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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 3101882" data-attributes="member: 150">Ruzz'koff bares his teeth.  "I prefer something a little more secure, I think. "Whomever killed Antonesque, had the disc and discarded it into the trash knows that the imperials will have searched the ship and found the disc.  If we still HAVE the disc, without any sort of explaination, it will be highly suspicious, and probably be enough to get us killed.  "What we need is a plausible way for us to possess the disc and be in a position to sell it.  And, unfortunately, that is very problematic.  I have already demonstrated a great deal of rigidity to our shadowy opponents -- were I to suddenly be willing to sell the secrets of the imperial navy, that would send up red flags that would make the most mentally retarded groundpounder suspicious."What we need to do is create the illusion of a split in the crew -- one or two crew members, probably Tuan and one other, who see the potential for a quick buck and who can be resistant to my military bearing and strict morality.  "I dislike the ruse, because it divides our strength, but it's the sort of situation that our shadowy enemies will believe, and will be likely to try to exploit.  So long a we can come together and support each other when the time comes, this is the safer course.  "So what I'm suggesting is that we return to the ship and I go about the daily business of running the ship -- perhaps stomping around and showing a bit more of the tyrant.  And Tuan and one other start to twitch and struggle under the strain, until Tuan reveals that he was able to make a copy of the disc, and Tuan and his ally start looking for a buyer as we make our next few stops.  "We should also assume that there may be new watchers/killers in the next group of passengers -- this plan needs to be laid out before we return to the ship, and we should not break character until all of the cards are played out -- we'll need to have a code word or phrase that any of us can say to call the whole thing off.  The passengers should see the split in the crew, the tension and the stress.  And they should overhear Tuan and his conspirator talking about the disc.  At the same time, we need to protect Tuan and his conspirator very carefully -- a killer, the same or a different one, may try to kill Tuan and take the new disc.  "What do you think?"-rg</blockquote>

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