In celebration of the birthday of the Silver Dragon of the sea himself, I would
like to present to you the Summer 2011 expansion "pack", which I have
titled "Courage at Sea."

Gone are the days of dull ship combat, the lack of information, and boring NPC
battles. Over the course of the next few days, I will slowly release a
reasonably large amount of new ship content, additions to the world, quests,
tunes to ships, and loads of other goodies. This is being done in such a way to
avoid any catastrophic messes as a result of such an influx of code. If you
encounter any bugs, you may kindly report them via the 'bug' command or submit
them online at http://batzilla.bat.org, with myself as the "Assigned"
wizard. A changelist will be posted to the updates newsgroup every few hours,
so you know what is going on.

On behalf of the Ship Developers (myself, Dralith, & Melemkor) as well as
our trusty genius Ens, we sincerely hope you enjoy our efforts.

Happy sailing,

-- Lord Tarken Aurelius, the Sage