dust storms there. Real hot, too. You got one foot in a prison cell there, the other on some factory line with the warden trying to make his monthly bonus. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131851:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got a friend over at the Norfolk yard. They do a lot of the Hull Panel fabrication onsite to keep everything secret. Once you start building ships for the navy, you're in for life. Can't ever tell your family what you do. Too much stress for me.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131852:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Liberty used to mine most of the materials we use here. Now it's all shipped in from far away. All that debris you see around here is old scrapped ships and junk that everyone threw away for centuries without a thought. Now they're starting to salvage it. It's about time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131853:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira don't treat DSE with any respect. They think we're just a bunch of mechanics or something. The navy's okay. They know that someone has to build their ships, and it can't be criminals or foreigners. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Adam Friar
 * Deep Space Engineering/ Lucas Robins
 * Deep Space Engineering/Baltimore Bartender/Steven Edelman
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Ian Watson
 * Deep Space Engineering/Dr. Oscar Ragboat
->Rumor #131854:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex will tell you that we dont have the experience or expertise to be prominent shippers of Bretonian Commodities. But the truth is they realize what a threat we are to their firm. We do the same business they do, but for less. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Devin Price
->Rumor #131855:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gold is brought to this base for use in wiring the ships built here. We have the pleasure of shipping it in from the Hood in Dublin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Devin Price
->Rumor #131856:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ive heard that some of the Rogues in this system have been tipped off about our Gold shipments to this base, not by the Lane Hackers but by Bowex. I wouldnt put it past those corporate bastards. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Devin Price
->Rumor #131857:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This stations proximity to Ft. Bush and the Trade Lanes that feed her make this area dangerous for the shipping companies that bring in supplies used to build the ships and machinery churned out by this station. Thats one of the reasons why the Bounty Hunters maintain a presence here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131858:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rogues in the area seem to know which ships are bringing the Gold into this base. They must be getting the information from the Lane Hackers. Whenever Gateway ships Jump into the system, some of us are contracted to escort them into this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131859:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Xenos dont really come this far east into the system from the Jersey Debris Fields, but they will harass the Kusari Rheinland and Bretonian firms coming to this base via Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131860:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers in this area will try to steal machinery and components left unguarded. They arent too dangerous unless you tangle with several of them in some lonely space with no witnesses around. They will kill you without a thought.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131861:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I killed four Rogues trying to escape into the Pittsburgh Fields last week. They almost made it, but I blew out the engines on one of their ships, and the other three came back to tried and save him. They must have been high on Cardamine the way they were flying. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131862:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro put up some contracts for us Bounty Hunters to exterminate the Rogues who were attacking their shipments on the Trade Lanes. Here is something to think about: We are to engage and destroy all Xenos that we encounter, unless theyre attacking Samura shipments, in which case we are to break off.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Dalton Wilson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Simone Cannon
->Rumor #131863:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>H-Fuel is shipped to this base by Kishiro from Ogashawa. We are proud to contribute to Libertonian industry. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Takashi Momoko
->Rumor #131864:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Optronics and Engine Components are brought to this shipyard by Kishiro from Honshu in Kusari space. These Kusari products that will be used in the luxury liners and prison ships will be reliable for many years. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Takashi Momoko
->Rumor #131865:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not all of the Engine Components brought to this base by Kishiro come from outside of Liberty; some of them are from Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Takashi Momoko
->Rumor #131866:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My father was a joint fitter who worked on the Shetland when it was under construction here. They laid him off, and our family struggled for many years. When I got old enough I joined the LPI because I knew there would always be work catching criminals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Samantha Sanford
->Rumor #131867:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A lot of the workers here think about turning to crime between contracts when Deep Space will lay off a few hundred or even a thousand employees. Then if they arent careful, they will end up making toys on the Sugarland instead of making ships in Baltimore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Samantha Sanford
->Rumor #131868:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The employees who work at this station are prime examples of the disappearing working class in Liberty. If you arent an ultra-rich Manhattanite or a technocrat, you are working too hard for your money. Some of the labor force here is temporary. Between big contracts they do other things, like fly for the Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Samantha Sanford
->Rumor #131869:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican Shipping is relied upon by DSE to bring Engine Components crafted at the Ring in Rheinland to this base. After all, Rheinland Engine Components are the best around. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ralf Krechting
->Rumor #131870:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos are a thorn in our side at Republican Shipping, and yet the Liberty government does next to nothing to curb their piracy. It is obvious they are being bribed by Liberty corporations who do not want outside competition. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ralf Krechting
->Rumor #131871:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have been the premier Rheinland Shipping firm since before the 80-Years War. Back then we were known as Imperial Shipping, but alas, no more empire. Now we represent our mighty republic in shipping concerns throughout Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ralf Krechting
->Rumor #131872:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We risk many dangers shipping H-Fuel to this base from the refineries in Osaka, but Deep Space Engineering pays well for the Commodities it consumes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Katsuyoshi Nakayama
->Rumor #131873:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The best Optronics that Kishiro makes are used at their own manufacturing facilities in Kusari. They would never sell Liberty the best of what they produce. I have told DSE this many times, but they seem satisfied with their inferior Kishiro products. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Katsuyoshi Nakayama
->Rumor #131874:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We used to provide this station with all of its H-Fuel. Unfortunately, Deep Space in their wisdom allowed Kishiro to come in and sell their H-Fuels. Kishiro, being the fools that they are, have lowered their prices to try to force us out, so we must lower our prices also. DSE ends up paying less while both Kusari companies lose. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Katsuyoshi Nakayama
->Rumor #131875:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gateway is not the only company that ships Gold here. Universal brings Gold to this shipyard from New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Tim Hogun
->Rumor #131876:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Universal ships many materials and components to this yard from around Liberty.  We bring in Optical Chips from Los Angeles; Basic Alloys from Sugarland; and Engine Components from Denver. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Tim Hogun
->Rumor #131877:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Not only do these guys build all civilian ships in Sirius as well as the majority of heavy construction in Liberty, they hold the exclusive contract to build Jump Gates from Ageira. Deep Space Engineering, even though its not known as one of the big three Liberty corporations, has more power than almost any other corporation in Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Tim Hogun
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====San Quentin Base (Cassini)====
->Rumor #131658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers' Leiden base provides us with all of our supplies. Their base is located in the Komatsu Cloud due north of the Reppu Cloud that hides this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make a run to Leiden every third week to pick up the essentials that keep this base going: Waters, Consumer Goods, H-Fuel, Engine Components, Pharmaceuticals, and Food. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are two Jump Holes in the Komatsu Cloud, which hides the Lane Hackers' Leiden base. The northern Jump Hole leads to Shikoku, the other to Kepler. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131661:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rochester has plenty of Side Arms to sell, so we pick them up and run them here. The Side Arms we bring in usually head on over to Leiden, where we trade the Lane Hackers for cash or info on ship cargoes headed through the system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131662:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Artifacts to this base from Leiden. They are highly illegal, and the LSF will smoke you if you get scanned with 'em. But the demand is high on Manhattans black market, all the Manhattanites love 'em. From here we ship them out to Rochester. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131663:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We dont like dealing with the Hogosha, and they dont like dealing with us. But we get along with the Lane Hackers alright, and they cut us into the Artifact trade. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131664:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Watch the black matter in the system. If you fly into some, you arent gonna fly back out. Black matter is what led to all the Trade Lane trouble with Ageira and the corporate venture that blew up in its face. To pin it on somebody, Ageira canned a few of its top-level execs and a development team; those guys now operate the Hacker base in Leiden. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131665:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers appreciate the good things in life -- the Cardamine -- just like us; difference is, they got things all figured out. Me, Im just having fun. After my last trip through the Huntsville I didnt really care what happened to me, I only knew Id be damned if I was gonna play by the rules anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
->Rumor #131666:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our guys was gonna rat the Hackers out to a Hunter that had credits to burn. He didnt make it to the rendezvous. The Hackers are too valuable to us to scrape for some temporary cash. Too bad I was the one who had to smoke one of our own. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
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====Terre Haute Shipyard (Cassini)====
->Rumor #131147:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is one of the richest systems in Sirius. On our way back home well hit shipments cruising through the Trade Lanes here; we have plenty of cover in the ice fields that populate the system. They cover us as we smuggle our way in and steal our way back out again. I love California. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #131148:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Liberty battleship </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Yukon </TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>might scare a lot of thieves and petty criminals, but it doesnt bother the Outcasts. We can lose her patrols in the ice fields as we cross the system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #131149:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Gold stolen by the Outcasts and Lane Hackers in the Barrier on to Buffalo. It eventually gets sold by the Junkers planetside -- a nice, clean operation.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131150:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We supply Side Arms to the Rogue base out in the Barrier. The Outcasts also buy from us. Nothing cheaper than Detroit Side Arms.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131151:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Alcatraz ships Cardamine to Buffalo and Beaumont. I'd like to make that run myself one day, but I'm not good enough yet. The Outcasts tend to get angry when you blow one of their Cardamine loads.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131152:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>California is a good home to the Rogues. First off, theres ice asteroid fields all over the system, which makes for good cover when traveling through the system hauling illegal goodies. Our base is hidden in the same asteroid field that hides the Jump Hole to Texas, and from Texas you can jump into New York space, no problem.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131153:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our boys here in Alcatraz like to "tax" all the goods moving through the Trade Lanes between Bretonia and Liberty. Los Angeles is filled with those snobby successful types who buy loads of Luxury Goods from Manhattan. It aint right that they get all the good things in life just 'cuz they were born with money, so we take some of it off their hands. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131154:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can reach Padua in Cortez by running to the Tahoe Ice Cloud on the western edge of the system, where the Jump Hole to Cortez is hidden. The Trade Lane to Magellan travels by the same field, so you might be able to hit a shipment or two on the way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
 * Liberty Rogues/Alcatraz Bartender/Ralph Guthrie
->Rumor #131155:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts know we need their Cardamine, and they look down on us for it. I can see it in their eyes, even if they dont say anything. I dont like them holding the Cardamine over us, but I need it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #131156:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rogues live life for the day, not for the future. We dont dwell on the past neither. If I got money in my pocket and some Cardamine stashed, then what do I gotta worry about tomorrow or yesterday for? Besides, I cant always remember what happened yesterday and I might be dead tomorrow. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #131157:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Theres been talk of a Liberty Rogue who is uniting all of us together. I dunno if its true or not, but Ive heard people say hes got over 100 kills and more and more Rogue pilots are joining under his command. If I get a chance Ill join with him. I think hes in New York. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Randy Guff
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
->Rumor #132001:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to really make some money with us, come to Cali in Tau-23. Its exact location is up to you to discover.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132002:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those annoying Xenos seem to think that they will be able to defeat the Junkers and force us to use them as our intermediaries. They are sorely mistaken in that assumption.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132003:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm running a Cardamine load in from the Lane Hacker base in Magellan. Just taking a Cardamine break before I head on to Buffalo in the Badlands. It's a very long journey to Liberty from where I come from. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132004:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few of our brethren are prisoners at Sugarland. The supply of Cardamine in the prison is adequate to keep them alive. Those that have been sent to Huntsville with the Xenos don't last long.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #132005:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do quick hops across these systems. I'm on a convoy headed for Beaumont in the Texas Debris Fields. We started in Cortez yesterday at the Rogue base. Normally the Rogues do these runs, but they were losing too many shipments. Sometimes you just have to do it yourself.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Francisco Arce
 * Outcasts/ Marianna Casas
->Rumor #134340:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few days ago, the Outcast ship Balboa was damaged by an LPI patrol that surprised it in the Tahoe Ice Cloud. It escaped its pursuers, but the failing control systems eventually caused it to hit an ice crystal and explode -- at least thats what theyve been able to piece together from radar and the pilots last words. The wreckage was scattered and drifted over a large area. The Cardamine cargo remains missing, probably still in the hold of the ship. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Carlos Means
 * Liberty Rogues/ Tad Timov
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====Battleship Chaumont (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504863:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the reasons why we were not able to stop the Council from capturing the Border World systems was our command's unwillingness to reveal the true strength of the Gallic Royal Navy. When our armadas from Ile-de-France reach Languedoc, no power in the world will be able to save the Council forces there from elimination in a matter of weeks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Maurice Brissaud
->Rumor #504883:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gallic Royal Navy is only now starting to rally against us. Earlier they thought that we were not much of a serious threat, but breaching the Languedoc Mine Field enraged the King and his admirals enough for them to launch a full frontal assault against us. Hopefully now the Sirius nations will see what the Monarchy is truly up to.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Captain Denis Legaut
->Rumor #504891:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>How can we fight a war with the most powerful Navy in Sirius with considerable success? The answer is: resources. Many of the Council are former military officers. We have the money, the manpower and the ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Chaumont Bartender/Michel Roux
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====Chalons-en-Champagne Station (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504889:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Minefields consist of millions of mines. All of them were produced by Solar Engineering and EFL in their facilities all over Gallia, and then carried to Languedoc and Lorraine to be set in position by trained Navy personnel.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Constance Guischard
->Rumor #504897:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Several central cities of Marne are under the full protection of Council. There we train our recruits, build ship components, weaponry, and equipment. But I cannot say that people there are richer or living better than before. They just gained more freedom, but freedom is rarely enough to survive.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Captain Denis Legaut
->Rumor #504898:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers are a faction trusted by no one, yet needed by everyone. By lawfuls, to gain information on pirates; by pirates, to gain information and goods from lawfuls; and even by us, to support our economy that has become an integral part of the Gallic black market.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Chalons-en-Champagne Bartender/Anatole Godenot
->Rumor #504930:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our bases are rather unreliable. The airlocks are known to be faulty, and people get sucked into space every month or so. What can I say? We just don't have enough qualified engineers or replacement parts availablefor repairs. So my advice to you is: be smart, and stay away from the airlocks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Nathalie Chardin
->Rumor #504953:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Neural Nets of Gallia and Sirius are based on similar principles and, therefore, are easy to integrate. They are both based off the Alliance computer architecture that developed differently in Gallia and Sirius during the last eight hundred years, but still retains similar origin, and, moreover, is backward compatible.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Lili Marvingt
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====Courville Wreck (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504889:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Minefields consist of millions of mines. All of them were produced by Solar Engineering and EFL in their facilities all over Gallia, and then carried to Languedoc and Lorraine to be set in position by trained Navy personnel.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Leon Boulez
->Rumor #504896:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I must admit that Marne has become a terrible place. We would never admit this in public, but we don't have nearly enough ground troops to enforce law and order there. Criminals swagger about like they own the whole planet, and there is precious little we can do.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Marie Debord
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====Epernay Station (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504929:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We steal from the rich and give to ourselves. That's my motto, and others have said its rather amoral, but so what? I mean, how can you steal anything from the poor?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Gilles Feydeau
->Rumor #504931:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many people say that we are cruel and that we love violence. It's true, but most of us initially sought quick profits. Lust for violence comes after greed, not before it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Brigands/ Beatrice La Chene
->Rumor #504934:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Who are the Junkers? And why don't the Royal Police prosecute them, despite all the illegal activities they are involved in? I'm almost certain that the Junkers have ties to the Gallic special forces, but I have no way to prove it. They might even be spying on the other unlawful groups of Gallia, although again, there is never any proof.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Monique Prideux
->Rumor #504935:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands are the most numerous pirate force in Gallia, and with the path into Sirius finally open, we will push to broaden our horizons. Bretonia, Kusari, Liberty, Rheinland. Those words promise plenty of riches.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Nathalie Chardin
->Rumor #504936:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers are shady characters with whom we sometimes trade and also occasionally kill for sport. Still, they have no choice but to trade with us. No one else has the capability to smuggle goods into the dangerous areas of Gallia like we do.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Nathalie Chardin
 * Brigands/ Simone Landru
->Rumor #504961:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>See, people think that most Brigands are males. In fact, almost a quarter of our pilots are women. Yes, fighter pilots, don't look at me like I'm a simple bartender! Epernay is where many of us prefer to live, or at least stay for long periods of time. Our commander here is a woman too, by the way.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Epernay Bartender/Melissa Rombaldi
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====Joinville Base (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504926:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse don't spread rumours around like gossiping housewives. Get lost, before we make you.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Eugene Vigny
->Rumor #504927:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We stay away from politics, wars and other stuff like that. We mind our business. Go away and mind yours before it's too late.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Gustave Prevert
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====Mazagran Depot (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504888:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You probably think that breaching a mine field is an easy task. One mine explodes, and other nearby mines explode in a chain reaction. Reality is much more complicated: Gallic mines are resistant to nearby explosions and even weapon fire, and each one has to be defused manually.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Camille Beaumont
->Rumor #504921:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse don't like our involvement in political affairs. But politics is life, and we have to influence the way our homeland is going. If it's going the wrong way, our duty is to fix those things that we feel need fixing, whatever the cost to ourselves.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Julien Belmont
->Rumor #504922:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Have you been to Marne? This place became something really special. Citizens are enforcing law and order in the settlements themselves, without any supervision. Outside the cities, there is no law. Bandits roam the countryside, pirate groups build their own small settlements and even launch sites for their ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mazagran Bartender/Timothee Bleriot
->Rumor #504925:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear rumours that the Junkers proved to be traitors who sold information on Sirius to our government. I'm not surprised at all. The Junkers are scum who should have been exterminated a long time ago.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Blaise Trochu
->Rumor #504927:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We stay away from politics, wars and other stuff like that. We mind our business. Go away and mind yours before it's too late.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Zacharie Jacob
->Rumor #504928:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council are idealistic fools destined to lose. The Brigands are not trustworthy, but they've certainly got the musclesto flex, if only they could co-ordinate themselves effectively. The only group we are willing to deal with are the Maquis, who at least have a spine.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Zacharie Jacob
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====Montmirail Base (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504883:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gallic Royal Navy is only now starting to rally against us. Earlier they thought that we were not much of a serious threat, but breaching the Languedoc Mine Field enraged the King and his admirals enough for them to launch a full frontal assault against us. Hopefully now the Sirius nations will see what the Monarchy is truly up to.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Lili Marvingt
->Rumor #504891:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>How can we fight a war with the most powerful Navy in Sirius with considerable success? The answer is: resources. Many of the Council are former military officers. We have the money, the manpower and the ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Montmirail Bartender/Yvette Gallieni
->Rumor #504932:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands often spread many stupid rumours about themselves. The truth is that we are a bunch of professional criminals who know where the profit lies. Three quarters of the Gallic black market is under our complete control, and neither the Maquis nor the Unione Corse will be able to take it away from us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Nathalie Chardin
->Rumor #504943:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Welcome to Nimes, stranger. I'm taping a street magic special. You wanna see some magic?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Civilian/ David Blaine
->Rumor #504944:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>See the bartender over there, stranger? Order me some orange soda please.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Civilian/ David Blaine
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====Planet Marne (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504883:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gallic Royal Navy is only now starting to rally against us. Earlier they thought that we were not much of a serious threat, but breaching the Languedoc Mine Field enraged the King and his admirals enough for them to launch a full frontal assault against us. Hopefully now the Sirius nations will see what the Monarchy is truly up to.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Jaques Merle
->Rumor #504885:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are fully aware of the dangers that Sirius could pose to our nation. But the greater danger comes from within. Our government is seeking military supremacy over the whole of Sirius, and many of us think that it's something more than simple revenge.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Civilian/ Marie-Louise Bugatti
->Rumor #504892:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now I realize that the war was inevitable right from the start. There was never really much hope that we could convince those government pigs to change their minds. Someday we should overthrow the government and dispose of the King. Yeah, that simple. History repeats itself, you know.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Leon Boulez
->Rumor #504893:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The economy of the Council is based on smuggling and illegal trade. This might not match the ideas and long-term goals of the Council, but sometimes you have to make compromises in order to achieve your objectives.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Leon Boulez
 * Council/Lt. Thomas Winchcombe
->Rumor #504894:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We split up with Maquis for political reasons, to distance ourselves from their terrorist ideals. But I understand them, and why they do what they do. Many of those who joined the Maquis lost their families and friends when the government started repressing the populations of the central planets. They have nothing left to lose.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Civilian/ Marie-Louise Bugatti
 * Council/ Amy Nanette
->Rumor #504896:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I must admit that Marne has become a terrible place. We would never admit this in public, but we don't have nearly enough ground troops to enforce law and order there. Criminals swagger about like they own the whole planet, and there is precious little we can do.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Thomas Winchcombe
->Rumor #504897:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Several central cities of Marne are under the full protection of Council. There we train our recruits, build ship components, weaponry, and equipment. But I cannot say that people there are richer or living better than before. They just gained more freedom, but freedom is rarely enough to survive.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Marne Bartender/Fabien Denard
 * Marne Bartender/Felix Ada
->Rumor #504898:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers are a faction trusted by no one, yet needed by everyone. By lawfuls, to gain information on pirates; by pirates, to gain information and goods from lawfuls; and even by us, to support our economy that has become an integral part of the Gallic black market.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Helene Ambler
->Rumor #504922:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Have you been to Marne? This place became something really special. Citizens are enforcing law and order in the settlements themselves, without any supervision. Outside the cities, there is no law. Bandits roam the countryside, pirate groups build their own small settlements and even launch sites for their ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Julien Belmont
->Rumor #504924:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>What has happened to Marne's economy after the Council established its control over the planet? Theoretically, all the factories should have stopped because they don't have any market to supply their manufactured goods to. In fact, more than 70% of those factories are still working. How is it possible?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Julien Belmont
->Rumor #504931:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many people say that we are cruel and that we love violence. It's true, but most of us initially sought quick profits. Lust for violence comes after greed, not before it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Brigands/ Victor Lemercier
->Rumor #504932:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands often spread many stupid rumours about themselves. The truth is that we are a bunch of professional criminals who know where the profit lies. Three quarters of the Gallic black market is under our complete control, and neither the Maquis nor the Unione Corse will be able to take it away from us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Brigands/ Amelie Esprit
->Rumor #504933:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have somewhat complicated relationships with the other criminal groups. The war with the Corse is long over, and we do business in some areas, but we hardly ever operate together. Our relations with the Maquis has helped us to establish a profitable partnership with The Council who have since come to rely on the supplies which we smuggle through the Royal Navy blockades.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gallic Brigands/ Renard Duperron
->Rumor #504953:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Neural Nets of Gallia and Sirius are based on similar principles and, therefore, are easy to integrate. They are both based off the Alliance computer architecture that developed differently in Gallia and Sirius during the last eight hundred years, but still retains similar origin, and, moreover, is backward compatible.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Thomas Winchcombe
->Rumor #504954:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers created the first nigh complete backup for the Sirius Neural Net in about 770 A.S. The data occupied over 140 exabytes of disk space. To transfer it using the compact ships that were used for getting through the mine fields, Gallic engineers had to produce new modifications of small, energy efficient and extremely fast hard drives.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Olivier Riberac
->Rumor #504955:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Sirius Neural Net that the Junkers transferred to Gallia contains publically available information on all Houses, including interactive data archives, billions of web sites, and massive amounts of technical stuff. It is what was called an internet archive in ancient times, only much faster and containing confidential information that very few users have access to.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Olivier Riberac
->Rumor #504956:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Neural Net backups were transferred to Gallia from Sirius three times, in 770 A.S., in 792 A.S. and, most lately, in 810 A.S. The latest copy is the one that the Council bought from the Junkers for about 5 billion credits just recently. The price is very high, and a month before, when the mine field was not breached yet, they demanded ten times more! It was well worth it though. Imagine, almost 200 exabytes of data... Not easy to find needles in a haystack, of course, but the Junkers had catalogued all of the valuable stuff before it was transferred to Gallia.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Olivier Riberac
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====Reims Station (Champagne)====
->Rumor #504884:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say that the King was in a panic when he heard that the Languedoc defenses had been breached by our military. I doubt that it's true. The King could order his fleets to reinforce the Languedoc defenses long ago, but he did not do that. Most of my comrades disregard my suspicions, but I can't help thinking that we had all fallen into a carefully prepared trap.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Christine Eliade
->Rumor #504885:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are fully aware of the dangers that Sirius could pose to our nation. But the greater danger comes from within. Our government is seeking military supremacy over the whole of Sirius, and many of us think that it's something more than simple revenge.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Reims Bartender/Joel Bayrou
->Rumor #504892:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now I realize that the war was inevitable right from the start. There was never really much hope that we could convince those government pigs to change their minds. Someday we should overthrow the government and dispose of the King. Yeah, that simple. History repeats itself, you know.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Fabien Deprez
->Rumor #504895:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The history of Gallia is a sad mixture of glory and despair. Technological breakthroughs and unmatched military power were bought for the price of widespread poverty and suppressing the last remnants of democracy.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Julie Danvers
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====Kyoto Base (Chugoku)====
->Rumor #133423:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Welcome to the end of the world. I hope you brought supplies with you. We always need Food and Pharmaceuticals. Side Arms are also prized. An unarmed warrior does not garner much respect in this bar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133424:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Things are more complicated than they seem in Kusari. Samura would have you believe that we are nothing more than common criminals trying to destroy the Kusari way of life. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many of our secret friends in the government have quietly amassed power in the shadow of the corrupt bureaucrats that feast at Samura's table. Our day will arrive soon. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133425:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons believe that for Kusari to change, the tight relationship between the bureaucrats, Samura, and the Hogosha must end. We have amassed enough damning evidence against our three enemies to sway the next election in favor of our supporters. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #133426:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We coordinate all our attacks in Kusari space from here. There are Jump Holes to Honshu and Hokkaido just south of our base here. From Hokkaido, we can access Kyushu and Shikoku. You can reach Tokyo using either route. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133427:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has been invaluable in providing financial assistance and training to the Blood Dragons. At first they were reluctant, but once the government forced them to pay a reparation tax for the 80-Years Wars, they changed their minds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133428:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We prefer to attack installations and Samura-owned transports rather than raid foreign shipping, which does not help our cause. Unfortunately, sometimes we must obtain supplies. The Golden Chrysanthemums are not nearly as discriminating, which has created a publicity problem for us, since they are perceived by the press as our allies. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #133429:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The battle of the Chugoku Gate has been a long and bloody one. We have lost many of our warriors to the Naval Forces. But they are tiring, while we grow stronger every day with new recruits from the disenchanted youth of Kusari, yearning for a better future for our people. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133430:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden Chrysanthemums are a bit unorthodox in their methods, but share our vision of a new Kusari. We do not espouse their heavy use of Cardamine, however. That drug is evil, and will prove their undoing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133431:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day we hope to return to Tokyo victorious after almost five centuries in hiding. Until that moment, we must suffer on this lonely and crowded rock, patiently waiting for our foes to make the fatal mistake. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #133432:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura's plan was to open Hokkaido to gas mining in order to compete with the GMG, a partner whom they have exploited for centuries. I assure you that Hokkaido will not be a good place for Samura to do business for many years to come. The GMG will make sure of that. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133433:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are modern Ronin - masterless warriors. We hope to find a new master that can break the curse of Kusari corruption and stagnation and once again bring our nation to glory. There is a young bureaucrat, fresh out of New Tokyo University, who speaks of change. The Commerce ministry can dismiss him for now as a naive youngster, but maybe he will be the one who can lead Kusari to the future. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #133434:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It has been difficult to voice our opinion in Kusari, as the Hogosha apply pressure to anyone in the media who dares report anything favorably about us. The Hogosha are merely following Samura's orders. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133435:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden Chrysanthemums are becoming too close to the Outcasts. The allure of Cardamine is seductive, but deadly. If you use too much of it, irreversible physiological changes occur in our body. You are no longer truly human. That is the curse of the Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #133436:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our movement is very old, dating back to the Sakura Coup in 321 AS. On that fateful day the Shogun Hideyoshi was toppled by the military, which was backed by Samura. Our ancestors were the Shogun's royal guards. They fought bravely but fled the palace when it was clear that Samura had won the day. The Blood Dragons were thus born, a group dedicated to cleansing the cancer of Samura from Kusari once and for all. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
 * Blood Dragons/Kyoto Bartender/Umakai Marusa
->Rumor #133437:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has trained us in many nebula fighting tactics that they learned during the 80-Years War. This is why we can fly circles around the Kusari Naval Forces in Hokkaido. Nansei is a different story. The Research Station is very protected and difficult to attack in the style to which we are accustomed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #134333:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Fugaku was lost in a raid on the Kansai Research Center within the Hiyo Cloud. The fighter became entangled in the mine field during the attack, and the pilot was killed. It eventually drifted off into the cloud. No one has seen it since. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
->Rumor #134336:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many Naval Forces fighters have been lost recently in skirmishes with the Blood Dragons. Due to the low visibility and difficult conditions in the cloud, some weapons could still remain on the ships in some of the more remote locations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Naoko Shimizu
 * Blood Dragons/ Reiko Abe
 * Blood Dragons/ Tadashi Hashimoto
 * Blood Dragons/ Tomoko Yamaguchi
 * Blood Dragons/ Yuji Matsumoto
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====Battleship Rio Grande (Colorado)====
->Rumor #131709:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG ships MOX from the Dortmund facility to the Rio Grande on a periodic basis. Toxic Waste is then transported back to Rheinland for disposal. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Rick Schutz
->Rumor #131710:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get attacked frequently by Xenos on our runs through Colorado, Texas, and the Independent Worlds of Hudson and Bering. They are one of the few criminal factions that attack out Toxic Waste shipments. We are friendly to Liberty, so I don't understand their hostility. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Rick Schutz
->Rumor #131711:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG handles all of the MOX delivery and Toxic Waste disposal for Liberty Navy battleships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Rick Schutz
->Rumor #131712:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading out on a run against the Xeno base in the Silverton Field in a few hours. We don't get that big a bounty from IC and the government for Xenos. Now Outcasts, that's another matter. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Ben Carlson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Sol Laskowitz
->Rumor #131713:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A good way to catch Xenos is to fly into the Copperton Field, then take the Jump Hole to Kepler. Watch out on the other side, swarms of them in that cloud. Their base is real close. Never seen it, but you can feel it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Ben Carlson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Sol Laskowitz
->Rumor #131714:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The LPI doesn't have the guts to come into the fields very far. First sign of trouble, and they're hightailing it back to Denver. That's where we come in. Since a lot of us are Rogues who did time in Sugarland or Huntsville, we know where the Jump Holes and bases are. Guild rules are that you tell no one or you may have a little "accident" out there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Ben Carlson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Sol Laskowitz
->Rumor #131715:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Liberty space is the training grounds for all Bounty Hunters. As a Hunter becomes more and more accomplished, they will begin to move out towards the edges of Sirius. Only the very best should be going up against Corsairs and Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Ben Carlson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Sol Laskowitz
->Rumor #131716:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Got me a Rogue ace the other day by the name of Buford "Tex" Wilson. He'd been shooting up a lot of ships along the Trade Lane to the Galileo Gate during the past few weeks. The LPI cornered him once, but he just shot his way out of it. I was patient, waited in the Alamosa Field near the Galileo Jump Hole. When he came through, blammo! That bounty will set me up for a while. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Ben Carlson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Sol Laskowitz
->Rumor #131717:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bounties used to be for bringing back the offender dead or alive. Somewhere back when the Lane Hackers started itching old Ageira and IC, it changed to dead only, please. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Ben Carlson
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Sol Laskowitz
->Rumor #131718:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm stuck running Trade Lane patrols. We do all of them that fan out from the ship. Pretty boring work, not what I signed up in the Navy for. I hear they put you on the Galileo and Kepler patrols when you've proved yourself a bit. Don't want any greenies out there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
->Rumor #131719:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're always bailing out those LPI losers, especially in the Alamosa Field. I don't know why they don't just let us take over security. They can focus on running those prison factories, since that's what they seem to really want to do.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
 * Liberty Navy/Rio Grande Bartender/Victor Pounds
->Rumor #131720:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're supposedly here to watch out for Xenos, but I think that Liberty wants to keep a close eye on Pueblo -- all that top secret stuff there that Kusari and Rheinland are always trying to find out about. Guess the Trade Lanes and Jump Gates are a big deal -- a mystery to me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
 * Liberty Navy/Rio Grande Bartender/Victor Pounds
->Rumor #131721:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear the toughest systems for the navy are the Independent Worlds between Texas and Hamburg. Colorado is pansy land -- just some stupid Rogues and Xenos.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
 * Liberty Navy/Rio Grande Bartender/Victor Pounds
->Rumor #131722:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run two patrols into the fields from the Rio Grande. One goes into the Copperton Field, the other into the Alamosa. Usually the bad guys hightail it out of there when we show up, but not always. I killed me twelve Rogues and twenty Xenos so far since being posted up here -- no Lane Hackers yet, though. They don't stick around as much as the others. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
->Rumor #131723:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're pretty sure that the Xenos have a base in the Denko Cloud in Kepler. They won't let us go take a looksee though. They say the radiation levels are too high. That sounds like a bunch of political red tape to me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
 * Liberty Navy/Rio Grande Bartender/Victor Pounds
->Rumor #131724:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The navy patrols the Independent Worlds of Galileo and Kepler. We split duties with the Kusari armed forces. They cover the northern half of the Trade Lanes; we do the southern half. It's kind of dark and spooky up there -- no suns. All those dark clouds make the baddies hard to see.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
 * Liberty Navy/Rio Grande Bartender/Victor Pounds
->Rumor #131725:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers and Rogues both have bases somewhere in Galileo, probably in those dark matter clouds. Kusari won't let us go take a look though. Says it's their responsibility. Hey, Liberty was the one that paid for those Trade Lanes up there. Kusari didn't have to put up a cent for the Galileo route. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Debra Thompson
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Cynthia Harrison
 * Liberty Navy/Lt. Will Dobson
 * Liberty Navy/Rio Grande Bartender/Victor Pounds
->Rumor #131726:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Universal supplies all Liberty Navy bases with essentials like H-Fuel, Food, Water, Oxygen, and Pharmaceuticals. On the Rio Grande, these come from Denver. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Jon Spinner
->Rumor #131727:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Universal brings in Side Arms from Detroit. We get attacked by Xenos on occasion in the Silverton Field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Jon Spinner
->Rumor #131728:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver some supplies here, then continue with H-Fuel, Water, and Oxygen to the Pueblo facility just down the Trade Lane. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Jon Spinner
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====Ouray Base (Colorado)====
->Rumor #131158:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run supply shipments of Side Arms to Nome, our base in Kepler. If you have some extra cargo space, maybe you could earn a few credits. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Howard Boone
 * Xenos/ John Thompson
 * Xenos/ William Patrick
 * Xenos/Ouray Bartender/Richard York
->Rumor #131159:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When the Xenos began, we were just miners who kept getting shafted by Liberty. There were fewer and fewer jobs as the years rolled by. Finally, there was nothing left for us, no jobs, not unless you could use a data pad instead of an auto-digger. All our jobs were being done by somebody in Rheinland or Kusari. Well, we decided to take back what had been taken from us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Howard Boone
 * Xenos/ John Thompson
 * Xenos/ William Patrick
 * Xenos/Ouray Bartender/Richard York
->Rumor #131160:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers in Galileo are a bunch of pansy rich boys who cant do their own dirty work. Its that kind of attitude that has let foreigners come in and take jobs from the Liberty working man. At least they use Rogues to do their work for them and not Kusari pirates. That still makes the Rogues the pawns of the rich and lazy. Lane Hackers dont know what real work is, how hard it is for so many of us to survive. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Howard Boone
 * Xenos/ John Thompson
 * Xenos/ William Patrick
 * Xenos/Ouray Bartender/Richard York
->Rumor #131161:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We might not have the best equipment or ships, but we are a lot better organized than we were. It was getting so bad that LPI almost won and ripped us out of Colorado. But we have a focused agenda now: We lift supplies from Kusari shipping, a little extortion here and there, some salvaging, and we get by. This lets us attack our real enemies -- the Junkers in New York. Once we knock them out of Rochester, well corner the contraband trade in Liberty. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Howard Boone
 * Xenos/ John Thompson
 * Xenos/ William Patrick
 * Xenos/Ouray Bartender/Richard York
->Rumor #131162:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base in Kepler, Nome, is right next to the Jump Hole to Colorado and borders the Trade Lane that comes in from Shikoku, so we can attack Kusari shipping. Most of our supplies come from the Zoner base in Kepler. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Howard Boone
 * Xenos/ John Thompson
 * Xenos/ William Patrick
 * Xenos/Ouray Bartender/Richard York
->Rumor #131163:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The main drug-smuggling routes cross the eastern part of the Jersey Debris Field, which will be our turf someday. This would let us interdict the drug shipments headed to and from Rochester. If we could control the Liberty drug trade, we wouldnt have to scrape by. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Howard Boone
 * Xenos/ John Thompson
 * Xenos/ William Patrick
 * Xenos/Ouray Bartender/Richard York
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====Planet Denver (Colorado)====
->Rumor #131673:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Superconductors and Super Alloys from Pueblo. Samura and Kishiro then ship them off to Kusari. We purchase basic supplies for the return trip, like H-Fuel, Oxygen, Water, and Food. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Blake Caldwell
->Rumor #131674:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Denver is the site of our USI scanner hardware R&amp;D division. A while back a bunch of high-level employees got forced out after a big screw-up. They drifted up into Galileo and set up base, calling themselves Lane Hackers. Nothing but trouble on the Trade Lanes ever since. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Blake Caldwell
->Rumor #131675:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just came in from Detroit with a Side Arms shipment. Colorado is one of our toughest runs. All those damned Xenos. We get attacked almost every time in the Silverton Field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Blake Caldwell
->Rumor #131676:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just got back from a tough run into the Alamosa Field. It was swarming with Rogues and Hackers. They must have a Hole somewhere up there. Bagged me two Rogues, though. Not a bad day's work. Way better than my old job at LPI. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Karen King
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tony Fox
->Rumor #131677:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos have a base down in the Silverton Field. Pretty easy to bag 'em around there, but the bounty isn't that good, so I don't bother. Guess they don't piss off the powers that be enough.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Karen King
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tony Fox
->Rumor #131678:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've heard the Rogues make smuggling runs from the Galileo Hole across the east side of the system to the New York Hole. If you figure out their route, you can ambush them pretty easy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Karen King
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tony Fox
->Rumor #131679:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's a couple of Holes into this system. Us Bounty Hunters aren't supposed to tell anyone about them, but you look okay to me. The first one is in the northern end of the Alamosa Field; it goes to Galileo. There's another one into Kepler from the Copperton Field. The Xenos use that one a lot. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Karen King
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tony Fox
->Rumor #131680:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading off to Galileo after I rest up. Now that's some intense action up there. All those dark matter clouds, crawling with baddies. You definitely want to have a good shield and a killer ship in the Indie Worlds. This is child's play here in Liberty. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Karen King
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tony Fox
->Rumor #131681:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My buddy works for the LPI. I used to, but it was lousy pay and a bunch of corporate crap. I prefer the freelance life of a Bounty Hunter. You can make a killing at this, if you don't get killed first. He'll still be doing time with LPI when I'm retired and sipping a California Breeze on the beach in L.A. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Karen King
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Tony Fox
->Rumor #131682:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Denver is home to Cryer's headquarters and largest drug-production facility. We distribute the Pharmaceuticals ourselves within Liberty to Houston, Manhattan, and Los Angeles, but lack the advanced ships to risk the Independent World crossings. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Matt Solomon
->Rumor #131683:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have several other research and limited-production bases. One is out in Sigma-17. Rough area, that is. Outcasts and Corsairs. Company pays very well out there -- takes out big life insurance policies on anyone that gets assigned. They prefer single types.-- less to pay out, you know. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Matt Solomon
->Rumor #131684:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We just arrived from Los Angeles with a load of Hydrocarbons and Polymers for Pharmaceutical production. Thought I'd catch a drink before headin' back out. At least Liberty is relatively safe. Some of our research stations are way out there, in harm's way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Matt Solomon
->Rumor #131685:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Pharmaceuticals produced here to Deshima, along with Superconductors bound for our Yukawa commercial shipyard in Honshu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kazuhiko Watanabe
->Rumor #131686:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those cursed Xenos are a serious problem for us in Colorado and Kepler. We've lobbied the Liberty government to step up patrols, but that has proved unsatisfactory. The Xenos seem to attack only Kusari ships, not Liberty commerce. We don't understand their hatred for us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kazuhiko Watanabe
->Rumor #131687:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Engine Components from Honshu, Optronics and Food from Deshima, and H-Fuel from our new base Ogashawa in the Sigma-19 system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kazuhiko Watanabe
->Rumor #131688:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm on R&amp;R from the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Rio Grande</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. That's the battleship out by Gunnison. If we weren't around, those worthless LPI drones wouldn't even bother to patrol the areas they do. We take care of the Independent World patrols, too. That's another story. It's no joke out there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Shawna Abelt
->Rumor #131689:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We nailed a Xeno raiding party in the Copperton Field the other day. It was a turkey shoot. Normally we don't even bother with them that much, but the Kusari government had been raising a stink about Liberty not taking the Xenos seriously enough. It's true, outside of an odd Side Arms shipment, they don't really harass Liberty shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Shawna Abelt
->Rumor #131690:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm about to turn around and head back out on patrol to the Rio Grande. We patrol the east-west line. LPI covers the two other Lanes out of Denver. Personally, I think they should let us patrol the whole system, leave nothing to those incompetents. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Shawna Abelt
->Rumor #131691:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've cleaned out almost all of the economic undesirables from this planet. Still a few hanging on up in the hills, but we'll root 'em out and put them to work in the Texas prison factories soon enough.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sabrina Bruncke
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131692:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We patrol the Trade Lanes in the eastern half of the system; the navy boys the west side. Mostly Xenos in their part of the system. We get more Rogues on this side. Also get a few Lane Hackers in the Alamosa Field.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sabrina Bruncke
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131693:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Caught myself a Rogue smuggling Artifacts behind Denver in the Cheyenne Field last week. He tried to run for it but smacked straight into an asteroid. Gotta tell ya, it cracked me up watching that ship explode. Stupid Rogues.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
->Rumor #131694:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We got a short-term holding tank for any low-lifers that we round up here. Prison convoy leaves once a week, bound for Sugarland. It's getting harder and harder to find undesirables on Colorado to fill it. Gotta fill that quota and keep the factories hummin' -- that's what HQ says.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sabrina Bruncke
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131695:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We don't stray too far from the Trade Lanes most of the time. They don't pay me enough to risk my neck going into assault patrols in the asteroid fields. Some of those young bucks get into it, though. They do a daily into the Cheyenne Field, and do a quick pass into the southern Alamosa. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
->Rumor #131696:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters handle most of the asteroid fields. One of my nutso buddies decided he wasn't gettin' enough action with LPI, so he went and joined up a couple of months ago. Keeps bugging me to join him. That's not for me, I got a family and a life to go home to. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131697:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sometimes I think the rich folks here in Denver don't really appreciate all we do for them. We don't really get paid that well, and we take care of all the dirty business that they don't want to deal with. Sometimes it gets kind of dicey, coming up with a reason to arrest some crazy loner out in a shack, just for being what he is. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sabrina Bruncke
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131698:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those Xenos are kind of crazy. Rogues, I can relate to them. Just trying to make a living on the wrong side of the law. But Xenos, they hate everybody. Even the Rogues can't figure them out. Who cares about foreign shippers anyway? They still have stuff to steal. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sabrina Bruncke
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131699:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They're always trying to cut costs at LPI, make everyone meet their criminal quotas of the week. Guess that's what you get with privatized police. I heard they don't do it that way in the other Houses. Those guys seem pretty happy. Go figure. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Lt. Dave Moose
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Barney Toelock
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sabrina Bruncke
 * Liberty Population/Denver Bartender/Corey Harden
->Rumor #131700:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Pharmaceuticals to Tokyo, which supplies all of Kusari. Less frequently we haul Super Alloys and Superconductors for ship construction in Yokohama. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Masahiko Nobumoto
->Rumor #131701:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Denver has an insatiable demand for Junyo seafood. We also bring in H-Fuel from Osaka and Deshima, which gets distributed to the Colorado bases by Universal and Ageira. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Masahiko Nobumoto
->Rumor #131702:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I can't stand this Synth Paste you Liberty people eat everyday. In Kusari we have superior Food grown by the dedicated farmers of Kyushu using traditional methods. It may cost a bit more, but it's worth it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Masahiko Nobumoto
->Rumor #131703:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I ran a load of Food up here last week from Manhattan. I usually do the Los Angeles-Denver run straight through. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ Bob Goettel
->Rumor #131704:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The corporate plan is to eventually handle Food production for all the colonies. We got Rheinland in the bag. Right now, Kusari is proving a bit more of a challenge, mainly Samura and their Farmers Alliance henchmen. Bretonia will have to wait. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ Bob Goettel
->Rumor #131705:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm running a load of Fertilizer up from Houston to the biodome operation on Deshima. Samura won't sell it to us there, so we have to haul it a fair ways. I'll sure be sorry to leave Liberty. Gets pretty hostile up there in Kusari space, especially with that Farmers Alliance. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ Bob Goettel
->Rumor #131706:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship all sorts of stuff out of here: supply shipments to the Rio Grande, Kusari Optronics and Engine Components to Houston, and Pharmaceuticals to the Missouri and the Ames Research Station. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Dom Harrison
->Rumor #131707:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Came in from Manhattan yesterday. I'm delivering part of my Luxury Goods load here in Denver. We're bound for Roppongi in New Tokyo to deliver the remainder. Gotta cross Galileo first, which will be the usual white-knuckle affair. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Dom Harrison
->Rumor #131708:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just came in from Houston with a load of Consumer Goods. Houston is the cheapest place in the Sirius Sector for those, thanks to all the free prisoner labor. We sometimes run Construction Machinery in from Ft. Bush. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Dom Harrison
->Rumor #134327:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Universal Shipping transport Chesapeake was hijacked several months ago and flown into the Komatsu Cloud. It is rumored to still be there, serving as a Pharmaceuticals storage depot for the Lane Hackers and Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Matt Solomon
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====Pueblo Station (Colorado)====
->Rumor #131730:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship in our basic needs like Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel from Denver. Usually these shipments are pretty uneventful, which is just how I like it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131731:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira Technologies produces the most sophisticated technology in the Sirius Sector. We have exclusively designed and manufactured all of the Trade Lanes and Jump Gates that have made hyper-fast, long-distance space travel feasible for the first time in human history. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131732:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There has been one most unfortunate occurrence in Ageira's past: the Dallas Incident in 500 AS, a Jump Gate research project in the Texas system that went horribly wrong. Thousands of dedicated Ageira employees were lost in one dreadful moment. To this day the Texas system remains mostly off-limits due to the radiation and debris hazards. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131733:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira ships its primary products of Super Alloys, Superconductors, and Trade Lane Parts to Trenton, where Universal distributes them across the Sirius Sector. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131734:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Pueblo is our primary Trade Lane Parts manufacturing facility. We also produce the latest Super Alloys and Superconductors for use in Liberty Navy Ship Hull construction and engines. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131735:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira products like the Jump Gates have been developed through the centuries based on advanced technologies unlocked from Alien Artifacts found at an excavation site in Manhattan during the early days of Liberty. It is Liberty's most valuable secret, and one that is jealously guarded. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131736:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We handle the shipment of Superconductors and Super Alloys to the Norfolk Shipyard in New York, and Denver. These high-tech components become the armor of Liberty ships. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131737:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ageira has a long and distinguished history. Its founders were among the initial population of Liberty, soon after planetfall on Manhattan in 0 AS. All scientists and engineers -- they were handpicked by the Liberty government to exploit and develop new transportation technologies for the future. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
 * Ageira Technologies/Pueblo Bartender/Brett Baird
->Rumor #131739:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers are a misguided group of software and hardware development engineers that never appreciated the opportunities that Ageira presented. They stole extremely valuable Ageira intellectual property and used it to their own personal advantage. Due to their shortsighted actions, the criminal scourge has spread like a plague throughout the entire Sirius network of Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Ageira Technologies/Asst. Pam Smith
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. Belinda Carson
 * Ageira Technologies/Dr. David Harris
->Rumor #131740:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG delivers large quantities of MOX to this facility. This is far and away our largest customer for this product. It is used as a base energy source for Trade Lanes and Jump Gates, although there is no way that fusion alone could create the energy required to operate these monstrous creations. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Stefan Hütte
->Rumor #131741:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We haul tremendous amounts of Toxic Waste away from this plant. The Xenos are always waiting in the asteroid field it seems. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Stefan Hütte
->Rumor #131742:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG would like to produce Super Alloys at our Dortmund plant in the near future. We are perfectly willing to handle other people's garbage for a chance to eventually learn exactly how their products are made. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Stefan Hütte
->Rumor #131743:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Polymers and Hydrocarbons from Manchester, site of our Birmingham manufactory, via Newark. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Bryce Streymoore
->Rumor #131744:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the sole location where Superconductors are produced in the Sirius Sector. None of the other Houses could stay competitive with Liberty. We ship them to Los Angeles, and eventually Southampton Shipyard in the New London system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Bryce Streymoore
