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[warandpeace]

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Maybe it's that I'm a perfectionist, but I don't like us handing this job with the hunters off to someone else. I don't know whether it's a matter of diplomatic neutrality or what, which is what I suspect. It just... My men are trained in non-lethal take-downs. With the skill sets available on board, the numbers, I think it would be relatively simple to render the entire stock of hunters unconscious and have them transported off the planet.

No casualties. Quick. Clean. I've seen other people on board in action, ones I didn't train, both in the simulation room and out in the wild. They're good. The mercenaries could take up protection work after the fact. But honestly, lowest damage possible scenario, I would trust to us.

Yeah. Doesn't sit right. [Not the mission itself. Having the hunters driven out? Fine. Giving up ship expenses and valuables to pay for what they could very easily do themselves? That gives him a lot of pause.]

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[warandpeace]

No casualties because the captains made a point of specifying no casualties on the last planet.

For consistent pay, mercenaries will usually stick to contracts. Between decent pay, hunter equipment being destroyed and damaged, and whatever structure the techies would build, it would make it not worth it for them.

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[a_shadow]

This whole idea locks us into needing to return every year and pay them with more junk. You realize that. I thought everyone wanted to find a way to get home, not be stuck in a loop coming back here.

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[warandpeace]

The captains said they would handle the payment. Not us. It would be on them after this.

But my point is, if the mercenary route is chosen, I would rather it be us that expel the hunters from the planet.

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[a_shadow]

Why would they not turn to the crew to handle future payments if that's what they're doing now? They don't have anything of value beyond the ship itself. The only reason they have stuff to pay with now is us.

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[warandpeace]

Yet somehow at more than one stop they've managed to completely cover our room and board as well as entertainment expenses and supplies for the rest of the journey. But that's a matter better taken up with them. I don't know why they would rather us cover initial payment in this case.

I'm more interested in handling this ourselves. If Banner could build the outside barrier like he plans, the mercenary protection in the long run might not even be necessary.

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[a_shadow]

I'm a lot more interested in making that happen than paying mercenaries. I wouldn't normally be so insistent but there's too many factors in this situation that makes it a bad deal.

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[warandpeace]

The hunters would still need to be removed from the planet.

And I hate to see good skills going to waste.

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[a_shadow]

All right well, I'm willing to offer my services then. As long as the goal is getting Banner's barrier working.