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| A drone freighter in orbit around Rosmerta, destroyed by ramming by an unused Rosmertine Fleet Yards carrier spaceplane that was stolen. The freighter was carrying: Cargo Manifest: ||Item||Mass||Declared Value||Sender||Destination||Recipient|| ||photocurable superconducting resins||82 tonnes||8140 AEC||Heidelberg-Rosmerta Chemical Corporation||Heidelberg Prime Station||Europa Spaceworks|| ||proton-permeable membranes||40 tonnes||1140 AEC||Hesselland Membranes||Heidelberg||City Government of Islee|| ||ultrapermeable isotopic separation membranes||13 tonnes||6140 AEC||Hesselland Membranes||Heidelberg Prime Station (transfer)||Allied Worlds Space Force Materiel Command|| ||semi-permeable membranes for reverse osmosis||25 tonnes||4200 AEC||Hesselland Membranes||Heidelberg||Wathersi-Zhuang-Ho Life Systems|| ||composite structural members||120 tonnes||360 AEC||Rosmertine State Construction Materials||Heidelberg Prime Station||Europa Spaceworks|| (AEC = Allied Exchange Currency.) . Whodunnit? |
The huge drone freighters that coasted between the Good Moons and Heidelberg were quite elegant, if one equated elegance with efficiency on an exchange-credit per newton-second basis. By any definition not rooted in economics, they were ugly. And if you looked at the in terms of absolute cost, they were also hideously expensive. One of them had been destroyed, long before it could pay for itself. |
The huge drone freighters that coasted between the Good Moons and Heidelberg were quite elegant, if one equated elegance with efficiency on an exchange-credit per newton-second basis. By any definition not rooted in economics, they were ugly. And if you looked at the in terms of absolute cost, they were also hideously expensive. One of them had been destroyed, long before it could pay for itself.