Freeport is a busy Hopesail Confederacy merchant trade port on Southern Freeport Island controlled by the Northern-Teknocracy (Nor-Tek).
Unlike the Nor-Tek bastion of Hopesail Island, Freeport is unwalled and open to non-Confederate merchant ships. The island’s population of 60,000 resident fishermen, crafters, and merchants are free people, around a third of which are Nor-Tek citizens.
The island’s architecture is a rich blend of Northern and Southern Antilles Archipelago cultural styles that fuses art deco with relaxed island shanties. The port is reinvigorated every day by hundreds of traveling traders, wanderers, and drifters. The island hosts an annual Clam Festival and Junkaoo Parade that draws thousands of visitors. Freeport’s security and civility comes at a cost – trade access requires a permit that costs several soldos, and a quarter of all sales go to Nor-Tek coffers.
The recent Night of Flames at the Bight of Betrayal has cast a dark mood over the island. Freeport Governor Jarden Ishmael has intensified coast warden inspections of independent traders, privateers, Confederate citizens, and Windward Island Empresa intermediaries from Empresario.
Administrator’s Office
Nor-Tek’s official administrative centre on Freeport Island, located near the Free Trade Market. One of the largest buildings on the island, its stiff Nor-Tek architecture has been worn down by relaxed Freeport Island culture.
The office’s steel cabinets contain physical trading permits and records of ship ownership. Settlement Principal Administrator Jarden Ishmael can usually be found here.
Free Trade Market
The diverse Free Trade Market offers weapons, material resources, work animals, gadgets, trinkets, and services from across the Antilles Archipelago and Atlantica.
The busy market’s impressive stalls and warehouses are only surpassed in size and diversity by Encore Station’s Atlantischmrkt.
Freeport Pirvateer Company Hall
The well organised and legendary Freeport Privateer Company is headquartered in a welcoming hall located near Freeport’s central harbour.
ìmpireachd na h-Alba captain Fionnuala Draygon and Nova España quartermixter Yosé Jasper can often be found relaxing at the Hall’s public bar or discussing strategy in the sensorium between raiding campaigns.
Mache Pwason Market
Freeport’s large fish market pavilion offers an unparalleled range of healthy and unblighted barracuda, tuna, mahi mahi and marlin. It also sells marine wildlife from across the Hopesail Confederacy, Empresario, Tainos Supremo, mainland United Constitutional Concordant, and even Nuropa.
Tavèn Pechè Pwason
The raucous Tavèn Pechè Pwason fisherman’s tavern is filled most evenings with Freeport’s trawler operators smoking, laughing, gambling, and arguing.
