<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #80BFFF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Peter Halvardson</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Viking'</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Peter was surprised that she was willing to listen. He went to his room and returned with a bottle of wine, two glasses and a plate of dried vegetables and meat. He placed it on the floor next to her and sat down there.<br/><span style="color: #FF8000"><br/>"Have you ever heart of a rare mineral named Axillirium? If you haven't it is no big deal, nearly nobody heard of it. It is used in the brain structure of synthecial souls, which are as you know, only in military use. So not a lot of people know about this mineral. As it is very rare it is extremely expensive. Expensive because it only appears in small reefs, only a few inch thick. Universal Exploration is only mining it on one planet were the reefs are a little thicker. But the funny thing is, it isn't rare at all, it comes as a company to ore. I have found thousand of Axillirium reefs in my work as an exploration engineer. The real problem is mining it, as the big machines UE is using are delivering a ton of crap for one once of Axillirium. And that's where I enter the arena."</span><br/><br/>He poured some wine into their glasses and handed one to Alice.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"I have some plan for a mining robot, a mixture of small mechanical device and some simplified brain like in synthetic souls. I had it checked, the mechanic part is possible and the brain part too. The problem is, I have no planet. But I want to buy a few from UE. Planets they have given up, as the mining isn't rentable anymore. I have to make them believe that I am mining for ore. They have to take me lightly. Once I got those planets I install some small and fine mining. Only experts, working with the robots. One robot per worker. I have a crap to Axillirium quote of roughly 50:1 with my technology and I can even mine selectively, meaning I can divide the crap from the mineral already in mining. It will boost the production of this miineral, will blow UE out of the market for it and it will skyrocket the production of synthetic souls. Just imagine, synthetic souls for every dangerous work. It is quite the achivement. And it would only be the start. I could mine for other minerals too and I could buy the firms building the mining robots. It would be an imperium within a decade. And no miserable working conditions, no need for drugs, nothing of that. Clean, healthy work."</span><br/><br/>He toasted to her and let the wine run over his tongue. <br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"There is only one problem. I have to get some very clever and very ambitious police woman off my back, as she wants to lock me away for some sins in the past, that are only sins if you apply some outdated morale codex."</span></div>