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Moon Ben-der Game Journal Part 4

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Journal

by John Smith

RL Date	Game Date	Events	Traning	Ship Pay	Disbursed
1/6/2022	264-1000	Bularia buy Bio-Chemicals (Ag +1) 50kcr, 1Dx5, 15, 65%	-32,500	-390,000	12
	Ag, Non-ind, Low Tech	Jump: Bularia -> Dorannia J1	7 wk Broker 0
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 9 pass state @ 4	-6,500	-6,500
		Basic Passengers (9), 3 unpaid hard luck, 6 paid	2,200	13,200	6
	Non-Ind, Poor	Sell Dorannia Biochemicals (-), 115%	57,500	690,000	12
		Dorannia buy 3T Pharm, 100kcr/T, 85%	-85,000	-255,000	3
		Dorannia buy 6T Prec Met, 50kcr/T, 70%	-35,000	-210,000	6
		Incidental lots (of 16) T: 3 @ Dor	1,600	4,800	3
	272-1000	Berthing at Dorannia, and Fuel unrefined free, E port		0

	273-1000	Jump: Dorannia -> Ator J2	8 wk Broker 0 - SUCCEED
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 9 pass state @ 4	-6,500	-6,500
		Basic Passengers (n) @ Dorianna, same pass from Kardin	2,900	17,400	6
	Low Pop	Sell Ator Pharm, 105%	105,000	315,000	3
		Sell Ator Prec Met, 90%	45,000	270,000	6
		Ator buy Common Mfg Goods (-), 20kCr/T, 2Dx10, 90%	-18,000	-234,000	13
		Ator buy Robots, 2T, 400kCr/T, (-) 80%	-320,000	-640,000	2
	280-1000	Berthing at Ator		-500
		Fillup Fuel Ator (Tons) unrefined - D	21	-2,100

	281-1000	Jump: Ator -> Flamarrion J2	1 wk
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 1 pass state @ 4	-4,000	-4,000
		Basic Passengers (n) @Ator	12,000	12,000	1
		Sell Ator Robots (-), 100%	400,000	800,000	2
		Crash on landing, 6 damage, 1 crit, Abe repairs, take 1T, 5hr
		Buy Spare Parts (have 0.3T), Abe spends 6hr on hull and 0.6T, leaving 1T spare	-100,000	-230,000	2.3
	Non-ind, Poor	Sell Ator Common Mfg Goods (Non-ind +3), 130%	26,000	338,000	13
		Flamarrion buy Adv Mfg Goods (-) 100kcr/T, 15T, 55%	-55,000	-605,000	11
		Pickup Air Raft.
		Looking for info on what happened at Kardin in bars and bottom of bottle w/ Abe
		Warick is there, talk about Kardin, he has some hot blast pictures of it.
	289-1000	Berthing at Flamarrion		-4,000
		Fillup Fuel Flamarrior (Tons) Refined - A	21	-10,500

	290-1000	Shop on Flamarrion for Gear, etc and paperwork as needed with Scouts
	291-1000	Jump: Flamarrion -> 567-908 J2	2 wk
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 1 pass state @ 4	-4,000	-4,000
	Barren, Poor, Low Pop (0)	Need to Maintenance.	-3,064	-3,064
		Basic Passengers (n) @Flam	12,000	12,000	1
	297-1000	Berthing at 567-908		0
		Fillup Fuel 567-908 (Tons) unrefined - E	0	0	Lake

	298-1000	Jump: 567-908 -> Walston J2	3 wk
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 1 pass state @ 4	-4,000	-4,000
		Basic Passengers (n) @567-908	12,000	12,000	1
	Low Pop	sell Walston Adv Mfg Goods (-), 105%	105,000	1,155,000	11
		Walston buy Common Mfg Goods (-), 20kCr/T, 2Dx10, 55%	-11,000	-11,000	1
		Walston buy 10T Medical Supplies (-1), 80%, 50kCr/T	-40,000	-400,000	10
	306-1000	Berthing at Walston		-400
		Fillup Fuel Walston (Tons) unrefined - C	21	-2,100
		Some celebrity on Walston at the port.
	307-1000	Jump: Walston -> Noctocol J2	4 wk
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 4 pass state @ 4	-5,250	-5,250
		Basic Passengers (4) @Walston	2,900	11,600	4
		sell Noctocol - Medical Supplies (-), 140%	70,000	700,000	10
	Fluid - not water	sell Noctocol - Common Mfg Goods (-), 105%	21,000	21,000	1
		Noctocol buy Precious Metals (-), 50kCr/T, 4T, 90%	-45,000	-180,000	4
		Noctocol buy Precious Metals (-), 50kCr/T, 1T, 85%	-42,500	-42,500	1
		Noctocol buy Pharm, 100kCr/T, 90%	-90,000	-90,000	1

	313-1000	Berthing at Noctocol		0
		Fillup Fuel Noctocol (Tons) unrefined - E	0	0	Lake

	314-1000	Jump: Noctocol -> Dallia J2	5 wk
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 4 pass state @ 4	-5,250	-5,250
		Basic Passengers (4) @Noct	2,900	11,600	4
		Incidental lots (of 16) T: @ Noct	1,600	8,000	5
	Garden, Rich	sell Dallia, Pharm (Rich +2), 115%	115,000	115,000	1
		sell Dallia, Precious Metals (Rich +3), 125%	62,500	312,500	5
		Dallia buy 30T Vehicles (-), 15kCr/T, 11T, 80%	-12,000	-132,000	11
	323-1000	Berthing at Dallia		-1,500
		Fillup Fuel Dallia (Tons) unrefined - B	21	-2,100

