Session 023

  • Unusually Violent Neutron Star
  • Asteroid Impactors!
  • Dense Accretion Disk
  • Sleeping Gas
  • There's a drone that pushes slightly into shift too far into the system which causes a detonation that sends an asteroid colliding with one of the corvettes.
  • Passenger Liner Nevermore
    • An aging Damascus-class passenger liner, Nevermore is only minimally armed and was never designed to operate on her own for long.
    • Single Peashooter Turret
    • Minimal Defensive Shielding
  • 2x FA-77 Hawthorne
    • An older but reliable model of fighter, the FA-77 was once one of BLC's main-line crafts, and is still a popular commercial offering.
    • Stress: 2
    • Fifth Generation Space Superiority Fighter
    • Air-to-Air Menace
  • Heavy Corvette Anthurium
    • A member of the expedition fleet and a cutting-edge Byzantium-Lotus warship, the Anthurium is a far greater threat than most vessels of its size. It's equipped with state-of-the-art weapons, armor, and e-war, and it's not afraid to use them.
    • Byzantium Lotus Heavy Corvette
    • Minimal Maneuverability
    • Cautious and Capable Captain
    • Hull Stress: 4
    • Crew Stress: 3
    • Consequences:
      • Mild:
      • Mild:
      • Moderate:
    • Stunt: Reinforced Superstructure
      • You may defend against attacks targeting your hull with Physique.
    • Stunt: Military-Grade Armor Plating
      • When you defend against attacks using Physique, you gain Armor: 2.
  • Light Corvette Rio Grande 103
    • Though now more than a generation out of date, the Salton-Class corvette is a mainstay of the White Fleet, with solid maneuverability, reliability, and availability.
    • Light Assault Corvette
    • Decades Out Of Date
    • Stress: 3
    • Consequences:
      • Mild: Major Engine Trouble
  • Noelle is going try to take out the light corvette in the Fenrir.
  • Cadriae has synthesized some sleeping gas [ ][ ] and Adderall IR
  • The Anthurium feeds Noelle a bunch of horseshit.
  • Noelle informs them that White Fleet are marked hostile to the Cartographer's Union and that the Anthurium should open fire on them.
  • Mildly Tilted Opponent
  • Anthurium drops the act and goes for a sensor lock.
  • Isha opens with ECM targeting their engines with a Computer Virus.
  • Emmett fires off a salvo of EMP missiles sending their engines offline so they cannot move.
  • Noelle and Ramiel open fire on the Rio Grande 103, breaching missiles detonating the ship.
  • They open fire on the Ragnarok but Emmett takes down their missiles with our PDS. The turret is overheating slightly.
  • Celestine gets the Ragnarok into boarding position.
  • The unidentified bogeys are recognized as FA-90 Silverthorn fighters.
  • FA-90 Silverthorn
    • A state-of-the-art stealth fighter produced by Byzantium Lotus, the Silverthorn is designed to approach its targets unseen and punch well above its weight.
    • Sixth Generation Stealth Strike Fighter
    • Trouble: Exceedingly Complex Design
    • Veteran Pilot
    • Stress: 2
    • Stunt: Point-Blank Plasma Lance
  • Celestine docks.
  • Emmett and Isha board.
  • The stealth fighters arrive, one of them striking the Sunhawk. Ramiel has to rip Noelle's attention toward the ship which causes some pain.
  • Celestine has to break away from the Anthurium which compromises the hull.
  • Noelle attacks the Silverthorn that went after Celestine. It goes down.
  • Isha and Emmett take some gunfire, agitating Isha's freshly-healed wing. Emmet throws up a shield.
  • Our ECM hijacks the door turret and turns it on the other soldiers.
  • Isha chain-lightnings the eight soldiers at the door.
  • Four power-armor soldiers come down out of the elevator. Emmett pushes them out and shuts the door.
  • The Anthurium restores their engines.
  • Isha compels the captain to give up the ship and flee.
  • Ramiel presses to the front and sends the nuke at the escape shuttles and the fighters. It takes them all out.
  • The other corvettes bail out of the system when Isha threatens them.
  • The Nevermore contacts for a rendezvous once the threats are down.
  • Noelle compromises the Anthurium's systems. They started a purge, but there's some data still present. A Megara facility and some places that they'd been through recently from the nav computers. They weren't near the Sangxia detachments, but they had been offering other CU vessels escorts and leading them into White Fleet traps, at least three times. There's also mentions of some place called the Halcyon Offices; someone requested transport of asset 172 to Elisabet Cypress.
  • Captain Sienna Leone boards; she's a tan-skinned woman with tattoo sleeves. Wearing a long-sleeved tunic for a popular in-system transport liner company, but the sleeves have been torn off at this point. She's wearing the broad-billed company hat as well.
  • She transfers over an audio file with signatures indicating it was between the Rio Grande 103 and the Mississippi 47.
    • "47, note the part about the Sonora and Atacama."
    • Politicians back through the Skip spinning a yarn.
    • Their reward would be hibiscus-class frigates with Lotus navy crew. No more of these Olympus scrubs.
    • They lost a quarter of their fleet at the Battle of Little Caroline.
  • This is definitive proof that BLC is supporting the White Fleet.
  • The people aboard the Nevermore are malnourished and exhausted, but alive.
  • We're going to escort the Nevermore back to the Aresians and then head to Blackout Station because Feathers of Rust suggested that Maximillian may have some means to get the data back through the Skip.
  • Major Milestone: 2 skill points (28) and 1 refresh (8).

Date

January 16, 2022