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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1637930" data-attributes="member: 515">After the morning meeting, the day passes by pretty quickly. Hue de Silva’s Delivery Service brings the parts for the second starboard laser shortly after breakfast, and Martha, Vargas, and Swann get to work on the repairs. A little while later, some technicians from Joel Life Systems arrive to repair the low berths, and Ian plays escort for the technicians. By mid afternoon, the repairs are going well. The low berth repair crews finish the repairs under Ian’s eye. Martha, Swann, and Vargas do get the laser repaired though it’ll need to be calibrated again which will take some time in space — at least a day. -----Meanwhile, Saro does some research onto the legal ramifications of having the Star Flower plants. He does need to tie into Sentry’s infonet in order to conduct his research properly. Luckily, doing so is pretty easy. Based on several court cases from the last few decades, the prospects of just turning over the plants and pollen now are not very promising. If they had done so originally (IIS vs. Wenchsel et. al), the Imperial Investigative Service probably would have given the crew a warning after an investigation. Now that the crew has possessed the plants and pollen for almost two months, the crew probably could successfully avoid the death penalty, but the ship and all assets would probably be seized. "Dang it! Now what?!" Saro is clearly frustrated. -----After doing the research, Saro wanders over to inspect the mystery cubes. Ian joins him. Vasilii pops in briefly on his way out to run some errands. Looking at the items, Vasilii’s eyebrows arch and his mouth opens slightly. His curiosity propels him forward and he circles the items almost without thought. Finally, he looks at the others and says, "I’ve never seen anything like this before, have you? It almost looks like some sort of biohazard container, although that would be more Dr. Talbak’s area of expertise. Perhaps we could run some diagnostic tests, like X-rays or something?" Ian’s look at the cubes doesn’t reveal much. The cubes are made of an opaque dark gray plastic, with a touch of purple tint to the gray. The cubes feel very solid and have no apparent seams, openings, screws, or other fasteners. For all practical purposes, the cubes appear to have been produced as a single solid piece. Saro’s inspection doesn't reveal that much more. The chemical analysis doesn’t reveal anything useful. He does use one of his medical scanners on the cube. Though more suited for scanning live tissue, the scanner reveals that the cube isn’t solid all of the way through with the plastic. There appears to be a shell of some sort comprised of the surface material. The shell is about 5mm thick. Beyond the shell is a large volume of what appears to be some sort of foam. In the center of the cube is a second cube about 10cm on each side, which appears to be solid or at least resists any attempt to scan its contents. Saro isn’t sure if the center core has any metal or not. Saro looks puzzled at the cube within the cube. "What could this be?" He asks the others: "Do any of you know about explosives? My biggest worry is that it is something that will blow up once we open it. Biological stuff I can take care of. Anyone have any ideas?" -----Vasilii dons a good business suit and heads towards the offices of the Imperial Mail Service. After a bit of a wait, he meets with a Ms. Rebecca Obuto. Ms. Obuto is fairly helpful, but she does make it clear that the IMS rarely runs mail or package service to planets under Red Zone restrictions. She does suggest that Vasilii call upon the offices of ImpEx, the Imperium—wide package shipping company. Vasilii talks to Ms. Obuto about the possibility of running a "limited" service, running any mail during the Bray Keaven’s normal trips to Alief. He reminds her that the Imp Navy has a presence there and package runs there could fulfill a dual purpose by running Imperial packets. Ms. Obutu brightens at this suggestion. She says that she can’t guarantee anything, but if there is mail headed to Alief, the transfer station, or the picket, she could probably work out somewhere between Cr1,500 and Cr2,500 per ton transferred. The visit to the ImpEx office goes much better. The station manager, Iritok McGee, appears delighted to hear that the Bray Keaven has access to Alief. He says that there isn’t much bound for Alief given its Red Zone status, but he is prepared to sign a contract for four tons of space reserved for a trip a quarter (scheduled to depart Sentry on the first of every quarter) at standard contract rates. He mentions that there could be more cargo on any particular run, but he is only prepared to contract four tons per run.</blockquote>

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