Hey there folkses. I'll be filling in for File for these set of rolls!
Laugh and hold my hand out.
"Nothing my friend now shall we get down to business?
(9) The man eyes your hand impassively, silent save for the harsh thrum of his respirator. The ceiling shakes with the thunder of falling meteors, and the strip lighting flickers, briefly casting you both into darkness before returning the clinical, cold blue hue of the LED bulbs. As he comes back into view, he answers you, adjusting the submachine gun in his lap, perhaps pointedly.
"I believe we will, yes."He reaches down, careful to never take his trigger hand off the gun, and produces a battered, dull-grey datapad.
"You will find the coordinates to a certain planet in the middle ring, on this datapad. On this certain planet there are...building plans, for a certain model of synthetics. I want you to retrieve them. And I want you to do so quietly.(7)
"You will receive 2.5 A-Credits for this operation, once it has been completed, and 2.5 A-Credits now...Should you accept," he adds, tossing the datapad over to you.
The fleet the Hayes gave to Magnus is to protect the Vanaheim system's poorer planets from pirates.
Magnus leaves Asgard and goes to Voandrath, to take his position as Minister.
(x) The fleet immediately moves out, patrolling the vacuum between the planets, and making berth in the various stations. There have been no reports of problems yet, which is likely a good thing.
(7) You arrive to Voandrath shortly, your vessel landing along a strip, along with many others, each owned by other high profile members of the federation. As you exit your ship and make your way to the main building, a pasty young man with thinning black hair approaches you, adjusting his spectacles, which, you note, would appear to provide some sort of display- Perhaps they are linked to the extranet.
"I am so very glad to see that our Ministers have decided to pay us a visit here, he comments, upon spotting you,
"Rather than administering to their planets' needs.Have my mercs fan out, blocking any way out. Sit down, be "conned", casually bring up job as bounty hunter, show badge, watch for reaction.
(7) Your mercs fan out as best they can, but being on the street there are still plenty of ways for the man to make an escape. Never mind the crowds that have gathered, and which very well might block your path...though the publicity of this event might work to your advantage, as well.
(3) You take a seat across from the man, and allow him to talk you up. It isn't long until your several creds down, and you're certain that if this kept this up for long he might be able to make an A-Cred off you- He is
good. Still, of course, you're better. Casually making small talk with him as he fleeces you, you mention that you're a bounty hunter. It doesn't go as smooth as you might have hoped, though, and you can't help but feel that your choosing to show him the badge was a little canned.
Perhaps it was. The grizzled man furrows his brow, and frowns, before looking back up to you.
"S'nice, an' all," he answers after a moment, without even a hint of recognition or fear in his eyes. In fact, he even cracks a grin, spreading his hands over the cardboard box on which he has dealt and shuffled the cards,
"A bounty hunter like yerself, m'sure yeh'll have no trouble findin' tha money card 'ere."Emmanuel sighed, then remembered about the earthquake. Apparently, the cause of the tremor was a ship which hit the ground. He could not help but wonder if there had been any survivors and what exactly had happened for the ship to hit the planet.
Search for information on the crashing ship.
(2) You do your best to gather as much information as you can. Among the chaos and wreckage, though, nobody
alive seems to have any information to give you. Some people seem to think it was a terrorist attack, some people are talking about dark cults who worship the terrors as harbingers of change. Yet more seem to think that the pilot was merely drunk, or that there was some kind of technical error. Many of these people, however, weren't even on the ship, and the wreckage is such that you can't get anywhere near close enough to find out for yourself. (9) That is, through less covert means. You're quite certain that there are survivors, and some radio chatter among the soldiers who are aiding in digging people free of the rubble implies that there are - But those without proper clearance aren't being allowed anywhere near it.