Session 58

Aayla manages to pick up the survival shelter in the Longhorn's cargo bay deftly manoeuvring through the dense field of wreckage to reach it and getting everyone aboard safely.

Dr Mentzer loses the signal from the escape pod in the commotion.

Jorus, Val and Lorne take up positions on the ship.

Aayla manages to bring the jettisoned escape pod onboard as well despite the advancing True Empire ships.

Val takes out a tie fighter with a well-placed volley of blaster fire.

Lorne rushes to cargo bay to find the other inheritors prising open the hatch to the escape pod, through the view port he can see his wife and son, he sets about opening the hatch as well.

Jorus plots a route out of the debris field and away from ties and raider.

Aayla pumps power to engines and once far enough away with a plotted hyperspace route jumps to lightspeed.  Leaving the True Empire far behind.

When Dr Mentzer is returned to Typhon station Seighas Varusful also leaves the ship, likely to do some soul searching. Jorus suggests she might fall into the arms of the Crimson Cadre. Val goes further suggesting a possible secret alliance between the Crimson Cadre and the True Empire but the Crew put this aside for now. 

The Longhorn returns to Tann and offers the Inheritors a new start on a world with an Umbrance.

The Crew take an extended break on Tann settling in the Inheritor survivors.

Epilogue Rolls:

Val: Spends Time building bridges between the two communities.

Aayla: Finds a use for the LR3 Probe Droids repurposing their senor packages to provide information on the Planet of Alkuluria

Lorne: Is reunited with his family settling them in Tann where they embrace the new life.

Jorus: Continues to help the people of Tann by holding surgery in the town. He treats some the minor injuries of the newly arrived Inheritors as well as looking after the existing town folk, they are pleased to see their doctor (this is a success on integration added to the project)

Significant Milestone awarded.

Session 57

Val, Jorus and Lorne social out manoeuvre Seighas Varusful. By the end of the exchange she is beaten, afraid of Lorne and has been shaken to her core, perhaps he rigid adherence to the Inheritor combat code has been wrong all along.

In the safety shelter:

• Jorus treats the 4 year old girl for breathing difficulties caused by smoke inhalation

• Val hands over box of tools brought with him to Tepo Spiro an Inheritor crafts man who has been keep the air recycler running, he keeps it going but it's still making concerning noises.

• Val keeps everyone calm and gets a read of the survivors mental state: traumatised.

• Jorus speaks with Caliliste Chantal, Jorus is keen to spread the word and draw on other Cadre's Caliliste tries to guide him to focus on the immediate problem of saving what is left of his people. She also shares that she thinks the Empire must have got hold of Marauder navigations data from other Cadre's although no Cadre has a complete set of navigational data all know there own hyperspace paths through the rift. The Wind Thorne cadre have also lost contact with other Cadre's and she relays the same concerns about traders and messengers not arriving, now she knows why.

Lorne remembers that before his exile he agreed an escape plan with his wife should any in the Cadre turn against her for being an Exile's wife. Located in the flotilla was part of a ship with a still working escape pod. They might have made it to it. It would have been near where they where last seen. Lorne informs the Longhorn and Dr Mentzer begins searching for the pod.

Unable to get the Longhorn close enough to pick up the survivors  the Crew come up with a plan to use the M27 mining droid to cut a it's way to the survival shelter, cut the shelter free and bring it out of the wreckage. Aayla guides the droid from the Longhorn.

Whilst the droid does it's work Val and Lorne venture out into the airless gravity-less corridors of the flotilla wreck and search for the strange power signals. They locate an Imperial Probe Droid, After a short exchange of blaster fire it explodes in Lorne's face. There is no useful wreckage for Val to sift through, he had hoped he might be able to trace where it was transmitting to.

Dr Mentzer informs Lorne she has found the pod.

The M27 Droid finishes it's heroic job of lifting the survival shelter free of the wreckage out into the dense debris field that surrounds it.

