Nov/Dec 2015 Challenge: The Genial Descent Into Obscurity
So THIS arrived for me, via Universal Parcel Syndicate. Never on time, that should be their motto. Better late than never I suppose. 'Course they did say it had been waiting for me to pick up for a couple of weeks…
And that is the amazing commission I received from Abu Lafia. Delightful! And to be absolutely clear, the whole "late" thing refers only to me being so slow to get started on this. I've never done a spaceship, so where to even begin? I tried a bunch of ideas and finally settled on a shape. I spent awhile mocking it up in SketchUp (far too long probably) and only just now realized that it bears a resemblance to some particular ships out there in the Outer Rim. Oh well. This one's a lot smaller. Map work beginning soon!Archie , you dirty old ba my dear old friend, what a surprise!
So it's true. you busted out of that cozy uranium mine on Kairos IV. And now your itchin to get back into the game, eh?
I still have that map, indeed! And i'd love to sent you a copy. But you know best, it's not worth a xardachian lira without the map of that wrecked freighter you own. So, we can bury the hatchet if you're willing to send me a copy of it in return. Then, i can finally ... er ... do further research.
If i remember correctly, the ship's airlock was hard to reach after Torpedo Tom "accidentally" blew up the nearby pipelines, leaving the whole damn hangar flooded. We got lost more than once in a Zynon ship, so make sure to point out the toxic incubation areas correctly! Also, the vent shafts' locations could be of some use to know. And, by all the bloody docydian deities, don't forget the cryo-chamber where the Guardian-Tryxiloids slumbered. I've no need to stumble into those guys ever again! Apropos nasty aliens: I hope you noted down where in this maze of a shipwreck those little furball-parasites made their new home?
Let's have an absinthe sometime in that shabby old pub on Vaserya II!
Salazar
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The name of the ship is an homage to the incredibly cool names the Minds give themselves in the Culture novels by Iain M. Banks.
cheers,
Meshon
... i think i have to read Banks soon... 
