A**HOLE is under new management. As the first step in revamping the company and putting it back on track new CEO Andrew York has announced a renaming of the company to "We know nothing, and it’s all been shredded anyway so you can’t prove it.com". Just kidding. Actually, Andy has renamed the company to Bartertown, Mark III.

The markets were very quite this time as everyone is afraid of the new economy and is keeping their ducats close to home:
HDBC VI: buys a population factor and mans the empty ore factory.
Bartertown, Mark III: buys a water factory and retrains some Ore workers to man it.
RDC: buys a population factor and gets his second Ore plant up and running.
MMC: buys a water factory and shuffles some workers to man it
Swiftsure: Buys two population factors and goes heavily into Ore production

The Outposts

	Company	Player	Factories	Upgrades	VPs
1	RDC	Chris Hassler	Or, Or, Wa,Wa	DL	5
2	SWIFTSURE.	Michael Lowrey	Or, Or, Wa,Wa, Wa		5
3	HDBC VI	Kevin Wilson	Or, Or, Wa,Wa, Wa		5
4	MMC	Eric Brosius	Or, Or, Wa, Wa, Wa		4
5	Bartertown	Andy York	Or, Or, Wa,Wa, Wa, Wa		4

SWIFTSURE is Stellar Waif Intergalactic Futures Trading, Space Urchin Recovery Element
HDBC VI is Heavenly Bodies Development Company VI
MMC is Mud Mining Company
RDC is Resource Development Corp.

Upgrades

Upgrade	Available	Not Yet Delivered	Minimum Bid
Data Library	0	2	15
Heavy Equipment	2	1	30
Warehouse	1	2	25
Nodule	2	1	25