The Disreputable Dunlin

[Mr. Lime]

Part II, Platinum Bonanza

The Calico stumbled upon pay dirt! Three weeks of grubbing in the Sigmas had finally turned up a decent haul. Now, the only problem was finding a buyer.

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"Captain's log, now"
The loot wasn't exactly the gold and untraceable credit cards we were hoping for. What it ended up being was...

• Kemwer Munitions. Order equipment, mostly museum pieces these days.
  
• Volgograd Ordnance. Further dated equipment. Word is the Coalition stopped producing these, they seem to be collector's items.
  
• Experimental components of some kind. Whatever this came out of, our guys can't make sense of it. We're taking them to Liberty to have an expert look at them.

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But then, something very interesting happened. A massive platinum rush in Galileo happened. It was a damn shame the Calico missed it all, only finding by chance an illicit industrial smelter in Colorado days after it had fallen silent. Every cloud had a silver, or in this case, platinum lining, because Lime and his friends immediately took it over, hired a small crew of refiners, and Lime started drawing up plans for something callled Redbelly.

But that's a tale for another time; the Calico had a hold of aging weaponry and no buyer in sight. But he had an idea.