Check that it is live
Events can be queued for a later day, so a calendar entry or a rumor may not be active yet. Confirm it before you move stock.
Station news
Station Events and Customer Requests
The newspaper tells you which shelves to watch this week. A harvest makes food cheaper, a treatment-plant failure sends customers looking for water, and a Security crackdown squeezes the Black Market. Customer requests run alongside the news as delivery jobs with a fixed item, count, deadline and Credit reward. Treat events as signs of changing demand rather than price promises, and check the current offer before you commit stock.
30station events in the ledger below
29customer requests with delivery terms
3–14days allowed to fill a request
700Credits: the best request reward
How to read an event
Read what it touches
A headline points at a kind of goods. Inspect the current offer, because an event is a sign of demand and never a fixed price forecast.
Bring it to the haggle
Event entries carry negotiation information for the goods they affect, so an active shortage can help at the bargaining table. Not every headline works as a price argument.
Thirty station events by type
Each row names the event, what it changes and the stock worth watching while it runs.
Food, water and medicine
Real customers sit behind these: water buyers, pharmacists, farmers after seeds and ice miners selling supply. A shortage favors stock you already hold, and a surplus is the time to buy.| Event | What changes | Stock to watch |
|---|---|---|
 Nutrifruit Harvest | More fresh produce; lower Food prices | Food |
| Bad Nutrifruit Harvest | A shortage of fresh produce; higher Food prices | Food |
 Nutrifruit Seed Shortage | The seed heist raises Food and Seed costs | Food, seeds |
| Medical Supplies Shortage | Counterfeit stock is discovered; demand for genuine medical goods rises | Genuine medicine |
| Water Supply Crisis | Treatment-plant breakdown raises demand and prices for Water and purification supplies | Water, purification supplies |
| Minor Water Shortage | Scheduled treatment-plant maintenance causes a smaller disruption | Water |
| Water Supply Surplus | Ice miners return from Beira 41-A with high-purity water; prices fall | Water |
| Oxymore Addiction On The Rise | Addiction and overdose cases increase medical demand | Medicine |
Materials, power and visitors
Supply swings and visitors. Check energy cells before any power event if you run machines, because blackouts and maintenance both touch them.| Event | What changes | Stock to watch |
|---|---|---|
| Material Surplus | A mining expedition returns; Material prices fall | Materials |
| Household Item Surplus | A hidden storeroom is found; household goods flood the market | Household goods |
| Construction Projects | Construction puts pressure on materials and skilled labour | Materials |
| Meteor Shower | Hull damage increases demand for repair materials | Repair materials |
| Power Outage | A faulty Lower Levels generator creates an energy-cell shortage | Energy cells |
 Power Plant Maintenance | A scheduled power disruption, with energy cells affected | Energy cells |
| Who Turned Out The Lights? | Station-wide blackout that also moves the weapons trade | Energy cells, weapons |
| Tourist Influx | A cruise ship brings extra visitors down from the Upper Levels | Upper Levels customers |
| Lower Level Lynching | News of a mob targeting another dishonest shopkeeper; weapons and armor are affected | Weapons, armor |
Faction operations
Tied to the wider faction system, and you do not personally start most of them. A headline here gives no fixed reputation bonus.| Event | What changes | Stock to watch |
|---|---|---|
| Gang war | Black Market violence and increased medical demand | Medicine |
| Illegal weapon shipment | More illicit weapons entering circulation | Weapons |
| Revolutionary mobilization | Preparations for conflict; weapons matter, and open mobilization adds armor and medicine | Weapons, armor, medicine |
| Raid on the Upper Levels | Looted homes and businesses increase household-goods supply below | Household goods |
| Raid on Security | Armed conflict with Security and resulting medical demand | Medicine |
| Increased patrols / crackdown | Stronger Security presence and pressure on opposition | Anything illegal |
| Raid on Black Market | Confiscated weapons and narcotics disrupt illegal trade | Weapons, narcotics |
| Raid on Revolutionaries | Arrests and confiscations weaken revolutionary activity | No goods named |
| Martial law | Curfews, checkpoints and surveillance suppress Black Market and Revolution activity | Anything illegal |
| Security budget increase | More resources for Security operations | No goods named |
| Lower Levels riot | Looting and violence raise Food and Weapon demand | Food, weapons |
| Worker strike | Disruption to Food and Water supplies | Food, water |
| Emergency medical aid / household relief | Upper Levels aid reaches residents below and eases unrest | No goods named |
Personal and recurring events
Rent Due, Mortgage Payment, Cartel Visit
Recurring obligations rather than news. They arrive on schedule whatever the paper says, so keep cash back for them.
Rent and the mortgage →Lottery Draw
Announces the week's winning number. At least three matching digits win a prize. Redeem with the lottery representative or double-click a winning ticket. The notice names no prize amount.
Evidence Locker Break-In
A unique event with its own suspicious-goods customer, so it is more than station gossip.
Arthur Lafleur's capture
Hand him over and the arrest makes the station news as a unique event of its own.
