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From: gleason@clt.dec.com (Daryl Gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Elite!
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Date: 17 Jan 90 17:14:45 GMT
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In article <25AE1823.8928@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, johns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian) writes...
> 
>>If somehow you lose your clean status, you can escape from your ship if
>>you have purchased a life pod.  The status stays with your ship, and you
>>end up docked with a ship furnished exactly the same as the one you
>>ditched (thanks to the "insurance policy" provided by the life pod
>>purchase), minus the life pod.
> 
>	This hasn't worked for me.  Am I doing something wrong?  I make sure
>	I don't carry any cargo, get into a fight, and then eject.  
>	I get my ship back just as before, but my status is still bad.
>	What's going on?

    I haven't actually tried it.  However, the following is from my Elite
manual, page 35, under "Escape Capsule" (grammatical errors are theirs, too):

	"An escape capsule can be fitted in place of your cabin at any world of
Tech level 6 or higher.  If "Q" is then hit during combat the capsule will be
jettisoned from the ship be automatically tracked by the nearest world and will
travel safely to a Coriolis space station  Your cash will be preserved but all
your cargo will be lost.

	"However, this item comes with a widely recognised insurance cover
which will guarantee you a new Cobra Class ship, equipped in like manner.  The
contents of the cargo hold is exempt from this protection.

	"Since the unique IR signature of a ship's hull is used to file police
records, abandoning your ship in this way will have the effect (unfortunately
exploited as much by galactic brigands as trader victims) of clearing your
police record..."

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