Fri, 22 Oct 2004

Alex has set up the script to accept trade routes.  All you need to send me 
for each trade route is the location it crosses your neutral zone and its 
predicted income for Turn 11.  You should then put the route sectors in your 
orders.

A civilian base station will appear in the neutral sector if there is no 
military base there, and convoys will move along the route.  Both the base and 
the convoys will be under the "Trade" government, and will be set up by the 
GM.  Attacking these convoys and bases is the only way to raid a trade route-- 
destroying other civilian units will only increase Civil Unrest.

Each player will be responsible for providing the list of trade route hexes on 
his side of the neutral zone.  Instructions for doing so can be found in the 
order format document at http://sfb.basespace.net/turn11_order_format.html.

Once established, each trade route marker may be moved a maximum of 1 sector 
per turn.  It will cost 1EP for each marker moved (to represent the confusion 
caused by the move, and the closing and reopening of businesses), and you 
should warn the GM so I can change the movements of the convoys.  Or, you may 
pay 10EP and rearrange the entire trade route on your side of the border as 
you see fit (you should still warn the GM).

To defend a trade route, you may assign ships to either the convoys or the 
base station.  Q-ships (or any other specialized civilian units) purchased 
will be automatically placed in the Trade convoys or at the base.  Military 
units should just follow the convoy or sit at the base.