The Space Gardens

Level	4
Type	Courier
Objective	Deliver 10 x Large Crates of Frozen Plant Seeds (5000 m3)
Ship suggestion	Hauler

Mission briefing

You capsuleers spend so much time in the midst of mayhem and destruction, and you leave countless wreckages in your wake. Now, though, you and I have an opportunity to help sustain new life. I want you to transport some large crates of frozen plant seeds for me. It will not surprise you that we are always trying to establish new colonies in even the most desolate parts of space. Colonization is always an exciting opportunity, not only for the settlers who dare venture out into space and stake their fortunes on some desolate rock, but for local entrepreneurs, businesses and politicians to support them. You won't hear of these, because your kind is so far up above piddly little local events, but it's a big deal for those involved. Unfortunately, local support can't last forever. After the initial interest has waned, the citizens on those colonies have to fend for themselves. Sometimes they manage to create self-sustaining habitats where no outside intervention is needed. Occasionally they get lucky, and the outcome of their scientific experiments, ore search, or whatever else they were up to, makes them enough money that they can buy whatever they need off local orbitals. All too often, though, we have to step in. Your cargo, once delivered to their colony, will hopefully enable them to bootstrap themselves to a self-sustaining life cycle. Colony life is hard enough as it is.