Aayla and Dr Mentzer a disturbed to see an Imperial Raider Corvette arriving from hyperspace. It launces four tie fighters which screech towards the Longhorn. The bigger ship bristles with deadly weapons. 

Session 56

The Longhorn ventures deep into the Rift. Aayla Vrei, having combined the hyperspace pods from two droids so the droids can be recovered. The Longhorn navigates the dangers of the Rift, an Ion storm, a dense nebula and a shoal of Khironex. Finally they arrive at the area of space Lorne's vision and the Shard of Kelentar guided him to.

The flotilla is destroyed, a debris field spreads out before them. The find destroyed Jakal fighters, dead Inheritor bodes and floating the floating panel of a tie fighter.

Whilst Jorus scans the debris field to try and work out what happened, Aayla pilots the longhorn deeper into the field.

The crew:

• locates a fait trace of what could be life signs (heat) shows up on the scanners. This suggests one of the parts of the flotilla, what looks to be chunk of some sort of makeshift space station made of multiple different craft might contain some survivors.

• Part of space frame has a Jakal fighter still attached to it. The Attack must have been sudden and over helming.

• What's left of the flotilla has been blasted with concussion missiles, laser and more devastating Turbo laser fire.

• What's left of the defensive turrets and shield generators on any of the vessels look like the have been precisely targeted by lasers and explosives. Some parts of the station look as if they were targeted as a priority as well. Not all the damage seems to have been inflicted at the same time. Firstly a precise strike was made then afterwards tactics seem to have shifted to a barrage of attacks without any discretion. 

• Lots of scattered erratic power readings that could be something but could also just be batteries or other power systems failing in the wreckage.

Aayla and upset Dr Mentzer stay aboard the Longhorn whilst Lorne, Val and Jorus board the station. The zero-g work is not easy for Val and Jorus but they make it to the remains of the flotilla structure with possible life signs and Jorus, drawing on some old memory smoothly cuts a safe secure entry through the hull plaiting.

Inside the structure the PCs come across the wreckage of the Inheritors civilisation lines the inside of the hulk, destroyed art and sculpture made from shared glass. They pass through a hydroponic cultivation chamber destroyed by fire. They see signs of fighting, and pass a  dead Stormtrooper with blood red markings daubed on his armour floating in the corridor.

As they make their way through the flotilla structure Lorne and Jorus feel they are being watched and Lorne even sees a shape move down a distant corridor. Lorne and Val suggest there is some sort of creature or droid out there in the dark. Val suggests the erratic power readings could be a droid.

They reach an area of corridor utterly ravaged by fire. Inheritor bodes of mixed races, men, women children have burned alive looking for safety and now float in the corridor little more than blackened skeletons. At the end of  the corridor a damaged heavy door is marked with Inheritor markings for safety, Lorne recognises it as a safety shelter.

Jorus fixes the outside access panel and the airlock quickly cycles. Inside the vacsuited crew are created with shard glass spear tips.

An initially tense stand is diffused somewhat by Lorne's powerful presence and instructions to listen to the Elder, as they should.

In the safety shelter are a dozen survivors including  Seighas Varusful, a Maruder Warrior who hates outsiders and who brought Lorne's misconduct to light, resulting in his exhile. Also present is Caliliste Chantal a blind Inheritor Elder who sat in judgement at Lorne's exhile. She recognised Lorne's voice and asks to touch his face to prove that it is him. Lorne asks about his family. A young Duros mother, Avier Cyrille, says that when she was separated from her husband (shortly before he was killed) she saw Lorne's family in the area, they where on that part of the flotilla, they are almost certainly dead or captured.

Caliliste explains that the unthinkable has happened, even the deep Rift is no longer safe, somehow the Empire marshalled a fleet, the attack happened quickly and was decisive. The screech of TIEs brough TIE bombers that disabled or destroyed the larger ships,  a wing of blood red TIEs ripped through their best pilots and defences. dagger like Corvettes with red markings, war ships more heavily armed than anything the Maruder flotilla possessed destroyed defences. Defenders aboard the flotilla were seemingly targeted by concussion missiles and turbolaser fire in precise attacks, they operated without mercy without leniency, if she didn't know better she would say there where deploying her people's own tactics against them. Afterwards came the second wave, freighters and shuttles deployed boarding parties, the Empire didn't rely on blasters, deploying explosives to overcome any resistance and destroying any protection offered by Inheritor shields. They stunned and captured anyone they could, taken back to the freighters, never to be seen again. 

