Pevans
The Cold Equations
This is the fourth postal (PBM/PBeM) game of Star Trader GMed by Mike Dommett and published by Pevans in my postal games 'zine, To Win Just Once. This is the web version of the turn. Follow the link for an introduction to Star Trader.
Turn 2
Previous reports: Turn 1 Start-up
Sections: Report, Corporations Table, GM Notes, Star map (separate page)
“What’s going on?”
The young Ensign was walking alongside his Superior who had just returned from their Local Corporation Offices.
“Not a lot, apparently, young shaver.”
“No?”
“Apparently we’re to wait for a delivery of napkins…”
Houston Fearless seemed to slumber through this Quarter – however, elsewhere…
At Gamma Leporis, GAMLEPCO bought 12 Alloys for 6 HTs each and regained their Market Managership.
Epsilon Eridani saw MONOGRAM selling 13 Monopoles for 13 HTs each, to gain a Dealership, and shutting out QUASAR who bid to sell at 16.
QUASAR did get a Dealership itself, selling 10 Alloys for 8 HTs apiece at Mu Herculis. EON FLASHCORP bought 10 Monopoles at the price of 12 HTs and gained a Dealership, while MONOGRAM sold 2 more at 11 HTs, dragging the price down again.
EON FLASHCORP spent 50 HTs hiring agent Willy at Mu Herculis and then increased their Political Connections and their Reputation as well.
ARCHANGEL LINES rolled out its fleet of Liners, all of which loaded passengers. Michael is believed to be going to Tau Ceti.
GAMLEPCO bought two Warehouses, one at Mu Herculis and a second at Beta Hydri, both locations where the Alloy market is hungry for goods. The Corporation increased their Business Connections as well.
MONOGRAM INDUSTRIES bought a Warehouse at Epsilon Eridani, hired Dragon, took on Passengers, improved their Reputation and bought another Monopole Factory at Mu Herculis.
QUASAR were buying at Mu Herculis as well – 5 Factories and a Warehouse. They went to the shipwrights too and laid down a Phoenix hull with a mix of Cargo, Passenger and Light Weapon pods.
MACRADIE’S blood-thirsty crew turned up at Mu Herculis Spaceport, where they managed to recruit more than enough A class crew to improve the fighting capacity of their ship. They also are believed to have done a deal with the local mafia, increasing their Criminal Connections.
Corporations Table
| Corporation letter & name | Conn'n Levels Bus/Crim/Pol |
Init Bid |
Turn Order |
Cash | Rep'n | Player | |||
| A | Archangel Lines | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2nd | 218 | 27 | Jerry Elsmore |
| B | Eon Flashcorp | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6th | 0 | 21 | Paul Evans |
| C | Quasar Enterprises | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4th | 229 | 34 | Thomas Frost |
| D | Gates-Learjet | 6 | 4 | 3 | N | 7th | 153 | 22 | Dominic Howlett |
| E | McRadie’s Crew | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5th | 575 | 0 | Martin Jennings |
| F | Monogram Industries | 7 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1st | 73 | 36 | Michael Martinkat |
| G | Houston Fearless | 10 | 0 | 4 | N | 7th | 460 | 31 | Mark Robinson |
| H | GamLepCo | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3rd | 98 | 23 | Gina Teh |
| 'N' under Initiative Bid indicates No Move Received; ‘F’ indicates the Corp was floated | |||||||||
GM Notes
There are 2 new News chits –shown in bold:
Turn 4 B6
Turn 6 C5
I do need orders in on time – but if you miss the deadline, it is still worth sending your orders in, as I may be able to incorporate some of them.
When you put in orders to buy or sell commodities, you must give a price.
There are no factories at Epsilon Eridani or Beta Hydri. Factories exist at other systems , but you can only build factories of certain commodities. The map shows the commodities you can build at a system next to the factory symbol; The star system details at the bottom of page 16 in my copy of the rules lists abundant commodities – those you can build factories for.