The Captain's log of the interactions of his crew members. A pair of Malma twins, Flax & Dari; an old Pill droid, PD17 aka Banger, and Alaran himself (also a Malma).
Star System: Zao
Planet: Cod-E-Nov
Day 57:
• The twins bicker about wearing breathing suits
• Pisses off the Captain to the point where he just sends Banger
• Banger chugs outside with cargo barrels to elevator
• Takes elevator down a canyon to bottom
• Goes through protocol with CEN synthetic androids
• Escorted to drop-off point, mission successful
• Returns to ship to hear twins bickering
Day 58:
• Fly over red rust desert
• Storm messes with navigation, land and wait for clearing
• Hear something outside ship
• Captain goes out to investigate
• Finds scrap bugs, fights them off, kidnapped by bigger scrap bug
• Twins chase down big scrap bug
• Follow into ruined temple, covered by metal piles
• Inside is like a sauna
• Catch upto Captain, who’s freed himself from bug
• Trio fight off Scrap bugs
• Captain takes Big scrap bug head back as trophy
Day 59:
• Fuel up at station in the sky
• Quiet but CEN and Sada running station
• Invite to show crew purification centre, tree domes
• Feel fresh air, see wildlife living inside the dome
• Station not far from next dropoff, Sada offer to deliver for them
• Crew accept and leave Cod-E-Nov with full tanks
Star System: Huvei
Planet: Ilia
Day 64:
• Enter orbit at night, 3 moons in the sky
• Each with a different colour (blue, green, purple)
• Moons cause wild weather patterns, ship caught in orbit rains
• Rain reflects dark colours from the moons, flying in all different directions
• Some droplets going up, some down, some orbiting other droplets
• Hard to fly through, ship being flung about
• Super-fast droplets suddenly freeze, smash through ship, captain emergency lands
• Uses shields to protect the ship until orbit rains stop
• Landed just outside the city, crew watch the crazy weather all night
Day 75:
• Captain assesses damage, needs repairs, sends out distress signal
• Banger travels to city to get help, finds support crew
• Arrive in strong tanks and tow ship
• Tow ship across the wet fields, droplet dents cover the ground
• Support crew reveal to be Illie, hate Teblonains
• Arrive in city, take to workshop, crew wait for repairs on ship, explore city
Day 76:
• Explore surface city, twins find tunnels to under city
• More like an old city, mixed and upgraded with technology
• Half neon lights and half gas lights, pipes and wires hang everywhere
• Streets are dark and tight, separated from Captain & Banger
• Find bar with drunk Illie, starts bar fight with twins
• Twins thrown out of bar, Captain sighs and tells them to return to the ship
• Gather supplies along the way, check drop-off location
• Support crew tells them there in wrong city, offer young Illie to guide them
• Crew accept and Illie youngling joins crew
• Ship is repaired and crew pay workshop
• Wait for orbit rains to pass before flying again
Day 78:
• Captain follows directions and flies down very wide canyon
• Watch things moving on the walls
• Youngling warns them about Dendagar (monsters)
• Wild beasts with skin of stone and appearance of jaguars
• Hear something land on ship
• Captain opens hatch to find Dendagar on ship
• Captain vs Dendagar, Captain throws it off the ship
• Banger safely flies ship into drop-off city
• Give shop chemicals they needed
• Find out they plan to attack Teblonian army
• Crew decide not to get involved and leave
Day 81:
• Stuck in city due to orbit rains
• Banger zooms in on local lake, detects Malmain ship under surface
• Crew plan to investigate
• Dive underwater to check ship wreck
• Find bodies of Malma crew and Teblonian soldiers
• Return to surface and try contact Malmain, no signal
• Plan to return to return home to report findings
Day 86:
• Return to Malmain to report attacks on Malma from Teblonians
• News reach the Paru leaders, discuss how to respond
• Consider stretching treaty further than Paru system
• Create teams to spy on Teblonian activity in multiple galaxies
• Captain Alaran joins one of these teams
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