6-067: Merchant Freighter Spanial

I suspect Gregar and Lia are still poring intently over Spanial’s schematics when Jennie arrives to relieve Lia at the end of Blue Shift on day 2.  At that point Jennie says it’s time to do the Turnover maneuver and Gregar retreats to Engineering to monitor it.  Jennie says noting about their conversation and Gregar gives Lia a little nod and a smile by way of farwell.

Well done Lia 🙂 

With that practice and the conversation with Gregar, I think she’s done with any familiarity penalties, although she will still have to operate Spanial on her default skill level.

Did she record her own practice runs?

Will she take her hit in her cabin after her shift?

You’re right about legality; they’re illegal by default and legality reduces the point penalty of the disadvantage.

It’s unsurprising Zoner! is illegal in the Dominion – many things are.  It does make finding it remotely difficult and risky, so yes, a job for when she gets to Mundo Zargo.

Don’t badly screw up a Computer Operations roll to update her online profile page.  (Normally I wouldn’t bother rolling for this but because she’s doing it remotely through Spanial’s comms and has to set up the connections through the remote call with light speed lag herself it’s actually a little tricky.)

I wasn’t imagining Lia trolling bars, although she might usefully attend certain parties or functions sometimes.  However, how and where she places her advertising, and how she might seed some of her word-of-mouth would affect the number and type of clients that contact her.

OK if she doesn’t make a practice of directly contacting her regulars, but they do need a mechanism of being made aware of her presence.  I wasn’t going to go into details of how that might all work, although we could if you wish (could be a note on someone’s news feed that her page has been updated, could be a discreet advertisement in the right publication, could be a mention in a society page, could be someone she’s engaged to drop her name strategically who does such things professionally, could certainly be a former client who mentions something to a friend or acquaintance.)  So, I was going to use the rolls suggested to determine how well or badly that might all go; does that make sense or would you prefer me to use a different mechanism?

So, during her short shift on Day 4 Lia can organise the cargo storage that Karmen asked her to (easy Merchant or Freight Handling roll).  Then Jennie will stay on watch just past when her shift has ended and do the docking maneuver.  She will call Lia to Control prior to arrival and ask her to watch and assist. 

Lia will have some time to do things before arriving at Mundo Zargo, is there anything specific?