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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wilphe" data-source="post: 3000810" data-attributes="member: 8221">The Yykris takes up a holding position under a dorsal hatch in the Coronel, docking is quickly accomplised and the two ships mated. Lt de Paolo marches back to the Common area, "Ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the inconvenience and hope to have you away and about your business as soon as possible. To this end, when I call your name, please exit through the hatch where my colleagues will ask you to give a statement. Thank for your cooperation."     The passengers file though, Malico Sharisgara goes first, but with every apperence of confidence. Curtis Foster is next and looks uncertain perhaps as the late Antonescu's room-mate he still feels somewhat implicated. Elisabeth Black, Maxine Zdrac & Govindra Ishaga leave quietly, displaying varying degrees of relief at getting off this dirty little tramp and into a 6* hotel and without saying goodbye. Eleanor Carnot takes the time out to "Thank you for the trip, I just wish it could have ended another way."      The administrator and his party are called next. All this takes a good couple of hours, it is now towards mid-morning. "We'll do you now," says De Paolo, "But first I've got the civvies from Shrigegge on the line. They're frothering at the mouth wanting to get their grubby dirt-side mits on your cargo. Something about 60 tons of Agricultural Machinery and the harvest not being able to wait. Frankly I don't give a damn, but they are talking about penalty payments, so I guess you want to talk to them. We'll patch them through, nothing about the sensitive situation though pelase"     An irritated looking woman in a worn, blue, business suit comes on the vid screen in the lounge, "Good morning, I am Loretta Hanson, Undersecretary of Trade to the Government of Shirgegge. You would be the crew of the merchant Vykris yes? We are in desperate need of the equipment you carry, I am also aware that your terms of shipping include a significant penalty clause in the case of delay. We want your cargo delivered and released within 18 hours, or your penalty clauses will be invoked in full."     "I am aware that you are under Navy jurisdiction right now. Howver, this was your own choice, as you could have landed on the planet and resolved your difficutly there. We therefore consider ourselves justified in invoking the penalty."</blockquote>

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