Seeking the seeker final

  So we head to the first corporate compound we see with Gavin at the wheel and request permission to land. They send over the coordinates and tell us to land on the pad. They ask us to come out unarmed, "As if!" I say and tuck my body pistols away. They appear to vanish into my outfit which is very form fitting. Two officers come up to us and eleven people come out with small arms. They ask us to sit and we do, cause we really don't have a death wish I swear. They tell us they hate scrubs and we explain that we are not in the mining business. We ask them about local ship traders, trying to get the low down on our dear
dead Horton's ship.
     They don't have any thing new to tell us so we ask about the blue stuff. The guards ask where we got it and we told them the truth, "The ship man." Chewy says getting very irritated, "Look we are not scrubs, we just want to find out what this blue shit is and if there is a ship trader in town." They refuse to say anything more about either subject. "Let my Navigator go get it." as he waves towards me. The room is seething with hostility as I slowly get up and slide near the door. They Jump up as if lil ole me is a threat! When one guard gets cocky and puts his hand on his gun, Gavin stands up and takes aim at the nearest officer. I skirt around two guards and haul ass to the ship and bring out half the vials of the blue stuff. I don't want to show all our cards just yet. The captain and two of the guards walk up and Chewy states our mission and asks about the broker again. They ignore him and tell us the blue stuff is a drug called chromolium. Some sort of super speed, not my style but what ever floats boat. We realize these choads having nothing for us and we take our leave. We board the new ship, now and forever to be know as the clunker, and head to the next corporate compound.

  We are directed to a landing pad and I get a serious case of deja vu. We decide to make this quick and give the patrol our mission and ask them about Horton's ship and again get know where, same thing at the next compound. The best info we get is to check out the fuel stops. So we head out to the gas giant, this takes 9 days but at least we can check the fuel logs. We spend the time getting the clunker in order and Stormie gets better and better. She is still pretty bruised but up and chatting. Gavin finds the clunker has 3 major problems but he is able to fix them. Chewy reprograms the rest of the ships computer and we are loaded with food and supplies. As we near the gas giant Gavin brings us in quietly. I could give you the grand tour of the clunker but I dunno if we are gonna keep it or not. Its got a few staterooms and is dusty and musty smelling, the storerooms are fully stocked and we find some useful tools and equipment.

   We go right into orbit and begin to refuel and scan. We find there are four ships refueling here. The first is finished fueling and is not broadcasting, the second is just starting to fuel up, the third is in a tight polar orbit and appears to be tumbling. It's a seeker! We all get a bit excited as we move closer to the spinning ship. Hoping to see Nutronium Strike on the side we drop into a lower orbit. It takes 2 days to get near it. It is tumbling and Doc points out the ship appears to be in a deteriorating orbit. Chewy wants to dock to the ship and check it out but it is turning to fast. So we maneuver ourselves about 2 lengths away which is as close as we can get and we suit up. Chewy and I get on our vacc suits and get ready to board the ship. Somehow Stormie pulls a crazy move and misses her chance to attach, but she tries again and attaches us to the ship, rotation be damned. We find Horton dead in his vacc suit, we say a few words and space him. The ship nets us a nice commission and a trip...Tremes Dex here we come.



*Not sure how to re-order the blog so I re-posted the end to the first adventure. Thanks!

