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Faxi

by Captain Peter Avignon

Galactic Surveryor's Guild - Far Δ Expedition


AVG-II
We jump into a ship graveyard
  • A transponder ping shows up

  • Lucid traces it and establishes its a station distress call from orbit around

    • This is an Emergency Broadcast Meltis Station under attack... pirates with advanced weapons... system defence fleet destroyed... unable to respond... calling for assistance... This Message will repeat

  • We scan the surface of the main planet and find a domed city with roughly 20,000 people. It appears that there are several farming outposts, and ruined cities across the surface.

  • Also, Lucid finds that the space station is actually active.

  • The two groups seem adversarial and want us to dock exclusively with them.

  • The planet's atmosphere at one point was earth-like but has ceased to be

  • Estimation: the process of terraforming 500-1500 years ago, but it's reversed over time

    • On the Station

    Hrim Station, Home of the Hrimfaxi/b]
  • A delegation of 1-3 malnourished humans wearing similar jumpsuits, indicating a vague military background

  • Looks like it was a much nicer system but it got smashed.

  • Held together with "duct tape and hope"

  • Chemical propulsion rockets on their ships in the hangar

  • Prelate Kroll is the one who introduces himself.

  • 200 or so years since the people on the surface cut off contact

  • Offers to repair our landing struts, but their salvaged nuclear missiles aren't up to my ship's specs.

  • "The Black Hand" was a band of pirates that attacked roughly 150 years ago

  • They didn't know their distress call was still working.

  • Most of the planets are heavy-gravity worlds with extraordinarily high temps

  • Planets belts sustain their limited industrial capacity.

  • The planet below was inhabitable

  • According to records, the pirates reverted the atmosphere to a phosphorous one by hack(?)ing the terraforming system.

  • Scinfaxi/Hrimfaxi is the name of the system.

  • Recommend using the station as a refuelling depot. Planet-side natives are hostile though.

  • Prelate Kroll says they are all "citizens", conditional upon completion of service to military structure

  • Robot the Robot is tasked with helping out with repairs that the station's habitable sections.

  • Arkip sends us a message about "the planet being a bust".

  • At the same time, the station's alarm goes off

  • Beñat and I run to the ship and shoot out of the shuttle bay

  • After missing his first shot, I line up the ship a little better, and he takes out the missile the second time.

  • The shrapnel from the missile hits the air raft, however, and Arkip gets hit by debris and knocked out.

  • I get them on board, however, and return to Hrim Station.

    • Continue reading...

    1. Personal Log - New Year, New Shipping Codes
      2nd of January, 4500
    2. Lots of Dead Bodies
      2nd of January, 4500
    3. Personal Log
      9th of January, 4500
    4. Personal Log: Ship Upgrades on Mehen
      10th of January, 4500
    5. Personal Log: The Kumarbi Conspiracy
      17th of January, 4500
    6. Heading into the Unknown
      28th January 4500
    7. The Expedition Begins
      18th of February, 4500
    8. Faxi
    9. Eldanea System + Pariahan Fronts
      4th of March, 4500
    10. Against the Solanian Survey Corp
      18th of March, 4500
    11. Obligatory Water Level
      20th of March, 4500 CE
    12. Aidan Thorpe Arrested
      8th of April, 4500
    13. Leunus Prime
      15th of April, 4500 CE
    14. Impounded on Catta Primae
      25th of April, 4500 CE
    15. Captain's Log: Communications officer detained
      7th of June, 4500 CE
    16. next steps
      14 June 4500
    17. the Mistake (the Planet)
      21st of June, 4500
    18. Licking our wounds in Wild Space
      18 September, 4500
    19. Wow, Civilised Space!
      5 October 4500
    20. Opus Dei strikes Guild science facility
      19th of November, 4500
    21. Hey Geneviève (sup, Hüsnü)
    22. Extra-judicial shipping in the Union of Sol
    23. Derelict space Station - Shiva Rao
      11th December, 4500
    24. Welcome to the Aseni Republic of Vega
      16th of December, 4500
    25. Returning with the spoils of salvage
      11th of January 4501
    26. Fancy Auction

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