Quote:I've gotta quibble with this. There are a very limited number of Blackbirds out there, and every last one of them is in a museum display of some kind. Just acquiring the one Blackbird for the Midnight would be an adventure in and of itself. Getting five more from groundside sources would be somewhere between "impossible" and "potential act of war."Hmmmmm... If blackaeronaut wants to continue building this fleet, we're going to need an alternate supply of Blackbirds.
One possibility: Rockhounds supplies part of their cache of unrefined metals (they can't yet have sold everything they've mined) to Hephaestus, who turn it into a supply of spaceframe-quality metals and ship that to Gnarlycurl, who build a wing of aircraft that look like Blackbirds and ship them to the Roughriders on 36 Atalante. This would also explain why they don't share "class quirks" with the Midnight - they aren't authentic SR-71s.
Just a thought...
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Rob Kelk
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