Advice For New Commanders

OOLITE - ADVICE FOR NEW COMMANDERS File: OAfNC2009 TD Index: 20832312:10:20:00 the command console was all a pilot had to worry Source: Security Recording, Dock Master’s Office, about, life would be gravy! No, there’s more’n enough Galactic Cooperative of Worlds Station Lave 1 Persons Involved: Dock Master Mr. TBF Gimlet, a out there to kill you plenty quick, if you don’t watch out, ‘Commander Jameson’ shiny new ship or no. Subject: Advice for New Commanders. Notes: ■ This information has been archived as it contains valuable advice for independent commanders wanting to make their mark on the GCW. ■ Mr Gimlet’s advice comes from over 40 years of experience of being the Dock Master to the busiest station in the Galactic Cooperative of Worlds. ■ The Transcript has been edited for brevity and relevance. The original can be source in the Oolite Central Archives (the Oolite Wiki). All right there! You just got your pilot’s ticket. Can I just say that your zip-clip there doesn’t do you justice? I see a lot of blanks on this here board ... I’m guessing You’re itching to get off and out into the big black, I can your ship is, whadda they call it, a basic model, yeah? tell; but we just got a few final once-overs before I can Legal minimum? Uh-huh, I thought so. Man oh man, stamp that thing legal. Shall we? they shouldn’t oughta let kids out in a machine like this; it’s a sin, is what it is. Some bandit takes a pop at you, So. You got yourself a brand and shiny-new Cobra and what you got to hold your end up with? A Pulse Mark III. Cowell and MgRath’s finest, yes siree: more’n Laser. A Pulse Laser’s one step up from a penlight, sixty years since the first one rolled off the line right kiddo. Oh, it’s a better defence than just harsh here on Lave, and it’s still one of the best. An all-round language, and there’s always a chance you might be ship, you get me? It ain’t the fastest, and it ain’t the attacked by a really nervous pirate – but seriously: if strongest, nor the most killing neither, and it definitely you ever want to shift that “Harmless” tag you better ain’t the biggest, by a long shot, but a …