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Sparx, v. 1, issue 6, February 1948
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TRICKS OF THE TRADER VINCENT WILLIAMS Of course, as you all know, Gregor Hillem and his associates form the most important business group in the Terran sector today. This has come about through the tremendous effort of Gregor and his crew, in spite of an early economic disadvantage and the fact that Hillen did not enter the arena of Empire trading until the early trading lines had begun to consolidate and to progress towards the tremendously effective machine that we have today. Gregor Hillem first joined the trading system in the year 349 M--01. For five years thereafter he shipped as crewman aboard the ships of the Ungar Lines, in positions ranging from jet cleaner to chief pilot. In the sixth year, when Ungar merged with Kluncher Glip, the first of the all Verkian trading networks, Hillem left the company, to set up his own company. He had saved most of his pay, and with the aid of his good friend Iglor Hispedich Merfs, a Verkian, he amassed the sum of thirty-five hundreds credits on the Terran Stabilization Board. he and Hispedich borrowed another two thousand credits, and sold stock to close friends for the balance of the eighty-five hundred thousand needed to purchase an early hyper-spacial freighter, the Cobblie. After patching up the Cobblie's hull and largely remaking the hyper-spacial strain-inducer, they were able to procure cargo and passengers for their first trip, plotted from the Solar System to an obscure planet of a sun about thirteen parsecs out. The trip passed without undue trouble, and, to the immense surprise of all concerned, broke even. To be truthful, there was a profit of ten centicredits. Hillem and Iglor bought a bottle of beer with it, and went through a series of dedications and the like; when they concluded the celebrations, they drank the remainder of the beer and started hunting a return cargo. There were three more voyages of this sort. Two of them broke even, and the third suffered a deficit of seventy credits thanks to a highly unfavorable gradient which deflected the ship about three parsecs off course. The fifth, and last, voyage of the "set" was different in a highly unexpected and almost perilous fashion. Merfs (all Verkians) are called by their names in rotation -- any lapse is apt to set this off on a long distance sulk) scratched the tough expanse of skin which expended roughly between his fourth and fifth arms (counted clockwise, starting with the arm just to the right of the mouth) with his second leg. Then he sheathed the claws on his foot and slowly let it return to its customary position. Gregor hung listlessly over the back of the chair and watched his companion. In the viewplate which was bolted to the wall at Gregor's left there was a large blue spot against the dark background. Hispedich picked up his fifth foot and slow- ((Turn page, s'il vous plait)) 9
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TRICKS OF THE TRADER VINCENT WILLIAMS Of course, as you all know, Gregor Hillem and his associates form the most important business group in the Terran sector today. This has come about through the tremendous effort of Gregor and his crew, in spite of an early economic disadvantage and the fact that Hillen did not enter the arena of Empire trading until the early trading lines had begun to consolidate and to progress towards the tremendously effective machine that we have today. Gregor Hillem first joined the trading system in the year 349 M--01. For five years thereafter he shipped as crewman aboard the ships of the Ungar Lines, in positions ranging from jet cleaner to chief pilot. In the sixth year, when Ungar merged with Kluncher Glip, the first of the all Verkian trading networks, Hillem left the company, to set up his own company. He had saved most of his pay, and with the aid of his good friend Iglor Hispedich Merfs, a Verkian, he amassed the sum of thirty-five hundreds credits on the Terran Stabilization Board. he and Hispedich borrowed another two thousand credits, and sold stock to close friends for the balance of the eighty-five hundred thousand needed to purchase an early hyper-spacial freighter, the Cobblie. After patching up the Cobblie's hull and largely remaking the hyper-spacial strain-inducer, they were able to procure cargo and passengers for their first trip, plotted from the Solar System to an obscure planet of a sun about thirteen parsecs out. The trip passed without undue trouble, and, to the immense surprise of all concerned, broke even. To be truthful, there was a profit of ten centicredits. Hillem and Iglor bought a bottle of beer with it, and went through a series of dedications and the like; when they concluded the celebrations, they drank the remainder of the beer and started hunting a return cargo. There were three more voyages of this sort. Two of them broke even, and the third suffered a deficit of seventy credits thanks to a highly unfavorable gradient which deflected the ship about three parsecs off course. The fifth, and last, voyage of the "set" was different in a highly unexpected and almost perilous fashion. Merfs (all Verkians) are called by their names in rotation -- any lapse is apt to set this off on a long distance sulk) scratched the tough expanse of skin which expended roughly between his fourth and fifth arms (counted clockwise, starting with the arm just to the right of the mouth) with his second leg. Then he sheathed the claws on his foot and slowly let it return to its customary position. Gregor hung listlessly over the back of the chair and watched his companion. In the viewplate which was bolted to the wall at Gregor's left there was a large blue spot against the dark background. Hispedich picked up his fifth foot and slow- ((Turn page, s'il vous plait)) 9
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