(extract authorised by Dept. Interstellar Trade and Commerce from Galactic Census 3162)

Shawk Pertwee, is a custom builder who specializes in pretty large things. Cyclopean builds and colossal avatars, primarily. Though he's been known to make some smaller stuff, it's the big things he's most well known for.

Right now, the biggest thing in his pile of assets is the sim Hamnida. While a chunk of Hamnida's been donated to NCI as NCI South, the rest is given over to the Freeport Alliance, along with a fair-sized bite of sim Kaseyo.

Shawk started Freeport originally in the hopes of building a market that would acquire a lingering population of sci-fi themed regulars, giving it that future-bazaar on-another-world feel, and hoping to draw a little profit on the side. These days, the notion's a little different, just focusing on having the operation support itself, but the living-market idea is still nascent.

Indeed, the Freeport Alliance is starting to attract a small share of sci-fi regulars and some role-players. Growth of the community is slow, but these things always are in their early days. Shawk rents non-denominational stalls to role-players or to people who would like to sell to them and promotes the print-editions of Schlock Mercenary, the webcomic by Howard Tayler.

If your role-playing group needs an independent spaceport and market to role-play in, or you'd just like to hang around and watch people doing their thing, spend a little time at the Freeport,. As it grows it may well become the bustling bazaar of the bizarre that Shawk Pertwee has planned for it.