> the ravine job was an insurance write-off, change my mind

M3.231.459.9 · Undernet · board: frontier-salvage · +96 / −71

op — dead_reckoner: terramech loses a transport on a nothing moon out in Jupe. no distress relay, no salvage claim filed, no recovery contract on any public board. then they announce the loss themselves before anyone's even looked at it.

you don't announce a loss you're planning to recover. you announce a loss you're planning to bill.

this was an insurance job. they flew a hull into a jungle and wrote it off. the only reason nobody's saying it is terramech buys a lot of feed placement.

Cold_Harbour (+61) — the no-claim part is genuinely odd. everything else here is you wanting it to be a conspiracy

hab_rat (+44) — i know a guy who does lift work out that way. he says there was a contract, just not on a public board. private paper.

dead_reckoner (op, −8) — "i know a guy"

hab_rat (+70) — yeah. i do. that's how frontier work happens. you've clearly never taken any

saltline (+38) — private contract on a self-announced loss is more suspicious than an insurance write-off, not less. you're arguing yourself out of your own thread

ninebar (+12) — whatever was in that transport, it wasn't a mech. nobody sends a recovery crew for a loader

Cold_Harbour (+29) — nobody sends a public crew. that's the whole point of private paper

dead_reckoner (op): date's a nine, i know. i'm not the one who has to prove it.