->Rumor #131745:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex feels that Bretonian Super Alloys are superior to those produced here, so we don't feel the need to import any. House Kusari and Rheinland unfortunately do not agree with our assessment. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Bryce Streymoore
->Rumor #131746:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in the Beryllium to Pueblo all the way from the Cardiff mine in Cambridge, even though we have no outbound cargo here. It is a quick shot back into New York where we can fill up for the journey home. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/Sales Rep. David Harris
->Rumor #131747:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We'd like to break into the Trade Lane Parts-hauling business, but the Liberty government and Ageira will not allow it. They say it must be a Liberty company that handles their precious cargo. I smell something fishy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/Sales Rep. David Harris
->Rumor #131748:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Liberty does seem to have a lot of criminal problems -- not as tough as our Mollys, and certainly nothing like the Corsairs -- but plenty of them, especially those Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/Sales Rep. David Harris
->Rumor #131749:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Niobium in from Deshima. On the return journey we bring Terraforming Gases for the biodome farms there. We also transport Superconductors, which are shipped onward to the Yukawa Shipyard in Honshu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kimitoshi Kawamoto
->Rumor #131750:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've attempted to reverse-engineer Ageira products at our Kansai research center, but so far, unsuccessfully. If we could duplicate the Trade Lanes, we could finally be free of Liberty's stranglehold on that most critical technology. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kimitoshi Kawamoto
->Rumor #131751:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get attacked on the way down from Shikoku by Lane Hackers and Rogues, and both ways by Xenos. Kusari space is certainly much safer than this. We don't have crime problems like this. I wish Liberty would clean up the Independent Worlds, since the criminals come from here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kimitoshi Kawamoto
->Rumor #131752:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just finished a very difficult run from the Ring in New Berlin with a load of Daumann-mined Cobalt and Copper. First we have to deal with the Unioners in New Berlin and Hamburg. Then the Xenos take over in Hudson and Texas. Then they hit us again just down the Lane in the Silverton Field. You'd think they wouldn't care about a bunch of ore, but they just hate us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Hans Grüber
->Rumor #131753:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're heading out tomorrow for the Ring and the Oder Shipyard with a load of Superconductors and Super Alloys. I need a drink before pondering that journey. Wish I could find a decent beer around here; that Liberty ale is awful. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Hans Grüber
->Rumor #131754:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's too bad Rheinland can't manufacture these goods herself, because we certainly have the raw materials. Rheinland innovation and entrepreneurship has lagged since the 80-Years War. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Hans Grüber
->Rumor #131755:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura ships Niobium to Pueblo all the way from Freeport 6 in the Tau-29 system. We're picking up a return shipment of Superconductors bound for the Nansei antimatter research center in Kyushu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichiro Ogami
->Rumor #131756:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura uses Super Alloys and Superconductors for construction of Kusari naval force ships in the Yokohama Shipyard. House Kusari would love to manufacture these items internally, but we have been unable to duplicate Ageira's manufacturing techniques, which are truly a mystery. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichiro Ogami
->Rumor #131757:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos are a constant thorn in our side in Galileo and Colorado. We've had to invest in better ships and more escorts to protect ourselves. Samura doesn't understand why the Xenos blame us for their misfortunes. Most of it can be blamed on their own Deep Space Engineering and Ageira, who did not respond to the Kusari challenge in commercial ship building. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichiro Ogami
->Rumor #131758:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring additional supplies of Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel from Denver via the Rio Grande to supplement what Ageira ships here. We pick up Superconductors outbound for Trenton. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Jamie Collins
->Rumor #131759:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Trade Lane parts to Roppongi in the New Tokyo system. There they get offloaded to a DSE freighter for the final leg of their journey to the Chugoku Gate construction site in Hokkaido. That's way out there, some pretty hostile territory. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Jamie Collins
->Rumor #131760:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Boron in from Pittsburgh, Copper from Houston, and Basic Alloys from Texas or Ft. Bush. Universal is willing to ship throughout Liberty to keep her in the forefront. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Jamie Collins
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====Barrier Gate Station (Coronado)====
->Rumor #465359:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We thought our Zoner neighbours in Baffin were going to become competition, but they have surprised us. They tolerate the smuggling through their backyard but have no interest in supporting it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Barrier Gate Bartender/Chad Fox
->Rumor #465360:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Shasta is a unique place; it has to be the only trade station in Sirius that focuses on selling homemade crafts and funky crystals. What is even more surprising is that it is so busy.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Barrier Gate Bartender/Chad Fox
->Rumor #465361:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Stay away from Pueblo Bonito, I don't know what those Zoners do there, they just tend to get trigger happy when you get too close.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Barrier Gate Bartender/Chad Fox
->Rumor #465362:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever had a cardi twister? It's my house speciality, just don't plan on flying, operating heavy machinery or walking with 4 hours of consumption.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Barrier Gate Bartender/Chad Fox
->Rumor #465363:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Have a glass of Honshu juice on the house. Just go easy with that stuff; I don't want to have to scrub any stains out of stool cushions.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Barrier Gate Bartender/Chad Fox
->Rumor #465364:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you have a vice Barriers Gate can satisfy you! Up here we  have my bar and few others, down on 14 we have our red light deck, and if you are interested in losing money the Outcasts just finished turning storage area 116 into a full blown casino.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Barrier Gate Bartender/Chad Fox
->Rumor #465369:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Although this station is considered a "Freeport", almost 30% of this stations' population is Outcast; making us the most influential of the factions on this base.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Smuggler/Portia Perez
->Rumor #465370:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Orange decks are getting really crowed. Not only do the all of us Outcasts live down there, we have all the junkies coming down to try and huff our enriched air. Not that it does them any good, the concentration of what we breathe and what they smoke is completely different.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Smuggler/Portia Perez
->Rumor #465371:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Everyone is all worried about the DSE survey ship. IMG might have something to lose but they the Outcasts see it, Liberty occupation of this system is simply a new market. Let them come.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Smuggler/Portia Perez
->Rumor #465373:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This station may operate under the Freeport conventions, but I wouldn't exactly call it friendly to members of the Guild. The mere presence of a bounty hunter makes most of the station population a little tense.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Tracker/Anita Roemer
->Rumor #465374:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Tinsley is the guy who owns this place. That man is a bounty hunters dream contract. There are so many people willing to pay to see that man dead I could retire if I nailed him. The problem is that I can't do it alone, the man employs an army of mercenaries for station security.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Tracker/Anita Roemer
->Rumor #465375:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>See that guy over in corner, he is station security, they have been watching me like a hawk since I got here. The only reason they are tolerating me is because I have assured them I am only stopping over for the night, I am headed to Freeport 3 to meet a contact who has neglected to pay.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Tracker/Anita Roemer
->Rumor #465377:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you are offering to take me back to your ship it had better have a big cockpit, I hate hitting my head!</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Private Escort/Sarah Whitney
->Rumor #465378:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You want to know what is going on around here you had better talk to someone else, unless you are willing to pay me to tell you rumours all night.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Private Escort/Sarah Whitney
->Rumor #465379:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The last guy who didn't pay me now has a bright pink rhino with a cute little duck painted on. Now how do you explain that to someone?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Private Escort/Sarah Whitney
->Rumor #465381:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am more of a bouncer then a security officer. For the most part we don't give a nano-gram of space dust about what goes on here. Our only goal is to keep things civil between the factions; we don't need war here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Station Security/Lloyd Downs
->Rumor #465382:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am more of a bouncer then a security officer. For the most part we don't give a nano-gram of space dust about what goes on here. Our only goal is to keep things civil between the factions; we don't need war here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Station Security/Lloyd Downs
->Rumor #465383:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Tailing Bounty Hunters is not the most sought after job in this joint, but if we don't watch what they are up to we could lose our jobs in a second. There is no paycheck if your boss gets murdered.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Station Security/Lloyd Downs
->Rumor #465385:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are not happy to see DSE here. It is not the corporation itself that has us worried, we work with them all the time.It is the fact that they are precursor to Liberty annexing the system. We have spent 7 years putting Paisley together and are not interested in it being taken out from under us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Core Driller/Nick Everson
->Rumor #465386:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>IMG is just being rude to DSE by not talking to them, the Outcasts and Rogues are acting allot more militant. They are blowing up survey probes and recon ships left right and center. The problem is DSE doesn't know the pirates are here and they are blaming us!</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Core Driller/Nick Everson
->Rumor #465387:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We rotate shifts from our Deuterium Mining on Pecos so that everyone gets a chance to relax off world. This may not look like a resort to most but it sure has allot more to offer then can be offered planet side. Watch the casino though; it is really easy to lose a week's pay if you are not careful.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Core Driller/Nick Everson
->Rumor #465390:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This place is making me rich and all it is costing me is a few drinks every night. Once these smugglers get a little inebriated they love to talk about their trips which gives me plenty of good intel to sell back to my contacts in Bretonian Intelligence.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Information Broker/Bryan Paterson
->Rumor #465391:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There should be a wrecked ship somewhere north of the Baffin jump hole. I arranged for it to have some navigation problems and go off course. The Outcasts are transporting gas containers and they are being tight lipped about what is in them. I am curious what they have up their sleeves, and why they are not telling their allies about it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Information Broker/Bryan Paterson
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====Pecos (Coronado)====
->Rumor #465393:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm sorry I don't sell alcohol here. It's not really wise to drink before a work shift so it doesn't really sell very well. Any time the miner wants to party they board a shuttle to the Barrier Gate station. That place is our home away from home here. The mine manager rents a common area there so that no one who works here has to shell out for a room at night.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Pecos Bartender/Alan Gill
->Rumor #465397:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is talk of expanding the mines. The shift managers are as worried about a Liberty taking over. It sounds to me like they want to grab all the Deuterium they can before we get chased out.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Shaft Miner/Robert Shaw
->Rumor #465399:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Don't let DSE follow you to a Jump Hole. Right now we are pretty safe from Liberty because it will take them time to build a jump gate here. If they find the Jump Holes, we are totally spliced. Not only is liberty likely to seize this mine, all the Tau smugglers are going to eat us up. They won't it if Liberty closes down the best smuggling route in history.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Freighter Pilot/Dan McCauley
->Rumor #465703:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>After working at Falkland for almost 5 years this place is a dream. Sure the conditions and food is still bad, but at least here we have Barrier Gate to retreat to. All we had in Tau-37 was Freeport 10 which doesn't offer any of the same facilities.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Shaft Miner/Kirk Shannon
->Rumor #465705:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Don't tell anyone else this but I found an alien artefact while I was surveying Ridge-125. I think there might be more out there, but I am not going to the foremen. I have a shuttle flight out to barrier gate in 40 minutes to meet a perspective buyer, he should be able to tell me if this is legitimate or not.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Resource Surveyor/Hugh Gilmore
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====Survey Vessel Armstrong (Coronado)====
->Rumor #465707:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The plants down on the surface are a real pain! It's bad enough they grow like weeds, but when you cut them they emit this awful smell. Once you cut enough of them down and the smell gets really bad, a horde of those ferret-monkey things will come and attack you.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Field Engineer/Bob Tripp
->Rumor #465708:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the other engineers and me were trying to setup a field lab for the botanical survey team and got tired of trying to clear the land by hand. After 6 hours we got nowhere, and then one of the guys got a bright idea. We came back to our ship and built a "daisy cutter" bomb out of some old storage bins and H-fuel canisters. We incinerated a good 300 meters clear of vegetation with that thing. It all re-grew by mourning. Devil plants!</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Field Engineer/Bob Tripp
->Rumor #465709:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Don't bother trying to stay on that planet at night. Those vines never stop growing and they will climb anything, including your sleeping bag or tent. A couple days ago we had to call someone from the ship to come and cut us out of our temp shelter because the vines had bound the door closed!</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Field Engineer/Bob Tripp
->Rumor #465711:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I could spend several lifetimes studying the vegetation of this planet! I have never encountered such a cluttered ecosystem. Each and every plant entangles its roots with another plant. In a lab test I planted one seedling a meter from another seedling. Both immediately began to grow roots directly towards each other. After two days the roots began to intertwine.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Chief Botanist/Paul Gordon
->Rumor #465712:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Regrettably nothing on that planet is suitable for human consumption. The large deformed potato plants are downright poisonous and the other plants have no nutritional value whatsoever. The fruit from the various bushes can be eaten, but it makes a better laxative than a food source.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Chief Botanist/Paul Gordon
->Rumor #465713:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I find these potato plants to be very strange. Not much grows above ground but the central root can grow quite large. It also seems that these plants have a very long life span. Carbon dating on one specimen indicated that it was nearly 6 centuries old. Even more curious is that each plant has a unique genetic code.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Chief Botanist/Paul Gordon
->Rumor #465715:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have been trying to tail the IMG transports hoping that they will lead us to the Jump Hole they use, but it is not working. If I can see them they can see me, and they have a habit of taking me for a tour of the Barrier before losing me.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Scout Pilot/Ryan Walberg
->Rumor #465716:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got to start being careful about entering the Barrier. I know the IMG jump hole is in there somewhere but some of the other scouts are not coming back out of there. I don't understand it, I have tailed IMG almost ten times and all they have done is try to lose me. They have never once even powered their weapons. Why are they attacking only some of the time? For that matter if they want us gone so badly why don't they attack the Armstrong itself.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Scout Pilot/Ryan Walberg
->Rumor #465717:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You're not from around here. By that I mean you are not a part of this ship or crew. Would you mind telling me where the jump hole that IMG uses is? It would certainly make my life easier.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Scout Pilot/Ryan Walberg
->Rumor #465719:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have the distinct impression that I am not dealing with my usual superiors back on Manhattan. Whoever is sending us orders now is not acting like a science committee. I have never had a fellow scientist order me to do anything, and when politician wants something they pretend to be polite. The orders I am receiving now are extremely direct, almost military like.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Captain/Timothy Henderson
->Rumor #465720:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A week ago I received a message from Manhattan telling me that finding Jump Holes that are being used by the IMG in this system is my highest priority. Today I received one ordering me to spy on the IMG as well and that I am to send daily reports regarding their activity. This is not the work I signed on for!</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Captain/Timothy Henderson
->Rumor #465722:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cabin fever is always a problem on these long survey voyages. This ship is pretty big but if you stay on here long enough you feel like you are in a coffin.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Armstrong Bartender/Jesse Fisher
->Rumor #465723:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The boys thought we lucked out a week ago when we found a jump hole not far from Planet Baja. Turns out that it is unstable, not that it is the one we were looking for anyway. Not once have we seen an IMG ship go near it. To be honest I don't even think they know about it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Armstrong Bartender/Jesse Fisher
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====Montezuma Base (Cortez)====
->Rumor #131577:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is where we sell our stolen Gold to the Rogues, who run it into Texas and New York. There the Junkers launder it back into the legit system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Truett Cates
->Rumor #131578:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We mainly use Montezuma as a forward tactical base to stage attacks on Trade Lanes in Cortez via the Jump Hole into California. We prefer the safety of the Barrier Clouds, whereas the Rogues will attack almost anywhere. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Truett Cates
->Rumor #131579:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We'd like to use the hotel on Curacao. Orbital Spa and Cruise wouldn't care if we did, but IC won't insure any Trade Lane shipping in this system. Besides, there are too many Bounty Hunters lurking around the hotel. They give me the creeps. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Truett Cates
->Rumor #131580:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rogues are a simple lot. We don't really have much in common with them, except maybe the love of Cardamine. Most Rogues are products of the Liberty penal system. We're too smart to get caught by the LPI or navy. We'd rather die than set foot in Texas. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Truett Cates
->Rumor #131637:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base requires that all of its supplies come in from the IMGers at Freeport 4. We bring Water, H-Fuel, Oxygen, Food, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, and Consumer Goods from there.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131638:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A lot of money flows into this system from Liberty and Bretonia. All the Manhattanites come to Curacao to drink and snob it up. Sometimes their luxury transports dont always make it. And we are happy to lift the Commodities between the two Houses that cross our paths. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131639:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We juice up on much of the Cardamine that the Outcasts bring here. They take the rest with them as they go into Liberty, or we send it out ourselves to pay for what we use. From here we ship Cardamine to Buffalo, Alcatraz, and Beaumont. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131640:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When we head to Alcatraz to deliver Gold, we pick up Side Arms to bring back here. That way our esteemed guests can haul weaponry to the far edges of Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131641:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's a Jump Hole into California in the Paloma Ice Clouds just south of the Jump Gate. If youre trying to move some illegals and wanna stay clean of the scans, then thats the way to get into California. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131642:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Things got a little frosty around here last week. An Outcast killed one of ours for accidentally alerting some Bounty Hunters to his location. When the Outcast landed, the kid's best friend stood up to the masker. The Outcast, without saying a word, pulled a Detroit Pocket Canon and blew him in half. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
->Rumor #131643:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gold we get from the Lane Hackers is shipped to Alcatraz. Eventually it will make its way into New York. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131644:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is fairly well hidden here in the Corcovado. Its useful to know that there is a Jump Hole into Magellan in this ice cloud, too. From Magellan theres a Jump Hole to Manchester, so you can cross into Bretonia space unscanned if you need to. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
 * Liberty Rogues/Montezuma Bartender/Nathan Sheldon
->Rumor #131645:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love seeing the Outcast ship landing on this base. Some folks get so excited when he drops the inbound call that they fly out to meet him. Once one our greeters blew the Outcast's cover and put a couple of Bounty Hunters on him. When the mask breather was done smoking the two Hunters, he vaped the poor kid, too. Things got worse when he landed. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
 * Liberty Rogues/ Samuel Jackson
->Rumor #131773:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading out to Beaumont, the pit of Texas, to deliver another load of Liberty's poison. It was a long journey from Cali. These Rogues are scum, but they perform an essential duty for us -- at least for now. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Tuesday Frase
->Rumor #131774:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm making the quick hop to Alcatraz tomorrow with a small payload of drugs. They've got Cardamine sleep chambers at the base here for itinerants like me. Not bad for an icy rock in the middle of nowhere. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Tuesday Frase
->Rumor #131775:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Heading back out to Cali with Side Arms. They're so cheap here -- much better deal than at Trafalgar. On my way in from Buffalo yesterday I did some target practice on a Universal convoy in California. Paid off -- got some Luxury Goods bound for New London.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Tuesday Frase
->Rumor #134340:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A few days ago, the Outcast ship Balboa was damaged by an LPI patrol that surprised it in the Tahoe Ice Cloud. It escaped its pursuers, but the failing control systems eventually caused it to hit an ice crystal and explode -- at least thats what theyve been able to piece together from radar and the pilots last words. The wreckage was scattered and drifted over a large area. The Cardamine cargo remains missing, probably still in the hold of the ship. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Andre Garcia
 * Liberty Rogues/ Arvee Garde
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====Planet Curacao (Cortez)====
->Rumor #131541:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Well, I must admit, the weather here is far superior to that of London -- not that I travel much. I've been on the Essex chasing down Mollys in Dublin for the past two years. It's about time they gave me a rest.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain William Baker
->Rumor #131542:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The drinks are really cheap here, not like back home where they're highly taxed. I'm not particularly fond of Liberty ale, though. I think I'll try jet sailing tomorrow; it's supposed to be a great way to see the planet.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain William Baker
->Rumor #131543:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I won a sweepstakes, that's why I'm here -- it's not something I could afford on a navy pilot's salary. I'm originally from Leeds, so oxygen-rich air like they have on Curacao is a definite pleasure. My mood is improving already. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain William Baker
->Rumor #131544:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is one nice place to be based, although those snooty, rich Manhattan types don't seem to like us much. Lots of work around here. Rogues, Lane Hackers, Outcasts. We've got our hands full in Cortez. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
->Rumor #131545:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not supposed to tell anyone this, but I've had a few. There are some Jump Holes I know of in this system. One is in the southeastern quadrant in the Paloma Cloud, and it leads to California. The other is in the Corcovado Field. That one goes to Magellan.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
->Rumor #131546:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just came back from a tough battle in the Roatan Cloud. I was ambushing some Lane Hackers when some Outcasts showed up out of nowhere. Barely got out. My wingman didn't. I think I'll need a couple of those Curacao shooters from the bar tonight.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
->Rumor #131547:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you know the shipping paths of the Outcasts, you can snag some Cardamine cargos. They don't give up without a fight, though. Best thing is to find the Jump Hole to California in the Paloma Cloud, then hang out a little to the southwest of it. They'll be along soon enough. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
->Rumor #131548:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do a lot of patrols in this system. There's a Rogue base somewhere out in the Corcovado Field. Good luck getting close to it. It's swarming with Rogues, Hackers, and Outcasts.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
->Rumor #131549:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm thinking of starting a side business. Take out some of those soft rich folks from the inner House worlds that have never seen true Indie-world danger. Cruise the clouds, look for some trouble, then hightail it out of there before it gets too hot. What do ya think?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
->Rumor #131550:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm normally based on Glasgow, that's our corporate headquarters. The Leeds system doesn't offer the recreational opportunities that this place can. We are close to the cruise ship in Edinburgh, but you can't land on the planet there. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Stevie Ballmer
->Rumor #131551:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The reefs here are stupendous. We took the five-day sail and sea package. They dive for all sorts of strange creatures and prepare absolutely amazing meals every night. The night sky is just incredible here. You can see the Barrier in all of its glory stretching off into space. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Stevie Ballmer
->Rumor #131552:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex is holding its company executive retreat here for the fourth consecutive year. It's a little dicey getting here, but great once you've arrived. They should convert one of those crazy Bretonian terraforming projects into a pleasure planet like this.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Stevie Ballmer
->Rumor #131553:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've come here every year for the past decade; I love this place. You have to try the undersea trip. If you're lucky, you might see one of the giant norfins. They're scary at first, but the sub is well equipped to defend itself. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Tim Gellar
->Rumor #131554:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I work on the Cambridge Research Station -- a long ways from Liberty and this place. It gets kind of crazy in there after a couple of months of zero-g. Cambridge is nice to visit, but it ain't like good 'ole Liberty, folks. Much better food here. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Tim Gellar
->Rumor #131555:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is THE place for Liberty executives like me to take vacations. You can do a lot of networking here if you want, or you can just sit back and enjoy the good life by the pool.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Tim Gellar
->Rumor #131556:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My ship broke down in the Paloma Cloud yesterday. They're still working on it, so I've got at least another night here to burn on company time. I think I'll head down to the casino and roll the dice tonight. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ed Fries
->Rumor #131557:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the best layover you get on Gateway runs. We normally don't stop here much, but when we do, it's a nonstop party. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ed Fries
->Rumor #131558:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the only safe stop in this neck of the woods. Pretty rough on both sides in the clouds. I was stuck here once when the Trade Lane got taken down for a few days. I liked it so much that I try to come back at least once every few years with the missus. The sun's pretty hot though -- I always get burned.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ed Fries
->Rumor #131559:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love this place. They have plenty of gambling, great Food, and lots of oceanic fishing trips -- some pretty weird creatures out there. There's a purple wing fish that literally flies out of the water at you when it gets hooked. Have to carry a shield with you at all times.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Herbert Johnson
->Rumor #131560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It gets a little pricey here, especially if you've just lost last month's salary in the casino. Oh well, there are always the cheap buffets of Luxury Foods like lettuce and potatoes, none of that Synth Paste crap. Now I know how the rich people of Sirius live. The seafood is pretty weird though. They can keep that.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Herbert Johnson
->Rumor #131561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm taking a well deserved R&amp;R, compliments of Orbital Spa and Cruise. My patrol saved Orbital's butt last week on the east Trade Lane to the California Gate. A crew of Rogues was about to make off with a Luxury Goods shipment. We saved the day.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Navy/Captain Herbert Johnson
->Rumor #131562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We export our pure Water to Los Angeles, which always needs more than it can get. On the return trip we carry H-Fuel, Pharmaceuticals, Food, and Consumer Goods.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We send patrols out into the eastern fields to keep the considerable criminal population in check. Fortunately, there is a substantial Bounty Hunter contingent based here to provide some sense of security. Unfortunately, their rather crude behavior and offensive odor has been a problem with our regular guests. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Luxury Goods from Manhattan so that our clients can shop in addition to their daily regime of water sports and gambling. The armored transports tend to get attacked quite a bit in the Paloma Cloud.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the original home of Orbital Spa and Cruise, founded in 475 by Tony Cortez. This was the first planet in the Sirius Sector devoted solely to the pursuit of pleasure. There is now a second in Stuttgart, and several cruise ships in the far reaches of civilized space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Luxury Food from New London. It's perishable, so we have to be fast. Only the finest Cambridge organic produce for our discriminating customers.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131567:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The unusually high oxygen content of Curacao's atmosphere has a rejuvenating effect on most of our patrons, which primarily include the Liberty wealthy. They can hop a special transport and be here in a matter of days via the Jump Gates and Trade Lanes.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131568:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is no appreciable landmass on this planet. Outside of the hotel platform there is a vast, shallow sea covering the planet. Various water sports are the preferred activity. We also offer submersible expeditions for more adventurous travelers who want to experience the exotic undersea life. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131569:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Curacao wasn't discovered until 465 because of its obscured position in the heart of the Barrier. The Tantulus, a Liberty survey ship, accidentally stumbled into the system while researching a new Jump Gate route between Liberty and Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131570:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Orbital will normally accept any guest that can pay their way, even a Bounty Hunter. On our Hawaiian ship you can spot Hogosha and even the odd Corsair or two. The Lane Hackers have expressed interest in staying here, but we feel their piracy against our ships is too severe to ignore. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Curacao Bartender/David Johnson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/ Jo Tyo
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Joanne Williams
->Rumor #131571:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We occasionally ship in Luxury Goods from Los Angeles to supplement those from Orbital Spa.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Jim Brown
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Mick Franklin
->Rumor #131572:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>These Independent Worlds are the roughest areas that Universal has to traverse. At least we don't have to deal with the Border Worlds. Just last week we lost a shipment to Hackers in the Roatan Cloud.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Jim Brown
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Mick Franklin
->Rumor #131573:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our main business on the Bretonian-Libertonian Line is Bretonian Gold, New York Luxury Goods, and Trade Lane Parts bound for Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Jim Brown
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Mick Franklin
->Rumor #131574:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This resort is the first Orbital Spa and Cruise hotel built. They have a second one in the Stuttgart system, but I prefer to be closer to home in case something goes wrong. The hotel is getting a little old, though. I think they should level it and create an artificial island here. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Jim Brown
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Mick Franklin
->Rumor #131575:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The only time it gets scary here is when there's a big storm. We were caught in one five years ago -- we thought the platform wouldn't make it. But it's still standing, so I guess I shouldn't worry too much. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Jim Brown
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Mick Franklin
->Rumor #131576:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard that some visiting dignitaries were kidnapped en route by Rogues in the Paloma Cloud. That's unsettling. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Jim Brown
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Mick Franklin
->Rumor #134323:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Charles Kane and its escorts were ambushed in the Roatan Ice Crystal Cloud several weeks ago, probably by Rogues or Lane Hackers. They commandeered the ship and flew it further into the cloud. Several Bounty Hunters happened upon the hijacked ship, and a fierce firefight ensued. Only one limped back to tell the tale. She said the ship was still out there in the cloud, abandoned and drifting with the field. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Bart Smith
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Peekaboo Street
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain William Baker
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====Battleship Embrun (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504849:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Royal Police prefers not to mess with the pirates here in the Border Worlds. It is way too much danger for them to bother with. The Navy ends up doing all the dirty work that they are paid to do. Sometimes I think that the pirates and the Police might have signed some sort of non-aggression pact.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Daniel Gouges
->Rumor #504852:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dauphine faced some of the most bloody battles of the Second Gallic War, of which the Battle for Gap is the most well-known. We thought that liberating Dauphine was a glorious victory, but only now we realized how blind we were. They gave up Dauphine only to gather their forces in Languedoc.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Alexis Vartan
->Rumor #504855:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now that the secret of Gallia is revealed to the whole of Sirius, what will our leaders do? What will we do? I'm completely bewildered, and many of my fellow officers share similar doubts about our future.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Alexis Vartan
->Rumor #504861:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Gates into our Core Worlds had been sealed to prevent the intruders from reaching our main planets. Only authorized ships are allowed to pass, and they are searched thoroughly both at the Jump Gate and at their destination point. But I'm concerned that some might be hidden too well for the authorities to find them...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Embrun Bartender/Theodore Rouiette
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====Battleship Guillestre (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504846:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council accuses us of various atrocities. In fact, the Council themselves have frequently breached the rules of war by attacking civilian ships and stations, and torturing captives. I admit that we have also done such things, from time to time. War is cruel, but why does the Council need to be so hypocritical?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Daniel Vasselon
->Rumor #504847:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The failure of Languedoc's defenses was the most devastating defeat for the Navy in over 300 years. Many of our admirals will lose their posts after the military investigations have been completed. Some already have, and they certainly deserve it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Therese Godenot
->Rumor #504852:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dauphine faced some of the most bloody battles of the Second Gallic War, of which the Battle for Gap is the most well-known. We thought that liberating Dauphine was a glorious victory, but only now we realized how blind we were. They gave up Dauphine only to gather their forces in Languedoc.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Guillestre Bartender/Nicolas Maigny
->Rumor #504853:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have to admit that the attack against the Languedoc defenses was brilliantly executed by the Council. They did sacrifice thousands of their pilots and soldiers to achieve their goal, but they didn't have much choice, and in the end they were victorious. Who cares about casualties?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Therese Godenot
->Rumor #504854:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council in Languedoc are isolated. An offensive fleet is being prepared by the Royal Navy in Dauphine, and we expect that Nimes station will be re-captured soon enough. Quillan and Montelimar might be more difficult to deal with, though. The rebels had plenty of time to prepare for a long siege and defend the mine path.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Guillestre Bartender/Nicolas Maigny
->Rumor #504855:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now that the secret of Gallia is revealed to the whole of Sirius, what will our leaders do? What will we do? I'm completely bewildered, and many of my fellow officers share similar doubts about our future.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Daniel Vasselon
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====Briancon Station (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504866:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Stations that are listed as controlled by the Police are actually under the administration of the Gallic civilian authorities. However, it's the task of the police to defend the station, preserve order and control all docking procedures.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Theophile Ackart
->Rumor #504878:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse might be less numerous compared to the other pirate groups in Gallia, but even their membership has nearly doubled in the last 15 years. Originally they were just a covert group, but now they are daring enough to attack us openly.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Marguerite Belmont
->Rumor #504912:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Oil is present on most of the Core Worlds in Gallia. With abundant oil supplies, we produce high-quality fuel for our engines. It might be old-fashioned and bad for the environment, but it's also cheap. Think about it: finally, almost everyone can afford a good car and never worry about the cost of fuel.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Briancon Bartender/Christian Durand
->Rumor #504913:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>EFL Oil & Machinery is one of the biggest corporations in Gallia, but we are not exactly competitors for GMS as many would think. The government controls both companies and defines which areas of the market we can operate within.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * EFL/ Honore Duparc
->Rumor #504915:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Pirates and criminals are our enemies, and this war never ends. The Brigands are the most troublesome, due to their large numbers, but their pilots are hardly ever capable of playing as a team. If one ship is damaged or destroyed, occasionally the others will simply flee in random directions.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * EFL/ Jean Grisey
->Rumor #504916:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers sometimes help us against other pirate groups, for example, warning us about an ambush. I was once flying on a transport and saw our captain handing over a case to a Junker representative. Then we changed course. I don't even want to think what could have happened if the Junker wasn't there to warn us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * EFL/ Honore Duparc
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====Gap Station (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504844:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now the path into Sirius is open anyway, we can openly state that our military power is more than twice as large as any other Sirius House possesses. If there was a war, no one could possibly stop us from winning.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Laetitia Merode
->Rumor #504867:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police forces play an important role in the current war with the Council. We are in charge of protecting many military convoys until they reach areas controlled by the Royal Navy. Also, police special forces form the front line of space station defences in case enemy marines manage to board a station.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Michel Nerval
->Rumor #504868:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our positions in the Core Worlds are much more well-established than here. The defence of the Border Worlds heavily depends on the Navy, and we don't have much to contribute, given the military power and resources of our enemies.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Michel Nerval
->Rumor #504869:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our Navy has the strength, but not much in the way of wisdom. Their humiliating defeat in Languedoc is something that proves my words better than anything else possibly could.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gap Bartender/Clement Sastre
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Patricia Laclos
->Rumor #504870:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Royal Navy officers have a nasty habit of blaming us for the rising crime rates here. Do they think that we assist criminals in any way? I'm insulted that they would ever consider such a thing.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Marguerite Belmont
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====Grenoble Depot (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504881:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The operation in Languedoc was a risky one, and we all knew right from the start that many of us wouldn't survive the upcoming battles. The rumors we hear about the Gallic Navy's military buildup in Dauphine seem to indicate that those battles were just the beginning. Our only chance is to flee to Sirius and seek a safe haven in some desolate system that the Royal Navy won't be able to reach before we set up a better defense.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Camille Beaumont
->Rumor #504890:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Setting up the mine fields was an extremely lengthy process. It took over a hundred and fifty years to complete, and Gallia had to face the constant risk of being discovered by some hapless explorer from Sirius. Unfortunately, their space exploration advanced far slower than ours.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Camille Beaumont
->Rumor #504917:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council are too weak. They don't understand that the King won't notice how many Royal Navy ships they destroy in  places like Burgundy or Lorraine. That inbred moron of a King will notice only when we detonate a bomb inside his own palace. A nice big explosion, that's what we need to get his attention.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Blaise Trochu
->Rumor #504919:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say that the monarchy was selected as the most efficient political regime to base our new nation on, shortly after we arrived on New Paris. Thousands of dissidents rotting in prisons all over Gallia is a perfect example of where this efficiency leads us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Grenoble Bartender/Albert Tailleferre
->Rumor #504922:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Have you been to Marne? This place became something really special. Citizens are enforcing law and order in the settlements themselves, without any supervision. Outside the cities, there is no law. Bandits roam the countryside, pirate groups build their own small settlements and even launch sites for their ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Julien Belmont
->Rumor #504923:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Marne became a safe haven for us, the Brigands, and even the Unione Corse. The Council are trying to conceal the truth, but it's obvious that they cannot control the whole planet's surface. Many of the old factories have switched to producing ships and weapons for pirates. Why do you think piracy is on the rise? Because of this war? No, because the pirates can openly manufacture ships and weapons on Marne, that's why.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Julien Belmont
->Rumor #504928:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council are idealistic fools destined to lose. The Brigands are not trustworthy, but they've certainly got the musclesto flex, if only they could co-ordinate themselves effectively. The only group we are willing to deal with are the Maquis, who at least have a spine.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Zacharie Jacob
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====Montelimar Base (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504926:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse don't spread rumours around like gossiping housewives. Get lost, before we make you.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Montelimar Bartender/Jean-Baptiste Vigny
 * Unione Corse/ Gaston Voynet
->Rumor #504927:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We stay away from politics, wars and other stuff like that. We mind our business. Go away and mind yours before it's too late.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Maximilien Guitry
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====Valence Base (Dauphine)====
->Rumor #504931:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many people say that we are cruel and that we love violence. It's true, but most of us initially sought quick profits. Lust for violence comes after greed, not before it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Martin Delaflote
->Rumor #504932:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Brigands often spread many stupid rumours about themselves. The truth is that we are a bunch of professional criminals who know where the profit lies. Three quarters of the Gallic black market is under our complete control, and neither the Maquis nor the Unione Corse will be able to take it away from us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Valence Bartender/Laurent Delerue
->Rumor #504933:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have somewhat complicated relationships with the other criminal groups. The war with the Corse is long over, and we do business in some areas, but we hardly ever operate together. Our relations with the Maquis has helped us to establish a profitable partnership with The Council who have since come to rely on the supplies which we smuggle through the Royal Navy blockades.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Gilbert Rowen
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====Battleship Altenburg (Dresden)====
->Rumor #133910:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver MOX to the Westfalen every few months or so. Berlin has been having difficulty making their payments lately. ALG would like to improve our relationship with the military, so we often waive the transport and installation fees. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133911:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The structural integrity of this ship is suspect. It suffered a lot of damage during the Eighty Years War, but was forced to remain in service, since all of its sister ships are now Scrap Metal in the Sigma-13 system. We are always nervous when we have to enter the reactor compartments of this ship. Especially since the recent accident. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133912:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our most lucrative runs for MOX are into Colorado. One must first survive the Xenos in the Independent Worlds, however. The Rogues would also like to get their hands on bomb-making material -- especially the group found in Hudson. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133913:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military's brought us in to help them out in the Nordheide. They don't pay us too much, though. But they have good, long-range scanners and a strategic position in this area, so it's worthwhile for us. Most of the actual bounties are put up by Republican. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133914:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are a few reformed Hessians among us here in Hamburg. They're the lucky ones who got out of Vierlande before their sentences were up. One guy had some story about some neutron star in Omega-41. That's way out there in the Edge Worlds in Corsair land. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133915:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole to Bering is up in the Nordheide. If you're looking for diamond smuggling Unioners, then that's the place to be. There isn't a direct route between here and Hudson, which keeps the Xenos and Rogues out of Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133916:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Hunters use this as a base for journeys into Hudson. Most of the bounties up there are for Xenos and Rogues. Republican posts the bulk of them, though Universal and IC chip in on occasion. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133917:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just came back from Hudson. We were cruising for baddies in the gap between the Wrangell and Kenai Fields. Ran right into a little skirmish going on between the local thugs. I got me two Xenos and a Rogue. Buy you a drink? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133918:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hudson is a little rougher than Hamburg. No safe havens, not even any military in the Rheinland part of the system. Liberty Navy's putting a lot of pressure on them, but they can't do much about it. You can see why. Look around at this dump. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133919:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a quick trip from Hamburg. We run in supplies on a regular basis. Sometimes they can't pay us, but we usually can arrange something. Maybe four dead Unioners for a container of Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133920:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is competing with ALG to win the contract for constructing the next generation of Rheinland battleships. We have a clear advantage in ship design and practical construction experience. But they have a definite strength in alloys and specialized Hull Panel fabrication. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133921:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Although it's not far to Hamburg from here, the Unioners will attack us if given the opportunity. Their preferred method is to disable a Trade Lane ring near the center of the stretch, then flee back into the Nordheide at the first sign of a military patrol. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133922:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> is the last battleship still operational in the Rheinland fleet. We are always short of spare parts, and the men are paid only once every three months. Some enterprising pilots have taken to moonlighting for Republican or Synth Foods in order to make ends meet. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133923:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is a deathtrap. They had an explosion last week in Fusion Reactor 6. Had to seal off the entire A Deck. They're not even going to fix it. That's a sorry state of affairs. The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> will never be able to make a jump again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133924:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are rumors circulating that ALG is planning on building a new shipyard in Dortmund to build the Bremen and her sister ships. They're willing to build them at cost in order to gain entry into this new market. That's an attractive proposition for Berlin at this point and time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133925:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland Military is tasked with patrolling the northern areas of Hamburg and the adjacent Independent Worlds of Bering and Hudson. But we only have enough working fighters to cover the Trade Lanes in the immediate area, plus a daily patrol into the Nordheide. We assign Bounty Hunters to handle many of our other patrol routes in the area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133926:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever since we lost the war, Rheinland just hasn't been the same; the entire colony feels beaten and bereft of vigor. Look around, there is no one smiling or enjoying themselves. What will it take for my House to heal? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133927:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann is the real culprit in the Eighty-Years War. The Imperial Navy Command had grave doubts about the wisdom of fighting a guerrilla-style war in the Crow Nebula against an enemy that was so well-supplied by Kusari. But Daumann saw the huge profits to be made in lucrative shipbuilding contracts, and bribed hundreds of key government officials. The rest is history. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133928:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the young officers are leaving the Rheinland Military, tired of the poor conditions and low pay. Most of them end up flying commercial transports for Republican or Synth Foods. The rest end up with the Bounty Hunters Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133929:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland public doesn't respect the military anymore. We lost the Eighty-Years War to a ragtag bunch of gas miners as far as they're concerned. That is one reason it has been so difficult for Berlin to increase our budget -- the politicians backed by the Bundschuh always vote it down. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133930:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh continues to attack this floating piece of junk for some reason. We usually run them off after a few minutes. I guess they don't have any other obvious military targets left in Rheinland -- except maybe the Oder Shipyard. Have to have an enemy to keep the cause going. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
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====Bautzen Station (Dresden)====
->Rumor #134187:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Schwefelnebel hides the Jump Hole leading into Frankfurt. Red Hessians make supply runs into that system, so it is a good place to hunt for them. Plus, the proximity to this base from there means that if you get shot up and need repairs, you don't have to fly far with a leaky ship. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
->Rumor #134188:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want some real trouble, you might try heading to Omega 11 -- there are Diamonds and Hessians all over that system. It's one of the most dangerous places in Sirius. If the pirates don't kill you, the solar flares usually will. The Jump Hole is in the Lavafeld. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
->Rumor #134189:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can kill LWB and Red Hessians in the Giftnebel. There are Jump Holes in there as well as a Hessian base. It is extremely dangerous, though; you must excerise caution if you go. I tell newbie Bounty Hunters I don't like, that it is the place they need to be. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
->Rumor #134190:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've almost got enough saved to retire. I don't know what I'm going to do or where I will go. I might go to Liberty. I don't really want to, but I always get paid in Liberty coin so the currency doesn't lose value before I can spend it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
->Rumor #134191:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm doing the guys I kill a favor. If they got caught by the police they would have to go to Vierlande for the rest of their days. It is much better to die fighting than to rot away in a dark hole. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
->Rumor #134192:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm one of the few men who went to the Vierlande and came back out again. Almost all of the sentences are for life, including mine. But I got a reprieve after I helped the guards put down a riot. After being there, I prefer getting blown away by Hessians to breaking the law again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
->Rumor #134193:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Diamonds we mine in this system aren't usually high enough quality to make the Luxury Goods markets, but they are perfect for industrial drill bits. Kruger ships these Diamonds to Essen, and while in Essen we purchase Mining Machinery and bring it back here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134194:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our mining vessels require H-Fuel, like any other non-capitol-class ship. We supply our base with H-Fuel from Mannheim. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134195:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The best-quality Diamonds mined here are sent to New Berlin to be used in the Luxury Goods market. Our convoys leave with holds full of Diamonds, and return with basic supplies. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134196:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Everyone knows that it was Daumann's fault that the miners in this system revolted. But the chain reaction swept through all of Rheinland. The reparations we were forced to pay, along with the crippling losses we incurred in the Eighty-Years War, have left us struggling to stay afloat. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134197:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police station Pirna has some excellent pilots, and they are honorable officers who know that Kruger is their friend, but they do not have the power to hold back the tide of Red Hessians in this system. We are forced to hire mercenaries. I do not respect the Bounty Hunters Guild, but I appreciate their work. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134198:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Of course Kruger was somewhat strict with its workers before the revolt, and I suppose we still are now to a degree. But that is the way you must be to run a successful company. We could not have remained competitive if we didn't push our employees to work the hours that Daumann required of their employees. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134199:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The most recent Red Hessian attack on our operations was horrible. They caught a whole team of miners working a large asteroid in the Schwefelnebel. The miserable Hessians didn't stop firing until there was nothing moving but body parts, all thirty of the miners dead. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134200:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Kruger Lavafeld is too close to the sun to send miners out in vac-suits. It is far too hot and dangerous to traverse. Instead we do our mining in the Schwefelnebel. I would say that that field is too dangerous too, but only because of the Red Hessians. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Bautzen Bartender/Stefan Giering
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134201:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Employees die, that is just how industry is. We encourage our labor force to take breaks when they are too tired to work safely. It is their choice to keep working, and therefore it is their risk. Though some may say it is unfair, we could not remain soluble if we paid employees for resting on the job. No work means no pay. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
->Rumor #134350:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Danzig is a long lost Kruger freighter that strayed into the Giftnebel in 450 while returning from the Diamond fields. The clouds hostile conditions prevented any thorough search. Pieces of debris have been spotted drifting occasionally within the area, but no one has been able to determine if they are the remains of the Danzig. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Leah Carter
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wayne Kramer
 * Kruger Minerals/ Konrad Ratzenberger
 * Kruger Minerals/ Morris Burghardt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Maik Soller
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====Leipzig Station (Dresden)====
->Rumor #134172:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base receives its basic supplies from the capitol planet, New Berlin. Crucial to our operations here is the Mining Machinery we receive from the same source. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134174:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann's primary facility -- the Ring in New Berlin -- supplies us with our Niobium. In return, we ship them the High-Temperature Alloys and Cobalt that is produced here. If you wish to see the pride of Rheinland, you could make this run. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134175:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you have the skill and the inclination, Fort Bush in New York is always willing to purchase Dresden Copper. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134176:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Oder Shipyard is the largest shipyard in all of Sirius. They are in need of our High-Temperature Alloys. If you go there, we would be happy to purchase any MOX you bring back. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134177:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system has been the heart of Rheinland's industrial power since 188 AS, when the first Jump Gates were built here connecting us to New Berlin. For centuries we mined and smelted in peace; that all changed after "the Eighty." Now we are plagued by all manner of pirates. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134178:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Leipzig is surrounded by a sulfurous cloud that has accreted over centuries of industrial labor at this base. It is a byproduct of Daumann's works in this area. Sulfur is no longer released into space; instead it is captured and shipped as Fertilizers for Synth Foods operations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134179:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Red Hessian activity in this system is exceptionally vicious. Because they are pirates, they are plentiful in New Berlin. But because they were once Daumann employees, their attacks here are the most violent. This is where the Red Hessians began; the heart of industry, the heart of revolt. Hessians plague this system not for goods, but for revenge -- unceasing revenge. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Leipzig Bartender/Lukas Neumann
->Rumor #134180:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system is where the Popular Revolt began when disgruntled miners took over Leipzig Station on Von Rohe's Day in 700 AS. Before long, the revolt had spread throughout all of Rheinland, and the days of the empire where numbered. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Hugo Leitz
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Jan Wegener
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lars Böttiger
->Rumor #134181:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In the Lavafeld you will find a Jump Hole to Omega-11; that is where the Red Hessians enter and exit this system for the western Border Worlds. If you are looking for them, and you want to pop them with Diamonds in their holds, then that is where you go. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Chad Ewing
->Rumor #134182:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The LWB are not a huge presence in this system. They are more concerned with keeping supplies running between the Hessian base here and their base in Stuttgart. This system is also their transit point to New Berlin. If you are looking for them, do your hunting in the Giftnebel. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Chad Ewing
->Rumor #134183:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the backbone of Daumann's mining concerns, so of course you will find a Red Hessian base here in Dresden. Look in the Giftnebel, you will encounter it, along with Jump Holes that lead to New Berlin and Stuttgart. If you go there, I hope that you are a good pilot and not afraid to go up against multiple targets. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Chad Ewing
->Rumor #134184:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If Daumann didn't pay me so much for dead Hessians, I would go looking for other types to bring down. But since I know where they operate and how they fly, and since they pay the most, it is an easy choice. The hard part is killing them; they don't die easily and there are always more. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Chad Ewing
->Rumor #134185:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I like to hang out in the Daumann Lavafeld. I know that there are always going to be Hessian attacks there. And the executives like to see you make your kills near the base they are paying you to protect. Just hang out in the sulfur a bit, Red Hessians will fly right under your nose. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Chad Ewing
->Rumor #134186:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My old man was a Red Hessian. He was the one who taught me all their Jump Hole networks, and when to hit them when they were carrying Diamonds. He left the Red Hessians because they were changing. My father wasn't a pirate; he was a Daumann political opponent. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Chad Ewing
->Rumor #134350:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Danzig is a long lost Kruger freighter that strayed into the Giftnebel in 450 while returning from the Diamond fields. The clouds hostile conditions prevented any thorough search. Pieces of debris have been spotted drifting occasionally within the area, but no one has been able to determine if they are the remains of the Danzig. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jill Dunn
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====Pirna Border Station (Dresden)====
->Rumor #134202:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann tries to show its appreciation for these brave men by bringing them the best in Side Arms directly from where they are produced at the Ring. From Riot Breakers to the new Daumann Shredders, these boys get the best. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thile Cämmer
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Eckert Kleckl
->Rumor #134203:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic supplies are shipped here by our convoys, which depart from New Berlin. It is a contract we are proud to fulfill, though the way is beset by dangerous pirates. We keep the Federal Police running with our goods. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thile Cämmer
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Eckert Kleckl
->Rumor #134204:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This post is so depressing; look at the faces of the men at this base. They are supposed to protect us? They look as if they expect death at any time. It makes me wonder if they know something that I don't. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thile Cämmer
