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Bet it on all black, you never needed that upgrade

Prosperity's mission director put a heat shield up as collateral at a casino. It landed on red.

Table 6, where the heat shield was last seen.

Prosperity always rolls well. It's their whole thing. Event dice, launch odds, everything. It turns out roulette doesn't count.

Around 1am on Friday, Prosperity's mission director ran out of chips. He offered the casino a brand new heat shield instead. The casino said yes. The ball said red.

He said it was a sure thing. He said that about the last three bets too.

Witness at table 6

The heat shield was supposed to go on the Venus mission. Prosperity says the mission will go ahead without it, and that Venus is "probably not that hot." Venus is that hot.

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