Speke

Speke
System	Junction
Facilities	Commodity Exchange, Landing Pad, Merchants' Guild, Mercenaries' Guild, Main Concourse, Mission Computer, Strip Club, Theater
Exports	Construction Equipment, Furs, Games, Liquor, Movies

Speke is a Terran Confederation Pleasure Planet in the Junction system.

Services

• Main Concourse
• Bar
• Commodity Exchange
• Landing Pad
• Merchants' Guild
• Mercenaries' Guild
• Mission Computer
• Strip Club
• Theater

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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	100-150k	na
Books	50k	na
Brilliance	200-250k	na
Communications	50-70k	na
Computer Software	90-100k	na
Computers	70-75k	na
Construction Equipment	100-120k	10%	30-50
Factory Equipment	80-100k	na
Food Dispensers	100-120k	na
Furs	300k	30%	30
Games	20-25k	50%	50
Gems	920-1000k	na
Generic Foods	30-40k	na
Grain	20-23k	na
Holographic Equipment	490-500k	na
Home Appliances	100-130k	na
Home Entertainment	40-50k	na
Iron	35-50k	na
Liquor	50-55k	50%	50
Luxury Foods	50-60k	na
Medical Equipment	490-500k	na
Mining Equipment
Movies	20-30k	100%	80-110
Pets	100-150k	na
Plastics	50-60k	na
PlayThing	20-40k	na
Plutonium
Pre-Fabs	50-65k	na
Robot Servants	500-600k	na
Robot Workers	290-300k	na
Slaves	700-800k	na
Space Salvage	180-200k	na
Textiles	50-65k	na
Tobacco	100-120k	na
Tungsten	85-100k	na
Ultimate	1000-1100k	na
Uranium
Weaponry	300k	na
Wood	100-110k	na

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	Pets Wood Generic foods Luxury foods Furs Grain	X
Mining	Iron	X
Pirate	Brilliance © Slaves © Ultimate © Tobacco © PlayThing	X
Pleasure	X	X
Refinery	Plastics Home appliances Robot servants Food dispensers Construction eqpt. Pre-fabs Communications	X
N. Constantinople	Art	X
New Detroit	Home appliances Robot servants Food dispensers Construction eqpt. Plastics Communications Pre-fabs Textiles	X
Oxford	Wood Generic Foods	X
Perry Naval Base	X	X

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:

Pleasure	nothing

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Appearances

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

Behind the Scenes

Speke is named after British explorer John Hanning Speke. He is assosciated with fellow explorer Richard Burton and the exploration of Lake Victoria, the namesakes of the other two bases in the Junction system.