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Eckert Kleckl
->Rumor #134205:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is situated between the Daumann and Kruger base, so both of their operations are our responsibility. The Hessians focus their attacks on the Trade Lanes that pass by both bases on the way to New Berlin. We try to patrol those areas, but we are stretched too thin here. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Pirna Bartender/RBT-102
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134206:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My family has had men and women in the Rheinland Federal Police Force since before the Revolt. Back then we were known as the Imperial Police. In those days they had it easy; their ships were well-maintained and there was far less piracy than there is now. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Pirna Bartender/RBT-102
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134207:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This job just doesn't pay me enough to do the things that are required to keep my patrol area clear of criminals. It just seems like I'm risking my life for nothing these days. For every Red Hessian I bring in, another three are ready to take me out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134208:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dresden is a hellhole. Look around -- we are surrounded by poisonous gas clouds and irradiated asteroid fields. What are you doing here? What could possibly interest you enough to be in this system? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Pirna Bartender/RBT-102
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134209:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a great job. I fly a rusty old heap of metal, my pay is lousy, I risk my life each day, and the pirates I fight make more money than I do. Maybe I could take my training and become a Hunter. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134210:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland credits that I am paid with lose more value each day. The inflation we are experiencing here is so great that the only kind of payment that keeps is actual Commodities. If it wasn't for the fact that we get room and board, I would find other work. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134211:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is one of the systems that they send you to if you are a good pilot but complain too much -- or the captain does not like you. The mortality rate here among Federal Police is the highest in all of Rheinland. All we fight are Red Hessians and the occasional LWB. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134212:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The blue Diamonds that Kruger mines here are highly prized in the Luxury Goods markets at New Berlin. That's one of the reasons that the Hessians attack the lanes near the Kruger base so often. They also hit the miners out in the fields. When that happens, all that's left of the miners is their teeth. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Pirna Bartender/RBT-102
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
->Rumor #134213:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>"Learn to be a pilot," my mother always told me. "Don't waste away in the mines," she would say. Ha -- look at this base, look at the pilots here; what a wonderful life I have chosen. Soon enough I'm going to make a mistake out there and then I'm dead. Its just a matter of time. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Romi Brandstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Edith Wiemann
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Harald Prohasky
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====Vogtland Base (Dresden)====
->Rumor #134214:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the supplies we need to keep this base going are bought by us from Junkers in Kreuzberg and brought here. Thank goodness for our lovely black markets in New Berlin. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134215:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base serves as a trade depot for other Hessian bases in the area. The basic supplies we ship here also get shipped to Freital. If you made these shipments, it would be easier for us since the police actively hunt for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134216:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Along with basic supplies, we also purchase Side Arms and Engine Components from the Junkers in New Berlin to ship here. Surplus weapons and engine parts get sent to Freital. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134217:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Diamonds come to this base from Freital in Omega 11. We will take them to the Junkers in New Berlin to be sold on the black markets. It is these Diamonds that fund the majority of all Red Hessian operations. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134218:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Giftnebel is a dangerous cloud to move through, but its proximity to the Kruger and Daumann operations here makes it worthwhile. We know this system well, and that helps us when we raid the corporates trying to ship their goods back to New Berlin. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134219:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>What a fitting place this cloud is; formed from the sulfurous waste of the smelting plants in the system, crafted by Daumann and Krugers heedlessness. Now it hides their greatest threat: the Red Hessians. It also hides the Jump Holes to New Berlin and Stuttgart. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
->Rumor #134220:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We might eventually win this system from the corporates. Ore deposits here will soon be exhausted, and our attacks cost them dearly. Intelligence suggests they may be moving the bulk of their mining operations to Omega-7. If that happens, it will be a great victory for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134221:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Years ago this was our only base. But we have expanded, due greatly to the Jump Holes that have been found. Also, weve had great success mining and stealing Diamonds. Hessians know the corporate strategies and protocols -- we used to be part of them. Thats why our strikes are so effective. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134222:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rheinlanders have a slang for Diamonds -- they call them Hessian Tears. They symbolize the lives of all the miners crushed into the Rheinland corporate machine, our fight to hold back the tide of Daumann and Kruger, and our struggle to pay for our crusade with their beauty. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
->Rumor #134223:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm one of the few Red Hessians left who really tries to fight for the cause. Mostly, my brotherhood is one of pirates, but there are still some of us who haven't lost the meaning in all of the greed that has overcome the others. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
 * Red Hessians/Vogtland Bartender/Eugen Drum
->Rumor #134225:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland Republic was supposed to be about the common man getting paid well for hard work, about companies that cared if their employees were safe. Those brave souls who died fighting to overthrow the empire -- why? Rheinland has the same masters, only now they rule a republic instead of an empire. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Red Hessians/ Arnim Fromm
 * Red Hessians/ Gottfried Kirmess
 * Red Hessians/ Lutz Loeber
 * Red Hessians/ Olaf Streithorst
->Rumor #134226:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We take basic supplies from this base to our home base Darmstadt, in Stuttgart. I am reminded why I must fight for my system when I come to this place of poison sulfurous clouds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * LWB/ Soren Von Loen
->Rumor #134227:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hessians do business with the Junkers in New Berlin for Engine Components and Side Arms. Then we do business with the Red Hessians here. We require the same things to remain a thorn in the side of Synth Foods and the traitorous ALG. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * LWB/ Soren Von Loen
->Rumor #134228:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system is useful to the LWB only as a place from which we can be resupplied by the Red Hessians. Dresden is anathema to anyone who ever farmed land or lived in a place of beauty. The less time I spend here, the better. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * LWB/ Soren Von Loen
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====Arranmore Base (Dublin)====
->Rumor #132652:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Why dya think the police dont come into the system? Well skin em is why. They dont have the stomach for the type of fightin that goes on here. Ever since we were founded its been us against the military, and we aint exactly losin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132653:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys were established right after the Founders Day Revolt. All we were trying to do was let the government know how bad we were being treated by BMM. The government didnt care. We werent worth anything in their eyes, just like the BMM executives. We knew that Bretonia wasn't our home, and if we ever wanted to have a home we would have to carve it from Bretonian space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132654:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can process tiny amounts of weapons-grade Plutonium from MOX. We steal the MOX as it gets shipped from BMMs LD-14 base in Leeds. Soon well have enough MOX to detonate a bomb in the skies over New London. Maybe then theyll leave Dublin to us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132655:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys hate BMM. They were the ones who worked us to the bone. The life expectancy for a miner before the revolt was less than six years. If youre gonna have a life expectancy for a job, you might as well be a soldier. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132656:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Well, we lobbed old man Graves's head off in the Founders Day Revolt, but now his daughter runs GS&amp;M. She is just as bad as he ever was, but she is more dangerous because she is smarter. One day I will see her dead. Our attacks at their base are getting closer and closer to blowing the whole station. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132657:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our lads got captured last week by Bretonian military in Leeds during a MOX raid. Hes one of our best -- Roger Patiences his name. Hes on a prison convoy on its way to Newgate Prison. Were gonna crack him out in Manchester as the ships break from the Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hood supplies us with our basic Commodities. We also get Mining Machinery and Consumer Goods from the folks at that filth-infested base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We send our people through the Jump Hole to New London to deal with the Junkers at Trafalgar to get the basic supplies that keep Arranmore running. They bring back Side Arms and Engine Components from Trafalgar. Junkers are always willing to trade those goods for the Gold that we've mined here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Any MOX you can get your hands on will be much appreciated by us here. What we do with it is none of your business. And you aren't gonna mention who you sold it to if you ever get pinched. If ya do -- well, we have boys in Newgate, too. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #134282:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Molly fighter Vanguard was on a Gold run from Dublin to Trafalgar when it was intercepted by a Bretonia Armed Forces patrol in the Cumbria Asteroid Field. They gave chase and he fled into a known gas hazard area. Unfortunately, his luck ran out that day when he encountered a particularly dense pocket. The ship still lies there, awaiting anyone foolish enough to knowingly enter a volatile gas zone.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #134288:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonia Armed Forces Gunboat Storm was pursuing the culprits responsible for the Founders Day Revolt of 752 when it blundered into a large booby trap laid by the fleeing rebels within the future Molly Gold Field. The number 2 fusion reactor was breached, resulting in a huge explosion that vaporized the ship instantly. Several of its nearby escorts were caught in the shock wave and destroyed as well. To this day their debris lies somewhere in the mined area, which is officially off limits to Armed Forces salvage crews.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
->Rumor #134289:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Scargill was participating on a Gold poaching run into the GS&amp;M Gold Field several weeks ago when it was caught by the company security patrol. They pursued the fleeing ship into the minefield, where it blew up. There may still be looted Gold in the cargo hold; the GS&amp;M patrol left it in place as a warning to other Mollys.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
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====Battleship Essex (Dublin)====
->Rumor #132637:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I escort the BMM Gold shipments that leave the system and the supply shipments that return. My role is to protect the goods at all costs. We have two wings flying the escort missions: one to defend against attack and one to pursue the attackers after they are repulsed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132638:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The captain of this battleship does not underestimate the cunning and ability of the Mollys in this system. This is not true of the former captain of the battleship Hood, which is now a nest of criminals, vagrant miners, and other similar filth. The Hood was decommissioned after being badly damaged in a Molly trap. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Essex Bartender/Luke Greene
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132639:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The most embarrassing epoch in Bretonian military history was the time right after the Founders Day Revolt. The destroyers made the first mistake by following the Mollys into an asteroid field. Even worse was when the Hood made the same mistake and got too badly crippled to make it back home to New London. It was decommissioned and stripped of all weaponry, engines, supplies, and materials. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Essex Bartender/Luke Greene
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132640:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The separatists in this system are only part of the problem; the Corsairs also pose quite a threat to the Gold mined here. Aside from Corsairs and the Mollys, there are all kinds of criminals in this lawless system and that is why we run patrols by the Hood. All the criminals in this system get their supplies here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132642:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys are smart about their attacks. They attack in several different parts of the system simultaneously so we have to split our forces. The trouble comes from not knowing which attacks have the greatest number of ships. When they attack they do as much damage as they can, and then they split up and get out, making the chase very difficult. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
->Rumor #132643:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters Guild maintains a presence on this ship because we have been hired to assist the military in curbing pirate activity in this system. We go places that the military might not, and the tactics we employ might not necessarily be allowed by military code. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132644:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The dragnet that the military creates to stop pirated or illegally mined Gold from leaving the system is not as effective as they would have you believe, or else how would the Mollys continue to fund themselves? They are getting their Gold out of the system and into New London through a Jump Hole. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132645:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Whenever the Mollys make an attack, the corporations that pay my Paste ticket expect me to bring back some heads. I have to go searching for the Mollys in their own territory -- the asteroid fields. This is where the Mollys are most dangerous. Remember, they are miners, so they know the asteroids better than anyone else. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132646:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs are one of the fiercest criminal groups in Sirius space, rivaled only by the Red Hessians in Rheinland and the Outcasts of the Northern Edge Worlds. The Corsairs are usually found in the Southern Edge Worlds and Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132647:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Molly's natural environment is an asteroid field, so that is where you have to look for them. They use all the asteroid fields in this system for cover, except the GS&amp;M field. That's not to say they don't go into that field, too, but they aren't looking for cover there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132648:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Hole to New London is in the south side of the Independent Gold Field just to the north of this ship. That is also the main entry point for the Corsairs who come raiding for Gold. The Corsairs will attack corporate and separatist shipments alike; they don't care who they piss off. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132649:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The basic supplies that come to this base from New London are under constant attack from Mollys and other undesirables. I know this because I run the shipment every once in a while. This station also needs Side Arms and Pharmaceuticals shipped from New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Howard Haslar
->Rumor #132650:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters you see at this base are here because Bowex wants them here. The bottom line is that they help reduce the attacks on our shipping convoys, which means we lose less money to pirates. They are a scruffy lot and the truth is I don't like them very much, but I am glad they are here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Howard Haslar
->Rumor #132651:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Toxic Waste that this ship's engines produce is hauled off to LD-14 for disposal or reprocessing. It can be dangerous because Toxic Waste is often highly volatile, so a stray shot into your hold could blow your ship in half. Once you get to Leeds with the Toxic Waste, you can pick up MOX that is produced there and bring it back. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Howard Haslar
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====Battleship Hood (Dublin)====
->Rumor #132607:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Corsairs enter this system from the Jump Hole to New London. They are attracted by all the Gold that gets mined here, and they know it is the most lawless of all the Bretonian system -- the police don't even come into this system, it is just the military and us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Marion Godfrey
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Peter Morris
->Rumor #132608:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys are tough, but GS&amp;M pays big money for every one I kill. The Mollys have pretty much fought the Bretonian military to a standstill in this system, using guerrilla style hit-and-run tactics, so GS&amp;M hires us to kill 'em off one by one. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Marion Godfrey
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Peter Morris
->Rumor #132609:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a Jump Hole to New London in this system. That's how all the Molly Gold gets out of Dublin. It is located in the Independent Gold Field. That's where I lie in wait to ambush Molly Gold runners. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Marion Godfrey
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Peter Morris
->Rumor #132610:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs will fight anyone; they have no fear. I guess they don't have much reason to be too afraid of anyone. If you don't respect them, you are either stupid or dead. They attack all of the Gold transport routes out of the system. Indiscriminate, those Corsairs are. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Marion Godfrey
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Peter Morris
->Rumor #132611:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex has hired me to kill Corsairs in this system. Those trouble makers attack Bowex, IMG, and BMM in the open, and the Mollys near the Jump Hole. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Marion Godfrey
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Peter Morris
->Rumor #132612:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The mine field surrounding the Molly Gold field has dissuaded the military from sending any of its larger ships into the field. The smaller patrols are pretty hesitant to enter as well, but that doesn't stop me from going in. I kill Mollys for a living, so that's where I go. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Marion Godfrey
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Peter Morris
->Rumor #132613:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I don't even like stepping foot onto this base because the stench is overpowering. Next time I'm going to bring a breather mask. I run the Gold from this base to Liberty. Once I leave this system I have to cross the Independent Worlds, which is always a fight. The criminals always seem to know when I'm passing through, too. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Bill Richmond
->Rumor #132614:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>BMM is GS&amp;M's parent corporation, and they are putting on the pressure to keep the Gold shipments flowing from Graves. The Mollys are making it tough for BMM to pull a large profit here. The word is that The Crown is tired of stationing one of its expensive capitol ships in Dublin on a semi-permanent basis. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Bill Richmond
->Rumor #132615:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The last thing I want to do when I'm in this system is come up against a Corsair. They raid this system for the Gold they can swipe. I always start sweating as I'm approaching the Jump Gate out of here. If the Corsairs are gonna hit us, they will hit us there. We got jumped three runs ago. I made it out of the system with one escort, but I was too badly damaged to take the Gold to Liberty. I had to stop in New London for repairs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Bill Richmond
->Rumor #132616:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The one Commodity that we use too much to trade is Pharmaceuticals. Mining is dangerous work, and this base doesn't provide the finest of living conditions, if you catch my drift. You can always head to Kensington with a shipment of Gold and come back with Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
 * Independent Miners Guild/The Hood Bartender/Ryan Bourne
->Rumor #132617:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the supplies that keep this base running are shipped from Kensington. It's a pretty easy run for me, but no one really messes with us around here. If you want to earn some funds, you can always bring us basic supplies: Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel. We also need Mining Machinery and Consumer Goods brought in for work and play. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
->Rumor #132618:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The race track near this base has some of the best gambling you are going to find in Sirius. If you like playing the odds, you can bet on the pilots to see who will win. The odds are usually fifty-fifty, 'cuz usually one of 'em is gonna hit a chunk of rock while flying a rocket engine with a few thousand pounds of fuel aboard. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
->Rumor #132619:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The IMG miners make a living in this system selling supplies to the Mollys and mining the Gold in the Independent Gold Field to the east of here. The other two Gold fields belong to the Mollys and GS&amp;M, respectively. If you try to pull Gold from those fields, you are asking to get clipped. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
 * Independent Miners Guild/The Hood Bartender/Ryan Bourne
->Rumor #132620:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are lucky enough to provide the Mollys with their supplies in this system, so they don't really mess with us IMG. But a word of warning to you: Mollys have no problem with killing. All of them are killers and will not hesitate to bury you if you make yourself a nuisance to them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
 * Independent Miners Guild/The Hood Bartender/Ryan Bourne
->Rumor #132621:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship has so many decks and rooms that people can get lost. The worst of the scum in this system come here; some decide to make it their home. Stay on the safe side and don't wander too far from this area or the Engineering Deck. If you do have to walk through the dark corridors, keep your gun ready and be prepared to use it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
 * Independent Miners Guild/The Hood Bartender/Ryan Bourne
->Rumor #132622:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's Cardamine here at the base, if that's your pleasure, but if you want the best moonshine in all of Sirius, you should swing by the Engineering Deck. Make sure you get your liquor and get out of there, though. You never know when one of those stills are gonna explode. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
 * Independent Miners Guild/The Hood Bartender/Ryan Bourne
->Rumor #132623:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I still hope for the day that I hit that big pocket of Gold and strike it rich. I came here ten years ago from Newgate, but this is pretty much the end of the line for work in Bretonia. I didn't want to go back to the Newgate Hotel, so I decided to mine for Gold. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
->Rumor #132624:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Essex</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> was a Bretonian battleship that chased a squad of Molly guerillas into this field. The Mollys had laid a trap, and just as the ship entered the field, it got hit by a highly explosive mine. Mollys stole aboard, fought their way to the engine room, and set off a chain reaction in the engines, crippling the ship. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
->Rumor #132625:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We hold our own Gold field with mines and malice. Ya dont cross a Molly in Dublin or youll be wearing a pick axe for a hat and some fools gold in your pocket. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Kendall Lang
->Rumor #132626:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's my turn to pick up supplies from this base and deliver them to Arranmore. This week I'm picking up the basics plus Consumer Goods and Mining Machinery. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Kendall Lang
->Rumor #132627:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters at this base keep an eye poked in our direction, but they won't do anything while we are here. They wouldn't be able to come here any more if they crossed IMG by attacking a Molly at this base. I don't mind 'em here, but if they cross me out in the fields, I'll put an end to 'em. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Kendall Lang
->Rumor #134282:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Molly fighter Vanguard was on a Gold run from Dublin to Trafalgar when it was intercepted by a Bretonia Armed Forces patrol in the Cumbria Asteroid Field. They gave chase and he fled into a known gas hazard area. Unfortunately, his luck ran out that day when he encountered a particularly dense pocket. The ship still lies there, awaiting anyone foolish enough to knowingly enter a volatile gas zone.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/Miner Bernard Riley
->Rumor #134288:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonia Armed Forces Gunboat Storm was pursuing the culprits responsible for the Founders Day Revolt of 752 when it blundered into a large booby trap laid by the fleeing rebels within the future Molly Gold Field. The number 2 fusion reactor was breached, resulting in a huge explosion that vaporized the ship instantly. Several of its nearby escorts were caught in the shock wave and destroyed as well. To this day their debris lies somewhere in the mined area, which is officially off limits to Armed Forces salvage crews.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Will Mason
->Rumor #134289:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Scargill was participating on a Gold poaching run into the GS&amp;M Gold Field several weeks ago when it was caught by the company security patrol. They pursued the fleeing ship into the minefield, where it blew up. There may still be looted Gold in the cargo hold; the GS&amp;M patrol left it in place as a warning to other Mollys.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Robert Hepton
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====Graves Station (Dublin)====
->Rumor #132628:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sir Edmund Graves used to run this station. He was known as a tyrant who didn't mind risking his miners' lives to boost Gold shipments to New London. Until the Founders Day Revolt, that was fine with BMM, GS&amp;M's parent corporation. That was the day that the Mollys were officially formed. It was also the day that old man Graves got his head taken off, courtesy of the Mollys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
->Rumor #132629:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sir Edmund's daughter runs this station now, and she does so pretty well. Most everybody thinks she's as mean as her old man, but she's smarter than he was. She realizes it is his fault that the Mollys exist, so she gives the miners just enough to keep them from quitting or joining the Mollys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
->Rumor #132630:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonian military supports this station to the best of its ability, but the Mollys are fighting very effectively. The military escorts for Gold shipments leaving this station are not enough. The Mollys will attack several locations simultaneously in small groups. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
->Rumor #132631:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I fly one of the Gold transports from this base into New London. It is dangerous as hell to do what I do, even with the military escorts. Mollys are always attacking our shipments, and if it isn't the Mollys, it's the Corsairs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
->Rumor #132632:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base gets all of its basic supplies and Mining Machinery from Thames in New London. It's not as dangerous of a run as the Gold run into New London, but it is still pretty bad. The Mollys will attack us to disrupt operations at our base. If you want to make the run, you might attract less attention. Then again, maybe not. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Grave's Bartender/Abraham Botteler
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
->Rumor #132633:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>With the military's help BMM controls the most lucrative Gold field in the system. It still isn't safe. The Mollys have no fear and fight as viciously as anyone possibly can, maybe with the exception of the Corsairs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Grave's Bartender/Abraham Botteler
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
->Rumor #132636:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Molly guerilla warfare tactics are too tenacious for the military. Though they haven't had any significant victories, the Mollys are still here and make themselves quite the thorn in BMM's side. They are financed by the Gold they mine from their own asteroid field, which is surrounded by a very dangerous minefield. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Jackson Newth
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Zachary Wynne
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Grave's Bartender/Abraham Botteler
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Quentin Travers
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====Duisburg Base (Duesseldorf)====
->Rumor #131460:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic Alloys produced here are shipped to Houston, and supplies are transported on the return trips. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131461:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We smuggle Diamonds from the Junker base in Berlin to the Rogue base Dawson in the Hudson system. This is our main source of income to carry on our war against Republican Shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131462:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The union that formed after the Alster Tragedy of 512 gained well-deserved benefits for the shipwrights and welders who built the transports that shipped goods throughout Sirius. In the decades that followed, the union grew stronger. When the 80-Years War broke out, we were sitting pretty on a mountain of government subsidies and contracts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131463:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run shipments from the Junker base in New Berlin; they supply us with superior Rheinland Side Arms and Kusari H-Fuel. Not an easy run through Hamburg, but decent profit. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131464:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster Shipyards are home to the Unioner movement. In 412 AS it was established by Imperial Shipping to supply the Rheinland Empire with transport freighters, lifters, and repair ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131465:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When the 80-Years War came to an end the Union joined the Popular Revolt to overthrow the Imperial government. There were no more government contracts, and unemployment skyrocketed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131466:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 512 AS an explosion in the Alster Shipyards killed hundreds of workers. They formed a union and walked out on the Imperial Shipping executives. It was then that Imperial Shipping realized how valuable its workers were. Production ground to a stop, and they started losing millions of credits for each day production was halted. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131467:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our old boss Imperial Shipping became Republican Shipping after the Popular Revolt. It was a dark time for the common laborer, and within months we lost all the rights we had been working to create for the past several decades. Republican Shipping really stuck it to the worker, using the weak economic situation to strong-arm the faltering union. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131468:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners are a political organization fighting like many others throughout Sirius for the fair treatment of the working classes. We cannot allow the type of exploitation that is common practice of the corporations </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131469:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>With our old union destroyed after the Popular Revolt, we reformed and called ourselves the Unioners. We were formed to make Republican Shipping pay for the wrongs it had committed against its workers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131470:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use this as our primary base to attack Republican Shipping in Hamburg via the Jump Hole just south of this base. The asteroid fields in the northern part of that system provide good cover. We also attack them on the Trade Lanes that pass through this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
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====Speyer Base (Duesseldorf)====
->Rumor #131460:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic Alloys produced here are shipped to Houston, and supplies are transported on the return trips. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131461:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We smuggle Diamonds from the Junker base in Berlin to the Rogue base Dawson in the Hudson system. This is our main source of income to carry on our war against Republican Shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131462:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The union that formed after the Alster Tragedy of 512 gained well-deserved benefits for the shipwrights and welders who built the transports that shipped goods throughout Sirius. In the decades that followed, the union grew stronger. When the 80-Years War broke out, we were sitting pretty on a mountain of government subsidies and contracts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131463:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run shipments from the Junker base in New Berlin; they supply us with superior Rheinland Side Arms and Kusari H-Fuel. Not an easy run through Hamburg, but decent profit. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131464:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster Shipyards are home to the Unioner movement. In 412 AS it was established by Imperial Shipping to supply the Rheinland Empire with transport freighters, lifters, and repair ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131465:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When the 80-Years War came to an end the Union joined the Popular Revolt to overthrow the Imperial government. There were no more government contracts, and unemployment skyrocketed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131466:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 512 AS an explosion in the Alster Shipyards killed hundreds of workers. They formed a union and walked out on the Imperial Shipping executives. It was then that Imperial Shipping realized how valuable its workers were. Production ground to a stop, and they started losing millions of credits for each day production was halted. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131467:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our old boss Imperial Shipping became Republican Shipping after the Popular Revolt. It was a dark time for the common laborer, and within months we lost all the rights we had been working to create for the past several decades. Republican Shipping really stuck it to the worker, using the weak economic situation to strong-arm the faltering union. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131468:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners are a political organization fighting like many others throughout Sirius for the fair treatment of the working classes. We cannot allow the type of exploitation that is common practice of the corporations </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131469:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>With our old union destroyed after the Popular Revolt, we reformed and called ourselves the Unioners. We were formed to make Republican Shipping pay for the wrongs it had committed against its workers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131470:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use this as our primary base to attack Republican Shipping in Hamburg via the Jump Hole just south of this base. The asteroid fields in the northern part of that system provide good cover. We also attack them on the Trade Lanes that pass through this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
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====Battleship Stirling (Dundee)====
->Rumor #132637:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I escort the BMM Gold shipments that leave the system and the supply shipments that return. My role is to protect the goods at all costs. We have two wings flying the escort missions: one to defend against attack and one to pursue the attackers after they are repulsed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132638:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The captain of this battleship does not underestimate the cunning and ability of the Mollys in this system. This is not true of the former captain of the battleship Hood, which is now a nest of criminals, vagrant miners, and other similar filth. The Hood was decommissioned after being badly damaged in a Molly trap. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Essex Bartender/Luke Greene
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132639:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The most embarrassing epoch in Bretonian military history was the time right after the Founders Day Revolt. The destroyers made the first mistake by following the Mollys into an asteroid field. Even worse was when the Hood made the same mistake and got too badly crippled to make it back home to New London. It was decommissioned and stripped of all weaponry, engines, supplies, and materials. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Essex Bartender/Luke Greene
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132640:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The separatists in this system are only part of the problem; the Corsairs also pose quite a threat to the Gold mined here. Aside from Corsairs and the Mollys, there are all kinds of criminals in this lawless system and that is why we run patrols by the Hood. All the criminals in this system get their supplies here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Michael Weatherly
->Rumor #132642:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys are smart about their attacks. They attack in several different parts of the system simultaneously so we have to split our forces. The trouble comes from not knowing which attacks have the greatest number of ships. When they attack they do as much damage as they can, and then they split up and get out, making the chase very difficult. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Joyce Troughton
->Rumor #132643:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters Guild maintains a presence on this ship because we have been hired to assist the military in curbing pirate activity in this system. We go places that the military might not, and the tactics we employ might not necessarily be allowed by military code. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132644:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The dragnet that the military creates to stop pirated or illegally mined Gold from leaving the system is not as effective as they would have you believe, or else how would the Mollys continue to fund themselves? They are getting their Gold out of the system and into New London through a Jump Hole. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132645:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Whenever the Mollys make an attack, the corporations that pay my Paste ticket expect me to bring back some heads. I have to go searching for the Mollys in their own territory -- the asteroid fields. This is where the Mollys are most dangerous. Remember, they are miners, so they know the asteroids better than anyone else. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132646:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs are one of the fiercest criminal groups in Sirius space, rivaled only by the Red Hessians in Rheinland and the Outcasts of the Northern Edge Worlds. The Corsairs are usually found in the Southern Edge Worlds and Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132647:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Molly's natural environment is an asteroid field, so that is where you have to look for them. They use all the asteroid fields in this system for cover, except the GS&amp;M field. That's not to say they don't go into that field, too, but they aren't looking for cover there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132648:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Hole to New London is in the south side of the Independent Gold Field just to the north of this ship. That is also the main entry point for the Corsairs who come raiding for Gold. The Corsairs will attack corporate and separatist shipments alike; they don't care who they piss off. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Sally Ronane
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Kirk Mandre
->Rumor #132649:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The basic supplies that come to this base from New London are under constant attack from Mollys and other undesirables. I know this because I run the shipment every once in a while. This station also needs Side Arms and Pharmaceuticals shipped from New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Howard Haslar
->Rumor #132650:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters you see at this base are here because Bowex wants them here. The bottom line is that they help reduce the attacks on our shipping convoys, which means we lose less money to pirates. They are a scruffy lot and the truth is I don't like them very much, but I am glad they are here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Howard Haslar
->Rumor #132651:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Toxic Waste that this ship's engines produce is hauled off to LD-14 for disposal or reprocessing. It can be dangerous because Toxic Waste is often highly volatile, so a stray shot into your hold could blow your ship in half. Once you get to Leeds with the Toxic Waste, you can pick up MOX that is produced there and bring it back. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Howard Haslar
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====Dunblane Station (Dundee)====
->Rumor #133119:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This station is supplied entirely by Bowex. We deliver Side Arms and Food here from Sheffield. It's not far, but the last delivery almost got destroyed by some marauding Gaians. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Timothy Cruise
->Rumor #133120:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Birmingham provides this base with H-Fuel, Oxygen, and Water. The run is an easy one overall, though you can run into occasional trouble with Mollys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Timothy Cruise
->Rumor #133121:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The demand for H-Fuel here is pretty high since patrols are constantly taking off from this base. Some H-Fuel deliveries come from Cambridge. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Rep. Timothy Cruise
->Rumor #133122:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This station was constructed to protect the convoys traveling through the system from the Border Worlds. The Jump Gate just beyond this station leads to Cortez, which is dangerous space for anyone. Luckily, Cortez is outside of our jurisdiction. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133123:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our patrol areas focus on the Sheffield North Ice Field and the Birmingham Ice Field. In any one of those areas you will encounter several criminal groups that populate this system, including Mollys, Gaians, Lane Hackers, and Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133124:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We here at Kingston have an ongoing rivalry with Liverpool. Both stations' police are constantly trying to outdo each other by bringing in more arrests, killing more uncapturables, and so on. The competition is really healthy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133125:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The two rookies that we got in here a couple of weeks ago both got killed on their first patrol. The veteran who was with them barely made it back himself. Those vicious Outcasts simply have no mercy. We'll be getting in two more rookies in the next few days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133126:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gaians frequently attack the Trade Lanes near our base. They are always trying to take down Planetform shipments and steal supplies. Although they are pretty easy kills, there are plenty of them here. The Bounty Hunters get more money for Mollys, so it's more of a police issue. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133127:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gaians are getting too smart for their own good. We've heard reports that they are towing ice asteroids from Birmingham into the Trade Lanes. If this is true, then the Gaians just bit off more than they can chew. One thing the Crown will not stand is the blocking of Trade Lanes, and more companies are going to start increasing bounties. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133128:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I wish I knew how the Outcasts and Lane Hackers are getting into this system. They don't come through the Jump Gates, that's for certain, unless it's some kind of crazy Lane Hacker technology we don't know about. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133129:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I worked hard all my life to save up the money to put my boy through college so he can be more than I ever had the chance to be. And what happens? The worthless idiot gets caught up in the Gaian movement in Cambridge. When he told me, I pulled him right out of school and sent him to work with a cousin of mine in New London. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Kingston Bartender/RBT-88
->Rumor #133130:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever hear of Willy "The Snake" Logan, the famous escape artist people say cracked himself out of Newgate? It ain't true -- he didn't make it, he got out of Newgate, but was picked up by the Mollys. They buried a pick axe in his chest for some wrongs he did to their people on the inside. That's what one of the Mollys I captured told me, anyway. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Sherri Gellar
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Harry Ford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Helen Gramm
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====Tayport Base (Dundee)====
->Rumor #132652:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Why dya think the police dont come into the system? Well skin em is why. They dont have the stomach for the type of fightin that goes on here. Ever since we were founded its been us against the military, and we aint exactly losin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132653:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys were established right after the Founders Day Revolt. All we were trying to do was let the government know how bad we were being treated by BMM. The government didnt care. We werent worth anything in their eyes, just like the BMM executives. We knew that Bretonia wasn't our home, and if we ever wanted to have a home we would have to carve it from Bretonian space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132654:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You can process tiny amounts of weapons-grade Plutonium from MOX. We steal the MOX as it gets shipped from BMMs LD-14 base in Leeds. Soon well have enough MOX to detonate a bomb in the skies over New London. Maybe then theyll leave Dublin to us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132655:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys hate BMM. They were the ones who worked us to the bone. The life expectancy for a miner before the revolt was less than six years. If youre gonna have a life expectancy for a job, you might as well be a soldier. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132656:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Well, we lobbed old man Graves's head off in the Founders Day Revolt, but now his daughter runs GS&amp;M. She is just as bad as he ever was, but she is more dangerous because she is smarter. One day I will see her dead. Our attacks at their base are getting closer and closer to blowing the whole station. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132657:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our lads got captured last week by Bretonian military in Leeds during a MOX raid. Hes one of our best -- Roger Patiences his name. Hes on a prison convoy on its way to Newgate Prison. Were gonna crack him out in Manchester as the ships break from the Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #132658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hood supplies us with our basic Commodities. We also get Mining Machinery and Consumer Goods from the folks at that filth-infested base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We send our people through the Jump Hole to New London to deal with the Junkers at Trafalgar to get the basic supplies that keep Arranmore running. They bring back Side Arms and Engine Components from Trafalgar. Junkers are always willing to trade those goods for the Gold that we've mined here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #132660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Any MOX you can get your hands on will be much appreciated by us here. What we do with it is none of your business. And you aren't gonna mention who you sold it to if you ever get pinched. If ya do -- well, we have boys in Newgate, too. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
 * Mollys/Arranmore Bartender/Daniel Longton
->Rumor #134282:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Molly fighter Vanguard was on a Gold run from Dublin to Trafalgar when it was intercepted by a Bretonia Armed Forces patrol in the Cumbria Asteroid Field. They gave chase and he fled into a known gas hazard area. Unfortunately, his luck ran out that day when he encountered a particularly dense pocket. The ship still lies there, awaiting anyone foolish enough to knowingly enter a volatile gas zone.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Geoffrey Bishop
->Rumor #134288:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonia Armed Forces Gunboat Storm was pursuing the culprits responsible for the Founders Day Revolt of 752 when it blundered into a large booby trap laid by the fleeing rebels within the future Molly Gold Field. The number 2 fusion reactor was breached, resulting in a huge explosion that vaporized the ship instantly. Several of its nearby escorts were caught in the shock wave and destroyed as well. To this day their debris lies somewhere in the mined area, which is officially off limits to Armed Forces salvage crews.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Devon Black
->Rumor #134289:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Scargill was participating on a Gold poaching run into the GS&amp;M Gold Field several weeks ago when it was caught by the company security patrol. They pursued the fleeing ship into the minefield, where it blew up. There may still be looted Gold in the cargo hold; the GS&amp;M patrol left it in place as a warning to other Mollys.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ Eric Adamson
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====Aberdeen Border Station (Edinburgh)====
->Rumor #132492:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>London doesn't give us much for a Gaian bounty. Outcasts, on the other hand -- they'll keep you in business. This is their main access route to the inner systems of Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Lucas Moriarty
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Neve Stepheson
->Rumor #132493:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Hole in the Islay Cloud is a pretty rough place to hang out. If you're quick, you can catch a few Outcasts unaware, before they have a chance to respond. On the other hand, the Gaians will really swarm you since it's so close to their base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Lucas Moriarty
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Neve Stepheson
->Rumor #132494:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those Gaians are a stubborn lot. I had me one on his knees -- a flaming wreck, weapons gone. He tried to ram me, so I had to finish him off. I guess he knew what was waiting for him in Newgate. All those working-class blokes in there fancy a little upper-crust Cambridge companionship on occasion. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Lucas Moriarty
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Neve Stepheson
->Rumor #132495:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do a daily run down to the Skye Field. The Gaians like to hang out there, waiting for Planetform to stick their heads out. If we haven't been chasing the Gaians hard enough. Planetform sometimes gives us better bounties as a temporary incentive. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Lucas Moriarty
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Neve Stepheson
->Rumor #132496:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The reason that Edinburgh is so important? There's no Jump Hole from Tau-31 to Leeds. Outcasts and Gaians have to come through here to get to the Border Worlds. There's lots of cover in the clouds here. The only point of vulnerability is the crossing north of the cruise ship. You just sit there, and eventually an Outcast is bound to turn up. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Lucas Moriarty
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Neve Stepheson
->Rumor #132497:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild has members in almost every system of Sirius. Once you get off the Trade Lanes, we're it as far as law and order goes, though some types might take offense to that. They would say that we're the problem. Don't matter to me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Lucas Moriarty
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Neve Stepheson
->Rumor #132498:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've just dropped off our monthly supply shipment for this base. We bring it in from Leeds, Side Arms and all. I'm not in a hurry to get back to Leeds, because I've got a respiratory problem that always acts up when I land there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Matthew Frost
->Rumor #132499:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a beautiful place. I'll have to come back sometime to visit the Shetland. I'm glad that Bowex doesn't have to supply the other bases, though. Security gets to be a much bigger issue once you leave the safety of Aberdeen and the Gate area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Matthew Frost
->Rumor #132500:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Had a rough run through the West Leeds Smog Cloud on my last return trip. Some Outcasts mistook me for something juicy, like a VIP ship. They never should have let that cloud get so out of hand. That's our efficient government for you -- always on top of it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Matthew Frost
->Rumor #132501:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Aberdeen serves as the guardian for the rest of Bretonian space in this sector. Before the establishment of this post, the Outcasts and the Gaian eco-terrorists had free reign in this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Aberdeen Bartender/Mathais Hatcliff
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132502:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I think it's a bloody waste of taxpayer money having us up here. This really shouldn't be under the Authority's jurisdiction. My guess is that some private contributions were made by Planetform to certain Bretonian government officials. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Aberdeen Bartender/Mathais Hatcliff
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132503:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Cambridge researchers on Gaia have made quite a stink about us all being here in Edinburgh. They think it'll lead to the deterioration of the environment and mass extinctions. I don't think I'd go that far. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132504:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The positioning of Aberdeen is quite strategic. We can protect the Gate and sit astride the Gaian attack parties bound for the Sky Ice Field. The Islay Cloud is also in close proximity, enabling easy monitoring of Gaian movements along the Shetland access route. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Aberdeen Bartender/Mathais Hatcliff
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132505:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We aren't really here to control the Gaians. That's just the public version that the government spewed out. Our primary mission, as far as London is concerned, is Outcast monitoring and suppression. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Aberdeen Bartender/Mathais Hatcliff
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132506:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get conflicting reports from London on how to handle the Gaians. One week it's "Vaporize them all on sight"; next week it's "Leave them be if they aren't causing problems." </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132507:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We send out two daily patrols: one to Perth, and one to Shetland. These keep the Gaians in check most of the time. If the Outcasts show up, we can only hope that the Bounty Hunters are close by. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Aberdeen Bartender/Mathais Hatcliff
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132508:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Since we established Aberdeen, those rich folks on the Shetland have had to clean up their act. No more Cardamine coming through this Gate. I hear it's not quite the party it once was. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Aberdeen Bartender/Mathais Hatcliff
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
->Rumor #132509:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're pretty certain the Gaian base is in the Islay Cloud. It's hard to find it in there though; those ice asteroids look all the same after a while. If you're unlucky, you could stumble into an Outcast doing some smuggling. My former wing man did that last year -- may he rest in peace. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Dolly Jackson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Nathanial Crawford
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Owen Williams
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====Islay Base (Edinburgh)====
->Rumor #132510:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The austere majesty of Gaia is cheapened by the swarms of tourists that set foot upon the planet. Orbital Spa and Cruise, though it may feign to preserve the abundance of its locales, cares for nothing more than its next credit. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132511:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Aberdeen Police Station and the in-system Bounty Hunters are the only things that stop us from completely destroying Planetforms operations in this system. Maybe the Green Front will be able to garner enough public support for us on New London so that we dont have to contend with the police anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132512:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have information indicating that the centuries-long terraforming operations run by Planetform will never succeed. A top secret government report obtained by the Green Front asserts that the planets will lose their nascent atmospheres within several hundred years of completion of the process due to uncontrolled outgassing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
->Rumor #132513:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Tau-31 is an important sector for the Gaians. Though terraforming operations on Harris are almost complete, they still need Alien Organisms from the Edge Nebula. The Organisms are crucial in speeding up the terraforming process, thereby making it more economically viable. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132514:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The terraforming gases produced at the Stokes plant in Leeds are a high-priority target for Gaian attack. It is a dangerous run because of our inability to hide for some stretches of travel through Leeds. Usually, only our best pilots make that trip. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132515:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our hope is that one day the corrupt leadership of BMM and Planetform will be exposed for the greedy, shortsighted people they are. They have squandered our national heritage and future after eight hundred years of unregulated industrialization. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
->Rumor #132516:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in all of our supplies, other than our locally available Oxygen and Water, from Trafalgar. It is most ironic that the only place we can land is the despised Junker base -- guardians of filth, corruption, and the criminal element. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132517:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Leeds is our greatest example of the ruin that mankind can wreck upon nature -- the sheer destructiveness of pure exploitation. It is also the home of the Stokes Smelter, where Terraforming Gases are produced. Fortunately, the system can be used as an access route to all of Bretonian travel because of all the smog clouds. It's ironic how we escape in the filth we are trying so hard to eradicate. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #134286:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The San Vicente was making a Cardamine run from Cali to New London when it was ambushed by an Armed Forces patrol in the West Leeds Smog Cloud. The cargo was recovered by the military, but it is possible that one of the larger pieces of debris still has some equipment attached.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
->Rumor #134287:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcast ship Lorenzo was making a Cardamine run from Cali to Mactan when it was caught by a military patrol in the LD-14 Asteroid Field. It turned further into the heart of the field to escape its pursuers and stumbled into an old radioactive pocket. The crew is presumed dead, but the ship is probably still intact. No one has retrieved the cargo yet due to the high radiation danger in the area.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
->Rumor #134306:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Gaian attack was broken up the other day by the Bretonia Armed Forces north of Harris. Most of the Gaians were vaporized on the spot, but the Valiant, flown by Lucy Collins, escaped to the northwestern end of the system, in Outcast territory. No one has heard from her since. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
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====Luxury Liner Shetland (Edinburgh)====
->Rumor #132463:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I like visiting this place. Normally I look out my office window in Leeds and can't see anything green through all of the sulfurous clouds. My company's executive office wants to exploit Gaia much as they did with Leeds, with little or no government foresight. I'm not sure that's such a good idea at this point, given our track record. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Franklin Beeching
->Rumor #132464:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm going on an unofficial hunting expedition tomorrow. I met a Bounty Hunter who says he can find me a blue ground sloth. That would be an interesting addition to the collection of heads in my study. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Franklin Beeching
->Rumor #132465:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've seen company documents that described negligible amounts of Cobalt on Gaia. It was a ploy for the government to let us in and begin full-scale strip mining of Aluminum and Titanium, the Basic Alloy metals that we have almost exhausted in Stokes. So, the Gaians and Cambridge researchers were not unfounded in their accusations. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Franklin Beeching
->Rumor #132466:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to rack up the bounties, just hang out by the Leeds Jump Hole in the Islay Cloud. You'll have company, since it's the main supply and smuggling route into the rest of Bretonia for the Outcasts and Gaians. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Claire Atkyns
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gregory Lewis
->Rumor #132467:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those Gaians don't really seem to be a bad lot -- maybe a little up in the clouds, if you know what I mean. They haven't had to deal with makin' a living, like us working-class folks. Orbital has brought us here to bring in a few scalps, and that's what I'll do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Claire Atkyns
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gregory Lewis
->Rumor #132468:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just arrived yesterday. We had a bit of a scare with some Gaians along the Islay Cloud stretch, but the Police Authority soon gave chase. I'm headed down to Gaia this afternoon. We've been promised by the guide that we'll see plenty of grass antelope and white buffalo, and maybe a giant tusked tiger if we're lucky. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harrison Cawdron
->Rumor #132469:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex does not officially take a stand on Gaia or terraforming in general. I personally feel that it has been a tremendous waste of government money that could've been better spent in a clean-up of Leeds, or in subsidizing new technology research to make Bretonia more competitive with the other Houses. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harrison Cawdron
->Rumor #132470:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Back in New London, more than a few people are starting to question the official media's version of the Gaians. Instead of engaging in general piracy, the Gaians focus their efforts on Gaia and terraforming-related activities in Bretonia. I must admit, it is a unique planet that represents something that we have lost in Bretonia. It's worth protecting from Cobalt mining, or whatever BMM wanted to do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Harrison Cawdron
->Rumor #132471:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The commander of the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>York</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> selects the best squadron once a year and sends us all here. I'd never tasted Luxury Food before, until coming to the Shetland. I don't really care about visiting Gaia, though. I grew up on the Birmingham Mining Station. I never really knew planetside life. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Dorothy Ackland
->Rumor #132472:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've been doing a lot of patrols in the LD-14 area, looking mostly for Mollys. We keep running into Gaians and Outcasts, which has been a real puzzler. Enough of work talk. I need one of those Gaian Shooters everyone's doing over there at the bar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Dorothy Ackland
->Rumor #132473:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm heading out with a Bounty Hunter today on an Arran Cloud flight. Guess I need some action, even when I'm on leave. He said I could handle the guns if anyone shows up. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Dorothy Ackland
->Rumor #132474:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>As part of our security arrangement with Orbital, one Aberdeen Police Authority employee is allowed a free stay at the Shetland every month. We're more likely to respond quickly to Orbital distress calls, if you know what I mean. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Ivan Quayle
->Rumor #132475:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're supposed to keep an eye out for Cardamine use on the Shetland when we're here on holiday. This ship seems pretty clean, though. It's a little too difficult for the dealers to smuggle past our border station. I've heard there's some Gaian plant that produces an even better effect than Cardamine. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Ivan Quayle
->Rumor #132476:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All these rich people from the big planets make me kind of self-conscience. They spend more on clothes and jewelry in a couple of days here than I earn in a year. I'll just hang out at the buffet and feast, I guess. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Ivan Quayle
->Rumor #132477:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm taking a breather from the rigors of life in the confines of the Cambridge Research Station. I plan to spend my entire trip lying on the equatorial beaches of Gaia. The binary stars of this system produce some spectacular light shows during the sunrises and sunsets -- simply amazing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Jared Goorney
->Rumor #132478:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The researchers down on Gaia don't even want us tourists there. They say we introduce alien viruses and diseases to the indigenous animal population. It's been an ongoing dispute between Cambridge University and Orbital Spa. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Jared Goorney
->Rumor #132479:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're doing all sorts of crazy research back in Cambridge. They keep bringing in those Alien Organisms, and you have to be very careful with them. Management is hoping to find one that can help us unlock the mysteries of Cardamine, but I'm not sure why they want to do that. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Cryer Pharmaceuticals/ Jared Goorney
->Rumor #132480:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say that Gaia is what our long-lost Earth was like about 200 million years ago -- sort of like real-life time travel. There's nothing else like it in the Sirius Sector. The Kusari love it here. Don't know why they need those Bounty Hunters here, too. They're a bunch of crass working-class thugs. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Kenneth Enfield
->Rumor #132481:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's stressful at Gateway. Bowex lobbyists have a lock on the Bretonian government and its contracts. They've made it hard for us to expand much in Bretonia. We're hoping that the ALG and IMG partnerships will eventually allow us to control the Border World shipping business beyond the reach of Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Kenneth Enfield
->Rumor #132482:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gateway doesn't handle any Edinburgh traffic -- this is Planetform territory. I don't know why they're starting this new project. They haven't even finished Harris or California Minor yet. They should just leave this place alone. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Kenneth Enfield
