Hey guys.
If any of you want to get in on the run-and-gun, you need to tell me now so I can pass your names on.
Here’s the cram:
Entrance fees are 10 Novas. It’s steep, but that means a bigger pot for the winners.
We’ve got over 400 old mass drivers of various sizes to set rocks, but some of them are pretty small and we don’t have enough people willing to reload, so there can only be 73 entries. I know that sounds like a lot, but there’s a lot of itinerant sentients around here. Imperial research grants tend to draw them.
We’ve also got over a thousand flying spiders to clear the course after each run so early runners don’t get an advantage.
All rocks will be NI or iron banded so you can mag your hull. I have MagGens if anybody needs one. Fortunately none of you have organic hulls. And before you ask, no we’re not going soft, it’s just too much bother to tow dead ships out of the course.
We’ll have separate categories, with separate purses, for single-seat and pilot/gunner, so FCM can sit Ordo for someone if she wants to play.
Scoring is standard 1 – 10 points according to size, number of shots, etc.,
neg 100 points for fragging a ‘miner infested rock’. We’ll have beacons and holos to simulate MIRs. And NO auto-IFF, so you’ll have to scope the rocks yourselves. 
ALL contestants must wear vac suits except maybe beings who don’t normally need them. They’re still argueing about that. Some people claim it’ll give the Thorians an advantage. Ha! They’d have to go a lot farther than that to give a Thorian an advantage.
Oh, speaking of Thorians; I salvaged an ancient slowboat a while back. Must have been second expansion at least, maybe even older. She’d been pretty well gutted, but I did find a box of very very old 2-D recordings. That’s how I got hooked up with these scientific types, they go all wonky over that sort of stuff. Anyway, the librarian here has been cataloging them, (so they can assess my tax liability, don’cha’know?) so I accessed her computer and searched on “high road and low road” (was that rght** Kilt**?) thinking I could pull some visuals for exgineer and I found this old entertainment program. I was late to meet Kelly, (that’s right Rue, Kelly’s here. He finally retired and bought himself that bar), so I downloaded the whole program and headed over to his place. He likes those old sorts of things, anyway. It was still 2-D, so we had to project it onto the bulkhead over the bar, but you get used to that pretty quick. First up was a georgeous red-headed fem singing a song in Ancient English (at least I think it was AE). Everybody liked that. Then a man in an odd costume came out onto a little platform with a Thorian under his arm and proceeded to strangle it there and then, complete with screams and gurgles! Kelly got a huge grin on his face and shouted “The Screaming Handbags!” Turns out that what I thought was a Thorian was an ancient device called a ‘bagpipe’, or ‘the bagpipes’, I’m not sure which.
Anyway, Kelly’s been playing that damn recording on continuous loop ever since. It’s been a big hit. It seems there’s a lot of humans around who like the sound (including myself).
And besides, it scares the Hell out of the Thorians.
Anyway, let me know.
See you all soon.