Traders message dump

[Nightfall]

Message TO: IND Corp.
Comm ID: Patrick Boone


I've caught a little bit of transmission in the Corsair space:



... whatever it was, it seems that one of them is sporting the wrong colors - our colors. I suggest getting our lawyers on the case. 'The sso| have overstepped their bounds again. We need a cleaner out there.'


INTERCEPTAGE ENDS:

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God? - from 'Nightfall' by I. Asimov
The Outcasts consider Siniestre Nube a sacred place for several reasons. Early explorers discovered a jumphole within the depths of the cloud that leads to a strange world of ringed stars and strange craft. All ships in the burrial ground are placed facing that hole to honor the Alien Spirits. - An Outcast rumor