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Re: Alien Fighter+a variation on a theme by Jon Palmer
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Date: 
Sun, 29 Dec 2002 18:57:41 GMT
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In lugnet.space, John Henry Kruer writes:>
> Well, actually, I intended it to be the freight.  I imagined this to be a
> 'freestyle' freighter, not using modular cargo pods but instead carrying
> spaceships and containers and other stuff in the middle.

Yes that works too.  I can see how the Nightshadow might just be freight,
like ships of today carrying autos overseas.  :)

> As for the storyline... well, I sort of imagined that Jake built the Junk
> Ship, and raised some money with that early ship, then his brother Bob built
> the junky Fat Duck, and then Dave built this.  The trio sort of starts
> 'Outer Rim Industries' that way.

Hmm.  That sounds interesting.  I honestly hadn't looked into the details of
the Outer Rim (beyond my interaction with Jake in Starship).  But I like
your ideas here.  Just curious, are the three of them brothers, friends, or
just business partners?

-H.



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  Re: Alien Fighter+a variation on a theme by Jon Palmer
 
(...) Yeah, I think they must of been a sort of unconscious inspiration, after the Bison. I've always thought of present-day ships and vehicles for inspiration when I build. (...) Well, I took a palm tree apart for some thrusters for the engine (...) (24 years ago, 29-Dec-02, to lugnet.space)

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