	324-1000	Jump: Dallia -> Judice J2	6 wk
	Barren, Research station, 0 pop?	S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 1 pass state @ 4	-4,000	-4,000
		Need to Maintenance.	-3,064	-3,064
		High Passengers (1) @ Dallia	12,000	12,000	1
	330-1000	Berthing at Judice		0
		sell Judice Vehicles (-), 4T, 115%	17,250	69,000	4
		Fillup Fuel Judice (Tons) unrefined - E	0	0	Lake

	331-1000	Jump: Judice -> Collace J1	7 wk
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 3 pass state @ 4	-5,000	-5,000
		Basic Passengers (3) @Judice	2,200	6,600	3
	Hi Tech, Hi Pop, Ind	sell COLLACE, Vehicles (Hi Pop+1, Ind -2), 100%	15,000	105,000	7
		COLLACE buy Robots (Ind +1, Hi tech-1) 400kCR/T, 1Dx5, 10T, 80%	-320,000	-1,280,000	4
		COLLACE buy Lux Goods (Hi Pop +1) 200kCR/T, 1D, 6T, 85%	-170,000	-340,000	2
		COLLACE buy Advanced Elec (Hi Tech +3) 100kCr/T, 1Dx5, 5T, 30%	-30,000	-150,000	5
	338-1000	Berthing at Collace		-2,000
		Fillup Fuel Collace (Tons) Refined - A	11	-5,500

		Shop on Collace for gear, etc.
		Autodoc	-100,000	-100,000	1
	339-1000	Jump: Collace -> Tarsus J1	8 wk Recon - Failed
		S/E Life Support (1 weeks) 8 crew, 1 pass state @ 4	-4,000	-4,000
		Medium Passengers (n) @COLLACE	8,500	8,500	1
	Ag, Non-ind, Rich	sell Tarsus Robots (Ag +2) 135%	540,000	2,160,000	4
		sell Tarsus Lux Goods (Rich +4) 145%	290,000	580,000	2
		sell Tarsus Adv Elec (Rich +2) 120%	120,000	600,000	5
		Berthing at Tarsus		-1,500
		Fillup Fuel Tarsus (Tons) Refined - B	11	-5,500
	Trip Notes:
		- We start lockdown on Bularia on Day 250, Year 1000.
		- We depart Bularia on Day 164, same.
		- we took Wynn, Gwenn, Jett (the trader), and Quella (the receptionist), they paid or worked
		for passage, except for Gwenn, who can still barely communicate.
		- We did the first two jumps with 3 hard luck cases jammed in the empty Air Raft hanger, they
		had no way to pay, and likely wouldn't have made it on Bularia. They stayed at Ator. The cost
		was we couldn't use the air raft hanger for cargo, but overall the cost I would say was minor.
		- We had 1 extra stateroom that we filled the whole trip, except 1 leg where we had just 3 of 4 passengers in it.
		- We spent an extra day on Flamarrion for Scout Business, and picked up the Air Raft.
		- We spent an additional extra day on Flamarrion for repairs, from collision damage. Spare parts cost 230,000Cr.
		- We passed through the damn Monkey planet, and John complained mightily about it.
		- We passed through Walston, and got a mini-heroes welcome; being minor celebrities.
		- We spent an extra day on COLLACE, which is TL13, shopping for gear and stuff.
		- We have the opportunity and money to buy a TL13 Autodoc for 100,000Cr (book price) there for the ships med bay.
		- We land on Tarsus Day 345, same.
		- 10 weeks passed in Jump, plus 2 in Lockdown, plus 1 for the Kardin to Bularia Jump which we can use for training.
		Total Ship Pot is 3.4 Million Cr and change. This includes the spare parts costs and autodoc.
		This gives us plenty to pay the 900,000 we need to replace Probes.
		We can leave 1Million Cr in the ship pot for recommencement of trading.
		That leaves us about 1.5MCr to split among us, and the 3 extras if we buy the Autodoc with ship funds.
		We may give Quella, Wynn, and Jett 0.5, 0.33, or 0.25 share, but the final call is the Captain's.
		If we do split the loot 5.5 ways (those 3 getting 0.5, and we getting 1 share) a full share is worth 273,532 Cr.
		For comparison, our last long haul from where we dropped off the black ops guys, down to
		Kardin we made 1.4MCr total, and that took about 12 weeks.
		I message M. Chief from Flamarrion, msg waiting for me at Tarsus.
		He's working down in our area, tells of strange mystical guerillas in Sword Worlds