Dr Mentzer comms that the stranger power readings are back and seem to be in the same area of debris as Jorus, Lorne and Val.

The atmosphere in the room is tense. Some of the survivors need medical aid and the air recycler is on its last legs.

Session 55

Following Lorne's guidance the Crew locate what Lorne believes is an entrance to the Umbrance. It is not an easy path. After climbing up to a small cave entrance above the lowest turn of the corkscrewing road up the Mesa that the settlement of Torn reach sits on they find a network of narrow and treacherous caves.

The Crew demonstrate the will, stamina and athleticism to make the pilgrimage. Deep within the caves they find a deadly looking trap which Alya manages to disable and later will reset as they retrace their steps, ensuring the Umrbance beyond remains protected. Beyond the find antechamber with many inheritor burials and art, shard glass weapons and crafted goods left with the  piles of bones. Beyond Lorne find a conical Umbrance the floor of the chamber is choked with bones, up to waist high in the centre of the chamber.

Lorne meditates in the space and opening his senses to the place he notices that

• The walls of the Umbrance are marked with countless markings, at the low levels within your reach there are many markings but they thin and disappear entirely as you look up into the darkness.

• On the walls 12 tall trapezoid figers are marked, little more than black shadows covered now in markings of reverence from a later time.

• The Inheritor markings mark the tall figures The Crafter, The Producer, The Scout/The Hunter, The Artist/The Tattoist, The Warrior, The Elder, The Carer, The Navigator or The Pilot, The Storyteller (or perhaps this is the Tattoist, the marking are confused) , The Caretaker of the Dead and lastly the Exhile. (Investigate: These marks are clearly later so it's unclear if these where the original intentions of the first tall dark shapes)

• The Umbrance looms above you. The tall tapered shapes stretch above you into the darkness. There narrow trapezoid shapes look down on you but where as the Umbrance of Dinoah  might have been concerned parents these feel altogether

• different. Shocked perhaps, a circle of peers who having discovered something and having gathered to look upon it, they realise something and  step back.. In shock?

• As you study the figures you can see that they are not solid. Not whole. Although faded it is clear they are not made from one piece but from jagged triangles, as if the figures are  run through with fine cracks. Like broken glass that is broken but has not fallen into fragments, though it must surely do so.

In the centre of the chamber among the piles of bones Lorne wades in to find a strange mask.

Fitted over a skull. A Shardglass mask, ancient. Polished to a mirror shine the Onyx mask covers the top of the face and sides of the head. The mirror surface reflects a Smokey indistinct vision of you. There are no eyes. Anyone wearing it would not be able to see where they where going. The inside of the mask is as polished as the outside. It Is chill to the touch and despite the lack of eyes makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, as if you are being watched. It bears no inheritor markings that you can see.

Putting the mask on he is unable to see or hear much and feels isolated from those around him. The strange mask Is chill to the touch.

Jorus is reminded of Intrepid Angel's story of the strange cabal of Chibiva and reminds Jorus of this.

Jorus identifies the human skull the mask say on as ancient. He also identifies the bones on the bottom of the chamber as older than those on top, and those closes to the pedestal and lowest down to be the oldest of all.

Lorne feels the chill of the Umbrance in his bones and taking the mysterious mask with him leaves the Umbrance with the other

Once they make there way back to the surface the crew emerge from the caves into the night of Torn Reach, shooting stars streaking overhead.

Returning to the longhorn the Crew leave the planet.

