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Go after the rogue Captain

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Retrive the Fragile Cargo

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Drone Clearence

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Some Easy Escourt duty

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Screw all you rule obeying fools! There are other means of credit procurement!

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Total Members Voted: 3

[Jerick]

That turned out quite well. Have the fighter patched up asap, all free crew not sitting at a station go fix it. Have only around 5-7 men go over. Message the captain "Sorry for that defense gap Sir. We should have seen that trap. You can pressurize those decks again, our men will come aboard momentarily. A few will stay with you and a few will make some rounds to guarantee your free from pirates."

As for the crew of the cargo ship, just be respectful to the military, no grief at all.
Ask the guards nicely if we can take our mainframes to our shuttle and offer them to come along. If no, raise no objections.

Note - I have class 830 to 530 most days and I figure several turns will pass by in that time. Make sure we collect any broken boarding shuttles/fighters. Also I was thinking we should use our abundant crew men to pump out some fabrication parts from scrap during the quiet time of the trip.

"It happens," responds the merchant as he docks with you so your men can cross over "They just put some small holes in the ship is all,"
The fighter drone is badly damaged but not beyond repair.
By the time your crew aboard the merchant have fully sweept the ship for any hostiles the drone has been patched up.
Before continuning with the escourt you make a slight detour to salavage fighter parts and the drifting disabled fighter.

The marines tell you no, they intend to do a thorough check of the ship and everything on it when you get back to the station.

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System

• Station
• Scrapyard

Galvenn (known shipyard)
Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits:1710
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: fine
Weapons: four point defence turrets (energy based)
4 inch repeater cannon turrets x2
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 0 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 24

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x2
• Interceptor x10
• Hammer x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 0
Crew Morale: Above normal
Crew rations: 314 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Custom manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI into the ship systems)

AIs:1(Urist)

Other Craft:

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 22/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds)
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 115/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0, Cockpit damaged)

Hanger fuel tank:2757/4000

Cargo:
 basic ship parts
99 flak shells
Crawler Repair Drone
Advanced tools
damaged cargo loader
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
12 units advanced electronics
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
fighter parts

Spoiler: Cargo Vessel (click to show/hide)

Hull damage: fine
Armor: depleted
System Damage: minor (some unimportant systems aren't fully functional)
Fuel: 3,141/15,000
Weapon Status: damaged
Weapons: point defense turret

Crew:10
Crew Morale: normal
Crew rations: 70

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets)
Basic shuttle sysems Suport (You have basic computer control of comn, life support, doors and all basic systems)
Basic Shuttle manuvering and thrusters (The ship's controls are sluggish and crude,  with noticable lag between input and thruster activation)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)



Other Craft
Docked
LR Cargo Shuttle (Fuel: 321/600)


Cargo:
Mainframe(network)
Full of computers(only user interface devices left), luxury goods and heavy machinary
Sealed crate of unknown cases (quarentened)
Stack of drives with all the data that was on the cargo ship before you arrived
Fully stocked Medbay

[Immortal]

Keep heading to our destination.
Refuel our remote fighter.
Have all free crew begin pumping out fabrication parts as fast as they can.

[Angle]

We need to repair our fighter first.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

As for changing the Transponder, isn't it kinda late for that? Theres not much point now.

I agree.  It would probably be pretty obvious for the destroyer to escort one ship into port and then have the exact same ship leave with a different transponder.

[Jerick]

Keep heading to our destination.
Refuel our remote fighter.
Have all free crew begin pumping out fabrication parts as fast as they can.

The cargo ship and destroyer reach the station and as promised the military give a impossibly thorough search of the ship.
They find many more mysterious cases hidden in places the crew had yet to look and a crate the size of a coffin in one of the fuel tanks.
They insist on taking the stack of drives with all the data that was on the cargo ship before you arrived as well, claiming it as evidence.
Juilius seems rather uneasy when he finialy gets back to you "The owners who ever they are did everything they could to prevent a paper trail leading back to them from this thing, not surprising... Since they'll never be stupid enough to come and claim it I spoke to the guys in the registry office and got it reregistered for you, it's now your's. Take care of it and if you find anything else on board that's peculiar please hand it in to the authorities. Oh and the registry office will want to know what you'll name. Now if you'll excuse me I need to report to headquarters."
It's only a short while later that the destroyer undocks and heads for the system's star at full burn.

Have all free crew begin pumping out fabrication parts as fast as they can.

Turns out that isn't very fast.
Refining materials into better materials is a difficult and work intensive task.
First everything not of the right material must be removed and the remainer melted down and recast (for metals at least).
The limited confines of the Firestar's workshop don't help much ethier.
Your crew only produce 3 units of fabrication parts.

We need to repair our fighter first.

The crew repair cockpit, control and life support systems of the recovered fighter using 1 advanced electronic component in the process.

