Session Eighteen, Plague of Angels
Goro is just outside an ancient graveyard of ships rife with mines and shipkiller fighter sized bad things.
28th of sentiobar pm (sowrd of flame, 4th of Octiobar am)
A couple ships more recent that have been shot up, but not completely mashed up.
Others: Mandate era imperial cruiser- still has intact parts.
Bedelman ship same kind of shape.
We try to search the two recent ships
1 OA private yacht of a director, engine core is missing. It’s the Playful Cherubim.
1 unidentified ship
we cut off the necrotic parts of where the OA guys cut goro’s flesh
We approach the unidentified ship
Goro’s crew
Dominik – Pilot
Gerry - Comms
Stefano – Captain
Nobu – Engineer
Jack - Gunner
Oksana
Yi Cao
Enter the modified free merchant – engine core looks precisely taken out like the Yacht’s was.
Attached line shunt to the airlock keypad. Doc pops the lock.
Ship is open to vaccum, similar floorplan to the Chariot of Stars.
No power, we force our way through the elevator shaft and head up to the bridge.
Spartan Crew quarters: Nobu finds a Notebook is not written in a common language, seems to be ciphered.
Very very few personal effects
Clothes, Uniform has a Cat’s Eye insignia
Bridge: Powered down. Plug into the pilot’s station to see what we find. We find the pilot’s station is scrubbed.
The Comms station is also scrubbed, but there seems to be an active compad in the wall of the crew quarters, we download the floorplan of the ship.
Gunnery and Captain’s station have been wiped.
We finish searching the crew quarters, gives the impression of a military ship. We find it in a ventilation shaft off the crew quarters.
Nobu climbs into the shaft and finds a dead guy in a vac suit. He drags him back. He has a Nebula compad, Dominik unlocks the compad.
They were sent to investigate an anomaly in an unpopulated sector where runaway ships kept getting sent to.
Extra important: Boarded by OA forces, disabled the engines and weapons, the rest of the crew went over to OA ship, mining tech.
Recordings and information from the ship’s arrival in Sector 300. the crew surrendered. Victor was the chosen one to hide.
Rutter to Afari!!! It’s where they came from.
The body has been there for about 4 months. - Assume afari rutter is 4 months old or so?
We gather loot from the ship:
noted on Ship’s Stores
OA yacht:
Since the engine is a large part of it, it’s destruction is more complete.
Cramped bridge, pilot and comms. 2 dead bedelman killed by laser shots, in OA servant uniforms.
Pilot’s station: Scrubbed, Comms station: Scrubbed
We take the bedelman back to Goro
Crew Quarters: Bedelman Stasis tubes in one room. Other crew quarters are for OA director or guests and human crew.
Star chart on a wall with rutters with public information and such.
xHardcopy Blackmail pics taped under a desk, taken by the yacht’s proprieter, of various people in compromising events.
Director of a big company known to the chrs indirectly.