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The customer appraised the sparkling gem with four half-closed lids. "It is a shiny bauble but my jump drive is perfectly adequate."

Rover nodded. "I'm sure it is. Good and sturdy, so I hear. 'Course I don't believe a doggone word of the rest of what folks say about you fellah's. Naw. I'm cocksure the Pokalogs are just as fast as...well, ain't important." Rover waved the subject away with a shrug.

The big alien frowned. "Say...what do they say?"

"Why, that you're a mite on the slow side." Rover feigned a look of confusion. "Surely you heard the talk. But don't you worry none. I got faith that those ships of yours can move as fast as a light beam when y'all set your mind to it."

The big green fellow looked a bit embarassed. "Well, they get us from place to place. I suppose they aren't as fast as some of those daredevil Spree ships."

Rover nodded. "Slow and steady, that's the way to go. So you really couldn't use somethin' that could boost your power output and speed your ship up a good ten times." With a nanchalant shrug he began to slip the stone back into his bag.

"Um...wait!"

A grin slid across the cowboy's face. "What's that now?"

"Can that little...thing...do all of that?"

Rover's grin grew wider. He'd tossed his rope in the right direction. Now he just had to tighten the lasso and he'd have a heap of a sale. He pulled the gem back out and held it up high as it glowed and glittered with an internal light. "Don't tell me you ain't never seen one of these afore? Why you stick this in your jetstream drive and you'll take off like greased lightnin'. Why, you could reach Tellus 2 in nothin' short of four ticks. Not to mention it's about the purdiest thing you could add to your engine room."

The customer chewed on his lip with one snaggle tooth. "Do you take Darius credits?"

"I take any currency you got, pardner." He had him. Now came the fun part...haggling. "Now these, puppies, don't come cheap. But for a nice fellah like you I can let you have her for, oh, five hundred."

"Five hundred? For nothing more than a bit of speed? I don't think..."

Rover leaned against the wall confidently as he dickered. With some species this could go on for hours. But he didn't mind.

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Rover is an honest trader, never selling faulty merchindise and he usually has fair prices and will give folks a deal if he knows they need it. But he can be a bit of a sheister sometimes, getting people to buy things that they really don't need.

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The customer appraised the sparkling gem with four half-closed lids. "It is a shiny bauble but my jump drive is perfectly adequate."

Rover nodded. "I'm sure it is. Good and sturdy, so I hear. 'Course I don't believe a doggone word of the rest of what folks say about you fellah's. Naw. I'm cocksure the Pokalogs are just as fast as...well, ain't important." Rover waved the subject away with a shrug.

The big alien frowned. "Say...what do they say?"

"Why, that you're a mite on the slow side." Rover feigned a look of confusion. "Surely you heard the talk. But don't you worry none. I got faith that those ships of yours can move as fast as a light beam when y'all set your mind to it."

The big green fellow looked a bit embarassed. "Well, they get us from place to place. I suppose they aren't as fast as some of those daredevil Spree ships."

Rover nodded. "Slow and steady, that's the way to go. So you really couldn't use somethin' that could boost your power output and speed your ship up a good ten times." With a nanchalant shrug he began to slip the stone back into his bag.

"Um...wait!"

A grin slid across the cowboy's face. "What's that now?"

"Can that little...thing...do all of that?"

Rover's grin grew wider. He'd tossed his rope in the right direction. Now he just had to tighten the lasso and he'd have a heap of a sale. He pulled the gem back out and held it up high as it glowed and glittered with an internal light. "Don't tell me you ain't never seen one of these afore? Why you stick this in your jetstream drive and you'll take off like greased lightnin'. Why, you could reach Tellus 2 in nothin' short of four ticks. Not to mention it's about the purdiest thing you could add to your engine room."

The customer chewed on his lip with one snaggle tooth. "Do you take Darius credits?"

"I take any currency you got, pardner." He had him. Now came the fun part...haggling. "Now these, puppies, don't come cheap. But for a nice fellah like you I can let you have her for, oh, five hundred."

"Five hundred? For nothing more than a bit of speed? I don't think..."

Rover leaned against the wall confidently as he dickered. With some species this could go on for hours. But he didn't mind.

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Rover is an honest trader, never selling faulty merchindise and he usually has fair prices and will give folks a deal if he knows they need it. But he can be a bit of a sheister sometimes, getting people to buy things that they really don't need.