1/6/2022	345-1000	Arrive on Tarsus after 6 hr transit in from J-Point. Land, sell our goods, and rest.
		Buy replacement Probes (qty):	-100,000	-900,000	9
		12 weeks (10 in Jump) gone by. Lots happened.	Shares:	5.1667
		For each of the 4 of us.	Full Share:	291,180.00
		For Jett (1/2 share), Quella, and Wynn (split other half).	Wynn/Jett:	97,060.00
		Gwenn functionality. Can text, but can't speak.	Quella:	145,590.00
		Brence makes the call on the split, I lose a argument with Quella and she gets +cr	Remainder:	1,000,003
		RETCON - We buy a TL10 Cryoberth on COLLACE and install it in the ship.		-50000
		Land, head to bar. Look around for jobs on the net.
		Barfight!! Me and Abe fight a guy. Brence talking with a guy named Leon.
		I KO the guy, Abe catches him. We buy him drinks, wind down. His buddies carry him out.
		Mara wins some cr in bets over fight. Group agrees to look around for a few
		days and look for job leads.
1/13/2022	346-1000	Mara makes her training. Leon calls, meet up later next day. He's a rancher.
		Meet at Ranch supply store. I fly slow, get there in 20 min. Park in lot.
		He wants hands on a hunt, but he has security concern. So we'll help and shoot
		nobbles, but collect gear on toublemakers. Trade comms, planet net, coords.
		Make it back, tell rest of crew. Jett stays in Newland, so do Wynn and Gwenn.
		Quella tags along after shopping for going on vacation. Brence flies us to the
		ranch in a few hours. Take a ballistic path, vacc check spiders on the way!!!
		I fuck up my suit, Abe catches me, saves my bacon, then fix it, then we go. Oof.
		Land ok. Meet Reed was guy we fought at Bar, he's a ranch hand. Give us $0.05 tour
		Owner is a she, Mrs Kader. Typical ranch. Have great dinner, steak and actual
		vegetables. Another hand is Oscar, he was at barfight too.
		Bugs up, 4 in boonies, 8 around ranch. (3 remain on me.) Get back in a.m.
		ready for hunt. Made recordings of all the "crime scenes". Abe sensors.
1/27/2022	347-1000	Negotiate, Admin, and Advocate another Nobble contract. Adnl 195kCr for 100.
		Abe rigs up some hooks, like a pro. Can haul 4 animals.
		Mara and I watch the processing Barge. She spots a few errors, they get fixed.
		Head to 30deg N in hex between Gloeh Satt red line, and the Regiment repeater. NE of the north most outpost.
	348-1000	Start hunt. Mara drives air raft. We follow others in and pick out a Nobble.
		Knocking em down, another air raft gets damaged, ground crew exciting.
		Another ranch group is off nearby, but not poaching or encroaching.
		Abe sees a glint, off to side of the herd, like a scope. Brence picks up a vehicle
		off to side of herd. Air raft takes a hit, Mara wounds one, Air raft takes another
		hit. Brence buzzes them, kicks up some dust. Abe auto fires the hill. Brence
		sees 3, Abe drops one. I shout for people to auto fire the hill, and drive to dodge.
		Mara hits one, maybe more. Brence's dust cloud make it hard to tell.
		Air raft hit a third time, we land a couple hundred yards from the hill.
		Brence flies by again, even bigger dust cloud, tried to hit them with jets.
		Mara brought her tools, repairs raft? Then suppresses the hill some more.
		Brence swerves at them, as they board their raft and try to get away.
		They crash and skid around, but still moving. Damaged, but not sure how much.
		Rest of our hunting party is wrapping up, I say stay on hunt, we're getting
		snipers. I tell Brence to ram them. I go right, Abe left, to clear hill and get fire
		on the enemy air raft. Air raft has 4 hull left.
2/3/2022	348-1000	Init: Abe, Me, Mara, 2 goons, Air raft and pilot, Brence. I tell pilot to stay w/raft.
		I go one way w/ Mara, Abe goes other. Brence radios their position, they're moving
		opposite from hill away from us. 2 rounds later, I can almost see them, but can
		see the Solar Exp. Third rd, see them, I shoot standing, they're flying.
		I shoot, and looks like a hit. I get hit in chest, 0 damage. Mara hits a guy.
		I spray 9 at them, but miss. Mara hits again with 1, tgt slumps. Abe continues running.
		Other rider moves over and drives. Last guy hits Mara, with big Rifle. Goes down.
		Enough F'ing around, Brence rams air raft, crush them, scratch ours a bit.
		I try to Trauma Kit her but fail, waiting for Brence. Get gets there sup fast, I run off.
		I run to crash, grab their extinguisher, start to get fire out. Then try to get bodies out.
		I get some bags, some ACRs (2), parts of a AM Rifle, and cloth armor.
		Brence and Abe move her on ship, First Aid, get her conscious. Put her in Cryo,
		and give her a Slow. Will be healed up 1 day later. 7m later, they're headed to
		get me. Brence finds a few unexploded boxes of ammo. Elec Binos, IR Goggles,
		Mobile comms, melted comm dot. I try investigate, but get no good answers.
		Too many confusing or misleading answers. Brence upgrades some samples I took
		but still doesn't point to anything. Abe slings up their raft to bottom of our ship.
		Brence flies us to our ship. Get the pilot and fly to ranch, after loading in our raft.
		I get signal from my bugs at home ranch, I can't read it. Give comp to Abe. He can
		and finds some time lapses of activity at ranch. Appears to be an awful unknown
		alien (zerg) of some sort. Looks like the Lobster-Dog from Kardin that came out of the
		research station.
		I call Berrick, say the thing is dangerous. We'll fly in together, be careful.
		Big ships stay back. Solar Exp stays high, 3 air raft, incl ours, goes in. I combat drug and Grenade up.
		Load up chest plack, also Titan drug and Combat Vitamins.
