Hotel restaurant

[giantcabbage]

Normally when the player encounters the brothers at the hotel bar they will have some low level drugs / 3dv. However, the encounter triggers for any illegal item which can seem a little odd when the brothers suddenly ask for a waste cannon or human cadaver. The same applies to the maintenance level in the corporate enclave - should they really be buying slaves and triggers along with the drugs/bootleg 3dv?

[RPC]

o.O Maybe it's a mafia style exchange of waste cannons for cadavers in the hotel?
It feels like the exchange of those items should be done in the BM stations, and not the hotel. A ticket on trac for this would be great.

[Song]

I've often felt the need for a fresh corpse when checking into a hotel.

[Cirevam]

^ I was imagining how that would look in-game.

"Man, I wish I could get my hands on some dead bodies."

"I have some on my ship!"

*bartender turns to face you, mortified*

[PM]

should they really be buying slaves and triggers along with the drugs/bootleg 3dv?

Why not?

[giantcabbage]

should they really be buying slaves and triggers along with the drugs/bootleg 3dv?

Why not?

The encounter implied you were selling to drug users or a local dealer. As such they wouldn't have much use for slaves, corpses, or weapon parts etc.

[PM]

The lack of detail (aside from two brothers from Eridani) means they could also be gun runners, pirates, slavers, terrorists, or gasp... undercover space police! The brothers need not be petty dope dealers or pimps.

[FourFire]

I agree; the ambivalent ambiguity accenting the player's accidental encounter of these anonymous associates
avidly argues actual arbitrarily attributed appearance.

[TVR]

The lack of detail (aside from two brothers from Eridani) means they could also be gun runners, pirates, slavers, terrorists, ...

Admitting to any of those activities is way too incriminating to mention in a casual conversation... expressing a desire to consume controlled substances is much more socially acceptable in any context, let alone in a public eating space.

[FourFire]

The lack of detail (aside from two brothers from Eridani) means they could also be gun runners, pirates, slavers, terrorists, ...

Admitting to any of those activities is way too incriminating to mention in a casual conversation... expressing a desire to consume controlled substances is much more socially acceptable in any context, let alone in a public eating space.

But surely one would not presume to assume knowledge of the morality and tradition of said social context?
space-faring civilization allows deadly weapons to be used by civilians on other spacecraft, slavery is not punished severily, even allowed within the supposed capital of our 'commonwealth'.
Furthermore the practice of that mockery of science as practiced by 'kate mongreal' (whom I highly suspect to to be closer a maladroit neanderthal than an Xenoarchaeologist) is tolerated in the leading researchers of a leading scientific field!

Surely I'm not surprised that the human race has split into such denegerate factions as the radiologically suicidal Sapiens, the mindlessly insectile Dwarg and the socialigically isolated and the effete and flatitious teratons when the most well off 'faction' is so debilitated, ambivalent and palsied as the commonwealth appears to be.

[PM]

Humans in Transcendence became elves (Ringers), orcs (Teratons), Martians (Ares), bugs (Ferians and Zoanthropes) and other fantasy races and/or silly factions in space. ("Arr! Me a Charon space pirate, matey!" "WE ARE THE SUNG! YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!") This is like D&D in space.

[TVR]

... But surely one would not presume to assume knowledge of the morality and tradition of said social context? ...

History repeats itself.

... space-faring civilization allows deadly weapons to be used by civilians on other spacecraft, ...

Every ship needs to be armed when the prevailing school of thought is, "shoot first, ask questions later", however the Commonwealth will not sell Weapons of Mass Destruction and other materiel deemed to have the potential to be used against the Commonwealth to just anyone.

... slavery is not punished severily, even allowed within the supposed capital of our 'commonwealth'. ...

Slavery is outlawed IN PRINCIPLE, but the Commonwealth DOES NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO ENFORCE THAT. The Commonwealth is highly decentralized as a consequence of the enormity of space, and is no more than a federation of station-states. However, they attempt to fight slavery by all reasonable means, from arresting known slave-traders when possible, to issuing an open letter of marque to all privateers to legally attack and destroy and loot ships and stations belonging to slavers and other enemies of the Commonwealth.

[RPC]

TVR: fourfire said he'd just post random stuff on old threads on IRC, so yeah....