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+ | ====== Operation Korbol ====== | ||
+ | **Setting: | ||
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+ | ===== Part I: Slavers R us ===== | ||
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+ | * There is a ping on the datanets on a bounty for Tyler. | ||
+ | * The intergalactic bank is trying to track down Tyler to give him lost money. | ||
+ | * Tyler is insulted that the money is only enough to buy a starship. | ||
+ | * Tyler posts an anonymous message that this amount of money is missing, please return to the middle of Robot Space. | ||
+ | * While waiting, Hector tinkers some more on the robot duplicates | ||
+ | * Based on recent discoveries about Horrors and the symbols around them and their resemblance to things on Tyler' | ||
+ | * [[Lady Thorgeld]] is in exile and disgraced and may have information on the royal family of Korbol. | ||
+ | * Hector rigs his universal gadget to mask Tyler' | ||
+ | * Tyler disguises himself | ||
+ | * Tyler and Hector try to find where Lady Thorgeld may be located. | ||
+ | * In order to meet with the slaver clan, the group decides to set themselves up as a legitimate slaver clan themselves | ||
+ | * A slightly shady bank is used to set up an account for the slaver company | ||
+ | * With tremendously skillful manipulation of computers, Hector sets up a vast criminal organisation through linking all rumours about him with various expert programs imitating contacts and people in power | ||
+ | * Thorgeld arranges a meeting at an ice asteroid that is surrounded with psychic crystals that the crew had been to before (See episode [[On The Horror Trail|On The Horror Trail Part I: Smuggling Plan B]]) | ||
+ | * Rather than going in person and being mind read, Hector brings out the robot duplicates of the crew (See episode [[To Boldly Go|To Boldly Go Part V: SPAZ!]]) | ||
+ | * Blackie is completely wigged out by his double and refuses to use it, going in person instead to the rendezvous. | ||
+ | * The slavers set two groups of clones against each other as a demonstration. | ||
+ | * The slavers doubt that it is Hector and Tyler (as robot Carson) reveals the plan to talk to Thorgeld about Korbol | ||
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+ | ====Continuity==== | ||
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+ | * Tyler paid a fate point to have the Lady Jane be secretly intelligent | ||
+ | * Hector is suspicious of this and may have had built an off switch | ||
+ | * The robot duplicates are not as good moving as the real thing | ||
+ | ====Quotes==== | ||
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+ | * [[jon hector]] : We adventure for sexual gratification - why do you think there are so many explosions? | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | * [[dirk richter]] : It's insulting how it's so obviously a trap | ||
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+ | =====Part II: Space Debris R us===== | ||
+ | * The Savage Chicken has been impounded because it has unusual weapon signatures. | ||
+ | * The officials decide that if it passes at the weapon range, they may be allowed to keep it | ||
+ | * The officials wonder why it uses so much energy and apparently does nothing | ||
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+ | * The flunkies are happy to set up a meeting with Lady Thorgeld | ||
+ | * Tyler recommends another area of the asteroid for the meeting | ||
+ | * Lady Thorgeld starts a tirade on Tyler | ||
+ | * Tyler starts negotiating for buying a clone army, in the meantime he finds out about his relations on Korbol and the rebels. | ||
+ | * Gleaning all the information we can, the group leaves for Korbol, but is blocked from proceeding by a warzone n the way | ||
+ | * Blackie checks out mercs gossip about what's happening in this warzone. It's an apparent war over resources as they' | ||
+ | * Of the many factors that caused the war, the last straw was the destruction of a mining colony. | ||
+ | * The war could be long as the sides are well matched | ||
+ | * The Space Patrol has pulled out of the warzone, not wanting to risk their ships and people, this has led to a huge increase in interstellar crime | ||
+ | * The Lady Jane approaches a space station jump point and notices the Savage Chicken- it also notices Tyler' | ||
+ | * The jumpgate has been sealed because of the incoming fleet which may be boarding ships | ||
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+ | * Tyler doesn' | ||
+ | Hector hacks the black box and gets fragmentary ships logs from the Call of the Deep. | ||
+ | O2STK want us to pick up a person in the system the Savage Chicken and the Lady Jane jumps into | ||