->Rumor #132486:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are outraged that the government, at the urging of the researchers on Gaia, has refused our Oxygen and Water supply ships to land. This necessitates a trip to the Planetform operation at Perth, with all of the inherent risks of Gaian attack. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Shetland Bartender/Jerome Glennon
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Nicole Phillips
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Samantha Paterson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Denise Thomas
->Rumor #132487:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The best money you can make on supply duty is hauling Luxury Goods and Luxury Foods from New London. These goods are more enticing to the Outcasts, so there is considerably more risk involved. Be especially careful in the West Leeds Smog Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Shetland Bartender/Jerome Glennon
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Nicole Phillips
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Samantha Paterson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Denise Thomas
->Rumor #132488:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Most of our basic supplies like Consumer Goods, Food, and Pharmaceuticals come from New London or Leeds. It can be a worthwhile run for a freelance shipper, but watch out for the Gaians. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Shetland Bartender/Jerome Glennon
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Nicole Phillips
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Samantha Paterson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Denise Thomas
->Rumor #132489:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of our ships run Luxury Goods all the way from the source in Manhattan to our location. It's one the most lucrative legal cargo runs in Sirius, but it goes without saying that there are a number of hurdles to cross. The Barrier is probably the most difficult. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Shetland Bartender/Jerome Glennon
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Nicole Phillips
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Samantha Paterson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Denise Thomas
->Rumor #132490:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Business has been very good on the Shetland. The Bretonian populace enjoys visiting an unspoiled paradise like Gaia. Unfortunately, tourists' impressions of Gaia have served to increase public sympathy for the Gaian movement, making it more difficult to obtain government funds for eradicating the terrorists. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise/Shetland Bartender/Jerome Glennon
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Nicole Phillips
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Samantha Paterson
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Concierge Denise Thomas
->Rumor #132573:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've extended our patrols into Omega-3 per the conditions of the Omega Trade Lane Pact with Rheinland. Problem is, they aren't holding up their end in Omega-7. The excuse is not enough money. We're itching to go in there, but London won't allow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Claire Atkyns
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gregory Lewis
->Rumor #132574:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cambridge used to be such a peaceful place, and then the Corsairs showed up. They've built that Cambridge Line to assure all those university types in Cambridge that everything is under control. Fact is the Line's useless. The weapon platforms are too far apart, and the Corsairs just go around the ends of the Line. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Claire Atkyns
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gregory Lewis
->Rumor #132661:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love this place -- nice scenery, gambling to your heart's content, Food like I've never tasted before. They let you eat all you want -- go figure. This is nothing like my days growing up in Leeds. Joining the Guild was definitely a good thing for me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Claire Atkyns
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gregory Lewis
->Rumor #132662:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just made a run into the Arran Ice Cloud. That's Outcast country out there. They make their Cardamine runs into Bretonia through a Jump Hole somewhere in there. They don't mess around, so you'd better be prepared. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Claire Atkyns
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gregory Lewis
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====Perth Station (Edinburgh)====
->Rumor #132518:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have to ship in a lot of supplies for a Phase I operation. Phase I means there is no breathable atmosphere planetside yet. All procedures like ice asteroid bombardment are done from orbit. Gotta wear a suit to go down on the surface and do Organism placements. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./Perth Bartender/RBT-09
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132519:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just came back from Stokes with a load of PFCs. They'll dump it into the upper atmosphere of Ayr starting next week. That's the preferred Stage I Terraforming Gas. It's nine thousand times more potent than CO2 as far as GWP potential -- gets a planet warmed up real quick. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132520:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our Construction and Mining Machinery comes from Leeds. It's a pretty rough run through the smog clouds. If the Gaians don't get you there, they'll try again right up the road off the Skye Field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./Perth Bartender/RBT-09
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132521:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship the Alien Organisms from Glasgow at the northern edge of Leeds. Surface crews are sent down to survey for the correct geological and physical surface conditions. Then they scatter the Organisms with modified planet dusters and let them go to work eating the rock. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./Perth Bartender/RBT-09
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132522:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Company headquarters in Canterbury supplies us with Food and crew replacements. Every few weeks they send up one of their office staff to take a look. We put on a good show and then go back to work. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132523:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've dramatically improved the process since we started on Harris 400 years ago. We expect Ayr to take only a hundred years, from start to finish. That's if the Gaians will let us -- pain in the arse, they are. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform Inc./Perth Bartender/RBT-09
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132587:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just over here picking up some Oxygen and Ice for the Shetland. It's easier than going into Leeds for the same of slightly more dubious quality. The only drawback is the potential of a Gaian attack. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Janet Stirling
->Rumor #132588:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Can't say I really like these Planetform folks and what their operation could mean for our tourist business if they continue. The Gaians would certainly hassle us more if they left, so the operation diverts a lot of Gaian energy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Janet Stirling
->Rumor #132589:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm due to be transferred to the Hawaii in Sigma-19 next month. They rotate all Orbital Spa personnel every two years. That way we get to see all the different areas of the Sirius Sector -- a nice fringe benefit of working for Orbital. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Orbital Spa and Cruise Lines/Attendant Janet Stirling
->Rumor #132590:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just between you and me, the real reason we've started Ayr is that the government contracts pay the bulk of the milestone payments for an entire process during Phase I. Harris is so far behind schedule that it's on company costs now. A lot of our money is being siphoned off to Tau-31. Once it's complete, we'll probably bail out on Edinburgh and the Gaians. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132591:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Planetform doesn't actually mind the Gaians as much as you would think. Truth is, they're a good excuse when it comes to cost overruns and other delays. Blame it on the Gaians, that's what we do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
->Rumor #132592:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The ice mining we do is part of Phase I terraforming. We look for a large ice asteroid field nearby with appreciable amounts of frozen methane, C02, water, and ammonia. We set off explosives in strategic positions on asteroids, which set them into a collision course with the planet. There's an art to it -- maximum asteroid size for minimum energy expenditure. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Hal Cruttenden
 * Planetform, Inc./ Samuel Bradshaw
 * Planetform, Inc./Section Chief Theodore Shaw
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====Alert Station (Ellesmere)====
->Rumor #462757:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Alert station is also used as traffic control base. Patrols and operations are monitored from here most of the time. Additional fighter wings are always on standby in case of an attack from enemies, although normally it's only really the Order or the Nomads that present a threat out here. Some people say that's enemies enough, but I reckon we're fairly safe here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Josh Chadwick
->Rumor #462758:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You should see the last test they made us do. They put you near a nomad, and ask you to resist as long as possible to its thoughts. You must not bend to its wishes. Most of us simply lose consciousness after a while. However, not long ago, one of the recruits had his mind so completely dominated by the Nomad that he was going to free it. Those scientists and instructors are really playing with fire. I personally think we should just kill every last one of the damn aliens.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Irving Taylor
->Rumor #462759:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Training here is very intensive: they push us to our limits, ask us to do near suicidal things. Last week, one of the recruit got wounded during a training test. He was so close to dying it wasn't even funny. How is that supposed to help us, if we get killed? They seem to have a blatant disregard for even the most basic of safety protocols here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Andrea Reyes
->Rumor #462760:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard that our instructor once had hair& But I think this is a lie. Speaking of him, you should have seen the joke we did to him. He was so angry at everyone, it was funny& Except the part where he put us in our suits in space for 3 hours as revenge&</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Gary Miller
->Rumor #462761:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>*sigh*&They...just don't stop...*shakes head* Arghh You cannot kill them...they...they just keep coming and coming. This isn't looking good.*shudders* and they...know you! Yeah you! They know ...everything! They never forget...*sigh* Get away from them as soon as you can.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Steven Foster
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====Eureka Research Station (Ellesmere)====
->Rumor #462762:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The reality about the Nomad war is that we are the aggressors. Sirius was intended to be their playground, and yet, we stole it from them. The Nomads tried to reclaim what was supposed belong to them, and we would have done the same in their place. Can we really blame them for it?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Anna Smith
->Rumor #462763:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>As you may not be aware, the Nomads appear to call themselves the Slomon-K'Hara. After extensive researches on them we discovered that they had a high-degree of genetic adaptability. Those creatures, while being dangerous, are the living wonders of their creators, the Daam-K'Vosh.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Mike Person
->Rumor #462764:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The LSF has been extremely interested in the research done by the Order on antimatter technology. Luckily, we have been able to reproduce some prototypes based on some technology we have sometimes managed to capture from them.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Eric Morgan
->Rumor #462765:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The LSF has been extremely interested in the research done by the Order on antimatter technology. Luckily, we have been able to reproduce some prototypes based on some technology we have sometimes managed to capture from them.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/William Summerlin
->Rumor #462766:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Since the station's construction, the government has begun to slowly transfer some delicate projects based on "Valhalla 1" to this base for safety reasons and also to keep a certain level of secrecy around it. Of course, we know what we are doing here. However, if someone dares to reveal anything about it, they will disappear pretty fast. Kind of scary, in a way.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Security Force/Norman Mcguire
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====Battleship Koblenz (Frankfurt)====
->Rumor #133910:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver MOX to the Westfalen every few months or so. Berlin has been having difficulty making their payments lately. ALG would like to improve our relationship with the military, so we often waive the transport and installation fees. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133911:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The structural integrity of this ship is suspect. It suffered a lot of damage during the Eighty Years War, but was forced to remain in service, since all of its sister ships are now Scrap Metal in the Sigma-13 system. We are always nervous when we have to enter the reactor compartments of this ship. Especially since the recent accident. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133912:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our most lucrative runs for MOX are into Colorado. One must first survive the Xenos in the Independent Worlds, however. The Rogues would also like to get their hands on bomb-making material -- especially the group found in Hudson. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133913:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military's brought us in to help them out in the Nordheide. They don't pay us too much, though. But they have good, long-range scanners and a strategic position in this area, so it's worthwhile for us. Most of the actual bounties are put up by Republican. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133914:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are a few reformed Hessians among us here in Hamburg. They're the lucky ones who got out of Vierlande before their sentences were up. One guy had some story about some neutron star in Omega-41. That's way out there in the Edge Worlds in Corsair land. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133915:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole to Bering is up in the Nordheide. If you're looking for diamond smuggling Unioners, then that's the place to be. There isn't a direct route between here and Hudson, which keeps the Xenos and Rogues out of Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133916:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Hunters use this as a base for journeys into Hudson. Most of the bounties up there are for Xenos and Rogues. Republican posts the bulk of them, though Universal and IC chip in on occasion. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133917:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just came back from Hudson. We were cruising for baddies in the gap between the Wrangell and Kenai Fields. Ran right into a little skirmish going on between the local thugs. I got me two Xenos and a Rogue. Buy you a drink? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133918:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hudson is a little rougher than Hamburg. No safe havens, not even any military in the Rheinland part of the system. Liberty Navy's putting a lot of pressure on them, but they can't do much about it. You can see why. Look around at this dump. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133919:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a quick trip from Hamburg. We run in supplies on a regular basis. Sometimes they can't pay us, but we usually can arrange something. Maybe four dead Unioners for a container of Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133920:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is competing with ALG to win the contract for constructing the next generation of Rheinland battleships. We have a clear advantage in ship design and practical construction experience. But they have a definite strength in alloys and specialized Hull Panel fabrication. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133921:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Although it's not far to Hamburg from here, the Unioners will attack us if given the opportunity. Their preferred method is to disable a Trade Lane ring near the center of the stretch, then flee back into the Nordheide at the first sign of a military patrol. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133922:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> is the last battleship still operational in the Rheinland fleet. We are always short of spare parts, and the men are paid only once every three months. Some enterprising pilots have taken to moonlighting for Republican or Synth Foods in order to make ends meet. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133923:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is a deathtrap. They had an explosion last week in Fusion Reactor 6. Had to seal off the entire A Deck. They're not even going to fix it. That's a sorry state of affairs. The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> will never be able to make a jump again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133924:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are rumors circulating that ALG is planning on building a new shipyard in Dortmund to build the Bremen and her sister ships. They're willing to build them at cost in order to gain entry into this new market. That's an attractive proposition for Berlin at this point and time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133925:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland Military is tasked with patrolling the northern areas of Hamburg and the adjacent Independent Worlds of Bering and Hudson. But we only have enough working fighters to cover the Trade Lanes in the immediate area, plus a daily patrol into the Nordheide. We assign Bounty Hunters to handle many of our other patrol routes in the area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133926:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever since we lost the war, Rheinland just hasn't been the same; the entire colony feels beaten and bereft of vigor. Look around, there is no one smiling or enjoying themselves. What will it take for my House to heal? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133927:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann is the real culprit in the Eighty-Years War. The Imperial Navy Command had grave doubts about the wisdom of fighting a guerrilla-style war in the Crow Nebula against an enemy that was so well-supplied by Kusari. But Daumann saw the huge profits to be made in lucrative shipbuilding contracts, and bribed hundreds of key government officials. The rest is history. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133928:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the young officers are leaving the Rheinland Military, tired of the poor conditions and low pay. Most of them end up flying commercial transports for Republican or Synth Foods. The rest end up with the Bounty Hunters Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133929:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland public doesn't respect the military anymore. We lost the Eighty-Years War to a ragtag bunch of gas miners as far as they're concerned. That is one reason it has been so difficult for Berlin to increase our budget -- the politicians backed by the Bundschuh always vote it down. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133930:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh continues to attack this floating piece of junk for some reason. We usually run them off after a few minutes. I guess they don't have any other obvious military targets left in Rheinland -- except maybe the Oder Shipyard. Have to have an enemy to keep the cause going. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
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====Bruchsal Base (Frankfurt)====
->Rumor #134037:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get everything we need from the Junkers. Either we go into the Border Worlds to Yanagi, or to New Berlin, where we will find the Kreuzberg Base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134038:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those who go to Vierlande seldom return; most sentences are for life, and its not just pirates, but the political opponents of the corporate elite as well. The Bundschuh fly attack raids on the prison ships and inbound convoys. We fight to liberate our brethren who have been unjustly incarcerated. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134039:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh is a political organization founded by New Berlin university students who were tired of the corruption of the old regime. Decades later we still toil under the yoke of an oppressive government, though its name has changed. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134040:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh need not lower itself to common piracy like the Red Hessians. Instead, we are funded by the enlightened Berlin intelligentsia looking to do away with the burdens of a corrupt government. This frees us to work directly toward our political agenda without being sidetracked by financial necessities. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134041:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The corporations, though exploitive and uncaring, arent truly at fault for what they do. Corporations are intrinsically self-serving; its the governments role to keep them in check. As long as the government is corrupt enough to accept corporate bribes, the workers cannot be free. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134042:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is located in the Taunus Asteroid field of Frankfurt. Within the same cloud is a Jump Hole to Sigma 13. Nearby is another Jump Hole that leads to Hamburg. In Hamburg there is the Vierlande Prison Ship, the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfallen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> battleship, and the Berlin Jump Gate. These are all priority Bundschuh targets. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134043:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh recruits new members from the Red Hessians, LWB, Unioners, and even disgruntled Daumann and Kruger workers. But the people we take in must care about our cause, because they wont get rich flying for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134044:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 700 AS, the Dresden Revolt sparked the Popular Revolution that would do away with the Rheinland Imperial Government and replace it with a coalition of the people. The Bundschuh was a key player in the Dresden Revolt, running supplies to the rebels. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134045:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>After the revolution, the Bundschuh found itself sidelined by the new government. The coalition wanted the support of the wealthy aristocrats who headed Daumann Industries and Kruger Mining. By 715 AS, the Bundschuh was forced to go underground again, this time by a government it had helped to create. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134046:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Because we have taken the high road, and not one of piracy like the Red Hessians, our ranks have dwindled. But the members of the Bundschuh are purists, committed to a political agenda -- unlike other underground organizations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
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====Fulda Border Station (Frankfurt)====
->Rumor #134025:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic supplies make their way to this base from Mainz. Republican is committed to keeping the brave peace officers of Frankfurt taken care of. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Jörg Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Leonhard Schober
->Rumor #134026:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Premium Daumann Side Arms are shipped here from the Ring in New Berlin. It is one of the more dangerous hauls; there are Unioners, Bundschuh, and Red Hessians looking to get their hands on our cargo. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Jörg Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Leonhard Schober
->Rumor #134027:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police in this system are the dregs of the Rheinland Federal Police. They cannot even keep the Bundschuh in check. Of course, that is why they find themselves in the most unfashionable system in all of Rheinland. Ach, I hate coming here. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Jörg Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Leonhard Schober
->Rumor #134028:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Police presence here is the absolute minimum required to keep this system from degenerating into anarchy. The Bundschuh, a terrorist organization, can be seen walking the corridors of corporate bases here in the open. The people of Frankfurt don't care about who is who, only that they have money to spend. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134029:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I came to Frankfurt because I wanted to go to a place where I could make a difference; a piece of space where people needed support. The only thing I found here is a haunted chunk of Rheinland that died at the end of the Eighty-Years War. I realized that nobody can make a difference. What is, is simply the truth -- the rest is illusion. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134030:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Red Hessians attack this system from the southern end near the Jump Gate to New Berlin. That is not our problem, we are here to stop GMG incursions into Rheinland space. Only there hasn't been a GMG incursion in months. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134031:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Unioners make their way into the system because Republican Shipping still does business in Frankfurt. They are the ones who supply this base with its basics. One shipment the Unioners don't harass is the police supply shipment. If they did, there would be little we could do to stop them. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134033:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm thinking of quitting the police. We have the oldest ships and equipment in Sirius. Every time I strap into my patrol craft, I wonder whether or not life support is going to function or my engines will give out. This is not what I should be worrying about. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134034:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to find Unioners, just look along the Trade Lanes on the northern end of the system. They like to hit the Republican shipments that are there. Unioners seem to come from the Westerwald. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134035:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I will probably die defending the pathetic idiots who still make this system their home. I don't know why I risk my neck each day bringing in Unioners and Bundschuh when the people don't care if they have criminals walking amongst them. Frankfurt should be left to the criminals and sealed up forever. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
->Rumor #134036:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Taunus Field is where you are going to find the Bundschuh -- and lots of them. A lot of the people in this system agree with the reasons they are fighting, so they get plenty of popular support. Of course, that makes our jobs harder. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Maja Rothstein
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Fulda Bartender/RBT-61
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Silja Von Strantz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Tatiana Wigand
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====Mainz Storage Facility (Frankfurt)====
->Rumor #133991:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a transit point between Dortmund in New Berlin and Yukawa in Honshu. Basic and High-Temperature Alloys plus Ship-Hull Panels pass through this base on their way into Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Gita Woche
->Rumor #133992:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG does a good business in Frankfurt. Terraforming Gases arrive at this base from Dortmund. They expect to receive supplies of Boron from here in return. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Gita Woche
->Rumor #133993:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Though it requires the danger of flying into the Border Worlds, ALG ships Food to the Helgoland, beyond Rheinland space. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Gita Woche
->Rumor #133994:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our Boron mining facility in Holstein receives all their basic supplies from this base. You could deliver these for us if you need money. It is a very short trip. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Rainer Bahlsen
->Rumor #133995:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You see the Samura and Kishiro men on this base? They always have a very smug look on their faces, it makes me livid. I would enjoy killing them both. You know that Kusari and her keiretsu backed the GMG throughout the entire war, don't you? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Rainer Bahlsen
->Rumor #133996:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the station where the Kusari shippers must offload their products and receive ours. I don't think many Rheinlanders care to see H-Fuel brought into the heart of our Republic aboard their ships, the insult would be unbearable. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Rainer Bahlsen
->Rumor #133997:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our reputation requires us to keep stock in all manner of Commodities at our base; Yanagi is no different. We ship many basic supplies to Yanagi from this locale. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Bryan Greer
->Rumor #133998:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It is always better to purchase supplies from desperate people. The people of Rheinland have lost almost everything. We purchase Fertilizers and Terraforming Gases for a good price from this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Bryan Greer
->Rumor #133999:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Optronics, Consumer Goods, and Basic Alloys are part of the trade we do with this base and the Yanagi. We get excellent prices from these Rheinland boys, poor bastards. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Bryan Greer
->Rumor #134000:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro brings this base Optronics from Honshu. While we are here, we purchase Basic and High-Temperature Alloys plus Cobalt to return to Honshu with. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideo Tatsuko
->Rumor #134001:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you have ever wished to see the wonders of the New Tokyo system, then you could ship Diamonds to the capitol planet and return with Optical Chips from Shinagawa. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideo Tatsuko
->Rumor #134002:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Yukawa is in need of the Boron that the Rheinland people mine in this system. If you are willing, you could provide them with this Commodity. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideo Tatsuko
->Rumor #134003:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Go to Ogashawa. There is the main source of Kishiro H-Fuel. You will find the best prices at the source. Every station needs H-Fuel, including this one. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideo Tatsuko
->Rumor #134004:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>High-value Commodities make their way into this system from New Berlin on Republican shipping convoys. Silver and Diamonds are traded at this base with the Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134005:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic supplies are brought here from throughout the republic. This station is a supply hub for all of Frankfurt. We also do a fair bit of business in the Border Worlds and Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134006:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All H-Fuel that comes into this system is immediately loaded off the Kusari ships and onto Republican vessels. From here, most of the H-Fuel will be sent to the capitol, where it will be redistributed throughout all of Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134007:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Fertilizers are brought here from Hamburg. They will make their way into the Border Worlds eventually. Zoners need the Fertilizers for their bio-domes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134008:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Boron and High-Temperature Alloys will be taken all the way to Narita in the heart of Kusari from this base. It will be Republican shippers that brave the Border Worlds to keep trade running smoothly. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134009:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican will ship Optronics and Optical Chips to the Ring in New Berlin. On the way back, our convoys carry High-Temperature Alloys and Cobalt. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134010:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Even in Frankfurt -- the derelict child of Rheinland -- the Unioners come to harass our shipping concerns. There is truly no rest for the weary. We must hire Bounty Hunters and freelancers to protect our convoys out here, as the police presence is minimal. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134011:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base is necessary; business must go on in Frankfurt even after the devastation it suffered in the Eighty-Years War. We are still the gateway to the Border Worlds and Kusari out here, even if no one wishes to remember that. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134012:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There isn't much left here in Frankfurt. Most of the population in this system left for better mining grounds or were killed in "the Eighty." After several decisive losses to the GMG, the Imperial Navy began conscripting soldiers from the mining operations. The rate of attrition was horrible; you were a miner one week, a soldier the next, and dead by months end. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Ali Gramann
 * Republican Shipping/ Mehmet Berna
 * Republican Shipping/Mainz Bartender/Günther Wiesen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Werner Von Loen
->Rumor #134013:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The foolish Rheinland people tried to wrestle the control of H-Fuel production from the GMG. They could never do so; even today if you want H-Fuel you must travel to the Border Worlds and do business with Kusari companies. Samura Fuel comes from Naha, so you can purchase from the source if you like. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Sanzo Kuramoto
->Rumor #134014:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Silver we purchase in this dying system will be shipped aboard our convoys to New Tokyo. If you wish to see a vibrant, living system, go there. But bathe first. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Sanzo Kuramoto
->Rumor #134015:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Yokohama is in need of High-Temperature Alloys. This Commodity is necessary for the construction of ships, and Kusari ships are amongst the finest in Sirius. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Sanzo Kuramoto
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====Mannheim Station (Frankfurt)====
->Rumor #134016:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kruger produces H-Fuel at this station and ships it to Essen. In return, they supply us with the Mining Machinery that keeps our operation going. Even without the Border Worlds, Kruger manages to get H-Fuel for Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134017:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Station Mannheim produces H-Fuel and also mines Oxygen and Water. These three basic goods are shipped to New Berlin. Then we deliver Food back here. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134018:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The amount of H-Fuel we are able to squeeze from the gases in this system is minimal. Nevertheless, the operation is good for PR. It lets the Rheinland people know that we haven't given up. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134019:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Once Station Richtofen was destroyed, we knew that we had lost the war -- and much worse: Kruger had lost the Border Worlds to the GMG. It was a dark day for Rheinland and for Kruger.  Maybe one day Rheinland will rise again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134020:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kruger lost most of her capital in the Border World gas mining venture. When that failed utterly, our proud company lost all of her clout. Now, Kruger's only real chance for survival is merging with ALG. It is really the only way left for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134021:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The vermin who call themselves the GMG dealt the first blow in the conflict that would erupt into the Eighty-Years War. The Kruger survey vessel Helle Wolke went missing. When we sent ships after her, we found the GMG in the vicinity of the wreckage. The GMG could not explain what had happened, but claimed to be investigating themselves. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134022:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>After the Helle Wolke Incident, we knew that the GMG was a treacherous group. As we pushed into the Border Worlds, small skirmishes flared between Kruger and the Guild. When Empress Leicht annexed the Border Worlds, the real war began. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134023:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rheinland did not recognize any political sovereignty of the GMG; they were a band of miners, or so it seemed. What we did not realize at the time was that they were a close-knit organization with political clout in Kusari and underworld connections. Only after Rheinland and Kruger had fully committed to the action did we realize the extent of their power and backing. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
->Rumor #134024:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>By the end of "the Eighty," the government was more concerned with putting down the rising rebellion than the GMG and the devastated system of Frankfurt. The empire's coffers were drained. On the edge of insolvency, Rheinland borrowed from Liberty and sold away the last of its ability to stand alone. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kruger Minerals/ Fabian Küne
 * Kruger Minerals/ Hannes Petesilge
 * Kruger Minerals/Mannheim Bartender/Julius Arnoldt
 * Kruger Minerals/Rep. Eberhard Hauser
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====Planet Holstein (Frankfurt)====
->Rumor #133979:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This installation gets all her basics from the Mainz within this system. No sense leaving this hole if we don't have to, is there? The same ships pick up our Boron and take it back to the Mainz. She is this system's supply depot. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133980:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133981:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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." </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133982:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133984:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133985:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133986:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133987:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133988:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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 lifes 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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133989:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Holstein Bartender/Rainer Streithorst
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
->Rumor #133990:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The miners here are a sullen lot. I was transferred in from HQ a few months ago. Everyone here hates the government, but the Republic and the empire before it was just trying to do their best for us. Besides, everyone didn't lose everything; my family still holds all of their land. We are okay. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Lorenz Schöner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/ Thorsten Zenner
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Rep. Ruben Von Hof
 * Daumann Heavy Construction/Sales Rep. Kurt Steger
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====Osumi Base (Fukuoka)====
->Rumor #133348:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There have been cutbacks at this post recently. Last week they transferred two regular patrols to Tokyo, citing lack of identifiable threats. Believe me, there is no lack of enemies here. The Outcasts and Corsairs have found that Kusari presents an easy target, especially with the military distracted by Hokkaido. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133349:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have heard that there is a Hole into Sigma-13, but the GMG will not tell us. They keep their secrets close; they are not truly Kusari anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133350:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has assured us that they can handle the criminal problem in Sigma-13, but this does not seem to be the case. They should bring in the military -- that would seal the border. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133351:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This one of the most difficult postings for a Kusari State Police officer in our colony. Maybe Sapporo is worse. The most dreaded patrol does a circuit into the Hiryo Cloud, where the Corsairs lurk. We had 50% casualties on it last month. That's enough to make one superstitious. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133352:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sometimes I wish that we could bring the Bounty Hunters Guild into Honshu. They do very well in the nebulas and know how to deal with difficult Edge World criminals like the Corsairs, but Tokyo will not allow it. They say we must show our bushi-do spirit and accept the challenge. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133353:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am under orders to not pursue Hogosha unless they have been caught stealing from storage depots. It is strange how the rules are always changing with regards to the Hogosha. The GMG seems to dislike them very much, unlike former times. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133354:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG and Samura haul H-Fuel to Osaka past our lonely station. Kishiro, ALG and Republican are the other shippers using this area. Tokyo has said we must hold this line against the Edge World threat, yet reduces our strength on a regular basis. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133355:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have one more year in the field, then I can get a desk job in Tokyo. No more stress like this, wondering if you will live another day. My wife and her parents are back there always asking about my return date. Maybe it's not so bad here ... </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133356:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Kusari State Police prides itself in being a highly ethical organization. Hogosha often attempt bribes when they are caught, but we will never accept them. The bureaucrats of Tokyo are another matter, however. There are many stories of the criminal bribes and gifts that are accepted by the rulers of our nation. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133357:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We supply this base with its essential needs. We've had to ship a lot of new issue Side Arms in from Tokyo. Guess there's been a little attrition around here lately. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133358:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just having a quick beer with an old friend who's posted here with the Police. We graduated from the same school in Kyushu years ago. I miss the green isles of home. Honshu is always grim and gray -- and full of Kishiro people. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133359:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've been hauling supplies in my little freighter around Samura and government bases for as long as I can remember. Honshu was pretty quiet until the Edge World pirates showed up. Shikoku has always been active. You've got Liberty criminals in the southern end, and Bounty hunters and Blood Dragons feuding in the rest. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133360:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day soon they will shut down Osaka, and many people like me will be forced to find work elsewhere. Hokkaido does not sound attractive to me. Maybe I'll join the rice farmers of Kyushu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133361:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just switching some crew with a transport bound for Mainz. They lost a couple in a Blood Dragon attack near Osaka and needed a full complement for the Sigma-13 crossing. I wish them the best of luck. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133362:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Upper management is trying to put pressure on the GMG and Kishiro by having police patrols removed from this base. I'm not sure it really helps us though, as Samura ships must still travel to Rheinland with other supplies. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
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====Leiden Base (Galileo)====
->Rumor #131557:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the best layover you get on Gateway runs. We normally don't stop here much, but when we do, it's a nonstop party. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Mel Jackson
->Rumor #131604:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run supply shipments of Food, Luxury Goods, Side Arms, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, and Consumer Goods to our base in Hokkaido. It's a long, dangerous run past the Farmers Alliance in Kyushu and the Bounty Hunters of Shikou, but well worth it financially. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Nomura
->Rumor #131605:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Nomura
->Rumor #131606:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Nomura
->Rumor #131607:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We receive Side Arms from the Rogue base Padua in the Reppu Cloud and ship Food, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, Consumer Goods, Oxygen, and Water there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131608:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131609:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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 didnt necessarily stop working for Ageira. Thats right -- weve got insider friends who keep us one step ahead of the game.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
->Rumor #131610:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131611:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131612:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131613:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get most of our basic supplies -- such as Food, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, Consumer Goods, Oxygen, and Water -- from the Zoner Ames Research Station. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131615:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
 * Lane Hackers/Leiden Bartender/Wade Edmonds
->Rumor #131616:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the end of our Artifact smuggling route that begins in the Border Worlds and crosses all of Kusari space. We don't like to see the Golden Chrysanthemums here, but we have no choice if we want to sell these trinkets to the rich Liberty fools on Manhattan. The Lane Hackers seem okay, though -- nothing like those disgusting Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Hogosha/ Tadashi Endo
->Rumor #131617:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Hogosha/ Tadashi Endo
->Rumor #131618:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Hogosha/ Tadashi Endo
->Rumor #131655:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Padua receives the supplies we get from the Lane Hackers at this base. Padua requires the importation of all of its vital supplies, including Food, Side Arms, Engine Components, Pharmaceuticals, H-Fuel, Consumer Goods, Oxygen, and Water. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Mel Jackson
->Rumor #131656:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Artifacts that the Lane Hackers receive from the Hogosha at this base are taken by us to Rochester or to Padua. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Mel Jackson
->Rumor #134328:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Freespirit was beginning its regular Artifact run from Leiden to Rochester when it was ambushed by Bounty Hunters. It fled into the Reppu Cloud and disappeared. No one has been able to locate the ship for some time. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ John Smith
->Rumor #134329:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Shibuya Maru was making a Cardamine shipment across the southern end of the Shikoku system when it was intercepted by a Bounty Hunter named Jake Rush. He swears that he opened fire and badly wounded the ship. He searched the cloud for some time, but never found the Shibuya. The word around Deshima is that it never made it to the Galileo system. Its probably out there somewhere in the Keiun Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Dave Beyer
->Rumor #134330:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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 its been rumored to be drifting somewhere in the Shiun Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Ben Hanson
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====Padua Base (Galileo)====
->Rumor #131658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers' Leiden base provides us with all of our supplies. Their base is located in the Komatsu Cloud due north of the Reppu Cloud that hides this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make a run to Leiden every third week to pick up the essentials that keep this base going: Waters, Consumer Goods, H-Fuel, Engine Components, Pharmaceuticals, and Food. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are two Jump Holes in the Komatsu Cloud, which hides the Lane Hackers' Leiden base. The northern Jump Hole leads to Shikoku, the other to Kepler. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131661:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rochester has plenty of Side Arms to sell, so we pick them up and run them here. The Side Arms we bring in usually head on over to Leiden, where we trade the Lane Hackers for cash or info on ship cargoes headed through the system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131662:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Artifacts to this base from Leiden. They are highly illegal, and the LSF will smoke you if you get scanned with 'em. But the demand is high on Manhattans black market, all the Manhattanites love 'em. From here we ship them out to Rochester. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131663:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We dont like dealing with the Hogosha, and they dont like dealing with us. But we get along with the Lane Hackers alright, and they cut us into the Artifact trade. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131664:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Watch the black matter in the system. If you fly into some, you arent gonna fly back out. Black matter is what led to all the Trade Lane trouble with Ageira and the corporate venture that blew up in its face. To pin it on somebody, Ageira canned a few of its top-level execs and a development team; those guys now operate the Hacker base in Leiden. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131665:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers appreciate the good things in life -- the Cardamine -- just like us; difference is, they got things all figured out. Me, Im just having fun. After my last trip through the Huntsville I didnt really care what happened to me, I only knew Id be damned if I was gonna play by the rules anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
->Rumor #131666:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our guys was gonna rat the Hackers out to a Hunter that had credits to burn. He didnt make it to the rendezvous. The Hackers are too valuable to us to scrape for some temporary cash. Too bad I was the one who had to smoke one of our own. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
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====Dessau Station (Halle)====
->Rumor #134131:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican Shipping provides the Ulm Police Base with all of her basic supplies from Stuttgart. It is not incredibly profitable to do this, but relatively safe. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Friedrich Philipp
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Eugen Chemlin
->Rumor #134132:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Premium Daumann weapons make their way to the hands of the Rheinland Federal Police via Republican convoys from the Ring in New Berlin. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Friedrich Philipp
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Eugen Chemlin
->Rumor #134133:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland government is always several months behind in its payments to the Commodity brokers that keep their bases supplied. It is appalling to see our sovereign nation fall into such terrible times. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Friedrich Philipp
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Eugen Chemlin
->Rumor #134134:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am furious that the criminals we fight are better equipped than our finest. The Hessians have better ships and better weapons. We have better pilots, but we are running out of them. More of us die each day, and for what? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134135:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are the guardians to the gates that lead into the Border Worlds. We patrol our side, but dare not go into Omega 7. It is grounds for immediate termination. No lives or ships can be spared defending space that Rheinland cannot even lay claim to. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134136:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Red Hessians pour from the Westnebel in an unending stream. We lack the resources to stop half of them. I used to be disdainful of Bounty Hunters, but if it were not for their actions here, we could be overrun. The only Rheinland military you will see here are captains and admirals sunning themselves in Baden-Baden. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134137:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My family, the Steiners, have grown thin in number. We were once a large group of men and women known as excellent pilots and daring fighters. Now there is just my brother and me left alive. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134138:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My brother is a police pilot in Frankfurt. He says that conditions are worse there. Of course, that is the system that got ravaged by the GMG, but we all lost in "the Eighty." I wish I had been alive to fight in it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134139:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have been giving thought to becoming a Bounty Hunter. That way I would be better equipped and much better paid. I see them collecting rewards on every vermin they kill. Perhaps I could go to Liberty and kill Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134140:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a pilot here who wishes to leave our ranks. He has tried to keep it secret but I found out. He wants to become a Bounty Hunter and leave Rheinland. I'm sure it is because he is afraid to fight Red Hessians -- he has trouble killing them. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134141:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We intercepted a Red Hessian supply shipment crossing the system between the Ostnebel and Westnebel. It was quite a boost in morale around here; normally things are rather glum, but we were able to salvage all manner of goods. Of course, we don't turn in everything we find, they barely pay me enough to feed my children. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134142:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the other policemen at this station, Steiner, has two brothers, though he will only mention one. The third is a Red Hessian. One day, perhaps the two brothers will face each other out there. I don't know who will win. Steiner is the best pilot here, but his brother...I hear he is an incredible pilot, a soldier in the Corsair Wars. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134347:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Several days ago, the Belknap was traversing the Trade Lane from Stuttgart to the Berlin Gate when it was hijacked by LWB pirates. They flew the ship into the Ostnebel, where it is likely stationed for use as a temporary food supply. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
->Rumor #134348:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Nurnberg was making a gun run from here to Omega-11 when it was attacked by a Federal Police patrol while crossing the open area in the center of the system. The ship was pursued into the Westnebel, where it lost contact. Because it never arrived in Freital, the police must have destroyed it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134349:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Patrol 421 was doing a routine sweep of the Westnebel when it abruptly ceased communications with Ulm Control. Red Hessians are suspected as the culprits, but no one is sure. The Federal Police have been unable to locate any debris so far. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
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====Elbe Station (Halle)====
->Rumor #134131:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican Shipping provides the Ulm Police Base with all of her basic supplies from Stuttgart. It is not incredibly profitable to do this, but relatively safe. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Friedrich Philipp
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Eugen Chemlin
->Rumor #134132:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Premium Daumann weapons make their way to the hands of the Rheinland Federal Police via Republican convoys from the Ring in New Berlin. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Friedrich Philipp
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Eugen Chemlin
->Rumor #134133:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland government is always several months behind in its payments to the Commodity brokers that keep their bases supplied. It is appalling to see our sovereign nation fall into such terrible times. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Friedrich Philipp
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Eugen Chemlin
->Rumor #134134:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am furious that the criminals we fight are better equipped than our finest. The Hessians have better ships and better weapons. We have better pilots, but we are running out of them. More of us die each day, and for what? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134135:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are the guardians to the gates that lead into the Border Worlds. We patrol our side, but dare not go into Omega 7. It is grounds for immediate termination. No lives or ships can be spared defending space that Rheinland cannot even lay claim to. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134136:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Red Hessians pour from the Westnebel in an unending stream. We lack the resources to stop half of them. I used to be disdainful of Bounty Hunters, but if it were not for their actions here, we could be overrun. The only Rheinland military you will see here are captains and admirals sunning themselves in Baden-Baden. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134137:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My family, the Steiners, have grown thin in number. We were once a large group of men and women known as excellent pilots and daring fighters. Now there is just my brother and me left alive. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134138:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My brother is a police pilot in Frankfurt. He says that conditions are worse there. Of course, that is the system that got ravaged by the GMG, but we all lost in "the Eighty." I wish I had been alive to fight in it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134139:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have been giving thought to becoming a Bounty Hunter. That way I would be better equipped and much better paid. I see them collecting rewards on every vermin they kill. Perhaps I could go to Liberty and kill Rogues. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134140:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a pilot here who wishes to leave our ranks. He has tried to keep it secret but I found out. He wants to become a Bounty Hunter and leave Rheinland. I'm sure it is because he is afraid to fight Red Hessians -- he has trouble killing them. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134141:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We intercepted a Red Hessian supply shipment crossing the system between the Ostnebel and Westnebel. It was quite a boost in morale around here; normally things are rather glum, but we were able to salvage all manner of goods. Of course, we don't turn in everything we find, they barely pay me enough to feed my children. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Ulm Bartender/RBT-105
->Rumor #134142:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the other policemen at this station, Steiner, has two brothers, though he will only mention one. The third is a Red Hessian. One day, perhaps the two brothers will face each other out there. I don't know who will win. Steiner is the best pilot here, but his brother...I hear he is an incredible pilot, a soldier in the Corsair Wars. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134347:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Several days ago, the Belknap was traversing the Trade Lane from Stuttgart to the Berlin Gate when it was hijacked by LWB pirates. They flew the ship into the Ostnebel, where it is likely stationed for use as a temporary food supply. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
->Rumor #134348:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Nurnberg was making a gun run from here to Omega-11 when it was attacked by a Federal Police patrol while crossing the open area in the center of the system. The ship was pursued into the Westnebel, where it lost contact. Because it never arrived in Freital, the police must have destroyed it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
->Rumor #134349:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Patrol 421 was doing a routine sweep of the Westnebel when it abruptly ceased communications with Ulm Control. Red Hessians are suspected as the culprits, but no one is sure. The Federal Police have been unable to locate any debris so far. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Corinna Lody
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Heinz Geist
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Lori Gryneus
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====Alster Shipyard (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #133943:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We provide Republican with many of their essential shipbuilding materials, such as Ship-Hull Panels, Basic Alloys, and MOX from Dortmund. In return, they sell us their Scrap Metal and Toxic Waste from old ships that are being dismantled. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Bastian Möller
->Rumor #133944:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is completely dependent on ALG products to build their ships. They are competing for the new Rheinland Military contract, but lack the technical expertise to fabricate the custom hull materials and other sophisticated features required by the government. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Bastian Möller
->Rumor #133945:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican believes it can solve the Unioner problem by posting bounties and throwing them all in prison. The reality of their situation is far more tenuous. We've heard from reliable sources that many of their current workers are Union sympathizers who are quietly plotting the eventual overthrow of Republican Management. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Bastian Möller
->Rumor #133946:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster Shipyard produces Freight Trains, Heavy Lifters, and Rheinland Freighters. It has been in continuous use since 412 AS. We are the only commercial shipyard in operation within Rheinland. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133947:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gold is used as a reflective coating on windows for our ships. Ours is delivered by special armored transport from Freiburg periodically. It's a difficult run all the way through Rheinland. Criminals can smell it from across a system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133948:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Privately, Republican committed some management blunders in the early days of Alster. There were many ongoing safety lapses that eventually led to major industrial accidents. The unions would never have become as strong as they did without those galvanizing events. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133949:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A shipyard needs a wide array of raw materials delivered on a regular basis to function smoothly. Liberty provides us with Superconductors and Optical Chips. The Ring, in New Berlin, supplies Engine Components and Construction Machinery. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133950:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster Shipyard workers are proud of our tradition. Unfortunately, there is a group of malcontents that wishes to destroy everything we have created after almost 400 years in Hamburg. The Unioners are a pestilence that must be eliminated. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133951:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Every week, we run a transport in from Mainz, in the Frankfurt system. It either carries Boron from the Holstein extraction facility, or Optronics from Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133952:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This shipyard was once controlled by the unions, who demanded ever higher wages and longer vacations. Republican could afford their extravagant demands during the Eighty Years War. But when the hard times hit, we had to make adjustments in order to remain profitable. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133953:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster unions made a fatal error when they supported the Popular Revolution. The new government worsened the already serious economic situation by inflating the currency to pay off external war debts. This backfired and resulted in the common worker in Rheinland suffering terribly. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
->Rumor #133954:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners are everywhere in Hamburg. They often lurk in the Alsterfeld, waiting for a shipment to arrive. They attack our ships in the Trade Lanes, Altona, or anything else that says Republican on it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Fritz Treb
 * Republican Shipping/ Gregor Schliewen
 * Republican Shipping/Alster Bartender/Raimund Schmerbauch
 * Republican Shipping/Sales Rep. Bjorn Ritzer
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====Altona Station (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #133955:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Altona was once a bustling place, before the government allowed Liberty ships to bypass us and ship their goods directly to Berlin and Stuttgart after the Eighty Years War. Now it is probably just a matter of time before this outpost is closed and dismantled. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133956:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are few of the once numerous dock workers left at this station. Automated machinery and declining shipping traffic have both taken their toll. Sadly, many of them have turned to piracy as the solution to their problems. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133957:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hamburg has notified the managers that they will be shutting our station down within a year. Soon the 750 people on this station will be unemployed and join the legions of dispossessed Rheinland workers. No one knows when our misery will end. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133958:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Most of our traffic is northbound out of Altona. Copper and Cobalt are the chief metals being shipped into Liberty. Mining Machinery and High Temperature Alloys make up the remainder. Most of the ships unload in Houston, although some continue to New York or Colorado. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133959:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our close proximity to Hamburg and the Docking Ring provides a moderate level of security. Even so, the Unioners will try to steal supplies or attack us whenever they have the chance. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133960:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican should recognize the Unioners as a legitimate movement and agree to their terms. It would be better for all of Rheinland, especially the shipping business. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133961:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our main southbound cargo at Altona is Superalloys from Houston. The Oder Shipyard pays a premium price for their supply, the most expensive in the Sirius sector. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133962:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Independent Worlds beyond Hamburg provide different challenges. The Bering system is the homeland of the cursed Unioners, which needs no further explanation. The Hudson system, which is blissfully free of our nemesis, unfortunately harbors a large population of Xenos, who share a hatred of all foreigners. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133963:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We must expend more money every year on the bounty and bribe fund to keep the peace in this system. It is frustrating to have so little support from the government in terms of security forces. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Lothar Zange
 * Republican Shipping/ Simon Claesen
 * Republican Shipping/Altona Bartender/Berndt Gunkel
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Raimund Abt
->Rumor #133964:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Boy, this place is a ghost town. I heard it was once quite the place, back when Republican had a special deal going with the government. No foreign ships allowed beyond their border posts of Altona, Freiburg, and Mainz. Those days are gone for Liberty shipping, at least. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Per Bornkessel
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Rupert Dinckeler
->Rumor #133965:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in Superconductors from Houston, then turn back north with High Temperature Alloys. It's not a hugely profitable run, but you can make money. It's probably better if you went all the way to the source. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Per Bornkessel
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Rupert Dinckeler
->Rumor #133966:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Most of our ships just pass on through here now. Sometimes they do a crew or equipment change to upgrade for the Independent World crossings. Gets a lot easier once you're in Liberty. Nothing like Rheinland. We've got police and military everywhere you look. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Rep. Per Bornkessel
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. Rupert Dinckeler
