I ran into this quote playing GC2 yesterday, and it made me both laugh and think:
"Just when the survey team thought there was nothing of value, the Captain saw something shiny on the surface of the anomaly. He picked up a coin worth 1BC and was noted as saying, "It must be my lucky day!"
Now that has to be the most understated quote in the entire game! I remember as a teenager, well over twenty years ago, freaking out when I found a $20 bill floating in the wind. I can only imagine what it would be like to come across a 1BC coin, although I fail to conceptualize what such a coin must look like -- I mean, what would you see on that coin? Heads might be the galactic ruler, but tails would have so many zeroes on it that this side of the coin would be heavier than the other, making it unuseable for deciding coin tosses.
And Cap saying, "It must be my lucky day!" ? If it were me, I would say, "Bwuhh, GH-HAAAAAARKKKKx!!" as I threw up in my space suit.
Lastly, it seems uncommonly generous that Cap would just go and donate the 1BC coin to the galactic treasury. More than likely, he pocketed the coin, and said to his crew, "These aren't the anomalies we're looking for. Let's move along, move along." Later, when he got home, he started bragging and showing the coin around to his buddies at the space pub, one of which must have snitched to the Secret Police, and then in the middle of the night, Homeworld Security crashed though the windows of Cap's bedroom, vaporized Cap, kept the coin themselves, but told Space Accounting that the 1BC was actually in the treasury. The media (in particular, The Daily Planet) would have latched onto the story and interviewed the neighbors, who would have said, "This was such a surprise. Cap was such a quiet man. And nice, too. He would have given you the shirt off his back." Although the Daily Planet reporters would probably have been aware of what Homeworld Security did to poor Cap, for reasons of their own, they kept the story quiet, and ended it with the suspiciously un-Cap-like saying, "It must be my lucky day!"
