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Jack Williamson has since built a restaurant that has specials on King Crab and Lobster. His crawfish tank was copied and made larger. He met a fisherman from Alaska who sold him access to his route in the Bering Sea. He lowered several portals into the
/sea to collect any crab that came walking by.
He paid the fisherman a commission on each Crab that came the portal. Additionally he also had a few portals dropped off the Grand Banks to capture lobster, again on another family's route who were also paid a commission.
The Crab fisherman said if he opened up a bunch of shops he could make more money and they would get more commission's. He told the guy they would have to have someplace to have the Crab be-sentto, because if no delivery truck delivered anythingto
/the store neighbors would begin to get nosy.
The Crab restaurants could not be in cities that would compete with other stores, but out here the nearest city was 30 miles away. Hence no competition.
Otherwise sooner or later some government agency would snoop around and find the portal the crabs come thru. Then the federal govt would get involved and the stores closed, because I would have gotten the Crab for free and only paid the commission onthe
/sale of each Crab. Your competitors would learn of this and want to either shut us down or want in with portals in their areas.
Sooner or later someone would take a portal and take it apart and use the technology for something else or accidentally create a portal to another dimension.
Jack told the man,"Now since their is no White Council in this dimension, 'obliviate'". Speaking to the fisherman he sent him on his way, the fisherman missing an hour of memory including his ideas for more Crab stores.
Jack then was thinking, I'll quit paying him a commission so his memory will stay blank on the portals.
Several years later Jack has Crab stores in the major city centers whereby a truck makes midnight deliveries of Bluefin Tuna, Orange Fish, Sword Fish and Yellowfin Tuna, Alaska King Crab and Grand Banks products leave the shopevery night. Teleporting
/trucks make the deliveries faster.
He has hired many squibs and wizards who have mundane relatives in the fishing industry with routes their ancestors have used for at least 100 years.
Several of his partners have helped him to understand why as a corporation business is so much better with so little taxes. He ended up with so much free time he went to a mundane university and took up aerospace engineering.
Meanwhile as a hobby he has designed real jetplanes, but jet planes have a speed limit in the atmosphere which is roughly Mach 10 at which time the jet would burn up.
Another 4 years of school and he has degrees in Metalurgy and Engineering. On his weekends he works for the fish company, because none of the wizards their have the power to create the fish trap portals.