Welcome to Titan Garden!

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Baxler is a Ganymedean resident of Titan Garden and the owner of Baxler Distribution Company, the station's leading provider of supply chains for food and other perishable products. They maintain contracts with various off-world produce and product manufacturers, plan and monitor shipping routes and schedules to bring those goods Titanside, and operate a fleet of trucks to deliver the product to the Garden's various kitchens, grocers, offices and medical facilities, all on a predictable, clockwork schedule. It takes a level head to manage the various crises that arise in a perishables distribution operation, but Baxler is well suited to the task; they are very number-oriented and have an excellent memory for details, but they also recognize the inevitability of mishaps coming up in such a large business and tend to take mistakes with a gentle, forward-moving stride. It's for this reason Baxler's workers pay them respect, they're not willing to hang anyone up to dry for their mistakes and encourage workers to be honest about errors, so they can work out whatever solution is needed to keep their clients stocked on-time without adding the tangle of frustrated employees compounding inevitable errors. That's the Baxler way and it keeps the whole station fed.

Ganymedeans are the smallest of Titan Garden's residents, standing knee-high to an adult Terran. They are a root-like people, typically growing four limbs but sometimes Ganymedeans develop odd numbers of limbs and that's just fine, it's normal for them. Their long leaves detect vibrations as sound and allow them to photosynthesize light- a Ganymedean ship's quarters tends to have either a domed roof or sunlamps over a section of packed dirt, where the ship's crew will simply burrow into the soil block with their leaves sticking out and be sustained for long-haul starship travel. Incidentally, Ganymedean ships are often safe from space bandits, on account of their hallways and rooms being too small for the average space rogue to fit into, they are difficult to board, let alone pillage, and so they're mostly left alone. This is, in fact, a big part of how Baxler's distribution network started and why they've been more successful than their competitors, it's just not worth picking off a little Ganymedean starship.

Baxler and Clayton

Baxler's strong distribution network and employee trust-building practices add up to make a very robust and reliable business, and Baxler is not unwilling to use this network to move products that aren't on their ship's manifest. The Ganymedean distribution mogul is also a discrete and effective fence for smugglers moving their own goods into Titan Garden and around its security forces, provided your outfit is also discrete and professional. Baxler has crew they trust, crew who trusts them and friendly contacts in almost every backdoor in the whole station, so if something needs to be somewhere a Baxler Distribution Company truck can get it there. The one rule for fencing with Baxler is you can't be bringing anything that'll really hurt anyone, there's a line where they don't want to risk collapsing the whole network. Too many people depend on them to keep the remote station stocked with goods.

Timberwolf's interpreter Clayton is a former Baxler delivery truck driver, and while he's moved on from the distribution company he's kept his old contacts with the crew. When he signed on to work with Timberwolf and learned about the crew's secret smuggling side business Clayton was almost giddy with excitement to share an important contribution: he had an in with Titan Garden's biggest fence. Not even Red Raven's Scarlet had a pull like that! Bryce was nevertheless quite eager to meet Clayton's contact, and so he set up a meeting with Baxler. They met up on a ridealong with a delivery truck- Bryce had prepared to put on his best charms but Baxler was very straightforward with their questions. Have you been caught? What are your preventative strategies to avoid being caught? Are your crewmembers on the level? What else do you do? Does your business front explain away your income? Bryce was taken a bit off-guard by such a clinical examination but he kept his cool and explained the Timberwolf business, and after a bit of thought Baxler simply extended their little hand to shake, said they'll be in touch and let Bryce and Clayton off at the truck's next delivery stop, a little hole-in-the-wall grill called "Burger". The two men looked to each other for one moment before Bryce was like, hey, you hungry? My treat. Baxler's long leaves paid attention to this post-meeting exchange from the truck around back, saw that Bryce was happy to look out for his boy, and so Baxler Distribution Company has had a strong working relationship with Timberwolf Reclamation & Demolition ever since.


Titan Garden




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