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====Battleship Westfalen (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #133910:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver MOX to the Westfalen every few months or so. Berlin has been having difficulty making their payments lately. ALG would like to improve our relationship with the military, so we often waive the transport and installation fees. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133911:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The structural integrity of this ship is suspect. It suffered a lot of damage during the Eighty Years War, but was forced to remain in service, since all of its sister ships are now Scrap Metal in the Sigma-13 system. We are always nervous when we have to enter the reactor compartments of this ship. Especially since the recent accident. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133912:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our most lucrative runs for MOX are into Colorado. One must first survive the Xenos in the Independent Worlds, however. The Rogues would also like to get their hands on bomb-making material -- especially the group found in Hudson. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Pia Meuselbach
->Rumor #133913:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military's brought us in to help them out in the Nordheide. They don't pay us too much, though. But they have good, long-range scanners and a strategic position in this area, so it's worthwhile for us. Most of the actual bounties are put up by Republican. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133914:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are a few reformed Hessians among us here in Hamburg. They're the lucky ones who got out of Vierlande before their sentences were up. One guy had some story about some neutron star in Omega-41. That's way out there in the Edge Worlds in Corsair land. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133915:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hole to Bering is up in the Nordheide. If you're looking for diamond smuggling Unioners, then that's the place to be. There isn't a direct route between here and Hudson, which keeps the Xenos and Rogues out of Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133916:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Hunters use this as a base for journeys into Hudson. Most of the bounties up there are for Xenos and Rogues. Republican posts the bulk of them, though Universal and IC chip in on occasion. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133917:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just came back from Hudson. We were cruising for baddies in the gap between the Wrangell and Kenai Fields. Ran right into a little skirmish going on between the local thugs. I got me two Xenos and a Rogue. Buy you a drink? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133918:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hudson is a little rougher than Hamburg. No safe havens, not even any military in the Rheinland part of the system. Liberty Navy's putting a lot of pressure on them, but they can't do much about it. You can see why. Look around at this dump. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Jennifer Swift
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Craig Walton
->Rumor #133919:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a quick trip from Hamburg. We run in supplies on a regular basis. Sometimes they can't pay us, but we usually can arrange something. Maybe four dead Unioners for a container of Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133920:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is competing with ALG to win the contract for constructing the next generation of Rheinland battleships. We have a clear advantage in ship design and practical construction experience. But they have a definite strength in alloys and specialized Hull Panel fabrication. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133921:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Although it's not far to Hamburg from here, the Unioners will attack us if given the opportunity. Their preferred method is to disable a Trade Lane ring near the center of the stretch, then flee back into the Nordheide at the first sign of a military patrol. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/Rep. Xavier Oemler
->Rumor #133922:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> is the last battleship still operational in the Rheinland fleet. We are always short of spare parts, and the men are paid only once every three months. Some enterprising pilots have taken to moonlighting for Republican or Synth Foods in order to make ends meet. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133923:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is a deathtrap. They had an explosion last week in Fusion Reactor 6. Had to seal off the entire A Deck. They're not even going to fix it. That's a sorry state of affairs. The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfalen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> will never be able to make a jump again. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133924:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are rumors circulating that ALG is planning on building a new shipyard in Dortmund to build the Bremen and her sister ships. They're willing to build them at cost in order to gain entry into this new market. That's an attractive proposition for Berlin at this point and time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133925:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland Military is tasked with patrolling the northern areas of Hamburg and the adjacent Independent Worlds of Bering and Hudson. But we only have enough working fighters to cover the Trade Lanes in the immediate area, plus a daily patrol into the Nordheide. We assign Bounty Hunters to handle many of our other patrol routes in the area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133926:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever since we lost the war, Rheinland just hasn't been the same; the entire colony feels beaten and bereft of vigor. Look around, there is no one smiling or enjoying themselves. What will it take for my House to heal? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133927:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Daumann is the real culprit in the Eighty-Years War. The Imperial Navy Command had grave doubts about the wisdom of fighting a guerrilla-style war in the Crow Nebula against an enemy that was so well-supplied by Kusari. But Daumann saw the huge profits to be made in lucrative shipbuilding contracts, and bribed hundreds of key government officials. The rest is history. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
->Rumor #133928:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of the young officers are leaving the Rheinland Military, tired of the poor conditions and low pay. Most of them end up flying commercial transports for Republican or Synth Foods. The rest end up with the Bounty Hunters Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133929:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland public doesn't respect the military anymore. We lost the Eighty-Years War to a ragtag bunch of gas miners as far as they're concerned. That is one reason it has been so difficult for Berlin to increase our budget -- the politicians backed by the Bundschuh always vote it down. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
->Rumor #133930:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh continues to attack this floating piece of junk for some reason. We usually run them off after a few minutes. I guess they don't have any other obvious military targets left in Rheinland -- except maybe the Oder Shipyard. Have to have an enemy to keep the cause going. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Annike Prohasky
 * Rheinland Military/Colonel Sven Nehaus
 * Rheinland Military/Commander Olga Rothstein
 * Rheinland Military/Westfalen Bartender/Dietrich Vogel
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====Lübeck Border Station (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #133967:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring up Sidearm shipments and H-fuel from Berlin. It's cheaper to buy them there than is in Hamburg. Not a big money maker, but it pays the bills. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Tobias Ducca
 * Republican Shipping/ Ulf Francke
->Rumor #133968:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hamburg is relatively calm compared to running the Border Worlds. They transferred me here to recuperate after six months of doing the Cambridge-Freiburg route. Omega-7 can be very taxing on the nerves. Anytime you've got Corsairs in the area, watch out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Tobias Ducca
 * Republican Shipping/ Ulf Francke
->Rumor #133969:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners hit our Water transport coming down from Hamburg yesterday. Usually they don't bother with the small prey like that. Must of been bored or something. The captain dropped their cargo and left it to the pirates, who shortly realized the error they'd made. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Tobias Ducca
 * Republican Shipping/ Ulf Francke
->Rumor #133970:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Lubeck can get lonely. We don't get up to Hamburg too often. Wouldn't matter anyway, because we never get paid. We're here to keep an eye on the Sudheide. Lot of criminal activity in there. Berlin's nervous about the prison convoys mostly. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133971:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've caught a few Junkers running Artifacts and Cardamine across Hamburg. It's unusual to see them outside of Berlin. Seems like it started when they built that base up in Sigma-13. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133972:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hamburg is an important junction in the criminal network. We believe there may be Jump Holes into Berlin, Frankfurt, and Bering, but we are not certain. The Bounty Hunters know where they are, but will not tell us. Company secret, they say. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133973:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do a daily up into the fields and along the Trade Lane to Alster. It can get fairly exciting. There seems to be a big crossing point for smugglers and such about half way up the Lane. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133974:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are Bundschuh spotted here on occasion. It looks like they're just passing through on supply runs, although there have been attacks up in the northern end of Hamburg on the Westfalen. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133975:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Without this border post, southern Hamburg would be chaos. As it is, we lose good officers every week, especially when the Hessians show up. Soon they'll have no choice but to staff our base with Bounty Hunters. There are plenty of those ruffians to go around. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133976:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hessians are active in this area of Hamburg, although not really along the Trade Lanes. They are mostly interested in Vierlande and their imprisoned comrades in arms. Good luck, I say. That prison is virtually impregnable. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133977:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day Rheinland will be great again and we will be proud to be police officers. For now, we suffer along with the rest of our proud nation through these economic hard times. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
->Rumor #133978:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This post is really not that bad. A friend of ours was transferred to Dresden. He sent several messages over the next few weeks, each more despairing than the last, then nothing. We heard later that his entire patrol vanished in the Giftnebel. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Effi Kodritz
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Lübeck Bartender/RBT-37
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Hedwig Lesens
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Matthias Henning
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====Planet Hamburg (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #133886:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm from Texas. You get lots of sun and wind there. Beautiful in a stark sort of way. This place is too cold and gray. Then there's that frosty disposition of the Rheinlanders. They aren't the friendliest of folks, especially toward the Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Axel Von Lahr
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Hilde Stirn
->Rumor #133887:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hamburg's a good place to be based. It's a criminal crossroads of sorts, because of the nature of the Jump Hole network in Rheinland. You can find plentiful work without having to go into the heart of the Walker Nebula. Those clouds can change the odds quite a bit, usually in the bad guys favor. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Axel Von Lahr
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Hilde Stirn
->Rumor #133888:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican pays most of the bounties around here. That means we hunt down Unioners. The only reason to chase a Junker is a chance at some contraband. We don't get paid enough by the military to bother that much with the Bundschuh. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Axel Von Lahr
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Hilde Stirn
->Rumor #133889:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's a Hole into Frankfurt in the Alsterfeld. That's where you'll see Junkers running contraband and the odd Bundschuh raiding party headed for the Westfalen. And there are always plenty of Unioners to keep you company. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Axel Von Lahr
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Hilde Stirn
->Rumor #133890:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Vierlande doesn't produce that many ex-cons who could become Bounty Hunters, for the simple reason that most sentences are for life. Personally, sounds a little harsh to me. They don't even put them to work, like the LPI. It's a pretty grim place. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Axel Von Lahr
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Hilde Stirn
->Rumor #133891:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's not real exciting work around here; chasing down Unioners and the odd Bundschuh for the most part. If it's excitement you're looking for, go to Omega-11. I'd buy me a pretty strong shield, though. The sun's gone red giant, going to go planetary nova pretty soon. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Axel Von Lahr
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Hilde Stirn
->Rumor #133892:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hamburg is practically a company town of Republicans. We created this city, and have employed many of its workers over the years. Now they resent us, and blame Republican for all of their problems. We cannot pay workers so much money and give them long vacations yet also remain competitive with Kusari and Liberty. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Otto Baumhauer
->Rumor #133893:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hamburg planet is the primary distribution point within this system for Consumer Goods, Pharmaceuticals, and Oxygen. We also ship Side Arms in from the Ring for use at Vierlande, or on the Westfalen. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Otto Baumhauer
->Rumor #133894:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The most lucrative Commodities in Hamburg are Diamonds and Silver. Inbound cargos come in from New Berlin. We often switch to better-armored ships with escorts for the run across the Independent Worlds to Houston. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Otto Baumhauer
->Rumor #133895:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There have been reports of Junkers sighted in the Alsterfeld. They aren't often found outside of capitol systems like Berlin, so we assume they're smuggling Artifacts and Cardamine. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133896:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican pays us well to clear out the Unioners and keep the peace in Hamburg, so we can't complain. I hear that other Federal Police stations have been caught extorting passing ships for "security" money. Berlin sent a crew of them to Vierlande last month to appease the Liberty companies. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133897:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They've got me on prison convoy duty this month. We're usually hauling a load of Unioners picked up from the North Field. Their comrades wait for us in the Sud Fels, which we have to pass to get to Vierlande. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
->Rumor #133898:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The real reason we've got so many Unioners is simple -- no work. Hamburg's got a 30-percent unemployment rate currently. Hard times and empty stomachs lead to anger and resentment, mostly directed against Republican Shipping. They broke the union after the war, which effectively ended the good times in Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133899:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've got two regular field patrols. One goes up into the North Field -- mostly Unioners up there. The Alster Field patrol will sometimes see Bundschuh or Junkers. And lots of Unioners, of course -- they're the dominant criminal species of Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133900:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have a lot of Bounty Hunters on Hamburg. Gives this place a bit of a hard edge. The ones in from Texas can be a rough lot. A few of my comrades have joined the Guild, mostly to make better money. They're definitely a little more casual about killing people than they were as police officers. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133901:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican used to require foreign shippers in Rheinland space to unload all cargo at stations like Altona. There were dock workers that packed and unpacked ships all day long. Talk about an unnecessary job. Now it's all automated, and Liberty ships often bypass Altona and Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133902:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If we catch a Junker with Cardamine or Artifacts, they usually try to run for it. Their ships are not very fast, so we often can catch them quickly. They almost always refuse to surrender, though. Guess they prefer to die rather than be interrogated and imprisoned. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
->Rumor #133903:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Rheinland military patrols the Trade Lanes in the northwestern part of the system. It's one of the few places in Rheinland space where we get any assistance from them. There is little we can do about the Independent Worlds, though. You're on your own until you reach the Liberty Navy patrols in the northern portions of those systems. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Norbert Huge
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Liese Jahn
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Nadja Noth
 * Rheinland Population/Hamburg Bartender/Rüdiger Hauser
->Rumor #133904:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just made the Hudson crossing with a load of Fertilizers. We usually drop off a few containers for Republican here before continuing onto Stuttgart. They ship them off to the Frankfurt system. I hear they end up in bio-domes out in the Edge Worlds. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ John Shaw
->Rumor #133905:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We always make a stop in Hamburg to deliver the weekly food supply from Stuttgart. It's a relatively quiet system for us, with no LWB about. The Unioners couldnt care less about what's happening in that part of Rheinland. Everyone needs to eat, after all. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ John Shaw
->Rumor #133906:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are two reasons Synth Foods took over Stuttgart: Less expensive Luxury Foods for the Liberty elites, and cheap food for the prisoners of Texas. That about sums up Liberty society. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/ John Shaw
->Rumor #133907:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It feels strange to stand here in this city. The Zoners do not have a planet that we can call home. We are accustomed to the low-gravity environments of our Freeports. We only visit House systems like Hamburg if we must procure supplies that are not sold by passing ships. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Chris Talbott
->Rumor #133908:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Zoners philosophy is to not antagonize anyone. We wish to coexist in peace with all factions in the Sirius sector, whether they are criminal or government. Zoners who cannot abide by this code are asked to leave. They often become Bounty Hunters. So we have a special relationship with the Guild. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Chris Talbott
->Rumor #133909:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You should visit our Freeport in Bering. Be careful of the Unioners, though. They often prey on shipping in the southern end of our system. There are no military patrols along the Lanes until you reach Freeport 2. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Chris Talbott
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====Vierlande Prison (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #133931:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Republican is the exclusive supplier for all Federal Police installations in Rheinland. We've had to augment our weekly shipments to accommodate the swelling population here. The Pharmaceuticals supply has become critical with all the illness and disease sweeping through the prisoner population.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ August Schober
 * Republican Shipping/ Bert Koppe
->Rumor #133932:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's nice to see so many Unioners locked up in their solitary cells. Maybe that will dissuade others who are considering joining the cause. Somehow I think not. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ August Schober
 * Republican Shipping/ Bert Koppe
->Rumor #133933:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've had Unioners try to sneak out of here in our empty cargo containers. Unfortunately, the vacuum conditions and extreme cold of outer space generally mean death for most stowaways within a few minutes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ August Schober
 * Republican Shipping/ Bert Koppe
->Rumor #133934:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Vierlande is the new maximum-security prison for hardened criminals. It was built in the Hamburg system to put it out of reach of the Hessian hordes in Berlin and Stuttgart. Unfortunately, they seem to have found a secret access route into this system, so we still get prison-break attempts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133935:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Federal Police prison warden sees little hope of rehabilitation for most of these criminals, so most sentences are extended indefinitely. There are standing orders from Berlin to not release Bundschuh under any circumstances. The only planet those poor brutes will ever see for the rest of their lives is Hannover. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133936:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Truth is, most of the people in here haven't committed that many crimes, especially the Bundschuh. Some of them look like Berlin University kids who decided to join a demonstration on a lark without thinking much of the consequences. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
->Rumor #133937:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a special political section for the Bundschuh. The government doesn't want them mixing with the other inmates and stirring up trouble. Don't want any more Popular Revolutions now, do we? </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133938:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Sudheide has become a veritable cesspool of humanity. The Red Hessians, Unioners, and Bundschuh all stage their prison breakout attempts from that field. I don't know why they try. This prison has a triple hull, with outer walls more than two meters thick. No prisoner has ever escaped Vierlande alive. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133939:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners and the Bundschuh pretty much keep to themselves. The tough guys are the Red Hessians. They control the area inside the inner-security perimeter, where guards rarely venture. You'd never know that some of them were regular working folks before they went bad. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
->Rumor #133940:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The prison convoys have been shipping them in pretty fast from all over Rheinland. As a result, Vierlande has become very overcrowded. There have been hunger strikes to protest the conditions, but there's no money to build an extension. So we keep packing them in a little tighter. One day, it'll all explode. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
->Rumor #133941:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the older prisoners that come in from Berlin look more like politicians than hardened criminals. Rumor is that they're whistle blowers and reformers from the government that were getting a little too honest for their own good. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
->Rumor #133942:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We keep just enough LWB examples in Vierlande to show and tell for the Synth Food execs that come through here on their Rheinland inspection tour every few months or so. They want to see progress on the LWB problem on Rheinland. That means a steadily increasing number of LWB inmates at our lovely facility. So we show them a few LWB mixed in with a crowd of Unioners. Works every time. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Sonja Kroll
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Captain Ulrike Lochner
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Sgt. Gustav Lucius
 * Rheinland Federal Police/Vierlande Bartender/Otto Rothstein
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====Wedel Mining Facility (Hamburg)====
->Rumor #131460:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Basic Alloys produced here are shipped to Houston, and supplies are transported on the return trips. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131461:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We smuggle Diamonds from the Junker base in Berlin to the Rogue base Dawson in the Hudson system. This is our main source of income to carry on our war against Republican Shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131462:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The union that formed after the Alster Tragedy of 512 gained well-deserved benefits for the shipwrights and welders who built the transports that shipped goods throughout Sirius. In the decades that followed, the union grew stronger. When the 80-Years War broke out, we were sitting pretty on a mountain of government subsidies and contracts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131463:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run shipments from the Junker base in New Berlin; they supply us with superior Rheinland Side Arms and Kusari H-Fuel. Not an easy run through Hamburg, but decent profit. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131464:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Alster Shipyards are home to the Unioner movement. In 412 AS it was established by Imperial Shipping to supply the Rheinland Empire with transport freighters, lifters, and repair ships. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131465:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When the 80-Years War came to an end the Union joined the Popular Revolt to overthrow the Imperial government. There were no more government contracts, and unemployment skyrocketed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131466:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 512 AS an explosion in the Alster Shipyards killed hundreds of workers. They formed a union and walked out on the Imperial Shipping executives. It was then that Imperial Shipping realized how valuable its workers were. Production ground to a stop, and they started losing millions of credits for each day production was halted. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131467:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our old boss Imperial Shipping became Republican Shipping after the Popular Revolt. It was a dark time for the common laborer, and within months we lost all the rights we had been working to create for the past several decades. Republican Shipping really stuck it to the worker, using the weak economic situation to strong-arm the faltering union. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131468:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners are a political organization fighting like many others throughout Sirius for the fair treatment of the working classes. We cannot allow the type of exploitation that is common practice of the corporations </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131469:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>With our old union destroyed after the Popular Revolt, we reformed and called ourselves the Unioners. We were formed to make Republican Shipping pay for the wrongs it had committed against its workers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
->Rumor #131470:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use this as our primary base to attack Republican Shipping in Hamburg via the Jump Hole just south of this base. The asteroid fields in the northern part of that system provide good cover. We also attack them on the Trade Lanes that pass through this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Bernd Schuster
 * Unioners/ Michael Wagner
 * Unioners/ Ulli Pröfrock
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====Battleship Sado (Hiroshima)====
->Rumor #133363:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a most difficult situation. Tokyo insists that we construct this Jump Gate to the Chugoku system in order to eliminate the Blood Dragon threat. But it is not easy to supply our ships across the Kyofu Gap. The Blood Dragons are patient, waiting for us to lower our guard for a moment. Then they strike out of the Kayo Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133364:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It will be virtually impossible to build the other end of this Jump Gate in Chugoku. It will take months to transport supplies and run the battleship cross the gap, and we will be very close to the Chugoku base while attempting to construct the Gate. This is sheer folly -- a tremendous waste of money. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
->Rumor #133365:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are certain that the Hole to Chugoku is somewhere in the Kayo Cloud, but it is hard for us to linger long in there. The Blood Dragons emerge from the fog, destroy one ship of the patrol, then flee like cowards into the mists. It is very demoralizing on our pilots. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133366:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've heard that we will abandon this area of Hokkaido soon. Tokyo wants us to build a defensive line on the other side of the Kyofu Gap and leave it at that. All the Gas that Samura wants is in the southern end of the system anyway. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
->Rumor #133367:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We must also patrol the navigation path to the construction area through the Unyo Cloud. The terrorists would destroy all of the Deep Space convoys if we didn't. It is a tenuous balance in the northern end of Hokkaido. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133368:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Why do the Blood Dragons hate the government and Samura so much? They seem to tolerate Kishiro and the GMG. I'm just a soldier following orders. I want this war to end so that I can go home to Kyushu. Unfortunately, it seems like there will be no simple resolution to this conflict. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
->Rumor #133369:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Welcome to the end of the universe. You probably need a drink, and an anti-rad pill after crossing the Gap. The Kyofu makes life difficult here, because you can't just hop back to Tokyo to take your leave. They prefer to minimize exposure to once every two months for anyone posted here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133370:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The patrols could sure use help up here. The enemy picks away at them, one by one. Never do any suicide assaults, at least not on us. They like to harass the construction site and the Deep Space workers. They'll fly right at them, then swerve away at the last moment. It is most effective at unnerving the Gaijin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133371:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>None of us know why we are here. The government should withdraw behind the Gap and abandon the site. That would be much easier to defend than this hell hole. It is a matter of saving face for the bureaucrats in Tokyo that approved this project. They cannot admit their error, or more likely, return the bribes they accepted from Samura.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133372:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not feeling so well -- probably all the radiation up here. I volunteered for the position because of all the hazard pay. The previous chief on the Hokkaido supply route refused to run it anymore. Now I understand why. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133373:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura has had advisors here since the beginning of the Gate construction project. We have surveyed the Kayo and Unyo Clouds for potential Gas reserves. It appears that the southern area of the system is richer. That is probably for the best, as we may be forced to withdraw from this area soon. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133374:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The MOX run to this ship and the Chugoku gate is very dangerous. The enemy seem particularly interested in intercepting our special cargo. I don't know why we are supposed to return the Toxic Waste to Yokohama. We should just dump it in the Gap. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133375:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura has accomplished our primary goal of establishing a viable gas field in Hokkaido. The government's assistance was invaluable achieving this goal. We no longer need the Chugoku Gate project to justify our presence in Hokkaido. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133376:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They go through a lot of Pharmaceuticals up here because of all the radiation. You can see it in the people around here -- hair falling out, lesions. They all look unwell. We shouldn't be here; it is not worth it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133377:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not sure what they will do with the Gate once it is abandoned. Billions of Kusari credits have already been expended. At the very least, it is a monument to the power that we have over the corrupt bureaucrats. They will support every whim and wish that we desire. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #134336:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many Naval Forces fighters have been lost recently in skirmishes with the Blood Dragons. Due to the low visibility and difficult conditions in the cloud, some weapons could still remain on the ships in some of the more remote locations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
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====Matsue Base (Hiroshima)====
->Rumor #133552:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is commissioned with keeping the nearby Border Worlds as free from piracy as possible. It is a daunting task, but we manage to kill and capture many of the worst of them. Still more try to slip into the system, but we halt that traffic also.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133553:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the greatest threats to Kusari is the spread of Cardamine abuse. The Golden Chrysanthemums have been smuggling Cardamine into Kusari through this system, and it must end. I have ordered all Golden Chrysanthemums to be summarily executed and given flight commanders a red pass on patrols in the Border Worlds and this system.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133554:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Though some of their actions do get a little violent, the Farmers Alliance is not a real threat to Kusari society. Much of our time and resources would be wasted hunting down a paper tiger. The occasional accidental attack on Kishiro occurs, but for the most part they attack only Gaijin shipping.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133555:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden Chrysanthemums might be our number one priority in this system, but it is the Blood Dragons who are the greatest threat to our physical safety. The Golden C. pilots are young and reckless; the Dragons are skilled and fearless.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133557:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dragons lay bleeding while the Chrysanthemums die fighting Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133558:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Seiran Dust Field is the point of entry for the Blood Dragons that enter the system. Our patrols have spotted them moving between there and the Okha Dust Field. We cannot interrogate the ones we capture as we would like to, so many of their strategies remain secrets.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133559:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our patrols in Tau-29 come up against Outcasts on occasion. We know they are the source of Cardamine, but they are not the problem for us. It is the women who smuggle it into our system. Before the Golden C. there was no Cardamine problem in Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Much of our effort is spent redirecting the Gaijin into Shikoku. We are trying to seal this part of Kusari space and, more importantly, New Tokyo from their presence. Bretonians and the populations of the Border Worlds are very unsavory characters. They would be more comfortable in the other system.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The fusion chambers in this ship produce Toxic Waste, which we take to Yokohama. There we pick up the MOX and bring it back here to fuel the engines of this ship.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Side Arms are given to every soldier aboard the ship. They are supplied from relay bases in New Tokyo.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the basic supplies needed to run this base are brought here from Kyushu. The shipments also bring in mail, since many of the soldiers aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> are from the finest families planetside.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship plays an important role in keeping the foreign criminals out of our beautiful system. Let them infest Shikoku if they must; Kyushu is ours. Personally, I wish that Kusari was still strictly isolationist. We could always transfer goods at our borders, but the government has grown lax.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Nansei Research Center is protected by this battleship. It is a great responsibility protecting the best and brightest minds in Kusari. Someone must take the forefront of scientific research in Kusari, and that great task falls upon Samura's shoulders.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I enjoy this assignment aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. I am afforded the pleasure of seeing the worlds beyond Kusari, but in the safety of a battleship patrol. Yes, sometimes the pilots will take me with them on circuit sorties -- very exciting.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #134331:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Shoki, part of a Blood Dragon raiding party in the Kyushu system, was intercepted and destroyed by the Kusari Naval Forces. Two of the three ships have been located and salvaged. The patrol leaders ship, the Shoki, remains at large. It is believed to be somewhere in the western Ohka Dust Field, which is difficult for the Blood Dragons to operate in, given its close proximity to the Nagumo. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
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====Ainu Depot (Hokkaido)====
->Rumor #133378:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons can land nowhere in Kusari space, so we must come here to purchase our supplies from the Golden C. girls. They are all drug addicts, which we do not approve of, but they share the passion for a new Kusari, so we help them fight the evil Samura.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #133379:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the fastest route for us to access Kyushu and Shikoku, but we must cross the Gap and dodge the military patrols in the Kayo Cloud. It has been a difficult battle, but I believe we will be victorious soon. Samura and the military will declare victory and abandon that absurd Gate project. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #133380:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is in Chugoku, through the Jump Hole in the Kayo Cloud. If you want to bring us supplies, there is good money to be made. We especially need Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #133381:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use Ainu as our forward base from which to launch attacks into Kyushu. The Hole lies just south of us here. Our favorite targets are the Samura transports, at least if the police aren't around. On occasion, we have made assaults on the Nansei Research Center, but that is risky with the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo </TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>so close by.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #133382:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use Kyushu to access Shikoku, where many of our sisters and brothers are held unjustly in Fuchu prison by the government henchmen of Samura. There we must contend with the Hogosha, Bounty Hunters, the military, and police.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #133383:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden Chrysanthemums believe that they have the next emperor -- excuse me, empress of Kusari back in a corner of the living deck in the form of a seven-year-old Kyushu girl. They're teaching her everything she needs to know to run the country. Good luck.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #133385:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is our Kinkakuji, however humble it may seem to you. Here our new recruits must learn the teachings of Yuyu in the "Golden Chrysanthemum in Bloom," our source of inspiration. It says that Kusari will eventually be engulfed in revolution and united under the rule of a benevolent empress personally selected by the goddess Amaterasu to watch over her people. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
->Rumor #133386:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The only place we can land in Kusari space is Roppongi. The foreigners find us more amusing than threatening, and tolerate our presence there. So we buy Luxury Goods in the boutiques onboard, and sell our Cardamine to the highest bidders in the bars scattered around the station. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
 * Golden Crysanthenums/Ainu Bartender/RBT-116
->Rumor #133387:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are not numerous yet, but that will change as more of the oppressed women of Kusari tire of the old ways. As we speak, underground cells of the disaffected youth are being formed on all the home planets. We encourage them to visit foreign lands, try exotic foods, and experiment with many new ideas. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
->Rumor #133388:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We must occasionally make the long journey to Leiden in the Independent Worlds to sell Cardamine and buy supplies from the smelly foreigners. The Lane Hackers are strange, but not so bad once you get to know them. The Rogues are disgusting pigs. They always harass us in the bar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
->Rumor #133389:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Once we are more established in Kusari, we will no longer need this hellish place. Samura puts much pressure on us. Only the assistance of the Blood Dragons has allowed us to survive at all out here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
->Rumor #133390:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I graduated from New Tokyo University with a degree in Quantum Engineering. I found work at Samura pouring coffee for my male boss. When the Golden C. approached me at a Roppongi bar, I jumped at the chance to finally fight back for the women of Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
 * Golden Crysanthenums/Ainu Bartender/RBT-116
->Rumor #133391:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy our Cardamine from the Outcasts on Cali in the Tau-23 system. They are disturbing people -- always wearing those masks, but we need the Cardamine. It defines our cause and serves as an important security mechanism. All recruits of Matsuda must become addicted to the drug before they are allowed to become full-fledged members. This makes it difficult for the Kusari security forces to penetrate our cell. And of course, they are not women... </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
 * Golden Crysanthenums/Ainu Bartender/RBT-116
->Rumor #133392:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We support the Blood Dragons as well as we can. They need access to our base to rest and resupply after crossing the Gap, or after long Kyushu raids. We do not share the same beliefs, but they are not incompatible. We are all devoted to the overthrow of the Kusari government. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
 * Golden Crysanthenums/Ainu Bartender/RBT-116
->Rumor #134329:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Shibuya Maru was making a Cardamine shipment across the southern end of the Shikoku system when it was intercepted by a Bounty Hunter named Jake Rush. He swears that he opened fire and badly wounded the ship. He searched the cloud for some time, but never found the Shibuya. The word around Deshima is that it never made it to the Galileo system. Its probably out there somewhere in the Keiun Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Kazuko Hara
->Rumor #134331:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Shoki, part of a Blood Dragon raiding party in the Kyushu system, was intercepted and destroyed by the Kusari Naval Forces. Two of the three ships have been located and salvaged. The patrol leaders ship, the Shoki, remains at large. It is believed to be somewhere in the western Ohka Dust Field, which is difficult for the Blood Dragons to operate in, given its close proximity to the Nagumo. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
->Rumor #134332:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Ohtori was escorting the Yukari Maru from Cali to Ainu when it was ambushed by a Naval Forces patrol crossing Kyushu. The cargo ship fled to safety while its escort turned to fight the attackers to the death. There are rumors that the Ohtori may be still intact somewhere in the Seiran Dust Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Etsuko Tanaka
 * Golden Chrysanthemums/ Hiromi Endo
->Rumor #134336:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many Naval Forces fighters have been lost recently in skirmishes with the Blood Dragons. Due to the low visibility and difficult conditions in the cloud, some weapons could still remain on the ships in some of the more remote locations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Blood Dragons/ Kyoko Yamada
 * Blood Dragons/ Miki Hayashi
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====Battleship Matsumoto (Hokkaido)====
->Rumor #133363:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is a most difficult situation. Tokyo insists that we construct this Jump Gate to the Chugoku system in order to eliminate the Blood Dragon threat. But it is not easy to supply our ships across the Kyofu Gap. The Blood Dragons are patient, waiting for us to lower our guard for a moment. Then they strike out of the Kayo Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133364:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It will be virtually impossible to build the other end of this Jump Gate in Chugoku. It will take months to transport supplies and run the battleship cross the gap, and we will be very close to the Chugoku base while attempting to construct the Gate. This is sheer folly -- a tremendous waste of money. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
->Rumor #133365:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are certain that the Hole to Chugoku is somewhere in the Kayo Cloud, but it is hard for us to linger long in there. The Blood Dragons emerge from the fog, destroy one ship of the patrol, then flee like cowards into the mists. It is very demoralizing on our pilots. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133366:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've heard that we will abandon this area of Hokkaido soon. Tokyo wants us to build a defensive line on the other side of the Kyofu Gap and leave it at that. All the Gas that Samura wants is in the southern end of the system anyway. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
->Rumor #133367:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We must also patrol the navigation path to the construction area through the Unyo Cloud. The terrorists would destroy all of the Deep Space convoys if we didn't. It is a tenuous balance in the northern end of Hokkaido. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133368:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Why do the Blood Dragons hate the government and Samura so much? They seem to tolerate Kishiro and the GMG. I'm just a soldier following orders. I want this war to end so that I can go home to Kyushu. Unfortunately, it seems like there will be no simple resolution to this conflict. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuo Endo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
->Rumor #133369:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Welcome to the end of the universe. You probably need a drink, and an anti-rad pill after crossing the Gap. The Kyofu makes life difficult here, because you can't just hop back to Tokyo to take your leave. They prefer to minimize exposure to once every two months for anyone posted here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133370:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The patrols could sure use help up here. The enemy picks away at them, one by one. Never do any suicide assaults, at least not on us. They like to harass the construction site and the Deep Space workers. They'll fly right at them, then swerve away at the last moment. It is most effective at unnerving the Gaijin. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133371:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>None of us know why we are here. The government should withdraw behind the Gap and abandon the site. That would be much easier to defend than this hell hole. It is a matter of saving face for the bureaucrats in Tokyo that approved this project. They cannot admit their error, or more likely, return the bribes they accepted from Samura.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Sachiko Kondo
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Matsumoto Bartender/Watamaro Uchiyama
->Rumor #133372:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not feeling so well -- probably all the radiation up here. I volunteered for the position because of all the hazard pay. The previous chief on the Hokkaido supply route refused to run it anymore. Now I understand why. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133373:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura has had advisors here since the beginning of the Gate construction project. We have surveyed the Kayo and Unyo Clouds for potential Gas reserves. It appears that the southern area of the system is richer. That is probably for the best, as we may be forced to withdraw from this area soon. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133374:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The MOX run to this ship and the Chugoku gate is very dangerous. The enemy seem particularly interested in intercepting our special cargo. I don't know why we are supposed to return the Toxic Waste to Yokohama. We should just dump it in the Gap. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133375:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura has accomplished our primary goal of establishing a viable gas field in Hokkaido. The government's assistance was invaluable achieving this goal. We no longer need the Chugoku Gate project to justify our presence in Hokkaido. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133376:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They go through a lot of Pharmaceuticals up here because of all the radiation. You can see it in the people around here -- hair falling out, lesions. They all look unwell. We shouldn't be here; it is not worth it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #133377:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not sure what they will do with the Gate once it is abandoned. Billions of Kusari credits have already been expended. At the very least, it is a monument to the power that we have over the corrupt bureaucrats. They will support every whim and wish that we desire. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Akio Maeda
->Rumor #134336:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many Naval Forces fighters have been lost recently in skirmishes with the Blood Dragons. Due to the low visibility and difficult conditions in the cloud, some weapons could still remain on the ships in some of the more remote locations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hideaki Ishikawa
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====Chugoku Gate Construction Site (Hokkaido)====
->Rumor #133393:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>So what brought you to the armpit of the universe? Never been on a Gate construction job where they lob missiles at you everyday. That's why we're an all all-volunteer force here. Work here one year and you can retire, and not in the wastelands of Houston, mind you. Nope, I'm headed to California to buy me a nice house and rub elbows with those rich folks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133394:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've been hearing rumors that they might shut this thing down pretty soon. Kusari government's tired of the cost overruns. I can tell you, we're tired of watching our buddies get atomized while they're out there welding. This ain't no place for civilians like us, even on hazard pay. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133395:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those Kusari types sure have lots of money and patience. The Dragons probably destroy half of the construction supplies getting here. Then they do their daily target practice on the storage depots and get most of the rest. We don't care much about the parts and machinery, as long as they keep paying us the big bucks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133396:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Samura folks just made a replacement MOX run yesterday. Last one got wasted in the cloud. We're all short timers up here -- either short time to the grave, or to paradise on the beaches of Curacao.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133397:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We pay top dollar for Jump Gate Parts and Construction Machinery. As you can see, we need a lot of replacement parts in case something gets accidentally vaporized by a Blood Dragon pulse cannon. IC won't insure this project; that should tell you something.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133398:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those Samura people are always snooping around. We have to keep watchful and enforce LSF and company policy. No unauthorized personnel near the black boxes or anything marked PROPERTY OF AGEIRA. Those are the rules. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133399:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's a long way up here from Houston. I saw a lot of Sirius for the first time. We stopped at Roppongi to switch crews and take on supplies before heading up to Sapporo. That's the last outpost of civilization on the other side of the Kyofu Gap. They make everyone put on special suits before crossing that. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133400:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have no idea how they expect us to build the other side of this Gate in Chugoku. Then we'd be in the backyard of the Dragons. Can't imagine that they'd just give up. Bunch of craziness this project is. Lot of people killed and money spent for nothing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133401:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Samura people are polite, but they keep their distance. They would prefer to do this job themselves, but Liberty's got regulations protecting our intellectual property, at least as far as Trade Lanes and Jump Gates are concerned. Keeps us in business, so I don't care. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Chugoku Bartender/Gennai Kogo
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
->Rumor #133402:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver the MOX from Yokohama that powers the main reactors of the Jump Gates. Deep Space will not allow us to handle the actual components of the Gate, however. Liberty is very careful about controlling that aspect of their technology advantage. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Sasaki
->Rumor #133403:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons seem to grow stronger with every passing month. Our operatives tell us that they have not been able to determine where this organization obtains its funding. I wouldn't be surprised if it were Kishiro. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Sasaki
->Rumor #133404:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When this Gate is abandoned shortly after completion, due to "irresolvable security issues," Kusari will finally have a prototype to disassemble and examine at our leisure, far from the watchful eyes of IC and Ageira. We chose this impossible location in the nebula with all of this interference and radiation for a reason. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Sasaki
->Rumor #133405:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Liberty construction workers are a foul-mouthed, disrespectful lot that care only about money. At Samura we must think of the company first, never ourselves. To help create the correct spirit, new trainees must go through a year of drills and exercises to instill the proper respect for our traditions. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Sasaki
->Rumor #133406:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It is incredible that the Kusari public has never questioned the facts that the Kusari government has provided them concerning the economic viability of this project. Samura has known from the onset that it would never be financially or logistically feasible. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Sasaki
->Rumor #133407:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Personally, I doubt that the Blood Dragons will stop attacking us once we retreat across the Kyofu Gap. The grand scheme to free Samura from our historical agreement with the GMG is dependent on Hokkaido providing a safe, reliable source of H-Fuel. I don't see that happening anytime soon in this area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Sasaki
->Rumor #134335:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The ship Thomas Morrel was transporting Trade Lane Parts to the Chugoku Gate construction site. Shortly after crossing the Kyofu Gap, it was attacked by Blood Dragons,. The disabled Morrel drifted into an area of the Unyo Cloud perilously close to the gap. Several of the containers were offloaded to smaller ships before a radiation storm forced the salvage crew to abandon the area. Upon their return, the ship had disappeared. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Bill Baldwin
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Stephan Nichols
 * Deep Space Engineering/Sales Rep. Tony Bratton
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====Sapporo Station (Hokkaido)====
->Rumor #133408:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Last stop before the Kyofu Gap. If we're lucky, no one will attack us along the lonely stretch of navigational buoys that define the route to the construction site. You never where or when they'll strike. I'm hauling Jump Gate parts, since only DSE personnel are allowed to handle them. Otherwise, I'd love to let Samura handle this one for us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ George Oldman
->Rumor #133409:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If this is the future of DSE Trade Lane projects, I want out. I'd rather see Liberty start letting other companies shoulder more of the physical risk. This is Kusari's little dirty war. We shouldn't be stuck in the middle of it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ George Oldman
->Rumor #133410:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It is a beautiful system up here -- very inspiring to an artist type like myself. That's one of the reasons I signed up for the Border World division. We get to see the cool places, and get paid very well, thank you. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ George Oldman
->Rumor #133411:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Can I buy you a drink? I definitely need one. It was a difficult day. My unit was on a deep reconnaissance patrol in the Shiden Cloud, looking for the GC. We were engaged in battle with the GC for 15 minutes, and then they vanished. Our unit lost Takana-san and Ogawa-san. I was just singing karaoke with them last night, so sad ...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
->Rumor #133412:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are here to support Samura's expansion into Hokkaido. It seems like a lot of trouble to mine Gas when there are plentiful supplies in the Sigma systems. But Samura is adamant that Hokkaido be developed, so here I am. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
 * Kusari State Police/Sapporo Bartender/RBT-86
->Rumor #133413:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear that the GMG was forced to pay a special "reparation" tax to the government to help Kusari recover some of the loans given to the GMG during the 80-Years War -- more specifically, to pay for the immense costs of constructing the Hokkaido and Chugoku Gates. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
->Rumor #133414:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden C. are the main problem in this part of the system; on the other side of the Gap, it's Blood Dragons. But that's the military's problem. Anyway, they like to attack the gas miners, or wait for supply ships to pass along the buoy route. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
 * Kusari State Police/Sapporo Bartender/RBT-86
->Rumor #133415:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bounty Hunters would be useful up here. Samura could afford to pay them well, unlike us poor State Police officers. We do not like to take bribes. That is the privilege of the New Tokyo bureaucrats. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
 * Kusari State Police/Sapporo Bartender/RBT-86
->Rumor #133416:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day Sapporo will be converted into a large complex, much like Osaka. Then we will no longer be needed, assuming that the Blood Dragon and GC is gone. I do not believe that day is coming soon. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
->Rumor #133418:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are at least two Holes into this system: one comes from Kyushu, the other from Chugoku. Both are very well concealed in the clouds, where our sensors cannot pick them up. You know when you are close, though. The criminals become agitated and attack like a swarm of stinging insects. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
 * Kusari State Police/Sapporo Bartender/RBT-86
->Rumor #133419:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've heard a drunk Samura manager brag that one day soon, Kusari will understand the Jump Gate technology that Liberty has controlled for so long. I wonder if it has anything to do with this project. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Hiroshi Ikeda
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takeo Ishikawa
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yoko Murakami
->Rumor #133420:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We deliver supplies to this post on a weekly basis, and then continue on to the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Matsumoto</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. They always need more Pharmaceuticals on the battleship -- radiation poisoning and battle wounds. It is a nasty little war we have going up there.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Kenji Ono
->Rumor #133421:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day this system will be full of gas miners, and the enemies of Kusari will be distant memories. The police must first find and eliminate the GC base, which lies somewhere to the west of this outpost. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Kenji Ono
->Rumor #133422:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have begun gas mining operations here, but they are not up to full production -- too many attacks by the Golden Chrysanthemums and Blood Dragons. The </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Matsumoto</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> should be stationed here, not up by the Chugoku Gate site.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Kenji Ono
->Rumor #134335:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The ship Thomas Morrel was transporting Trade Lane Parts to the Chugoku Gate construction site. Shortly after crossing the Kyofu Gap, it was attacked by Blood Dragons,. The disabled Morrel drifted into an area of the Unyo Cloud perilously close to the gap. Several of the containers were offloaded to smaller ships before a radiation storm forced the salvage crew to abandon the area. Upon their return, the ship had disappeared. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Deep Space Engineering/ George Oldman
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====Akita Border Station (Honshu)====
->Rumor #133348:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There have been cutbacks at this post recently. Last week they transferred two regular patrols to Tokyo, citing lack of identifiable threats. Believe me, there is no lack of enemies here. The Outcasts and Corsairs have found that Kusari presents an easy target, especially with the military distracted by Hokkaido. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133349:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have heard that there is a Hole into Sigma-13, but the GMG will not tell us. They keep their secrets close; they are not truly Kusari anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133350:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has assured us that they can handle the criminal problem in Sigma-13, but this does not seem to be the case. They should bring in the military -- that would seal the border. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133351:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This one of the most difficult postings for a Kusari State Police officer in our colony. Maybe Sapporo is worse. The most dreaded patrol does a circuit into the Hiryo Cloud, where the Corsairs lurk. We had 50% casualties on it last month. That's enough to make one superstitious. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133352:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sometimes I wish that we could bring the Bounty Hunters Guild into Honshu. They do very well in the nebulas and know how to deal with difficult Edge World criminals like the Corsairs, but Tokyo will not allow it. They say we must show our bushi-do spirit and accept the challenge. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133353:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am under orders to not pursue Hogosha unless they have been caught stealing from storage depots. It is strange how the rules are always changing with regards to the Hogosha. The GMG seems to dislike them very much, unlike former times. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133354:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG and Samura haul H-Fuel to Osaka past our lonely station. Kishiro, ALG and Republican are the other shippers using this area. Tokyo has said we must hold this line against the Edge World threat, yet reduces our strength on a regular basis. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Akita Bartender/RBT-103
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133355:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have one more year in the field, then I can get a desk job in Tokyo. No more stress like this, wondering if you will live another day. My wife and her parents are back there always asking about my return date. Maybe it's not so bad here ... </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133356:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Kusari State Police prides itself in being a highly ethical organization. Hogosha often attempt bribes when they are caught, but we will never accept them. The bureaucrats of Tokyo are another matter, however. There are many stories of the criminal bribes and gifts that are accepted by the rulers of our nation. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Yamazaki
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Takako Miura
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Nomura
->Rumor #133357:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We supply this base with its essential needs. We've had to ship a lot of new issue Side Arms in from Tokyo. Guess there's been a little attrition around here lately. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133358:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just having a quick beer with an old friend who's posted here with the Police. We graduated from the same school in Kyushu years ago. I miss the green isles of home. Honshu is always grim and gray -- and full of Kishiro people. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133359:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've been hauling supplies in my little freighter around Samura and government bases for as long as I can remember. Honshu was pretty quiet until the Edge World pirates showed up. Shikoku has always been active. You've got Liberty criminals in the southern end, and Bounty hunters and Blood Dragons feuding in the rest. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133360:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day soon they will shut down Osaka, and many people like me will be forced to find work elsewhere. Hokkaido does not sound attractive to me. Maybe I'll join the rice farmers of Kyushu. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133361:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just switching some crew with a transport bound for Mainz. They lost a couple in a Blood Dragon attack near Osaka and needed a full complement for the Sigma-13 crossing. I wish them the best of luck. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
->Rumor #133362:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Upper management is trying to put pressure on the GMG and Kishiro by having police patrols removed from this base. I'm not sure it really helps us though, as Samura ships must still travel to Rheinland with other supplies. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Junichiro Yano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Susumu Uchida
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====Aomori Station (Honshu)====
->Rumor #133339:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sigma-13 and 17 are the heart of GMG territory. We will defend it fiercely if threatened, as Rheinland did during the 80-Years War. The wreckage of the GMG fleet remains in Sigma-13 to this day, floating in the vacuum of the Yanagi Debris Field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Aomori Bartender/Rikyu Sekozawa
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133340:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are searching of a planet to call home. We thought there was a possibility in the Donryu Cloud, but the twin planets are frozen gas, alas. The Outcasts have also proven very challenging in that region of space. We are now looking further inside the Edge Nebula, where our sensors have indicated another planet may lie. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Aomori Bartender/Rikyu Sekozawa
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133341:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sometimes Samura can be so naive. They have never understood where the Blood Dragons get their financial support. We are the silent partner; we decided to aid the fledgling movement of the Blood Dragons to exact our revenge for centuries of theft and humiliation at the hands of Samura. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133342:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs and Hogosha were once our friends and partners in the Artifact business. Then they became greedy and bypassed us to trade directly with each other. We do not forget such betrayals easily. All Hogosha and Corsairs are now shot on sight. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Aomori Bartender/Rikyu Sekozawa
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133343:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base has come under attack by the Outcasts since they discovered the Jump Hole from Sigma-19. We have attempted to patrol it, but they are fearsome fighters, blasting their way through our blockades with impunity. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Aomori Bartender/Rikyu Sekozawa
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133344:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura thinks that once that the government pulls back from the Chugoku Gate project that Hokkaido will finally be theirs. They are gravely mistaken. The GMG will insure that the Blood Dragons live on, and do not rest in peace until Samura abandons Hokkaido. The victory will be sweet. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133345:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro has offered us superior gas miners that could double our profits. We will abandon Samura within the next year and deliver our Gas to Kishiro exclusively, ending our centuries long agreement with the old lady of Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Aomori Bartender/Rikyu Sekozawa
