Breaking: Merchant City, Altareth: Due to ongoing trade congestion on Altareth, the normally secretive and reclusive Dagna Ro Trade Union is offering select citizens rare access to its valuable intel to those able to provide them with Padoccia-made shard rods. Dagno Ro representatives have been tight-lipped, as usual, but some Dagna Ro Archivists have been overheard complaining about poor working conditions of late, due to the difficulty in procuring off-world energy sources.
Red Sun reporters have discovered exclusively that the Authorities have quietly lifted the regulations prohibiting individuals from possessing their proprietary shard rods. While the Authorities declined to go on the record, a Padoccia spokesperson essentially confirmed this is the case, stating “Due to the ongoing congestion of our distribution networks caused by so many new visitors, Padoccia Labs has been granted special permission to sell completed shard rods direct to the public for a limited time. These will be auctioned off to the highest bidder, beginning Wednesday.
This is frankly a shocking about-face from Mr. Padoccia, who in the past has strictly controlled all shard rod distributions to official suppliers. Given the new interest in the shard rods from a number of entities, competition for the shard rods at auction is expected to be fierce.