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The command technically falls into the hands of the mods.. Which happens to be me, EK, DA, and Cale, as well as johnny if he shows up more often.

Sadly to say, that's usually the case.

I've been considering personality quirks. I wonder, do you think I can pull off a weaponsmith that can't hit the broad side of a moisture vaporator with a blaster?

actually, to be fair, in the real world they have specific vices that prevent recoil from altering the trajectory of the initial test firing phase. Combine that with a completely vacuumed sealed room, with no wind to speak of, and electronically fired.

Such a similar setup would allow me to demonstrate the precision of my own name brand materials. The rest, well, have other tests, or are just sold off the shelf.

I've been considering an alternative concept: Being part of teh mining guild. This gives me near unlimited access to any resources to barter with raw, and the best stuff I can keep unto my own stocks, allowing me not only interested trade in both weapons, but general resources in the sector.

Busy hands are evil hands...

I might be more of a prospector. I'll bring buddies in to do the dirty work, if I can skim the best ores off the top. While raw stuff heads back to the guild to be processed and sold off markets, the mining guild also gets some processed metals to sell, particularily as alloys. Unless there's a smelter's guild, which I doubt, I don't do the drilling. I just do the purifying process before it leaves the sector for elsewhere, keeping my... particular fees for my own weaponry, and selling the rest in exchange for otherworld metals like Tyderium and such.

That way I don't have to rely on always being a middleman for the arms dealings, although that will also make up a hefty portion of the profiteering. If I'm a mobile forge though, It'd be cheaper to process and purify the stuff in system and then ship the good stuff out, rather than having to send it to a processing center which may or may not be nearby. It's like subsidizing the local area with a more efficient means of production. Since the freightor is already coming to pick up the stuff, why not simply make their lives easier, and use my facilities and have them spend less on the actual process instead paying me a small fee?

If that's too much, I'll just be a member who scouts out land. If the land isn't owned, i buy it, turn around, sell it to the guild. If the land is owned, I go to the courthouse of the jurisdicting sector, and have the place eminent domained because most people are too stupid to own what lies beneath their homes, just what's above ground.

I'm evil.