Session Fifteen, Plague of Angels
6 days of drillspace travel
2 days of regional travel
28th of sentiabar (Bero calender)
Goro and crew- ran out of gas in sector 300, or 301 – site of large ancient battle between Hegemony and Imperium. Debris field…
Boris and sword of flame with quinn, sinon, peng and prasab at the pirate station in Afari system.
Baroche station group:
Boris and Quinn head to confer with Lucifer the Station Commander. Sinon, Peng and Prasab secure the ship.
Lucifer: All visible flesh is covered in scars, pronounced limp. black suit.
His story: Spend quite a few years in OA service doing dirty deeds in Arneion and beyond. Some of the projects he was assigned to there were obvious ethical issues involved and he figured he’d be best here at this station. It had to do with stuff related to the Bedelmen on the Arneion system…
They convince him that we’re legit. Access to public areas and we’re welcome here.
Trade repairs for information.
He says they don’t use the inner parts of the station. This station is ancient bedelman station. Inner areas have b een explored, however are not safe. No more information until more confidence in us. Please stay in the public areas. Berthing can be arranged, Docking space is not a premium so stay as long as you like.
Crew: Lagiers 7 may have idle hands, otherwise this sector is pretty empty. But not many available bodies.
Ships: a few shuttling work vessels available.
Per the Barkeep:
Lucifer is probably your best bet for selling and buying stuff, however:
Also a shopkeeper named Tiberius buys bedelman artifacts. Both Lucifer and Tiberius can do barter and trade kind of transactions… maybe not as much credits. Wants more information and artifacts.
Danesh Gita, supplier of parts and sundries, exotic stuff for ship components…
Past Tiberius’ shop, Shigito’s shop – hook ya up with weaponry.
We have Lucifer and his people come and inspect damage to Sword and Chariot. Give an estimate for repairs to aid in negotiations.
Lucifer notes the damage done by the Frankenbedel. We don’t show him the Stasis pod.
All repairs, 4 loads of fuel. Plus 75k on top of that.
The repairs are started, the fee is paid, Lucifer is looking through the ship’s logs and systems to glean some information. He’s familiar with both ends of the ship’s flightplan.
The plan is to share the full story with Lucifer of the Frankenbedel at dinner.
Goro’s in Sector 300 without fuel but found a debris field.
Definitely more than one ship, hard to tell how many ships… Images: Giant caterpillar ships with what looks like guts (really) everywhere. Ancient Imperial battleships blasted open and parts everywhere.
We approach the ancient battlesite:
Gerry scans: (rolls a 16 and a 13)
Active ships are noted in the area and we avoid detection… 4 ships. On the ventral area of the debris field. A patrol boat and 3 free merchants ships. 2 ships at the edge of the ships, PB and freighter (fuel boat) in another spot. They appear to be OA ships. They appear to be modified.
We lure the patrol boat in to us, they dockup boardingtubes, we vent 4 spacers, 2 with some kind of really nasty bladed weapon that damages and 2 with laser rifles all with powered vac suits. We have Goro blast the other ship with missiles which don’t penetrate the armor and are manuvering around to blast them with the Plasma Cannon…
Yi Cao contacted the ships in system, the patrol boat responded.
Plan: Stefano will appear after we try and disable their ship’s weapon and bluff his way using the captain of the Sword of Flame’s codes to establish enough credibility for a fuel load, (or 2…).
- Given SoF’s captain credentials as there was treachery on the ship leading to the destruction of the crew and our assaulting this vessel. Yi Cao did not know of our survival as the ship has features that cut us off physically and electronically. For some reason, I suspect it was the attack, a few minutes ago, we were able too get access and now are in control of the ship’s systems. Recover your crewmen. We will refuel at the tanker and let you know our next move shortly once we have had the opportunity to assess our current situation.
Pretense Thoughts:
(Stefano) I am under orders to return this vessel to OA space. I’ve been authorized to commandeer any resources necessary to achieve that goal. Including escort service. The group of renegades that procured this vessel have been neutralized and will not be causing any further trouble. Send over the data and protocols you have developed for this area of space to my comms officer so we do not unintentionally set off anything untoward.
We’re better trained to make decisions, but we need the data to evaluate to be able to do that.