Junkers and You

[Rudo]

The Junkers just act as trashmen to keep a good PR image.

I've got some RP in line that actually expands on the whole 'trashman' bit. Maybe one day I'll actually commit it to a format that's not in my head so people can read it.

The gist of it is that you can learn a lot from people just by looking at their garbage. The Junkers deal in information as much as they deal in goods. Plus, if let's say a Junker stumbles a upon a prototype ship, ship system or weapon designed by Samura damaged and abandoned in a field. He or she reverse-engineers it and manages to get a halfway accurate schematic out of it... what's that worth to Kishiro?

(NOTE: In this theoretical situation, Kishiro would be operating through a plausible-deniability puppet agent. Also, who here has guessed yet that I'm a huge Shadowrun nerd?)

For a better example already in game: take Bornholm. Something bad happened there. There's a few utterly destroyed stations, and a transport convoy that didn't quite get away in time. One, what exactly went down there? Two, what can be gathered from sifting through the wreckage?

There's a reason the Junkers pay so much for the salvage there. Also, the Junkers' interest in such an endeavor doesn't stem from possible technology, as the wreck is ancient. So, what's in it for them? Who would be paying them to investigate Omega-15, and why?

There's an epic story right there that needs to be written.

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