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Authors: G.R. Cooper
Tags: Science-Fiction, litRPG
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that. Taipan had pointed out that making a decision on what facilities to buy was premature; until they knew what they could make, there was no point in buying any crafting equipment.
He brought the ship online, and rose from the docking spot near the rear of the hanger. As the ship hung in front of the hangar door, Phani ensured that the area outside the station was clear of contacts, and then he enabled the cloaking device.
“Open the hangar doors, please,” he said, reaching for the navigation screen where he laid to a course for Eta Bootis. Once the doors had opened, he carefully engaged forward thrust, taking the ship into space, “Close the hangar doors, please.”
After ensuring that the doors had closed, he engaged full speed to his first waypoint, the L4 jump point that lay on the shepherd moon’s orbit, ahead.
As he traveled, Phani brought up the public sale and auction listings, to familiarize himself with the various recipe offerings in preparation for making his first purchase from the private Canis Arcturus shop. He made a few, short, notes on the notepad he kept next to his computer, then opened one of the cold bottles of beer he’d bought before this gaming session and took a long drink. Setting the bottle down, he picked up the rapidly dwindling pack of cigarettes on his desk and lit one, thinking.
He knew, whatever recipe he decided to buy, his market was likely to be the Americans - they had the most money; or, at least, they seemed most willing to spend their money in the game. He looked up to the louvered shutters on his window, currently being pounded, yet again, by the season’s monsoon; he could smell the mildewed humidity from Pune’s streets. Whatever he decided to make, he thought, it had to be something that the American’s would want, it had to be cheap enough that they could all buy it, and it had to be expensive enough to make him rich.
Phani heard the navigation tone, saw that he’d reached the L4 point, reached to his keyboard and initiated the jump.
The Shepherd Moon jumped into Eta Bootis near the Canis Arcturus space station. As on every previous flight, Phani was instantly surrounded by a phalanx, an escort, of destroyers that would accompany him to the station and then escort him back toward the jump point. The station hung in what looked to be the Lagrange 3 point for what, Phani assumed, was the Werewolf homeworld.
The L3 was one of five Lagrange points in space where the gravity from the planet and the star, Eta Bootis, precisely equaled the centripetal force required for a smaller object to move with them. In addition to providing a jump point, these ‘bumps’ in the gravity wells allowed a fairly stable orbit to be maintained for little or no energy cost at those locations. While the four other Lagrange points were around the planet Eta Bootis 2, the L3 point was on its orbit line completely opposite where the planet now was.
What that meant was that in jumping to wherever the L3 point was, the Shepherd Moon was always the furthest away, on the planet’s orbit line, that it could be from the planet; and the star Eta Bootis was directly between them. Even if he’d wanted to violate the free passage treaty and scan the Werewolf homeworld, the bulk of the star made that most difficult.
Phani shortly arrived at the station, decamped and entered it. He rapidly sold off the mineral load carried by the ship, then replaced it with ore purchased from the Werewolves; then he switched past the other goods and certificates for sale and selected the recipes screen.
Recipes were like blueprints, but used to manufacture items through a colonization based facility. As there were no player generated colonies, as yet, operational, he hoped to be able to initiate and corner the market in a variety of objects. He began scrolling through, reading the names of the various recipes and their required facilities.
The Flora I facility seemed targeted for freshly terraformed worlds.
He brought the ship online, and rose from the docking spot near the rear of the hanger. As the ship hung in front of the hangar door, Phani ensured that the area outside the station was clear of contacts, and then he enabled the cloaking device.
“Open the hangar doors, please,” he said, reaching for the navigation screen where he laid to a course for Eta Bootis. Once the doors had opened, he carefully engaged forward thrust, taking the ship into space, “Close the hangar doors, please.”
After ensuring that the doors had closed, he engaged full speed to his first waypoint, the L4 jump point that lay on the shepherd moon’s orbit, ahead.
As he traveled, Phani brought up the public sale and auction listings, to familiarize himself with the various recipe offerings in preparation for making his first purchase from the private Canis Arcturus shop. He made a few, short, notes on the notepad he kept next to his computer, then opened one of the cold bottles of beer he’d bought before this gaming session and took a long drink. Setting the bottle down, he picked up the rapidly dwindling pack of cigarettes on his desk and lit one, thinking.
He knew, whatever recipe he decided to buy, his market was likely to be the Americans - they had the most money; or, at least, they seemed most willing to spend their money in the game. He looked up to the louvered shutters on his window, currently being pounded, yet again, by the season’s monsoon; he could smell the mildewed humidity from Pune’s streets. Whatever he decided to make, he thought, it had to be something that the American’s would want, it had to be cheap enough that they could all buy it, and it had to be expensive enough to make him rich.
Phani heard the navigation tone, saw that he’d reached the L4 point, reached to his keyboard and initiated the jump.
The Shepherd Moon jumped into Eta Bootis near the Canis Arcturus space station. As on every previous flight, Phani was instantly surrounded by a phalanx, an escort, of destroyers that would accompany him to the station and then escort him back toward the jump point. The station hung in what looked to be the Lagrange 3 point for what, Phani assumed, was the Werewolf homeworld.
The L3 was one of five Lagrange points in space where the gravity from the planet and the star, Eta Bootis, precisely equaled the centripetal force required for a smaller object to move with them. In addition to providing a jump point, these ‘bumps’ in the gravity wells allowed a fairly stable orbit to be maintained for little or no energy cost at those locations. While the four other Lagrange points were around the planet Eta Bootis 2, the L3 point was on its orbit line completely opposite where the planet now was.
What that meant was that in jumping to wherever the L3 point was, the Shepherd Moon was always the furthest away, on the planet’s orbit line, that it could be from the planet; and the star Eta Bootis was directly between them. Even if he’d wanted to violate the free passage treaty and scan the Werewolf homeworld, the bulk of the star made that most difficult.
Phani shortly arrived at the station, decamped and entered it. He rapidly sold off the mineral load carried by the ship, then replaced it with ore purchased from the Werewolves; then he switched past the other goods and certificates for sale and selected the recipes screen.
Recipes were like blueprints, but used to manufacture items through a colonization based facility. As there were no player generated colonies, as yet, operational, he hoped to be able to initiate and corner the market in a variety of objects. He began scrolling through, reading the names of the various recipes and their required facilities.
The Flora I facility seemed targeted for freshly terraformed worlds.
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