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In response to "So, Control gets all the tech they want, including some very cool cool gadgets. Ops will get:" by crash davis

sorry, where's the income/fee coming from again? -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Oct 23 '22, 10:56

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We'll get 10% of the retail value from the US Treasury. That way there are no non-authoritarian warrants out on our code names. -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 10:57 6
- On what timeline? On delivery? Or on resale? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 12:20
- Historically this has gone poorly for privateers, once their sponsor decided they were ... inconvenient. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 11:00 4
  - Privateers who quit as privateers did well, see Drake. Privateers who went pirate suffered. We'll be planning for when the gig ends. -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 11:05 2
    - High end private detectives/ insurance recovery stuff etc - that will subsidize the leverage style stuff for deserving people -- (edited) - crash davis Oct 23, 11:07 1
      - "It's the CIA's policy not to intervene in other countries' internal politics" -- Slater -- nm - Beryllium Oct 23, 11:14
  - A lot of them end up wishing they were in Sherbrooke, of all places. -- nm - Reagen Oct 23, 11:01

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