Desiraye Lipost:
Heath, Heath, Heath! Very well played. VERY WELL played sir!
That explains the PM and the differing answers I got from the other players.
As a side note I was really hoping when Desi didn't see Vadim moving to secure or gag his new friend she'd know something was up;-). Granted also happy the team didn't put a lot of holes into Vadim either.
Though the point Vadim made still stands about capturing a live Sathar would be a intelligence coup. Just have to make sure it's unconscious and then blindfolded and gagged the next time around.
As a additional side note, I remember reading some time ago that TSR had planned on making the Sathar a part of the Federation, but more like librarians and bureaucrats running conspiracies in the background rather than the warmongers they eventually went with. Personally I thought they should have added a sixth race to be the 'outside threat' that everyone saw as the main antagonists but they were just secret pawns for the Sathar to help maintain their secret control of the Feds. Put a darker spin on the Megacorps and you have a cyberpunk-space opera genre.