[FH] Terraforming ships

The Alarishi-based corporation Imperial Tactical
Technologies was initially formed from a subsidiary of the Prince Henry
Corporation, which had as its original function was terraforming planets (or
small sections thereof) for anyone who wished to foot the bill. The idea was
to get one planet started, go on to another and start that one, and continue
from there, making "house calls" as needed to implement the next phase. The
idea was successful in the sense that viable ecologies were created on several
planets; financially, however, it was a disaster. The subsidiary, Continental
Design Ltd, eventually spun off its biological division (sold to the Islamic
Federation), its genetic engineering section (sold to a German pharmaceuticals
firm), and its instrument shop (became Imperial Tactical Technologies),
auctioned off their ships (the bigger ones were so expensive to operate that
they had to go to the breakers), and declared bankruptcy. Rumors persist,
however, that one ship was abandoned on the frontier as too expensive to be
worth bringing back, and that somewhere a
working starship (with functional bio-genetics labs) is
available for the first comer.

(If you want to work in George RR Martin's book Tuf Voyaging, go ahead).

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--Chris  DeBoe
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