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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 2188334" data-attributes="member: 8243">Saanath, human male merchant"Hold up a minute. Sorry Trel, do you mind if I jump in first.""I don't agree with Ruzz'koff on this. If we put everything we have into the public domain, then we give Nels-whatsits no option but to go on the counter-attack. And as much as he is deserving of a good kicking, he is also a very powerful man. Getting into an open brawl with him would be ... ugly. And potentially a very one sided fight."First of all, he has access to the crew of the Kerchan. He would get to them, and we could expect very little support for our story from there. Even those who helped us would be unlikely to more than refuse to get involved. Not if they ever wanted to keep their jobs, or work again in this sector. Then there would be the hatchet job on all of our lives. He has access to the media. He controls significant chunks of it. We can expect to see our lives picked over and distorted into the most horrifying tale. Your mother would not even like you after he has finished. And if any sort of inquiry did eventuate, he would make sure that we got a very unsympathetic hearing."At least, that is what I would if I had the misfortune to be him."I suggest that we broadcast a mayday and include a status report - survivours, casualties, damage to the ship and biocontamination. But nothing that implicates anyone at this stage."And we wait and see how Nels wants to play it. I would like to see him take him down a peg or two as much as anyone. But I'd settle for one peg and walking away in one piece."Meanwhile we find ourselves someone who is willing to take this fight to Nels. Someone who punches in his weight catagory. Gateway might be the <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> of the Imperium, but it is still an Imperial arse. I would suggest our best bet would be the Imperial Navy. They don't take kindly to people raiding merchants by all accounts."</blockquote>

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