Rae – Mission Log: Hugh's Starfinder Campaign

Should I Stay or Should I Go

Posted on 12 Desnus, 325 AG by wererat

We spent hours getting the station set up to be safe. I needed more time to get the communication array working so I could report back to Venn. But I would likely have plenty of time. We said goodbye to our friends and made sure they made it down to the planet safely. They had a window of time when the magic barrier was thinner; we determined that their sun was the cause, so it was somewhat predictable. This current thinning was set to go several hours, and maybe I’d not hear from them for five days.

They were able to say, before they found a safe place to land, that they could see the wreck of the Starfinder Society’s ship. The PDSU was to land twelve miles away from it, on a plateau.

It turned out that it wasn’t too difficult to put the station in geosynchronous orbit. I will never know if that was what caught the attention of a Swarm scout ship. I did know that they were headed straight towards me, and would be here in nine minutes. I tucked the bots into the escape pod, set an auto distruct to blow up the station a few minutes after their arrival.

We snuck out the back, aiming our pod as best we could towards where our crew ended up. I do have a problem. I am having more trouble with contacting them. I think I’m landing halfway between the ship and the crew. I do know two tiny and one small bot will be difficult to carry, if the anti-tech (pro-magic?) field gets too strong.

And I have a second problem. We adjusted the coordinates to leave the station heading the other direction, and though we’ll land near the PDSU, I won’t find it easily without a compass or some coordinates. If I could see the station to… oh… yeah okay, I know where the station is was.

Please Don’t Go

Posted on 11 Desnus, 325 AG by wererat

I, too, am worried about the bots. Heck. I’m worried about the whole ship, crew, Starfinders, and this decrepit station. I finally did some math and real7zed the history only goes back to the Gap. Of course. I wonder if they noticed. I wonder if any if the people are out there, maybe in some sort of generation ship.

So, I think the bots and I will stay up here. We figured out how to make a little “care package” to drop to the area where we think the distress call was. A reply could mean the bots are safer down there, but none so far.

I plan to keep an escape pod here if I get word it’s safe for us to come down. If I get another distress call, I will likely stay here to send calls to Absalom Station– Venn, specifically.

Widget tells me the bots have helpfully put “useful stuff” in the escape pod “Please Don’t Go,” for me to use here and for if we need to leave suddenly. I’ll go through it before the ship leaves. Hmm. Maybe I should keep the “Should I Stay or Should I Go” escape pod as well, just for all the stuff the bots want to keep.

Radio, radio, radio, radioactive

Posted on 27 Gozran, 325 AG by wererat

We docked with a station above the planet we now know is called Cavan. I admit to not feeling so well, and even Sresaka is looking less green around the gills. We’ve encountered non-shielded radioactivity. We fixed that first, of course!

In due course, we checked every room, stateroom, and dining areas, finding 19 year’s worth of records from 302 year’s ago, as well as some datapads. We did learn that the former occupants looked a bit like the kathasis– only two arms though. But tall, with elongated skulls. And the handy fueling cum research station.

They had no interstellar travel, these “calvanites,” but they did manage the 50′ diameter space station, and had records on their reseach, and station sensors. Oh, and also the massive energy spike that must have wiped out all the planet’s tech, as well as, I’m guessing, the population of the planet. Unless they are hiding. The spike was caused by an attempt to create clean energy. We’ll go through the research data to see what happened. We are 302 years too late to help the original occupants, but hopefully the Starfinder Society group is okay.

Now to determine if they are in the jungles below, or in one of the ruined cities. Widget is concerned that tech won’t work down there, and he’s probably concerned that he’s tech himself.

Hold On

Posted on 13 Gozran, 325 AG by wererat

Before we leave Absalom Station, and analyzing info from Starfinder Society, we took a box to Venn that we found in maintenance tunnels. Sresaka got sprayed before I could say it was a trap. Luckily the spore hallucinations cleared it in a few hours.

Back to ship: it took 12 hours to get to Amber’s last known location, which had a signal similar tsignal o a Star Stone. We arrived in a new system and scanned it for a day to find it’s filled with gravity wells: A central star plus several planets, and a familiar distress beacon, which we follow to a planet. Brock picked up small artificial satellite like a station orbiting Distress Signal Planet. So, we approach the Station orbiting the planet first. As Widget just said, woo.

Turbo Encabulator

Posted on 29 Pharast, 325 AG - 3 Gozran, 325 AG by wererat

Too many weird things are happening in this station. Other than the robot fighting we’ve not enjoyed, the cousin and sister not really remembering anything personal from our childhood and elective surgeries for upgrades we’ve had, it’s been confusing. We also found some shipping labels in one of the maintenance tunnels we were checking out for Venn. We decided to check with him and see if we should go back to Akiton, as the destination on the shipping labels seem to be headed that way. I hope they weren’t sending tashtari there. I think it might be too cold for them…. and as we’re telling Venn in person, he breaks the news that Amber and a group from the Starfinder Society had a ship traveling through the Vast to check some previously unknown planet. They sent a distress signal three days ago that just got here. Maybe we should go look for them? I feel like we can maybe ask Cornpuff and Jasmine to go to Akiton instead, but they themselves are a mystery. Venn can sort it out.

I just caught Widget talking in some kind of meeting with a bunch of other robots and AIs. I think he was explaining his latest invention. It reminds me of something, but I can’t remember what.