To Frankenstein a Bird

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To Frankenstein a Bird

Sirius is a rather odd place when it comes to ship building technologies. Every designer or manufacturer claim their work is superior to everyone else's in every way, and that they have succeeded in designing or building the best spaceships there is. Thinking about it though, that's just human nature and is in no way limited to Sirius or ship building or technology. A wise man once said everyone thinks they're special, and that they deserve to be treated special. That wise man was a privateer for the queen of Bretonia, and needless to say, he died a horrible death sometime between the war with Kusari and the Gallic invasion. No one really knows what happened to him as he just went missing, but he was a privateer for the queen of Bretonia, so needless to say, he most certainly died a horrible death sometime between the wa-... wait, we've been there already. Nevermind.

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is, in a universe where everyone is special - or think they are - no one is, and so a man's options are rather limited if he decides to stand out. In a universe where everyone is special and so no one is, a man can only be unique. Now, being a man of unique style is not an easy task to accomplish, and while most people think the man needs intelligence, reputation, taste, humor and whatnot, in reality all the man needs is money, lots of it, and legitimate or not doesn't matter. Though, an awfully rich intelligent humorous gentleman with a good reputation, like me, would certainly have the upper-hand compared to them Libertonians who own the LPI and just got the money, but still, as they say there's nothing money can't buy.

After the great economical crisis of 814 A.S., no one's been truly and by definition "rich" anymore, cause everyone got money and those who didn't have most probably either starved to death already or are harvesting Cardamine on Malta, so the world is devided between people who've got loads of money, and people who've got so much money that spending it all in one lifetime would not be humanly possible. While most of the latter either go into charity or die rich bastards after miserably shallow lives and have the coffin they order cost more than a spaceship, there are very few who've actually realized that having too much money to spend means only one thing - It'll go to waste if you don't waste it.