Aayla investigate the nav data from the Tempest dust. Finding they have been given a Shard Glass fagment, that has been marked as a form of optical storage, like a very crude verion of the shard of Kelentar she integrates it with the ships Holo projector and LH-O incorporates the data into her Nav data and Aayla takes the ship to hyperspace and deeper into the Rift.

Session 54

Lorne leads the conversation with Valairay The Elder. The conversation is long and convers many topics. Over many hours, supported by his crew mates he talks with the Elder about his deeds and the things he has discovered beyond his Cadre. He also tells the Elder of the guidance he has received from the Bequthers. 

Lorne tells  tales that impress the Elder despite his low status as an Exhile and his Colonial companions.

He tells how he recovered Shard Glass weaponry from an enemy of the Inheritors, Of  two different Umbrances, though he does not share the location of the Umbrance near Tann, and of a Lost Inheritor Cadre. 

The Elder says that it is a truth that all Inheritors once started elsewhere (that all the races of the inheritors are from somewhere else, not form the Rift). Inheritors are, he says, are inheritors from the Beqhethers, not their decedents, Perhaps in some strange way Lorne has created a Cadre of his own, and made Inheritors of his crew rather than them making him an outsider of him.

Lorne encourages Elder Valairy to make contact with the Lost Cadre. He seems unwilling to move his Cadre so close to space patrolled by RiftCo

Dr Mentzer shares the holo of the Shard of Kelentar and Lorne's vision.

The Elder says he has herd tales of such things as the Shard and that it is disquieting it is in a Colonial museum. He says that a few other Cadre's a rumoured to hold something similar, the Dr finds this news wonderous.

After Lorne shares their intended destination, to reach Lorne's Cadre, The Windthorn cadre, Elder Valairay says there is something he should be aware of; Over a period of many months the Cadre had lost contact with other Cadre's, signal broadcasts, or expected traders or visitors never arrived, from those that have arrived there have been rumours and fear as Cadre messengers and visitors have shared worried words they had too lost contact with other Cadres. There are rumours of attacks by unknown forces on those in once safer places deeper in the rift.

Elder Valairay also shares with Lorne that there is one other who claims to hear the voices of the Beqhethers, the Crimson Spear, at that with the attacks his already seductive message has caused others to join his banner and grow his Cadre. The Reach is lousy with Crimon Cadre raiders. The Crimon Spear, the Elder says that more are returning to the old ways, and that he wants to cover the Rift in blood. Lorne contemplates if he might be some sort of counter? Is that why he is being guided? Both the Elder and Lorne agree that he bears mort though

During the conversation Lorne learns that there is an Umbrance somewhere near torn Reach, likely in a cavern below the town and although he doesn't get the exact location from the Elder (he seems unwilling to share it, preferring it stay hidden from Colonials, revealing it may result in it's tainting or destruction.) he resolves to visit it.

Lorne Meditates with Elder Valairay. During the meditation Elder Valairay hears something he has never heard before, the voices of the Beqheters, he is certain now Lorne is a spiritual figure. Lorne leaves the Elder with a determination for his Cadre to survive, hoping he will make more radical choices to save those he is guiding.

The crew return to the Longhorn. Dr Mentzer is very pleased with having made peaceful contact with a group of Inheritors she goes to her cabin to record everything whilst it is fresh in her mind.

Returning to the ship Lorne, Aayla, Val and Jorus resolve that they won't take Aeon further into the Rift with them. It's too much of a risk. Val suggests he's likely to try and sell any nav data they collect and further endanger the Inheritors they might contact.

Setting the ship to return to Torn Reach the Crew try to stike a deal with Aeon to get him out of there hair but they realise they may need the droids and hyperspace telemetry agragator that has been spliced into the ship. Aeon and the crew come to agreement to clear his debt Ganion Gunrun and pay him an not inconsiderable amount of Credits.

Aayla puts down the Longhorn on the landing area on the mesa near the town. Aeon leaves the ship, there is some concern that he might stir up trouble so Lorne stays on the ship so as not to draw anti Marauder sentiment.

