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off the ground with aid of his cane, and dusting himself off.
"Such manners. Now, if you don't mind..."

The punks didn't pay much attention to what he was saying.
The gaping wound in the man's shoulder was more important.
Namely, that it was leaking hydraulic fluid and had a few exposed
wires popping out.

The three ran off, into the night, not looking back.

A Future We'd Like to See 1.18(.1) - The Shell Game, Pt. 3
By Twoflower (Copyright 1993)

This is my testimonial of the events that took place...
geez, what day was it? A Thursday, I think. Time's kinda hard
to track when you visit a new star system each day, and when your
ship's chronometer has trouble with the subspace timesync
channel.

Big things had been happening as of late. I managed to swap
a number of planet-cookers for some very good information.
Planet-cookers, meson guns that is, are pretty hard to find
nowadays -- I managed to leech one off some decrepit battle
cruiser from that failed siege/invasion of the Terran
Confederation awhile back. That's all history to you, unless you
happened to flunk history class.

Anyway, I find this shipwreck out in the middle of nowhere,
and finding no life signs on board, I have a few packrats scour
the thing and bring back anything of monetary value. Most of it
was junk, just personal artifacts, bent flopticals, someone's
left arm; but there were these BIG-ASS guns, in pretty good
condition. I pawn them off to some guy I know that posted a
public inquiry as to locating meson guns, and he gives me a ton
of info back.

Now, normally the Saren trading code requires object for
object, info for info, but I made an exception because I knew the
guy and I knew his wares were valid. This was the reason why I
was on course for some unknown world, CD2 player blastin' out
some golden oldies instead of off making another run to Port
Hades.

The music lowered a few volume notches as my navsystem
beeped.

"Yeah?"

"Check with me on this. WHY are we going to this unknown,
unexplored sector out in the middle of nowhere?"