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Class One: The authors: Warren Burch & Clive Gringras only.
Class Two: All first hand contributors: Warren Burch, Clive Gringras, Mat Tizard, Rob Hamilton, Julian Jiggins, Steven Pollard, Adrian Burch, Bob Redrup, Ian Bell, David Braben, William Moffet.
Class Three: Anyone who is deemed trust worthy in helping ELITE. Mike McEnroe, Zeus, Robert Woodgate, The RISC-OS team etc, all of the above.
Mission Ideas: Class Two Restriction: 4.04am, August 11th 1991
1) GlaMed Organ donor - with time limit before decay. Life insurance policy given free!
2) Black Hole - witch space type scene, different ship sensitivity, fly in with equipment, take readings, whilst negotiating debris and asteroids, take readings back to scientist. Prize Helioscope.
3) Ingredients for medicine, from 5 different planets. No prize.
4) GalFam bring seeds from one planet to another. No prize.
5) Do you want next doors prices? Costs.
6) Political assassination. Must destroy escape capsule as well. Prize, Yaw Boosters.
7) Find a ship that has stolen New Navy MisLock system. Prize, MisLock System.
8) Vipers in disguise need killing. Prize - Military energy unit
9) Space station without fuel, not spinning, must get fuel from elsewhere. Then dock. Prize - Money
10) Pick up RemLock unit and take to a planet - Prize, free escape capsule/credits
11) Prison convict - persuasion escaped before but must have no escape capsule, or he escapes just on docking. Prize - reduce status to clean/or money
12) Docking on Dredger then exiting with the person. Heavily guarded. Elite mission!
13) Hunted, missions.
14) Random debri around war zones
15) Missions with the Thargoids.
16) Plans for a new missile autoloc system been stolen, ripped into four gone off in opposite directions
17) Terrorists into a space station- stops rotating. About to be decommisionned. Queuing ships. Kill terrorists. Message from the space station that a particular fuel is needed from a sun. No sun at the planet. need 7 light years.
REMLOC
Attention all craft:
We have just received detected a distress beacon from a RemLock capsule on Channel RND(100). The beacon suggests the capsule is approaching the sun at .... The usual reward
is offered.
ASSASSINATION
Commander:
Galcop Space Police policy prevents any viper pilot destroying or shooting at a ‘Clean’ ship. Preemptive strikes are forbidden.
Having been in contact with TS Comdirect we are aware, however that you are not above shooting at innocent craft. We have need of this guiltless killing.
Flying between A & B is a political dignitory, Zartid III. The craft is a heavily guarded anaconder.
Take him out. There will be no further contact on this matter. Your reward will not be money.
Planet A - Honoured by frequent visits from Zartid III
Planet B- Home planet to Zartid III.
GALFAM
Commander:
Good beings are seldom found in space. TS ComDirect lists you as one of these rare breed.
As much seeds as you can bring to our starving planet from ........ will be gratefully received. We cannot afford to recompense you.
Planet A - Known for its seed stock piles
Planet B - Famed for its total lack of luck in agriculture.
AUTOLOC
Commander:
Despite being unsuccessful/ Having been successful when we last called on you we have need of your help again.
The Navy has developed a new Mongoose Missile AutoLock system. The plans for this system were stolen some RND(100) ago by a sole Thargon. Should these blueprints reach Thargon researchers, the system would be rendered useless.
Please destroy this ship and ALL its contents. It hyperspaced to .......Your reward is obvious.
Planet:
Thargon’s in a rush to .....
Don’t normally see a solitary Thargon round here.
Thought thargon’s prefered hyperspacing into Witch Space than ....
Hope that Thargon gets stuck between the Galaxies...
That Thargon was in a rush to...
Preferred Thargons in witch space than hyperspacing to .....
Why would a Thargon want to hyperspace to ....
Speed of that Thargon confirms there’s a research base near ....
Too many Thargons for my liking...
RACE THAT WARREN HATES
1) Hey Commander! Want to make a fast buck? Meet me at .... for details.
2) I thought those Cobra’s were quick - what took so long.
Meet me at ....., just to check you weren’t followed.