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133346:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy our basic supplies in Honshu. For many us, it is difficult to walk planetside, after spending our entire lives in stations that simulate half the normal gravitational force. From here it is a short journey through the Gate to Sigma-17, the site of our newest field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Aomori Bartender/Rikyu Sekozawa
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133347:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has secretly trained many of the best pilots of the Blood Dragons. We gained much valuable tactical knowledge of how to fight in the clouds of the Crow Nebula during our long war with the Rheinlanders. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
->Rumor #134334:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG encountered a Corsair raiding party in the Chuyu Cloud a few days ago. They engaged and destroyed most of the fighters, but one heavily damaged ship escaped to the Hiryo Cloud. The GMG set up an ambush near the Sigma-13 Jump Hole, but the Corsair never arrived. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Ichiro Saito
 * Gas Miners Guild/Chief Clerk Takao Ota
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Junichi Sasaki
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====Kansai Research Station (Honshu)====
->Rumor #133324:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the most well paid location for Kishiro research scientists. If we can deliver on our promises, all of Kusari will view us as heroes one day. If we fail, I will enter the airlock and eject myself into the mine field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shiro Shimizu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Kiyoshi Yano
->Rumor #133325:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a faction of scientists at Kishiro that doubt we can ever catch up with Liberty. After all, they have had centuries to decipher the alien technology. Kishiro only began the effort 50 years ago. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shiro Shimizu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Kiyoshi Yano
->Rumor #133326:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the most well paid location for Kishiro research scientists. If we can deliver on our promises, all of Kusari will view us as heroes one day. If we fail, I will enter the airlock and eject myself into the mine field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shiro Shimizu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Kiyoshi Yano
->Rumor #133327:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kusari is tolerant of the Artifact trade for different reasons than Liberty and the LSF realize. The Hogosha are required to turn over any that appear to be technology related to the government, in exchange for minimal police interference with their other affairs. They end up here, where we have been patiently unlocking their secrets. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shiro Shimizu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Kiyoshi Yano
->Rumor #133328:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm a direct descendant of Kishiro, the founder of this company. People murmur that I got this post because of my family, but I have worked hard to get where I am. I was first in my class at New Tokyo University. This was a natural choice to honor my family tradition. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shiro Shimizu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Kiyoshi Yano
->Rumor #133329:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day soon, the new Kusari Naval Forces shipyard will be here, within the clouds of this nebula. Yokohama and Samura will merely be a front for the world, building the occasional gunboat to avoid raising suspicion within Liberty. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shiro Shimizu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Kiyoshi Yano
->Rumor #133330:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy our supplies from the Yukawa shipyard or Shinagawa. Since we produce our own life support Gases, our needs are few. It is a lonely life, surrounded by our protective mine field. Once you enter this complex, you rarely leave. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Kansai Bartender/Taneyoshi Takewaki
->Rumor #133331:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base is dedicated to high-temperature Superconductor research. This is a key technical problem faced by both gas miners and military ships in the brutally hot conditions typically encountered in the interior of the Crow Nebula. The challenge is creating a strong enough electrostatic heat shield to keep the ship from melting. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Kansai Bartender/Taneyoshi Takewaki
->Rumor #133332:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have conclusively determined that the Trade Lane and Jump Gate technologies are clearly of alien origin, which confirms our long standing suspicions. Unfortunately, practical manufacturing limitations have prevented us from replicating the Superconductor field-generating materials. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
->Rumor #133333:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons think that we are creating some super weapon here that Tokyo will use to destroy them. Nothing could be further from the truth. We are interested in creating the ultimate battleship that can traverse space without the aid of Jump Gates or Lanes. We have reliable information that Liberty has achieved exactly this goal. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Kansai Bartender/Taneyoshi Takewaki
->Rumor #133334:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro is building specialized new Hull Panels under the guise of gas miner production in the Yukawa shipyard. They are also constructing special field generators that are able to fit within a stripped down cruiser. Our goal is to make an instant leap into Sigma-17 from Kansai, without the aid of Jump Gates, less than 10 years from now. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
->Rumor #133335:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is an ideal location for research away from prying eyes, unlike Nansei. The Kishiro scientists are also more creative and willing to take risks than their Samura counterparts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Kansai Bartender/Taneyoshi Takewaki
->Rumor #133336:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If we unlock the secrets of Trade Lanes and Jump Gates, Kusari will finally be free of the Liberty yoke. We have been exploited far too long by Ageira and IC. All of Sirius will be on a level playing field. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
->Rumor #133337:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have several large laboratories here dedicated to reverse engineering the Liberty Jump Gates and Trade Lanes. Parts have been gathered in random criminal raids throughout the years to avoid arousing the suspicion of IC and the LSF. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Kansai Bartender/Taneyoshi Takewaki
->Rumor #133338:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Once our prototype cruiser is working, the Kusari Naval Forces will test it on the Blood Dragon base in Chugoku. If all goes well, we will be able to muster a secret attack force here in Kansai, step aboard, and be at the doorstep of the Blood Dragons minutes later. It would be over in a matter of hours. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Kyoko Hara
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
->Rumor #134333:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Fugaku was lost in a raid on the Kansai Research Center within the Hiyo Cloud. The fighter became entangled in the mine field during the attack, and the pilot was killed. It eventually drifted off into the cloud. No one has seen it since. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Koji Kato
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Naoko Fujita
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====Osaka Storage Facility (Honshu)====
->Rumor #133297:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex is the only foreign shipper to be granted landing rights at Osaka for over 200 years. We supply all of Bretonia's H-Fuel needs. We are hopeful that the arrangement can continue, although we hear murmurs of great changes coming.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Howard Thomas
->Rumor #133298:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I must say, Samura has let this facility fall into disrepair in recent years. We have pointed out numerous cracks and corroding joints in the tanks to their inspectors, but nothing ever comes of it. The Blood Dragons are always trying to sabotage the place, and at this rate, their job will be simple.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Howard Thomas
->Rumor #133299:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura has approached us about plans to open a new gas storage area adjacent to Shinjuku in recent months. We're not quite sure what is going on within Kusari -- plotting and scheming on all sides.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Howard Thomas
->Rumor #133300:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has faithfully delivered gas to Osaka for many years. And what does Samura do? They give us half the market price. We felt bound to honor the unfair agreement from many centuries ago. Soon they will pay. The GMG will insure that Hokkaido will not be theirs for many years to come.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Takao Goto
->Rumor #133301:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>People in Kusari think we are their long lost children that will return someday. We do share our genetic heritage with Honshu, but not much else. The goal of the GMG is to find an ocean planet somewhere in the mists of the Edge, with plentiful fish to reestablish our traditional way of life.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Takao Goto
->Rumor #133302:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the primary distribution point for Naha Gas produced in Sigma-13. Ogashawa H-Fuel is shipped directly from Sigma-19 or transferred on Honshu to Kishiro transports.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/ Takao Goto
->Rumor #133303:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the largest storage and shipping facility in the entire Sirius Sector. From here, Samura and Bowex ship H-Fuel to the far corners of the House systems. H-Fuel is the lifeblood of space transportation. It is the one raw material that Kusari has been blessed with in abundance.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Osaka Bartender/Uchimaro Funaki
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133304:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Osaka is old; Samura is no longer maintaining the tanks well. We know that shortly the GMG will abandon us. There have been numerous complaints by Bowex about the dangerous conditions, but there is little that we can do.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Osaka Bartender/Uchimaro Funaki
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133305:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rumor is that there will be an "attack" by the Blood Dragons someday soon that will result in the destruction of this facility, and a massive insurance claim will be filed with the government. Just business as usual for our company, I guess ...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133306:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons have become bolder. They have attempted frontal assaults on Osaka in recent years. It would be a catastrophe if they were to start a chain-reaction explosion in the storage areas. We have strengthened the tank walls as a precaution.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Osaka Bartender/Uchimaro Funaki
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133307:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The GMG has transferred its Gas here as long as anyone can remember. Osaka's isolated location was intentional. It would not have been cost effective or safe to place such a facility planetside. We needed to keep it clear of the clouds for security reasons.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Osaka Bartender/Uchimaro Funaki
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133308:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have bought the GMG's Gas at very reasonable prices for 400 years. Now they betray our trust and secretly negotiate with Kishiro. They will pay for this. Perhaps there will be fewer State Police available to patrol this system in the near future ...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133309:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Blood Dragon spy was discovered last week. He had entered a restricted H-Fuel re-pressurization area without the proper credentials. When confronted, the imposter blew himself up, killing several guards. We were lucky -- the effects of the blast were absorbed by a structural bulkhead. One must always be vigilant.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Osaka Bartender/Uchimaro Funaki
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133310:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kusari has controlled the H-Fuel since the dawn of Jump Gates. There are those at Samura who feel that Kusari did not exploit this powerful tool more effectively in the past, as Liberty as done with their Trade Lane technology monopoly. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Osaka Bartender/Uchimaro Funaki
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
->Rumor #133311:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura will open an H-Fuel complex larger than this in Hokkaido, once the criminal element has been reduced to an acceptable level. Hokkaido is much closer to markets and less susceptible to Edge World pirates than the Sigma systems. Kishiro and the GMG will not be able to compete. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Kenji Yamaguchi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Tadashi Sato
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Yoshio Endo
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====Planet Honshu (Honshu)====
->Rumor #133270:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy our supplies for Aomori in Honshu. We also sell our H-Fuel produced in Naha. One day we will probably sell a lot more here, when Osaka is closed.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Ichiro Ogawa
->Rumor #133271:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts and Corsairs have entered Honshu space in recent years. This is a very troublesome development for the GMG, as the Trade Lanes through the clouds are our main arteries of commerce. The Guild is considering upgrading our shield technology to match that of the foreign invaders. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Ichiro Ogawa
->Rumor #133272:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Honshu is our ancient homeland. I try to visit my ancestral village every chance I get. We try to maintain strong ties with our past on Honshu. After all, this is the only habitable planet that most of us have ever known. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gas Miners Guild/Section Chief Ichiro Ogawa
->Rumor #133273:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Honshu is the site of our Optronics plants and Engine Component factories that supply all of Sirius. From here we ship cargo to Liberty, Rheinland, and Bretonia. You will not find a cheaper price anywhere for these two Commodities.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Hideo Hara
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Hakkera Inoue
->Rumor #133274:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just stopping by to visit some friends before heading on to Ogashawa in the Sigma-19 system. It's a jointventure, gas loading facility with the GMG that I'm helping redesign to handle more ships. Kishiro and the GMG will be an unstoppable force once it's complete.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Hideo Hara
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Hakkera Inoue
->Rumor #133275:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Honshu produces all of the Construction Machinery for Kusari -- another market that Samura used to dominate but lost because of its slow pace of innovation. Now it must buy our machinery to construct ships in Yokohama.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Hideo Hara
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Hakkera Inoue
->Rumor #133276:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police is not doing enough to control the Outcast attacks in the Chuyu Cloud. Many of us feel that Samura is applying pressure to force Tokyo Command to reduce patrols in our sector of the system, in order to gain competitive advantage with their Gas from Osaka.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Hideo Hara
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Hakkera Inoue
->Rumor #133277:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We must bring in many supplies to support our factories here. High Temperature Alloys, Cobalt, and Basic Alloys come from Mainz. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Hideo Hara
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Hakkera Inoue
->Rumor #133278:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We at Kishiro feel a special kinship with the GMG; we share many of the same ancestors. Most of the Kishiro workers in the Optronics and Engine plants know of some distant relative that joined the Guild many years ago.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Hideo Hara
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Hakkera Inoue
->Rumor #133279:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Honshu is a challenging post for a Kusari State Police officer. The Corsairs and Outcasts have discovered secret access points into the eastern part of the system from the Crow Nebula. We are not trained or equipped properly deal with these Edge World pirates. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133280:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Trade Lane patrols can get very tedious for a senior person like me, but they let me spend more time at home on Honshu with my family. They used to be safe, but that has recently changed. We were ambushed by Outcasts on a routine run to Akita yesterday. I lost my partner of 10 years in a flash.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133281:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have received orders from New Tokyo to take no prisoners among the Blood Dragons. Who else will fill our prison convoys bound for Shikou? Anyone can be rehabilitated through years of hard work in the Fuchu prison mines. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133282:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I drew the Chuyu Cloud patrol this week. That means one thing -- Outcasts. They attack at will within the cloud, and there is little we can do to stop them. Last week an Orbital Spa shuttle was attacked and destroyed for no apparent reason. There were no survivors. That's bad for the tourist business.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133283:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hogosha run their Artifacts across Honshu to Tokyo from Sigma-19. We have begged them to tell us the location of their Jump Hole so that we can stop the Outcast scourge, but they will not cooperate.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Honshu Bartender/Hitotsugu Fujita
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133284:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Honshu is a cold and windy place. Fishermen once sailed its seas in search of the redfin. Most hybrid fish species that our ancestors carried with them on the sleeper ship never really took hold in the new environments of Kusari. The redfin was an exception, until they fished it to extinction.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Honshu Bartender/Hitotsugu Fujita
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133285:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons carry on their private war with Samura on the Trade Lane from Honshu to Yukawa. Samura is always issuing some distress call. They think we are their private security service. They forget that we must also guard Kishiro and the foreign shippers. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Honshu Bartender/Hitotsugu Fujita
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133286:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've never been to the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Hawaii</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> in Sigma-19. A policeman's salary in Kusari is far too humble to afford that. I hear that they allow criminals like the Corsairs to land on their ship. Incredible! That would never be allowed in Kusari space.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133287:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We do not need the Bounty Hunter Gaijin to do our difficult jobs for us in Kusari. The State Police has patrolled the fields and clouds of the Crow Nebula as long as anyone can remember. Our culture does not produce common criminals like the Liberty Rogues. Kusari internal problems are more political in nature.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Honshu Bartender/Hitotsugu Fujita
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Sachiko Hiraga
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Yuki Watanbe
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Makoto Ito
->Rumor #133288:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We must purchase many of our shipbuilding supplies for Yokohama here -- engine Components, Optronics, and Construction Machinery mostly. Samura once manufactured most of these Commodities, but we could not remain competitive with Kishiro in these specialties.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shiro Takahashi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Koichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133289:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura still makes the daily Food run from Kyushu, but we may need to reduce it soon to bi-weekly. People are no longer eating Kyushu Rice like they did. Those Synth Food invaders have been granted landing rights on Honshu at the insistence of Kishiro.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shiro Takahashi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Koichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133290:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are delivering a load of Junyo produced Luxury Foods. Sometimes we ship Luxury Goods or Side Arms from Tokyo. It just depends on the local demand.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shiro Takahashi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Koichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133291:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You must understand that Kusari palates are more sensitive to delicate Foods than foreigners. We can detect a great difference in quality between Kusari Food Pastes and Synth Food imports. That is why the Kusari people will pay so much more for Kyushu Food products.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shiro Takahashi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Koichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133292:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm taking a breather while my ship is repaired and refitted for the return journey to Kurile in the Sigma-17 system. We must brave Outcast and Corsair every trip. I've seen many of my friends' supply ships destroyed in front of my eyes. It is the fastest way to early retirement, though. Each roundtrip to Kurile counts as four years of normal service. I will be able to retire to Kyushu in three more trips, if I survive. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shiro Takahashi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Koichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133293:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those cursed Blood Dragons harass us all the way across Honshu to the Tokyo Gate. They do not seem to bother Kishiro as much. That is suspicious in my opinion. Perhaps Kishiro is secretly supplying them with weapons and money.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shiro Takahashi
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Koichi Sasaki
->Rumor #133294:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This was quite a coup, getting access to Honshu and all. We negotiated with Kishiro for months. It took a special real estate arrangement on Deshima to finally close the deal. Soon all the youth of Honshu will be converted to our cheaper products, much as New Tokyo has. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/Rep. John Wallace
->Rumor #133295:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It looks like Samura alerted the Farmers Alliance to our presence here. They've started attacking our transports in recent weeks on the Trade Lanes to the Tokyo Gate. They just never give up. One day we'll have them cornered in Kyushu; I relish the thought.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/Rep. John Wallace
->Rumor #133296:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have not been able to crack the Kusari Luxury Food market yet. Part of the problem is Kusaris particular tastes, which lean heavily towards seafood. Stuttgart's geography and climate is still not optimal for that kind of farming.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Synth Foods/Rep. John Wallace
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====Yukawa Shipyard (Honshu)====
->Rumor #133312:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>ALG has been providing Ship Hull Panels and High-Temperature Alloys to this shipyard for some time. We were delighted to recently win the MOX contract over the BMM/BOWEX team, although I'm surprised how much they go through up here. I never realized that gas miners required so much to operate.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Ludger Bleibtreu
->Rumor #133313:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro does generate some Toxic Waste and Scrap Metal, which we take back to Dortmund via Sigma-13. Usually we pick up additional containers at Helgoland. That's the site of the Yanagi Debris Field cleanup operation, a legacy of the 80-Years War.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Ludger Bleibtreu
->Rumor #133314:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our most difficult system is Sigma-13, although the clouds at the eastern end of Honshu come in a close second. Corsairs mostly. They'll always take a few shots at a MOX shipment, just for grins. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * ALG Waste Disposal/ Ludger Bleibtreu
->Rumor #133315:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Yukawa Shipyard has been in operation since the second century. We have always produced commercial ships, specifically gas miners. Our miners must deal with the extremely high operating temperatures prevalent within the gaseous clouds of the Crow Nebula. Extreme radiation levels are a fact of daily life for a gas miner within the heart of the Nebula. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
 * Kishiro Technologies/Yukawa Bartender/Emishi Maruya
->Rumor #133316:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kishiro was locked out of the GMG/Samura monopoly for many years, so we had to develop superior technology that could economically mine less concentrated deposits of H-Fuel than those found in Sigma-13. Now the research and development is finally paying off. We will not sell the GMG our latest miners unless they agree to abandon their relationship with Samura. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
 * Kishiro Technologies/Yukawa Bartender/Emishi Maruya
->Rumor #133317:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There is a secret area of the shipyard where we build new Hull Panel prototypes for the Kansai Research Station. We also have a restricted area where a second massive onboard field generator prototype is being tested. It's not for gas miners. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
->Rumor #133318:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Raw materials are shipped here from all over the colonies. ALG has become an important ally, bringing us High-Temperature Alloys and other products of their Dortmund plant. The rest we import from Narita, Honshu, or Shinagawa. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
 * Kishiro Technologies/Yukawa Bartender/Emishi Maruya
->Rumor #133319:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons are in the area. You can sense their presence in the cloud. They rarely bother us, except for supplies on occasion. Those Farmers Alliance pests are a different matter. We caught them stealing supplies from our storage area the other day. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
 * Kishiro Technologies/Yukawa Bartender/Emishi Maruya
->Rumor #133320:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Yukawa shipyard may be building the new Kusari Navy soon. The current class of Edo ships is obsolete, derived from old Samura designs dating back almost 100 years. We are working in concert with the Kansai Research Center to create a new generation that will be competitive with the new Liberty ships now in development. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
->Rumor #133321:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Huge electrostatic fields must be created by a gas miner to attract the desired Deuterium and Helium 3 gas molecules into the collectors. Other gases such as Oxygen are often collected as byproducts. We use specially fabricated Superconductors built onsite to perform this task. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
 * Kishiro Technologies/Yukawa Bartender/Emishi Maruya
->Rumor #133322:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Yukawa also manufactures Kusari freighters. We have ceded the Transport market to Samura, however. It is difficult to compete with a corporation that steals its building supplies from its competitors. They bribe the Tokyo bureaucrats and police to look the other way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
 * Kishiro Technologies/Yukawa Bartender/Emishi Maruya
->Rumor #133323:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Superconductors and other research materials to Kansai on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the Blood Dragons view the Naval Forces as the enemy, regardless of their partners, so we must protect ourselves when we enter the cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Akio Tsutsumi
 * Kishiro Technologies/Chief Clerk Toru Komatsu
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
->Rumor #134333:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Fugaku was lost in a raid on the Kansai Research Center within the Hiyo Cloud. The fighter became entangled in the mine field during the attack, and the pilot was killed. It eventually drifted off into the cloud. No one has seen it since. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/Dr. Hideaki Hiraga
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====Barrow Base (Hudson)====
->Rumor #131495:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is actually an old abandoned mining plant from a time when Liberty did its mining. Any Republican Shipping vessel that comes into Hudson better not get spotted or theres gonna be more Rheinland widows. We also keep a check on any Unioner that strays too far north from that Rogue base in the southern part of the system. Don't get those Rogues, fraternizing with the enemy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
 * Xenos/Barrow Bartender/Bryan Roper
->Rumor #131496:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There werent many of us Xenos when we first began, but LPI solved that problem for us. The first of us captured were sent to the Huntsville in Texas, where we found others that saw the truth. Our numbers grew as we recruited from the prisons. LPI got wise after a while and started isolating Xenos from other inmates. They realized that for every Xeno they put away, three more converts would walk out five years later. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
 * Xenos/Barrow Bartender/Bryan Roper
->Rumor #131497:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Libertys plans for terraforming the Hudson systems planet Atka came to a rumbling halt in 771 when one of our attack squads blew up a Planetform terraforming vessel. Now those pitiful Bretonians wont even come into the system until it's more secure, which isnt going to happen anytime soon. This system will one day be the Liberty Free Republic -- for people just like us, who want to be left alone. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
->Rumor #131498:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The LPI embodies everything that is wrong with Liberty. It shouldnt surprise anybody that most of the "criminals" that operate the Texas factories where rounded up for slave labor, not for any real crimes they committed. We used to get paid for our work in the former times; now we get thrown in prison and are forced into slave labor. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
 * Xenos/Barrow Bartender/Bryan Roper
->Rumor #131499:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One day we will be victorious and the Junkers will be gone. Then the northern and southern clans of the Xenos will unite and rule the Independent Worlds, free from the corrupt grasp of the LPI. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
 * Xenos/Barrow Bartender/Bryan Roper
->Rumor #131500:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>As much as Xenos hate Junkers, we arent strong enough to get rid of those scavengers. They run the shipping points for inbound drug shipments into Liberty. First we gotta push the Junkers out of Texas, and then we need to find a way to kick the Junkers out of Liberty. Once thats done, no one will be able to stop the Xenos. We'll control the Cardamine that enters Liberty space, and those rich elites that run the show in Manhattan will be at our mercy. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
->Rumor #131501:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hudson is perfect for our operations in this sector. The Jump Hole to Bering and our supply point at Freeport 2 is in the Wrangell Field -- where youll find plenty of Rogues, though they dont bother us too much. The Texas Jump Hole is in the Sitka Field. It's our portal for conducting business in Texas -- liberating our comrades from Huntsville, and hitting the Junkers and Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
->Rumor #131502:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make supply runs and attack runs into the Bering system. We get our supplies from the Zoners at Freeport 2 and attack the Unioners. The Unioners should go back to Rheinland where they come from. This is Liberty space, and they got no business coming here. When we see Unioner ships we attack them. This is our space -- they can find some other place to steal. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
->Rumor #131503:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A lot of Diamonds get mined in the Walker Nebula systems, especially in Dresden and Omega-4. Liberty buys a lot of them Diamonds from the Rheinlanders -- legally and illegally. The Unioners and Rogues travel across our system with Diamond shipments every so often. Those are the ones we really try and stop. The Diamond business sure could help us buy new ships and get the equipment we need to run our operations. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Fredrick Drake
 * Xenos/ Jared Clark
 * Xenos/ Walter Kane
 * Xenos/Barrow Bartender/Bryan Roper
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====Dawson Base (Hudson)====
->Rumor #131504:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We sell our smuggled Diamonds from Kreuzberg here. It's a dangerous journey through Hamburg, but well worth it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Heinz Erhardt
->Rumor #131505:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is through the Jump Hole to Bering. We don't really like to stay long in this system -- the Xenos hate us for some reason. The Rogues here are a rough, uncultured lot, but they buy our Diamonds. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Heinz Erhardt
->Rumor #131506:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We would prefer to live in Rheinland, but Republican is too strong. Fortunately, the Xenos unwittingly help us attack our common enemy, albeit for different reasons. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unioners/ Heinz Erhardt
->Rumor #131619:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Since this base is pretty remote we have to get almost everything shipped to us from Beaumont. Aside from our basic supplies of Food, Water, and Oxygen, we receive H-Fuel, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, and Side Arms from Beaumont. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131620:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Every Rogue likes his gun collection. Most Rogues have several pieces of Detroit death machinery, so we need to supplement our Side Arm shipments from Beaumont with extra shipments from Buffalo. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131621:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Diamonds we get here from the Rheinland Unioner folk are shipped to Buffalo or Beaumont. They make us a lot of money in New York. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131622:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Liberty Navy patrols the Trade Lanes from Hamburg to Texas that run through this system.  Theyve tried to clear us out many times, but there are too many places to hide. Thats why Hudson will always belong to the outlaws.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131623:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos and Unioners have been killing each other in this system. The Xeno base is in the Wrangell Field just north of this field, and the Unioners come here to trade Diamonds with us. I dont care who gets fried as long as the Diamonds keep coming in. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
->Rumor #131624:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to get into Rheinland space without attracting much attention, just pop through the Jump Hole in the field east of this base. It will take you right into Hamburg. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131625:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear Liberty had plans for making this system the main trade route from Rheinland into Texas because of all the drifting asteroid problems in Bering. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
->Rumor #131626:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There must have been plans for making use of the planet Atka here in this system. A Planetform ship came in here to scope out the planet. Then the Xenos swooped in on 'em and blew the ship up. Those Xenos are a crazy bunch, but they crack me up. Heh heh, no more Planetform types have come back here yet. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131627:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Xenos we run into have dropped hints about trying to get in on the Diamond trade, but it aint gonna happen. Diamonds come from Rheinland, and nobody from Rheinland is going to do business with the Xenos, and vice versa. Bad for them; good for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131628:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Diamonds that the Unioners bring to this base eventually arrive in Manhattan for sale on the black market. Thats what the Bounty Hunters are really after. Most of the bounties offered by Republican are pretty small.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
->Rumor #131629:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unioners are forced to operate on the edges of Rheinland space, not only because of the Rheinland authorities, but also because of another criminal group within Rheinland: the Red Hessians. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Clark Wilson
 * Liberty Rogues/ Darren Blackman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Matthew McMillan
 * Liberty Rogues/Dawson Bartender/Adrian Sharp
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====Fortaleza Base (Humboldt)====
->Rumor #131658:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers' Leiden base provides us with all of our supplies. Their base is located in the Komatsu Cloud due north of the Reppu Cloud that hides this base. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131659:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make a run to Leiden every third week to pick up the essentials that keep this base going: Waters, Consumer Goods, H-Fuel, Engine Components, Pharmaceuticals, and Food. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131660:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are two Jump Holes in the Komatsu Cloud, which hides the Lane Hackers' Leiden base. The northern Jump Hole leads to Shikoku, the other to Kepler. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131661:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rochester has plenty of Side Arms to sell, so we pick them up and run them here. The Side Arms we bring in usually head on over to Leiden, where we trade the Lane Hackers for cash or info on ship cargoes headed through the system. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131662:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Artifacts to this base from Leiden. They are highly illegal, and the LSF will smoke you if you get scanned with 'em. But the demand is high on Manhattans black market, all the Manhattanites love 'em. From here we ship them out to Rochester. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131663:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We dont like dealing with the Hogosha, and they dont like dealing with us. But we get along with the Lane Hackers alright, and they cut us into the Artifact trade. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131664:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Watch the black matter in the system. If you fly into some, you arent gonna fly back out. Black matter is what led to all the Trade Lane trouble with Ageira and the corporate venture that blew up in its face. To pin it on somebody, Ageira canned a few of its top-level execs and a development team; those guys now operate the Hacker base in Leiden. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
 * Liberty Rogues/Padua Bartender/Ray Norvell
->Rumor #131665:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers appreciate the good things in life -- the Cardamine -- just like us; difference is, they got things all figured out. Me, Im just having fun. After my last trip through the Huntsville I didnt really care what happened to me, I only knew Id be damned if I was gonna play by the rules anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
->Rumor #131666:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our guys was gonna rat the Hackers out to a Hunter that had credits to burn. He didnt make it to the rendezvous. The Hackers are too valuable to us to scrape for some temporary cash. Too bad I was the one who had to smoke one of our own. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Christopher Russ
 * Liberty Rogues/ Teddy Mack
 * Liberty Rogues/ Victor Charles
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====Attica Supermax (Illinois)====
->Rumor #462830:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This must be the most secure system in Sirius. Anything not sending out a police Transponder signal and ID -including Navy and LSF- are shot down immediately. This is a fortress.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Attica Bartender/Skye Kel
 * Guard/Terry Hingham
->Rumor #462831:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Once while on the graveyard shift, I saw an empty cell reserved for the rogue crime boss... I guess reservations can be made here...it actually was a pretty nice cell compared to most of the others.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Attica Bartender/Skye Kel
 * Officer/Steven Buckle
->Rumor #462832:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They gotta cell in this joint with the name 'Mon'Star' on the door. The one next to it has 'Darkstar' written. This must be one tough prison, but lemme tell you... there's a pool goin' on how long it takes us to nab them bastards.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Attica Bartender/Skye Kel
 * Officer/Steven Buckle
->Rumor #462833:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>No ships are allowed to stay on Attica, ships dock... unload or load personnel and leave immediately, while under heavy guard.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Guard/Greg Lybik
 * Officer/Billy Idul
->Rumor #462834:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Apparently, in the case of multiple prisoners escaping, sections of the station can have its atmosphere vented into space to stop them right there from moving any further.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Guard/Greg Lybik
 * Officer/Billy Idul
->Rumor #462835:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear we got some Aunt Billies on this prison station -- Nomads! Scary critters, but we keep 'em locked up in an EMP field that deflects their telepathy and stops their power. Still scares me.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/Frank Lister
 * Officer/Raven Black
->Rumor #462836:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One time while on patrol, we intercepted a civilian freighter entering the Attica passage.... poor bastard didn't know what hit him, four patrols descended upon his ship and blasted him to pieces within seconds...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/Frank Lister
 * Officer/Raven Black
->Rumor #462837:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Last guard around here that messed up ended up stationed in the Alberta precinct. I swear, we stepped softly for a week...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Guard/Terry Hingham
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====Galesburg Station (Illinois)====
->Rumor #131986:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love it out here. I grew up on Houston, but I always dreamed about going to the Barrier. It's so beautiful in the skies of Liberty. Who would've known it was chock-full of nasties? I use this as my base for popping into Magellan. Id rather have the LPI as roommates than the criminals on those Freeports. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131987:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got the Jump Hole routes down in this part of Sirius. The Outcasts run their drugs from Manchester through a Hole to Magellan, then across to Cortez. From there, into the Tahoe Cloud, then across this system to the Texas Hole. Pretty good, eh? I dare you to follow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131988:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild does a regular "fishing" trip into the Cloud every day. We usually snag something. A Rogue or two -- once in a while you get an Outcast. Like catching one of those giant black two-finned sharks they have on Curacao. You have to let it run the line till it tires out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131989:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say if you want to get in with the Outcasts, get friendly with the Rogues. Then graduate to the Lane Hackers. Run some drugs. Then you're on your way. Hard to turn back at that point, since you'll be a Cardamine addict for life. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131990:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm doing long-range recon patrols into the Whitney Field. We do a lazy loop around it, keeping our distance from the Rogue base. Our usual path runs right along the Outcast smuggling route, so you have to be real careful. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131991:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs are a tough lot. Best chance to get in with them is with the Junkers. Whatever you do, stay away from the Hessian and Outcast alliances. As I said, hard to do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131992:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Talk about bad luck& I got posted here six months ago. LPI shouldn't even be here. This is practically Border World territory. We got a huge cloud full of nasties separating us from civilization. Can't just go for a pleasure run to Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131993:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They send all the problem people here, literally to kill you. Our western patrol goes right into the thick of the cloud west of the Lane. I've seen more than one of my buddies disappear in a puff of smoke. One moment they're joking with you about their next vacation, next thing, poof! </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131994:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They set up this border station to keep a watch on the Magellan Gate, since it's so isolated from everything else in the system. Then some genius planetside decided that we needed to do patrols into the Tahoe Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131995:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The eastern patrol goes through some old abandoned paths from the ice mining days. Then it loops back towards the Trade Lane. I just grit my teeth the whole way and hope that no baddies show up on radar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131996:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just countin' the days. I got thirty-two left before I go back to a life. The attrition rate here is real bad. So far, twenty guys this month got vaporized by Outcasts, Hackers, or Rogues. That's some bad odds. I need to look for a new line of work if I make it through this. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131997:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I may as well join the Bounty Hunters if I'm going to get posts like this. When they told me back on Sugarland that there was a combat opening in California, I jumped at the chance. Now I know why. I was replacing some other fool who lasted all of three days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131998:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just dropping off some basic supplies from Los Angeles. We usually stop at Willard first. Today we're bringing in Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel. I'm getting out of here as fast as I can. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #131999:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They ordered some Side Arms, so we're obliging. I wish they could just come to Los Angeles to pick them up; it would make life a lot easier. I guess the replacement rate for new recruits is pretty high, so they need a lot of new issues on Side Arms. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #132000:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I guess the Universal contract with LPI and the navy is real lucrative. Half the time we're flying half-empty. I don't care. Just give me my paycheck. At least the pirates don't hassle us too much. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
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====McNeil Island (Illinois)====
->Rumor #462838:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>No one really knows how we got this Dreadnought in here. I don't think the Navy even knows we have it...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Kieran Navigat
 * McNeil Bartender/Sebastian Kline
->Rumor #462839:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Colorado isn't the only way into the system. There's a jump hole farther out that leads to a system called Oita. Through it, you have the option of Hiroshima - KNF - or Ellesmere - LSF. We run patrols all the way to the Oita JH, and have sent scouts through.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Kieran Navigat
 * McNeil Bartender/Sebastian Kline
->Rumor #462840:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some say this Dreadnought was disabled by pirates in here before we set up shop on Springfield. The pirates left the Navy folk to die after disabling comms and engines. When the first LPI boarded it... let's just say it wasn't pretty.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * McNeil Bartender/Sebastian Kline
 * Officer/Greg Rozza
->Rumor #462841:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Its always a big thing when the Chief and his Deputies come for the monthly inspections, everything has to be perfect, or we could end up living on Attica...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/George Argent
 * Officer/Greg Rozza
->Rumor #462842:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Promotion is never a good thing... as a result most LPI are very humble about their accomplishments and prefer to let others take credit.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Andy Kester
 * Officer/George Argent
->Rumor #462843:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's not over-crowding in Texas that led us to build a prison station here (we can pack 'em like sardines for all we care), but the necessity to shove the worst elements of crime under the rug.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Andy Kester
 * Detective/Kevin Telestus
->Rumor #462844:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you're in Attica, you haven't seen the inside of a court room, you haven't got a lawyer, you haven't got a phone call. Your rights are revoked as far as we're concerned.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Kevin Telestus
 * Officer/Aaron Renesta
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====Police Plaza (Illinois)====
->Rumor #462845:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard the Chief is a cross-dresser in a fat suit.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/Laurence Tellis
 * Police Plaza Bartender/Simon Krale
->Rumor #462846:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Rarely does anyone leave or enter the system, anyone stationed here, must live and work in the system for up to 6 months without leaving.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/Laurence Tellis
 * Police Plaza Bartender/Simon Krale
->Rumor #462847:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard tell that if we go to war with Kusari, we might have to base operations out of Illinois to hit at the KNF's HQ in Hiroshima. Scary.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/Ryan Frenk
 * Police Plaza Bartender/Simon Krale
->Rumor #462848:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard the only person that can manage the Chief's signature is his secretary, Fred Hamilton.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Officer/Phillip Harden
 * Officer/Ryan Frenk
->Rumor #462849:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear Sunbucks has a sale on donuts.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Josh Sterin
 * Officer/Phillip Harden
->Rumor #462850:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say all ships captured by the LPI are impounded somewhere in this system, and then destroyed.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Josh Sterin
 * Detective/Keth Sarlo
->Rumor #462851:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This station is incredible, designed and built by Sether's K-onstruction company, it has to be the largest one on Liberty. Every LPI has an office here that needs one, there's no way to avoid the paperwork.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Keth Sarlo
 * Detective/Simon Jert
->Rumor #462852:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>While this station looks relatively harmless, the station has some of the most advanced security systems around. Anyone or anything coming through the Oita jumphole better be friendly, or they're dead.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Detective/Simon Jert
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====Springfield Station (Illinois)====
->Rumor #131986:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I love it out here. I grew up on Houston, but I always dreamed about going to the Barrier. It's so beautiful in the skies of Liberty. Who would've known it was chock-full of nasties? I use this as my base for popping into Magellan. Id rather have the LPI as roommates than the criminals on those Freeports. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131987:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I got the Jump Hole routes down in this part of Sirius. The Outcasts run their drugs from Manchester through a Hole to Magellan, then across to Cortez. From there, into the Tahoe Cloud, then across this system to the Texas Hole. Pretty good, eh? I dare you to follow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131988:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild does a regular "fishing" trip into the Cloud every day. We usually snag something. A Rogue or two -- once in a while you get an Outcast. Like catching one of those giant black two-finned sharks they have on Curacao. You have to let it run the line till it tires out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131989:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say if you want to get in with the Outcasts, get friendly with the Rogues. Then graduate to the Lane Hackers. Run some drugs. Then you're on your way. Hard to turn back at that point, since you'll be a Cardamine addict for life. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131990:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm doing long-range recon patrols into the Whitney Field. We do a lazy loop around it, keeping our distance from the Rogue base. Our usual path runs right along the Outcast smuggling route, so you have to be real careful. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131991:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs are a tough lot. Best chance to get in with them is with the Junkers. Whatever you do, stay away from the Hessian and Outcast alliances. As I said, hard to do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Spike Ruffins
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Wallace Dice
->Rumor #131992:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Talk about bad luck& I got posted here six months ago. LPI shouldn't even be here. This is practically Border World territory. We got a huge cloud full of nasties separating us from civilization. Can't just go for a pleasure run to Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131993:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They send all the problem people here, literally to kill you. Our western patrol goes right into the thick of the cloud west of the Lane. I've seen more than one of my buddies disappear in a puff of smoke. One moment they're joking with you about their next vacation, next thing, poof! </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131994:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They set up this border station to keep a watch on the Magellan Gate, since it's so isolated from everything else in the system. Then some genius planetside decided that we needed to do patrols into the Tahoe Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131995:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The eastern patrol goes through some old abandoned paths from the ice mining days. Then it loops back towards the Trade Lane. I just grit my teeth the whole way and hope that no baddies show up on radar. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131996:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm just countin' the days. I got thirty-two left before I go back to a life. The attrition rate here is real bad. So far, twenty guys this month got vaporized by Outcasts, Hackers, or Rogues. That's some bad odds. I need to look for a new line of work if I make it through this. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131997:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I may as well join the Bounty Hunters if I'm going to get posts like this. When they told me back on Sugarland that there was a combat opening in California, I jumped at the chance. Now I know why. I was replacing some other fool who lasted all of three days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Sommer Kraykovic
 * Liberty Police Inc./Sgt. Zack Vintos
->Rumor #131998:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just dropping off some basic supplies from Los Angeles. We usually stop at Willard first. Today we're bringing in Food, Oxygen, Water, and H-Fuel. I'm getting out of here as fast as I can. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #131999:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They ordered some Side Arms, so we're obliging. I wish they could just come to Los Angeles to pick them up; it would make life a lot easier. I guess the replacement rate for new recruits is pretty high, so they need a lot of new issues on Side Arms. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
->Rumor #132000:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I guess the Universal contract with LPI and the navy is real lucrative. Half the time we're flying half-empty. I don't care. Just give me my paycheck. At least the pirates don't hassle us too much. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/Sales Rep. John Pullin
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====Invergordon Space Port (Inverness)====
->Rumor #132313:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is the last stop for us on our Artifact run from our homeland. Maybe one day you could run Artifacts for the Corsairs. Its dangerous but pays very well. If those arent two things that interest you then Im wasting my time talking to you. Just make sure to stay clear of those Red Hessians. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #132314:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are Outcasts on this base. Once they were our brothers, but that was long, long ago. Now they are just like everyone else -- targets. Its not that we dont like them, but that wont stop us from taking one of their shipments or putting them in the airlock. Somehow I doubt those masks they wear would save them from that. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #132315:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You could run reinforcement supplies to our base in Cadiz if you want to gain favor with the Corsairs. We need H-Fuel and Engine Components there to continue fighting the Red Hessians in Omega-5. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #132316:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bretonia offers many tempting targets. We soon realized that we didn't need to buy the Gold from the Junkers; we could go steal it ourselves from the Mollys and IMG. Once we dispose of the local criminals, Bretonia will be ours. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #132317:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Once we drop our Artifacts here, the fun begins. We raid the Trade Lanes here in Bretonia to supply our bases back home along the Edge Worlds. Before we discovered that we could make such a nice profit from selling the Artifacts, we lived solely by raiding. The easiest targets are here in Bretonia; police presence is a joke in this space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #132318:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now that there has been a ban declared on Artifacts, it has been more difficult to sell as many as before, but we have compensated by raising the prices. Everyone always wants what they cant have, and now the rich fools who crave these toys will pay almost any amount for them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #132319:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The conditions on this base are absolutely appalling. It goes against a Gaians very nature to be surrounded by the cretinous scavengers who populate these dingy corridors. Yet we are compelled to purchase those things we need to maintain our existence at our own base in the Islay Cloud of Edinburgh: Pharmaceuticals, H-Fuel, Food, Consumer Goods, and such. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Terry Devereux
->Rumor #132320:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys' hatred for BMM is an advantage to our own attacks upon that corporation, and though we dont share the same motivations that the Mollys' do, our disgust with the despoilers of BMM is just as intense. Unlike many underground operations, we are not motivated by the acquisition of money. We are a political organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for all who live in Bretonia, even our enemies, though they are too blind to see it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Terry Devereux
->Rumor #132321:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If it wasnt for the Green Front, I doubt the Gaians would be able to operate at all. We have the support of the intellectuals in Bretonia and the educated elite of Cambridge but without the financial assistance that Green Front brings in& Well, lets just say that good causes dont fund themselves. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Terry Devereux
->Rumor #132322:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gaians wouldnt have any place to get their supplies if it werent for this base, but you should see how they gulp and sniff whenever they set foot in here. I hate dealing with them, but they bring us money in return for the supplies they need for their base in Edinburgh. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132323:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Artifacts that come into Bretonia pass through here. They are brought to us by the Corsairs from their bases in the southern Edge Worlds. We do run into New London, which can get pretty risky with the police and military hovering about. If you get scanned, it's over. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132324:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you need cash, you can ship supplies to the Molly base Arranmore in Dublin. They need Oxygen, Water, H-Fuel, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Food, Side Arms, and Engine Components. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132325:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We sell the Mollys' Gold, Corsairs' Artifacts, and Outcasts' Cardamine in New London. You can make very good money doing it, but don't get caught. We'll say we've never seen you before. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132326:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsairs require Gold and Engine Components for their Tripoli Shipyard in Omicron Gamma. If you're friendly enough with them, you could make some very good money. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132327:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gaian base is known as Islay; they call it "the Sleet." Everyone knows that it's in the Islay Ice Cloud, but they don't know where -- it's too well camouflaged. It's situated very close to a hidden Jump Hole to Leeds, which is really handy for hit-and-run attacks against BMM and the Trade Lanes, or for hitting the ice mining by Planetforms Perth base at Ayr. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132328:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The war-torn Corsair base Cadiz in Omega-5 is in need of H-Fuel and Engine Components. Be careful getting there. The Red Hessians don't like freelancers helping their enemy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132329:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Sometimes people wonder where the Junkers come from. It's true you can find us throughout Sirius except Kusari space, but no one knows where we started. The truth is that the Junkers are comprised of all kinds. We are the ones who weren't happy working for one group or another. Our blood is from all the people of Sirius, even the Kusari. Truth is, once yer a Junker you aren't nothing else but a Junker, and whatever you were before falls away. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132330:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy Engine Components, Basic Alloys, Side Arms, and other criminal necessities in New London. The authorities can't lift a finger, even though they know where we're headed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132331:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Criminals deal with us because we can go where they can't. They could run the gauntlet into Liberty from here, but they wouldn't be able to dock anywhere. We Junkers have a cover. Most authorities don't know if we're hauling scrap or contraband, and that's how we get through. We can get our ships onto almost any planet, so criminals have to deal with us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132332:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Us Junkers, were a different breed from the rest of our clientele. We just want to get along with everyone. You know why? Cuz thats the way to make money. We dont care about politics or which group killed this other group. To Junkers its all about how many credits we can get our hands on, so we get all kinds on our bases and thats how we like it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Junkers/Trafalgar Bartender/Andrew Pratt
->Rumor #132333:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers like to deal with us because we bring them something everybody wants: Gold. We used to mine it for BMM; now we steal theirs or mine it from our own fields. We arent thieves, though. We paid for that Gold in blood and the broken hands of our fathers before us. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ George Thornton
->Rumor #132334:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We like to get our supplies for Arranmore -- that's our base in Dublin -- here in New London. The IMG charges a bit too much on the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Hood</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>, and they won't sell us our Side Arms.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ George Thornton
->Rumor #132335:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of our lads, Roger Patience, got captured last week by the military in Leeds during a MOX raid. Hes one of our best. He was on a prison convoy headed for Newgate Prison. We cracked him out in Manchester yesterday as it broke from the Trade Lanes. If you see him, he might buy you a drink to celebrate his new-found freedom. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Mollys/ George Thornton
->Rumor #132336:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>So you're interested in working for us? Try running a load of Cardamine to Magellan or Cortez for us. The Lane Hackers would appreciate that. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Howard Desmond
 * Outcasts/ Lucy Williams
->Rumor #132337:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy Side Arms for the Cali base in Tau-23 here. It's not an easy Jump Hole route between Trafalgar and our base out there. Fortunately, the Barrier offers plenty of cover. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Howard Desmond
 * Outcasts/ Lucy Williams
->Rumor #132338:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cardamine was the one good thing that fate gave us. When we first landed on Malta the weak who didnt want to live anymore could go to a better place chewing the orange grass. It was also a curse, as we became dependent on Cardamine to survive, though we dont get a high from it anymore. Now we use Cardamine to make money. Eventually well run Sirius. Once a large enough portion of the populace is hooked, we've got them. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Howard Desmond
 * Outcasts/ Lucy Williams
->Rumor #132339:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Orbital Spa and Cruise has made itself an annoyance to the Outcasts. Its Shetland cruise ship in Edinburgh lies right in the path of our Cardamine route to this base. The truth is, if they keep pushing into Outcast space, some tourists are going to be killed. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Howard Desmond
 * Outcasts/ Lucy Williams
->Rumor #132340:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>From here we ship to Liberty via the Rogue base Montezuma in Cortez. They cant get enough of our Cardamine, so as long as we keep it flowing they are under our control. They make good attack dogs. Soon more of the criminal factions will become addicted, and well rule Sirius -- then our revenge will be complete. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Howard Desmond
 * Outcasts/ Lucy Williams
->Rumor #132341:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>BMM is no match for our military in Tau-23. We will force them out of the system and destroy the Jump Gate. Our survival as a sovereign nation is at stake. Cali is a crucial distribution point for Cardamine on the trip to Bretonia and Liberty.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Howard Desmond
 * Outcasts/ Lucy Williams
->Rumor #134281:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Trujillo stumbled into a gas pocket in the old Somerset mining area during the early days of Corsair incursion in the New London system. The ship was lost deep inside the hazard area. Several attempts were made to rescue the Artifacts it carried, but to no avail.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Geoff Beer
->Rumor #134282:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Molly fighter Vanguard was on a Gold run from Dublin to Trafalgar when it was intercepted by a Bretonia Armed Forces patrol in the Cumbria Asteroid Field. They gave chase and he fled into a known gas hazard area. Unfortunately, his luck ran out that day when he encountered a particularly dense pocket. The ship still lies there, awaiting anyone foolish enough to knowingly enter a volatile gas zone.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
 * Mollys/ George Thornton
->Rumor #134283:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcast fighter Puno stumbled into one of the Southampton Debris Field radiation zones on the first Outcast drug run into the New London system in 751. It still lies there, untouchable to anyone who values their life.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Terry Devereux
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
->Rumor #134285:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Corsair ship Caraz was making a routine Artifact smuggling run from Cadiz to Trafalgar several weeks ago, but it never arrived. Several intercepted military comms. suggest that it was damaged by an Armed Forces patrol and pursued into the Grasmere Ice Cloud.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Corsairs/ Laura Rumsey
 * Corsairs/ Tony Altman
->Rumor #134286:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The San Vicente was making a Cardamine run from Cali to New London when it was ambushed by an Armed Forces patrol in the West Leeds Smog Cloud. The cargo was recovered by the military, but it is possible that one of the larger pieces of debris still has some equipment attached.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Terry Devereux
 * Junkers/ Joshua Altman
->Rumor #134287:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcast ship Lorenzo was making a Cardamine run from Cali to Mactan when it was caught by a military patrol in the LD-14 Asteroid Field. It turned further into the heart of the field to escape its pursuers and stumbled into an old radioactive pocket. The crew is presumed dead, but the ship is probably still intact. No one has retrieved the cargo yet due to the high radiation danger in the area.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Terry Devereux
 * Junkers/ Leo Henderson
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====Ames Research Station (Kepler)====
->Rumor #131581:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Ames Research Station is the main supply source for our base in Galileo. We ship all the essentials like Food, H-Fuel, Water, Oxygen, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, and Consumer Goods there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Jack Mason