Liner recall 2

    Chewy had hit the turret Grun had taken cover behind, he took some damage as he was blown off . The ship starts to maneuver evasively, I fire and can't tell if I hit or not, they fire on me and they hit our turret. Doc hits the other turret and Gavin goes live and says "surrender".  "Fuck you!" they say and Doc hits them again and sees someone get sucked out. Grun coms them and says "Stop the fuckin ship you morons, Red is gonna be so pissed when he sees how you fucked this up." They respond saying "Alright. alright." and they kill the drives. Grun repairs his vacc suit as best he can and is maintaining. So Stormie leads the way and tries to board the ship. Chewy tells them over the com "Open the fucking hatch". Grun says "Quit monkeying around." and chewy persists that they need to open the hatch. The crew gets smart and the hatch bursts open and Grun rips Chewy a new one for endangering us all. On the ship Stormie approaches the next hatch and it opens and the guy fires on her. "Holy Motha!" she shouts and hits him with 3 rounds from her gauss gun and kills him, as he keels over a cloud forms from the atmosphere venting from the holes in his vacc suit. He had fired at her at same time and hit her with a laser carbine and she takes damage. She radios in with the kill and chewy orders Gavin to go over to the ship and help, so Gavin shoots out a guy line with his sticky cannon and misses, he aims and fires again and hits the ship and is able to board. Gav looks around and sees the corpse, then heads to the bridge with Stormie leading the way. They make it to the bridge and finds it abandoned. Gav starts the ship and hits all stop. Chewy docks the seeker and comes aboard with Doc. They stumble across the corpse and Doc rushes to the bridge and fixes Stormie up. I get back into what I think is com range for grun. I hit orbit and wait for him to join me and board the ship. I hear *SMASH* and the "FUCK!" as Grun hits the ship hard but makes it on board. Back at the seeker Gavin finds an severely injured man and they count 2 dead, so three of the org. 4 are out of the picture.

   Grunion gets in the ship and pops a pep pill and I turn the ship back to the others. We dock and head on to the captured ship. Grun rushes to the bridge and heads to Doc. Doc notices he is talking faster than a crack whore with a fresh wad of cash and shakes his head. He patches him up and we start getting things ready to go. We have taken the new ship! It has jump 5 it is a 300 ton explore class long range scout. it is armored, it has a duration of 330 hours with out refueling. Sadly it has 0 agility, its not a fighter, but it is a full survey ship. One missile turret is still intact with 30 high explosive missiles on board. The ship can be operated by a staff of 2 and should be worth 100+ million. The ship has a closed air raft intact, slow but trusty, has a large holo display and a hud display. You can control this shit from any panel! It carries 28 tons of cargo so Chewy should be happy. We find out the ship is owned by a merc group that has been hired to survey this rock. So we head back and complete the survey. They had been surveying several areas in the plains. Grun notices they were doing densometer scans, he analyzes the scans for more info but can't really grasp what they are looking for. He remembers them saying "we have 4 weeks to get this hollowed out ... " now to figure out what that freakin means. So some stuff we find broken so we have some repairs to do. Chewy brings us back to orbit the rock. Grunion begins to survey the rest of the rock and 6 hrs later the com pops to life. Uh oh...."Magellan this is base come in..." Gavin goes to answer it and he shots a beam back in response that we are making progress, we are almost done and we want to finish. They say "Neg, return to base boss wants to talk to you. " We check the nav logs and see that we have 36 hrs between us and base. Doc give the captive a shot and he wakes up. We begin to pump him for info and Grun asks him " You a family man?? A merc ??" the guy says "Fuck you!" and Chewy says wrong answer and starts to hit the guy but the group stops him, I say "hell we should have spaced him before!" "Whoa" he says, "keep those two away from me", referring to me and Chewy. Then he spills the little bit of info that he knows. The ship is owned by a merc co, about 2k employees. Grunion starts to fast talk him and pump him for info. and begs for his life.  We get as much info about the merc co and the crew. So we put the crewman, turns out his name is James kroner, in his cold sleep pod and we hide the ship and download all the ships logs and video. Sadly we don't gain much information. Two miles of tunnels and a cargo bay. Turns out these blokes are not to smart so why are they here? We rig up a com trick to act out a transmission that says we are having problems and then cuts off as if we lost com completely. In the cargo bay we find probes, vacc suits, small arms, couple of shot guns. 30 days worth of rations for 5 people, 5 planetary range coms, a prefab pressure bubble big enough for 10 men. Then we find a hostile environment kit, a life saver. 5 psysheild helmets, 5 hand coms, 3 helmet recorders and 2 field med kits. Did I mention I love loot?

