OOC: [T20] High Law and Low Justice

[Wilphe]

You mean we turn up to one of their surviving assets with a lawyer and say give this to us or else?

Or that both parties realise that they are going under anyway and they do a sweatheart for us deciding they'd rather we had one of their ships rather than the bank?


There is a Vargr Corsair design in GT: Alien Races 1; if you want I'll try and convert into T20 stats.

Roughly it is:
400 tons
2G
J2
4 Triple Turrets (2 Lasers, 2 Missiles)
List Cargo is 36, but the design includes a Modular Cutter in a bay which takes up another 84 tons. That would give us 120 tons
85 McR new


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Someone already has: Zalirrgh Class Vargr Corsair

 

[Seonaid]

Neither Ktarle nor I have any idea what kind of ship we should get . . . but Ktarle sure would like a fully-equipped med bay!

Edit: I take that back. Both Ktarle and I want something that doesn't require significantly more crew than we ourselves encompass, but it might be nice/good to have to hire an extra two or three people.

 

[doghead]

Personally, I'd rather not bankrupt Malikot. They are the only ones still sticking to Hiranu Corp and Co.

The stats on the Vargr Coursair look OK. Do we need the cutter?

 

[Maerdwyn]

The t20 version there ony has an 8 ton G-carrier, rather than a cutter.

Fair market value on one of Malikot's modified corsairs is going to be quite high compared to some of these other offerings, just to warn you. Figure close to MCr 200.

If that's too much, you could investigate whether they would be willing to hire you as a crew for one of their vessels or be willing to lease it to you or let you use it in exchange for a share of the profits, for example.

Value of the Dvonn was MCr 190.4 new. Age, and, especially condition at the time of salvage, bring that down to MCr114.2. Salvage claim on that would be MCr 28.56. Divided by 9 (Shares for Capt. Darius and Vyrkris are being witheld for their estates. Quinn's a re simply being withheld...), that's MCr 3.2 each, of which you have effectively collected MCr1.4, leaving MCr 1.8@ unaccounted for by Malikot thus far.

 

[Seonaid]

I wouldn't mind not bankrupting Malikot also . . .

Ktarle wouldn't mind going as deep into debt as the creditors let us; she knows what it's like to have to earn back what you've spent wisely. (Plus I just read the first Kylara Vatta book by Elizabeth Moon, Trading in Danger, so I'm in the trading contract mindset. )

 

[Wilphe]

Crew of 9:

Basically we'd need a Drive hand and 2 Gunners


What's the news on other players?

 

[Maerdwyn]

We're going to stick with the people we have for now, now that it seem like doghead is/will be back if we want to, we can add someone else later.

"Required" crew on a corsair may be slightly different on a corsair being used as a gunned merchant, by the way - NPC gunners aren't likely to earn their daily pay very well, for example. Just a thought.

 

[Maerdwyn]

You mean we turn up to one of their surviving assets with a lawyer and say give this to us or else?

Or that both parties realise that they are going under anyway and they do a sweatheart for us deciding they'd rather we had one of their ships rather than the bank?

Sorry, forgot to respond to this directly.

Malikot is in the prcess of buidling a civil action against HiranuCorp, JohnHenry, Gateway Arms and the unnamed co-conspirator who hired the GA. So, the expectation is that they will get more money, but it has not yet materialized. You can let your lawyers handle the collection later, or pursue it with them directly. Malikot Enterprises has formally thanked you for your efforts on behalf of their crew and their ship, but you have not met with any of there executives (there is a branch office here on Dukh) as of yet (and won't unles you guy choose to try to set it up. (let me know if you want to.)

By the way, before leaving the system, you will be asked to give recorded depositions about the previous ordeal - we can handle that 'off camera'.

 

[Seonaid]

Ktarle's willing to let the lawyers handle it, and will give the deposition the lawyers want her to (assuming it's the truth).

 

[doghead]

I'm here, but probably won't be able to contribute much in the IC thread until the end of September. I seem to have found myself on an information minor laneway, and will be so until I can get geared and hooked up.

I think it would be worth approaching Malikot and seeing what sort of deal they would be interested in, assuming that the kind of ships that they have would meet our needs.

Regarding crew, we could let Ruzz'koff loose to see if he could scare up some gunner/assistant engineer/cargo hand types. Of course this will impact upon our bottom line. I'm a little more wary of going deeply into debt, but am with Seonaid on being curious to see how the trade asect of the game plays out. Humm. Decisions, decisions.

thotd out.