Free Market Missions

Earthforce

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Free Market Administrator Oliver
• Mission: Blue Pirates Attack

Blue Pirates Attack

Please! Help us! We are being raided daily by forces of the Blue Pirate! The police has to know, help us!

* Credits given: 1000
* Experience given.

Summary
Deliver a note to Enforcer McDouglas at Earth Station in Sol.

Location: Earthforce Headquarters, Sol

• Agent: Enforcer McDouglas
• Mission: Blue Pirates Attack

Blue Pirates Attack

Enforcer McDouglas reads the note you give him then looks at you grimly, "This is sad news, we indeed have to do something.
Simon, are you up to the task? You think you have what it takes to join the Enforcers?"

Continued at Sol Missions

Trade Skills

Station Mastery

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn to be a Colonial Administrator

Learn to be a Colonial Administrator

Old Man Ludwig leans back and then begins lecturing to you:

"Learning to become a skilled Colonial Administrator can be very lucrative.
 The better run your colonies are, the faster they will grow and the richer they will become,
allowing them to pay more for commodities shipped in from off-world.

"It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you can pull the levers of the economy to better the lot of everyone.
 Don't fall into that trap.

"One person can never know what is best for a million others, let alone truly know what is best for one other.
 That government is best which governs least, so they say.

"Provide a strong rule of law, a good court system, and an uncorrupt police force, and your people will do the rest.
 Unhindered by the shackles of a bumbling and overambitious administrator, your colonists will truly thrive!"

* Reward Skill: Colonial Administrator through lvl 1

Summary
Choose this mission to learn the first level of Colonial Administration.  Choosing this locks out the other trade skills.

Extraction Expert

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn to be an Extraction Expert

Learn to be an Extraction Expert

Old Man Ludwig looks at you with respect.

"Becoming an extraction expert is to really get into the root of the industrial economy.

"All wealth comes from the endevors of man,
and the most fundamental endevor is learning what is valuable in the world around you and how to get it.

"Become expert at mining and harvesting, and sell the fruits of your labor to those who will make higher order goods."

* Reward Skill: Extraction Expert through lvl 1

Summary
Choose this mission to learn the first level of Extraction Expert.  Choosing this locks out the other trade skills.

Extraction Expert

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn to be a Merchant Fleet Master

Learn to be a Merchant Fleet Master

Old Man Ludwig nods approvingly.

"Control the star lanes and ship massive amounts of goods from one point to another, always making a profit along the way.

"As long as you buy low and sell high, you will do well."


* Reward Skill: Merchant Fleet Master through lvl 1

Summary
Choose this mission to learn the first level of Merchant Fleet Master.  Choosing this locks out the other trade skills.

Station Mastery

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn Station Mastery

Learn Station Mastery

Old Man Ludwig looks at you very seriously.

"Violence may be the opposite of trade, but the capability for violence on both sides is also a prerequisite for trade.

"If you can not defend what is yours, then looters will simply descend upon you and take it.  That is why,
although Station Mastery as a trade skill will not help you make money directly,
it will give you very powerful stations and permanent drones with which to guard your teammates and allies who are making money directly.

"But you don't necessarily need to make money directly..."

At that thought, Old Man Ludwig chuckles, then continues,

"Let others do all the work, while you protect them... and maybe even charge them a little protection fee while you're at it."

* Reward Skill: Station Mastery through lvl 1000

Summary
Choose this mission to learn the first level of Station Mastery.  Choosing this locks out the other trade skills.

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn Station Mastery

Learn Station Mastery

Use your new power wisely and efficiently

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn Station Mastery 2

Learn Station Mastery 2

Old Man Ludwig will teach you the next level of Station Mastery

* Reward Skill: Station Mastery through lvl 2

Summary
Choose this mission to learn the next level of Station Mastery.

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Old Man Ludwig
• Mission: Learn Station Mastery 2

Learn Station Mastery 2

Use your new power wisely and efficiently

Cedric the Insane

Location: von Mises, Free Market

• Agent: Cedric the Insane
• Mission: Purple Munchkins

Purple Munchkins

You notice Cedric the Insane mumbling to himself and you try to avoid him. It doesn't work; he sees you and blocks your path.

"Purple Munchkins! The purple munchkins are coming!" he cries. "I am sure -- POSITIVE --
that they have invaded the galaxy of Prism. I don't have my ship on me right now.
Could you go scout out Prism and give me an estimate of their numbers? I'll give you one of my marbles if you come back soon.
One of my marbles... I bet you thought I lost them all, right? Ha ha, get it?

Ha ha ha."

* Experience given.
* Reward: Cedric's Marble

Summary
Visit Prism and report back to Cedric the Insane in Free Market.