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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 5545595" data-attributes="member: 48762">HouskeepingIt occurs to me that I've had some thoughts about your SOP as Zeering Conglomerate's Repair Crew that I have neglected t clue you in about.1.  For fuel, repairs, small upgrades, berthing fees, and other ship expenses there is on board a Zeering Conglomerate "Ruby Card" that is stored in a special comparment just for that purpose on the bridge of the Zax Hakjohn Quik.  None of you has any idea about any 'credit  limit' on the card.  You just swipe the card when you have legitimate expenses, and, so far, that's always been the end of the matter.  [The bill presumably goes to Zeering's offices somewhere or other.]  The card itself is an Imperial Express card, and where the cardholder's name usually appears, is etched into the card the Zeering Conglomerate logo.  Within the etching of the logo are transcribed in micro script, readable by a standard card reader computer device, the names and ID data of each crewmember.  Note that using this card is a highly reliable method for Zeering Conglomerate to track your movements, and see if you are where you are supposed to be.  [Or at least if the Zax is/was there.  There is still the little matter of the delay of several weeks between the time you swipe the card and the time Zeering actually receives the information, of course.  In theory, if Zeering was to go bankrupt suddenly, you could run up quite an extensive bill on the card before the news caught up with you.  It is very much not recommended that you test this.]2. There is also a card reader computer device on the bridge of the Zax so you can use the card to pay for ship expenses via com link without removing the card from the ship at all.  In fact, your orders specify that the card is to remain on the bridge of the Zax at all times.  The fact that your individual data appear on the card at first seems to be superflous if the card is to remain onboard the Zax at all times, until you consider that it serves as a permanent link joining each of you to the Zax, in the unlikely [?] event that any of you should ever be detained off-ship.  It's a kind of redundant ship's manifest in that respect, and one that is not subject to casual tampering.This whole concept is sort of a work in progress, so feel free to make suggestions regarding it, whether it's to express your disapproval/approval, or possible improvements to the SOP, or whatever.  I'm also not sure how compatible this idea is with "Traveller canon," so I'll accept criticism in that regard as well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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