Liner recall

So we are running around Tremes Dex getting ready to go and getting our supplies and shit replaced. I turn to Stormie and say "I love shopping!" as we head into what looks like a general store. Chewy calls in letting us know Grunion showed up today with a load of cargo to dump. We are glad to have him back. He might be our best bet for a cover up once we hit imperial space. Grunion is squeky clean and so is Stormie, just need to figure out how to get in and out of Imperial space before someone realizes who we are. I head over to the gun counter and pick up an set of twin auto pistols, very elegant, engraved with tribal swirls and leaves and worth every one of the 800cr each I happily paid. I picked up a light weight holster set which added that little extra bit of bad ass and sexy to the mix. Of course as I smoldered at myself in the mirror I couldn't help but giggle at the whole affair. We all splurge on sticky guns, the duct tape of weapons, only cost 1500cr each...ouch! I got some jugs of the solvent and Doc and Stormie grabbed some as well. Next we grabbed oxy-tabs, you can use 6 of them a day and they last an hour each, pretty sweet. We wrap it up and head to the meeting with out local bank rep.

   So we meet up with Jimbo Motopet, what was his momma thinking? He knows that we are heading to Frenzie and he says he has a side job for us. He needs for someone to meet an end. The guy is named Red Chunnle and he is a minor crime lord with a base on a non aligned world. Stormie asks "whats it worth?", Gavin says "it better be a lot!". The report says Red was last seen on the world of Rangent in the Villas sub-sector, one jump away from here. He still lives there in a small cabin. Jimbo offers us 100k each, plus fuel costs, sadly he has no more info for us. The planet he is on is law lvl 1 and in not in imperial space which is a bonus for us, but the money just isn't high enough. Sensing our hesitation he ups the offer to 200k each and we put our heads together. I stand up and demand 300k each and he goes for it. Yay me!

  So we get the ships loaded and grab the documents from ole Jimbo. Grunion grabs a new fuel bladder and heads out. Gavin jumps our seeker and we spend 2 days and 9 hrs in jump. Then we jump again for a week so I get my streetwise training and we land at this frontier planet with a nasty atmosphere. killer smog wee! lets wear reperratiors. Planet is just a water world with one tiny island, maybe 100 miles x 100 miles and there are supposed to be 5 million people here somewhere between the island and the bonded boating islands floating around. So we need a plan, cause being from a high gravity world I feel like I could beat the snot out of everyone lol, a day here is 45 hrs so yeah that is gonna be peachy. Doc and Gavin notice 3 ships refuling on the outar gas giant. One is refueling on the 2nd gas giant in and one is on the 6th orbit moving in system. Suddenly Grunions ships power plant fails. We join up and head over to his ship. I find that there is a hair line crack in the zuchai crystal casing and I fix it with my sticky gun. Course now I have to make sure to fix it every time we jump so I move my things to Grun's ship for now. At least we have a cover story for being here in case they ask.

    So we head in system and it takes like 7 days and 4 hours. I notice grunion being weird, he seems to be thinking hard and keeps looking out the side window at another ship. As we enter the asteroid belt the ship disappears and it seems rather odd.  Grun lets the fellas in the seeker know he has better sensors and he makes an attempt to run them, so I start the scan and I check out the densitometer and I see a 300 ton object sitting on the surface of a large rock. "Bingo.Here it is." So we lock into orbit around the rock and grun gets his grav belt on and prepairs to check out the ship. The seeker joins us and Gavin thinks he picks up a screech burst, being tight beamed into the main world. He records it and finds out it is in the kkree langauge and none of us speak it. *sigh*  So Grunion hits the surface. After passing over the ship once, to high over it to see anything, he lands 6 miles away. Hopefully if anyone is alive down there they haven't noticed us in orbit. Grun and I maintain raidio silence and we keep our communication to a min with the other ship. Grun travels quickly and gets within 500 yards of the ship and scans all com channels and as he tunes in the ship he hears them mention Red. Grunion records the conversation, "...he won't like *static*... only have 15 weeks to compleate the mission *static*.... finish survaying the rock and get back". He can hear 4 distinct voices inside, and there is no activity outside. Back on the ship I can only hope all is going well since we are not able to communicate. Grun assumes he can get closer to the ship to bug it. He gets up there and bugs the ship in a few places.Grunion hears then say "fuck there is someone outside!". Grun sees them see him and about shits his pants. Doc sees their power levels spike as their maneuver drives and guns power up. Grun pushes off and takes cover. Gavin tunes in to the the ships comm channel and hears them go on alert. The seeker heads in towards the ship, I am tracking Grunion and Doc notices him disappear, Chewy fires and... "PLEASE DONT SHOOT ME!!" blares across the com.