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.