		Guy in Berrick's car shoots and misses. Combat starts, roll init. There are 3 we can see.
2/10/2022	348-1000	I go first, gauss full auto one down. One comes 100m towards us. We're about 300m
		I think we should call Wynn and Gwenn, and Jett and tell them about the Dog Crabs.
		Brence calls Jett, warns of monsters. Monsters aren't really acting like wild animals.
		Other rafts miss, or waste time. Back to me, I drop the closer one that closed on us,
		spray middle ground, and wing the other. It continues to close, 2 more show up.
		Abe says looks for life signs. Brence sensors, finds lots of lifestock, and other
		stuff. A few more people in house too. Calls in a new creature posn.
		The new one, runs at us, pop wings, and jumps on our hood. It guts bob.
		One raft shoots at ground one missing. Other raft shoots one on us, hits.
		Last raft shoots at ground one missing too. I draw gauss pistol, blast one on our hood,
		drop it and put raft in park/hover. Abe blasts one out in the open, gets really hot
		there, huge mushroom cloud of steam and it's body going up in the atmo.
		Last one jumps on our hood, I parry w/ pistol. Hit me hard, armor stops a lot. Hits again, for 2 more.
		Brence moves closer to barn to try and sort out whats in there. 4 more in barn...
		2 rafts pull away. Other air raft shoots, get a good hit. I burst and drop the last.
		Barrick calls, having taken the shot, if I'm ok. Air raft come over, another guy
		hops in, barfs. Brence watches, Abe keeps head on swivel.
		Other rafts move to clear house, we focus on barn. I hop off at road head, and
		will fire into barn to draw them out. Hopefully Abe gets one or two.
		Burst into Barn, to get them to come out. Minor to reload. One comes out, stays to cover.
		Brence moves ship a bit to south, instead of right over barn, so Abe can see it.
		Second one comes out, joins partner in cover. Other two move to front, wait inside building.
		I fire full burst into 2 in the trees. I drop one, wound other. Abe finishes it off, and
		burns down the trees. Brence sensors, like mad, 2 in barn waiting. Rafts say house is clear.
		I drop one, wound other. Abe misses, puts big mark in ground close to rafts.
		Brence flies between barn and house, to give Abe better shot.
		Last one rushes me, I try to dodge, covers the ground and gets 1 atk on me, hits
		for kinda alot, ouch. He's on me, but I John Wick him a contact shot with the
		gauss pistol, drop him. Clear barn, then search for where these come from.
		Quella panics a little, I tell crew to not say these followed us here from 10pc away.
		Batallion radios, saying they're on the way.
		One ranch hand in barn at time of attack, was in barn, fled, hid. Rest hid in house
		til we got there. Guy is missing arm. We track them badly, they came from northeast.
		Go back, talk at house. Go to check fence where they broke in, it's near a spot of
		a previous intrustion/fuckery. Meanwhile a shuttle hovers over the meat truck
		and then flies off with the meat, completing the contracts. We go to north fence.
		Further to north, tracks lead past a site of fuckery. Find a transmitter device.
		Abe looks at it, we want to wait for Mara. No one knows what it is.
		Then Military shows up, wants to talk to us. Take the transmitter.
		I take 3 more damage, their blood burns. Abe hangs onto the xmitter.
		Air raft on ship, fly to Lt. I wash off on ship on way. 1 ST comes back in 2 hrs.
		Also down 3 ST from damage, and at 0 END. 8 dead monsters.
2/17/2022	348-1000	Need to talk to LT, and I need to hop in Cryoberth.
		Lay out a whole bunch of plastic, get 1 good corpse.
		Brence and Abe Tranq John (+3 Effect), take his gear off, then stick him in the cryo
		berth - Quella freaks out, and she stands vigil at Cryo Berth.
		Abe suggests that the Crabdogs were under the control of the transmitter we
		found, and remember how they were acting 'un-animal' like. Abe tells Brence to
		fly slowly to meet the military dude. Abe starts poking around the Crabdog body.
		Mara and Abe chat about whether Abe is of right mind. Abe thinks he's fine, so it's
		settled. The dissections shall continue, Abe gets (+2 Effect). The Crabdog has an
		exoskeleton of chitinous armor that comes off in plates. Skin under is thick and
		sinuous skin, but easily cuttable with the scapel. They smell terrible.
		They have organs, and their blood is acidic - so I stop.
		We have 5 corpses piled up in the yards. We're pretty sure these are similar to the
		creatures that were attacking the Kardin science station as we were left, though
		they had no wings at the time.
		We arrive back at the ranch, where the military is waiting for us. Brence and I go
		come along with. There is a single air-raft with camo and a military insignia. There is a
		guy who is acting important standing with 3 other military guys talking to Barrik and
		one of the ranch hands. They are Tarsus Plantary Military. The Regimental Base one
		sector to the southwest of us.
		Lt Warren is introduced to us. He asks if we're the ones who called in. Brence says yes.
		Then Lt says Barrik says it's taken care of. Lt wants to know what happened,
		since he has to file a report.
		Brence is an open book and holds nothing back, including the Snipers in the air raft
		that attacked us while Nobble hunting. The Lt wants to take all the sniper bodies.
		The Lt. wants John to send a report when he gets out of Cyro, and I tell him to fuck off
		(social -6 effect) because Brence has already spoken as the captain, but Brence steps in
		to smooth it over (Admin +6 effect). They want to take all the evidence.	We want their gear though.
