NEW SILK ASTEROID OPENED FOR TRADE

Announcing the new trading opportunities on the asteroid Silk
(designed by Freya), which can be found NE, N from the asteroid belt
entrance. Armstrong Cuthbert are now offering both cargo and akaturi
jobs to and from Silk, the exchange is open for business, and the
workthings are queuing up to come work in factories. The map of the
asteroid belt at http://www.ibgames.net/fed2/maps/solmap.html
has been updated to show the new asteroid (scroll down to see the
asteroid belt map).

Silk is an asteroid inhabited by an exosolar race of arachnids. Little is
directly known about the Xiphosurans, as they call themselves. They
can communicate via modified Galactic comm units but their society
and conversations are not particularly suited to humans. Thus far they
have declined all requests, by sociologists and other credentialed
academics, to conduct studies of their community. They are, by nature,
highly skilled manufacturers and traders. They are also natural
mathematicians and devote considerable efforts to its study. Everything
the Xiphosurans create or know is for sale, if the price is right.

Among the few facts known about the Xiphosurans is that they arrived
in the Solar System on solar sail crafts spun from silk. Some settled the
asteroid known as Silk, the rest continued on their cryptic journey.
They seem to periodically migrate with the spaceblooms but the
relationship between them is not clear. They may occasionally be
observed launching their hatchlings into space with the assistance of
spaceblooms. The arachnids can function in vacuum, again we know
little of that mechanism and they are content that not much is known
about them. They prefer a diet of certain worms and mollusks, which
they cultivate; but also seem to enjoy a variety of Solar insects.



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