Diary of Cuvier's Captain

[Starfish]

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Near Berry-Orleanais Jump Gate has been a fierce skirmish between Maquis and GRP. As usually, both sides pay no attention to peaceful trader and Cuvier quickly made a jump. Gallic unlawful groups despite their declared hostile stand to all Gallic corporations, mostly don't attack Solar transports. Likely - as I thought - it was because reasonable strategy of company. Company officials missed no opportunity to stress that all Solar products were designed for improving people's lives, and not for their termination. Indeed, no war materials were manufactured at company owned bases. So Solar transports were a low-priority targets for organized rebellion groups like Council or Maquis. At least, usually... As for common robbers, Solar was able to take care about yourself.

Gien Space Colony was a typical Solar base. Average populated station of medium size. Some top officials have their office here. Security was provided by Solar itself and according vague rumours police was advised don't make too close look on station - "advise" what for sure was supported by a round sum of credits... At Gien were produced Bio-Neural processors. Top-level technology product was transported from here to many facilities in Core and Border worlds. Cuvier also was about to download party of them for Mortagne Production Facility. Just before Cuvier a GRN transport was loaded, from fragments of phrases, I found that ship was going to a navy research station in Picardy. Military also needs civilian cargo sometimes... or they found some military-specific use for those processors? Weird thoughts. In some aspects Bio-technology can be worse then drugs. For a moment I thought of Marseille and failed attempt of smiling Corse man to recruit me as a nox hauler. Of course, I refused him. Well, sometimes I can make some dubious - from point of law - deals, but not in the case. And, oddly enough, nox trade turned a low-profitable business in comparison with legal trade. I wonder who might be interested in this business, except the nox producers...

My profitable legal cargo was almost loaded. I cut off meditation and went to docking hangars.