====== The Stone Tiger ======

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**Setting:** [[starblazer:planets:#mauthus_ii|Mauthus II]]
===== Part I: The Lair of the Tiger =====

  * Scene 1: The Long Drop
    * Drug smuggling, Mauthus II style - an orbital drop in a cargo pod.
    * The pod is grappled, but [[Jon Hector]] shakes it loose.
  * Scene 2: Off Target
    * [[Eight]] and [[Dirk Richter]] scout the environment, while [[Xiao Ling]] meets the locals.
    * Richter offers a tasty target.
    * [[Eric Carson]] combines frontier know-how with high-tech savvy.  
  * Scene 3: Enter the Tiger
    * The team meets a [[jin_tao|dangerous and desperate woman]].
    * Carson sets to work, healing bodies and minds.
  * Scene 4: The Lay of the Land
    * Mauthus Capitol: decadence and corruption in an Ancient shipwreck.
    * Eight, Hector and Carson contemplate dark marvels, while Ling and Richter encounter dark motives.
    * There is no sign of [[armitage_reginald_shank_esq|Shank]]...

===== Part 2: Revenge of the Tiger =====

  * Scene 1: Up and Over
    * [[Eight]], [[Dirk Richter]] and [[starblazer:jin_tao|the Tiger]] take the long way up and around.
    * [[Jon Hector]], [[Xiao Ling]] and [[Eric Carson]] join the frontal assault party.
  * Scene 2: Driven to Distraction
    * Eight makes contact with the Ancients' legacy - and finds it uncooperative.
    * Distractions abound as Hector instigates a dishonorable discharge; Ling and Carson arm the troops; Richter takes control of the situation; Eight persuades the systems to accept her; and Lady Oq forces a confrontation.
    * Richter is a little short for a stormtrooper.
  * Scene 3: The Dark Thought Generator
    * Richter dodges a bolt or three.
    * Eight makes a bid for the throne.
    * Hector makes a bid for the throne.
    * [[starblazer:Zaous|Lord Zaous]] places his faith in technology; Lady Oq keeps her distance.
    * Carson faces his darkest thoughts, and triumphs.
  * Scene 4: Aftermath
    * Ling makes an unauthorised broadcast.
    * Zaous is brought low, and the Tiger is triumphant.
    * Eight takes a souvenir.
    * Mauthus II begins a long and painful rebirth - but how ancient are the Ancients?

===== Quotes =====

  * [[Jon Hector]]: Do you shoot it to switch it on, or switch it off?
  * [[Xiao Ling]]: When he's fascinated by an object he counts as an innocent.

===== Continuity =====

  * Brilliant inventive ideas of [[Jon Hector]] needlessly shot down as overly complicated and hazardous to life and limb.  In this case:
    * Modifying the GravChute of the cargo pod to discharge all its energy in a giant leap at a modified handscanner as a location beacon (for when a safe location was found for the pod to land)
    * Having [[Dirk Richter]] sneak the handscanner into the lair of the big bad and circumventing the loss of peasant army lives with this makeshift suborbital weapon.



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