Entry#: 065
Date: 29 - 01 - 818 AS @ 08:34 SUT
Title: Untitled.
Seems I just can't look past a good deal on something. Must be the Junker blood running through my veins.
I am now the not-so-proud owner of a Salvage Frigate. An oversized recycling depot with claws and cranes spattered randomly across it.
It previously belonged to a "deceased estate", meaning someone didn't pay their loan back on time. I found it sitting idle in the docks at Vieques looking for a new owner.
The old girl cost me the princely sum of 80 million credits. For that I get a "transport" the length of a Liberty siege cruiser, the firepower of a small child, and an array of utility cranes, sorters and lifters.
There's still big money to be made in recycling. Especially around Liberty which is now so sorely lacking in raw materials, the few remaining low-tech industries dotted around will pay top dollar for anything they can make into something else. Then there's the pirates who have become so advanced they find themselves in the same position as any legitimate corporation in Liberty; possessing the skills and means to produce something; but lacking the resources.
I think I could make a go of this. The ship is purpose-built for the job; and if I could make a profit out of a standard ship with a tow chain welded to the back of it, this frigate should rake in the credits easily. Scrap collection has it's own merits beside that - the fact I don't have to fly halfway across the universe to make money. Just a short hop to any of the smelters in Liberty secures me a respectable income.
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Thanks to Misaka for the delightful photograph of what is without a doubt the ugliest pile of bolts I've ever come across.
The Maelstrom and Alsatia are safely tucked into bed at Vieques shipyards for a little rest and repair-ation, I'm taking this Salvager out and giving it a little test run in Texas. I'm carrying the White Devil in the hangar just in case. I don't quite trust the ship yet.