The Event Horizon limps its way to Deep Space Drydock 79, needing repairs but with no money with which to do so. They're let into dock at a standard docking armature and meet with thew dockmaster to figure out how to get into drydock to affect the needed repairs. The dockmaster points the crew to Edgar Pelkonen, an information broker who's often looking for people for odd jobs and likely the only one with the bankroll to repair a front line cruiser.

Meeting with Pelkonen, the information broker offers a few jobs that could be done, such as inspecting the combat strength of the Government's Hermes dreadnought or picking up a package with no questions asked. Knowing only of the Hermes that it's a five kilometer warship with an extensive escort fleet, the crew settled on the latter.

While moving the ship into drydock, the crew notices another warship at the facility, a large frigate christened the Grassy Knoll. They don't know for sure (to my recollection) but suspect that it's a Coalition ship.

While the Event Horizon was getting patched up, Hawkins works on a personal project as well as seeding fake conspiracy theories about the disappearance of the Ticonderoga. Most official reports say that it was the casualty of a subspace drive malfunction; Hawkins latches onto the ones questioning if the rebel freighter Forever Young had any involvement and publishes various theories in different places. The most out-there theory, and his personal favorite, is the idea that the Ticonderoga was abducted by aliens who live in subspace and which may be planning an invasion of the galaxy. So naturally it is this theory that confronts him when a Gabon recognizes him as coming from the Event Horizon, and knows that that ship was once the Ticonderoga. (Try to keep up.) When confronted, Hawkins states that it's not the Ti but instead an alien copy of it and oh my I've gone sideways.

Anyhow, the Gabon, who identifies himself as Jeff when asked, offers a place to meet with the crew and by the end of the encounter it's fairly obvious that he's seen through the subspace alien ruse.

Before doing so, however, there's the matter of the package. Fully repaired, the Event Horizon sets out with a few disabled guns and with an IFF transponder identifying it as a vessel registered to the Variable Shipping Alliance. With minimal trouble they make their way to Bright Way. They go to the previously-established bar to meet with their Ginok contact; being the only Ginok in an establishment full of Humans might have been enough but like the EV's ground team he was also wearing a VSA uniform. He compliments them on the disguise idea as it's made things much simpler; after some small talk they retrieve the sealed container and load it first into the shuttle, then up into orbit on the Event Horizon. Upon leaving dock, two other ships leave dock and begin to pursue, but with a head start the Event Horizon[ sustains only minor damage. The package is returned to Pelkonen, who gives them a bit extra (which is put back into keeping the ship topped off).

The Event Horizon now fully repaired, and crewed for a single full shift, the crew is now ready for their next adventure.

Let's push back to the 6th. Vapes is inconsistent, Shadow has a writing assignment that's kicking his ass, my power went out last night so I need tonight for recording. See you all next week.

Helloooooo [echo]

Spent the majority of my free time for the past three weeks doing a mission in Elite: Dangerous, going 22,000 light years out and back with an aggressive timetable and a ship very ill-suited to the journey. Overall time spent: 55 hours.

I wrote up the journey to the blog I write for. Feel free to read about exploration, astronomy, and my (mostly) anime viewing habits here: http://whatchareading.com/tag/colonia-a … ;order=ASC (I know that the site is slow; he's looking at switching hosts because it's just getting unreasonable as of late.)

If you want to skip all the drama and just see me coming back into the home station, check it out here:

We have a crew of rough-around-the-edges, but variously experienced, gang members working under you guys to fully man the ship, and have a compact with a pirate to assist you. Nah, you didn't miss much.

Also I will be happy if I have to neither pronounce nor type Hiranyagarbha again in my life.

I'll be there, taking a night off from my Elite run to last minute a bunch of stuff for you guys

You're on the way to the drydock, correct, with no way to pay for repairs? Excellent...

