<strong>Evy'la</strong><br/><br/><strong>"There might be another possibility."</strong>mused Evy'la.<strong>"We find some half forgotten Imperial outpost and .. take it under new management."</strong>He grinned across the table at the others.<strong>"If the Imperials discover what we've done, and go to take it back, well, we won't have lost anything, and can blow it behind us."</strong><br/><br/><strong>"A hypothetical little situation we ran one time ... purely as an exercise, you understand."</strong>His grin implied it could have been nothing of the sort.<strong>"There's an Imperial mothball facility in the Erbium system. It's where they send ships to keep them out of the way til they get around to upgrading them ... and with the last few rounds of budget cuts, those ships are getting more and more obselete. No use to a Navy that prides itself on the biggest and finest ships it can fly. But very useful to, shall we say, smaller operators. Those who are used to dealing with less state of the art technology."</strong><br/><br/>He looked around the table again.<strong>"Hypothetically speaking ... we take some small Imp ship, pack it with a good crew of boarders, then bluff our way onto the station. They shouldn't have much more than a caretaker crew. We jam their communications, stop them calling for help, over run the base, and then take as much as we can that isn't nailed down. If they happen to have one of those old carriers they retired 10 or 20 years back, well, there's a mobile base right there."</strong>