Quote:This could work. The official buyer of #7 would be Dolomite itself, to build a hab for their workers to rest while mining is ongoing instead of having to keep a 'wave-bus on hand to shuttle them down to Oz and back up. There would be a story about how the asteroid had cracked along a previously-undiscovered faultline while being moved into final orbit, and a fair chunk 'disintegrated into small pieces that burned up in the atmosphere'. So Seijotaigakure would be Rock 7b.
Perhap, covert assistance? One of the asteroids split into two parts and you 'donated' the smaller part of it to be the core of Hidden Asteroid, leaving them on Asteroid 8 1/2 or something.
Quote:Heh. Perfect.
You realize that you've just cemented the way the Asteroid's Intelligence Division works in my mind, right.
Here's a thought; do they have an outside business factor for contract negotiations and such? It'd be easy enough to 'lose' something like that in Chris's organization... --
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