The next day Nevada sent their drone around the outside to get a look at the flat, noting two human-sized heat traces moving around. He also noted the vehicle garage bay door was significantly bigger than any of the surrounding ones - big enough for a 10-ton vehicle. 

Merrick Sturnn is actually Loz' character. Zac managed not to get him killed!

After a great deal of plans were made and discarded, Merrick and Wombat went in through the front door, ostensibly to visit a resident, retired Police sub-Commissioner Corbett Latchford, dressed as workmen and carrying toolboxes and a big holdall. This went fine until the guards put their bags through the scanners and discovered them full of guns and armour. Only a great deal of fast talking and support over the phone from sCom Latchford sufficed to get them past the guards - who, they noticed, were armed in very up-to-date polycarb armour and carrying ACRs with dual magazines. 

Zac dealt 14 Stun damage which is enough to take down pretty much any unarmoured Traveller character!

Working their way up the building, co-ordinating with the others as they flew in aboard the air/raft, Wombat and Merrick reached the door of Jasper’s apartment. Claiming a delivery for him, they rang the bell and at first he told them to go away; only when Wombat - playing very dumb - insisted that Jasper had to sign to reject the delivery did he open the door. Reacting instantly, Merrick stepped into him and walloped him with his stunstick, stretching him out cold in the foyer of his smart pad. Dragging him in, they shut the door - just in time as a guard rounded the corner to find out what the noise had been - and signalled the others. 

Using his Intrusion computer, Nevada managed to open the vehicle door, and they entered the flat that way, observing the 10-ton gig parked there with much interest. 

Jasper Klein

Jasper turned out to be the only occupant. He was not a fighter, despite portraying a leader for the band of whackos, and was very upfront about wanting to co-operate. He knew the bomb had gone off and expected them to be dead; he didn’t realize that the bomb he was sold as a blockbuster was a bit crap. 

Trevor Martin, or David Branson, or possibly someone else entirely...

He was recruited by a man calling himself Trevor Martin, who he described as “average sort of height, bald, green eyes, big mouth”. The breaking of only one finger was enough to get him to cough up what he was paid for the job.  He also produced a covertly taken picture of Trevor Martin, and emergency contact details for him with an address at Gardshaw Arcology for escape in emergencies. Checking back through Reddish showed this to be a dead end; a children’s home and a burner address.

Having used Feaysen in setting up the trap, Jasper figured he could make some more money from her, and he “sold her to Charlie”. Charlie Burnell, he explained, was a black market slave trader. Slavery had been made illegal on Collace as it tries to suck up to the Imperium, but there were still dealers who trade flesh deeper into the independent areas rimward of Collace, especially Fomalhaut in the Trojan Reach. Feaysen, being more than a bit pretty and intelligent, fetched a premium price of KCr500, though Jasper tried to claim she only brought KCr20. As he’d done many times before, he’d doped her with Low sleep drugs and delivered her to Burnell’s lair, hidden in a cave under a mountain rich in metallic ore under the ice 2,000km to the east of Shadira. “Couple of thousand klicks away, somewhere. He keeps them in Low and sells them on to some pirate or other, I don’t know who.” He was lying, of course, and not only did he know where the lair was but so did his gig…  The gig had slots in it for cargo items of a standardized size and power connections for each one.

Pausing only to place Jasper in his own gig’s emergency Low berth, the party embarked on it and set off for the co-ordinates of Slavers’ Bay.

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Session Date Tuesday, July 25, 2023