Changes in the Skarkon base office usage
We have had some new visitors in Skarkon lately, and dockside decks B-2 to F-5 are now under the jurisdiction of Republic Command and used by their local operatives, and off limits to regular capsuleer and civilian traffic.
The local partner goes by the (decidedly uncool but certainly professional) name of 2nd Besateoden Combat Engineers. They are multitribal; predominantly Seb, with Brutor and Thukker well represented too. They are reasonably polite, quite isolationist, barely articulate in Standard Matari, and utterly uninformative; like trying to chat up a wall. So, while I’d love to share more details, details are need to know, and I do not need to know. Station Manager Sarinde has checked credentials and he actually does have the knowhow to make sure they do check, so that’s that. Happy to be able to help.
Upside is someone who at least looks like they know what the hell they are doing now rounds up all the kids from Circles With Cool Names, which should secure them gear and instruction that might actually if not keep them alive at least make them useful before they die.
We have had to make a slight change to office rents to cover for the space, but other than that I have been assured none of this should affect other patrons of the station in any way. I apologize for any inconvenience.
As another matter, I must ask baseliners to stop attempting tourist trips to Pochven. It is not safe. Capsuleers offering this service should be ashamed of themselves, and for the love of gods stick to Krai Veles if you must.
News from the surface
We have had very short intermittent spots of contact with our own lost ground crew. They are moving towards a potential lift-off site but the trek will be hard. Casualties are unknown. Svarog seems to have been opposed to evacuation attempts from the beginning and they are not getting any more gentle as is. Not only do they seem to be bioforming (trigforming?) the planet on a fast schedule and could care less for who is on the way, but they actually actively engage with transports and nothing can convince them otherwise. I’m told a support drop will be attempted only if absolutely necessary, as there’s fears it will simply attract attention and make things worse.
Refugee camp update
Situation at On the Way Home in Gelfiven is stabilizing; with the Parliament working for land assignment for those who do not have kin in other systems that can take them in and with capsuleer efforts such as The New Eden Re-Housing Initiative (NERI) helping, the majority of people have somewhere to move on.
While the triglavian situation has been a crisis, the world has sadly not stopped to simply watch. The warzone is still there, the Empire is still there. We left some of our housing units and staff in Amo on the dockside camp, but they are struggling without the main freighter and especially without the most experienced personnel.
The Amo base has the Vitoc clinic, but they have had to refer a couple of simple infection and trauma cases elsewhere already with most of the capable medical hands with us in MH. It’s not like we don’t have the kudos to do that, but wasting favor on something we could do ourselves feels, well, wasteful. Even more annoying, psychological work has fallen in large part into the hands of various spiritual groups, a situation that I am not entirely happy with. Empire refugees do not generally have enough information to judge belief systems for themselves and are easily lead, and mislead, even by well-meaning people.
For these reasons, it is likely we will move the main base back to Amo, or elsewhere where support for Empire / war refugees is easier, soon.
(Modular hab units at On the way home)