Contract: Reclamation of Auctioned Goods
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#Team High Turnover Rate spent some time divvying up loot and working on leveling up at the beginning of the session. Following that they performed some basic repairs on the Free Captains freighter to limp it back to port. They left Acquisition Vessel 14 with a horrified docking agent then left Tralia Lightfoot’s corpse with an even more horrified secretary on their way up to the Undersecretary of the VP of Special Operations, KS Choi.
KS Choi has a kind demeaner and appeared horrified at the difficulties you went through. He authorizes Zuri of House Du'Mansia to receive Tralia’s pay. He asked for recordings of the fight on the station. If they doctor them right, SamTech could pin the death of dozens of worlds on the Southern Alliance (certainly satisfying the second clause of your contract). He tells you to drop off the recording with the data analysts on the 18th floor and go to the 23rd for accounting to pay you. Just before you left, Choi calls Roquesta (Rocket) Strauss in for a private discussion.
Floor 18 goes very quickly but there are some delays on the 23rd. The front desk attendant could not believe the size of your payment. He had to get his division head to authorize it. The div head called Choi and verified the payment. The payment is processed very fast and everything is going well until Jerzac Scarlewe said they “lost” one of the keycards for AV 14. Queue an incredible number of forms that had to be signed. By the end he was drawing fish and the like (and probably dicks) in the signature blocks. Hopefully one of the forms didn’t authorize SamTech to harvest his organs.
You guys got a new insanely armed and armored ship, the Kormoran. With the help of all the crew you were able to transplant the Ansible and keep it reasonably disguised during the process. Soon after hooking it up, a message comes across it:
Report. You’ve been silent for 3 days. Did you kill their captain?
-Cpt. R. Laga
The crew hustled over to the freighter to dig through the computer system. After breaching the unsecured area, you saw two sections hidden behind beefy firewalls, navigation and comms. Scotty was able to hack his way into the navigation section finding that this ship primarily operated in the general neighborhood of the Sol system with the exception of some trips out to The Hole. Scotty then tried to breach the comm section but triggered the wipe function, deleting the data.
Yes. Our comm system and PCU were heavily damaged in the fight.
-Cpt. Paguk
Good. Proceed to the contact for further instructions. Was the ansible damaged?
-Cpt. R. Laga
No, but our comm records were fried. We need new contact info for the contact.
-Cpt. Paguk
This isn’t Paguk is it?
-Cpt. R. Laga
No, this is Zharor. Paguk died in the boarding action while Vauhon was lost with the interceptor.
-Cpt. Paguk
Speak with Shodri. He will guide you to the contact.
-Cpt. R. Laga