You jump into the system, and immediately set course for the nearest known location of the drones. The asteroid you're heading towards clearly shows signs of recent mining activity. It's shrouded in a cloud of it's own gaseous debris, which beautifully reflects the sunlight towards your sensors. It's clear that not very long ago, the asteroid has been targeting with energy weapons, probably microwave mining lasers. A sad side-effect of this shortlived spectacle (within days or even hours, the gas will be diffused by pressure and solar winds) is that it jams your optical sensors, preventing you from getting a clear view of the surface.
Not that you need to anyway, a group of several mining drones rapidly breaks away from the asteroid with surprising speed. The ship adjusts course, and gives chase, an effort which is greatly aided by a bit of electronics warfare from the AI. It jams the enemy drone's communications and sensors, and their safety systems kick in, cutting of the engines, allowing you to match speed and drop them into the docking bay. You have captured 5 drones, but sensors also reveal that drones from across the system are setting course for the primary asteroid. You have counted at least ten groups of 5 drones each. You could possible get in range of another group or two before they join the main herd at the asteroid, but that would put you pretty close to it, and your sensors can't detect what's happening there.
Anyway, the mining drones were all carrying a decent amount of materials, which have been transferred to your cargo hold. The mining drones themselves have been deposited there to. They're equipped with a basic grasper, a wide focus microwave laser, a precision cutting laser, and a cheap spectrograph for mineral detection. They're capable of carrying a single missile, though none of the drones have one.
Tremor and Fernando do manage to create some interesting dumbfire missiles, at least on paper. They're simple affairs, a hydrogen oxygen powered missile with a primitive impact warhead. Unfortunately, they're not really stable. The fuel has to be kept cool, lest it will start to expand, and blow up the missile.
Missing Cargo
A cargoship containing new ammunition for the house Saeta military has gone missing. Broadcasts suggest that it has been hijacked by pirates.
A-29 Drone hunt
150 credits per mining drone, 500 credits per mining vessel, 2000 for taking out the 2 capital ships seen in the sector. Significant defenses are present.
Pirate Investigation
The government offers a 1000 credit bounty on each pirate ship, a 2000 credit bounty on any hints towards the location of the dignitary and a 10 000 credit bounty for his safe return, with an additional 10 000 credit bonus if the pirate base is destroyed.
Investigation
Contact with a research organization doing jump drive research has been lost. A concerned relative of one of the people working there has asked you to investigate. Do note that this installation was somewhat secret, and that entry technically is trespassing. The station had modest drone defenses, and has ceased reporting 2 weeks ago.
Reward: 1000 credits
Basic Necessities
- Fuel : 1 credit/unit
- Rations : 1 credit/unit ((1 unit last 1 person a week))
- Medical supplies: 10 credit/unit
-Simple Resources : 2/unit
-Complex resources : 10/unit
-Advanced resources: 20/unit
Space Ship self repair
- Duranium Armor : 10/Unit ((DR : 2))
- Teladine Armor : 20/unit ((DR : 3))
- Reinforced Teladine armor : 50/unit ((DR: 5))
- Fighter engine: 500
- Small Medbay : 750
- Turret mount repair: 1000 ((Small turret)) Redemption has 4 damaged turret mounts.
Small Weaponry
- Laser Point Defence Turret [500 credits]
- Laser Blaster turret [620 credits]
- Repeater auto cannon [570 credits]*
- Muon turret [930 credits]*
- Flak Turret [420 credits]*
- Railgun turret [690 credits]
- Coilgun turret [720 credits] *
- EM Gattling Turret [630 credits]*
- Ion turret [1200 credits]*
((*Available without turret at - 100 credits))
Ammunition
Flak shell: 60 credits/unit ((10 shots / unit.))
S Railgun/Coilgun shell: 20 credits/ unit ((10 shots/ unit))
Ion round: 100 credits/unit (2 full power shots/unit)
L "Mule" Railgun shell* : 100 credits/unit
L Explosive Railgun shell: 20 credits/ unit
*Note: Not a weapon. It's a pressurized container. They can't sell you real shells, because well...
