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- Welcome aboard this Cobra Mk III trading
- and combat craft. The ship has been
- supplied to you by Faulcon daLacy
- Spaceways, by arrangement with the
- Galactic Co-operative of Worlds whose
- Space and Interstellar Pilot's Exams you
- have just successfully completed. The
- small flight manual supplied with the
- craft is designed to familiarise you
- with all aspects of space flight, combat
- and trading, and we hope that it will be
- of use to you.
-
- The Cobra Mk III incorporates Zieman
- Deflection Shields, fore and aft, 4 hull
- mountings for Ingram 'rapid-fire' pulse
- lasers a Lance Ferman 'seek kill'
- missile system, a Holodirect ThruSpace
- GravDistort communications system, and
- provision for a cargo bay extension.
-
- You begin your career, your ship
- equipped with a single forward-firing
- pulse laser, three homing missiles, 7
- light years of fuel, and the sum of 100
- Credits (CR), ready to embark from a
- space station in orbit around the planet
- Lave.
-
- The Cobra Mk III is the best of the
- medium-range, medium capacity
- fighter-traders, and is an ideal ship
- for new traders intent on building their
- fortunes, or new combateers who will
- constantly need to finance the cost of
- both armaments and non-combative
- equipment.
-
- The ship is highly manoeuvrable, has a
- good C-holding factor during hyperspace
- transit, can hold sufficient Quirium
- H-fuel for a 7-light-year single jump
- and has full Auto Trading Systems Link
- for use at space stations. Further, it
- is protected by dual Zieman Energy
- Deflection Shields, powered by four
- energy banks, and has a powerful,
- rapid-fire pulse laser mounted on the
- forward hull segment. Flight controls
- are elegant and simple, and the bridge
- is equipped with both HoloDirect and
- ThruSpace GravDistort communications
- systems. Its life support functions are
- varied and flexible to ensure maximum
- comfort during trading or hunting
- operations.
-
- Pilot licences are issued only at the
- planet Lave, and it is likely,
- therefore, that you are now docked at a
- Coriolis station in orbit around that
- particular world. Lave is a rich,
- agricultural dictatorship, but is a
- reasonably safe world at which to begin
- your endeavours. GalCop and the Lave
- Authorities allow practice docking and
- departure runs to all their space
- stations here, and you would be advised
- to take advantage of this facility.