I expect you both to work these ideas up a bit better and send them on
to Freelance Traveller...

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 12:36:42 -0800, Greg Nokes <xxxxxx@nokes.name>
wrote:

>Free traders are conscripted to carry debt payment between two extra-imperial polities. Best route crosses Imperium, other route crosses third, hostile polity.
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>Cargo is 50 dTons of nuclear warheads, or other “Bad Things”
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>Watch crew squirm
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>> On Dec 16, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Douglas Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/15/cuba-offers-pay-back-222m-cold-war-era-debt-czech-republic-rum/ <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/15/cuba-offers-pay-back-222m-cold-war-era-debt-czech-republic-rum/>
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>> For the link adverse, Cuba is offering to settle an old debt with the Czech Republic with rum. About $277 million dollars worth of the stuff. Later the story mentions that the Soviets once offered New Zealand a nuclear submarine and 2 MiG fighters to pay for dairy products.
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>> Party takes contract to ship innocuous-looking freight. Inside the crate are items that cause an uproar at the arrival point. Because the government that sent this as a payment forgot to ask first.
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>> Crew of an Imperial Navy light cruiser are tasked to mediate a dispute between two client states over a debt. The debtor agrees to pay in the only product they have: megasheep. A few hundred of them. And there's no shipping available. Shortly after jump, the female megasheep enter estrous. Megarams are close to 1.5m at the shoulder, sport huge curled horns, and are faster than any one expects. And they want the females all to themselves. Hilarity ensues.