Mission of Gravity
This is a postal (or PBM) game of Star Trader run by Mike Dommett and published in my postal games 'zine, To Win Just Once. This is the web version of the latest turn. Follow the link for an introduction to Star Trader.
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Turn 11
The Flute Hull floated just offshore the thickly wooded coastline. The two groups of men stood on either side of a large raft as it rose and fell in the gentle swell.
“That seems to be in order.”
“We said it would be. And we have had confirmation.”
One of his aides spoke into a mouthpiece and the hovertanks slowly filed out of the cargo pod and across the water towards the land.
Neither VOGON nor TRANSURANIC sold Alloys for 8 or 3 respectively at Gamma Leporis as the price crashed back to 1.
No one traded at Epsilon Eridani, where prices slowly rose.
At Delta Toucanis ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT sold 8 Isotopes for 8 HTs each and gained a Dealership - following in the steps of TRADEWINDS who had already sold 8 at the same price and also were rewarded with a Dealership. ZWILLINGE sold 5 more Isotopes on Contract. ZWILLINGE also bought 8 Petroleum for 11 HTs apiece, outbidding HONEST DARTH's QUALITY USED SPACESHIPS and ISKANDER, and the price only dropped a little as TRANS SOLAR TRADING INC sold 2 at a price of 9 HTs.
Tau Ceti saw ISKANDER buying 7 Isotopes for 3 HTs each - to gain a Contractorship - leaving ZWILLINGE and TSTI empty handed. TRANSURANIC added 5 to their stocks using their Contracts.
VOGON were unable to sell Alloys at Mu Herculis, though SOLAR WINDS TRADING sold 3 Liquors for 6 HTs each.
Sigma Draconis was busy. ZWILLINGE tried to sell Alloys here, but failed. The Corporation bought 5 Isotopes on Contract as TSTI bought 2 for 6 HTs each and CAESAR WHOLESALE bought 2 at 4 HTs apiece. ISNOTISTOO sold 12 Monopoles at a price of 16 HTs and gained a Dealership. SWISS MERCENARY sold 2 more at 17 HTs.
Still at Sigma Draconis, HONEST DARTH's sold 10 Petroleum for 10 HTs each and gained a Dealership. SOLAR WINDS sold 6 more at the same price, but no Market Position. ZWILLINGE sold another 6 using the good offices of Percent. Lots of people wanted to buy Spice. ZWILLINGE offered 7 HTs a unit and bought 9 and SOLAR SPICE MONOPOLES & LIQUORS bought 5 on Contract. TRADEWINDS (bidding 6), SOLAR (6), TSTI (6) and ISNOTISTOO (7) all went away empty handed.
CAESAR WHOLESALE sold 5 Alloys on Contract at Alpha Centauri. ISKANDER sold 9 Isotopes for 9 HTs each and TRANSURANIC sold 8 more at the same pric. Both acquired Dealerships. SWISS MERCENARY FLEET sold 10 Liquors for 6 HTs apiece and CAESAR WHOLESALE bought 10 Liquors at a price of 10 HTs. Both gain Dealerships to make it four new Dealers in the system this Quarter.
ZWILLINGE gained a Contractorship when they sold 12 Petroleum for 12 HTs each at Beta Hydri. SSLM sold 5 Monopoles on Contract and HONEST DARTH'S sold 3 Isotopes for 13 HTs apiece to end trading this Quarter.
SOLAR WINDS bought a Petroleum Factory on Delta Toucanis with some of the proceeds from their passengers.
CAESAR WHOLESALE sold the weapons at Mu Herculis on Planet and then visited the banks to take out a 300 HT loan.
SWISS MERCENARY FLEET quietly took the passenger pod off the Glaive and sold it.
In a burst of activity, ZWILLINGE hired Agent Amy at Delta Toucanis. They disposed of all their Petroleum Factories at a profit, sold cargo pods from the Fraternal and replaced them with Light Weapon Pods and upgraded the crews on the Twin and Twosome to A class before repaying their loan early. They then returned to their bankers and took out a 600 HT loan over the next 4 Quarters and turned the cash into 7 Spice Factories at Sigma Draconis and 10 Isotope Factories at Tau Ceti along with two more Tau Ceti warehouses.
ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT bought two Warehouses, one at Tau Ceti and the other at Delta Toucanis, and were also buying Isotope Factories, 5 at Tau Ceti. They increased the Corporation's Political Connections, funding a large reservation for native lifeforms in the oceans at Mu Herculis. How people feel knowing that a large block of Tempus is hitting the corridors in Beta Hydri is another matter.
TRANS SOLAR TRADING INC bought more passenger pods for Dane & Peover, and may be restarting passenger services once more. Competition can only be good for the travelling public.
And that, apart from one optimistic Corporation who thought that one ship could collect agents from two systems over 15 light years apart, was that.
Corporations Table
| Corporation letter & name | Conn'n Levels Bus/Crim/Pol |
Init Bid |
Turn Order |
Cash | Rep'n | Player | |||
| A | Neikan-do | 3 | 4 | 4 | F | 13th | 26 | 30 | Available |
| B | Solar Winds Trading Co | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8th | 196 | 25 | Steve Bunce |
| C | Caesar Wholesale | 5 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 7th | 460 | 35 | Simon Burling |
| D | Trans Solar Trading, Inc | 6 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 10th | 173 | 20 | Jerry Elsmore |
| E | Solar Spice, Liquors & Monopoles | 8 | 3 | 5 | +1 | 12th | 110 | 40 | Paul Evans |
| G | Honest Darth's Quality Used Spacecraft | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3rd | 497 | 40 | Howard Goble |
| H | Trade Wind | 4 | 0 | 8 | +9 | 1st | 183 | 38 | Colin Parfitt |
| J | ISNOTISTOO | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11th | 344 | 40 | William Hay |
| K | Swiss Mercenary Fleet | 6 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9th | 236 | 38 | Martin Jennings |
| L | Zwillinge | 10 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 6th | 187 | 40 | Michael Martinkat |
| M | Transuranic Trade Corp | 10 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4th | 272 | 40 | Bob Parkins |
| N | Vogon Industries | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5th | 138 | 40 | Nathan Richards |
| P | Iskander Fire and Accident | 10 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 2nd | 354 | 40 | Przemyslaw Orwat |
| 'N' under Initiative Bid indicates No Move Received; ‘F’ indicates the Corp was floated | |||||||||
News
Event 14 took place: Alloys down 5, various Commodities up 2.
There were four new chit this turn. New chits are shown in Bold:
Turn 12 B8
Turn 13 P2
Turn 14 P10, B4
Turn 15 P2, B6
GM Notes
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