Tools and other Equipment
Simple tools: 100 credits ((Can make simple resources from scrap))
Advanced tools: 300 credits ((Can make complex resources from simple resources))
Micro fabrication unit 1400 credits ((Can make advanced resources from complex resources))
Military space suit: 20/unit
Boarding pod: 130 /unit
Waldo Unit: 660/unit
Drones and ships
Gnome automated defense Drone : 1200/unit
Crawler Hull repair Drone : 200/unit
Missiles
- Tether missile (A short range missile with a magnetic hook attached to a rope) Cost: 20 ((Reusable))
- Aegis (State of the art anti missile missile) Cost : 20
- Interceptor (Fighter interceptor missile) Cost : 70
- Needle (average speed, average payload and average agility) Cost ; 60
- Swarm (5*Needle) Cost: 320
- Chaff (A sensor chaff missile, intended to fool enemy missiles and sensors Cost : 50
Crew:36 + AI
-Merc team
- Military software analyst
Credits: 0
Saeta Mercenary License
Current Location : Rim : Vanguard System, Entry
Local system: A-29
- Large planetoid [Presumed Mining ship presence. Sensor Jamming]
- Smaller planetoid*3
Known locations:
-Inner Rim: Midway ((A mostly abandoned sector with only a small outpost. Staging point for several expeditions in the Inner Rim ))
-Rim: Vanguard System ((Home to the House of Saeta, a small sector governement))
-Rim: Azumaril System ((A small, mostly independent sector))
-Rim: A 29: ((Ownership disputed))
Name: Redemption
Structural Health: Excellent shape
Armor:[200/200] DR: 5
- Note: Weak spot 15%
Dodge-rate: 8
Fuel: [323/2000]
- Weaponry: (Numbers prone to balancing. Also, they're not that important.)
- 2*Twin XL Particle Accelerator Laser
-Accuracy: 0
-Damage: 2*d30 + 10
- Twin L Railgun [Ammunition : 8*slug, 13*shrapnel 4* explosive]
-Accuracy: -2
-Damage: 4*d10
- Dorsal turret Mount : Flak turret [Ammo : 300/400]
- Ventral turret Mount
- 4*Missile Launcher [0/20 loaded]
-2 interceptor missiles 140
-1 Tether missile 20
-4 Aegis missiles 80
-Control
-Computer assisted controls (Custom programmed )
-Basic Sensor Suite with advanced targeting radar
-Life support
-Full operational. Includes small scale hydroponics.
-Integrated Damage control systems ((Automated blast doors, venting systems))
-Reactor
- Fully Functional
- Core at 60% ((This is the fuel level, not output(though both are related). Fuel is a specific, artificially rare isotope.))
-Jumpdrive
-Jumpcore: Fine
-Jumpcontrol: Manual only
-Engines
-Main engine: Functional
-Auxiliary engines: Functional
-Docking bay (2/5)
- Improved Gnome Drone [Armor: 5/5 (DR:4) ; Fuel: 0/5 ; Dodge: ]
- Gunship [Armor: 40/40 (DR: 3); Fuel: 12/50 ; Dodge 16]
-2*Missile pod [0/5]
-2*Integrated laser cannon
-Cargo Bay
-Alpha [200/400]
- Food [60]
- Random scrap [75]
- Metals [25] (Can be processed into advanced stuff)
- Rare metals [5] A variety of metals with interesting properties. High conductivity, thermal resistance, ...
- He-3 [35] (A fusion fuel of ages past. He-3 is what your reactor runs on, but it hasn't been used for ship based power supply for a good fifty years.)
-Beta [200/400]
- Simple tools [50]
- Advanced tools [150]
-Gamma [0/400]
-4*Mining drone [100]
-Delta [120/400]
- Crawler Hull repair drone [20]
- Mining drone [100]
* Open for adoption. Slightly plot relevant, so ... Also, these might need names. I'm not good with names.
Edit : About railgun shells. There are many reasons to have an explosive railgun shell. Mostly to insure that rather than putting a clean hole through your opponent, you leave nothing behind but debris.
Edit 2 : the OOC thread is linked in the OP
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