Session 013

  • Situation Aspect: The Stars are Alive
  • Dart & Willow sign the treaties.
  • We join the meeting for the evacuation of Little Caroline.
  • Yendara shies away from the antimatter torpedo provision.
  • She reveals that the antimatter missiles are aboard the Gelanor's Prophecy, an Aresian destroyer. There are two class-3s and two class-4s.
  • Cira intercepts us on our way back to the Fenrir and apologizes to Isha.
  • Isha touches base with Feathers of Rust who clues us in that SW-14 had some Aresian comms chatter and, a day ago, there was a brief distress signal that was silenced after a few seconds.
  • It'll take us about five days to get there.
  • We're pulled from shift by a massive gravity well.
  • We exit shift space and get a boost, well I'm awake now.
  • It appears to be attempting to push us back into the nebula.
  • The anomaly seems to be pulsing in some kind of pattern. Isha studies it, gaining a boost (it's gravity).
  • Isha requests that we move a little closer.
  • There's colors swirling around one another.
  • Lasani studies the colors curiously and recognizes something. In the 2200s when space piracy was first taking off in the Milky Way, there was encoding based on flashing colors.
  • Isha attempts to communicate with the gravity but it doesn't respond.
  • She determines to send the communicator into space.
  • Isha sends herself out the airlock and gravity grabs her.
  • Emmett attempts to follow her and gravity seems to try to force her back in. Emmet catches herself and gains a boost (I'm coming Isha).
  • Noelle hears a screech in her head before it solidifies into a voice.
  • Ydre can't hear Isha. Noelle somehow realizes that she can make herself a relay.
  • Ydre makes Isha promise to tell Ydre's parents and Tosh what happened.
  • Isha wants to do some tests on us.
  • She runs some scans on herself and Cadriae first.
  • Cadriae synthesizes some kind of sedative and the scanner goes wild.
  • Emmett doesn't think she can do magic on command, and Cadriae's solution to that is to synthesize a panic attack.
  • It works.
  • Noelle doesn't exhibit any magical ability; there's a blip for a moment before it flat-lines.
  • Lasani doesn't show any either.
  • Isha suggests that emotions cause abilities to manifest more potently.
  • Noelle kisses Lasani to provoke her.
  • There's no signs from Lasani still, but she turns the kiss around on Noelle.
  • Sometime around the point where Noelle's gagging on Lasani's tongue, lights and speakers on the ship abruptly react. The magic sensors spike.
  • Noelle is able to use it successfully by getting a centrifuge spinning.
  • Ramiel and Noelle have a heart-to-heart.
  • Isha discovers that there's a quartz crystal in Emmett's gauntlet that appears to be ambiently collecting magic.
  • Algata heavy corvette Forget Not the Uleno is broadcasting C.Q.D.
  • It's decimated.
  • There's a broadcast coming from a drone, but it's not algata in make.
  • There's an Aresian corvette damaged and inactive nearby. There's a massive hole where the reactor would be.
  • There's no response from the Aresians on comms.
  • We board.
  • Much less comfortable than expedition corvette.
  • The emergency lights were off which means they were switched off when evacuating to provide emergency power to the black box.
  • This was the Molpadia, one of the Aresian corvettes that went missing before the attack.
  • They were attempting to relocate the Argo.
  • They were intercepted by White Fleet and attacked; three corvette class, one frigate-class.
  • They did manage to dispatch courier drones to the main Aresian fleet.
  • The black box pauses before resuming with captain's notes. White Fleet attempted to board and were repelled.
  • The remaining Aresian fleet and a bunch of others (including the Gelanor's Prophecy) in and recovered the Molpadia before pursuing the White Fleet vessels.
  • We upload the black box data to the drone and add that we're in pursuit of the Aresian fleet.
  • After pursuing for another day, we find wreckage from a frigate with mine remnants.
  • Noelle follows their trail from there for another half a day.
  • We find a drone broadcasting a rally cry for CU fleets.
  • It was destroyed by a White Fleet heavy fighter and broadcasts a call for CU to return to SW13.
  • We destroy the new drone and pursue the heavy fighter into the cloud of the nearby gas giant.
  • Situation Aspects:
    • Shrouded in Gas
    • Just the Two
    • Ready to Dance
  • Noelle goes deeper into atmo to get around the fighter, Isha gets a target lock, and Emmett destroys it.
  • It's not a modern ship; older design but definitely White Fleet colors.
  • We trail a few more shifts and blow up a few more bait drones.
  • We hit a dead end at some dust clouds.
  • We're not terribly far from one of the locations that the transmitters in the Embassy attempted to relay to.
  • We determine to head that way.
  • It only takes about a day to get there.
  • There are ship emissions in the area; three of corvette scale & one of corvette scale. They match the profile of the White Fleet.
  • It's pretty obvious that the White Fleet are baiting the Aresians.
  • The White Fleet ships are heading toward a planet; it has a dense atmosphere and is sending/receiving transmissions.
  • Noelle chases them down. When they realize that no one else is coming, they turn to try to hit us back, Playing Linebacker.
  • Isha does some ECM with active jamming.
  • Emmett notices that there are two stealth fighters, blind as a... bat?
  • Boost against the frigate when they attempt to shoot us. Flak You.
  • Eat My Plasma (x2).
  • Engines on the Fritz.
  • Isha manages to get through the jamming just slightly. What comes through is bits of music.
  • We hit atmosphere.
  • Percussive Maintenance.
  • We end up running through the mountain range.
  • We evade the ships by a landslide, literally.
  • Just as Noelle is about to celebrate, there's an EMP missile lock.
  • Noelle cuts out the EMP's thrusters and detonates it underneath of the fighter with her magic.
  • It managed to get back online before hitting the ground, only for a massive, crimson spear to shoot out of the ground and impale it.
  • We touch down to figure out what happened. There's a vaguely humanoid figure near to the wreckage who slips into the trees as we disembark.
  • She's vaguely vulpine with one giant fluffy tail and two shorter ones to counterbalance. 5' tall.
  • She spears the other fighter, looks at us, and in Sol standard says, "Bitchin'."

Date

December 15, 2021