->Rumor #131582:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Hole to Galileo is directly between the edges of the Kuryo and Matsuo Clouds. Aim for the gap and you won't miss it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Jack Mason
->Rumor #131583:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We like to hit Niobium and other high-value shipments coming through this system. Unfortunately, the misguided Xenos and scumbag Bounty Hunters are often lurking, so we have to be careful -- especially when we leave the no-fire zone around the station.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Jack Mason
->Rumor #131584:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base keeps the northern Xeno alliance alive. Those Zoners are our saviors, although they share the base with those vile Bounty Hunters -- the scourge of the Sirius Sector. We ship supplies from here to our Denko Cloud base -- basic needs, such as Food, H-Fuel, Oxygen, Pharmaceuticals, and Water. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Melvin Mitchell
->Rumor #131585:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We share this system with those posh Lane Hackers. They attract the Liberty Navy 'cause Ageira despises them. It's a nice dark system -- lots of places to hide. But you gotta have a decent shield if you want to hang out in the clouds 'cause of all the radiation from that dark matter, or whatever they call it. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Melvin Mitchell
->Rumor #131586:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura and Kishiro make lots of supply runs through here, inbound for Colorado. Universal makes Side Arm shipments sometimes; that's the only time we get interested in Liberty shipping. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Melvin Mitchell
->Rumor #131587:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We make supply runs to Deshima for essential Commodities such as Oxygen, Water, H-Fuel, Consumer Goods, Food, Engine Components, and Pharmaceuticals.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131588:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Ames Independent Research Station was established in 550 to study the Kuryo Anomaly in preparation for the construction of Trade Lanes by Deep Space Engineering. Jump Gates couldn't bypass this system because of the danger in traversing the dark matter clouds of the Anomaly -- a lesson painfully learned in the Texas Incident.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131589:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Lane Hackers partly owe their origin to the Ames Research studies, which predicted that a huge storm would disrupt the system in 680. On the advice of Ageira technicians, Liberty financed a costly alternative Trade Lane through Galileo. When the storm didn't materialize, Ageira tried to redeem itself by ruthlessly ousting an elite development team and several executives, who re-emerged as the core of the northern Lane Hackers.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
->Rumor #131590:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The criminals in the area use our base as a supply point. Lane Hackers and Xenos come here to buy various supplies.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131591:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Zoners occupied the research station soon after it was opened and eventually took over its operation when the research phase was complete. It's a difficult place, as the clouds are constantly on the move and could someday engulf the Freeport.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131593:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Beware of the dark matter clouds. They have radiation and hide criminals. The Matsuo Cloud is named after the original Kusari explorer of this area, long before Jump Gates and Trade Lanes.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131594:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Trade Lane path through the sister system of Kepler, Galileo, was constructed mainly as an insurance policy in case the Kepler Trade Lane was ever severed, something that Liberty and Kusari could not allow to happen.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131646:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Xenos in this system are on their way out. We kill and capture more than they can replace; most of them reside in their southern bases on the other side of New York. Besides, they're easy to pick off, and they have to come to this base to get supplies. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
->Rumor #131647:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers in this system are former Ageira personnel who got panned after the Kepler Storm scandal cost IC and Ageira an untold fortune. Now they are making Ageira and IC pay an even dearer price for making them take the fall. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
->Rumor #131648:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you're looking for Xenos, youll find them in the Denko Cloud on the western side of this system. If you keep going southwest past the cloud, you might run into a Jump Hole leading into Colorado. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
->Rumor #131649:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This system and Galileo are as far north as I like to go unless I'm cruising up along the Edge Worlds. I dont like going into Kusari space, and the Kusari dont like me there either. Their word for non-Kusari is Gaijin, which means outsider or stranger. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
->Rumor #131650:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In the east of this system between the Kuryo and Matsuo Clouds, you can find a Jump Hole leading to Galileo -- and Hacker territory. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
->Rumor #131651:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Xenos do a lot of their pirating in Colorado. Youll find Lane Hackers there, too. Going north into Shikoku and beyond, you will run into the Kusari criminals such as the Golden Chrysanthemums, Blood Dragons, and Hogosha. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
->Rumor #131652:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We sell the Xenos the supplies they need. They're different from us -- thats certain -- but we try and get along with everybody. They've been making trouble for Kusari shipping, and Ive heard that the Kusari military has been vaporizing them here and there. But they keep coming and getting their supplies. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131653:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bounty Hunters here are a rough lot. I heard them joking about how they killed a group of Xenos in the Denko Cloud a few days ago. It sounds like Bounty Hunters really enjoy doing their job; its just frightening how much they enjoy it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
->Rumor #131654:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Xenos wont mess with Liberty too much. They are more concerned with foreigners coming into Liberty space, so that's who they tend to attack. They've been squeezed hard in Colorado, which explains why they've set up a base here in Kepler. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
 * Zoners/Ames Bartender/Alex Bellamy
->Rumor #131776:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dropping off some Water and Oxygen for those antisocial Zoners. Can't see what they like about this dark and forbidding place. Just look around you -- Xenos, Lane Hackers, and those sleazy Bounty Hunters. Not exactly a savory bunch. I can feel the predators' eyes watching me. They'll probably ambush us once we get out of the Freeport's no-fire zone. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Julian Ross
->Rumor #131777:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just made the run from Denver with some Pharmaceuticals. I'm turning around and heading right back out before any of the bad guys have time to set up anything. They prefer stealing their drugs to buying them. Then they usually torch the ship anyway, just for grins. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Julian Ross
->Rumor #131778:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm a pilot for the Universal ships that come through this area. They usually just need me on the stretch from Deshima to Ames, with the clouds and all. It can get really bad through here. Depends on how hungry the Hackers are. They tend to strike from the east side of the Trade Lanes, Xenos from the west. They don't bother us much. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Universal Shipping/ Julian Ross
->Rumor #134323:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Charles Kane and its escorts were ambushed in the Roatan Ice Crystal Cloud several weeks ago, probably by Rogues or Lane Hackers. They commandeered the ship and flew it further into the cloud. Several Bounty Hunters happened upon the hijacked ship, and a fierce firefight ensued. Only one limped back to tell the tale. She said the ship was still out there in the cloud, abandoned and drifting with the field. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
->Rumor #134324:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Universal large transport named the McKinley was caught in the Dark Matter Storm of 784, which destroyed the old Trade Lane through the eastern part of the system. It was carrying a load of Superconductors. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Zoners/ Frank Maddin
->Rumor #134325:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Kamakura Maru, a Samura transport carrying a cargo of Niobium, was caught in the Dark Matter Storm of 784. The storm destroyed the old Trade Lane route through the eastern part of the system. The ship is believed to lie somewhere in the Matsuo Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
->Rumor #134326:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Samura armored transport Nikko Maru was carrying Luxury Goods from Manhattan to New Tokyo when it was caught in the Dark Matter Storm of 784. It lies somewhere in the Matsuo Cloud along the abandoned Trade Lane. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Seth Fern
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
->Rumor #134330:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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 its been rumored to be drifting somewhere in the Shiun Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Chris Lakowski
 * Zoners/ Drew Mobley
 * Zoners/ Scott Shelton
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====Nome Base (Kepler)====
->Rumor #131595:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base serves as our strategic center of operations for the northern Xenos. Not exactly the most scenic place, but us Xenos can tough it out. We supply the Xeno asteroid base in Colorado with basic supplies such as Food, H-Fuel, and Water; in return, they periodically ship us stolen Side Arms. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
->Rumor #131596:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base here is right next to the Jump Hole to Colorado and provides easy access to the Trade Lane from Shikoku, so we can attack Kusari shipping. Once we jump into Colorado we can hit Republican, Samura, and Kishiro as they transport supplies to Ageira. Gotta watch out for those Bounty Hunters, though. They always seem to be lurking out there.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
->Rumor #131597:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We might not have the best equipment or ships, but we're a lot better organized than we were. It was getting so bad that LPI and the navy almost won and ripped us out of Colorado. Now we have a focused agenda: we lift supplies from Kusari shipping, a little extortion here and there, switch out tired combat crews from Ouray, and then give them the supplies they need to continue the fight.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
->Rumor #131598:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This area is real stormy. The cloud has moved a lot since we carved this base out of the rock. Lots of dark matter in the area, so ya got to pop those Cryer anti-radiation pills daily. Good thing we can occasionally steal shipments, otherwise we'd be broke and the Zoners on Ames very rich. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
->Rumor #131599:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Liberty Navy closely patrols the southern Trade Lane in this system; it's risky to attack too near the Gate. The best spots are about halfway between the Shikoku or Colorado Gates and the Ames Station. Not too many Bounty Hunters or military in the middle -- plenty of time to escape.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
->Rumor #131600:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We're unable to establish the exact location, but we think there's a Jump Hole between the Kuryo and Matsuo Clouds. That's how the Lane Hackers get into the system. We'd love to shut it down, but we have to find it first. A lot of Bounty Hunters are out there, which makes poking around difficult.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
->Rumor #131601:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The vile Bounty Hunters are everywhere in this system. They're worse than the LPI because they follow only one rule: Secure proof for every Xeno vaporized. They evidently know about the Jump Holes and always hang out in the no-fire zone around Ames. They often ambush us on supply hauls, so we usually send rookies to limit our losses.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
->Rumor #131603:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A lot of the Xenos you see here in Kepler have spent time in Texas making toys while we serve our time at "The Walls" -- thats what we call the Huntsville prison ship. But once we got released, we came back here. The Xenos in Texas and Hudson do an alright job attacking Rheinland, but somebodys gotta be up here stopping the Kusari from getting into Liberty. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Xenos/ Don Strauss
 * Xenos/ Homer Miles
 * Xenos/ Todd Denagi
 * Xenos/Nome Bartender/Dennis Hughes
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====Battleship Nagumo (Kyushu)====
->Rumor #133552:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is commissioned with keeping the nearby Border Worlds as free from piracy as possible. It is a daunting task, but we manage to kill and capture many of the worst of them. Still more try to slip into the system, but we halt that traffic also.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133553:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the greatest threats to Kusari is the spread of Cardamine abuse. The Golden Chrysanthemums have been smuggling Cardamine into Kusari through this system, and it must end. I have ordered all Golden Chrysanthemums to be summarily executed and given flight commanders a red pass on patrols in the Border Worlds and this system.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133554:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Though some of their actions do get a little violent, the Farmers Alliance is not a real threat to Kusari society. Much of our time and resources would be wasted hunting down a paper tiger. The occasional accidental attack on Kishiro occurs, but for the most part they attack only Gaijin shipping.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133555:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden Chrysanthemums might be our number one priority in this system, but it is the Blood Dragons who are the greatest threat to our physical safety. The Golden C. pilots are young and reckless; the Dragons are skilled and fearless.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133557:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dragons lay bleeding while the Chrysanthemums die fighting Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133558:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Seiran Dust Field is the point of entry for the Blood Dragons that enter the system. Our patrols have spotted them moving between there and the Okha Dust Field. We cannot interrogate the ones we capture as we would like to, so many of their strategies remain secrets.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133559:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our patrols in Tau-29 come up against Outcasts on occasion. We know they are the source of Cardamine, but they are not the problem for us. It is the women who smuggle it into our system. Before the Golden C. there was no Cardamine problem in Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Much of our effort is spent redirecting the Gaijin into Shikoku. We are trying to seal this part of Kusari space and, more importantly, New Tokyo from their presence. Bretonians and the populations of the Border Worlds are very unsavory characters. They would be more comfortable in the other system.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The fusion chambers in this ship produce Toxic Waste, which we take to Yokohama. There we pick up the MOX and bring it back here to fuel the engines of this ship.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Side Arms are given to every soldier aboard the ship. They are supplied from relay bases in New Tokyo.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the basic supplies needed to run this base are brought here from Kyushu. The shipments also bring in mail, since many of the soldiers aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> are from the finest families planetside.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship plays an important role in keeping the foreign criminals out of our beautiful system. Let them infest Shikoku if they must; Kyushu is ours. Personally, I wish that Kusari was still strictly isolationist. We could always transfer goods at our borders, but the government has grown lax.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Nansei Research Center is protected by this battleship. It is a great responsibility protecting the best and brightest minds in Kusari. Someone must take the forefront of scientific research in Kusari, and that great task falls upon Samura's shoulders.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I enjoy this assignment aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. I am afforded the pleasure of seeing the worlds beyond Kusari, but in the safety of a battleship patrol. Yes, sometimes the pilots will take me with them on circuit sorties -- very exciting.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #134331:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Shoki, part of a Blood Dragon raiding party in the Kyushu system, was intercepted and destroyed by the Kusari Naval Forces. Two of the three ships have been located and salvaged. The patrol leaders ship, the Shoki, remains at large. It is believed to be somewhere in the western Ohka Dust Field, which is difficult for the Blood Dragons to operate in, given its close proximity to the Nagumo. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
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====Kagoshima Depot (Kyushu)====
->Rumor #133582:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get all of our supplies from Kabukicho in the Kanto Field of the New Tokyo system. Those Hogosha seem dishonest, but they are friends of Samura, so I guess they must be okay.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmer's Alliance/Kagoshima Bartender/Yoshizumi Chiba
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133583:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Kusari government should not allow lower quality imports that threaten the farmers traditional way of life. Before Synth Foods was allowed into Kusari, we could charge a premium price for our Rice and Produce. Now all of the Tokyo urbanites prefer cheap Synth Paste.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmer's Alliance/Kagoshima Bartender/Yoshizumi Chiba
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133584:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear that our equipment and supplies are paid for by some mysterious benefactor in Shinjuku. It's a good thing we have someone with much money willing to fight the foreigners. Sometimes they ask us to raid Kishiro storage depots, which is troubling. We don't see ourselves as common thieves, like the Hogosha. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133585:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are the unemployed farmers of the garden planet of Kyushu. Our families have toiled for generations, producing Food for all of Kusari. Synth Foods has destroyed our traditional way of life in 10 years. They must be stopped.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmer's Alliance/Kagoshima Bartender/Yoshizumi Chiba
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133586:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura has been very good to us. They built the factories in Kyushu, provided us with special Seeds and Fertilizers, and even provided special Samura Bank loans to my family. We drive a Samura XCV series personal craft, of course.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmer's Alliance/Kagoshima Bartender/Yoshizumi Chiba
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133587:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some people say that we are just puppets of Samura. It is true that Samura financially supports our cause, and tells us whom and where to strike next. But we still can decide for ourselves if we want to continue doing this. We are all volunteers to the cause. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133588:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have been able to find many eager recruits in Kyushu. The factories are empty and the fields lay fallow in Kyushu because of the foreigners. Kishiro uses Gaijin labor at Deshima to manufacture its Consumer Goods, products that were once made by Kyushu craftsmen.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmer's Alliance/Kagoshima Bartender/Yoshizumi Chiba
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
->Rumor #133590:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use this base to attack Synth Food convoys in Shikoku and Tokyo. There are Jump Holes near both systems. Sometimes the council of elders orders us to attack Kishiro Consumer Goods transports, or even Optical Chips. We do what we are told; that is the traditional Kusari way.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Farmer's Alliance/Kagoshima Bartender/Yoshizumi Chiba
 * Farmers Alliance/ Kazuo Maeda
 * Farmers Alliance/ Tsutomu Nakamura
 * Farmers Alliance/ Yuji Ishii
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====Nansei Research Complex (Kyushu)====
->Rumor #133567:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kusari is attempting to use antimatter as the primary propellant rather than as an intermediary to superheat the hydrogen plasma in engine combustion chambers. To do this, we must dramatically lower the cost of antimatter production.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nansei Bartender/Kintaro Sakata
->Rumor #133568:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The scientists here feel that it would be foolish to store antimatter in a ship. Somehow we need to find a way to generate on the fly the moderate amounts of it needed during the high boost phase of the engines.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
->Rumor #133569:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The field of solar collectors you see outside generate the immense amounts of power required in antimatter production. We have done a lot of allied research in cheap manufacturing methods for solar collectors.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nansei Bartender/Kintaro Sakata
->Rumor #133570:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The antimatter research is a cover for our real purpose here: replicating the Ageira Superconductors. Somehow Liberty has learned extremely advanced manufacturing techniques to create compounds that we've never seen.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
->Rumor #133571:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It appears from our research that it is still not economical to create mass quantities of antimatter, even with cheap solar energy. Then there is the issue of transport. A large amount of antimatter transported on a ship would be a tremendously powerful bomb if the containment field were ever breached by accident or hostile action.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nansei Bartender/Kintaro Sakata
->Rumor #133572:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons know what our weakness is here. They always go after the antimatter storage vessels. If they were to breach just one, it could be a chain-reaction catastrophe.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
->Rumor #133573:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If there were ever an accident in Nansei, all of Kyushu would know immediately. This entire complex would be vaporized in an instant. Antimatter destroys matter on contact in a mutually destructive collision. We have several metric tons stored here for research purposes. That would make a 1000-megaton thermonuclear weapon explosion look like a candle flame in comparison.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nansei Bartender/Kintaro Sakata
->Rumor #133574:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Nansei is in direct competition with Kansai. They have more innovative and well paid scientists at Kishiro. Samura receives much money from the government for this project, yet we lack simple supplies and modern laboratory facilities.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
->Rumor #133575:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We require many Superconductors to create the massive electromagnetic fields needed to accelerate hydrogen to the speeds that create antimatter particles. The high efficiency Liberty Superconductors are far more economical than any Kusari has been able to fabricate.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/ Akio Yamada
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Hiromi Yano
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kazuko Okamura
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nansei Bartender/Kintaro Sakata
->Rumor #133576:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We supply this facility with the Superconductors and MOX that it needs, along with Basic Supplies from Kyushu. It is an isolated location, which I guess it needs to be, given the dangerous nature of their research here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichi Matano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Kenji Kobayashi
->Rumor #133577:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are not making nearly as much money as Kishiro research scientists. Plus, all of our equipment is outdated. Some of our materials are getting so old that accidents can happen. This is not a good place to work, though I could not dishonor myself by leaving Samura.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichi Matano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Kenji Kobayashi
->Rumor #133578:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This is just another kickback from the government to Samura. Samura receive 50 million from Tokyo every year, yet we never are allowed to spend more than 20. The rest goes to fund all of Samura's extracurricular activities around Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichi Matano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Kenji Kobayashi
->Rumor #133579:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Samura scientists stationed here have been demoralized by the cuts in overtime and bonuses by Samura during the last year. Rumor is that our support of the Farmers Alliance has been more costly than expected.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichi Matano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Kenji Kobayashi
->Rumor #133580:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the best scientists work for Kishiro -- everyone knows that. Most of us are Kyushu University graduates, a school known more for its agricultural research than up-to-date propulsion engineering programs.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichi Matano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Kenji Kobayashi
->Rumor #133581:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 400 AS the Kusari government decided to offer corporations incentives to move offices and bases into Kyushu. This was to help stimulate development of the system. We decided to take advantage of that offer; in return the government is getting the best research available governing antimatter. Eventually, these projects could lead to new forms of propulsion, energy, and weaponry.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Shinichi Matano
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Kenji Kobayashi
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====Planet Kyushu (Kyushu)====
->Rumor #133523:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This planet is known as the garden planet of Kusari. We have been growing rice here since 65 AS, when the first settlers arrived. Samura has organized the farmers into collectives to make Food production more efficient.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133524:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Though this system has limited resources, its proximity to the barrier makes it valuable because of the possible Commodities that can be exploited in the Border Worlds. Many planners believe that this system is the gateway to Kusari expansion in the barrier. If we can populate the surrounding systems with our citizens, Kusari will eventually be able to lay claim to them.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133525:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>As farming technology has improved, the added efficiency has left many of the Kyushu youth with little or nothing in the way of jobs. We lose many of them to jobs in New Tokyo or Shikoku. Often times these youngsters will never return.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133526:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Much of our time is devoted to rerouting Gaijin from this system into Shikoku. The populace of Kyushu does not look well upon foreign business entering the system, or any part of Kusari for that matter. This system is the home to the Farmers Alliance, after all.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133527:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 400 AS the Kusari government began offering huge corporate incentives to relocate operations here. It was mainly an effort to curb overpopulation problems in New Tokyo. Of the two keiretsu, Samura was the one who decided to invest in Kyushu.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133528:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Blood Dragons are becoming bolder by the day here. They are even growing heedless of the military presence. Their attacks range all over the system, but they focus upon Samura's research facility and Kyushu food shipments.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133529:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Kusari police usually operate only in the eastern half of Kyushu. We keep a watch on the Trade Lanes and Jump Gates leading into New Tokyo, and the military keeps an eye on the half of the system that leads from Kusari space into the Border Worlds.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133530:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police patrols that originate from the Kyushu planet cover the two dust clouds on the eastern half of the system. I fly a patrol that skirts the Seiran Dust Fields. The men in the other patrol wing keep an eye on activity going on in the Hayate Dust Fields.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Population/Kyushu Bartender/Tomomasa Ii
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133531:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Hogosha don't really bother anyone in this system; they are usually just passing through. We can't divert manpower from the really dangerous criminals to see that Hogosha activity is one hundred percent legal. We let them slide a bit.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari State Police/Detective Miho Tomiyama
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Kiyoshi Suzuki
 * Kusari State Police/Inspector Yukari Hiraga
->Rumor #133532:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Food grown here is shipped to every system in Kusari space and into the Border Worlds. Oxygen and Water produced here is shipped to every base in the system. Samura is the heart of this system and Kyushu feeds Kusari. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133533:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Samura saw that this system was a perfect opportunity to really break into the Food market. We grow the finest Foods in all of Kusari in Shikoku. When the government offered us incentives to relocate investments here, we jumped at the chance.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133534:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Farmers Alliance focuses its attacks on Foreigners Commodities moving through Shikoku, especially those produced by Synth Foods, who undermines the hard work that we& er the farmers do. The Alliance has also been known to make accidental attacks on Kishiro shipping convoys moving through the system. How unfortunate for Kishiro.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133535:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kyushu is the recipient of Luxury Goods, Side Arms, and Engine Components from New Tokyo. These fine products are sent here to keep the people of Kyushu satisfied, armed, and on the move.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133536:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Fertilizers make their way here from Shinkaku in the Border Worlds. In return we send them H-Fuel. It is a very beneficial relationship.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133537:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you would care to cross the Border Worlds, there is business you might conduct for us in Freeport 6. They send us their Niobium; in return we take them Engine Components and other basic supplies.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133538:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Niobium we get from Freeport 6 will often be used to make Luxury Goods in New Tokyo. Perhaps you could be a link in that chain.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
->Rumor #133539:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The H-Fuel we get from Shinjuku and Osaka is distributed throughout Shikoku. It is not as lucrative a run as others, but relatively easy.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Wataru Nakamura
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Toru Kaneko
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====Tsushima Depot (Kyushu)====
->Rumor #133540:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The gas rings that surround Aso comprise valuable Methane Gases that are mined and used to make Polymers. The Polymers manufactured here are shipped to Yokohama in New Tokyo.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133541:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All of this station's basic supplies come from this system's main planet, Kyushu. It is an easy supply run to make, if not very lucrative.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133542:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hydrocarbons are shipped to this facility from Fuchu prison in Shikoku. The Hydrocarbons will be used to convert the Gases we mine into Polymers.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133543:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Recently Kishiro opened a Polymer manufactory in the Border Worlds. Somehow they are able to produce their Polymers for a smaller cost. This has made our operations here more difficult since the market is being flooded by lower priced and obviously lower quality products. I'm sure the shipyards will realize the importance of using better, slightly more expensive components.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133544:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My family members have been joint fitters in the Yokohama shipyards for many generations. I came because Samura is paying well for laborers to mine the Methane and Ethane out of the ice rings that surround this planet. Besides, New Tokyo was getting much too crowded.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133545:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have no idea why the Blood Dragons attack this base. It could serve them no good to harass ice miners. I hate terrorists. Their political objectives are always so extreme, and so are their violent actions.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133546:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Golden Chrysanthemums lifted our Water supplies twice in a row. I have not been able to bathe in more than three days, nor has anyone else on the base. It smells unbearable. Do you know how badly miners smell? I am slowly being driven mad.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133547:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just beyond this planet lies the Ohka Dust Field. Beyond that is the Border Worlds, the Barrier ... adventure. I am tired of being a miner. I wish to discover Sirius like Matsuo, the great Kusari explorer. My father just doesn't understand.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133548:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The subsidies that Samura receives from the government to run this plant more than pay for the pilots we hire to attack the Kishiro Polymer production plant that just became operational in the Border Worlds. Still, the added expense cuts into our profits.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
->Rumor #133549:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I would love to take a shower; I haven't bathed in days. At least those damnable Chrysanthemums didn't steal our Food shipments or else we would be starving to death right now. Imagine starving to death in Kyushu -- there's irony for you.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133550:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I am getting too old for this job. I would like to retire like they do in Liberty and Bretonia. But, Samura hires its employees for life. If I quit I will dishonor my family. Maybe I could have a mining "accident."</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
->Rumor #133551:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The young bucks who come to work here do not understand the life they have chosen for themselves. They will understand in twenty years or so that we are nothing more than machines that Samura will throw away when it is done with us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Shinichi Fujita
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Chief Clerk Tadashi Matsumoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Takao Yamamoto
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Section Chief Makoto Hara
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Tsushima Bartender/Shingen Aida
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====Battleship Carcassonne (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504844:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now the path into Sirius is open anyway, we can openly state that our military power is more than twice as large as any other Sirius House possesses. If there was a war, no one could possibly stop us from winning.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Laure Dalle
->Rumor #504845:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The offensive from Dauphine into Languedoc was scheduled to begin, but we were too late. Breaching the mine field is a loss that we'll never be able to recover from.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Daniel Vasselon
->Rumor #504847:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The failure of Languedoc's defenses was the most devastating defeat for the Navy in over 300 years. Many of our admirals will lose their posts after the military investigations have been completed. Some already have, and they certainly deserve it.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Daniel Vasselon
->Rumor #504848:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If Languedoc was defended as well as Lorraine, we would never have been in the position we are now. Our isolation minefield has been breached, and we'll be forced to establish relations with the other Houses. But what troubles me even more is that the Council does not prevent any unlawfuls from Sirius from entering Gallic space. As if we didn't have enough of our own pirates to deal with.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Laure Dalle
->Rumor #504850:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of our officers have defected and joined the Council. They betrayed their country in the most shameful way, and politics has nothing to do with it. I don't understand how could they even think about treason.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Carcassonne Bartender/Didier Ferro
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====Limoux Base (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504886:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the newcomers are so curious about Gallia's borders and what lies within. We can give you some basic information, but the rest you will have to discover for yourself. It may well be dangerous, but it will also be rewarding.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Maurice Jobert
->Rumor #504895:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The history of Gallia is a sad mixture of glory and despair. Technological breakthroughs and unmatched military power were bought for the price of widespread poverty and suppressing the last remnants of democracy.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Amelie Mounier
->Rumor #504917:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Council are too weak. They don't understand that the King won't notice how many Royal Navy ships they destroy in  places like Burgundy or Lorraine. That inbred moron of a King will notice only when we detonate a bomb inside his own palace. A nice big explosion, that's what we need to get his attention.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Limoux Bartender/Maximilien Bellamont
->Rumor #504918:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If not for us, the Gallic mass media probably wouldn't even report about the events going on here. After a couple of buildings explode in the neighborhood, the population becomes more attentive to the frontier reports, and the government can no longer conceal the truth.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Samuel Douay
->Rumor #504920:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our leaders say that the Council is heavily dependent on our help. This is only a small part of the unpleasant truth: in reality, we need the Council far more than the Council needs us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Samuel Douay
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====Lodeve Space Port (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504937:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The actions of the Council has plunged our whole faction into an uncertain future, where we now face the inevitable crisis that we had half hoped would never come. Aside from their leaders, the Junkers in Sirius have never heard about the Junkers from Gallia, and they became much more powerful and wealthy than we ever could, stuck in here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Steven Maloy
->Rumor #504940:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The minefields separating Gallia and the rest of Sirius have been breached, and now we might lose whatever support we had from the Gallic government. Now, since our secrets have been unveiled for all to see, we are no longer necessary. This whole situation is very dangerous for us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Guillaume Case
->Rumor #504941:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our agenda in Sirius could remain secret if the Junkers could keep their secrets. Many of the Junkers with whom I work came from the ranks of the Brigands or even the Unione Corse, seeking more wealth for less effort. Once the Council was victorious in Languedoc, many of those cowardly fools began to sell information in attempt to gain money, quit our cause, and disappear. We will find them, though.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Ian Watson
 * Lodeve Bartender/Matthieu Williams
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====Montpellier Guard Station (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504888:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You probably think that breaching a mine field is an easy task. One mine explodes, and other nearby mines explode in a chain reaction. Reality is much more complicated: Gallic mines are resistant to nearby explosions and even weapon fire, and each one has to be defused manually.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Leon Boulez
->Rumor #504889:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Minefields consist of millions of mines. All of them were produced by Solar Engineering and EFL in their facilities all over Gallia, and then carried to Languedoc and Lorraine to be set in position by trained Navy personnel.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Leon Boulez
->Rumor #504890:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Setting up the mine fields was an extremely lengthy process. It took over a hundred and fifty years to complete, and Gallia had to face the constant risk of being discovered by some hapless explorer from Sirius. Unfortunately, their space exploration advanced far slower than ours.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Marie Debord
->Rumor #504902:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the High Command suspected that the Junkers were related to the Gallic secret services and had a hidden agenda. Most others thought that the Junkers' only goal was attaining wealth by any means necessary. Somehow nobody seemed to realise that neither goal contradicts the other one.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Montpellier Bartender/Remy de Lisle
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====Narbonne Base (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504929:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We steal from the rich and give to ourselves. That's my motto, and others have said its rather amoral, but so what? I mean, how can you steal anything from the poor?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Gilbert Rowen
->Rumor #504930:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our bases are rather unreliable. The airlocks are known to be faulty, and people get sucked into space every month or so. What can I say? We just don't have enough qualified engineers or replacement parts availablefor repairs. So my advice to you is: be smart, and stay away from the airlocks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Rene Villon
->Rumor #504934:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Who are the Junkers? And why don't the Royal Police prosecute them, despite all the illegal activities they are involved in? I'm almost certain that the Junkers have ties to the Gallic special forces, but I have no way to prove it. They might even be spying on the other unlawful groups of Gallia, although again, there is never any proof.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Brigands/ Jaques Nancy
->Rumor #504958:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Hey, you want a drink? You are one of those guys who came here from Sirius, right? Doesn't matter much for me. I'm a pilot, you know. And I'm going to quit my bartender job soon and head into the unwary populated worlds of Sirius. They say that law enforcement there is not nearly as tight as in Gallia.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Narbonne Bartender/Paul Friar
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====Nimes Station (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504882:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My heavy fighter wing initially had 8 ships in it. We were fighting alongside each other for six years, in Burgundy, Dauphine, and then here. Before 816 A.S. - this new Sirius chronology is hard to adopt, but I'm trying - our wing only lost one ship near Gap. And then that battle for Montpellier... I was the only one who survived. What will I tell to their wives and kids if I survive the next Naval assault?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Captain Jerome Marquette
->Rumor #504884:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>They say that the King was in a panic when he heard that the Languedoc defenses had been breached by our military. I doubt that it's true. The King could order his fleets to reinforce the Languedoc defenses long ago, but he did not do that. Most of my comrades disregard my suspicions, but I can't help thinking that we had all fallen into a carefully prepared trap.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Philippe Cheney
->Rumor #504886:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the newcomers are so curious about Gallia's borders and what lies within. We can give you some basic information, but the rest you will have to discover for yourself. It may well be dangerous, but it will also be rewarding.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Captain Anne-Marie Soufflot
->Rumor #504887:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Isn't it ironic? International English was the only language used for communication within the Alliance for centuries. When we arrived on New Paris, every citizen could speak English perfectly, and the younger generations studied French as a foreign language. Now, of course, it's different, but most Gallic citizens speak English well enough. The day has come when we can finally put this knowledge to good use.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Philippe Cheney
->Rumor #504891:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>How can we fight a war with the most powerful Navy in Sirius with considerable success? The answer is: resources. Many of the Council are former military officers. We have the money, the manpower and the ships.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Jaques Merle
->Rumor #504892:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now I realize that the war was inevitable right from the start. There was never really much hope that we could convince those government pigs to change their minds. Someday we should overthrow the government and dispose of the King. Yeah, that simple. History repeats itself, you know.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Nimes Bartender/Adrien Gallieni
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====Planet Quillan (Languedoc)====
->Rumor #504880:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many Council families had settled on Quillan after the Gallic Army corps on the planet were defeated. They thought that the planet would now be safe from the Royal Navy. Now few of us believe that we'll hold Quillan for long after the main naval forces enter the system. We only have a few months to evacuate the colonists to a new location. Dozens of thousands of colonists, and we don't even know where to go.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Diane Lalique
 * Council/ Philippe Cheney
->Rumor #504881:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The operation in Languedoc was a risky one, and we all knew right from the start that many of us wouldn't survive the upcoming battles. The rumors we hear about the Gallic Navy's military buildup in Dauphine seem to indicate that those battles were just the beginning. Our only chance is to flee to Sirius and seek a safe haven in some desolate system that the Royal Navy won't be able to reach before we set up a better defense.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/Lt. Christine Eliade
->Rumor #504925:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hear rumours that the Junkers proved to be traitors who sold information on Sirius to our government. I'm not surprised at all. The Junkers are scum who should have been exterminated a long time ago.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Maurice Jobert
->Rumor #504953:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Neural Nets of Gallia and Sirius are based on similar principles and, therefore, are easy to integrate. They are both based off the Alliance computer architecture that developed differently in Gallia and Sirius during the last eight hundred years, but still retains similar origin, and, moreover, is backward compatible.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Quillan Bartender/Yves Blanchard
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====Battleship Derby (Leeds)====
->Rumor #132560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We go further into the clouds than the Armed Forces do. I've gone right by the Omega-5 Jump Hole more than once. That takes some guts, let me tell ya. The Corsairs get really nasty if you get too close to their access points. I've never been in Omega-5. Not too many Hunters survive to tell their tales of that area. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Word from Freeport I is that the Corsairs are losing their turf war with the Hessians in Omega-5. That'll save Bretonia's rear. Once the Hessians cut off Omega-5, the Corsairs won't have an access route into Cambridge anymore. Hessians don't much care about this corner of the woods. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our group went on a long-range patrol along the Corsair Artifact smuggling route to the New London Jump Hole. I got one of 'em in my sights, but his buddies laid some wicked covering fire that forced me to break off. Those Corsairs are a wily lot. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are some top Hunters of the Guild out in the Omega Sector. I was talking to one of 'em last week on Freeport 1 -- said he'd made it all the way to Freeport 5 in Omega-41. That's on the edge of nothing, that is. He talked about a neutron star's deadly radiation that'll fry ya in a couple of minutes if you aren't properly protected. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to be an IMG miner in Cardiff. This is much better work -- yeah, a little more dangerous, but a lot more rewarding. They recruited me for my knowledge of the Grasmere and Keswick Clouds. I grew up on Cambridge, so I know 'em like the back of my hand. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Guild is gaining membership in Rheinland. It was tough for a while, but the pay is better than the Federal Police can offer, and you have more freedom to boot. Of course, the Red Hessians are growing, too, so it's not an easy job. The Mollys and Gaians would be chicken feed for that lot. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
->Rumor #132566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We are delivering supplies from Cambridge for the battleship. It's not much of a run, but it keeps me busy. The Corsairs rarely bother us along the Cambridge line. We bring the Side Arms and H-Fuel in from London as needed.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132567:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We had a rough MOX run on the way in. Mollys attacked us as we left LD-14. The Armed Forces saved the day on that one. Then the Mollys bit us again in New London. This time it got dicey, since all we had were police in the area. I lost an escort on that one. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132568:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Normally, running Toxic Waste from a ship like this one is not an attractive target, but those Mollys think they can build a dirty bomb with some of this nasty stuff. So, we have to deal with stress both ways from LD-14. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
->Rumor #132569:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Norfolk serves as a keystone in the defense of Bretonia against the scourge of the Corsairs. The Cambridge Line stretches between here and Cambridge to offer additional protection for ships traveling along that Trade Lane. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132570:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Omega-3 is a sea of ice asteroids. Corsairs are more of a problem in our end of the system; the Red Hessians take over at the east end. Apparently, there's no Jump Hole between Omega-3 and here, or between Omega-3 and Omega-7. That keeps things a little bit more controlled. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
->Rumor #132571:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We patrol the Trade Lane into the Keswick Cloud, a favorite crossing point for Corsairs, and the Lane to Cardiff. The Omega-3 Gate area is particularly contentious right now. We've allocated an entire squadron to patrol just that vicinity. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132572:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Captain Edwards says we're going out into the Grasmere tomorrow on a search and destroy mission to look for Corsairs. Guess I better record a message for my momma, in case I don't come back. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
->Rumor #132573:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We've extended our patrols into Omega-3 per the conditions of the Omega Trade Lane Pact with Rheinland. Problem is, they aren't holding up their end in Omega-7. The excuse is not enough money. We're itching to go in there, but London won't allow it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #132574:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Cambridge used to be such a peaceful place, and then the Corsairs showed up. They've built that Cambridge Line to assure all those university types in Cambridge that everything is under control. Fact is the Line's useless. The weapon platforms are too far apart, and the Corsairs just go around the ends of the Line. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Mickey Mansfield
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Norfolk Bartender/Wallace Ashby
->Rumor #134284:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Rick Burton
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Solomon Pesto
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Joesphine Macaw
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Ronda Basil
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====Battleship Nagasaki (Leeds)====
->Rumor #133552:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship is commissioned with keeping the nearby Border Worlds as free from piracy as possible. It is a daunting task, but we manage to kill and capture many of the worst of them. Still more try to slip into the system, but we halt that traffic also.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133553:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the greatest threats to Kusari is the spread of Cardamine abuse. The Golden Chrysanthemums have been smuggling Cardamine into Kusari through this system, and it must end. I have ordered all Golden Chrysanthemums to be summarily executed and given flight commanders a red pass on patrols in the Border Worlds and this system.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133554:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Though some of their actions do get a little violent, the Farmers Alliance is not a real threat to Kusari society. Much of our time and resources would be wasted hunting down a paper tiger. The occasional accidental attack on Kishiro occurs, but for the most part they attack only Gaijin shipping.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133555:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Golden Chrysanthemums might be our number one priority in this system, but it is the Blood Dragons who are the greatest threat to our physical safety. The Golden C. pilots are young and reckless; the Dragons are skilled and fearless.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133557:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Dragons lay bleeding while the Chrysanthemums die fighting Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133558:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Seiran Dust Field is the point of entry for the Blood Dragons that enter the system. Our patrols have spotted them moving between there and the Okha Dust Field. We cannot interrogate the ones we capture as we would like to, so many of their strategies remain secrets.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133559:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our patrols in Tau-29 come up against Outcasts on occasion. We know they are the source of Cardamine, but they are not the problem for us. It is the women who smuggle it into our system. Before the Golden C. there was no Cardamine problem in Kusari.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Nagumo Bartender/Ujihiro Shigi
->Rumor #133560:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Much of our effort is spent redirecting the Gaijin into Shikoku. We are trying to seal this part of Kusari space and, more importantly, New Tokyo from their presence. Bretonians and the populations of the Border Worlds are very unsavory characters. They would be more comfortable in the other system.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Mariko Uchida
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
->Rumor #133561:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The fusion chambers in this ship produce Toxic Waste, which we take to Yokohama. There we pick up the MOX and bring it back here to fuel the engines of this ship.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133562:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Side Arms are given to every soldier aboard the ship. They are supplied from relay bases in New Tokyo.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133563:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>All the basic supplies needed to run this base are brought here from Kyushu. The shipments also bring in mail, since many of the soldiers aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> are from the finest families planetside.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133564:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship plays an important role in keeping the foreign criminals out of our beautiful system. Let them infest Shikoku if they must; Kyushu is ours. Personally, I wish that Kusari was still strictly isolationist. We could always transfer goods at our borders, but the government has grown lax.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133565:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Nansei Research Center is protected by this battleship. It is a great responsibility protecting the best and brightest minds in Kusari. Someone must take the forefront of scientific research in Kusari, and that great task falls upon Samura's shoulders.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #133566:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I enjoy this assignment aboard the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Nagumo</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT>. I am afforded the pleasure of seeing the worlds beyond Kusari, but in the safety of a battleship patrol. Yes, sometimes the pilots will take me with them on circuit sorties -- very exciting.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Toru Nakada
 * Samura Heavy Industries/Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi
->Rumor #134331:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Shoki, part of a Blood Dragon raiding party in the Kyushu system, was intercepted and destroyed by the Kusari Naval Forces. Two of the three ships have been located and salvaged. The patrol leaders ship, the Shoki, remains at large. It is believed to be somewhere in the western Ohka Dust Field, which is difficult for the Blood Dragons to operate in, given its close proximity to the Nagumo. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Colonel Takeshi Ogawa
 * Kusari Naval Forces/Corporal Kaoru Nakajima
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====Battleship York (Leeds)====
->Rumor #132400:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Outcasts and Mollys give us the most trouble in these parts of space; the Gaians don't really operate up here -- not that they would be much of a threat compared to the blokes we already fight every day. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Rusty Thompson
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Gweneth Coppleman
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/York Bartender/RBT-15
->Rumor #132401:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We patrol the northern sector of Leeds. Mostly we run search and destroy missions around LD-14. It is vital to the security of Bretonia that we protect the shipments of Uranium coming into the base from the LD-14 field and the MOX that is shipped out. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Rusty Thompson
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Gweneth Coppleman
->Rumor #132402:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We encounter a good deal of Bounty Hunters hired by BMM to kill the criminals we can't lay a beam to, but they are as shady as the criminals at times, plus I think they enjoy their job too much. I kill because I have to; these sadists kill because they enjoy it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Rusty Thompson
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Gweneth Coppleman
->Rumor #132403:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The new Trade Lane construction project in Tau-31 has come under a lot of fire by the Outcasts in recent weeks. The York will be sending out two daily patrols starting tomorrow to keep BMM and Deep Space Engineering happy. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Rusty Thompson
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Gweneth Coppleman
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/York Bartender/RBT-15
->Rumor #132404:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Gaians have been attacking the Harris terraforming project in Tau-31 for some time now. Planetform claims they have caused many delays in the project. I'm not so sure about that. Last patrol I did, we saw more Outcasts than Gaians. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Rusty Thompson
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Gweneth Coppleman
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/York Bartender/RBT-15
->Rumor #132405:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The York is also responsible for patrolling the Tau-31 system. It gets rough up in the Barrier fields with the Outcasts. London is talking about sending us up farther into Tau-23. I guess the BMM project up there isn't going so well. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Rusty Thompson
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Gweneth Coppleman
->Rumor #132406:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military personnel on this ship are always looking down their noses at us Bounty Hunters, but the truth is that if they could do their job well enough, BMM wouldn't be forced to hire us to do what the military can't. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Douglas Webb
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Anne Sullivan
->Rumor #132407:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The reason the Outcasts are in this area is because of the Jump Hole to the west of the radiation zone in the LD-14 field. The Hole goes to Edinburgh, which is where the Cardamine comes from. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Douglas Webb
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Anne Sullivan
->Rumor #132408:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys come into this system from New London. The Guild figures the southern Jump Hole is hidden somewhere in the two smog clouds. All the Leeds criminals use those clouds for attacks and cover. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Douglas Webb
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Anne Sullivan
->Rumor #132409:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Tau-31 is a productive area for us. The Gaians hang out near Harris, if that's what you fancy. For the more advanced Hunter, the Outcasts offer plenty of challenge in the northern part of the system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Douglas Webb
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Anne Sullivan
->Rumor #132410:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I heard there's some big bounties offered by BMM at their mining base in Tau-23. I guess the Outcasts have been sockin' it to 'em up there. They bit more off than they could chew on that one, they did. That's practically Edge World. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Douglas Webb
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Anne Sullivan
->Rumor #132411:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Planetform hired me to kill Gaians a few months ago, so that's what I do. They aren't the best pilots around, though some of them know a few moves. They come out of the Edinburgh Jump Hole in the northwest end of the system, headed for the West Leeds Smog Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Douglas Webb
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Anne Sullivan
->Rumor #132412:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Just doing a quick supply run from Leeds. This system is one of those exceptions to the rule that planetside life is better. They were going through one of those gas mask-level smog alerts when I left this morning. That's when even the rats start to die. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Robin Newman
->Rumor #132413:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to do the Border World run to Kusari. This is my last job until retirement, which will not be on Leeds, mind you. I've got my eye on a nice cottage in the Cambridge countryside. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Robin Newman
->Rumor #132414:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You are reasonably trustworthy in Bowex's eyes, so I don't mind telling you that the MOX from this base comes directly from LD-14. We ship them back Toxic Waste to reprocess. BMM had to start doing it after 800 years of dumping because of ALG. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Robin Newman
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====Durham Border Station (Leeds)====
->Rumor #132445:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The military and the police might have their orders concerning which targets are the highest priority, but I don't see it that way. Planetform will pay me a lot more for a dead Gaian than a Molly, so I kill Gaians -- they are easy pickings. If I wanted a challenge I'd square off with some Mollys. BMM will pay you well to take them down. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gillian Hasler
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wolfe Palmers
->Rumor #132446:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not bound by jurisdiction, so if a company puts a contract out on you, I'm going to hunt you down. And when I find you I'm gonna kill you, because that's how I put food on the table for my son. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gillian Hasler
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wolfe Palmers
->Rumor #132447:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm a Leedite, born and raised here in Leeds, son of a Uranium miner. Did a turn in prison too, but that's all behind me now. I know where the Jump Holes are in this system. I learned about them in Newgate. You can get to Manchester under wraps in the East Leeds, New London through the West Leeds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gillian Hasler
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wolfe Palmers
->Rumor #132448:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you choose the life of a Bounty Hunter, you should know that you'll never win any popularity contests. The crooks hate you cuz you make a living of putting them in the past tense. The police and military envy you because you can take on the jobs they can't always do. The corporations dislike you because you don't follow the rules, and other Bounty Hunters might not like you because you are their competition. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gillian Hasler
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wolfe Palmers
->Rumor #132449:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If I'm hired to pop Gaians, I'll head for the Edinburgh Jump Hole. If the contract reads for Mollys, I'm gonna head for the New London or Manchester Holes -- most likely the New London Hole. That's really where the majority of 'em come from. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gillian Hasler
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wolfe Palmers
->Rumor #132450:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Edinburgh Jump Hole is a dangerous place to hang out. It's in the LD-14 field, and all manner of thieves and killers pass through that area. Not only that, it is just slightly west of a pocket of radiation in the field, so an inexperienced pilot might get cooked. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Gillian Hasler
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Wolfe Palmers
->Rumor #132451:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex supplies this base with everything it needs to operate. It all comes from Leeds. It's a short trip, but one of the most dangerous Lanes in the system with all the criminal traffic that crosses it. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Arnold Reeves
->Rumor #132452:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The best way to climb your way out of this dirt hole is to become a pilot. It is possible; I've seen people do it. Slowly they change from creatures into people with enough self-respect to stand up for themselves. That's what happened to me. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Arnold Reeves
->Rumor #132453:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This police post is a new construction designed to monitor this Trade Lane. There have been numerous attacks here by all the resident criminal factions within Bretonia's boundaries. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/Sales Rep. Arnold Reeves
->Rumor #132454:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I fly patrols into the West Leeds Smog Cloud. Every single criminal faction in Leeds hangs out in that slime. It's my job to root them out and bring them to justice, since the military is too busy up north protecting LD-14. The Gaians are the easiest group, though I must admit that their quality has been improving. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
->Rumor #132455:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the more satisfying jobs on this base is escorting the prison convoy into New London, a big ship full of criminals. Any Outcasts onboard aren't coming back; they usually kick off in prison, for some reason. Of course we don't capture too many of them in the first place. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
->Rumor #132456:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The police in Bretonia have a hard time shaking the lousy reputation that Liberty shippers have of the police. That's because they are used to the LPI, which is just as crooked as the criminals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