+ | * The system jumped into is a warzone | ||
+ | * The person we are to pick up is called star and is on a lunar facility on a moon of the main planet | ||
+ | * To pass through the warzone, both ships do a very accurate burn, then play dead and drift through, hopefully do slow down once through. | ||
+ | * A cruiser breaks off and starts circling towards the ships | ||
+ | * It's hit by a rocket before it can intercept us | ||
+ | * The ships successfully land in caves on the moon | ||
+ | * The party sets off for the facility on stealth hover sleds | ||
+ | * A few ships from the battle start to attack and defend the facility | ||
+ | * Hacking the emergency airlock, the group finds a woman who is with the Star | ||
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+ | * Captain : The station is in lockdown, there' | ||
+ | * [[jon Hector]] : Nothing LEGAL we can do... | ||
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+ | =====Part III: Gilligan' | ||
+ | * The women lets the group in, telling them of several others in the base that need evacuating. | ||
+ | * Tyler senses Horrors have a hand in the attacking ships on the moon base | ||
+ | * The crew enter a decompressed mess hall. | ||
+ | * Blackie finds a mining tool and gets Hector to give it some Wellie | ||
+ | * Tyler and Stella (of the Star) encounter a cowering survivor and they question him. The survivor is panicky, but Tyler calms him. | ||
+ | * Blackie fires the modified mining laser at the strafing enemy ships | ||
+ | * He manages to take out one of the ships | ||
+ | * Tyler heads towards the professor but is stopped by a door - he contacts Hector to hack the doors | ||
+ | * Hector tasks all the maintenance and repair bots to work on the door mechanisms to make them operable | ||
+ | * Blackie wastes another ship, and then receives a piercing pain in the head from the Horror in the bomber that then targets him. Letting two bombs free before Blackie is able to shoot it down. | ||
+ | * Blackie grabs Hector, who is busy programing the computer, and evacuates the area | ||
+ | * The professor is an old women with a custom space suit for her complicated prosthetics | ||
+ | * Tyler uses telepathy to mass communicate with all the survivors in an attempt to get them all to evacuate to the one airlock | ||
+ | * He decides not to as there is a psychic entity out there listening in. Instead he senses where the survivors are. | ||
+ | * He heads towards the hangar, trying to lead the Horror the in the hopes of using one of the flyers there to get away | ||
+ | * Hector finds all the life signs in a single group except one. | ||
+ | * Blackie tries to organise them into an orderly evacuation. | ||
+ | * The remaining fighter is distracted away from the fleeing group by Tyler | ||
+ | * Tyler surfs an energy wave from the bombing of the base out of the base | ||
+ | * The survivors are loaded onto the stealth sleds (except for the Professor and her cyberlegs) and take of towards the ship | ||
+ | * Tyler eventually circles around to the Lady Jane- the bomber starts taking out the base in earnest | ||
+ | * The professor was studying patterns and came across a conspiracy theory on how the war started | ||
+ | * The were apparently 30 points in the past - lynchpins that were manipulated such that the war could happen. On both sides, these areas were deliberately modified. | ||
+ | * Tyler thinks the Stormlords of Korbal are behind it and mentions their psychic powers - to much skepticism from the survivors | ||
+ | * Tyler recalls the papers left on the Lady Jane dealing with Psychohistory and the use of lynchpins that Carson wrote - and recommends consulting him on this conspiracy. | ||
+ | * Leslie, the beaurocrat in the group explains how she saw some of these lynchpin decisions being made in government while she was there - and these decisions were regarded as bad at the time, but they were still made. | ||
+ | * Most of the survivors are dropped off - but the crew from the newspaper accompany the Lady Jane to the planet where Carson was last seen | ||
+ | * Tyler senses the Carson gestalt | ||
+ | * Carson is willing to think on the problem of the lynchpins if they are given the data | ||
+ | * As the ship approaches Carson' | ||
+ | * Carson advises on where a person could likely be found who could build a Horror destroying | ||
+ | * The hive mind mentions the two seeds on the ship. Hector immediately finds them in the sick bay | ||
+ | ==== Quotes ==== | ||
+ | * [[blackie]]: | ||
+ | * [[jon hector]]: With the Adapter of Destiny? | ||
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+ | {{tag>" | ||
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