The Crew head into town with two objectives, to get food and perhaps other supplies that they can offer to the Inheritors to build good will. Jorus knows a local trader, Robi Somberlas.

Jorus once repaired Somberlas's leg after he broke it in a speeder accident, in a X22 speeder he owned that was a death trap.  The Crew buy a cargo holds worth of food from Robi and his old speeder so that they can use to explore the local area looking for the Umbrance.

Back at the Longhorn Robi's droids load the cargo onto the longhorn and Aayla fixes up the speeder, fixing the flaws that made it a death-trap and fitting two extra makeshift seats.

Session 53

Heading to one of the scavenging locations in the Nebula near sunder point the Crew find a heavily damaged cornelian light freighter without working engines and with holes cut by Jakal borders.

Boarding the ship Aayla is able to get access to the computer core and recover sensor readings from when the ships was attacked. She picks up signals that show small craft attacking the ship. It's engines being disabled and then a large ship arrived and seemingly docked with the freighter, for an hour or so, likely taking on cargo. From there, the larger ship undocks, the smaller Jakals dock with it and the larger ship heads away from the freighter.

Aeon expresses reservations about dealing with Marauder's calling them thieves and murderers. This does not ender him to the crew.

Following the vector of the larger ship the Longhorn arrives at the edge of a sprawling Shatter Glass Field. Jorus spots sensor readings that might be Inheritor ships. Lorne sends out a wide band message explaining that  he is an exhile and has important news for his people.

The message is responded to by Sevis of the Tempest Dust Cadre, a small Cadre that once flourished in The Reach. 

Lorne and Sevis talk. It is established the Lorne has met members of the Tempest Dust Cadre at an celebration event when several cadre's came together.

Sevis goes radio silent saying he will need to pass on Lorne's message to the elder. During the break in communication the Crew spot small sensor signals that are most likely Jakal fighters. The crew let them do there thing not wanting to raise tensions.

Six Inheritor warriors board the Longhorn via the cargo bay (the crew conceal there own Jakal fighter before they arrive) Aeon remains dismissive of the Inheritors intensions but is put down by Lorne.

Sevis listens to what Lorne has to say, when he says he has made contact with a lost Inheritor tribe and rediscovered two cumbrances he takes him seriously and despite his reservations agrees to take him to the Elder, they agree that it is an unorthodox time. Jorus notices the warriors are malnourished and gives them some supplements from the ships medical supplies.

The Lonhorn follow the Jakal fighter to a small Marauder Flotilla hiding in the Shatter Glass field. One bulk freighter 120 meters in length, old and heavily patched.

One space frame with another dozen Jakals and a space frame with a cargo pod which must be for Sevis's warriors. The freighter also has hooks for Jakals so it can act as a mother ship of sorts.

Aayla docks the longhorn.

Before leaving the ship Aayla gives LH-0 instructions to ignore and request from Aeon.

Jorus, Lorne, Aayla, Val and Dr Mentzer

Aboard ship it is cramped, heavily patched and equipment is not in a good condition. The crew see families, children, warriors civilians eking out an existence, the cargo pods have been turned into living quarters, there is no privacy and it is moist and the air filters smell off.

The Crew and Dr Mentzer are taken to a room near the front of the central body of the freighter where the floor ceiling and walls are covered in the swirling marks of the history of the Tempest Dust Cadre, An elderly gentleman sits cross legged on the floor a heater lamp in front of him he gestures for the other to sit including Sevis. The door is closed. The crew spot warriors out side the door.

Session 52

The Longhorn returns to Sunder Point.

Whilst Jorus and Lorne protect the ship for opportunistic Jawas Val and Aayla negotiate with the Jawas for a any parts of Marauder space frame's they might have recovered. The Jawas try to sell them some scrap but they don't buy it. Eventually after Val and Aayla explain at length what they want the lead Jawa gets an scrappy looking Astromech to project a holomap of the system. Marked on it a points where the Jawas have scavenged parts which showed signs of Marauder attacks e.g. Hull's with plasma torch cuts, parts of Jakal Fighter,  low power carbon scoring from Jakal Weapons etc. After some tense negotiations with Val the Jawas agree to part with the information for a tidy sum of credits.

