Can Junkers... well junk?

[TFinnegan]

Well, now most of this is pure conjecture, but here's my take on it...

Junker bases tend to all be space stations, which is a terrible place to smelt metals, in low gravity that is. The reforming crystals dont bond properly and tend to slake off. Whereas most places that pay well for ores/scrap are planetside. Junkers, being slightly less than legal (think of us as mafiosos, not hardened murderers) don;t have any planteside bases. So we trade with legit corporations, and bring our profits back to our bases, which act as refit-reload-rest-relaxation spots.

-as a real life paralell....
Mickey 'the wrench' Cicione runs a trash hauling business (to cover for his drug trade) which picks up scrap from local construction sites. he doesnt drive the scrap to the restaraunt he owns and does busines out of, he takes it to a legit slag merchant (pittsburg smelter) who pays him his paultry pennies, then goes back for a game of poker and some 'cosa nostra' conversation to his restaraunt (Junker base). Then he call one of his captains and sets up a drug buy (starts running black market goods in his spare time, cardy/slaves/munitions/nukes etc), sits back, puffs a cigar, and tortures a snitch for lunch (smacks around an LPI guy)

This is why Junkers are on the unlawful side. Not because we're pirates, we're not. But because our REAL money doesnt come from junk, but it does make a nice cover.

How's that sound?

-Tim Finnegan, Junker Guard

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