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 16
"Can this being be stopped?"
"We keep trying, but we can't identify it."
"We find bodies every now and then with their throats ripped out."
"Might be nothing to do with the sabotage."
"But it might be. There was a spate of these killings at Mu Herculis. Well, more of a spate than usual."
"We must stop these killings. The Chief wants to blame them on the Association of Interstellar Anarchists, but we know that it isn't them."
"Not their style?"
"No, they tend to go for ships. And by the way, you didn't hear that bit about the Chief."
The thud of explosions indicated that the bomber was back at work at Sigma Draconis. Federation Police and Station security have connected the saboteur with the being who was involved in various attacks at Mu Herculis, but are unable to identify the Corporation, if any, behind the attacks.
Gamma Leporis saw TRANS SOLAR TRADING INC. buying 19 Alloys at 9 HTs and becoming Market Manager. TRANSURANIC sold 9 units for 6 HTs each and gained a Contractorship.
TRANS SOLAR was selling at Epsilon Eridani - 10 Alloys at 3 HTs to acquire a Dealership. CAESAR WHOLESALE bought 2 Spice for 13 HTs apiece. ALSAFI-TOLIMAN ACQUISITIONS Co. sold 6 Liquor at 6 HTs and gained a Dealership and ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT sold 2 more at 7 HTs apiece.
Delta Toucanis saw ISKANDER selling 14 Isotopes for 7 HTs each to get a Contractorship and TRADEWINDS FOUNDATION sold 2 more at a price of 8 HTs. ISKANDER bought 8 Petroleum for 9 HTs each and gained a Dealership. ZWILLINGE sold 1 at the same price using Contracts. ZWILLINGE was trading in Spice, selling 8 Spice for 8 HTs apiece and a Dealership.
Tau Ceti had TRANS SOLAR selling again: 10 Alloys at 4 HTs each to gain another Dealership, ISKANDER selling Isotopes on Contract, TRANSURANIC buying 2 Isotopes for 1 HT apiece and ZWILLINGE selling 5 Petroleum at a price of 13 HTs.
Mu Herculis had ZWILLINGE selling 10 Isotopes for 4 HTs each to gain a Contractorship and SOLAR SPICE, LIQUORS & MONOPOLES buying 5 Monopoles on Contract.
Sigma Draconis has SOLAR WINDS TRADING COMPANY selling 4 Petroleum for 8 HTs each, TRANSURANIC buying 3 Spice for 8 HTs apiece and SSL&M buying 5 Spice on Contracts.
Alpha Centauri saw SSL&M selling 5 Spice on Contract. SWISS MERCENARY FLEET was in the Spaceport and sold 12 Liquors for 6 HTs each to gain a Dealership. TRANS SOLAR sold 7 Isotopes for 5 HTs apiece, and then TRANSURANIC sold 4 more at the same price. TRANSURANIC then sold 6 Alloys at a price of 5 HTs.
At Beta Hydri, TRANS SOLAR was again selling Alloys: 8 units for 6 HTs each. ISKANDER sold 19 Monopoles for 15 HTs apiece and was made Market Manager. SSL&M sold 5 Monopoles on Contract. HONEST DARTH'S USED SPACESHIPS sold 6 Petroleum for 12 HTs each and gained a Contractorship and TRADEWINDS sold 10 Spice at 12 HTs and a Dealership. TRANSURANIC sold 2 Spice for 13 HTs each and, finally, ZWILLINGE sold 6 more Spice at the priec of 13 HTs using Percent.
TRANS SOLAR TRADING INC. was loading its usual crop of passengers, including those who had tried an alternative Corporation on the last Quarter. It also built 3 more Warehouses at Gamma Leporis.
TRADEWINDS repaid their loan, the first of several this Quarter to visit the Federation bankers.
ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT sold a Warehouse on Sigma Draconis, a Liquor Factory on Alpha Centauri and 4 Monopole Factories on Mu Herculis. Thus able to repay their loan, they immediately went back for a 710 HT loan, paying 34 HTs a Quarter interest for 4 Quarters, and bought 4 Monopole Factories at Mu Herculis, Warehouses on Sigma Draconis, Delta Toucanis, and Epsilon Eridani and laid down a Phoenix Hull in the Tau Ceti Shipyards.
TRANSURANIC TRADE CORPORATION bought 2 Passenger and 4 Cargo pods for TTC Nobelium as it was floated out.
SWISS MERCENARY FLEET bought 3 more Monopoles Factories at Mu Herculis.
CAESAR WHOLESALE took OP 17 and increased their Criminal Connections to 9.
ALSAFI-TOLIMAN ACQUISITIONS Co. repaid their loan and took out one for 140 HTs at 5 HTs interest a Quarter over 4 Quarters. They bought 3 Isotope Factories at Sigma Draconis and a Warehouse to store the product in.
ZWILLINGE, between sponsoring two of the three attacks on Warehouses at Sigma Draconis, including the clumsy attempt to throw the blame elsewhere by blowing up its own stocks and killing its own staff, repaid their loan and bought 2 Warehouses: one at Alpha Centauri and the other at Mu Herculis.
SOLAR SPICE, LIQUORS & MONOPOLES increased its Reputation, which rounded off the Quarter.
Corporations Table
| Corporation letter & name | Conn'n Levels Bus/Crim/Pol |
Init Bid |
Turn Order |
Cash | Rep'n | Player | |||
| A | Alsafi-Toliman Acquisitions | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8th | 123 | 40 | Rob Fuller |
| B | Solar Winds Trading Co | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 7th | 182 | 27 | Steve Bunce |
| C | Caesar Wholesale | 8 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 6th | 286 | 39 | Simon Burling |
| D | Trans Solar Trading, Inc | 10 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1st | 104 | 38 | Jerry Elsmore |
| E | SSL&M | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0+1 | 11th | 158 | 37 | Paul Evans |
| G | HDQUS | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9th | 811 | 32 | Howard Goble |
| H | Trade Wind | 6 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 2nd | 374 | 40 | Colin Parfitt |
| J | ISNOTISTOO | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13th | 440 | 40 | William Hay |
| K | Swiss Mercenary Fleet | 10 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 5th | 168 | 40 | Martin Jennings |
| L | Zwillinge | 10 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 10th | 81 | 11 | Michael Martinkat |
| M | Transuranic Trade Corp | 10 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4th | 404 | 40 | Bob Parkins |
| N | Vogon Industries | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 12th | 186 | 40 | Nathan Richards |
| P | Iskander Fire and Accident | 10 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 3rd | 321 | 40 | Przemyslaw Orwat |
| 'N' under Initiative Bid indicates No Move Received; ‘F’ indicates the Corp was floated | |||||||||
News
Caesar Wholesale took OP 17.
There were three new chits this turn. New chits are shown in Bold:
Turn 18 B9
Turn 19 P8, P1, B1
Turn 20 P10
GM Notes
Unsuccessful trades have not been reported this quarter.
SABOTAGE:
HONEST DARTH lost 7 Isotopes at Sigma Draconis.
ISNOT-ISTOO lost 7 Spice at Sigma Draconis.
ZWILLINGE lost 5 Isotopes and 5 Spice.
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