More on the Tarsa Setting can be found on the Tarsa Backround Post.
Players:
Lee – Logan – Kantorian master of matter manipulation.
Mike – Pythos – Former military cybernetic being with mercenary tendencies.
Shawn – Sycrom – The most intelligent dense person (like really really tough to hurt) you’ll ever meet.
Logan gets a generic distress communication from Py stating that he’s in deep shit. So of course, Logan reaches out to Sy and they high tail it to Mero 10 where the Pyro (Py’s shuttle) is located and where the distress call came from. Mero 10 is a backwater scum and villainy planet with the kind of clientele only desperados, hard luck cases, and Py would hang out with.
When they get there, they find that the Pyro is nearly ready for demolition by the local salvage operation. They salvagers want a ridiculous amount of credits for Sy and Logan to buy the ship back so they pay them to hold off on demo for a few days. They also board the Pyro and Logan is able to decrypt Py’s appointment calendar to find he had a meeting scheduled with somebody at a bar called the “Hopper House” and so they go to investigate that.
At the Hopper House they find that Py was shot by a blaster and was vaporized. Something that doesn’t usually happen, but several parties are in agreement did happen. Sy was not able to confirm or deny it with his readings of the DNA splattered on the floor. The story is a couple of Meganauts came in and Py just beat the crap out of them then some bald dude came in and blasted him.
Logan and Sy then go to the nearest medical facility (at the nearby spaceport) to see if they can find out more about these Meganauts. The medical crew seem to be oddly morel as they refuse to disclose any information, so Sy causes a distraction by jumping in front of a commuter tram! In the confusion, Logan hacks into the computer and determines that they Meganauts were not part of the local military and seem to be normal guns for hire.
Logan and Sy decide they need to find the Pythorian (Py’s interplanetary ship) to see what can be found there, so they decide to just steal the Pyro so it (and any evidence it may have) won’t be destroyed by the salvagers. Unfortunately, things do not go well (means Shawn was rolling more ones than a one sided die…or something like that). Logan was able to skedaddle with the Pyro but Sy got shot by the local “peace force” with glue guns!