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+ | ====== A quick lesson on why contract work is the way to go ====== | ||
+ | Zara is quiet for a long moment. She waits for her drink to arrive and sips it slowly, choosing her words carefully. | ||
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+ | "In my line of work, I see my fair share of enterprising individuals passing through and I'm always scouting for new investment opportunities. It just so happened that at the beginning of the Snagl Ice Crisis on Telusia, a young, red-haired and freckled Terran found his way into my establishment. He looked rather shifty as he made his way to the bar and I didn't even have to scan him to know that he was looking for a contact. A couple of drinks on the house later and I knew everything I needed to know. His name was Doogie Wahoo, a Terran science geek looking to improve his fortune. As a member of an elite Terran scientific research team deep within the military, he had access to a very interesting creature that he had heard may be valuable on the black market. As you can imagine, my ears are always open. I was well aware of the demand this particular item had and I'd been waiting for an opportunity to get in on the action. | ||
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+ | I wasn't *actually* listening to the details but as you can gather the creature in question was of course the Terran Hypersnail. One of the interesting things about this particular snail is that the genetic mutant, as you call it, is also an aphrodisiac to the male Aralaquean. Basically, the hormone the snail releases really gets 'em going. For whatever reason that the Terrans had been modifying the genomes of this snail, they had in fact bred a Hypersnail with a reinforced shell, of semi-metallic form, sharp pincers at the ends of their antennae and an extremely evolved, complex social structure. Several affluent Aralaqueans were aware of this creature and somewhat anxious to gain possession of a reasonable sized community. It was not at all difficult for me to get in contact with a suitable client and arrange several advantageous deals, between both the Terran and I and these illustrious Aralaqueans. All that remained was for me to find a reliable courier. | ||
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+ | I was aware of the rather bizarre reproductive rituals that these creatures had and I was a little uneasy about the question of transport. I decided that the Aeolians would be my most suitable partner. They' | ||
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+ | You see, for the Hypersnail to be, lets say, effective, they themselves need to be approaching their reproductive stage in their life cycle. As I said, their reproductive rituals are unique and somewhat advanced for essentially an androgynous species. In preparation for reproduction, | ||
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+ | Needless to say that the Hypersnails were approaching this stage in their life cycle, ready for delivery. The Aeolians hadn't conducted any research on their cargo, simply costing the changes required for the cargo bay and lumping me with the bill - and over-quoted it in the contract negotiations, | ||
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+ | Half a year later, a friend of mine passed through on his way to Sector 9 and told me that the Aeolians had discovered some three months later, when they finally remembered to clean out the cargo bay, that every surface had been scratched to hell and that in some places the slices into the metal floor had become perforations in concentric patterns formed by repetitive Hypersnail headspins. The damage was so severe that structural integrity of the area had been completely compromised and the floor for the entire level had to be completely replaced. | ||
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+ | Several other similar offers came up from the Aralaqueans but I don't really like to trade in live cargo. I don't get involved in politics either. I find commercial ventures to be far more lucrative. I'll stop talking now as I'm most interested in hearing the rest of Pia's tale. | ||
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+ | Back to [[science fiction]] \\ | ||
+ | Go back to [[The Captain' |
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