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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||2200 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 coast between the [[BTW/The Good Moons|Good Moons]] and Heidelberg are quite elegant, if one equates elegance with efficiency on an exchange-credit per newton-second basis. By any definition not rooted in economics, they are ugly. And if you look at them in terms of their up-front capital cost, they are also hideously expensive. One of them had been destroyed, blasted into a million pieces of orbital debris by an improvised missile. Because the freighter was traveling between the moon [[BTW/Rosmerta|Rosmerta]] and the planet [[BTW/Heidelberg|Heidelberg]], polities which are closely allied but independently represented as sovereign states within the Free Confederation of Allied Worlds, the investigation falls into the jurisdiction of the [[BTW/Gendarmerie of the Allied Worlds|Gendarmerie of the Allied Worlds]] (GAW). The local authorities will also be investigating, represented by the [[BTW/Arthurian League Space Police|Arthurian League Space Police]] (ALSP). It is hoped that meaningful cooperation can be achieved, and the perpetrators be brought to justice. |
The huge drone freighters that coast between the Good Moons and Heidelberg are quite elegant, if one equates elegance with efficiency on an exchange-credit per newton-second basis. By any definition not rooted in economics, they are ugly. And if you look at them in terms of their up-front capital cost, they are also hideously expensive. One of them had been destroyed, blasted into a million pieces of orbital debris by an improvised missile. Because the freighter was traveling between the moon Rosmerta and the planet Heidelberg, polities which are closely allied but independently represented as sovereign states within the Free Confederation of Allied Worlds, the investigation falls into the jurisdiction of the Gendarmerie of the Allied Worlds (GAW). The local authorities will also be investigating, represented by the Arthurian League Space Police (ALSP). It is hoped that meaningful cooperation can be achieved, and the perpetrators be brought to justice.