[Lazlo thoughtfully grooms an anntenna while considering the plight the Duck’s Pond Gang are facing and chooses his words carefully]
“The Didn’t See That Coming is badly needin’ repairs an’ new equipment, so I’m findin’ myself par-tick-ularly sensitive to the idea of ‘Don’t risk yer ship’ at the moment. But ya gotta ‘nother point there, Falkayn. Might even be worth considerin’ formin’ a proper whaddyacall … combine. A pool of funds, as it were. Spread the risk out even more on any given loan, right?”
“Any given spacer can put funds in the pool, an’ loans would be spread across that pool, payback distributed proportionally. The Compute-O-Tron 9000 is up to the task and the books would be open to all, but from where I’m sittin’, the hard part may be gettin’ spacers to agree on whom to back. Like my grandpappy always said, ‘The only thing I ever seen two spacers agree on is that ya can’t get two spacers to agree on anything.’ But I’m pickin’ up what yer layin’ down there.”
“Now I’d be willin’ to seed that pool with b10. Puttin’ my StarBits where my proverbial mouthparts are, so to speak.”