Locations (that aren't in the book)

Hiranyagarbha (Indian, Coalition sympathies)
Highchapel (lightly colonized world in Epislon Eridani)
Lille Globus (Danish settlement, permanent frontier)

Is everyone else good for tomorrow? If we're going to cancel I'd like to know so I can go see Doctor Strange after voting.

Yay, that's one conscious character that can make it! Vapes won't be on until later, if at all, but we should be good to do *something* tonight.

Yeah, officially calling off this week as well. Which is just as well for me too, I can spend more time playing the Elite: Dangerous patch that just dropped - I mean uh, working on my LCC entry due in less than a week.

Yes. Both plugs and ports. USB 3.0 hubs are very colorful like that. I don't think that this carries over to the Type-C connector though, even though ideally they should all be 3.0 (pro tip - they aren't, but even the 3.0 ones aren't blue).

Just to confirm, we're all on tonight? I'm at a company BBQ at the boss' house but plan on leaving around 7-7:30 to be here by the normal 8 EST (EST, Vapes) start time.

There is a *slim* chance that someone I haven't talked to in a while will try to contact me tonight during the session. You guys come first but it might be a five minute phone call where we work out a time to talk it over later. Or we tell each other off and go back to status quo.

Either way, we oughta have a lot of fun, huh?

Sunday or Tuesday, doesn't matter, I feel like this shit always tries to go down on FIYD night. Well like I said, My commitment is to you guys. I'd kind of like to get the Ticonderoga out of deep space tonight

SESSION 2

Crew roster in first post has been updated to reflect new players and their position at the start of the game. I'll be making a new thread to keep track of all characters so that you don't have to keep referring to the top of this one.

Koll-Cadaav manages to keep Rope Squadron on the ship as well and makes his way up to the bridge. Outside the bridge, security is cutting through the blast doors. Koll, with the twelve pilots of both squadrons combined, arrive as the firefight begins. Natasha is knocked to near-unconsciousness while Owens and Reed are knocked out. Four out of five guards, including Colonel Thomas Jeremiah, are escorted to the brig/security by Vertigo squadron, while crew and Rope head to med bay.

Michael takes the opportunity of a mostly empty ship to loot.

On the way to med bay, crew runs into five people on observation deck. One Government loyalist speaks up, the other four are sympathizers and the one guy surrenders, is sent up to brig.

Koll stays behind, sees a lot of bad flashing lights, is told to touch nothing.

Crew arrives in med bay to find Michael looting the place. Don’t quite know that that’s what he’s doing but he’s obviously skilled so they put him to work on the crew members. Hawkins tells two Rope pilots to retrieve the escape pod.

Koll sees the pilots, checks what they’re doing, and heads down to hangar to meet escape pod; is joined by Hawkins when he gets there. Escape pod comes aboard; life support was damaged and emergency oxygen was disabled so lone occupant suffocated. Is sent to morgue.

Call from Vertigo squad members sent up to secure bridge. “Uh, did you guys lock down the bridge again? No? Then we have a problem.

SYSTEM STATUS

STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY: UNCOMPROMISED
HULL INTEGRITY: 92%
REACTORS: CONTAINMENT AUTO-SHUTDOWN ACTIVATED IN CORE 2. CORE 1 ONLINE.
NAVIGATION: ONLINE
SUBLIGHT THRUSTERS: MALFUNCTION IN ENGINE ARRAY 1, ENGINE ARRAY 2 ONLINE
SUBSPACE GATE INTERFACE: OFFLINE
SUBSPACE DRILL: OFFLINE
SENSORS: ONLINE
POINT DEFENSE WEAPONS: MALFUNCTION IN EMPLACEMENTS 5 AND 7, ALL OTHERS ONLINE
MASS DRIVER: ONLINE

IN THE BRIG

Captain Erren-Laiyerr
Keller-Shedeer
Colonel Thomas Jeremiah
3x Security
1x Crewman

IN THE MORGUE

1x Crewman

(Until you guys dock to offload people I'm going to be keeping track of this; brig has three cells that can fit about four people each, morgue has space for half a dozen bodies.)