On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:47 PM Kurt Feltenberger <xxxxxx@thepaw.org> wrote:

On 6/3/2019 2:56 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) wrote:
> Spacious indeed &, according to the CT intro-adventure 'Imperial
> Fringe', it's pretty easy to pick up an odd job from the ISS.

Hmm...

<veering off into creepy territory...>

I wonder if the ubiquitous Type-S and the slightly...unique and marching
to their own theme music ex-Scouts are viewed in the same way as the old
guy with the van offering candy...

</veering off into creepy territory...>

I've always rather liked the "loaned-out Type S" scheme. It wasn't until I read the Aubrey-Maturin novel series by Patrick O'Brian that I really grasped why. It's just like the half-pay Captain Jack Aubrey taking Admiralty spy Stephen Maturin on a "naturalist cruise" that is of course TOTALLY unconnected with English colonial interests in Whatever Back Beyond they are thereby visiting. :)

Richard Aiken

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