I had a chance to for a brief interview with Dr. Moor during his recent visit to InfantiCorp Headquarters in New Edinburgh.

SH: Dr Moor, your study has caused quite a stir out here when a good many people, especially Traders and Members of the Armed Forces, spend a great deal of time traveling through outer space. Can you tell us what first brought this issue to your attention?

Dr. Moor: Certainly, Mr. Hawk. This time last year I was traveling to the Fenris Observatory in Aragoth for a seminar and our trip was delayed for several days when passing thru Freya. I inquired of the Captain as to the nature of our delay and he replied that there was an unusual concentration of several hundred vessels between Nav Freya 5 and Nav Freya 6. I was fascinated to find that this area was a region of Red Dragon and Chavez Pirate activity and that someone had found a point where Pirate ships were coming out of warp. The pilots of the massed ships were destroying the Pirates in vast numbers and were then looting their vessels.

Eventually, someone informed the Pirates and the vessels stopped coming, but I was shocked at the sheer magnitude of such a spectacle. When I later had an opportunity to meet some of the participants, I was expecting to find a room full of Progen Mercenaries and was shocked to find normal men and women from all walks of life, who's only common denominator was that all of them had hundreds of thousands of hours in deep space and all of them had gone through the ancient gates many hundreds of times.

SH: Dr. Moor, some of your critics have stated that your findings are incorrect. That some of the incidents such as the one you described in Freya are the result of some form of temporary mass hysteria of the type seen in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.

Dr. Moor: No Mr. Hawk, my study is quite concise. We have studied hundreds of subjects, Terran, Progen, and Jenquai and the results, except in the case of the Progen who are bred to be more aggressive, the results are quite conclusive: The more time you spend outside of Earth and even beyond, the more hostile your behavior will become.

We've placed people with a long history of space travel in virtual reality ships and have found that they tend to travel to a favorite point in the galaxy and lie in wait for some ship or creature to come by then they blast it. When they run out of ammunition they immediately go to a space station and buy or build more ammunition, then return to the scene of the crime, well not really a crime, to attack and loot over and over again.

SH: Dr., do you really expect anyone to take your reccomendation to cut back on space travel seriously as the V'rix invasion and the temptation of riches behind newly opened Gates surely will mean that space travel will increase rather than decrease as you would like?

Dr. Moor: I can only warn people of the danger and hope that they do what is best for themselves. Excuse me my boy, I am late for an appointment.....

That was the last interview any of us at Net-7 had with the fascinating Dr. Geoffrey Moor before his unfortunate and fatal encounter with Tau Ceti Soccer Hooligans in the Pilot's Lounge of Somerled Station. He will be greatly missed.

For Net-7 News, this is Skyler Hawk live from Somerled Station, Tau Ceti

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