Pevans
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.
Sections: Report, Corporations Table, News, Press, GM Notes, Star map (separate page)
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Turn 22
At Alpha Centauri the price of Liquors rose as both SWISS MERCENARY FLEET, bidding 10 HTs for 5 units, and TRANS SOLAR TRADING, 18 at 9 HTs (and gaining a Dealership), bought. But then SOLAR WINDS sold 8 units for 1 HT each and gained a Dealership for themselves. TRANSURANIC sold 3 more for 3 HTs apiece to bring the price back down to 5, leaving some Corporations with some expensive Liquors. TRADEWINDS sold 6 Monopoles for 10 HTs each as well. ZWILLINGE bought 10 Alloys for 3 HTs apiece and gained a Dealership.
Beta Hydri had ZWILLINGE selling 7 Isotopes for 2 HTs each and getting a Dealership here too. SSL&M sold 3 Monopoles on Contract, ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT sold 9 Petroleum for 11 HTs each and became Contractors here and SSL&M sold 5 Spice on Contract.
At Sigma Draconis VOGON INDUSTRIES bought 6 Alloys for 1 HT each. ISNOT-ISTOO tried to sell Isotopes at 3 HTs, but couldn't. VOGON sold 5 on Contracts. TRANS SOLAR sold 22 Monopoles for 12 HTs each and gained a Dealership, shutting out ISNOTISTOO's bid of 15 to sell. SOLAR WINDS sold 9 Petroleum for 8 HTs apiece and are now Market Managers. They also shut out ALSAFI-TOLIMAN who tried to sell at 10. ZWILLINGE bought 5 Spice on Contract and a further 6 using Percent.
Mu Herculis had VOGON selling 1 Alloy for 5 HTs. They then sold 12 Isotopes for 4 HTs each, becoming Dealers and shutting out Caesar's bid to sell at 13. VOGON lost out trying to buy Liquors at HTs, with CAESAR buying 9 for 3 HTs each and being made Contractors. TSTI unloaded another bundle of Monopoles here, 17 for 10 HTs each, and was made Market Manager. SWISS MERCENARY and CAESAR WHOLESALE, selling for 12 and 13 respectively, did not get to trade.
TRANS SOLAR sold Alloys on Contract at Tau Ceti, but the price didn't rise enough for CAESAR's bid of 8 to sell to be accepted. CAESAR did buy 1 isotope for 7 HTs, as they had no storage space left, and ZWILLINGE sold 4 on Contract, as did TRANSURANIC. ISNOTISTOO tried to sell at 5 HTs and failed.
At Delta Toucanis, ZWILLINGE bought 7 Alloys for 5 HTs each and gained a Dealership. ISKANDER bought 9 Petroleum at the price of 10 HTs, after which ZWILLINGE sold 7 for 6 HTs each and OMICRON-MIRA FUNDING GROUP lost their Market Managership. ISNOT-ISTOO sold 13 Spice for 7 HTs each, gaining a Contractorship. ZWILLINGE sold 5 on Contracts, but ISKANDER's bid of 8 to sell was too high.
Epsilon Eridani saw ISKANDER shift 4 Liquors for 3 HTs each, before selling 9 Monopoles for 13 HTs apiece, after which SOLAR SPICE, LIQUORS & MONOPOLES sold 5 on Contract.
ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT were the main dealers at Gamma Leporis. They bought 11 units at 4 HTs each after which TRANSURANIC and CAESAR WHOLESALE bought on Contracts. VOGON, who were only prepared to bid 1 HT to buy, bought nothing.
The saboteur is back. Of the 21 Warehouses at Sigma Draconis, 19 were attacked (only VOGON and SSL&M escaping) as well as SWISS MERCENARY FLEET's Liquor Factories at Alpha Centauri. That anonymous attack yielded no results, with only superficial damage being caused to the massive complex... At Sigma Draconis the damage was more severe. The first three attacks against TRANSURANIC's warehouses destroyed 3 Alloys, 11 Isotopes and 10 Spice, and two of these were traced to SWISS MERCENARY. ALSAFI-TOLLIMAN took the next three attacks and lost 1 Isotope and 4 Spice. One of these attacks was traced to SWISS MERCENARY and a second to VOGON INDUSTRIES. SOLAR WINDS suffered two attacks, one of which was traced to VOGON. They lost 12 Isotopes. OMICRON-MICRA lost 5 Petroleum and 2 Isotopes from an anonymous attack and then a further 3 Isotopes from SWISS MERCENARY. ZWILLINGE also were hit with an anonymous attack and lost all their Isotopes. ISNOT-ISTOO and TRADEWINDS suffered the same fate. Three attacks on TRANS SOLAR TRADING's Warehouses destroyed little in the way of goods and two of these attacks were traced back to ISKANDER. Finally, ISKANDER suffered two attacks which did little damage. Popular Federation News services are pouring scorn on the methods of the System Police and few people believe that all the implicated Corporations are responsible.
ISNOT-ISTOO loaded its ships with Passengers.
