Sender: Sophia Orlando, speaker of salvage transport "Rusty Dwarf"
Location: Pacifica Base
Topic: Supplies
Encryption: None, physical delivery
Means of delivery: Physical, via same unnamed delivery boy
After unloading crates of capacitors and engine parts "Rusty Dwarf" departed, leaving docking gangs wondering why this particular junker ship was covered in some strange, green and definitylely organic substance. After brief quarantine turned out that substance was sterile and harmless, exept it smelled like ancient cheese. Something wrong was about this ship.
But after brief absence "Rusty Dwarf' has returned, bearing sights of sun radiation on its outer hull and no traces of smelly goo. Good news was new manifest, printed on same used Ageira shipping manifest.
AGEIRA MANIFEST # 766-29-12315908123
Destination: Planet New Berlin, New BerlinPacifica Base, Bering
Departure: Pueblo Station, ColoradoWherever
Contents: Superconductors, standart, 1000 crates/units.
Engine components, DSE-manufactured, 2000 crates/units. Hypergate components, White Box package - 40 units. Aluminum - ~1000 crates/units Beer
After sorting cargo turned out that engine parts was of mixed origin and nature, albeit all working properly. And aluminium was, well... Nobody cared enough to melt it from all that kitchen bowls, plates, forks, spoons etc. But all those was made from pure, technically, aluminum, which could be easily processed.
- You take it from here? And what about money? - Asked same junker in same ragged vacc-suit, and sound if his voice indicated that shipment better to be paid as soon as possible, or next time they will bring nuclear devices, and will keep safety pins to themselves. Probably, this was just a voice after all, and filtered with old hazmat helmet.
- We can take equipment if you short on cash, - added he, and then departed back to the ship, leaving sorting cargo out to dock gangs and response - to local brass.
"I used to not care. I just went along with orders and hoped that everything would work out for me. But after all that's happened, you know what I've learned? It's not about hating the guy on the other side because someone told you to. I mean, you should hate someone because they're an asshole or a pervert or a snob, or they're lazy or arrogant or an idiot or a know-it-all. Those are reasons to dislike somebody. You don't hate a person because someone told you to; you have to despise people on a personal level." - Private Leonard L. Church