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[Prompt] Helium Independent Pilots' Guild
09-06-2015, 01:50 AM
In Dartz's latest Prompt thread, I just established that Ramona Jackson's public email address is "rj(a)pilotsguild.helium.fen". That implies the existence of a pilots' guild.
So, tell me about the Helium Independent Pilots' Guild. All I know right now is that it's based in Helium, and Ramona Jackson is a member.
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Well, for one I'd expect them to have overlap with the Phobos guild, or the Phobos guild of independent pilots might be a subset of the Helium guild given the overlap of traffic between the two places.
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It's a popular myth that the final flight test you have to undertake to join (Rumor claims it's an unpowered atmospheric entry) must be performed naked. This is untrue. Like everything in Helium, nudity is optional.
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Their nickname for themselves is "the HIPsters", but god save anyone from outside the guild who uses it.
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Oh! Obviously the guild exists because Helium's large airfield and low hangar fees attracted a lot of independent pilots to the city. When they discovered each of them couldn't compete with the "big boys", they banded together to get on a more even footing with the competition.
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The rumor that all pilots in the Guild are required to modify their radios to raise the frequency of their voices three octaves is completely unfounded.
