Plus, some crates might have blue algae in them.
Trust me, you DO NOT want to be cleaning that up. A Magic Tree just wonβt cut it.
Natasha make glorious revolution against Unizone capitalist pig-dog profiteers?
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Chacun Γ son goΓ»t.
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Our fleetmatesss do not ssspeak idly thisss time. Sssome, sssuch as Falkayn, will remember the fate of a particular ship which met a ssspectacular end due entirely to misssfortunately ssstowed cargo. My late nessst-brother Ssssskipper, of the Flatulent Deity, memorialized the incident in sssong:
Hobar! Hobar! Mighty Hobar! PingPing Pandanβs ship
Was first among us brave enough to take The Final Trip.
With cargo hold stuffed ceiling-high with ordnance to sell,
Her attitudinal dampeners failed, and blew her ass to Hell.
Ssstow your cargo sssecurely, fly ssstraight and true, and protect your reputation as well as your hull integrity.
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Ah the Hobar
PingPing Pandan was good captain and a loyal freighter. He is missed by many, not the least his customers. A shame for all of us that his luck ran out so early.
At least his spectacular end reminds all to focus on that third part of my trip-partite mantra:
Enjoy Today. Make Money. Stay Alive
-Falkayn
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(( Out of character, but fully and securely on topic⦠))
(( I first learned this tune with some alternate lyrics⦠))
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Heh. My old band played the hell out of that song. Until now, Iβd never heard Johnnyβs version!
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According to the Unizone SafetyInspectionBot, my ship actually has pretty decent stats! Especially considering that I didnβt install any weapons back on Mars, and my cabin isnβt even air-tight, much less shielded. The computer at the parts shop told me that the shield boosters alone would tap into my existing systems to give me a working shield. I still need to work on those airtight seals, though.
Iβm a bit wary of running guns and fighting space pirates when my primary weapon is my laser-deflector side-view mirrors, and I overheard Captain Falkayn suggest there might be political repercussions to some of these missions. Since Iβm so unfamiliar with space politics, I think I need to play it fairly safe. But considering how much work I need to do on my ship, I donβt think I can afford to take the safest mission. Since Iβm fairly flush with cash, I can afford to buy in to mission 2 and not worry about falling into space debt. Wish me luck!
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////Unizone Partner Parts Shop & MissionZone Receipt ROUND ONE////
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|CUSTOMER: PHUONG NGUYEN | AFFILIATION: UNIZONE CONTRACTOR |
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| PAYMENT METHOD: DIRECT CREDIT |
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| REMAINING BALANCE: b1.5 |
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| HOW DID WE DO? |
| TAKE OUR SURVEY TO BE ELIGIBLE TO WIN |
| A Ι.100 GIFT CARD! |
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| YOUR CASHIER WAS: |
| MOMO |
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| THANK YOU |
| HAVE A UNIZONE DAY |
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Letβs be careful out there.
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Letβs be honest β Browf is a nice guy, one of the best! - but who among us, when nobody is watching, hasnβt wanted to hit a moose?
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Not me, thatβs for sure. Moose are our friends, not punching bags!
Thatβs what toasters are for.
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Oh, that kind of hitβ¦
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But how else would you get more bees?
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It were good enough for me dad, and his dad, and his dadβs dad afore-him.
Effing queens, always going on about their hives, and production quotas, and worker rotas, and their spermathecas, and egg production, and drones, and their sisters, and their daughters, and how the new neighbors are almost certainly cuckoos, and how colony collapse disorder was created by the space-Rosicrucians, and how bee-flight is so effing amazing that no science can explain it it just works and how thatβs a sign of divine providence blah blah blah like nobody has ever seen a jetpack before. SPACE-CHRIST.
I am sick unto death of queens. I made that mistake once, never gonna do it again.
Donβt get me wrong β I love a space-hive, rolling in pollen, a good spit-up after, and the wax is the life.
But I could do without ever talking to another queen ever again.
Okay, enough of that. So sorry.
How 'bout some drum-n-bass instead?
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As of 9 am, Thursday PST, twenty-three of forty captains have signed on for missions
2 Mission 1 - Courier
7 Mission 2 - In the Margins
14 Mission 3 - About Face
Space Lizards are again engaged well beyond their numbers. All four have declared a mission, while only half of the other species have done so.
M? N Species
11 20 Human
4 4 Space Lizard
4 8 Space Lobster
4 8 Space Moose
I have noticed something odd about the missions. The expected rewards in Space Bits are remarkably similar to the expected ship damage. Interesting.
Something you should know about Unizone corp: Managers within its bloated bureaucracy are terrified of being blamed for a bad decision, that the committees arenβt hierarchical, theyβre recursive. The endless rounds of meetings leads to an odd preference for round numbers. So I wonβt be surprised if it will cost one space bit to fix one HP of ship damage.
If that proves to be the case, then, on average, all the missions are roughly equivalent! The only difference is how much risk one wants to take.
Remember:
- Enjoy Today.
- Make Money
- Stay Alive
Applying these to the current mission choices:
- This past week at Duckβs, along with a few side excursion, has certainly been enjoyable.
- Each mission is likely to make about the same amount of money on average, once repairs are paid for.
- For me, Stay Alive requires, first and foremost, minimizing damage to the Muddlinβ Through. Other captains may choose to minimize or maximize some other measure of βliving.β
I will be taking Courier packages to distant moons, unless someone gives me a strong reason not to. I actually like these missions. Isolated communities are so appreciative of a visitor, especially one that brings the entrancing baubles and entertainments the Muddlinβ Through carries for just such occasions. I always leave with more than I came with, most of all new friends in unexpected places.
Mission Sign Up Closes 2 AM Thursday Morning, California time.
(@patrace : does Unizone corp have an am/ pm problem? that mission close time seems 12 hours too soon)
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Dave (@bizmail_public), thanks for doing all that math, sometimes I get, well a little confused on the numbers. And probably why Iβm in the hole to people who want to take my kneecaps away.
I donβt want to be the last to the party with guns and overwhelm the market, Iβll be taking Mission 1 instead.
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Grand Striped Blazer Mission 1 - Courier
The Grand Striped Blazer will start out nice and quiet after the last run-in with the Cardigan Sweaters. Now to business!
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David Falkayn, Muddlinβ Through
b17.5 starting Starbits
-b10 Unizone Communications Enhancement Software Kit(+5 EN)
-b5 Mission 1 - Courier
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b2.5 ending Starbits.As a pilot new to certain parts of this βbusiness enterpriseβ I certainly appreciate your helpful commentary on expected values and outcome.
While a mooseβs rack can be measured in itβs palm spread and points, together our abilities are boundless, even if you are a squishy meatsuit.
While I keep an eye on profit I certainly agree that mission two seems to be an amoose bouche, and certainly some ships will be better suited for it than others. I like to run in straight lines and prefer to save my tines for the more crucial times.
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