		Abe thinks for sure the Lt is more interested in the Snipers than the Crabdogs. Unlikely good.
		Then Lt. asks if we have any data about the creatures. We give him copies of the
		camera footage from John's stuff, and any sensor data. We also show them the
		corpses, and they take a corpse sample. They're going to take the corpse and have
		their EggHeads look at them.
		The military leaves. Abe gets message from Quella, asking when John gets out of cryo-
		berth. Abe asks what's keeping us here; someone mentions Wynn, Gwenn, and Jet.
		Abe leaves John's camers operation, and team goes to Newland to get better lab
		dissection gear (acid resistant), and to check out the transmitter. Plan to stay til John
		is awake, then return to ranch.
		Abe checks captured transmitter in flight (effect +3), it has recording ability, but mainly
		is a transmitter. It's higher TL than usual. It does have mfg info, but Abe doesn't
		recognize it. It's a bunch of numbers that do not mean anything ATM. It is not
		currently transmitting. It is still powered, but it is either off, or on standby mode. Abe
		tries to determine what frequency it was meant to transmit on, but cannot tell (effect -1).
		Get medical grade dissection gear at starport, as well as booze and air freshners, and
		restock John's 2 doses of Slow. Abe assists Brence in the dissection of the corpse,
		(+4 Effect, than +8). We record all their work, and Abe mentions we should name it.
		Maybe name it after Brence? Has most of the usual quadraped predator internal
		organs, they're unusually sized though (larger heart, larger more developed lungs,
		muscles are highly alien. Undergone a lot of genetic tinkering). They are too
		efficient. Was clearly engineered as a vicious killing machine. Claws are larger than
		practical. it doesn't look like it can withstand a vacuum. Its brain is highly developed
		but we don't find any sort of mechanical receiver.
		We publish the data to the TarsusNet, and send a message offworld for transmission along the
		Xboat Route. First stop will be the Scout base on COLLACE. We keep samples of the Crabdog.
		For now the working name of these things is Crabdog, or Flying Crabdog; perhaps Tarsian.
		Jet has closed out the Nobble contract and has collected the funds. He needs Brence's
		signature to transfer the funds to the ranch (Octavia Kator). Less our split?
		We head back to the ranch to see if we can continue to follow the creature tracks.
		We get a ping from the ranch (Barrik), confirming it's us. Mara pilots the Air Raft as we
		go tracking them (+0 Eff) and Abe recon (+0 Eff) while Brence flies overwatch (+2 Eff).
		The tracks continue on in a straight line. It looks like they were going straight to the
		transmitter, and then made a course change towards the ranch, to the fence's weak point.
		We have a crabdog corpse, and some of the commlinks and a bag from the snipers.
3/3/2022	349-1000	Nobble hunting with Kator. Owes us 4000Cr per person (Me, Brence, Abe, Mara).
		Trying to help them the rest to keep the Ranch afloat. Hopefully good Karma for us.
		Repair Parts on the Air Raft, if we guy the parts. Air Raft currently at 8/16 body.
		Also, we should spend an hour or so and go to the crashed raft site and scavenge for parts.
		Abe rolls good, I suck, Mara good, Brence avg. Pull off 5 points of parts. Will buy the above.
		I need to send a message offworld to Mst Chf and Warick, ask them to ping the imperial
		scout wiki network and see if they can find the articles about Crabdogs. Msg me back yes/no.
		Look for an answer in a few weeks. While crew is working, I send my report to the Lt.
		Repairs take 6 hours on the raft. Air Raft now at 13/16.
		Report: We were hunging nobbles legally as contracted by Kator Ranch. While hunting we took
		AMR fire to our air raft. We returned fire and gave chase as they fled. We forced their air raft to
		crash and then we collected their bodies and gear and turned them over to you.
		Then we go back to tracking. Crabdogs came from NW, and at beacon turned S to the ranch.
		We follow them from the beacon to the NW. At about 125km from beacon, pick up something
		on sensors. Signature on the ground. It's zerg, their patch stuff, and see 2 crabdogs. 500m out.
		Patch is 20m in diameter. Abe blasts one of the two, and the other digs under. Then a pod
		bursts out fo the ground and shoots at us, there are 2 of the pillar pods. Combat!!
		The shoot, and we take 8 spaceship damage, of 40. Oh fuck, get her out of here!!
		Take a crit to the M-Drive, -1 to pilot.
		Abe first shoots the one that hasn't fired, looks pretty good hit (17). I leadership, 2 boons, Abe, Brence.
		Mara repairs critical. repairs it, will last an hour. Brence Trust and react to dodge. He dodges
		the other one. Brence waits to dodge the next, and next pillar does shoot, barely misses. Woot.
		Top, Abe shoots same again, with boon, does more (16). I leadership 3 boons. Mara boosts
		thrust, with boon, 1 more thrust. First pillar misses, Brence evades T1. Brence flies us so lines
		up Brence can hit both w/ 1 shot boon with T2. Other pillar attacks, barely hit, take 6 damage,
		used T3, drive again, crit sev 2. (ship now up to 14 of 40).
		Top, Abe aims and shoots both, boon, does dmg (13). Hits one dead center, and glowing bits
		exposed. I screw up Leadership, and enemy gives us 2 Banes. Mara doesn't boost.
		Brence can't evade next shot, our armor absorbs the shot. After shooting, it pulses and explodes,
		in a gross rotted melon skull like eruption. Brence then tries to give abe some help.
		Last pillar shoots, hits great, damage is light, take 5. (19 of 40), crit hits cargo bay, wrecks air
