Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 23:05:16 -0600
From: Christopher S Erickson <cserickson@JUNO.COM>
Subject: [SW-RPG] One from the vaults, The coat hanger mess
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Also while looking around my HD, and remembering the few requests I got
for
mentioning Paul Lee Clyne's fine holonews article here it its
Yours..
Lovejoy  cserickson@juno.com
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"Use the Force, you Knob"  Bob McKenzie

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 23:40:56 +1100
From: Paul Clyne <pacman@MPX.COM.AU>
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Subject: [SW-RPG] HoloNews: Signus Aplha Space port operating again.

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    IHN - Imperial HoloNews
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    GalacticDate - {whenever, about 2 years ASW4)

    Mid Rim
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                Signus Aplha Space port operating again.
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        Coathangers.  You know, those pesky wire ones that
_everybody_ has, but nobody has ever bought.

        It has been a over a week of absoulte chaos here at the
Signus Aplha main space port.  The entire facility cluttered with
wire coathangers.  Details are sketchy as too how this disaster
occured, but I report with absolute certainty that the port is now
open for 'business as usual'

        It would appear that some _deranged_ beings had decided to
dump several million wire coathangers on the unspecting staff of the
port.  Pretending that they were legitimate shipping merchants the
cover story was that that this 'delivery' was for the Imperial
Sector Commander.

        Well it wasn't.  It was the work of a few very twisted
indivudals.

        A few weeks ago some of you may remember the small story we
reported about a factory fire at Vtid Fevefxs's Wire Merchants; well
it seems that that may have been all part of a much grander plan.

        How these sick people managed to convince the docking
authorities that there was enough room for all these coathangers is
still a mystery.  The fact that the unloader droids seemed to go
into overdrive, unloading three super bulk frieghters in seven
hours, and stashing crates in all sorts of odd places also points to
a hidden agenda.

        To add insult to injury, not two hours after these criminals
had unloaded the last of their 'super delivery fleet' the first of
crates bust open.  In a matter of minutes every single damm crate
had spewed open its contents paralysing the spaceport.

        In all of this there are two points in which we can be
gratefull.
        1) The enormous cost of the removal process was probably
matched by the cost incured in the manufacture and shipping of such
an elaborate scheme
        2) The fact that the scale of this scheme means that there
must be a trail to these criminals somewhere in the galaxy, and that
that trail will be found, and those responsible punished.


        This has been Gaston Unix reporting.

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GM Scoop...
        My players recently decided to do something 'silly'.  Some
time ago they bought/gambled/stole a very large sum of money.  They
then went to three manufacturers (scattered throughout the galaxy)
and placed numerous orders for 'enough to fill a bulk freighter'
with a bonus scheme for any extra hangers that could be supplied in
one month.

        Meanwhile that stole onto planet and destroyed the one
factory that made coathangers.  Whilst there they also infected on
of the loading/unloading droids with a virus of their devising, as
well as the port authorities systems...

        They organised crates, mini explosivies, hacked storage
records in computers and genrally set this up for about two game
months.

        Then they hit.

        One player quite happily blew CP's to ensure that the
customs official was _absolutely_ convinced they were legitimate.
Another that the virus worked and the port officials computers
showed the data the players wanted them to see.

        For the grand finale the players quite happliy let me tell
the story of  the unfolding chaos (with them rolling dice for the
extent of the damage, etc} and blowing even more CP's.

        They completly closed the main port for a week.  It took
several more weeks for the Imperials to get 100% operational again.
The Imperials 'repair' bills ran into billions.

        It cost them a bomb (both in credits {some have quite
substantial loans they have to repay} and CPs') but they are still
raving about how it was worth it..

        What they don't know is just how pissed the Imperials'
really are over this incident....

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