TRANS SOLAR TRADING INC. lost out on about half its intended passenger loadings but, nothing daunted, equipped the three new Phoenix Hulls with Augmented Jump, Passenger pods and C class crews, and the Grimsbrook, a Piccolo Hull, with A Class crew. Peover received Cargo Pods from some of the fleet.
ISKANDER FIRE & ACCIDENT, with their Reputation damaged, are rumoured to have added a Battle Comm Pod to their ship, Option, last seen heading for Tau Ceti from the Spaceport. They have laid down an unnamed Corco Iota Hull at Tau Ceti. 10 Isotope Factories were bought at Sigma Draconis, taking up the slack in production after TSTI pulled out.
TRADEWINDS delivered the Furs and received the 300 HT fee.
ZWILLINGE has hired Agent Ferret. They then went to the banks to pay off their massive loan, and took out a new 1000 HT loan. Some of this was then spent on 3 Isotope Factories at Sigma Draconis.
SWISS MERCENARY FLEET were not expecting to be met with an Enquiry, but their high Political Connections and a sceptical judge got them an Innocent verdict.
TRANSURANIC loaded with what passengers they could find.
VOGON INDUSTRIES sold their 10 units of Weapons on Mu Herculis for top price and they are feeling much chirpier.
SOLAR WINDS collected a couple of Passengers.
CAESAR WHOLESALE bought an Augmented Jump Pod for Domitian, and Vespasian loaded OP 10 on board.
This concludes Quarter 22
Press
Press: "The cybergram message was, in all probability, sent to the Managing Directors of all of the Galaxy's Stock Exchange's top 20 companies but most of them denied receiving it when questioned by the investigating detectives. The electronic signature matched the previous communications and the techies went through the relevant checks without much hope of tracing the identify of its sender. The underlying message, although filled with euphemisms about 'business', 'insurance' and 'consultancy to prevent the need for invoking costly disaster recovery plans', was plain and simple and clearly connected to the recent sabotage on Sigma Draconis: 'Pay 10 HTs each quarter for protection through the off-world front for the banking institution GM Laundry or face the consequences'."
Press Releases for Trans Solar Trading Inc
Drew "The Fisk" Vanderbilt-Scott, the "hands on" Chairman of Trans Solar Trucking Inc. declared today that anyone attempting to intercept and delay TSTI Inc ships has been given a clear warning of the consequences. "I can confirm that Vickers, Stronginlimb & Cruppes have been retained to install the latest anti-terrorist measures on all TSTI ships. No expense will be spared to ensure the safety of our passengers. Our previous precautionary measures ensured that our ships and passengers were not harmed and we apologise for the delay to their journey and any inconvenience that may have been caused. Compensation has been paid. Clearly stronger counter-measures are now called for and our ships will be equipped with sufficient firepower to ensure safe passage. TSTI Inc welcomes the reward offer posted by Zwillinge for the capture of Poum. TSTI will add a further 500HT and an additional 2000 HT to anyone supplying evidence which results in the successful prosecution of any Corporation who has employed him."
Corporations Table
| Corporation letter & name | Conn'n Levels Bus/Crim/Pol |
Init Bid |
Turn Order |
Cash | Rep'n | Player | |||
| A | Alsafi-Toliman Acquisitions | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 12th | 466 | 40 | Rob Fuller |
| B | Solar Winds Trading Co | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 10th | 397 | 40 | Steve Bunce |
| C | Caesar Wholesale | 10 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 11th | 81 | 37 | Simon Burling |
| D | Trans Solar Trading, Inc | 10 | 0 | 8 | 21 | 2nd | 453 | 40 | Jerry Elsmore |
| E | SSL&M | 10 | 3 | 5 | 0+1 | 6th | 498 | 40 | Paul Evans |
| G | Omicron-Mira Funding | 10 | 2 | 3 | N | 13th | 860 | 26 | Alan Frost |
| H | Trade Wind | 10 | 0 | 8 | 0+9 | 4th | 1049 | 40 | Colin Parfitt |
| J | ISNOTISTOO | 10 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 1st | 404 | 40 | William Hay |
| K | Swiss Mercenary Fleet | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 7th | 557 | 8 | Martin Jennings |
| L | Zwillinge | 10 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 5th | 1470 | 20 | Michael Martinkat |
| M | Transuranic Trade Corp | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8th | 722 | 40 | Bob Parkins |
| N | Vogon Industries | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 9th | 114 | 32 | Nathan Richards |
| P | Iskander Fire and Accident | 10 | 8 | 5 | 20 | 3rd | 365 | 24 | Przemyslaw Orwat |
| 'N' under Initiative Bid indicates No Move Received; ‘F’ indicates the Corp was floated | |||||||||
News
CAESAR WHOLESALE Took OP 10, and ISKANDER took OP 49.
There were five new News Chits this turn (shown in Bold):
Turn 23 B6
Turn 24 P3, B6, C5, P8
Turn 25 P6, C4
Turn 26 C8, B7
GM Notes
If you are on planet, you can't move goods between your ship and Warehouses.
Note the late deadline as I'm away for a week. Orders not in on the Friday will be too late – you have been warned!