Combining the data with the information from Brakk the crew decide to check out overlapping information in a asteroid field between Torn Reach and the main hyperspace route out of the system.

Heading into the asteroid field, hazardous but for Aaylas's legendary piloting skills Jorus picks up so low power readings on the sensors that could be Maruder vessels. Aayla conceals the Longhorn in the field and the crew set up one of Aeon's droids to act as a comms relay. They send the droid out with a recorded message from Lorne explaining he wants to make contact with his Cadre and asking them to respond on a specific frequency that the droid will then relay to the longhon. The Longhorn does receive a response but it seems like a trap, asking them to reveal their position, Lorne deduces the Maruders are Crimson Cadre and the Longhorn breaks cover and tries to make it's escape. As the marauder Jakal fighters flit through the asteroid after them Aayla manages to keep the Longhorn ahead with support from the rest of the crew and is able to break out into open space and loose their pursuers. During the escape, at Aeon's suggestion Aeon and Dr Mentzer lock them selves in their cabins.

Session 51

The Crew venture into Torn Reach and head to Mirax Shyshy's Cantina. Lorne dons a disguise that does nothing more than draw attention to his Inheritor status.

The PCs track down Brakk who is playing Sabac with a couple of other locals including a Sullustan.

Brakk clearly doesn't like Aeon and needles him about him losing his ship.

Brakk offers to provide the information the Crew want in exchange for them getting a Trivalve assembly for his ship. He suggests they get it from Sunder point a space scrap yard in the system.

A mob is starting to gather at the Cantina and Lorne and Val sneak out of the back and head back to the ship.

Meanwhile Jorus is accosted by a male Askajanian who is desperate for the doctors help. Going back to the Askajanian's house Jorus finds that his wife is about to give birth and Aayla and Dr Mentzer help Jorus to deliver the litter of six cubs. Afterwards, heading back to the ship they avoid the growing mob,

Sunder point is run by Space Jawa's whilst Val and Alya try to make a deal for a decent Trivalve assembly Lorne and Jorus have to repeatedly scare off troublesome Jawa's trying to snag things from the longhorn.

During the visit the Crew notice the Jawas have parts of jakal fighters and some of the scrap bears plasma touch cuts synonymous with Marauder attacks.

Aayla and Val secure a decent trivalve assembly for the correct ship and the Longhorn leaves sunder point.

Back at Torn reach the crew trade the trivalve assembly for Brakks info on Marauder attacks. During the exchange Brakk surreptitiously draws a circle in the soot on the trivalve assembly which his noticed by Lorne. The Crew think he may be making the sign of the Vorban rings.

The PCs leave Torn reach and discuss what to do next.

Session 50

Aalya takes a dislike to Aeon's approach to droids in his work. Val talks to Aeon and realises he is a bit sore about not having his own ship. When he's asked about it he says he lost his ship to a pirate attack. Val's sure he is being less that truthful.

After agreeing to take the job Che'riss, Dr Mentzer and Aeon leave the Crew alone with Ganio who has a quiet word. Just after Che'riss has left he says "he's not fooling anyone with they crazy accent you know"  he says shaking his head", Val as Wes asks why he thinks Che'riss a he? Ganio asks if has info to share, Val says maybe later but leaves it at that. Ganio talks to the Crew about the attack in the safe channel out of Typhon, he says that if they didn't deal with them permentaly (they didn't) they'll want to watch their back as the people they stole the Yachut from don't seem none to happy. Val picks up on queues that Ganio knows more and convinces him to share. He says that  who ever is paying their cheques has deep pockets and has hired someone very competent. No one really saw anything. They didn't leavy any tracks and they didn't interact with any of his people that he knows off, stealthy and clean. A Pro job. They don't even seem to have docked on the station, It doesn't even seem like the ship docked in docking bay. Ganio then mentions that he has also heard that RiftCo put out a 20,000 credit bounty for some rich kid Clawdite from Chibavaa. And it seems to him that the only place you'd pick up a  fancy YV-261 model is in the outer systems and money like that is bound to stir up some interest from the kind of hunters who are looking to make a name for themselves,  maybe not the pros, but those with something to prove, the Enthusiastic types he says that if he had a Clawdite on his crew he would definitely want to watch his back on a place like Typhon. It is after all a dirt pile of scum. Just some friendly advice. Although Ganio doesn't know Val is a clawdite Val's calm demeanour slips a little as Ganio talks about matters a little close to home. Likely raising suspicions that the RiftCo Bounty and the Longhorn do seem to be linked as he suspected.