Don’t get into any trouble on the way.
3) Meet me at ..... if you want to buy the trade prices of ....
Don’t think about telling the cops. It’ll cost you .....
BUSINESS DEALINGS
Mission: A company on the planet Phacochoerus has almost completed a new energy system which will make its developers rich. However, they have almost exhausted their funding, with the project requiring two (tons of) new computers. They can pay xxx.x credits for the computers, and are keen for details of their system to reach the planet Aethiopicus. If you can provide the computers at the right price, and deliver the plans to Aethiopicus, they
will reward you handsomely. (Nifty energy unit perhaps?) Note - if the commander tries to subsidise the computers (ie doesn’t buy them cheaply enough and therefore makes a loss), the company responds with either: we are not interested in charity - this must be a fair deal or “we don’t trust such a poor business-man with our documents, but thanks for the cheap computerssucker“!
BANK OF CREDIT AND COMEDY INTERGALACTIC
Mission: The Bank of Credit and Comedy Intergalactic has made some very bad loans lately, many of which can only be returned by impounding the security. (Aside: last time I went to the bank I was told I didn’t have enough cholestorol for a loan, next time I’ll throw my weight around a little more perhaps...) Consequently, if you repossess equipment to the value of 4000 credits on Neathdreeled, the bank will effectively give you 1500 credits, by
allowing the equipment to be purchased for 2500 cr. Or something like that. I just liked the idea of BCCI getting into trouble...
TEST FIGHTER
Here’s a good mission idea: xxxxx is the major supplier of weaponry to the Galactic Navy. They have a new laser system which can produce faster repetitive bursts than standard designs. As the company have heard what a wonderful pilot Commander Warthog is, they ask him to visit their R & D Labs in Trewal. When he gets there, they explain that the Galactic Navy would like a demonstration of the laser system, at the planet Seriamente (yes that is Spanish but its only an adjective so it don’t mean much by itself). The company would like you to do the demonstration, and installs the laser system in your Cobra, disdainfully trashing the standard lasers which have served you so well. So, off you go to Seriamente (please,please,please put a planet called that in the first galaxy, ‘coz it might just make my life worth living again if you do - this is a very, very long story, about four
years and one month I guess, but I will be eternally grateful, or quite indebted until I die at least. *PLEASE*) to do the demo. When you get there, after many moons of travelling, you dock, to be told that the demonstration will take place in the asteroid field outside the space station. Several android controlled Kraits are also involved. Basically, you implement some
nifty laser gadget, and so long as the pilot gets >75% hit rate on the Kraits and misses (most of?) the asteroids, you let him keep the laser. Otherwise, his old naff ones get dragged out of the bin and bunged back into his Cobra. Or, of course, her Cobra. Cobrette?
VIDEO TAPING
Erm...mission: Galactic Navy requires video footage of the latest enemy battlecruisers in action. You are loaned a cloaking device which means you can float in towards the enemy (which is rather huge, like a generation ship), have a go at it to get it rattled (use that wording - ship could be a rattlesnake...), and then hyperspace to another system before it spots you. This would need to be done a couple of times at different planets, and the film delivered to a third. Successful completion gives you something like instant hyperspace, or a tractor beam for cargo scooping. The cloaking device goes back though...shame, eh?
Extras: Strictly Class One Restriction: 3.27am, August 11th 1991
1) C, jettisons cargo out. May be useful
2) Bad dock may lose cargo
3) Crazy-craft have megaweed
4) Orbital buoys with ships around
5) Ghost face when entering witch space, sometimes
6) NO trading with Teorge
7) Graveyard at Tionisla with kraits
8) Apology from TS Com Direct
9) Blow up hermit rock is an offence
10) No bounty for energy bomb
11) Firing up booster is LESS effective
12) Escape capsule can carry 2kg of platinum
13) More than 8 galaxies,
14) Automatic ECM as prize - how cool?
15) Cloaking device on other ship - not on scanner.
16) Scanner shows status very discreetly
17) Commander file shows light years travelled & real play time.
18) Ghost on witch space.
Snake names: Class Three Restriction: 9.17pm, August 10th 1991
