Session Log 2

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We rejoin our adventurers in the Broadcast array section of the space station. They’ve discovered that the central structure is some sort of giant Faster-Than-Light transmitter being used to communicate with an unknown entity. Patrick digs up an employee file detailing several starship captains currently employed by Apex (PIC). Apparently, Apex places antimatter bombs onboard each ship to prevent them from defecting. One captain, Leon Chernov, is currently docked at the station in his warship Corvina. The players contact him and offer him the codes to deactivate the “retention device” in exchange for being passage away from the station. However, the since station just went into lockdown (they found the shuttle), the players have no way of reaching him. Leon, who has been looking for an excuse to quit & not die, offers to meet them at an airlock somewhere else in the station. Patrick finds a potential airlock in the electronics section of the central structure, and everyone heads down to meet Leon there.

After navigating through several ladders and corridors, the players find themselves in a massive room full of strange machinery. Several of the objects are completely unrecognizable, composed of a frictionless chrome-like material with strange blue etchings. When they arrive at the airlock, Patrick disengages the airlock from the control system. This disables the automatic operating mechanism, but Gavin steps in and activates the airlock manually. They step through to meet Leon in the flesh, as well as his companion-cyborg Allegra. At this point, Pascale comes up with the idea of placing the bomb in the station power plant. Leon and Cai immediately get to work disarming and removing the bomb, but Leon can’t quite manage it. Instead, Allegra suggest cutting the bomb off of the drive tube, which would leave them with two functional fusion drives. Cai busts out her welding torch, and ends up with a dining-table size chunk of metal with a very nasty bomb attached.

The Adventure Begins

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Our story begins in a cafeteria somewhere in Harmony’s Reach. Gavin, Pascale, Cai, Austin, and Patrick have all met for a late lunch after a hard day at work, and begun to exchange news. The Vice President of GovCentral is visiting the station today, and Austin was actually charged with touring him around Harmony’s fantastic medical facilities. Cai has been struggling the get even the most basic maintenance performed on the Vice President’s fleet, as most of her FTL and force field qualified technicians have been called away. Gavin dealt with a similar problem damping down fluctuations in the station’s primary force field; the only qualified technician was called away for some project called “Mercury”. Patrick has spent all morning hastily wiring up servers in research bay C for some sort of project they wouldn’t even tell him about. Meanwhile, Pascale has been catching up on office buzz, rumor has it that the project “Mercury” that a VP secretary accidentally mentioned is a super weapon of some kind.

As everyone begins to dig into their tacos (it’s Taco Tuesday), an alarm goes off: The primary force field has failed, and everyone is being advised to return to their rooms until further notice. However, just as everyone stands up to leave, they are all knocked to their feet again. Suddenly, the alarm gets much louder.