Traveller T20 Subsector

[brian 333]

Empress Eilanta

Eilanta is a 120 year old Far Trader, which is a 200 ton Empress class merchant starship. The Empress class sacrifices cargo and passenger accomodations in order to allow the neccessary volume for the fuel needed by the ship's Jump-2 drive. As a result, ships of this class are only marginally profitable unless the vessel makes planetfall at least twice each month. Captains of ships of this class often attempt to create 'triangular trade' networks or deal in high profit commodities.

The Eilanta is not only forty years past her prime, but she has missed her last three maintenance cycles. She lost her certification to transport passengers for this reason, and her aged captain has been trying to keep her operating as a freighter ever since.

The Eilanta has been paid off for forty years, but recently her captain has taken out a substantial loan, secured by the ship's title. Since making the loan, Captain Raoul Secedre has failed to make any payments to the Free Traders' Merchant Association Savings And Loan, which now claims title to the ship.

The bank is hiring a crew to recover the vessel or the value of the loan, (3.5 million credits.)

Required licenses:
Imperial Civil Merchant Pilot
Imperial Civil Interstellar Navigator
Imperial Civil Star Ship Engineer

Other skills may prove useful.

Cr350,000 to be paid upon delivery.

Note: the bank will offer the vessel to the repo team with a Cr146,000 monthly note for 48 months and 10% of the net reciepts, (after expenses,) until the loan is paid off in addition to the offered bounty.

The captain was planning to repay the loan with the profits from a smuggling operation. The smugglers used him to make the trade then paid him with a laser to the gut. They then robbed the ship and vanished. Tracking down the ship is a matter of tracing cargoes and talking to the workers who loaded the ship. Tracking down the smugglers is another matter.