Nuncio's Windfall.

Hi Pappilon,

There are hyper repair tugs that could carry or tractor the 'old Joe' and transport it to Nuncio, were it still around and permitted, as I suspect Spindle would insist on keeping it there for their tourists.

Now that you've brought it up.

I'm kinda curious about any senior FF/BF types that might have quietly visited as tourists on their vacations not as commissioned spies etc, rather just to see what happened to ships they served on and learn what they can very quietly or indirectly, and perhaps begin to understand the Manties etc, before or even after Filaretta's attack in June [4 monthes later] given the 4+ monthes between them, since Spindle is only ~22 days from Sol and a good chunk of the core 'old league' [given a 40 LY radius from Beowulf means about 268,160 cubic LY, ie something around 84 members, assuming ~3188 LY<3 each], so even retired officers from quite a few star systems could have done it, let alone officers investigating for O'Cleary's court martial etc, the fact that none have come to our attention may be due to just word number restrictions on RFC, or some other simple explanation, though there seems to be some interesting story potential of more perspective from some other intelligent solarians than Tamaguchi etc.

There are intel types whose whole career involves just living very quietly in a country and reporting what the local papers and people are saying, to confirm other more public sources; one ought to expect some SL members, if not the SLN's ONI were smart enough to be doing the same thing 2000 years from now.

L

pappilon wrote:

PeterZ wrote:That'll add more of the frontier flavor to the experience. I would recommend bringing in the Joseph Buckley as a tourist attraction. The bad luck factor will make the tour a bit more special. Add the Anhur to the tour and the entire experience reeks of frontier danger.

Yeah but wouldn't towing it through N-space be kinda cost prohibitive? They could maybe actually fire up another surrendered SD and hyper it to Nuncio. cut Old Joe into paperweight sized chunks and sell them in the gift shop?

[quote="lyonheart"]Hi Pappilon,

There are hyper repair tugs that could carry or tractor the 'old Joe' and transport it to Nuncio, were it still around and permitted, as I suspect Spindle would insist on keeping it there for their tourists.

Now that you've brought it up.

I'm kinda curious about any senior FF/BF types that might have quietly visited as tourists on their vacations not as commissioned spies etc, rather just to see what happened to ships they served on and learn what they can very quietly or indirectly, and perhaps begin to understand the Manties etc, before or even after Filaretta's attack in June [4 monthes later] given the 4+ monthes between them, since Spindle is only ~22 days from Sol and a good chunk of the core 'old league' [given a 40 LY radius from Beowulf means about 268,160 cubic LY, ie something around 84 members, assuming ~3188 LY<3 each], so even retired officers from quite a few star systems could have done it, let alone officers investigating for O'Cleary's court martial etc, the fact that none have come to our attention may be due to just word number restrictions on RFC, or some other simple explanation, though there seems to be some interesting story potential of more perspective from some other intelligent solarians than Tamaguchi etc.

There are intel types whose whole career involves just living very quietly in a country and reporting what the local papers and people are saying, to confirm other more public sources; one ought to expect some SL members, if not the SLN's ONI were smart enough to be doing the same thing 2000 years from now.

L

I think not, yet at any rate. Well, maybe if they got in as crew for all the newsies swanning around Spindle. There's probably not that much non-military traffic zooming around that is not local. And even as spies, if ONI is brave enough to sneak observers into Spindle, newsies with their cameras are the perfect cover.