Lucid blows up a computer when trying to log in. It was rigged.
In the same room, we notice a pile of desks
I keep my laser carbine over Beñat's soldier while he investigates
We find a woman, Hollo Ezrahm, and coax her out with some food from our ship.
We set her and Jan Vartha up in two of our rooms.
The ship's computer is told to monitor them.
The Next Day
We return to the ship
We find body parts...in place...in the central lab. No whole corpses, whenever a limb was removed it was brought to the central lab.
Pushing on, we move into an office attached to the lab. It is a minimalist modern office with smashed-out lights and a pile of junk formerly a computer.
In the crew staterooms, we find one normal-looking room for Gale Lynch, it looks like she's been dragged from bed.
In Drive Pod Two, we head up a ladder.
As we do, we hear human-like humming. Beñat readies his stunner and I ready my carbine.
Lucid goes "Hey buddy, do you like Mt. Dew? I got MRE menu #8."
Pent, the name on the uniform, immediately grabs the MRE and chows down. She takes all the food we offer.
The lights are smashed.
We bring her back to the Ship too.
Running out of space
1 hour of aggressive behaviour followed by 5 hours fatigued, and 6 hours normal-ish, then repeats.
Probably not getting more than 4 hours of sleep
Aidan uses his psionics to stabilize them for 8 hours.
We find a bomb had gone off in the aux lab
Beñat hypothesizes that the combat drugs may have been stored in here and when the bomb went off, they got dispersed through the ship
We proceed to the remnants of Quadrant Three
Lucid goes through the ship's computer to send from the bridge's comms array back to our ship.
No fuel. Hull and life support compromised. Hull exposure to vacuum: one week.
As Lucid goes to contact Gregory, a metal pipe sails through the air and smashes the screen. We spin on our heels to find a tall angry man.
We retreat to the ship, and decide to wait for the O2 to deplete before returning.
While Lucid is patched up by Beñat, we plan our next moves.
We're going to rest up and try to take care of that final guy - the saboteur, having failed to make it off the ship after all. We'll bring the survivors back. We send a message to Gregory informing him of the situation and message.
3rd of January
-Eridani Dragoons were the mercs who brought the unwilling test subjects to the ship.
-It took 8 days in total to finish all this up.
9th of January
Cata Gule - 4500
Gregory Thornfield pays us. 1,555,000 credits for the work. We set a course to jump (1 week) Mehen to get some guns installed on the ship with our newfound wealth.