Re: [GZG Fiction] Seventy Dead after Freighter Accident

> The FCT has sent assistance on the BDN Graycap
> and has orderered all Aleriahi registered ships
> to report for inspection that are in FCT space.

Good idea.  Certainly most Alarishi habitats require inspections before 
FCT ships (or NAC, or NSL, or anyone else) come to dock, or a recent 
certification from an inspection company with a good reputation.
   For example, if you're coming to load antimatter at Forward Power, 
you'd better have been inspected within the last 30 days by Forward 
Power itself, or by Graf & von Thys .. otherwise you should be prepared 
to pay to have your cargo lightered over.
   New Los Angeles has a list of thirty-seven acceptable inspection 
companies and will accept six month certs and a much lower "pass"
rating.

> accident.)   Speculation is rife that pelletized
> magnesium, sodium, liquid H2 and liquid O2 were
> being unloaded when the thrusters went into an
> 'overburn' state and ruptured the transfer
> tubes.

Good thing it wasn't antimatter.