Talk:Elite Trader OXZ

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Reval: I'm happy that you liked what I did - at least enough not to revert your page!

I chose SPACE because it is the equivalent of the UK's ghastly tabloid newspapers - this sort of thing!

So your edited paragraph:

From SPACE magazine's THE GUILD - FACT or FICTION?:

The strict and solemn vows of secrecy to which all Guild members adhere mean that rumours concerning the Guild's domination of various Corporate worlds, GalCop, and not a few seedier systems, abound in increasing number. Real facts are limited and often suspicious: But we have a few...

An incoherently inebriated, but presumed Guild-member, Cholmondeley the Craven, told me that there are Seven Strictures which all but the most senior Guild fratres are sworn to the death to follow:

...

According to Tea Mereso, who claims to have interviewed him, G.E.T. apostate Contratius Phlebor intimated that a Guild splinter group - which he supports - styling themselves Galactic Overlords, have the sector police in their pockets. Readers are referred to her complete transcript (passim) as well as her article, which we credit with starting the whole outlandish and panicked rumour-mill churning.

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Would be written by them as:

From SPACE magazine's THE GUILD - THE SECRET FACTS:

The strict and solemn vows of secrecy to which all Guild members adhere mean that rumours concerning the Guild's domination of various Corporate worlds, GalCop, and not a few seedier systems, abound in increasing number. Real facts are limited and often suspicious: But we have a few...

An incoherently inebriated, but presumed Guild-member, Cholmondeley the Craven, told me that there are Seven Strictures which all but the most senior Guild fratres are sworn to the death to follow:

...

According to Tea Mereso, who claims to have interviewed him, G.E.T. apostate Contratius Phlebor intimated said that a Guild splinter group - which he supports - styling themselves Galactic Overlords, have the sector police in their pockets. Readers are referred to her complete transcript (passim) as well as her article, which we credit with starting the whole outlandish and panicked rumour-mill churning.

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It doesn't matter.

But SPACE as described is much more like the Sun or the Daily Star than it is like the Economist or the Guardian/Daily Telegraph. They would assert their 'truth' rather than hedge about (unless their lawyers confirmed that they would be sued for billions!).