Crew (PCs)

Skipper – Shane Hensley
Rico – Norm Hensley
Patch – Steve Todd
Kowalski – Al Bohannon

Others (NPCs)

Colonel Jaeger (Kalian), Charter Head for Space Station JC701
Tovrin Cable (Human), President of the Omicron Colonies
Dr. Steven Ward (Human), JC701 Chief Medical Officer
Zhi Fang (Tazanian), Head of JC701 Merchants Association, Owner of Fangtasia
Dominic Newland (Serran), Prophet of the Techno-God
Martain Capella (Rigellian), Ambassador of the Rigellian Empire
Tennor Blackfinch (Saurian), Oneiades Pirate and Spaceport Owner

The Bodyguard Brigade finally makes it to JC-701, only to find it filled with Pilgrims of the Holy Unifying Binary (HUB) church. The rumor going round with the Pilgrims is that “Binary Eden”, a planet where they can find pure peace with technology, is somewhere in this quadrant. The skeptical station crew call them “CHUBs”, putting Church in front of the acronym.

Col. Jaeger calls them into a meeting to discuss their next assignment. The Holy Binary, Dominic Newland, joins them to give them some special technology developed by the church that should help them if needed. He also states that the rumor of Binary Eden is not supported by the church but despite his efforts, it persists.

Col. Jaeger then brings Martain Capella in who explains that his high council has called him to a meeting on Rigel Hive V. Col. Jaeger has assigned the Bodyguard Brigade to transport the Ambassador and bring him back.

The Brigade makes the trip no problem, but while waiting on the station, they overhear some Rigellians talking about “Eden”, “Pilgrims” and “Gullible”. Thinking the worst, Skipper and Rico attack them. Soon after, Martain announces that he’s under attack near the ship and that they need to leave immediately.

After leaving the station, Martain explains that Eden is just a ruse by some Rigellian slavers to lure unsuspecting Pilgrims to their slavery. But before they can contact or return to the station, stowaway Pilgrims gas the crew and take the ship to “Eden”.

The crew wakes up and contact JC-701. Col. Jaeger tells them to protect the Pilgrims and sends the JCS Opportunity to help them out, but it will be 6-10 hours before they arrive. The Brigade enters the temple, discover hiding Rigellians, then take the elevator down to the brood chamber where they find a Rigellian torturing the daughter of the JumpCorp CEO.

Rescue attempts begin, then large Bone Spiders arrive, quickly followed by a Bone Spider Queen! After frantic fighting, the daughter is saved, all the Rigellians and spiders are killed and JCS Opportunity arrives to help transport the Pilgrims back to JC-701.

Crew (PCs)

• Pilot Trigger (Owen – Serran)
• Science Officer and acting Commandor of JC701 Emo (Steve – Deader)
• Medical Officer Ssanjan “Sam” (Ben – Saurian)
• Engineer Nolan Brilliant (Alex – Human)
• Acting Security Officer Ferris (Mike B – Serran)

Others (NPCs)

• Colonel Jaeger (Kalian), Charter Head for Space Station JC701
• Tovrin Cable (Human), President of the Omicron Colonies
• Dr. Steven Ward (Human), JC701 Chief Medical Officer
• Zhi Fang (Tazanian), Head of JC701 Merchants Association, Owner of Fangtasia
• Dominic Newland (Serran), Prophet of the Techno-God
• Martain Capella (Rigellian), Ambassador of the Rigellian Empire
• Tennor Blackfinch (Saurian), Oneiades Pirate and Spaceport Owner

The explosion ripped through JC701 station, catching Emo, Ferris and the Rigellian ambassador full on. Thanks to the quick work of Dr. Ward and Nurse Sam, there was only one casualty…the suicide bomber himself. Martain Capella warns Emo that the only way to prevent the collapse of the treaty and war with Rigellia is to identify and bring to justice those responsible. “You have two weeks, then, war!”

Acting quickly, the crew begins their investigation. They determine the imposter security officer was actually a member of JumpCorp. After searching his quarters they find evidence that the Oneiades pirates provided the explosives. Trigger suspects President Cable of being involved and finds the financial records for the Omicron Colonies but can’t make heads or tails of them. Ferris reaches out to Zhi Fang, hoping to get some insight into the Oneiades pirates and how to track down the culprits. Ferris makes a great persuasion roll and agrees to do a favor for Zhi if he’ll point them in the right direction and also review the financial documents. Zhi agrees in return for a favor of his own and Ferris agrees.  

Zhi tells him that the Oneiades pirates have a spaceport in the neutral zone between Omicron and Rigellian space. Any answers to questions about the pirates can be found there. In addition he tells them the owner of that spaceport is Tennor Blackfinch. Tennor has a crate that Ferris agreed to pick up, store on JC701, and make available for a ship to pick up. 

Meanwhile, Sam is on the Fangtasia dance floor attempting to charm the JumpCorp and Omicron patrons into telling him where he can find work smuggling illicit cargo while dancing “the Dinosaur” as the craze has now been called. Of course no one could help him.

Emo gathers his key team and Sam and heads out to the Oneiades spaceport. Once there, the key team head off to find Tennor. They find him in the cargo hold next to where their ship is docked. The team begins their discussion with Tennor, trying to figure out how best to get the information they need and the cargo Zhi asked them to pick up.

Meanwhile, Sam sneaks off to the maintenance area and once again tries his persuasion skills. He attempts to convince the pirate maintenance people that he’s interested in some illicit work to raise money for better medical equipment for the station. Of course, learning that he is a JumpCorp employee sets off some alarms. And also, subsequently gets him identified as the Lizard that the Kellan Oneiades has a capture on sight order out on. He’s quickly incarcerated in a shipping container in the middle of the spaceport.

The key team then tries to work out a deal where they get Sam back and get information out of Tennor about the explosives. They are quite successful on the latter, not so much on the former. Tennor tells them he was hired to deliver the explosives to the soon to be suicide bomber, but does not tell them by whom. He also says Sam is worth a lot of money if he is delivered to Kellan, and Tennor will be suitably punished if Sam is not delivered. Negotiations broke down after that. In the resulting melee, Tennor was captured  and his second took over. His second turned out to care less about Tennor’s safety than they had hoped.

Meanwhile, Sam is hiding in the shipping container when one of the pirates opens the door. Thinking quickly Sam throws a smoke grenade out the door to give him cover for an escape. Inexplicably Sam stays in the container rather than leaving when he has the chance. The pirate, confused by the smoke, leaves shutting the door behind him. Sam is speechless. A welcome change.

The key team fights their way to their ship, but the second is not interested in letting them escape. Thinking quickly the GM reminds the key team that they have Tennor unconcious and he can be revived to help them escape. Tennor orders his crew to let the key team go and on Emo’s orders they escape!

Except for Sam. Hiding in the shipping container.