Starfinder: Dead Suns 1 – Incident at Absalom Station 2
Game date: 2018 Mar 18
GM: Law
PCs: Bubbles, Syphillus, Arius, AJ (new PC Kulon?) & Obozaya – pregen Vesk Soldier (Thor)
Absalom Station:
Spent next few days later exploring the station
Invitation to embassy of Eox by Gavarlosk Noor – for this afternoon
(Eox is a planet of Elebriens – a species who had to transform themselves to undead to avoid extinction)
Undead guards. Foyer with black marble and purplish light. We are only non-undead.
Escorted to His Excellence
Says he knows about the dispute over ship and “driftrock”
Offers himself as a mediator
Says we are neutral
Go to Aqion
Find out what happened to crew
Determine the value of cargo
And find out about the driftrock
Offers each of us 600 cred
Arius asked for 2000 cred w/ diplomacy 25
Also, a package for the embassy, which is now quarantined
Personal favor, will increase to 1100 cred each
Arius succeeded in getting agreement for 1400
The Aquion:
Package ever been to Absalom station
Package not dangerous, illegal or contraband
As we are leaving, message bot flies up and spits out a letter
Cordially invited to offices of Ms. Joss (a female Lashunta) in Blue Rise Tower (where the Astral Extractions are based)
Marketing preparations
Says Aquion hired by company to explore and get rights to minerals
To me, the rules seem very plausible as defined in the contract
Aquion:
Found a few weeks ago.
A month before then, it was hired out
Leaving there, another messenger – Captain Otao Sericce (a red-skinned human). Invites us to his ship
He is an unofficial spokesman for the Collective.
They value their independence and freedom; struggle against the corps
Believes the crew prob thought that if they brought it back, it wasn’t “staking a claim” for the Astral Extraction in the future, but rather, it was something that they brought back, and is loot.
He is not disputing the AE claim, and will return all information about exploration to them.
They didn’t hire gang to kill people, but to protect their own. The AE hired the gang.
Creel has a cousin that is in the Collective.
Aquion
Freighter, medium sized – 4 engine
6-10 crew
To the Aquion
Shuttle is an upgraded Ringworks Wanderer station ship, called the Hippocampus
As we leave the Armada into the Quarantine Zone, I detect another ship leaving the Armada for the same destination
Tiny ship
Tiny Interceptor, called a Death’s Hand Necroglider
Message on transponder from Aquion
“Attention: Ship under quarantine. Do not approach.”
Landing
Entering into the airlock, found Akata
Exploring
Found a corridor with signs of battle, and a body of a space goblin with throat torn out
Fought a lot of Akata, and some space goblines
Have found residue of Noqual
Bridge
I restored ship functions
Got records
Discovery of driftrock
Found strange geods
Creatures hatched from the geods and attacked – descriptions are of the Akata
“Something else, it came from the rock. Will open ship to airlock, may do something.”
“Didn’t work – set autopilot to Absalom station. We are going to head to the rock.”
With that information, we returned to the airlock, only to find out that our shuttle was no longer there!!