After leaving Ganio the Crew meet with Che'riss who shares that she has received a short call from Colonel Novastar the message is played back:  "I have need of your services doctor, and I am contacting you to ensure you have held up your end of the bargain…" there is a pause,  "- I see you have not.  ...Those who act in my interest prosper, those who act against them. Do not. I wish you the best of luck surviving the consequences of your choices" - The Colonel waring an unconvincing mask of calmness ends the holo-transmission. Val can tell that despite her outward brusque demeanour she is furious. Che'riss also talks to the Crew about "Good Business" which she sems to mean the protection of the Ugnauts from the True Empire. She says that many people are talking about the victory and it is good business to help the little guy. She suggests that if the Crew want to do more good business, presumably standing up to the Empire? They should contact her when they get back from their current job for Ganio.

After getting some free Drinks from Che'riss the Crew decide the most pressing matter is to get under way. They head to the Landing bay and meet Aeon and Dr Mentzer. They load Aeon's droids and tech onto the Longhorn. Dr Mentzer meets Tsubatchcark who takes a liking to her pack. Dr Aria travels light.

The Longhorn heads to Torn Reach to meet a contact of Aeon. During the journey Lorne talks with Dr Mentzer who wants to know how to approach contact with the Maruder Flotilla she hope to find. Lorne recommends surrendering immediately. He also tells her that his wife and son are there. Dr Metzer talks to Lorne for a long time, noting down what he says in her datapad. Lorne seems content to share with someone genuinely interested in his culture, but who can say.

Aeon says that a device used to collate the telemetry for the probe droids needs to be spliced into the ships systems. Aayla doesn't trust him and watches over his work. Aeon does an average job, he offers an excuse about the longhorn system being newer and seems content with the just good enough job. After Aeon leaves Aayla connects up the system in the cargo bar in a fantastic way, it will now work much better. Aeon also says that he needs a console up in the cockpit where he can collate the hyperspace telemetry data from the droids and then pass the new jump vector to the pilot. The Crew, despite his brusque attitude agree.

At Torn reach Aeon reveals that his contact is Braakk Harrad a Klatoonian Brush pilot who does odd jobs around Torn Reach, he's know to Jorus but he only knows he's a pilot and that he drinks at Mirax Shyshy's place. As the Longhorn lands Aeon spots Braak's ship confirming he is in town. Asked if they can trust his contact, Brakk, Aeon says  he "find it's healthy not to completely trust anybody" which Val says is a very cynical way to look a the Galaxy, Aeon says he'll learn that lesson eventually. Aeon says that a constant threat of Maruder attacks hangs over Torn Reach, confirmed by Jorus, which means Lorne certainly won't be welcome, but he's pretty scarry so he might help to get his contact to talk.

Session 49

After a dramatic vertical chase to the edge of space the Preponderant Opal makes the jump to light speed and safety.

Dr Harik and Dr Vulen set about freeing the rescued captives from their carbonite slabs. The manage to successfully free the 12 victims with no ill effects from Carbonite

Amoungst the freed captives the find:

• Isabeau Landor a obsequious Pantoran

• Nalia'Elesta  an athletic Twi'lek who has been marked with nonsensical Marauder tattoos and had her teeth filled to present as a Marauder to Kazimir.

