Mothership Mission Log - Planning on the Dream and Stashing the Goods - Session 5
ROSTER:
- Vegas Hemmings - Marine (Jack)
- Dr. Kirk Kawaguchi - Scientist (Jason)
- Anders Togurtson - Teamster (Matt)
Contractors Aboard the Ship:
- TANAKA - MARINE
- SOBOL- SCIENTIST/ENGINEER
- RENFIELD - TEAMSTER/PILOT
- 2X IN CRYO - MERCS
EVENTS:
- The Crew travels across the station to meet with Angus, Sysadmin of Canyonheavy, a major information broker, hacker, and affiliated with the Novos.
- On the way they discover a husk, a human whose cybernetic implants have inexplicably grown and started to take over body and mind. Locals tell them that more of these are starting to be seen on the station.
- At Canyonheavy Market they are introduced to the hacker community on the station. The crew waits while Angus finishes a run. He agrees to let knowledge of their smuggling run to slip to entities connected to Stratemeyer. He also promises to pay 200kcr for Stratemeyter’s location.
- The crew gets a black market double transponder installed on their ship - Allowing them to switch between the Publico registered Metamorphosis and the freelance registered Ghost - cost 450kcr.
- The crew uses the time for the installation to use petty cash to purchase arms and armor for the possible boarding or counter-boarding portion of their plan to locate Stratemeyer by drawing them out.
- The crew offers to the other survivors to join them in their new freelance enterprise with the Following outcomes:
- Dr. Edem - Scientist- Xeno biologist - Declines and is determined to use the carcinid data to free their family. The crew quickly rationalizes their murder with Kirk taking the burden. Edem is killed in the corridors of the Dream with an injection to the neck of hydrofloric acid. Passersby mind their own business and janitorial androids clean up the mess. The data is destroyed.
- Sgt Yang - Marine - Gruff old veteran. Tactical thinker. - Decides to leave and rejoin the corps has no wish to get caught up in any of the crews shenanigans, but also appreciates he owes them his life.
- Pfc Pedro - Marine - Total yes man, was infatuated with Sgt Valdez - busted up about her death. Leaves with Sgt Yang
- Cpl Novikov - Marine - Trigger happy - just wants to cause the most destruction, but tempered by the experience in the reactor. - Is tempted by the possibility of destruction and decides to strike out on his own as a mercenary on the rim.
- Tanaka, Sobol, and Renfield sign on with the crew.
- The crew then stashes the drop ship filled within the Tempest asteroid belt before moving to draw out a Stratemeyer intercept.