->Rumor #132457:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some Bounty Hunters are alright, I suppose. Others are rotten and will kill anybody if the money is right. Basically, they are assassins that companies hire to kill the criminals we haven't had the chance to apprehend yet. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Durham Bartender/RBT-23
->Rumor #132458:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This base was built to protect the shipping coming into Leeds on its way to New London. This is the main trade artery between Kusari and Bretonia and is Bowex's bread and butter. If you want to talk about a company with its hands in The Crown's pocket, it's Bowex. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Durham Bartender/RBT-23
->Rumor #132459:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The East Leeds Smog Cloud is as dangerous a place as any. The Mollys especially like to use it as cover, and so do the Outcasts. Even the Gaians will use the East Leeds to get up into the Stokes Asteroid Field where they hit Planetform shipments moving in and out of Stokes. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Durham Bartender/RBT-23
->Rumor #132460:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You might hear a lot of talk about the Outcasts and the Gaians, but the highest priority in this system is the Mollys. Sure, the other factions cause trouble, but the Mollys pose the greatest threat to Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Durham Bartender/RBT-23
->Rumor #132461:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the Bretonian Police will eventually join the military. This is good training in that respect. Both institutions are honorable and you do a lot of the same things, though I'd say our job is a bit harder because we are supposed to apprehend criminals where we can. The military doesn't see things quite the same way. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Durham Bartender/RBT-23
->Rumor #132462:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You aren't gonna find tourists, artists, or scientists in this system. You are gonna find wolves and sheep. Now, who is who is for you to figure out. Which one are you going to be? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain James Mathie
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Penelope Maxwell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Zoe Leighton
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====LD-14 (Leeds)====
->Rumor #132427:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I run the marine contingent on this base. It's one of the worst duties you can pull. If you get sent here, someone up top really hates you. They can't send the dregs here you know, so we have an important job to do. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Margaret Bisset
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Louis Hartley
->Rumor #132428:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Everyone stationed at this base has it bad for the Mollys. The ones that get captured don't survive long enough to be shipped out of here. The last one we captured was found the next morning in his cell with two pieces of MOX where his eyes used to be. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Margaret Bisset
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Louis Hartley
->Rumor #132429:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We come across the Outcasts at this base occasionally. I think they are just passing through, but we are bound by duty to engage them. They are one tough fight. Their ships are better than ours -- makes me a bit angry to think about that -- but I do what I have to. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Margaret Bisset
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Louis Hartley
->Rumor #132430:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bounty Hunters refuse to come to this base. I can't say that I blame them, but I'm glad they don't. We have enough criminals in these parts as it is. Most Bounty Hunters have done a turn or two at one of our prisons. How do you think they know all the underworld secrets that they do? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Margaret Bisset
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Louis Hartley
->Rumor #132431:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Once a pilot has completed a tour of duty at this base he gets his choice of assignments. Most go right to New London. I've got three months left of duty left here. I transferred in with six others, all pretty green. I'm the only one left. Mollys and Outcasts killed the rest of my mates. I try not to make friends here anymore; I just do my job. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Margaret Bisset
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Louis Hartley
->Rumor #132432:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I like to fly out into the fields alone. I fight best solo. I don't have to worry about some stupid kid just out of the academy getting more of our equipment destroyed. It's dangerous, though -- no one to watch your back if you get jumped by a pair of Outcasts or Mollys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Captain Margaret Bisset
 * Bretonia Armed Forces/Major Louis Hartley
->Rumor #132433:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>BMM ships the majority of its basic supplies from Leeds to this base. Let me tell you, it is a relief to see those weapon platforms encircling this base when I'm bringing in a load of supplies. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132434:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm waiting here to meet the BMM replacement pilot who will be taking the place of John Gibbs, the chap who used to make the run from Southampton with Toxic Waste. He got jumped by a couple of Mollys. They say the first shot that went through his shields hit a Toxic Waste container. No more John Gibbs, unless you count the tiny little chunks floating in space. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132435:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Stokes Smelter, just down the Trade Lane, provides most of our raw materials here, beyond the Uranium itself. They do the run every week, slipping in a Toxic Waste shipment on occasion to keep the Mollys guessing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/LD-14 Bartender/Robin Chilton
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132436:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You know what the workers at this base call it? Heh, they call it "short time." It's a fitting name. The employees who work here make three times their normal salary, but their exposure to radiation ages them untold years. So, if you walk too long a stretch here you won't be alive very long. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/LD-14 Bartender/Robin Chilton
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132437:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys have been trying to get at this base for as long as I can remember. That's why we have the military here. The Mollys are either trying to steal Toxic Waste or MOX to make weapons of mass destruction, or they are trying to blow this place up. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/LD-14 Bartender/Robin Chilton
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132438:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>BMM will chew you up and spit you out. The company has no regard for worker safety since it cuts down on the profits. Most of the employees who work this station aren't ever the same again afterwards -- all kinds of health problems, but that doesn't stop BMM from pumping out the MOX. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132439:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The weapon platforms they installed in this area have gone a long way to curbing attacks on the base, even though our miners still get perforated in the fields by the occasional Molly attack. Hey, that's why they take the danger pay. You just hope you're not the one who takes a ship-to-ship missile in the chest -- ain't much left of you when that happens. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/LD-14 Bartender/Robin Chilton
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132440:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My father worked on this base trying to get enough money together to get our family out of this system. We received a letter of grievance signed with a rubber stamp when an explosion occurred in the refinery unit where he worked. There were no survivors. The bodies were so irradiated that they had to be sealed in special containers for the funerals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/LD-14 Bartender/Robin Chilton
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132441:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of my mates has been losing his hair, and not bit by bit either, if you catch my drift. He's been on this base longer than anyone else, but I think it's time he took his pay and pulled stakes. The greed is going to kill him if he lets it. I guess that goes for anybody, really. You have to know when its time to leave. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Ian Burnett
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Keith Cornelius
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/LD-14 Bartender/Robin Chilton
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Anthoney Tutin
->Rumor #132442:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex ships H-Fuel to this base from Glasgow. It's the only shipment we make that doesn't involve MOX or Toxic Waste, so it is considerably less dangerous. Toxic Waste is flammable or even explosive, and the MOX makes you a prime target for the Mollys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Cristof Baskcomb
->Rumor #132443:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It makes me worried just to step foot on this base. Do you know how many times this base has gone critical and flooded the corridors with radiation? More than once, you can be sure of that. I make a decent living working for Bowex running MOX from this base to the Armed Forces battleships. I pick up their spent fuel pellets for reprocessing on the return trip. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Cristof Baskcomb
->Rumor #132444:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex is the exclusive supplier of MOX to the Kusari Naval Forces. We ship it to Yokohama in New Tokyo, where it is distributed by Samura to the various locations. While we are there we pick up their Toxic Waste and ship it back here -- a tidy arrangement. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Cristof Baskcomb
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====Planet Leeds (Leeds)====
->Rumor #132342:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you don't mind flying past weapon platforms, military patrols, and Mollys, you might be just the person to take supplies to LD-14. It scares the hell out of me going to that base. There's enough radiation in there to cook an egg, and I'll tell you I don't want my eggs cooked! If you aren't afraid, you could bring lots of Pharmaceuticals to LD-14, 'cause they run through them pretty fast there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Dick Merriman
->Rumor #132343:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>BMM makes sure that the Stokes base gets all it needs to keep running smoothly. Everything's in this system, so that's nice for me. You don't look like you care, but I've got a lot of family in Stokes -- maybe too much family. We send our own Leeds-produced Mining Machinery up to Stokes and usually haul Basic Alloys on the return trip. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Dick Merriman
->Rumor #132344:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those damn dirty Outcasts almost blew my ship in half in Manchester. I was making my way to Birmingham from New London. I had just unloaded a shipment of Mining Machinery in Thames and was going to pick up a load of Polymers to bring back here. All of a sudden my ship dropped right out of the Trade Lanes and I was buried in Outcasts. I'm glad my escorts were sharp, or BMM woulda been sending my teeth home to the family. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Dick Merriman
->Rumor #132345:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bowex ships basic supplies throughout this system, keeping several Leeds bases equipped. I fly Oxygen, Water, and Food to York, Glasgow, and Durham. It might be a short jaunt, but I lose escorts every week. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132346:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I make the Bowex supply run to the police base Aberdeen in Edinburgh. You'd think they would take better care of their supply shipments, but I usually come into the base limping with a few gunners dead or dying. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132347:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Glasgow sells H-Fuel and buys Consumer Goods. It's a nice run if you enjoy hauling more expensive Commodities than just the Oxygen and Water, and it keeps you in-system too, if that's what you are looking for. Oh, I almost forgot, mate... York needs Pharmaceuticals. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132348:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you'd like to visit the capital, I know how you can get there and back and make decent coin doing it too. Bowex ships Construction Machinery to New London and Southampton regularly. On the return, you can haul Diamonds for the Leeds Mining Machinery plant, which uses gems for all those drills and grinders. Hauling cargo like Diamonds is quite dangerous though, so I hope you like action. Every pirate that runs a scan on you is going to come in firing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132349:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ooh, fancy yerself a tough one do ya, laddie? Well, how do you like the sound of the Border Worlds, eh? I though that might get your attention. Bowex supplies Freeport 6 in Tau-29 with Mining Machinery. Yup, there's money to be made out there if you've got the sand for it. My guess is you'll be dusted before you ever make landing in Freeport 6. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132350:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I hate them Cambridge folks. They are all stuck up cod livers, with their datapads and degrees and their "Oh, I'm a smart one aren't I?" attitudes. Here in Leeds a datapad is best used for breaking over somebody's head. Well, if you wanna run to Cambridge doing the same thing Bowex does, then I recommend picking up some Optronics here and returning with Food. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132351:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Manchester is a fine system, it is. We need their Optical Chips too. Sheffield has some of the finest in all of Sirius. Careful though, it's right on the edge of the Independent Worlds and a lot of bad traffic flows through there. I almost bought it on that run. I think there was one bolt holding my ship together when I set it down. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132352:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You ever want to head into Kusari space? It's quite a different bag of socks, I'll be the first to say. But if you want to get out there and see Sirius, like every young buck, then off ya go to Narita. We need their Optronics here at this base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ Claude Coppleman
->Rumor #132353:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I fly a patrol along the Trade Lane leading to the Edinburgh Jump Gate. That's the route the tourists like to take getting to the Shetland. Gaians, Mollys, and Outcasts hit that Lane pretty frequently, especially through the West Leeds Smog Cloud. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
->Rumor #132354:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you fly your ship through either one of the smog clouds in this system, get it washed before you touch it. The industrial waste you're flying through is highly acidic and though it might not do a great deal to your ship, it'll burn through your skin in seconds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
 * Bretonia Population/Leeds Bartender/Bernard Stockton
->Rumor #132355:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonian Police patrol this sector for unlawful activity. The military takes care of the northern part of Leeds mostly around the Trade Lanes leading to Tau-31 and LD-14. It's more of a military matter protecting the processed MOX nuclear fuel produced at the plant there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
 * Bretonia Population/Leeds Bartender/Bernard Stockton
->Rumor #132356:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I always believed in what the Gaians were fighting for; I just didn't like the way they went about doing things. I didn't take them as seriously as the others -- just rich kids ya know. Well, that all changed a few months ago when they zapped my mate on a routine patrol. We weren't even in attack formation -- just flying by -- and they opened up on us. Roger's ship imploded before I could blink. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
->Rumor #132357:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bretonian Police aren't like them Liberty coppers you'll find glossing it up in New York. No sir, we don't take bribes and we don't take it easy. If you break the law in Bretonia, you're going to pay. That I promise you. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
->Rumor #132358:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I patrol down the south side near the New London Jump Gate. I know that them damn criminals are making a way into our capital system somehow; I just wish I knew where. I make certain that they don't slip past me into the Jump Gate. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
->Rumor #132359:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My folks and their ancestors all come from Leeds. We've been workin' the foundries in my family as long as I can remember -- except me. My father was always moaning about getting the rake from BMM, so I figured I'd get out from under that thumb. I apprenticed myself to a freelancer and learned to fly. After a bit I took the opportunity to join the authorities. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
 * Bretonia Population/Leeds Bartender/Bernard Stockton
->Rumor #132361:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts make their appearance in this system quite often. This is part of their route into center Sirius and Bretonia with that blasted Cardamine they peddle. They are tough ones I don't like to tangle with -- makes me doubt my pension.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Diana Ferguson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Arthur Moore
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Morgan Faye
->Rumor #132362:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In Tau-31 there is a base named Holman. That base requires Gateway to ship them Construction and Mining Machinery. If you did a few runs, then I wouldn't have to fly there so often, and maybe I could take it easy for a while. I hate flying into the Border Worlds. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ernest Parker
->Rumor #132363:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Kensington buys some of the Mining Machinery produced in Leeds. It is a nice, easy run once you make it past the smog clouds and are about to hit the Jump Gates. Of course, making it past the smog clouds is the trick, isn't it? All manner of scoundrel lay in wait for you in there.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ernest Parker
->Rumor #132364:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever heard the saying "Keep your head down"? Of course you have, but it doesn't seem like it would matter in a spaceship, does it? I mean either you decompress or you don't, right? No head ducking is gonna save you if the hull caves in. Well, that's what I used to think until the last run I made. Old Charles, my tail gunner, got his head taken off by a chunk of metal that blew free of a relay panel on my ship. Charlie always was a bit too tall. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ Ernest Parker
->Rumor #132365:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You know how far I have to fly to deliver this H-Fuel to this base? It is a long way across Sirius at the Ogashawa Refinery in Sigma-19. Here's the worst part -- I have to get through Outcasts to get into Kusari space, and then I deal with the pirates there, including the Hogosha and the Golden Chrysanthemums. Finally I get through all that and have to fly through the Border Worlds on the other side of Kusari space. Guess who attacks me there? That's right, more Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kazuo Hayashi
->Rumor #132366:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship Optronics to this base from Honshu. It is better than having to ship H-Fuel here, which is a longer flight. Don't misunderstand. It is a long and dangerous flight from Honshu. Any travel across the Border Worlds is risky. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kazuo Hayashi
->Rumor #132367:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>When you cross Kusari space you have to be careful of the Hogosha. You are Gaijin and therefore unprotected, and I have to be careful because I work for Kishiro. Yet Samura does not have to be wary of the Hogosha. What does that tell you? </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Kazuo Hayashi
->Rumor #132368:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Care to make a jaunt into Tau-31? Planetform needs Commodities at its base, and though we do our best to ship them everything, they always want more. Ah, I can hear the damn supply master whining in my ear even now, and he's a Jump Gate away. You'll find him at Harris. He always needs more Construction and Mining Machinery. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Bill Sysco
->Rumor #132369:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Construction and Mining Machinery, that's what Perth in Edinburgh needs as soon as possible. You look like just the one to do it, too. You don't mind fighting off a few rich snobs who've read too many datapads for their own good do you? That's right, you'd be doing me a personal favor if you could kill a few of those lilies. Gaia might not bleed, but Gaians will. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Bill Sysco
->Rumor #132370:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Planetform is working on making another planet for Bretonia to grow crops in. Cambridge is helping to alleviate the Food shortage in this sector of space, but it is only a temporary fix. If we don't create more arable land, then Bretonia will have major Food shortages within two hundred years. That is a fact, at least according to our data. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./ Bill Sysco
->Rumor #132371:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Mollys here in this system are quite disturbing -- so vicious they remind me of the Blood Dragons in Kusari space. I have to fly Fuel to this disgusting filth of a system from Osaka. Have you ever touched your ship after flying through a smog cloud? Well, don't do it. I hate this place, and I hate Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Kenji Maeda
->Rumor #132372:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The corporations in this part of Sirius have no true power if they let the criminals run rampant like this through their systems. I lost my last escort to Mollys as we were coming into this system. The first two escorts died back in Tau-29 fighting Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Kenji Maeda
->Rumor #132373:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I keep hearing about the Gaians and I know they operate in this system, but I have not seen any yet. Maybe they do not operate along the Trade Lanes I use. Thank goodness. It would be too much if I had to fight the Gaians along with the Outcasts and Mollys. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Kenji Maeda
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====Stokes Mining Station (Leeds)====
->Rumor #132389:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Molly attacks make this run one of the most dangerous that a Kishiro man can do. We take the Basic Alloys produced here all the way to New Tokyo. It is a long journey, or maybe it seems longer because I am constantly worried that I am about to die. I have a wife and many children. I am only trying to feed them, but try to tell that to an Outcast or a Molly. You ever pick up their messages? They enjoy killing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shigeru Ito
->Rumor #132390:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shigeru Ito
->Rumor #132391:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Kishiro Technologies/ Shigeru Ito
->Rumor #132395:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The pride of Rheinland is The Ring, home of Daumann. Stokes provides us with Niobium for our Engine Component manufacturing center there. It's quite a journey back to Berlin -- dangerous as hell, but we Rheinlanders are the best in Sirius. If the Red Hessians don't try to kill you, the Corsairs certainly will. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Werner Uhlig
->Rumor #132396:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Republican Shipping/ Werner Uhlig
->Rumor #132397:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I wonder how long the poor souls who work at the smelters and do the hard labor will live in such conditions. This is the foulest place I have ever visited. I don't think these men will live to see fifty -- not one of them. Working for Samura is much better. They take care of their employees for life. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Takashi Kato
->Rumor #132398:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Takashi Kato
->Rumor #132399:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>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. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Samura Heavy Industries/ Takashi Kato
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====Glendale Base (Lewis)====
->Rumor #132510:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The austere majesty of Gaia is cheapened by the swarms of tourists that set foot upon the planet. Orbital Spa and Cruise, though it may feign to preserve the abundance of its locales, cares for nothing more than its next credit. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132511:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Aberdeen Police Station and the in-system Bounty Hunters are the only things that stop us from completely destroying Planetforms operations in this system. Maybe the Green Front will be able to garner enough public support for us on New London so that we dont have to contend with the police anymore. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132512:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We have information indicating that the centuries-long terraforming operations run by Planetform will never succeed. A top secret government report obtained by the Green Front asserts that the planets will lose their nascent atmospheres within several hundred years of completion of the process due to uncontrolled outgassing. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
->Rumor #132513:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Tau-31 is an important sector for the Gaians. Though terraforming operations on Harris are almost complete, they still need Alien Organisms from the Edge Nebula. The Organisms are crucial in speeding up the terraforming process, thereby making it more economically viable. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132514:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The terraforming gases produced at the Stokes plant in Leeds are a high-priority target for Gaian attack. It is a dangerous run because of our inability to hide for some stretches of travel through Leeds. Usually, only our best pilots make that trip. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132515:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our hope is that one day the corrupt leadership of BMM and Planetform will be exposed for the greedy, shortsighted people they are. They have squandered our national heritage and future after eight hundred years of unregulated industrialization. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
->Rumor #132516:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We bring in all of our supplies, other than our locally available Oxygen and Water, from Trafalgar. It is most ironic that the only place we can land is the despised Junker base -- guardians of filth, corruption, and the criminal element. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #132517:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Leeds is our greatest example of the ruin that mankind can wreck upon nature -- the sheer destructiveness of pure exploitation. It is also the home of the Stokes Smelter, where Terraforming Gases are produced. Fortunately, the system can be used as an access route to all of Bretonian travel because of all the smog clouds. It's ironic how we escape in the filth we are trying so hard to eradicate. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
 * Gaians/Islay Bartender/Nicholas Hammond
->Rumor #134286:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The San Vicente was making a Cardamine run from Cali to New London when it was ambushed by an Armed Forces patrol in the West Leeds Smog Cloud. The cargo was recovered by the military, but it is possible that one of the larger pieces of debris still has some equipment attached.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Quincy Pearce
->Rumor #134287:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcast ship Lorenzo was making a Cardamine run from Cali to Mactan when it was caught by a military patrol in the LD-14 Asteroid Field. It turned further into the heart of the field to escape its pursuers and stumbled into an old radioactive pocket. The crew is presumed dead, but the ship is probably still intact. No one has retrieved the cargo yet due to the high radiation danger in the area.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Parker Glenn
->Rumor #134306:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A Gaian attack was broken up the other day by the Bretonia Armed Forces north of Harris. Most of the Gaians were vaporized on the spot, but the Valiant, flown by Lucy Collins, escaped to the northwestern end of the system, in Outcast territory. No one has heard from her since. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gaians/ Rick Portal
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====Battleship Epinal (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504848:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If Languedoc was defended as well as Lorraine, we would never have been in the position we are now. Our isolation minefield has been breached, and we'll be forced to establish relations with the other Houses. But what troubles me even more is that the Council does not prevent any unlawfuls from Sirius from entering Gallic space. As if we didn't have enough of our own pirates to deal with.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Suzanne Neal
->Rumor #504850:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many of our officers have defected and joined the Council. They betrayed their country in the most shameful way, and politics has nothing to do with it. I don't understand how could they even think about treason.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Epinal Bartender/Gaston Laclos
->Rumor #504855:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Now that the secret of Gallia is revealed to the whole of Sirius, what will our leaders do? What will we do? I'm completely bewildered, and many of my fellow officers share similar doubts about our future.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Christian Bovie
->Rumor #504857:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Lorraine is much better defended than Languedoc ever was. Despite numerous attempts by the Council to breach our defenses, they have always failed. None of our stations in Lorraine have ever been captured by the enemy, and it is unlikely any ever will be.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Christian Bovie
->Rumor #504858:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Setting up the mine fields was an extremely lengthy process. It took over a hundred and fifty years to complete, and Sirius could have discovered us at any time during this period.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Suzanne Neal
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====Chateau Salins Station (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504848:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If Languedoc was defended as well as Lorraine, we would never have been in the position we are now. Our isolation minefield has been breached, and we'll be forced to establish relations with the other Houses. But what troubles me even more is that the Council does not prevent any unlawfuls from Sirius from entering Gallic space. As if we didn't have enough of our own pirates to deal with.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Daniel Gouges
->Rumor #504853:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I have to admit that the attack against the Languedoc defenses was brilliantly executed by the Council. They did sacrifice thousands of their pilots and soldiers to achieve their goal, but they didn't have much choice, and in the end they were victorious. Who cares about casualties?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Sylvie Delors
->Rumor #504857:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Lorraine is much better defended than Languedoc ever was. Despite numerous attempts by the Council to breach our defenses, they have always failed. None of our stations in Lorraine have ever been captured by the enemy, and it is unlikely any ever will be.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Chateau Salins Bartender/Antoine Tapie
->Rumor #504858:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Setting up the mine fields was an extremely lengthy process. It took over a hundred and fifty years to complete, and Sirius could have discovered us at any time during this period.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Olivier Blanc
->Rumor #504860:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The traditional path to Lorraine through Champagne was blocked by the Council. To aid our fleets in Lorraine, we had to use the Jump Gate into Artois, and even the Jump Hole from Burgundy. I've heard that Sirius pilots are discouraged to use jump holes because of the dangers involved. But space travel is dangerous anyway, and securing Lorraine was of the utmost importance for us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Tristran Le Vau
->Rumor #504861:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Jump Gates into our Core Worlds had been sealed to prevent the intruders from reaching our main planets. Only authorized ships are allowed to pass, and they are searched thoroughly both at the Jump Gate and at their destination point. But I'm concerned that some might be hidden too well for the authorities to find them...</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Daniel Gouges
->Rumor #504878:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse might be less numerous compared to the other pirate groups in Gallia, but even their membership has nearly doubled in the last 15 years. Originally they were just a covert group, but now they are daring enough to attack us openly.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Olivier Blanc
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====Lixheim Base (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504937:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The actions of the Council has plunged our whole faction into an uncertain future, where we now face the inevitable crisis that we had half hoped would never come. Aside from their leaders, the Junkers in Sirius have never heard about the Junkers from Gallia, and they became much more powerful and wealthy than we ever could, stuck in here.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Austin Elzner
->Rumor #504938:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The leaders of the Sirius Junkers are aware of our agenda. But what choice will they have when every single Junker will know what they were doing? It is inevitable: if those same leaders will not betray our cause, they will have to disappear. Forever. New leaders will arise, who will undoubtedly be hostile to us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lixheim Bartender/Bruno Wibert
->Rumor #504939:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Even here in Gallia, we Junkers don't know much about what is happening in Sirius. I participated in several minefield runs, but I was never allowed any farther into Sirius than the far side of the minefield. Many of our men died during those runs, you know. It's a matter of luck and extreme precision.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Cole Dogson
->Rumor #504940:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The minefields separating Gallia and the rest of Sirius have been breached, and now we might lose whatever support we had from the Gallic government. Now, since our secrets have been unveiled for all to see, we are no longer necessary. This whole situation is very dangerous for us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Junkers/ Ian Watson
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====Luneville Guard Station (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504859:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>A friend of mine works on a defensive Navy installation in Lorraine. I think it's called Luneville. He is a communications officer there, and says that they frequently get strange transmissions from the direction of the mine field. Also, he says that the Junkers are occasionally seen wandering in remote areas of the station! Can you believe that?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Gerard Duras
->Rumor #504860:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The traditional path to Lorraine through Champagne was blocked by the Council. To aid our fleets in Lorraine, we had to use the Jump Gate into Artois, and even the Jump Hole from Burgundy. I've heard that Sirius pilots are discouraged to use jump holes because of the dangers involved. But space travel is dangerous anyway, and securing Lorraine was of the utmost importance for us.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Lt. Suzanne Neal
->Rumor #504863:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>One of the reasons why we were not able to stop the Council from capturing the Border World systems was our command's unwillingness to reveal the true strength of the Gallic Royal Navy. When our armadas from Ile-de-France reach Languedoc, no power in the world will be able to save the Council forces there from elimination in a matter of weeks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Lucas Charnock
->Rumor #504865:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Is it really possible to destroy the Council controlled space stations? Destroying a base, even one built in space using artificial parts, is a complex task that requires a lot of firepower of the sort only battleships or heavy transports can carry. And battleships cannot reach a base inside an asteroid field. Moreover, most bases within those fields are built inside asteroids. What can possibly destroy a large rock asteroid?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Navy/Captain Lucas Charnock
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====Metz Station (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504868:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our positions in the Core Worlds are much more well-established than here. The defence of the Border Worlds heavily depends on the Navy, and we don't have much to contribute, given the military power and resources of our enemies.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Olivier Blanc
->Rumor #504869:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our Navy has the strength, but not much in the way of wisdom. Their humiliating defeat in Languedoc is something that proves my words better than anything else possibly could.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Inspector Olivier Blanc
->Rumor #504871:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Many journalists say that the police are corrupt, that they make treaties with pirates and are involved in smuggling rings. I can admit that I have contacts among the Junkers. But how can you survive in space if you haven't got some backup from a direction that your enemies don't expect?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Arthur Barras
->Rumor #504872:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Last year, a police officer from this station was sentenced to death for murdering someone on planet Nevers. We later heard rumours that the person he had killed was an important Unione Corse member, and that the officer had had long-term business ties with him. I wonder what the Corse member would get for killing an officer. Probably six years in a prison cell that resembles a luxury resort apartment. This job stinks.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Metz Bartender/Vincent Belcher
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Arthur Barras
->Rumor #504875:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The attacks by the Brigands have gotten more and more brutal lately. The chaos caused by the war in the Border Worlds have served them well, for they are getting more and more new recruits from Marne. The damn Council doesn't do anything to stop this, and I sometimes think that it is even part of their plan, although what purpose it will serve them in the end is anyone's guess.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Royal Police/Sgt. Sophie Ader
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====Thionville Base (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504926:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse don't spread rumours around like gossiping housewives. Get lost, before we make you.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Gustave Prevert
->Rumor #504927:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We stay away from politics, wars and other stuff like that. We mind our business. Go away and mind yours before it's too late.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Unione Corse/ Anthelme Leaud
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====Verdun Base (Lorraine)====
->Rumor #504888:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>You probably think that breaching a mine field is an easy task. One mine explodes, and other nearby mines explode in a chain reaction. Reality is much more complicated: Gallic mines are resistant to nearby explosions and even weapon fire, and each one has to be defused manually.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Amelie Mounier
->Rumor #504894:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We split up with Maquis for political reasons, to distance ourselves from their terrorist ideals. But I understand them, and why they do what they do. Many of those who joined the Maquis lost their families and friends when the government started repressing the populations of the central planets. They have nothing left to lose.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Council/ Fabien Deprez
->Rumor #504899:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Have you ever heard about a corporation named Solar Engineering? It's one of the major economical powers in Gallia with extensive ties with the Royal Family, the Royal Navy and some of the prominent members of the Cabinet. You won't see any of their ships in the Border Worlds. The war is bad for business. What is surprising is that they cancelled all their Border Worlds endeavours long before the Second Gallic War had started.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Amelie Mounier
->Rumor #504918:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If not for us, the Gallic mass media probably wouldn't even report about the events going on here. After a couple of buildings explode in the neighborhood, the population becomes more attentive to the frontier reports, and the government can no longer conceal the truth.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Verdun Bartender/Victor Lafargue
->Rumor #504921:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Unione Corse don't like our involvement in political affairs. But politics is life, and we have to influence the way our homeland is going. If it's going the wrong way, our duty is to fix those things that we feel need fixing, whatever the cost to ourselves.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Gaspard Flaubert
->Rumor #504923:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Marne became a safe haven for us, the Brigands, and even the Unione Corse. The Council are trying to conceal the truth, but it's obvious that they cannot control the whole planet's surface. Many of the old factories have switched to producing ships and weapons for pirates. Why do you think piracy is on the rise? Because of this war? No, because the pirates can openly manufacture ships and weapons on Marne, that's why.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Gaspard Flaubert
 * Maquis/ Pierre Dabney
->Rumor #504924:
.<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>What has happened to Marne's economy after the Council established its control over the planet? Theoretically, all the factories should have stopped because they don't have any market to supply their manufactured goods to. In fact, more than 70% of those factories are still working. How is it possible?</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Maquis/ Pierre Dabney
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====Bielefeld Base (Luneburg)====
->Rumor #134037:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We get everything we need from the Junkers. Either we go into the Border Worlds to Yanagi, or to New Berlin, where we will find the Kreuzberg Base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134038:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those who go to Vierlande seldom return; most sentences are for life, and its not just pirates, but the political opponents of the corporate elite as well. The Bundschuh fly attack raids on the prison ships and inbound convoys. We fight to liberate our brethren who have been unjustly incarcerated. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134039:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh is a political organization founded by New Berlin university students who were tired of the corruption of the old regime. Decades later we still toil under the yoke of an oppressive government, though its name has changed. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134040:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh need not lower itself to common piracy like the Red Hessians. Instead, we are funded by the enlightened Berlin intelligentsia looking to do away with the burdens of a corrupt government. This frees us to work directly toward our political agenda without being sidetracked by financial necessities. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134041:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The corporations, though exploitive and uncaring, arent truly at fault for what they do. Corporations are intrinsically self-serving; its the governments role to keep them in check. As long as the government is corrupt enough to accept corporate bribes, the workers cannot be free. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134042:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Our base is located in the Taunus Asteroid field of Frankfurt. Within the same cloud is a Jump Hole to Sigma 13. Nearby is another Jump Hole that leads to Hamburg. In Hamburg there is the Vierlande Prison Ship, the </TEXT><TRA data="2" mask="2" def="-3"/><TEXT>Westfallen</TEXT><TRA data="0" mask="2" def="-1"/><TEXT> battleship, and the Berlin Jump Gate. These are all priority Bundschuh targets. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134043:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Bundschuh recruits new members from the Red Hessians, LWB, Unioners, and even disgruntled Daumann and Kruger workers. But the people we take in must care about our cause, because they wont get rich flying for us. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134044:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In 700 AS, the Dresden Revolt sparked the Popular Revolution that would do away with the Rheinland Imperial Government and replace it with a coalition of the people. The Bundschuh was a key player in the Dresden Revolt, running supplies to the rebels. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
 * Bundschuh/Bruchsal Bartender/Andreas Von Loen
->Rumor #134045:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>After the revolution, the Bundschuh found itself sidelined by the new government. The coalition wanted the support of the wealthy aristocrats who headed Daumann Industries and Kruger Mining. By 715 AS, the Bundschuh was forced to go underground again, this time by a government it had helped to create. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
->Rumor #134046:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Because we have taken the high road, and not one of piracy like the Red Hessians, our ranks have dwindled. But the members of the Bundschuh are purists, committed to a political agenda -- unlike other underground organizations. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bundschuh/ Benno Stöhr
 * Bundschuh/ Timo Herr
 * Bundschuh/ Walter Agricola
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====Freeport 4 (Magellan)====
->Rumor #131507:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's plenty of work for us Bounty Hunters in this part of the Barrier. Between the Rogues in the Weddell field and the Lane Hackers and Outcasts in the Barrier Cloud, it's a non-stop hunting party. Gotta watch out for those Outcasts, though -- I've lost more than a few buddies to those lowlifes. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Phil Spencer
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Abigail Hartman
->Rumor #131508:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's a couple of Jump Holes in this system -- the one to Cortez in the northern part of the system is easier to find. If you wait patiently enough, you can pop a Rogue or two as they come through; they won't even know what hit them. If you see an Outcast, you better have some support, though. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Phil Spencer
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Abigail Hartman
->Rumor #131509:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I don't get why everyone hates us so much. We're providing a service to society, cleaning up all the criminal dregs, and making the Trade Lanes and Jump Gates safer for commerce. It's not an easy life, living out in these hellhole Freeports at the edge of nowhere. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Phil Spencer
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Abigail Hartman
->Rumor #131510:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We run patrols throughout the system. Most of the bounties are put up by IC and Ageira, who seem to really hate the Lane Hackers' guts. You get a lot less for a Rogue, but they're easier to find and take out.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Phil Spencer
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Abigail Hartman
->Rumor #131511:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to find Rogues, just pop through the Cortez Hole. You'll find them in abundance over there. I think their base is pretty close to the Hole.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Phil Spencer
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Abigail Hartman
->Rumor #131512:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It's pretty frustrating not being able to just take out my Detroit Executioner and waste the Lane Hackers and Rogues that come into this bar. It'd certainly be easier than chasing them down in space. Guess that's the downside of Freeports. The IMG folks running the place are okay, but not real friendly. Got that Bretonian superiority attitude going or something.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Phil Spencer
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Abigail Hartman
->Rumor #131513:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I just made a run from California with Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Goods, Food, H-fuel, and Engine Components. A quick trip -- although a little hazardous. Decent profit.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ William Gates
->Rumor #131514:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Mining Machinery is in demand here. We ship it in from Kensington to help our allies, the IMG. I'll probably continue on with some Water bound for Los Angeles.</TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ William Gates
->Rumor #131515:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Be careful in those Barrier Clouds. It's hard to see -- lots of Lane Hackers and Outcasts -- little in the way of security forces. My best friend's convoy got nailed last week at the Manchester Gate by some Lane Hackers. He was hauling Gold from Bretonia to New York -- not low-value stuff like Oxygen and Water. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Gateway Shipping/ William Gates
->Rumor #131516:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We buy supplies here for our base in the Barrier Cloud to the west. It's pretty mundane stuff -- Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, H-Fuel, Consumer Goods, Oxygen, and Water. We prefer if freelancers like you haul them, as it attracts less attention with Bounty Hunters. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Stuart Moulder
->Rumor #131517:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Between you and me, that chunk of ice in the Barrier Cloud gets a little close at times, especially with those weirdo Outcasts stopping by on their drug runs all the time. It's a beautiful view of the Barrier from the Freeport, so we visit here as often as we can sneak by the Bounty Hunters. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Stuart Moulder
->Rumor #131518:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's a Jump Hole into Cortez from here; that's how the Rogues get into this system. There's no way directly into California except through the Gate. It's been a while since I've seen the beautiful skies of Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Stuart Moulder
->Rumor #131519:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We produce Oxygen and Water from our ice mining operation to the north of the base, in the Weddell Ice Field. There's an old Jump Gate out there, owned by the Liberty government. They used to use it for long range jump tests. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131520:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Gateway brings us our Mining Machinery from Kensington. They also deliver Engine Components, Food, H-Fuel, Consumer Goods, and Pharmaceuticals from Los Angeles. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131521:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm not supposed to say anything, but there's a Lane Hacker base in the Barrier Cloud in the west. You'll also find Jump Holes to Manchester and Cortez. Watch yourself out there. Outcast drug runners will waste you in a second if you don't know what you're doing. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131522:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship some of our Oxygen and Water to Sheffield Station in Manchester and bring back Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Goods. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131523:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers and Rogues land here to get supplies. The Bounty Hunters are always hovering around the station, watching their prey mosey right by them. That's the way it is with Freeports. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131524:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers and Outcasts prefer the safety of the Barrier Clouds for their attacks. The bloody Rogues don't care -- they'll attack shipping in the Weddell Field, until the Liberty Navy shows up from the California Gate. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131525:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The bulk of the Water mined here goes to the terraforming operation on California Minor or Los Angeles. It's cheaper to import it from Magellan than to desalinize their nasty seawater. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131526:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The asteroid fields of Magellan were notorious for their unpredictability. The Bretonian government established this base in 220 and called it the Gough Station. Repair and lifter ships were stationed here to assist disabled ships and to remove errant asteroids as they crossed the cleared trade routes. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131527:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Those Lane Hackers are a funny bunch. They fancy themselves as the Sirius Sector's Robin Hoods. They avoid direct confrontation when possible, unless it is the henchmen of the despised IC or Ageira. They like to frequent our base a lot, as that cloudy ice asteroid base of theirs can become a wee bit claustrophobic at times. They are all addicted to Cardamine. They also trade drugs for Trade Lane info with the Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131528:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>With the completion of Trade Lanes across the Barrier by Deep Space in 535, the old Bretonia station was no longer needed. The station was officially decommissioned by the Bretonian government and left to drift. Early IMG folks came in around 580 from New London and reopened the place. Been going ever since. It's our only outpost in the Independent Worlds -- a little too close to Liberty for our taste. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Freeport 4 Bartender/Oswald Kottow
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
->Rumor #131529:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We haul a lot of Water from here to the California Minor terraforming operation, which is in its final stages. Centuries of ice mining by Los Angeles has depleted almost all of California's pure ice. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./Rep. Ken Showman
->Rumor #131531:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>At least we don't have the Gaian problem in Magellan. That begins in Manchester and is widespread throughout Bretonian space. Not sure how they became so misguided. We're performing a valuable service for humankind.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./Rep. Ken Showman
->Rumor #131550:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm normally based on Glasgow, that's our corporate headquarters. The Leeds system doesn't offer the recreational opportunities that this place can. We are close to the cruise ship in Edinburgh, but you can't land on the planet there. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Planetform, Inc./Rep. Ken Showman
->Rumor #131631:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We ship the Water and Oxygen produced at this base to Montezuma in Cortez. The other supplies this base trades in are also sent to Montezuma, including Food, Pharmaceuticals, Engine Components, H-Fuel, and Consumer Goods. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Ken Brockman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Kevin Barker
->Rumor #131632:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Making the run to Freeport 4 for supplies can get dangerous -- we gotta leave the cover of the Barrier, and Bounty Hunters are all over the place, but it needs to be done. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Ken Brockman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Kevin Barker
->Rumor #131633:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are Jump Holes to Manchester and Cortez hidden in the Barrier in the western half of the system. The Manchester Hole is just north of the Lane Hacker base; the Cortez Hole is even further north. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Ken Brockman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Kevin Barker
->Rumor #131634:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Bounty Hunters and the Liberty Navy patrol the gap between the Weddell Ice Field and the Barrier. Thats where we have to go to get supplies, but if you wanna do a little piracy, it's better to hit the Trade Lanes as they pass into the Barrier. Stay in protected space as much as you can if you dont want company from the navy or Hunters. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Ken Brockman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Kevin Barker
->Rumor #131635:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Most of the corporate types in Liberty hate the Rogues, but the truth is, the suits are the ones who made us. You think Id be doing this if I could have made it in their world? The only choice I had was to become a Rogue or burn my life away in the Boron mines of Pittsburg. If you arent born into a company, you arent going anywhere but the slag pile. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Ken Brockman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Kevin Barker
->Rumor #131636:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Junkers dont take a lot of new blood these days; they have their own inner circle. The LPI are corporate lap dogs, the Lane Hackers are rich corporate types turned bad, and the Outcasts -- hell, they arent even human anymore. It was Rogues or nothing for me. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Liberty Rogues/ Ken Brockman
 * Liberty Rogues/ Kevin Barker
->Rumor #134322:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The transport Bradley was attacked by Hackers in the Barrier Cloud in Magellan yesterday. It is believed that they towed it off the Trade Lane somewhere into the cloud to study the latest version more carefully. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Independent Miners Guild/ Sean Molbert
 * Independent Miners Guild/Rep. John Donson
 * Independent Miners Guild/Sales Rep. Rich Lang
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====Mactan Base (Magellan)====
->Rumor #131532:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There's a Jump Hole into Manchester just to the west of this base. We often pop through and hang out in the North Sheffield Field, waiting for an unsuspecting Bowex Gold shipment on the Trade Lanes. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
->Rumor #131533:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts are a pretty odd lot. Can't figure them out sometimes. They wear those funny breathers that act as Cardamine inhalers. In the heat of battle they can give themselves a Cardamine booster with a flick of the wrist. Maybe that's why they're such awesome pilots. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131534:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Since we know what ships are hauling what, we can hit the Gold freighters and sell the Gold to the Rogues at their Montezuma base in Cortez. This keeps the Rogues pretty happy with us, and oftentimes they do our dirty work, which leaves more time to pursue our own diversions -- like dropping Cardamine. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131535:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts run Cardamine in here from somewhere out in the Tau worlds. They ship it out from here into Liberty, with the Rogues handling much of the dangerous work in New York. We pay a pretty high price even here. If you wanted to make a killing, get in close with the Outcasts and buy some Cardamine further up the stream, closer to the source. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131536:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Outcasts use our base as one of their R &amp; R bases on the long journey into Liberty from the Edge Worlds. We trade information for Cardamine, which we need on a daily basis. Funny, we didn't use to need it all the time like nowadays. We have to take Cardamine with us any time we leave base, as we start to get sick pretty quick otherwise. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131537:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We designed the entire USI software system to track ships and their contents throughout the entire Trade Lane network in the Sirius Sector. Ageira didn't give us a penny extra. So we left and started the Lane Hackers, along with a scanner hardware development group from Colorado. IC uses the USI system to calculate precise shipping insurance rates. With USI there is no cheating, like there was in the old days. The shippers hate it, but they have to insure their shipments. IC and Ageira are quite the pair. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
->Rumor #131538:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>No Lane Hacker has ever been captured. Sure, some of our lackeys have gotten tagged by the police or military, but nobody ever knows enough to finger the Lane Hackers. It just goes to prove that were smarter than everyone else. Thats why we left Ageira; we didnt get the recognition and money we deserved. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131539:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>In this system we make plenty of raids on valuable shipments traveling between Liberty and Bretonia. We use the Jump Hole to raid shipments in Cortez that may be trying to bypass Magellan, and the Jump Hole from Cortez to California lets us get back to our beloved homeland. Financial freedom has its costs, I guess. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131540:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Being a Lane Hacker is a commitment to a way of life. I guess some would call us hedonists -- maybe we are. We live for pleasure and the moment. I used to work for Ageira and I can tell you that this is a much better way to live. We enjoy the finest things in life -- we eat the best foods, we wear the best clothes, and we have the best toys. And the Cardamine& as much Cardamine as you want. If we could just land on Curacao, life would be perfect. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Lane Hackers/ Allan Von Krunk
 * Lane Hackers/ Ian McDavid
 * Lane Hackers/ Jon Kimmich
 * Lane Hackers/Mactan Bartender/Peter White
->Rumor #131767:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I've just completed a Cardamine run from the Junker base Trafalgar in the New London system. Unlike Liberty, there aren't many places to lay over in Bretonian space. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Elan Lee
 * Outcasts/ Shannon Loftis
->Rumor #131768:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Of all the factions in Sirius, these are the ones that know what they want and how to get it. They have more money than they need, and all the information they need to get more. We are blessed that the fools are so willing to spend their money on our Cardamine. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Elan Lee
 * Outcasts/ Shannon Loftis
->Rumor #131769:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We often make Cardamine shipment transfers at the Rogue base in the Cortez system. I'm heading on to the California Rogue hideout with my Cardamine -- I can make a more money with only a little more risk. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Elan Lee
 * Outcasts/ Shannon Loftis
->Rumor #131770:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Lane Hackers' Trade Lane technology access is truly remarkable; Hackers give us specific information regarding ship manifests. As payment, they often alert us to high-value cargo coming through the system. If we could only get our hands on their technology& Perhaps one day they will give it to us for a large enough Cardamine shipment. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Elan Lee
 * Outcasts/ Shannon Loftis
->Rumor #131771:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you want to get in with us, you'll need to take some Cardamine on a short run. Be friendly to the Hackers and Rogues; stay away from those Corsairs, though. Bad news. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Elan Lee
 * Outcasts/ Shannon Loftis
->Rumor #131772:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I'm starting to get sick -- guess I've been away from home too long. These runs to Liberty can be taxing. The inhaler masks aren't a long term substitute for the Cardamine-infused biosphere of Malta. </TEXT><PARA/><TEXT> </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Outcasts/ Elan Lee
 * Outcasts/ Shannon Loftis
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====BPA Newgate (Manchester)====
->Rumor #132672:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The inmates aboard this ship are considered so dangerous that all guards have the right to shoot and kill any prisoner at any time. That may seem somewhat brutal, but it is necessary to maintain order among so many violent felons. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132673:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The prisoners do not cross Mollys aboard this ship, especially the Mollys that carry the Maguire spike. That weapon is a filed down metal splinter. When we found one on an inmate last week, the guard shot him on the spot.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
->Rumor #132674:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Mollys don't attack this base as much as they used to now that we have installed weapon platforms and a minefield along the Newgate's perimeter. The current problem is that they try to rescue their captured comrades by attacking the convoys headed into the base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132675:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Aye, the Mollys aboard this ship are a mean lot, but the main problem is the free ones who keep trying to liberate their fellows. The worst attempt I can remember was about two years ago when one of the attackers' missiles penetrated the hull and a whole cell block underwent explosive decompression. Everyone in there died, including guards and prisoners.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132676:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Ever hear of Willy "The Snake" Logan? He's the prisoner some say escaped off this hulk. Me, I don't buy it. I say his corpse is out floating around somewhere in the vac-suit he fashioned.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
->Rumor #132677:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The guards who work this prison are the best in Bretonia. Most of them are incorruptible, though there are always bad apples. One crooked guard is now serving time here for delivering George Good's orders. He's the leader of one of the New London crime syndicates.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132678:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We try to keep the Mollys separated on this ship. Anytime you have more than two of them together, trouble is just around the corner. We learned this only after three of them killed two guards, stole their weapons, and tried to fight their way to the bridge.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
->Rumor #132679:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>Some of the guards here used to know Willy Logan. He was an escape artist who some people say busted out of the Newgate. Maybe he did. His cell mate says that the vac-suit he made looked pretty good. The closest base sure is a long way to go using a stolen fire extinguisher as propulsion.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
->Rumor #133058:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I haven't really put many inmates in this prison; that's more of a police job. The chaps that I've collected my bounties on are dead. It's just easier like that and that's how most companies prefer 'em. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133059:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I used to collect lots of bounties on the Mollys who'd attack the ship trying to free their mates. Not anymore. I hang out at this base to hear about incoming convoys of newly captured prisoners. That's where they try to make the breaks these days. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133060:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>My first trip to the Newgate I spent some time wearing a number. I decided then to go straight. After I finished serving my time I knew I'd never come back -- not as a prisoner at least. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133061:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I may be a Bretonian Bounty Hunter, but I've been making a lot of good money from a Liberty company. Ageira is paying me big bucks to dust any Lane Hackers that I catch in this system. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133062:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>If you find Mollys in this system, they are either sitting here doing time or they came through the Leeds Jump Hole. That Hole is tucked away nicely in the Birmingham Ice Field.</TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133063:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>I sat down at a bar in Piccadilly once and met the only man to escape from this prison -- Willy Logan. It took him ten years to make his vac-suit, and then he escaped through the waste disposal system and was flushed into space with the garbage. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bounty Hunter/Hunter Benjamin Start
 * Bounty Hunter/Tracker Loulia Martin
->Rumor #133064:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The Sheffield is a large distribution point for Commodities in Bretonia. Since it is so close, we bring basic supplies to this base from there. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133065:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>It may be nearby, but I have close calls running Pharmaceuticals and Side Arms here from Sheffield all the time. On the last run I almost got vaped by some Outcasts. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133066:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>We use a lot of Oxygen and Water at this base, so Bowex ships additional supplies from Birmingham, a large producer of Commodities in this part of Bretonia. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133067:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>The run that I make for Bowex is the only one that brings supplies to this base from outside of Manchester. H-Fuel from Cambridge is shipped regularly to this base. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Borderworld Exports/ David Styles
->Rumor #133068:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>This ship, the Newgate Deep-Max Penitentiary Vessel, is a high-security prison for the worst of the Bretonian criminals. The terrorists, serial felons, escape artists, and others too dangerous to house planetside come here. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain May Richardson
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Captain Pam Doyle
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Constable Graham Powell
 * Bretonia Police Authority/Newgate Bartender/Ryan Chandler
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====Birmingham Station (Manchester)====
->Rumor #132680:
˙<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?><RDL><PUSH/><TEXT>There are three Commodities consumed at this base that we do not produce ourselves: Mining Machinery, H-Fuel, and Food. We ship here from Thames. </TEXT><PARA/><POP/></RDL>
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Joe Chapman
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/ Stuart Mickelson
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Birmingham Bartender/Giles Chapman
 * Bretonia Mining and Metals/Miner Louis McCullogh