{"id":2576,"date":"2016-03-13T05:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T19:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2016-05-26T04:55:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T18:55:25","slug":"gurps-traveller-the-new-deal-1shot-5c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=2576","title":{"rendered":"GURPS Traveller, \u201cThe New Deal\u201d 1Shot.5c"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Duty Roster:<\/h3>\n

Edrasii \u201cEddy\u201d Bkar\u2019hen<\/a> (Ronnke)
\nElla Stanbridge<\/a> (Melissa)
\nErtrane \u201cBuck\u201d Buckner<\/a> (Herodian)
\nHenri Haank Makruus<\/a> (Gigermann)
\nIbrahim \u201cAbe\u201d Nouri-Abbood<\/a>
\nSam Turner<\/a> (Winston)
\nSae Rraetheg<\/a><\/p>\n

\"trav2-hangar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Rogue Planet<\/h3>\n

With all pirates dead, unconscious, or otherwise out of the fight, the Crew began sorting out the situation that remained. The \u201cslaves\u201d were held in jury-rigged cages in the hold of the hangar\u2019s lone occupant, the far-trader, Jacob\u2019s Apprentice,<\/em> whose owner\/captain, Jacob Bishop, was among those released. The pirates that still lived replaced the released hostages in the cells, and were questioned. What remained of Captain Bishop\u2019s cargo, mixed in with other loot, was warehoused nearby; though they did not demand payment for the rescue, the Crew did agree to split the cargo with Bishop. Buck evaluated the condition of the ship and found it spaceworthy, though the jump-drive was a bit dodgy\u2014might make a jump or two before it failed. It was decided that the Spinward Star<\/em> would escort the Jacob\u2019s Apprentice<\/em> and Learned Lady<\/em> back to Titleman Station (Fulacin Prime\u2019s highport).<\/p>\n

\"trav2-fulacin<\/a><\/p>\n

The nine-day trip went without incident. After disembarking, Professor Well gave them his sincere thanks for the rescue of his colleagues, and an official note from the University\u2019s insurance company promising a 200k credit, standard \u201crescue fee,\u201d which they could redeem at the nearest Rhylanor Imperial (Bank) branch on their way back to Regina; they decided Risek was their best option, only a little out of the way. With that, the Crew bid farewell to those they had rescued, and departed outsystem for Risek.<\/p>\n

The Spinward Star<\/em> entered jumpspace, and the Crew settled into their usual routines. Four days into the jump, while Haank was on watch in the middle of the \u201cnight,\u201d the ship was suddenly pulled out of jumpspace. Haank immediately sounded the alarm and jumped into the pilot\u2019s seat just in time to steer the ship out of the way of some debris. Before them was a massive, dark gas-giant, with several moons and lots of asteroids and planetary debris in its orbit, but no sun at all\u2014a rogue planet. Sam was able to determine their position at around halfway between Fulacin and Risek. The ship\u2019s comms began to pick up an automated distress call, which they triangulated, appearing to originate from a nearby moon. They approached the moon and began to scan the surface from orbit for the source of the signal, and found the wreck, a massive generation ship of a possibly Terran or very old Imperial make.<\/p>\n

\"Gloriaexodus\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Crew cautiously entered the moon\u2019s atmosphere and landed the ship on what solid ground they could find in the loose sand near the crash site, and disembarked in a wheeled rover (which was among their share of the Apprentice\u2019s<\/em> cargo); the air was full of radioactive dust, so they dosed themselves with anti-radiation meds before leaving, and remained in their vacc-suits for the duration. The drove the rover as close as the dunes would allow, within 10m or so, and continued on foot over the treacherous sand (Eddy was nearly swept under the ship), to find a place to enter the crash. Buck decided to force one of the cargo ramps; he used the rover to power the electronic locks, and rigged a bypass, but the door itself was stuck fast, so he ended up using the rover\u2019s winch to pull the ramp down.<\/p>\n

Inside the cargo bay, they found the wreck silent as the grave. They found a pile of discarded animal bones\u2014cattle, from the look of it\u2014years, maybe decades old. They also found electrical lines running fore and aft, powering a jury-rigged communications suite, apparently wired up to the ship\u2019s antenna array. The Crew split up to follow the electrical lines and some weak hits on hand-held bioscanners that some had brought along. They discovered, in one cargo bay, a number of jury-rigged low-berth pods containing around thirty survivors in stasis; and in another bay, an old encampment, the condition of which suggested a multi-year occupation; and in another bay, what was left of the startup colony\u2019s supplies, including some old ground vehicles; and in another bay, hundreds of the ship\u2019s original low-berth pods in various states of repair, some still holding the dead, having been stripped of usable parts to serve the remaining survivors. It was decided to attempt to move the jury-rigged pods to the Spinward Star<\/em> to be taken to Risek and awakened there, though it would take a bit of engineering to move them without endangering the occupants\u2014some took the rover back to the ship to fetch the portable fusion reactor to keep the units powered during the move. Meanwhile, Eddy continued to explore, and found a portable computer terminal belonging to the captain, Elliot Vance; after managing to power it up, among other data, he found copies of the ship\u2019s logs. He relayed to the rest of the Crew the fate of the generation ship, the \u201cGloria Exodus\u201d: centuries back, it had crashed on a moon of this uncharted rogue-planet, and the survivors managed to survive for around three years sheltered within the ship from the harsh environment outside; after further deaths from sickness or accidents, the chief engineer, Alexander McGarren\u2014a mechanical genius, by all accounts\u2014managed to hobble together enough functional stasis pods to keep the survivors alive almost indefinitely, in the hopes that someone might eventually stumble across their signal.<\/p>\n

The Crew took time and care, and using the colony vehicles in addition to their own, managed to move the pods to the Spinward Star<\/em> without incident. They then departed the moon, skimmed the gas-giant for fuel, and jumped out for Risek as originally planned.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/h3>\n