Eventualy you reach the Tabien's star.
Any object that travels at twice the speed of light near a powerful graveity source with a bearing that points directly to something of similar mass to the graveity source will find themselves instantly teleported to the area around the other graveity well.
For reasons related to pyhsics transmissions can't jump, so society has interstellar travel but not interstellar comnincations.
The merchant vessel is calculating a jump vector which will take you to Galvenn but once you jump you'll be out of contact with the cargo transport.
Are there any commands you wish to give it before your trip to Galvenn (you can stall the merchant if nessicary)

Spoiler: Nav computer (click to show/hide)

Tabien System

• Station
• Scrapyard

Galvenn (known shipyard)
Jayld
Vrinis
Ilbrier (Digital Rights Front Headquarters)
The disputed Zone
Lastros Ak'Mkal
Braben Hall (Black market)

Spoiler: Firestar status (click to show/hide)

Credits:1710
Hull damage: fine
Armor: Full
System Damage: Working order
Weapon Status: fine
Weapons: four point defence turrets (energy based)
4 inch repeater cannon turrets x2
twin linked railguns
400 missile tubes
Railgun shells: 0 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
4 inch Cannon shells: 24

Missiles:

• Blinder x2
• Tether Anchor x2 (currently in use: 0)
• Giber
• Ravenhawk x2
• Interceptor x10
• Hammer x2

Crew:24 (1 cast)+(1 away for treatment on Tabien)
Specialists: Doctor 1/ Hacker 1/ Security 1/ Fighter pilots 0
Crew Morale: Above normal
Crew rations: 314 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets + main gun)
Custom sysems Automation(Systems, doors, lifesupport all respond automaticly to crisis situations, are automatic and only active when needed saving power)
Custom manuvering and thrusters (The Firestar's controls respond in realtime but lack the percision of a better control system)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)
Tailored AI interaction module(designed to link the AI into the ship systems)

AIs:1(Urist)

Other Craft:

Hanger
Scout Drone(Fuel: 10/10)
Remote Fighter(Fuel: 200/200)
(Forward Mounted Gattling gun:670 gattling rounds)
Old Knell fighter(Fuel; 115/200)
(Forward mounted beam weapon x2, Missile Countermeasures: 0)

Hanger fuel tank:2649/4000

Cargo:
 basic ship parts
99 flak shells
Crawler Repair Drone
Advanced tools
damaged cargo loader
smoke grenades
explosives (one mines worth)
Escape pods
Some small arms
12 units advanced electronics
3 Fabrication Components
2 Advanced Fabrication Components
fighter parts

Spoiler: Cargo Vessel (click to show/hide)

Hull damage: fine
Armor: depleted
System Damage: minor (some unimportant systems aren't fully functional)
Fuel: 3,141/15,000
Weapon Status: damaged
Weapons: point defense turret

Crew:10
Crew Morale: normal
Crew rations: 70

Computer System:
Type: Armok Modular system
Modules: Superior Targeting (Turrets)
Basic shuttle sysems Suport (You have basic computer control of comn, life support, doors and all basic systems)
Basic Shuttle manuvering and thrusters (The ship's controls are sluggish and crude,  with noticable lag between input and thruster activation)
Basic Shuttle jump calculating (Very long jump calculation times)



Other Craft
Docked
LR Cargo Shuttle (Fuel: 321/600)


Cargo:
Mainframe(network)
Full of computers(only user interface devices left), luxury goods and heavy machinary
Fully stocked Medbay

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

I don't like how worried that destroyer seemed to be.  We might want to get our cargo ship out of the area.  Repair the weapons and armor, refuel and have it head into some rather remote part of the debris field and look around for anything useful.

After that, hit the warp drive!

[Deamonpies]

Agreed,

While we are out of contact have it search the debris field for useful things.

Also advise them to try and fabricate some defenses for themselves.

[Angle]

I don't know if we should leave it wandering the debris field, that might be risky. It'd suck to have it pirated.

Also, thank Julius and tell him we'd be happy to help him out or something if he ever needs it. Try and pursue a long term working relationship with him, he might someday give us info on pirate activity or military contracts or some such.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

I don't know if we should leave it wandering the debris field, that might be risky. It'd suck to have it pirated.

Where do you think we should put it?  The only military vessel in the sector just high-tailed it for the jump point.  I think the best idea is to make it hard to find until the Firestar gets back.

[Armok]

(The no ftl communications thing dosn't make sense: You could just send lots of small, unmanned probes with harddrives through with regular intervals. Probably fired from some kind of FTL railgun and actually jumping while still inside the barrel so they don't need their own engines. Poorer systems not having such a system makes more sense. )

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Wait. Maybe we should get our boarding crew off the merchant ship first.  I don't like the idea of them being stranded there with no way of contacting us...

[Angle]

I assume we already did.

[Kadzar]

Wait. Maybe we should get our boarding crew off the merchant ship first.  I don't like the idea of them being stranded there with no way of contacting us...

If it's needed, maybe we or they could send a message along with any ship that happens to be travelling between the two systems. It would, of course, be one-way, and probably not very fast, but it should work. And if they get stranded, they can probably get some help from someone in the system.

EDIT: Whoops. When you said merchant ship, I was thinking you were saying the cargo ship.

[Jerick]

(The no ftl communications thing dosn't make sense: You could just send lots of small, unmanned probes with harddrives through with regular intervals. Probably fired from some kind of FTL railgun and actually jumping while still inside the barrel so they don't need their own engines. Poorer systems not having such a system makes more sense. )

By transmission I meant a signal sent.
I mentioned data couriers some time ago, these are small probes that are capable of jumping and are pretty much what you describe (except that they have engines).
Some companies maintain regular routes through which data couriers pass, delievering messages and updating databases as they go.
Tabien is rarely visited though.
This has several effects, mostly it means it's possible to outrun changes to the registry (you can outpace your own arrest warrent) or intercept data couriers to stop news spreading.

I assume we already did.

Getting them on or off only takes a few minutes so ethier way they're off now.

I'm not sure what the consensus is with the cargo ship.

[Armok]

(Except you couldn't do that in practice, because between mayor systems couriers would likely depart every few seconds, and as soon as they arrive important data like that would be transferred to outgoing ones to all connected systems, etc. Being able to put a request on a courier and get the requested data back on another one minimum latency is critical for there to even be such a thing as a browsing experience. )