See, I have a problem with the way this Boskonian threat/thread has been developing throughout the various excerpts.
Not what they're doing, or what they're after, but with how much people know about them.. Each posted excerpt has added a little bit to the overall pool of knowledge about what these Reavers are up to, but they've also included that pool - even when the characters in question have no way that I can see to know about it.
Frex, even the name 'Boskonians' as applied to these raiders is something that was only established after the con invite went out, and then would only be known within the ranks of the Pirates.
So, what is the whole picture, and who knows what?
Say that there have been a dozen ice-mining operations and half again as many 'rock rats' lost within the last Terran year or so. Thionite has been hitting Terran streets for six to nine months. Within the last month or two, the pace of operations has increased drastically, to the point that losses have also included three of Hidden Asteroid's 'Little Sisters' and an SSX cruiser.
Now, the 'Danelaw knows about the drug and one of the Sisters and that there are rumors of losses in the mining community. Asteroid knows about their own losses and twenty of the resourcer hits, but haven't told SSX - just like SSX hasn't told them about the missing cruiser and compared lists of civilian losses to notice the full extent, and neither has any clue as to the drug problem. Until the DEA traced the thionite, the Senshi knew that there was something being smuggled through their baliwick, and that the money and resources bought by that traffic were going somewhere outsystem. The Warsies' base on Mimas has caught a few whiffs of something operating in that area, and been politely warned off of investigating by certain highly placed and ambitious Terran political figures who have absolutely no visible connection to any sort of drug traffic... (Probably there are other links in the chain involving Mars, Jupiter, and Luna, but I haven't figured those out yet. Ideas, anyone?)
And only the SOS-dan have all of these pieces, and accordingly they're the only ones who realize just how scared fenspace and 'danelaw alike should be.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"
Not what they're doing, or what they're after, but with how much people know about them.. Each posted excerpt has added a little bit to the overall pool of knowledge about what these Reavers are up to, but they've also included that pool - even when the characters in question have no way that I can see to know about it.
Frex, even the name 'Boskonians' as applied to these raiders is something that was only established after the con invite went out, and then would only be known within the ranks of the Pirates.
So, what is the whole picture, and who knows what?
Say that there have been a dozen ice-mining operations and half again as many 'rock rats' lost within the last Terran year or so. Thionite has been hitting Terran streets for six to nine months. Within the last month or two, the pace of operations has increased drastically, to the point that losses have also included three of Hidden Asteroid's 'Little Sisters' and an SSX cruiser.
Now, the 'Danelaw knows about the drug and one of the Sisters and that there are rumors of losses in the mining community. Asteroid knows about their own losses and twenty of the resourcer hits, but haven't told SSX - just like SSX hasn't told them about the missing cruiser and compared lists of civilian losses to notice the full extent, and neither has any clue as to the drug problem. Until the DEA traced the thionite, the Senshi knew that there was something being smuggled through their baliwick, and that the money and resources bought by that traffic were going somewhere outsystem. The Warsies' base on Mimas has caught a few whiffs of something operating in that area, and been politely warned off of investigating by certain highly placed and ambitious Terran political figures who have absolutely no visible connection to any sort of drug traffic... (Probably there are other links in the chain involving Mars, Jupiter, and Luna, but I haven't figured those out yet. Ideas, anyone?)
And only the SOS-dan have all of these pieces, and accordingly they're the only ones who realize just how scared fenspace and 'danelaw alike should be.
Ja, -n
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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"