S23 Looking Up an Old Friend
Steve off misbehaving at a festival this week, and Ric on the strength for a session.
- 034 Tarsus With Pavabid as their next call, the temptation was to load up with porn, booze and random religious tracts; but realistically it would be wasted cargo space.
- On request, Rosita Ostergaard recommended Megaladon Security Services for BB security
- Request put in to Moath to source battledress
- 039 Pavabid Very different; no modern power sources, no sysdef - if Collace or Trexalon were to invade, the other would attack them - 2 fronts is a bad war
- Trade Enclave, Sinners’ Reach
- Trade Priests in red and Church Soldiers in red and white
- Cooking and food are a major thing here, one of the few arts encouraged by the Church. Feng picks up seeds and spices; Feaysen uses them on Nobble and the results are very good
- Nevada enquires if iridium is available, weary repetition of the line that P does not deal in it and has no plans to mine it
- Wales hands out sombreros and Feng Joeys. Much doubt and theological debate among the Trade Priests, Wales says “It’s a sun hat; a Hat of the Sun” and this impresses them, they allow it. Still arguing about Joeys when the party leave
- 041 Jump for Trexalon
- 048 Trexalon. Heavy planetary naval presence, up to Heavy Cruiser level (100KTons), much stronger than the ship’s library reports from last trip. Feng comments “They’re gearing up,” Many SDBs, some are on very similar orbits to the SW, purely by coincidence. When hailed, they respond like cops; stone-faced, “We have a robust security service, sir.” etc.
- Asteroid mining - FIFA Dave does good, locates an asteroid rich in platinum. Two days gains 6 dTons of platinum.
- 050 Dock at the highport and sell up. Platinum goes a bomb
- 057 Motmos Eco-bureaucrats prepare enormous paperwork for permission to dip; Nevada declines to get involved and actually buys fuel for the first time ever! Contact made with Selma, and permits to fly to Trensham magically appear
- 062 Trensham (Thalsal II) Iceworld with constant blizzards. Very warm welcome from Selma Mckay and her uncle Barton McKay. Dinner, tour of massive underground facilities. Depite shirt-sleeve environment, always feels just a bit cold. Propose a business deal. PCs ship a hold of walkers to Tarsus and sell them. Profits split 50/50 between PCs and Tyrex. Barton throws in a refit of the G-Carrier’s gun and 3 Shadow security robots as a key-ring.
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Cargo worked out as
Title - 1x Lycosidium 29 tons
- 2x Dargaaza 7 tons
- 4 Raptor II 4 tons
- 1 G-80 Gun Carrier 2 tons
- 4-man technical team to reassemble, set up and demonstrate them
- 1 dTon of parts and tools
- Feng: “We started the war, stoked it by selling rifles and are now shipping them high-We’re basically Tony Stark from here.”
Session Date: Sept 5th 2023