Helen

Helen
System	Troy
Facilities	Bar, Commodity Exchange, Landing Pad, Merchants' Guild, Main Concourse, Mission Computer, Ship Dealer
Exports	Construction Equipment, Factory Equipment, Furs, Generic Foods, Grain, Liquor, Luxury Foods, Pets, Wood

Helen is a Terran Confederation Agricultural Planet in the Troy system.

Services

• Main Concourse
• Bar
• Commodity Exchange
• Landing Pad
• Merchants' Guild
• Mission Computer
• Ship Dealer

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Commodity Exchange

Commodities

The following table gives you a definite edge in the marketplace. Using these num-bers, you can construct the most advantageous trade route possible. Look for target bases close to each other with complementary needs. With these, you can minimize travel time and fuel expenditure while maximizing profit margin.

Empty box. Commodity cannot be bought or sold at this type of base. For example, the contraband drug Brilliance can neither be bought nor sold at Oxford.

Cost (top line). Amount of money exchanged when you buy or sell this commodity. When this is stated as a range (the usual case), the exact cost in credits (k) is ran-domly chosen each time from within this range. For example, at an Agricultural world advanced fuels can be sold fora price between 490 and 500 credits. They can be bought or sold at a Refinery base fora price between 480 and 490 credits.

Availability (second line). Percentage chance that this commodity will be available each time you stop at the base. For example, each time you land at a Refinery base, there is a 50% chance that there will be advanced fuels for sale there.

na (second line) not available. The commodity cannot be bought at this base (but you can sell it here for the price listed on the first line). For example, advanced fuels are not available for sale on any Agricultural base.

Amount (third line). If the commodity is available, the italicized numbers on the third line give the range of total units that might be available. The exact number available is randomly chosen each time from within this range. For example, if there are advanced fuels for sale at a Refinery base, there will be between 40 and 50 units of fuel available.

Commodity	Cost	Availability	Amount
Advanced Fuels	490-500k	na
Artwork	85-100k	na
Books	50k	na
Brilliance	200-250k	na
Communications	50k	na
Computer Software	90-100k	na
Computers	70-75k	na
Construction Equipment	100-120k	10%	30-50
Factory Equipment	100-120k	10%	30-50
Food Dispensers	100k	na
Furs	260-300k	60%	45-60
Games	20k	na
Gems	930-1000k	na
Generic Foods	10-30k	100%	75-100
Grain	5-20k	100%	80-110
Holographic Equipment	480-500k	na
Home Appliances	100-120k	na
Home Entertainment	40-50k	na
Iron	45-50k	na
Liquor	30-50k	70%	60-70
Luxury Foods	25-50k	80%	55-80
Medical Equipment	490-500k	na
Mining Equipment
Movies	20-25k
Pets	70-100k	70%	60-70
Plastics	50-60k	na
PlayThing	20-25k	na
Plutonium
Pre-Fabs	50-65k	na
Robot Servants	470-500k	na
Robot Workers	300-320k	na
Slaves	700-780k	na
Space Salvage	180-200k	na
Textiles	50k	na
Tobacco	100-120k	na
Tungsten	100-110k	na
Ultimate	1000-1100k	na
Uranium
Weaponry	300k	na
Wood	65-100k	90%	70-90

Profitble Runs

You can always ram money by trading between different planets in Gemini Sector. Refer to the following chart to determine which products can be traded most profitably from planet to planet. This table is baud on average availability and price. Of course, once you reach a base and check the exchange, an unexpected commodity might actually be available, or another commodity might be offered at a much lower price than usual. This table is also based on being able to carry all of a commodity that is available — a Centurion's small cargo hold cannot always take full advantage of a particular commodity.

In each entry, commodities are listed in roughly descending order of profitability.

Boldfaced commodities are the most profitable runs (average profits in excess of 2000 credits), because they are available more often than most and because the target base usually buys them at a great profit.

Italicised commodities usually offer at least a 600-credit profit. but are less profitable than the other runs listed.

© indicates contraband commodities.

X indicates no reliably profitable runs.

Base	Commodities To	Commodities From
Agricultural	X	X
Mining	Iron	Wood Generic foods Luxury foods Grain Liquor
Pirate	Brilliance © Slaves © Ultimate © Tobacco ©	Wood Generic foods Luxury foods Furs Pets Liquor
Pleasure	X	Pets Wood Generic foods Luxury foods Furs Grain
Refinery	Plastics Home appliances Construction eqpt. Food dispensers Factory eqpt.	Wood Generic foods Luxury foods Grain
N. Constantinople	X	Wood Luxury foods Generic foods Grain
New Detroit	Home appliances Construction eqpt. Plastics Factory equpt. Food dispensers Pre-fabs	Wood Generic foods Grain
Oxford	X	X
Perry Naval Base	X	Wood Generic foods Grain

Guaranteed Commodities

Of course, there are no guarantees in Privateer, but the following commodities come as close as possible. At most base types, them are one or two commodities that are nearly always available, and that can nearly always be sold at a profit of 1000 credits or more, wherever you go next. These include:

Agricultural	Wood, generic foods, luxury foods

Note that few profitable runs exist between a refinery and New Detroit (which is essentially a large refinery) or between an agricultural world and Oxford (which grows most of its own foods).

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Appearances

• Wing Commander Privateer
• Privateer Playtester's Guide
• Privateer Righteous Fire

Behind the Screens

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