The wanted list →Headlines that only add atmosphere
These cosmetic stories change nothing at the counter, even when one mentions Food, Water or a strike. The garden article says it is unlikely to affect Food prices, and the brief maintenance strike is already over when you read about it.
Quiet daysPEAT-content controversyRecycling campaignArt shows and contestsTechnology exhibitionNew transit lineDecorative water fountainCommunity-garden expansionCultural celebrationSpacewalk training
After-hours events
Evening locations run their own one-night events. They change search conditions, access, workshop offers or restocking, and none of them promises a guaranteed find, so read the location panel before you walk out.
| Event | Where | When | What changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresh Dump | Dumping Grounds | Wednesday | Less junk in a search, but a higher chance of injury |
| Georgio's Assistance | Dumping Grounds | Story-triggered | Injury immunity and five extra searches while it lasts |
| Closed | Dr. Jackson's workshop | Monday | No trade that night, until unlocking Special Stock turns Monday into a special sale |
| Discount | Dr. Jackson's workshop | Sunday | Workshop prices drop for the night |
| Burglary | Commissary | No set day | Someone broke in overnight and cleared the shelves |
| Fresh Restock | Commissary | Friday | The shelves are filled again |
Customer requests
Marketplace requests are delivery jobs, not ordinary sales: stock you sell elsewhere does not count toward one. The ledger runs from best pay to worst. A blank reward is not a zero, so read the live request for its current terms.
| Request | Deliver | Count | Days | Reward (Credits) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stolen Evidence Locker | Security Department Evidence Locker | 1 | 3 | 700 |
| Pet Food | Raw Meat (Standard) | 2 | 14 | 636 |
| Pool Repair In Upper Levels | Engineering Foundry Supply Crate | 1 | 3 | 500 |
| Missing Evidence Locker | Security Department Evidence Locker | 1 | 3 | 400 |
| Medical Supply For Black Market | Medical Supplies (Common) | 3 | 3 | 360 |
| Critical Repair In Lower Levels | Engineering Foundry Supply Crate | 1 | 3 | 350 |
| Housewarming Gift | Disposable Keycard (Security) | 1 | 5 | 350 |
| Retirement BBQ Party | Raw Meat (Standard) | 1 | 14 | 278 |
| Refreshment Request | Oxymore Injector | 3 | 5 | 262 |
| Processed Meat Request | Peat | 4 | 5 | 200 |
| Toilet Paper for Georgio | Roll of Toilet Paper | 4 | 7 | 200 |
| Landlord's Special 3 | Kotton Fabric | 2 | 12 | 195 |
| Supplies for Lower Level Soup Kitchen | Peat | 5 | 4 | 187 |
| Meat Cleaver | Meat Cleaver | 1 | 7 | 162 |
| Beer for Janitor Crew | Red Imp Beer | 6 | 5 | 162 |
| Crowbar | Crowbar | 1 | 14 | 150 |
| Landlord's Special 2 | Electronic Parts (Common) | 3 | 12 | 148 |
| Energy Drinks | Energy Drink | 4 | 14 | 144 |
| Li-Eat Snack Bars | Li-Eat Snack Bar | 4 | 14 | 136 |
| Baby Food | Galaxy Blend | 3 | 14 | 112 |
| Medical Supply For Upper Levels General Hospital | Medical Supplies (Common) | 3 | 3 | 100 |
| Construction Supplies | Scrap Metal | 5 | 3 | 100 |
| Scrap Metal Request | Scrap Metal | 5 | 5 | 100 |
| Materials for Lower Level Construction | Scrap Metal | 5 | 3 | 75 |
| Landlord's Special | Scrap Metal | 5 | 7 | 70 |
| Medical Supply For Lower Levels Charity Clinic | Medical Supplies (Common) | 3 | 3 | 60 |
| Worker's Supplies | Read the request | 3 | 9 | Read the request |
| Upper Levels rare item | Read the request | 1 | 7 | Read the request |
| Upper Levels charity | Read the request | 3 | 6 | Read the request |
Same goods, different pay
The reward is set per job, so where a delivery goes matters as much as what you carry. These pairs come straight from the ledger above.
Three Medical Supplies (Common)
The Lower Levels charity clinic pays 60 Credits, the Upper Levels hospital 100 and the Black Market 360. All three give you the same 3 days.
One Engineering Foundry Supply Crate
A Lower Levels repair pays 350 Credits and an Upper Levels pool repair 500, each with 3 days on the clock.
One Security Department Evidence Locker
Missing Evidence Locker pays 400 Credits and Stolen Evidence Locker 700. Either way you have 3 days to find one.
Two Raw Meat (Standard)
Pet Food pays double the meat's 159-Credit base value and allows 14 days, so it suits a rat run that is already butchering.
Before you deliver
Reserve the goods
Set the stock aside and inspect its condition and labels. Goods sold to a walk-in customer no longer count toward the job.
Check the count
Loose ammunition may not count as separate items, so read that job's rule before you plan around rounds.
Finish it yourself
Use the completion action before the deadline. A request does not resolve by itself at closing time.
Character requests differ
Requests made in dialogue depend on that character's story progress and can follow their own rules.