Mars Central Stock Exchange - August 25
Stock prices continue to hit record lows as plating from Neptune Station continues to fall. The plating is somehow converted by regenabots into stealth plating for ships, stealthy drives, and stealthy rum for quieter (but no less drunken) star pirates. The recent bubble of investment in rare items system-wide burst when investors dumped much of their rare holdings on the commodities market to create liquidity to obtain the stealthy items. Simultaneously, liquid capital seekers also pulled out of stocks and the market saw incredible losses equal to as much as 25% of the pre-Neptune event levels.
Captain Davis Daverson forlornly investigates his ship's empty hold.
Many captains interview have reported major losses and empty holds as they try to ride the lows of the market back to profit, or at least the break-even point. Theories about as to why the Neptune Station plating is being converted into items in the first place. It could be the work of renegade regenabots trying to wreck the human economy, it could the SoE reprogramming a few regenabots to achieve disharmony with the AI council, it could be whomever is responsible for the mysterious non-peanut-butter pods seen in the Belt. The Weekly Solar News favors the most likely theory of all, however: Neptunian Mermaids.
The cause of stock market crashes!
Our sources indicate the blue planet's race of Mermaid Astronauts are sabotaging both Neptune Station and the solar system at large. What do these mysterious mer-people want? Money? Attention? Or just to be left alone? No one knows, but you can be sure that WSN reporters will be the ones to find out!
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