[font=Courier New]/indent\Hello. I'm a former employee of ALG, in possession of a Golem. For... unimportant reasons, myself and the other crew members of this vessel have all been fired. Not ones to simply lay back and be penniless after getting screwed, we decided to go for one last run; a quite valuable run of ore, to put some cash in our pockets.
[color=transparent]/ind\Needless to say, we had every intent of returning the vessel to ALG afterwards. The technology in the Golem had so much money poured into it, were we to not return it, the police of all four houses would be after us - ALG couldn't let such a valuable piece of equipment just float out of their control, right? We're not cut out to be interstellar criminals.
/ind\But, just our luck, three Rogue destroyers - who knew that they had such firepower! - ambushed us, and demanded the entire cargo of ore. Just like that, our entire investment was gone! However, a better idea came to us; sell it.
/ind\Given the Congress's relation with the houses has been tenuous at best, we doubted they'd want to jeopardize their position. However, your group of Junkers is little-known, and I doubt you'd turn down an offer so potentially lucrative as this, the crown jewel of your only competitor in the field.
/ind\So, what do you say? How does two hundred million credits sound for the most advanced and exclusive piece of scrapping and sanitation equipment in all of Sirius?
>>>Incoming Transmission<<<
Comm ID: Leo van Pelt
Location: Rochester, NY
A Golem you say? My that is a nice ship. I'm surprised you know about us, but as to how you found our name matters little. What matters though is that piece of property you are in possession of. What's it's range? Is it a tagged and hunted ship? Do the scrapping mechanisms still function? What else can it mine out of asteroids? Is that hunk armoured? Armed? And whereabouts is it, so that I may inspect it in person.
We should be able to do business, but first I need to know more about these things. I understand time is of the essence, and so short answers will suffice
[font=Courier New]/indent\Hey again, Mr. Pelt. I'm glad you're interested in this; you might really be a lifesaver.
[color=transparent]/ind\I'll try and answer your questions in order. Its range? Well, it's remarkably fuel efficient - when it's fully gassed up, it can take you from New Berlin to New Paris without using any lanes going there! The vessel's name is TGX Schlesien - I'll write that down for you at the end of the transmission, in case you aren't a Rheinlander - and the TGX tag is only used by ALG, and the name might be on the records somewhere, but you can change the transponder easily enough. As for hunted... eeh, yeah. I'm sure ALG wouldn't want to let the peak of trash technology get out of their hands. The hope is that this thing is valuable enough to you that it is worth the risk, though.
/ind\The scrapping mechanism, does, in fact, still function. It uses a standard mining laser retrofitted to tractor in scrap metal - I think you Junkers actually use something identical to it. It can use the same array to gather in small quantities of toxic waste, because eventually that all coalesces into little chunks. Actually, if it weren't for ALG, there'd be full-sized asteroids of waste in Leeds- ah, but, I'm getting off-topic.
/ind\The base design of the Golem is just a square, armored box with an engine, life support systems, and cargo container fastened on. Although the company retrofitted this ship with some additional plating, it's not much - but because the design is so simple, it's ridiculously easy to customize. Probably another reason they can't let this out. As for armed, you can see for yourself. We're currently located in Colorado's Cheyenne field.
/i n d\Hope we come to an arrangement / i nden t \-Stanley Hochmeister