4.75m, gb .1m/d
I'm attacking a Miranu fuzzbag plant on Mira.
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ONE WEEK LATER
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The plant is located on the outskirts of a large city, and is easily located by the tall, aesthetically designed hills nearby in which the skinned corpses of countless fuzzes are buried. At the large sliding doors, the plant manager was trying vainly to argue with the growing mob.
"I demand, no, I ORDER youto disperse!"
(Many)"No!"
(Several) "End the Fuzz trade!"
(One) "We aren't breaking any laws!"
"Who's in control of this ruckus! I insist on speaking to him immediately!"
(Many) "End the Fuzz trade!"
(Several) "Society for the Protection of the Lovable Fuzz!"
(One, yelling) "Entropy! He's not here yet."
Suddenly, a low rumble is heard. A thunderstorm is brewing, and a slight rain is already falling. It will soon turn to a downpour.
On the horizon, three dots can be vaguely seen. The protesters begin chanting "Stop The Fuzz trade! Save the Urslan Fuzz!"
The three dots grow larger, and as the rain increades and the sky grows dark the ships reveal themselves as a battered Miranu Frieghter, a Miranu Courier, and Entropy's Lazira. The Lazira settles down on the hoverfloat lot, protesters parting to give it room. Entropy walks out. As the protesters cheer, he walks up to the plant manager and quitly asks if he can talk with him on the ship.
(Aboard ship)
Manager: "Your protesters are unlawfully failing to disperse! I demand that you order them to leave immediately!"
Entropy: "They are breaking no laws, local, planetary, or imperial. It would only become unlawful if they entered the factory."
Manager: "Can't you see how bad this is for business? Fifteen of my employees have already resigned! If anything else happens, I might have to close the factory up!"
Entropy: "That would be excellant. I will see to it that some..."
Manager (breaking in): "No! No! Look, what if I py you? Can you make them leave? We have to maintain a profit margin, and my employees can't work with all this disturbance...
Entorpy: "Attempting to bribe an official? You are on CSLF territory, I may remind you. Nonetheless,you will find that it is also illegal under Miranu law, Subclause 15... but you will not be interested. In two hours the crowd will disperse, the ships will leave, and II will make sure that the authorities are notified of your lawlessness. Meanwhile, there is work to be done. GUARDS! Take him away!
Two security afficers wearing badges depicting fuzzes rolling across the urslan deserts seize the manager and drag him off.
Then, after the cheering crowd is notified of the events onship (drawing an even louder cheer when the manager is taken out the airlock by the guards,) the Lazira rises up, and several hatches open on the bottom, revealing specialsed cutting arrays. As the crowd flows into the factory, leaving conveyor belts broken and jammed in their wake and the giant skinning knives snapped off, while the crowd rescues fuzzes from the motorized belts, the Lazira hovers over the rear of the factory and slices one of the holding pens open. The Miranu courier lands in position with the cargo doors open, and trained personelle guide the frightened, malnourished fuzzes into the cargo bay, where food, water, and nesting areas are provided for the journey back to Ursla. As the last fuzz rolls through the doors, they close behind it and the Lazira slices the next of the nine remaining holding pens open, and the process is repeadted. The bays are filled only halfway to maximum fuzz capacity- they usually double in number by the time the ship reaches Ursla. After the courier is full, it lifts off gently so not to scare the already frightened fuzzes, and the Freighter moves into position. The three ships take off and fly away into the storm clouds, and as thunder begins to arc across the sky the protesters quietly disperse and go back to their waiting hovercars and homes, leving only the cuffed figure of the plant manager with a holotablet containing a video of his attempted bribery loaded on it when the police arrive.
They had to break the law to do it, of course, but it was worth it.
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THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!
(Lies are in your head.)