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head, I managed to hear the welcome phrase “Halt immediately!” just as…
     
    You have earned the “Murderer Rank I” Achievement. All weapons require 1% less experience to reach their next level.
    Your Rapport with the Qualian Empire has decreased. Current Rapport: -1.
     
    “Surgeon!” I found myself lifted into the air and confronted by a security guard. Where were these guys all this time? “You are under arrest for the murder of another recruit. Your punishment is three weeks in jail! Next time you’ll think twice before attacking our recruits!”
    Now what did the tutorial say about how it’s impossible to kill other players in the Training Sector? Well, well, well, this is interesting. If I’ve already met my main goal of getting into jail, why not have a little more fun? Hasn’t anyone ever tested this stuff before?
    The guard was a member of the wonderful Qualian race—who are distinguished by their gray colored skin, the third eye in their foreheads, the suction cups on their fingertips and their serpentine hair. He was so seductively close to me that it seemed a graver crime not to attack him. Since I was already a criminal, why not go on and break the law a little more?
    I was being held up in the air by means of a B-class pacifier wielded by the guard right beside me. This oddly-named rubber club emitted a bluish ray in my direction, forming some kind of force field which kept me suspended as if I weighed nothing at all. It did not, however, impair my ability to move—for example, my arms…
    I felt a jerk and began to float toward the allocation center. The guard manipulating my body pulled its poor suffering mass even closer to him, wishing to turn me around so that he could just push me ahead of him. The two other guards had already turned away, deeming the incident to be resolved. I attacked silently. I don’t know if Qualians have any weak points, but in Runlustia I got used to the fact that any NPC or local (as non-player characters are called in Galactogon ) doesn’t feel so hot when you karate chop him in the throat. Considering the attentive implementation of this game’s physics, I had good reason to believe that guards here would be similarly affected…
    Once again, the physics engine didn’t let me down. The strike to the throat turned out a doozy. The guard didn’t even utter a groan but simply collapsed to the ground.
     
    Critical hit!
    You have earned the “Enemy of the Empire Rank I” Achievement. You have destroyed a subject of the Qualian Empire. All Qualian items require 10% more experience to reach next level.
    Your Rapport with the Qualian Empire has decreased. Current Rapport: -2.
     
    What can I say? The physics engine in this game is quite impressive. Even a security guard with a class-B item died from a simple blow to the throat. It follows that you can’t get very far in this game without a full set of armor—or, in my case, without a personal ship. By the way, the guide I bought seemed to mention that it’s impossible to have anything worse than -1 Rapport with the Empire, and yet I…Well, either way, my cell awaits me…
    “Halt!” yelled one of the guards, alerted by the sound of me landing on the ground. As soon as the Qualian met his demise, the beam holding me vanished, releasing me. The fall wasn’t a large one, but the sound it made was loud enough. To make matters worse, I landed right on the dead guard.
     
    Search corpse?
     
    The shout, the notification and my fall (which twisted my arm a little) had all happened so quickly that I didn’t think about the consequences when I clicked the “Yes” button. If you’re going to be a marauder then go about it properly.
     
    Acquired item: Pacifier. Item class: B-12. Weight: 2. Use: Lifts opponent of weight up to 2,000 lbs.
    Acquired item: Qualian Guard Breastplate. Weight: 4. Durability: 100. Item class: C-44. Piercing Resistance: 33.2. Slashing Resistance: 33.2. Radiation Resistance: 0. Fire