• Katerlin Gerusco, later identified as Intrepid Angel of New Republic intelligence.

• Sarria Kelrune an aspiring  Theelin musician

• Trinna Kazimir-Caalagene, Herve's young bride from the board seat holding Pacaunt-Surin family. Val knows she is supposed to have died in a tragic shuttle accident having run away with a young lover, bringing scandal to the Pacaunt-Surin family.

Val spends some time  talking to Trinna who ends up supporting the other victims and ends up leading a kind of therapy circle whilst the ship is underway.

The Crew learn more about Intrepid Angel who prior to her capture had found tantalising leads that suggested that a cabal of senior figures with ties to RiftCo where conspiring together, possibly to seize control of the company from CEO Grajay Shellav.  Though she had not yet uncovered Information about the names of the conspiracy members she did manage to acquire a dead drop encrypted messages and in doing so she was able to uncover a secret meeting of the Cabal in Chibavaa City. Concerned that an Imperial remnant might be manipulating the conspiracy she attempted to sneak into the meeting place. She was caught and captured. She described the meeting place as cold and a cave below ground. Once captured , she was tortured and her allegiance to the New Republic identified. During her interrogation she was drugged and held in a darkened room. Along with the interrogation droid strange figures in robes questioned her. They wore opaque masks of onyx shard glass. After her interrogation she remembers brief flashes of being transferred, possibly in a private shuttle what must have been the Kazimir estate.  She remembers being strapped to the carbonite freezing device. The next thing she remembers is being woken up. When told about the Vorban Rings her theory is that she's been handed off to this Kazimir to hide her, the conspiracy obviously wanted her out of the way but didn't want the mess of disposing of a new republic agent. Lastly she relates that at the meeting They gathered to hear the words of a strange sentient not of any race she had seen before, a tall thin figure who towered over the rest, perhaps 7-8ft tall clad in black robes with a red cloak. It was not well lit in the meeting place but even from her restricted vantage point she thinks it had a kind of a blank face and textured skin with black eyes of intense intelligence and darkness. It didn't really speak expect in a low hissing song that was translated by a vocabulator. But it's presence was unmistakable like a nail in the back of your mind. They called it  the "Primogeniture".

The Crew speculate on what this means, if the meeting place is an Umbrance on Chibavaa, its is even suggested the tall figure might be the Crimson Spear but Lorne is unable to make this make sense and later side-lines the idea. Jorus suggests the tall alien might be an actual Bequether, or at least someone or something pretending to be one. There is some suggestion that it might be another faction worshiping the Bequthers in another way.

Epilogue Rolls:

Val & Aayla: Refit the Preponderant Opal to work as a cargo and defence ship for the settlement. Aayla trains a couple of the locals as pilots

Lorne: Is dropped off in Dinoah and makes his way deep into the Jungle to return the Shard Glass weapons from Kazimir's estate to people who can put them to better use. Usana Banchar is glad to see him and the two spar. Lorne and Usana place the ossuary recovered from Kazimir's estate in the umbrance there.

Jorus: Helps Dr Harik set up a clinic with the medical supplies from Kazimir's estate at Tann, brining a local doctor to the settlement for the first time.

Significant Milestone awarded.

The PCs arrive at Typhon station to meet with Ganion Gunrun, they make contact with Che'riss G'isk and Intrepid Angel and her seem to get along after an exchange of odd phrases. One might almost think Che'riss knows more than they are letting on. Che'riss will see to it that Intrepid Angel gets safely off the station. They also meet with the Crew of Lavish Rouncy as Jared is happy to take Trinna Kazimir-Caalagene back to Chibavaa for a nice fat reward. 

The PCs meeting with Ganio Gunrun, Che'riss G'isk, Dr Aria Mentzer and Aeon Dymax who explain that Lorne's strange star map vision lines up with mysterious Inheritor artifact called the Shard of Kelentar. Dr Aria Mentzer believes with the crews help she can follow the map to make peaceful contact with the Inheritor peoples.