You are a space merchant with a huge debt, a crappy ship and a cargo load full of cheap metals.
What are you going to do?
You are a space merchant with a huge debt, a crappy ship and a cargo load full of cheap metals. What are you going to do?
You are a space merchant with a huge debt, a crappy ship and a cargo load full of cheap metals.
What are you going to do?
It's space, lmao. How the frick are loan sharks gonna find you?
The Maziani Banking Emporium owns, or partly owns, the majority of refuelling and supply stations throughout the sector.
The Mazianni? Sorry bud, this is a Merchanter's station.
bounty hunters and setting an example
What loan shark can afford to finance a fricking spaceship? It’s not a second-hand Honda my man, it’s a multi-ton interstellar cargo hauler.
No, you’re probably hundreds of millions in debt to a actual bank with lots of reach and lots of resources and a link to legitimate authorities (on top of less legit sources of muscle). Speaking if legitimate authorities, you might be double-screwed if you got part of the ship’s cost subsidized by the government, since in the process of dodging your payments you’re probably also falsifying papers and doing other illegal shit with a ship the government partially owns, to say nothing of also dodging what duties you owe them.
This isn’t to say hiding won’t work, at least for a little bit. You are right that space is quite large. Hopefully you make enough by time they catch up to you to settle your back payments plus late fees and grease the right bureaucratic palms.
>greedo enters the cantina
Fly to
These two are actually getting their accounts garnished to fund a Traveller's Free Trader, coutesy of the plucky gunner who fiddles with electronics in her off time.
>tfw GURPS Traveller: Far Trader was literally written by a graduate student in economics
No central bank?! That's.. uh... racist, yeah, it must be overthrown! Death to the third Imperium comrades!
>no central bank
truly a more enlightened society
This system only really makes sense for an almost stagnant authoritarian hegemonic tax farming system; Which is exactly what the third imperium is, so good on you Chris Griffen.
Very very based.
GURPS hired a chick with a PhD in criminology to write the recent mysteries book. They're easily the best reference splats
TIme to sell the ship, buy false id and go to a newly establish colony on the frontier.
>What are you going to do?
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Pretty much the same as every other Traveller game... move cargoes, take courier and survey missions, get tangled up in various high-risk, high-reward capers... Or possibly die in chargen.
Find some natives on a planet with abundant valuable metals of poor use for tool making and start trading.
is that way
I exchange the scrap metal for fuel and designer watches.
Find the dumbest merchant in the port and tell him that my cargo is actually highest quality copper ingots, try to do the transaction through his underlings if possible. then take the money and buy more cheap metals. Keep the warrants and complaints and threats as trophies on my fraud-pirate ship
I'm taking my 400 tons of metal to the outer rim
what's that ship map from?
I mean what map making app, I know its from Star Wars.
I go to some shitty space USSR equivalent and exchange the metal which is ready to be processed for space AK's. Then I go find some space shithole and sell those space AK's for space money. I then go back and attempt to buy more space weapons, and Lord of War my way out of this mess.
Suck alien tiddies
What if there are no suckable alien breasts?
Suck alien wiener
Sounds like Firefly
Quipping like a firefly character is a quick way to force me to TPK
..Sell the metals? The premise needs a little more going in it.
I've always wanted to run a Suns of Gold/merchant prince type campaign. Stars Without Number/Sine Nomine has great reference material. My first step would be to reach out to any contacts amicable to me and my situation. See if I can start a trade network within their bounds cutting them in on the take in exchange for some time in relatively safety in their turf.
I've done a couple of suns of gold solo plays, and I've done a 1 on 1 thing with a friend but I've never gotten a chance to run it for a full party