To: Omicroners, Subject: Inquiry

[AeternusDoleo]

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From: Danny Sutherland, commander of IMG patrol ship Apollyon
To: Zoner group Omicroners, routed over Freeport XV
Subject: Inquiry
Encryption: Moderate

Mr Moebius,

Thank you for the information. We'll have to send a small prospecting crew down to see if any of the options you suggest are viable. I'd come myself, but the Apollyon is currently in need of repairs after an ambush by Kruger and their lapdogs. A reminder why house space is not the best place for us miners...

Most of our vessels are geared towards solid material mining, basically chewing up rocks. I'm not sure how well they'd do in grinding up these alien artifacts you mentioned. As I recall the Guild has attempted prospects for those before, but unsuccessfully, mainly due to severe Corsair hostilities.
Energy mining... that's a new one. I'm not sure any Sirian corporation has even tried it. I suppose it'll mean figuring out a way to effectively channel that energy into some kind of storage unit. Not sure if it's possible, I'll have to give the R&D boys a call on that one. Interesting, though.
Iridium is something we have limited experience with. Very brittle, although in it's unrefined form, not unlike Beryllium.

As for the dangers you mention... Corsairs are definately not the friendly sort. The Bountyhunters might be able to help alleviate that threat a little if an operation out there is feasable. Nomads... I won't make light of their threat, but from what I saw their presence is fairly minor in most of Sirius. Were they not destroyed at the end of the Nomad war, in 801?
The Order... I don't think the Guild has had much contact with them. We see their vessels from time to time, usually being chased around by the various house navies. They leave us be, and we them. Tends to work out well. Our only lengthy contact with some of them was a few months back, when a group of them set up shop in the Hood perimiter and caused quite a mess there. In the end I think the Brets took those down.

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