Quote:Probably...
Most of the problem with tobacco is in the processing of the raw product, and oh hell, I'm going to end up doing the research and probably selling "Lucky Fen" brand smokes, aren't I?
(Then again, there's the 'daneside suppliers to worry about, too. "I'd drive a parsec for a Camel"...)
Quote:"Wild West" types who insist on going armed on Stellvia are invited to draw against Yoriko (immediately after she backs up her memories). She turns off her "human-normal" limiters and uses a dartgun for this exercise... and confiscates the weapons from anyone she out-draws. Noah either returns the weapons when the people are ready to leave, or offers to buy them outright. It's amazing how few people try to go armed on Stellvia twice...
If Stellvia, Island, Grover's Corners, or other station security actually allow conventional firearms on board openly, I'm very surprised.
(Note: after the beginning of OGJ, this does not apply to Katz. He's proven himself trustworthy, and Noah doesn't want to piss of Trigon.)
(Living out of a car
Quote:Likewise, but I know some people honestly like living this way. (Some people would be happy walking around, with everything they own in a backpack, if only they could walk up the gravity gradient.) On the flip side, Noah can't live that way, either.
You know, this might be the thing that I have the hardest time wrapping my mind around in the whole setting.
Quote:Which, I remind everyone again, is made up of one missile turret (with a retro-fitted laser after mid-2012). Okay, it's equiped to fire kaboomite warheads, but it's still only one turret.
... or the heavy artillery bolted to Stellvia.
-Rob Kelk
"Read Or Die: not so much a title as a way of life." - Justin Palmer, 6 June 2007
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012