The crew signs on the dotted line. The price of freedom is 3,000 credits per month. Plus fuel. And repairs. But the High and Dry is officially decommissioned by the Scout Service and in the hands of independent owners.
Abacti secures a mysterious offer to deliver supplies to where there should be no one living, a gas giant at Tyren. There the crew finds Dr. Lilia studying a strange entity and a mysterious starship hidden inside the gas giant. After a bit of teleportation and aborted sabotage the crew negotiates a better price and leaves.
The Score
Software:
- pay slip from Lilia’s shell corporation
Reputation:
- noticed by the Order of Prometheus, including recordings of weaponry, ship drive signature, and psychic abilities
Featuring
- Doctor Lilia Vess → one of three leaders of the Orthogonal Operations Group, a front organization for the technocratic brotherhood of the Order of Prometheus, her research into forbidden science continues