Re: [FH] SARCo

In a message dated 1/18/00 8:05:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
laserlight@quixnet.net writes:

> SARCo maintains a fully
>  equipped squadron of search and rescue craft and recovery tugs
>  at strategic locations throughout the Alarishi Empire!  SARCo:
>  we'll be there when you need us.
>  
>  [editorial note: company brochures hold that "SARCo" stands for
>  "Search And Rescue Company."  There are those who claim that the
>  name is actually derived from the Greek "sarcophagos"--"flesh
>  eater"--as a reference to the company's fees to rescuees without
>  a previously established contract .]
>  

Sounds remarkably like the Far Stars Union's RARA (Rescue and Revenue 
Agency).  Must come from being in the same part of space (the cold and
lonely 
part).

Rob