🚀 go-pugleaf

>There's the Mirage in Frontier: Elite 2.

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The rumour reached the zenith of its credibility when it was included in 
>Tony Dillon's mostly excellent book 'Secrets of Frontier Elite.'

     A very good hoax to have gone that far.  So the game guide authors back
then can be as careless with their facts as those of today, hmm?

>There are, of course, a large number of things which show the rumour to 
>be bogus.
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>If you do a Deja search in alt.fan.elite for Mirage you should get a load 
>of stuff from the semi-regular debates on this topic.

       Very detailed and enjoyable description of a hoax.  I just might try
this game for myself.  Thanks.