Arnie100 wrote:EBSIS Trooper: "They're not stealing, we're trading with them for your porn stash."
Ice Guard Trooper:
"MY PORN!"
Major Jones: "Good pathos there out on the ice whining about your stolen porn."
IceGuard Trooper: "Thanks, sir! Minmei's seminars* in the mess hall on drama and amateur theater really helped out. Did it work, though?"
Jones: "They were so distracted gloating over your psychological suffering, they never noticed us making off with half their motorpool's fuel, spare parts, and ammunition."
IGT: "Good to know, sir. But couldn't we have gotten ALL of it?"
Jones: "...We need them to survive until the next resupply, when we'll get more stuff."
*Minmei's seminars, during her periodic stays at Ice Guard, on acting and her advice to the amateur thespian group on-base at Ice Guard were actually surprisingly well-attended and intelligible, since she wasn't being crowded or pressured by the media down in the Warm. Her rendition of 'Lady MacBeth' remains one of her finest "albeit unseen outside Ice Guard) acting roles, given that it was performed with minimal facilities and special effects, and performed live in front of the base audience.