Session Thirty-Seven, Plague of Angels
Stefano bought:
15 sets of hands – 500cr each
20 weapon attachments for suits – 1k each
6 cases of finest rum – 1k each
4 Combat Field Uniforms
Mnk72
Grigory Korovin (Assistant to chief quartermaster for Nebula, mechanical legs)
Ian Miller – Lucifer’s Assistant
Gerry makes contact with the bedelman brain.
Role in the nest: Navigator on hedgemon vessels on an enforcer vessel from Nest 237 asssigned to
People’s Union Hedgemon Enforcement Vessel EN553 (Goro is GR003)
Preparing to leave and something was wrong with the engines. Unable to recall what was wrong with them, an emergency happened and that’s the last of his memory. Next memory is now.
THE fleet – all of us evacuating. High/Over minds were in charge of the armada.
He gives us his alphanumeric code. Stefano records it.
AR439 was his admin vessel
AC xxx vessels are
Yi cao’s and Lucifer’s research
1 torc to Nobu
Imperium came in and demanded fealty. Not a friendly offer and was declined. Upon that decline, they returned with a hostile fleet and attempted to eradicate them.
Overminds were the admirals/generals/leaders/presidents. They were the ones who coordinated peoples union. Orchestrated the heirarchy and kept it running smoothly. It’s unclear how modern day bedelman function without an overmind.
Sword of Flame travels to MNK72
search for bedelman fleet remnants
make contact with Nebula corp
Bedelman suits:
Assault suit AC16
9 things 9 suits with hands now.
Imp mandate robots: 6 of them
Gerry hacks one, Mick removes it’s weapon – puts quick connects on the weapon.
We remove the code to auto attack bedelman
it works.
Do the rest, now all are calm in the presence of meirraz.
Gives permission for all PC’s and Meirraz to control them.
Dom – Pilot
Mick – Engineer
Red – Gunner
Stefano – Captain
Gerry – Comms
Arrive in MNK72
Lots of ships in the immediate area.
5 differernt patrol boat sized ships, 2 OA, 3 others are similar to the Banshee, Nebula ships.
The 2 OA ships
Data dump from OA ships: Chariot of Night sent back to Arneion for order confirmation.
Captain Reid of the Problem Child, Ends of Invention, Irregular Apocalypse Spike 2 drives
Drop off void hawks to monitor Afari and Arneion arrival points.
Henry Moore stationary Huge Cylindrical Station open on both ends. about as big as Broche 4, relatively new construction.
Patrol boats guarding one end and is sealed. Sectioned off about ¼ of the station pinching off like. Headed toward unsealed end.
2 Patrol boats, 3 more loitering around guarded end. A lot of small vessels, a double digit number of free merchants, dozens of shuttles. Monitoring satellites in the center of the system.
Cylinder has ‘skyscrapers’ hanging off it pointing into space. Gravity is outward. A lot of traffic is moving between these buildings.
Guessing at a population of greater than 10,000 not more than 100k though. - Small city-state.
Head into barrel, heading to cordoned off embassy area. Marcus Antius OA liason assistant ambassador
3 large pads in the area, frigate sized.
Nikka Theodoru OA liason on Wajir 7, rescued her. She was helping Nebula’s work there because she has a relationship with a Nebula employee. Nebula would kill her lover if she didn’t cooperate. James is her lover. he’s a minor secretary in the Director’s staff.
Red, Boris and Mick have CFU’s on.
We step out into the station, springlike weather.
6 people in the greeting party.
1 is a floating robot Numerius Quintus Autonomous Hospitality AI
Lead Ambassador to OA, Caesula Quinctius (Female), Connisour of Fine spirits and food. Mick’s Friend.
Marcus Antius (Short guy)
Xia Tang She is assistant sec chief, short
Kazhi Romman – lead research on the bedelman question, tall, bugeyed.
Jagdish Venkatesan Director’s personal secretary
Caesula is taken by Mick, he gives her bottles of fine spirits and gets her number.
Gerry scans Jagdish – he’s got mixed feelings about oksana.
Gerry stays in contact with Jagdish.