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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Radiating Gnome" data-source="post: 3102689" data-attributes="member: 150">OOC:  So . . . what you're saying is that the Navy has released the suspects who know that the disc was recovered . . . and now they want us to try to sell it here in system, where it could ONLY be an imperial trap or the work of a bunch of criminals dumb enough to be in the running for a Darwin award?  And given our demonstrated insistence on turning this over to the Navy, this would be a pretty transparent ruse.  What I'm hearing, basically, is that the Navy wants to dangle us out on a very dangerous limb just to see who kills us so they can hopefully use our murder to expose the conspirators.  And then you hint that should we survive, somehow, we might be charged with treason?  If we want to make this work _at all_ I still think we need to make it obviously a rebellious act of a few crew members, and not a concerted act committed by the crew -- that's the only way I can see to make the ruse credible enough.  I get the feeling that I'm playing badly here.  I mean, as I read Ruzz'koff, I think he would be happy to help the navy, and not at all willing to be used as such transparent bait, and downright resentful and suspicious about the officers asking him to do such a thing.  At the same time, in meta game terms, this is the opportunity for adventure put in front of us -- it's either this or get back to the work of driving the school bus to the next system.  At this point, if Ruzz'koff were not retired, the only reason he would take this gig is if he thought it would help him find out who was behind the whole deal on the imperial side -- who is it that has it in for him?  But now that he's retired, and he's a merchant captain of a sort, he isn't really a part of the imperial navy chessboard anymore . . . we have to assume he retired for a reason, and that sort of politics is probably a big part of it.  At this point, I think it's time to tell the Navy to find another piece of bait and move on.  If it's important that the Navy have us do this thing, they're going to have to come up with a stronger inducement -- probably some sort of irresistable leverage.  They're going to have to force it on us. -rg</blockquote>

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