Heading into the Unknown

by Captain Peter Avignon

week-long jump
GSG (Galactic Surveyor's Guild) - Meret
24 January

We arrive and go through a rudimentary customs check

Local Scout Base is calling active duty scouts

fly over in my ship - it's weirdly far

two fancy scout ships

mine, and another jalopy

Lucid recognizes someone in the crowd.

Sínnead Scarlett

Lucid tested the waters to see what they want or what their game is (theft of the Thursday brand?)

The guild is looking for scouts to do a 3 months deep space survey

They're short scouts, so even though it's not required for reservists, they could really use the help

they will pay some of us

no fuel needs to be burnt to get to the sector

Onboarding scientists

We get 4 probe drones (on loan)

Star Tek® Engineering Robot (on loan, rent-to-own), the 38-digit long serial number is its name.

Scientists

Dr. Patricia Rosario Consael Sanchez ("Charo") - Beñat's old flame

1 other scientist

28th of January
Captain's Meeting

We get a map showing us the systems they know and the rough amount of planets and their locations

We're told to divide them among ourselves

500 dollars for language translation software