		raft more.
		Top: abe hits again (11). John leaderships 4 boons. Mara, tries to repair, another +1 next round.
		Brence moves to help the shot. It shoots, hits, we take 3. (22 of 40).
		Top: Abe boons hit, crit (15). John boon, 3 effects. Mara fixes the M-drive crit now, Brence has
		1 thrust back for 6 hrs. Brence maneuvers to help Abe (+1). It shoots, Brence evades, miss.
		Top: Abe hits (10) and another gooey cloud erupts as it explodes.
		Mark it, fly over, get better sensor scan. Then go to ranch or Starport?
		Get msg as we fly over, listen to it. Abe and John, get message from Warrick.
		He asks, "Where are you and what are you doing?"
		I reply, "We are at Grid 459820478, 500m on bearing 270 is a modly patch of crabdogs,
		and a plasms spitter tower."
		He comes back, "How did you get there, why are you there? Maintain safe distance."
		I reply, "Reasons, plus hunting nobbles. Helping ranchers keep land. Snipers. Then they attacked, we're following them."
		Brence flies us like 10km away, Abe keeps sensors on it, we land in a flat spot, Brence pilots
		great, and we park. Mara comes up w/ list of repairs. We have 1 DT spares.
		He replies, "I'm in system. Needs time to research. Will call back."
		I say, "We're 10km away, keeping sensors on it." Abe sees it changed, patch has grown 5-10%.
		Abe monitors, I sit in turret. Brence and Mara fix. They go outside, I kit up, full armor, and overwatch.
		Start repairs, they repair 4, takes 2 hours. Then getting late body time, sleep. Keep watches.
		(18 of 40) ship damage, 0.6DT spares left.
		Sleep, we take watches, it grows 5% per watch period, so now up 20%.
	350-1000	I msg Warrick, it's now almost 30% larger, but we're fine here. They repair for 3 hours, 6 back.
		(12 of 40) ship damage, 0 spare parts. Jett messages too, contract payout done, 195k.
		We got paid too, 4k each. Now there are 3 creatures.
3/17/2022		We ask our merc friend for repair parts in order to go kill all his baddies for him, and then he'll
		come in and sanitize the area. Karl is was the team lead.
		While waiting, we watch a 20' diameter crab thing climb out of the ground, move, and then
		dig itself back in.
		We notice an underground mass about the same size as the corruption stuff.
		Karl arrives in a system defence boat (from Warrick), with parts to fix the critical injuries, etc.
		(w/ Bob 3, a combat engineer to expedite repairs). The boat has a cannon welded on, as it
		doesn't have a turret. We take 6 hours to repair all the criticals, but we're still down the hull damage.
		They have 6 guys with flamers. heavy gauss rifles and heavy armor. They plan on going on foot to
		burn everything down, but we tell them we should go kill big things first.
		We go into a low orbit to shoot down, hoping to be out of range of their guns, so we can hit them!
		After several great shots, and turret misses, we destory the turret (but they did get one shot in,
		that critically injured our Mdrives (but Mara fixed it)
	351-1000	The ground crew goes in to attack, and then a "Spiker" comes out to impale one of the ground crew.
		After impailing him, he is drug under ground. (From 60' away).
		We end up killing the spikers (but Bob 4 got pulled under). Then other guys go and set charges,
		and then blow up everything!
		We part ways, and he says if we're ever at port, they'll give us the Friends/Family Discount.
		We should go talk to Warrik - find out more about these creatures and the corporation that
		has made/released them.
		We have more repairs - and John set up a 'payment' for the job... something good!
		0.8 Spare parts left.
		I broker the payment, ask 20k / person plus repairs. He pays 17k. Deal struck.
3/24/2022	351-1000	We fly off, back to Newland Downport. Brence pilots. Does a great job, we arrive fine.
		Jet sends pmt of 95k for second Nobble hunt. Pays us each 25,000
		Repair Ship, will take 20 hours. Down 20 points. Pauly Neener, mechanic at port.
		Wynn calls, says Gwenn is missing. She's on the second moon. She was there getting
		treatment, and the doctors just moved her off.
		Go to bay, see Pauly. 7 hrs passed, we tell him to stop and button up. He obliges. 27/40.
		Mara gets open source logs going of what's moving around based on IFF's.
		I call port and get a Jump lockdown and missing persons started. Brence does the heavy lifting.
		We do some lying to get to the Clinic they're at. I Deception.
		We land, start meandering around, its very big. Split the group, Mara and I go look to medical.
		Brence and Abe head to apartments and look for Wynn's phone. At medical I bug to watch door.
		Wynn answers, meet Abe and Brence, says she got some drugs, then went into emergency.
		PsiDrug like stuff to help her condition, from the company named Celestial Biotech.
		They come to us at the Hospital. We talk to check in. They can't find her. We make Abe barf
		Abe's massive barf is a huge distraction as planned.
		Mara and I go through the back, and into the ER. Mara grabs a computer, finds stuff.
		I grab some gowns. Find 2 women that could be Gwenn, one died, one discharged and
		sent to 3rd party. Zander Flannagan, and Meg Vanlaer. Abe gets taken back, drugged.
		Brence comes w/ Abe. Me and Mara moved back to group. Brence wakes Abe. Leave.
3/30/2022		As we exit lobby, and talk in hallway, I see bug report from the one i left at the other door.
		Give up on doctors, concoct a plan to catfish Meg and threaten Zander; F that.
		Instead, Mara plan, walk back to main platform by our ship. Mara and Abe go to ship and
		arm up. Me, Brence, and Wynn to go comms/sec/Popo and talk to them.
