Prologue: Investigating the Signal
Themes
Mystery, Intrigue, Controlled Confusion
Relations
Competitors
The Void Dogs are a a crew of Lancers native to Sutai Station. While marketing themselves as a proper mercenary crew, they are little more than space pirates. They are led by a particularly brutish woman named Baatar.
Backdrops
Locations
Greysmoke Carrier Vanguard [VAN (GNS-CS_0077)]
The Vanguard is the hub of the Altai Flank battlegroup - acting as both carrier and command flagship. A General Massive Systems Amazon Class Carrier - it was purchased from a GMS boneyard in 5000u and has played home to 12 admirals in its 16 years of service with Greysmoke Mercenary Company.
Sutai Station - Altai Ring
Adjacent to a large pocket of unexplored space between the edges of the Altai and Carpathian Lines, Sutai is the final stop for daring prospectors, treasure hunters, and indpendent Lancers looking to profit off of all of them. The big local legend that draws in only the most suicidal explorers is Jump Gate Sycorax - a blink gate of alien design that no one has ever returned from. Amidst the neon halls of Sutai Station's lower levels where irrigation water and coolant rains fromt the uppper walkways into the roaring collector below, rumors abound about a man named Batu who claims to have been through Jump Gate Sycorax and returned to tell the story.
The Scrap Field
The other end of the Sycorax Jump Gate. "The white light of jump travel breaks and your ears are assaulted by a cacophony of warning klaxons and computers blaring alerts. SPY-GL455 declares in a monotone voice, 'multiple foreign objects have collided with the hull. Hull integrity at 80%.'"
The Sycoran side of the Jump Gate is a graveyard for foolish explorers and wayward travelers. Radar screens show that the ship is surrounded by hundreds of ship transponders. Deeper within the Scrap Field, the Tempest's distress signal keeps pinging, but through the scrap and debris it is impossible to get a visual on the ship. Time for some fancy flying.Threats
The players are not the only ones who caught wind of the Tempest's distress signal! A Lancer Crew based out of Sutai called the Void Dogs.
Encounters
Things that will require a skill check perhaps?
Getting out of the hangar bay with a ship.
Acquiring a docking bay at the station.
Getting more info at a bar.
Getting more info from Batu.
SITREP: EXTRACTION
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Prologue: Investigating the Signal
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