TBR028 Session Notes
Posted on Tue Feb 1, 2022 @ 5:23am by Commander Carl Hedley
Edited on Sun Mar 13, 2022 @ 7:45pm
Uneditted Session Notes by Tom TBR028 11/27/21
While the Potemkin’s being repaired and refitted, we’ve got a new ship! It’s a crapbox freighter so we can go undercover and search the Triangle for that Trilithium weapon. At least it’s fast and common, so it shouldn’t stand out. Also, I’m the captain! Yay! Not many guns, though.
Recalled before we could chase the thing to talk to the department of temporal investigations. Darn bureaucracy! Now we have to pick up a cold trail.
Projected course leads to somewhere called the IKS. Less xenophobic Klingons. Set a course from Starbase 234! Apparently Reeza wants us all to wear matching Napoleonic era French uniforms, which is fun!
Heading to Kinarra, since that’s where the Trilithium seems to be going. We’re transporting comestibles which are in demand there.
Tactical scan by Scott reveals 6 planets and a small star. Defence stations in solar orbit, lots of gun drone squadrons floating around. Security high, but not too high; one warship, few dozen merchants heading to and from the second planet.
Elli and Scott hack into the system, find it kind of a mess, hasn’t been upgraded in a while, cloak detection isn’t exactly the best. Could potentially disappear our ship.
We smell Trilithium! Sensors picked up traces in some locations. One in orbit of the main inhabited world, One stronger one in the asteroid belt. Relatively recent, but not here now.
Pride takes the stealth shuttle out with Elli and McIntyre to investigate the strong source. Approach a large asteroid, a couple of hundred km across. Something’s goin’ down on this asteroid. The surface is covered with mysterious weapon emplacements, but they’re turned off for now. Lots of subspace transceivers and comms gear, too. Quite old, likely early Klingon. Completely powered down.
Elli scans, finds out there was trilithium here when the grid said so, but there doesn’t seem to be any here now. Sensors can’t scan under the rock very well, but it’s probably hollow. Eyeball Mk 1 detects a door. Elli manages to effect an energy transfer to open it up. V. big door, big enough for a bird of prey, vacuum inside. Turns out to be a big ol’ airlock heading into a mini dyson sphere. Artificial sun in the middle, forests, lakes, small sea, very nice. Abundant lifesigns, but nothing humanoid. There’s also a shuttle bay looking door on the other side, through which the trilithium seems to have come. Some artificial gravity close to the surface, but not extending into the middle.
Shuttle door seems to have power, opens up. Inside there’s an old and unfamiliar bird of prey. Powered down, but used recently. Was carrying trilithium. Might be the ship we were chasing. Hull is from about 2250, so a couple of hundred years old. Also, it came over from another universe in about 2260. Pride decides to take a look!
Beam onto the bridge from the shuttle. It’s small, 4 stations, some consoles around the edge, standard stuff. Elli and Scott invade the computers easily enough, find out it arrived with a crew of 10 Klingons from the Baker’s World system with a trilithium bomb after coming from a system in Romulan space with obfuscated sensor data. Had a different crew before it arrived at Baker’s World, though, and was cloaked in that system for 2 weeks.
Electing not to walk off with it, the shuttle crew disable the bird of prey, then head off to do an explore through a person sized door. Spoopy dark corridor on the other side. There’s another door 20 metres away, and stuff abandoned all over the place. Looks like it was evacuated in a rush pretty recently, a few years ago. Doesn’t look like any fighting went down. Door leads to what was a mess hall, but is now being used for cargo storage for spares and components. Mostly for environmental systems.
Elli does makes a power system map, finds that there’s some energy draw going on in some places, head off to investigate. There’s a locked door, but Scott gives it the business, and there are a pair of surprised Klingons behind it! They seem annoyed, but Pride actually manages to talk them down and persuade them they’re here to pick up an package. Lead to another storage room to find a cylinder that looks like a 3m tall photonic torpedo with a yellow glow from vents halfway along. Looks like a trilithium device, except the recovered ones weren’t glowing. Scott suggests that it might be leaking radiation and the Klingons back away so that Elli can have a look. Turns out it’s in the process of being energised to blow up a star, but it’s damaged so it’s going slow. Still probably volatile enough to blow up the asteroid.
Rightly concerned, they try and disable it by removing the warhead. Turns out Scott is really good at rolling dice, so it works perfectly, and they get a pint glass worth of star-explodey-crystal-juice out. Still glowing yellow, but it’s not gonna get any more charge and might not explode, so yay! After that, the Klingons don’t seem all that concerned about letting them leave. Actually seem pretty relieved about the whole thing.
Oh no! The actual pickup ship has arrived! Pride quickly hides the shuttle, and it turns out the crew of the other ship are idiots so they don’t notice anything. Then they get blown up by the asteroid, hurrah!
Asteroid Klingons come out. After deliberation, shuttle crew decide to try sneaking away, or running if they’re detected. They are super quick, outrun the Klingons, whose reactor spikes, looks like they’re overloading impulse drive to keep up, but they’re still too slow/ Then the overheat gets too high and the bird of prey’s reactor shuts down. Hurrah! Oh no! Micro-warp jump to weapons range! Shuttle nips around the back so the star’s out of the firing arc, then shoots them with a trilithium micro-torpedo! Kaboom!
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