		15 min walk back, another guy walks out, from bug. Get info on how they walk in, cuz see guy
		walk in. Msg from Jett, Jump lockdown lifted. So now being at comms/sec/Police is dead.
		So we go back to threatening Zander, and catfishing Meg. We tell Zander we have another
		experiment subject like the Darrian that died/you killed. Abe breaks in... wait! He says
		stuff about Qwenn seeing a 20 tentacled bulbous bug monstrosity, and him connecting
		with his cybernetic twin shit. It's weird. He kinda senses her... I get a bag with battle belt
		and gauss rifle broken down hidden wrapped in clothes.
		Find warehouse is lower than us, I ask a guy, he tells us. The security door I bugged is on
		the way, so we hang out there and Abe checks his feelings.
		Door is the lab of Celestial Biotech, the company that were allegedly helping.
		Abe spoofs the door, kinda, tests it, walk off. Passes info to Mara.
		I bribe a guy, but he has no info of packages that got delivered to CB door... we move on.
		Wander to warehouse door? Or platform or something.
		Check warehouse = nothing. Check mid level, and top level, nothing. But in apmts at top
		Abe got the feeling he was being watched. Walk around apmts, drink a bit, gets a feeling.
		Drink more, walk more. Not sure on direction or strength.
4/14/2022		We keep wandering. Warrick has been messaging Abe stuff. He messages me, asks "How u?
		Having problems? Was Amber us? He's smoothed some stuff out." "Do we want help." Yes.
		Warrick says he'll get back to. We've been here a few hours, 3-5?
		Go to viewing level, at a bar, watch for liftoffs. Wait an hour or so.
		Abe says his head says he thinks she's still here, and one of them is getting worse.
		Discuss plan, can break into Mar. barracks or Lab. Decide lab, take lift over to Lab.
		Meanwhile Abe imagines her and his powers, and she seems "close" when we're at the lab.
		Warrick messages "Found 3rd party. Company transported a lady matching Gwen to surface,
		but it's not her. She is on station though, and alive." Warricks info doesn't descern whether
		she's at the barracks or the lab, so we home inertial nav, and walk to barracks. Turns out
		the barracks are right above (between 20-80ft) above the Lab.
		Grabs some clothes for us and Gwen. I follow a Nerd out, Mara doesn't want to catfish, so
		I follow the nerd out. He doesn't seem interested in my conversation, or my gay advances,
		but when I break it off, I palm his badge (successfully), and go back to Commercial Zone and
		wait for Warrick's distraction. Station broadcasts Environmental Breach, take cover. We go to
		door, use badge. Door opens into a semi office, and beyond it we see a lab w/ 10 people in
		chairs hooked up to electrodes. I lead the group around the office, to the lab... ? Others
		act the part, shit. Some techs look at us like "Wtf?" One talks to Abe, Abe runs a scam, or
		tries to get him to count the PsiDrugs for Carl downtown. 4 in office, plus 1 took us back,
		8 people in lab chairs, 10 techs with them. Guy takes us to George, who shows abe the
		inventory. It checks out, Abe switches tac "One more thing and I'm out. Got a mix up between
		systems, any new ins or outs?" Gwens name is there, says Station 9. We try to get more,
		don't really. But she's here and close. Abe says "Gwen" is the missing info, where is she?
		Abe gets him to pull up her file. She was here this a.m. Blah blah. I create a spectacle, to
		drag things out. Give him a few credits for the water George gives me, to get me to stop
		coughing. Abe sees the tech and Doc on her record, recognizes Zander. Abe flicks her file
		to his comp. Walking out, Abe checks the likely beds, one Tech asks "Can I help you?"
		Abe says yeah looking for Gwen. Tech says no one been there since this a.m.
		We leave. Go around corner, change costume. As we're waiting, door opens, 3 Marines walk
		out go past. I'd ditched the badge. Hop platform, go to apartments.
		Message Warrick, Gwen wasn't in Lab. Going to Zander's appt. He says "Won't find Zander.
		Gwen is in Marine brks." Abe feels she is distant from here.
		I look online, find directory, find Zander. Walk to his door, it's closed. 2nd on right, on bottom.
		Lots of people talking, some say there was an attack.
4/21/2022	351-1000	Mara recons, looks for people. I lock pick the door. We slip in before they see us.
		Mara checks the apartment tablet, tries to crack it. Abe says Gwen is in more paint. Time
		is short. I look for costume change, lab coats. Also look for stuff to steal. Gwen copies the
		med info on Gwen. Very spartan clothes wise. No cash valuables. Nothing else incriminating.
		We leave, head to Corp. Marine barracks. 2 options to get in: Main Hub or Station 1.
		Call Warrick, he says they're shooting it out in the hub. We dither a bit. Can't think of a
		good plan. But we're at the Station 1, so we hop that, Mara and Abe jack the panel and card
		reader, and we go to Marine Station 1. Come out at the Marine base.
		We pop out and sneak along a wall. We all stealth. Sneak up. I get out pistol and LI gogs.	160
		Hand abe my Chemview goggles, he spots his DNA floating by to the left. But we have to
		shoot guards, so we line up. Coordinate shot. I make a leadership roll, 5 boons.	-27
		We sneak, but they see us lining up, roll init. Goes meh. I lead, drop 1, wound 2 badly.
		He shoots me, I take 8 to END, he tries to move a buddy around a corner, but doesn't.
		Last guy at far end, moves behind crate. Abe closes. Mara and Brence do too, but we're at
		like 120m range, and pistols have 20m. I load 1/3 grenade, and boon everyone w/ leadership
