15 APR 3301
The East India Company, one of the larger pilots’ federation members, recently announced a new initiative they are calling “the Galactic Silk Road”. This is a public trade route available to all, and features seventeen of the most highly profitable stops in civilised space.
Although profitable trade routes are nothing new, the East India Company spokesperson in charge of the route, a CMDR Bunny, announced that the organisation will provide protection to those traders wanting to benefit, and has even gone as far as to say that arrangements have been made with the Federal Navy, Mercs of Mikunn, the Merchant Marines, and other factions, in order to patrol the route and protect traders.
The new route is named after the famous four thousand mile trade route across Earth’s continents of Europe and Asia, first seen over three thousand years ago, where merchants made large profits trading silk cloth, while the wealth helped the emerging cultures along the route to prosper and develop.
The stations involved in the new trade scheme are:
Gentil Hub in Harm
Hiya Orbital in Arjung
Lichtenberg City in Scirth
Oren City in Kaliki
Austin Market in Bommatsuri
Weaver Port in Feng Tanga
Capek Orbital in HIP 9989
Houtman Dock in Popocassa
Wachmann Vision in Lileni
Goddard Dock in Xi Wang Mu
Henson Gateway in Dheneb
Giunta Gateway in HIP 7916
Gould Ring in HIP 8830
Harawi Enterprise in HIP 9753
Naddoddur Hub in HR 827
Fabian Term in Badbadzist
Kagawa Vision in Nidayiman
15 APR 3301
During an exclusive interview with the popular Imperial politics programme, ‘Question Everything’, Senator Arissa Lavigny-Duval provided some new insight into the ongoing investigation into the attempted assassination of Emperor Hengist Duval.
“The fact that anyone would attack the Emperor, in his own palace, when for all intents and purposes he’s already on his deathbed, is symptomatic of a very serious sickness within our society.”
“Certain elements, criminal and otherwise, see the current situation as an opportunity to advance their own agendas. At a time when we should be standing together as one nation, one voice, instead we find ourselves fractured and alone.”
“It doesn’t need to be this way. Together we are stronger than those who wish to seek to tear us down. “
“As proof of that, information provided by Imperial citizens loyal to the ideals upon which our nation was founded has proven invaluable in the hunt for those who sought to strike against us. In particular, agents of the Imperial Court have uncovered two potential locations which may well hold the answers we seek.”
“I call on any pilot who has ever dreamed of honouring the legacy of our great Empire. Assist me in teaching the Emperor’s wayward sons exactly what it means to truly be a member of the greatest nation in the galaxy.”
Following the interview, word arrived at GalNet that citizens wishing to work with the Princess’s new investigative task force can sign up to do so at either of the following locations:
Xuesen Orbital in Nehet
Kowal Dock in Mictlan