Doing 1 jump-1 at a time, the PCs went to Bowman. They are buying refined fuel at all starports to avoid taxing the jump drive even further. Asking for work to pay for the fuel, they flew three scientists to the Darrian Dig Site on Bowman Epsilon, the highly-eccentric moon. I'm saving the rest of "Archaeology" for a later session, but they were intrigued by the thought of pre-Maghiz Darrian artifacts. They ended up doing a deep scan of Epsilon with their new Scout ship's Survey Drones and sold the results to the head of the Dig.
Next stop was 567-908, where they visited a corporate research site. The corpos weren't interested in giving non-employees a tour, but one of them was interested in having them transport a 1-ton cargo module to a buyer on Asteltine. The crew talked him into letting them tank up from the fuel supply for the research facility's power plant over a few days.
In transit, one of the scientists in the crew became overly curious and used the drones to do a scan of the crate. I described how the image gradually formed of some sort of "weird robot arm, maybe?" with writing on it in no language they could recognize. It's, of course, part of a Shrieker rig, but, again, I'm saving "Safari Ship" for later. This was a teaser.
Next stop was 567-908, where they visited a corporate research site. The corpos weren't interested in giving non-employees a tour, but one of them was interested in having them transport a 1-ton cargo module to a buyer on Asteltine. The crew talked him into letting them tank up from the fuel supply for the research facility's power plant over a few days.
In transit, one of the scientists in the crew became overly curious and used the drones to do a scan of the crate. I described how the image gradually formed of some sort of "weird robot arm, maybe?" with writing on it in no language they could recognize. It's, of course, part of a Shrieker rig, but, again, I'm saving "Safari Ship" for later. This was a teaser.