		One marine drags another, other maneuvers. Abe moves up, Brence moves up, Mara jams
		them almost with comm. They shoot at Abe, and miss. I shoot far guy, drop him.
		Waste a burst, transition to second guy out in open, drop him. I shout surrender, Brence	-27
		shouts "We only want the woman." Last guy drags buddy. Abe and Brence move up.
		Mara keeps jamming. I shoot far guy again, he drops again, hopefully dead now. Shout
		for them to surrender again. No reaction. Last guy, he hides/drags.
		Abe and Brence move. Mara jams, moves up. I move up, Leadership 2 boons.	-27
		Abe moves up, Brence moves, we group up at corner, and Leadership to take on the marine
		around the corner. Mara keeps jamming. Abe gets hit with a psionic attack, but resists it.
		We move around corner, hear gunfire, see one guy dead. Other marine ran, opened door,
		got greased. Group grabs 2 Gauss rifles, 4 stun grenades. And I do a combat reload.
4/28/2022	351-1000	Brence first aids me back 3, 1 round.
		We setup fast, 3 in a spread, me at door, 2 creatures inside Crab Dog.	Abe	John
		Abe targets the Crab Dog, and doesn't see the Star Fish Face Fuck, Aim fire shoot. Miss, hit, hit	27
		Abe drops one. I step to corner, kill one, w/ 2 bursts from Gauss pistol. Mara moves up.		18
		Brence waits. Crab dogs move around.
		Abe again, shoots at one in cover, after a step, miss, hit, miss. I move across, no shots.	27
		Abe shouts to Gwen. No answer. Mara shoots the same one as Abe, blasts it.
		One jumps from the side and into the door, at me. Brence was holding, sprays him, misses x3.
		It comes at me, it's dodged, and I dodge, so it's at a penalty, but ugh... it misses thankfully.
		Now Brence's turn, miss x3.
		Abe aims and shoots, it dodges, wounds it. Second, it dodges, misse. Third, hits, killing it.	27
		Room empty, we move in Abe and I. Brence and Mara covering.
		We move up to passage on the right (on left is Command room). A marine twiches, stands up,
		I think about starting shooting, the fucking flood. Hear more cracking, as another gets up!		18
		He's right behind me, hits, but armor barely protects me.
		Mara attacks the one not on me, good call, hits, hits, hits, their armor stops a lot, but moderate wounds.
		Brence attacks one engaged w/ me, aim, and single, hits, does light wounds.
		Abe steps up one hex, goes for Marine on me, aim, hits, full auto, again, hits, 0 dmg, again,
		hits, wounded as hell but still up. I shoot him once, but his armor stops it all, gun jams, I clear it.		9
		The one not on me, moves up to Abe, shambling up to him.
		One on me, attacks me, I parry, he still hits, armor stops some, I take 4.
		Mara shoots one on Abe, miss, hits big, hit and he's down! Yay. Reload.
		Brence shoots one on me, hits, big damage, single shot. Reload.
		Abe shoots one on me, hits, kills it. Reloads.	9
		We move up and cover, to the right passage, peek in. It's a Marine hospital. Pods on the left
		stood up on end. High tech med stuff on the right, computers and whatnot.
		People are in the pods. Creatures are on the tables nearby. In specimen tubes.
		We move way in, see Gwen in one of the pods. A couple of the others look terrible, vitals
		look fine, but they look horrible. Gwen opens her eyes, spooky illuminated blue, and she
		looks half zombie.
		We feel a strange crawling up the back of our spine. Abe tries to talk to her, but just doesn't
		convince her.
		She tries to control us, be doesn't somehow. Brence thinks he can put her in Stasis.
		He starts sedating her. She psionics again. Brence gets punched in the SOC. Takes 4.
		Then she passes out.
		Sort of, but we feel a poke in the back of the head. Might still be the master?
		Abe says Warrick is poking us, asks him to stop.
		I check Gwen for incisions. Mara checks the computer, gets some records on Gwen.
		The records say she's a perfect candidate. Brence scans her, doesn't find the implanted slug.
		Abe and I go down to the command and control on the right, he checks security hub, I guard.
		See Zander dead, but no officers. But Patrol Corvette is inbound. We need to move alarms
		around, and then move out. Abe changes some alarms!
		Cmdr Nelson of the Corve calls and I tell them go to the Warehouse. They send troops ETA
		15 min, so we get ready to move past them.
		We plan to skip by the marines, with timing. Abe to jam and shut off sensors.
		I scrounge. Brence medical and engineers. Mara computers 2x. She deletes the fuck out
		of everything. Abe has the reinforcements on watch, and spoofed to go to the warehouse.
		I grab power units for Brence, battle dress for Abe, and a huge grenade launcher for me.
		We get back to ship.
		Wynn is glad to see us. Tells us about Imp Mar that landed. Very mortified for Gwen.
		No lockdown on the Commercial dock, so we fly out. Brence leads us out!
		Transit to Gas Giant, fuel up. Then Astrogate, Jump, and head to Trexalon.
	351-1000	Puff of smoke, next to our ship, looks like the Ancient ship.
		It's the Protos that saw Abe earlier, says it'll clean Gwen and return her to us.
		Says will meet us in 14 months in shadow of Collace's gas giant.
		Alien disappeared with Gwen.
	359-1000	We come out in Trexalon, back to freight hauling.
		Warrick pays us some money. Covers repairs. Abe gets a psionic learners permit and
		admission to a school. Jett and Quella like "WTF"

		Air Raft still down 3, need to buy 3 vehicle parts, 3000 cr.

		Check message from Mst. Chief and Warick in a few weeks about Crabdogs.

		John wants to buy some land, buy a vote, and build a house/put up a Hab module or two.