avr wrote:
28) A deity has learned that the ship's crew are destined for greatness and dropped a curse on the ship to make buyers uninterested. The players may be preferred by the deity or they may just be placeholders until those the deity really wants for the ship come along.
"Alrighty it looks like your ships in good repair and the paperwork is all in line and we're willing to offer you (redacted) credits. There's just one more step, just a formality really. Let's just run this curse detection program over here and..."
*Immediate defcon theta alarms start blaring and the salesman starts reading the screen*
"Oh gods that's horrendous! Get your ship off my lot now, and never come back. Until you get that curse removed, consider your ship blacklisted by every dealer in the Pact Worlds."