The redhead is my character, Prerna Nayar, a Sword Worlder. The other woman is her new girlfriend, Erica East.

Well very, very nice!!!!

I really like how Erica turned out.

They both look good.  You are definitely getting much more sophisticated.

Some of that is the new base figure I'm using, along with a better rendering engine for the illustrations. One huge improvement is in the female genital morph - it's integrated into the figure, instead of a separate item that's grafted in. So, in all of my characters, the girl bits are there, even if they remain unseen.

I've done a few explicit illustrations for characters in a couple of other games, at the other players' requests, and the results are pretty good :-)

Well integrating the girly bits like they are supposed to be is definitely the right way to go!  :)  The results certainly speak for themselves.

Did Joxe and Brent tie the knot in this version of them?

Yep. They didn't get to the ceremony in their Akus Moby version.

That's what I thought.  I will edit my post.

So, here's a thought, and this is something that Brent would know.

In the Egg System, all ships are required to be registered if they are larger than 10dt. Any station or shipyard in the system can add ships, and delete them if they are scrapped, to and from the registry.

A registered ship's owner has certain rights, including free passage between planets and stations, and, though no one has a jump capable ship, passage in and out of the system itself. There are also rules about searches and seizures, which basically state that the government cannot do more than perform reasonable customs and safety inspections at prescribed intervals. A seizure has to be done by warrant, and that takes a court hearing. Even in emergencies, it takes a lot to convince a judge to approve a seizure, even a temporary one.

Trudy, as the senior official on Tala Station, can most assuredly add Wanderer to the registry. The ship would be issued a transponder code and an encrypted dataset that will positively identify her as a friendly vessel to anyone in the Egg System.

If some official did try to seize it, they would run into severe problems, and the fact that it's the only jump-capable vessel around, for now, would only make the situation go public even faster. In Brent's experience, the one thing you don't mess with is someone's ship - it's usually their means of making a living.

Very, very good point.  It makes sense given the society in the system!

You can write whatever you wish about Brent's family - just as long as there's no wife waiting at home ;-)

His wife is on the Wanderer which is his home now!  No wife back in the Egg system though :)

lol

As it should be!

I added a deck plan with a basic drawing for the Type A to the Dropbox.

Also, Malcolm and Melina, and Veronica and Naimh, each approach Brent and Joxe as a couple, asking that they be allowed to stay at Tala Station to help with training the scout crews. They might consider going back out with one of the later ships to be recommissioned, or they might rejoin Brent and Joxe at some point.

That would leave them with the two couples from Execute, plus the girls as trained spacers.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:30, Sun 09 Aug 2020.

That's a good solution to the NPC situation.

Do we have a new PC joining or rejoining?

No, not yet :-(

Brent can start with the meeting whenever he's ready :-)

Some thoughts:

Brent can do whatever he wishes - he and Joxe certainly aren't obligated to help Egg beyond what they've already accomplished, which is to literally give them back the stars. The scout can haul up to 30 tons of cargo, and the four companions who are staying can take it to Execute and back.

The people are available to help negotiate with both populated systems, which Egg will almost certainly want to do. Radshir wasn't very successful the first time, but she has valuable inside information to inform future efforts.

The Egg tech base (TL-10 working to -12, but with no current jump tech) can send support to help other planets' tech bases to improve. Once the lanthanum supply is reestablished, there is every expectation that they can build larger starships.

There is still the mystery of Keipes - why were they raiding, and why did they stop? Are they still around? If they are, are they a potential threat to Egg?

The rest of the main is still a mystery, rimward to Montezuma, and to Gorky.

The question about what happened to the other surviving ships is still there, too. Where did Joxe's parents go, and why? A corollary is, what happened to the survivors on Cosenza, and the other planets which are now uninhabited?

The runabout and it's mission to Execute - why did it grab the two girls, and then fly to Execute? Is there a connection to Radshir's family roots?
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:28, Wed 12 Aug 2020.

Ahhhh... LOTS to think about.

I hadn't even really gone too far down the trail with the runabout and why it did what it did with the two girls.  That is definitely worth an investigation!

I like the idea of laying the foundation with Egg and the systems they have contacted and then let them start to rebuild and bootstrap off screen while we scout the Main, investigate Keipes and of course what happened to Joxe's parents.  Certainly there may have been an organized evacuation of some of the planets done hopefully altruistically.

Quite a lot, very good!

I forget the details on Joxe's parents though.

I want to be sure that you have the opportunity to select whatever course of action is the most fun and interesting to game out. The really critical piece of delivering lanthanum back to Egg is done, and so the next adventure is your call :-)

Letter to Joxe, found at her parents' house on Khesanadu:

My dearest daughter,

I hope this letter finds you well. Your mother and I have been helping to keep our town's domes running since the attack.

We lost nearly all of our space based infrastructure, and most of the cities and towns were destroyed. Somehow, we survived.
I hope that you and your cousins made it through to Montezuma, although we heard later that the war had come to them, too.
Hopefully, you're reading this after being able to come back here with the Concordia and your cousins.

Joxe, we have to move away from here, as the raiders have gotten more and more bold. Some friends have offered to let us come with
them to Execute, as they say the navy squadrons didn't do that much damage in that system. When you come, be careful about the raiders.
We heard that they are operating out of Kiepes. That doesn't surprise me, as that whole planet is one big mess.

Anyway, we are packing up to leave. Your mother and I both love you very much. We hope to see you soon.

After asking at Execute, you found that her parents had moved on with a trader to parts unknown.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:00, Thu 13 Aug 2020.

I'm thinking we move back up the Main and then down toward Keipes.  THe research station at Sittahr might be worth a swing by as well.

Okay :-)

Posted

Just so you know, I've been secretly rolling for some events as we've gone along, and so the current conversation about the builder's plate is a chance event, not something I'm steering one way or the other ;-)