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Fayde Dodge – Smuggler – Mark Fuller Mog – Heavy Smuggler – Leon TrimanLance Hejaran - Bounty Hunter – Jamie OldGrumpit – Wookie – Nick JonesRuu Yuu Kataan – Failed Jedi – Jim Rouse
ISON System – Ison TradeCorridor.
The ISON System - Four planets – 
Ison 1
is close to the sun and too hot to support lifeunprotected. Mining settlements here, undergroundaccommodation and working, minimum surfaceappearance – simple landing pads with accesshatches to underground parking – it costs.
Ison 2
is the temperate one – normal gravity,oxygen/nitrogen mix atmosphere – earth like.Population 100 million.
Ison 3
Gas Giant – with rings and several moons – Two of the moons Reggy and Perrin have earth typeatmosphere, but 0.8 gravity – i.e. smaller. They arewarm enough and have little darkness, daylightwhen they face the sun and twilight when they facethe gas giant. There are times in the orbit when the planet only gets light from the gas giant and notfrom the sun and then they have a proper night.
Ison 4
– frozen ball – again mining colonies butthese have surface domes for accommodation.Asteroid belt between Ison 2 and 3. The asteroid beltMark – Fayde – Human PilotLeon – Mog - GamoreanMedium Freighter – Valkyrie – Hyperdrive is broken – 10,000 credits to repair. Docking feeshave been paid for four weeks at 500 per week – non refundable.Looking for a job – three days of bumming aroundin the cantinas brings an offer of work.Harry – address in the warehouse district. Mogknocked the door and stove it right in.The Triumvirate Habitat in the Asteroid belt – dedicated to salvaging the remains of a long lostcivilization.Biotechnology has provided the inhabitants of thehabitat with the ability to appear as whatever theviewer finds most pleasing. They are not human atall, just appear as that to the observer.Fayde and Mog discover a 250m long asteroidwhich was part of the planet’s surface. The remainsof a public building can be seen on the surface withcentral hall, offices around it, mosaic floor and amass of ice in one corner. Searching find a wayinto the cellars through what was an undergroundtunnel, where they find the remains of a computer room which has been frozen in escaping water and preserved. Bringing these remains back to thetriumvirate will prove valuable enough for a fulltank of fuel and 1000 credits.Total Fayde has accrued to date he started with1100cr, received 1000 from Harry and 1000 fromthe triumvirate, and another 1000 promised whenthe box is delivered. If caught with the box of course there will be trouble with the authorities.They might be able to buy their way put with up to1000cr bribes, or might be charged with a fine of 2,000cr. Of course if caught the box and contentsare confiscated, and Harry will want his money back – value of contents 10,000cr, BUT Harry willwant 20,000.Once the delivery has been made, or the charactershave been caught then they are free to g wherever they want – BUT now the plot on ISON 4 burstsforth – outlander basically. The miners are being pushed to work ever harder and longer hours. Thework hard and play hard. There is a black marketin stimulant drugs which they use to make sure theycan work hard and play hard. The miningcompanies turn a blind eye to this drug trade,company officials even making money on the sidedealing themselves. However, one dealer, a middlemanager at the settlement where the characters are,has been cutting his stock with impurities whichhave nasty side effects – inducing feelings of immortality and omnipotence in the miners whohave started to react by doing silly things likewalking through an air lock without a vac suit – trying to use a powered drill without the power suite to take the strain etc. If the characters want toget involved the an act as detectives and trace the problem. Finding out that only some of the minersare being affected – BUT they are all on the sameshift, and live in adjacent barrack blocks. Etc. Theywill be blocked by the company officials – especially Under Manager Hodges and hissecretary. Using medical staff appears to be good,unless they remember that the company pays themedical staff.There are only three marshals on the station andthey are obviously overwhelmed by the problem – 
 
total of five suspicious deaths so far before the onethe characters witness. Then the “accident” inwhich two of the marshalls are killed leaving thesurviving marshall quite desperate for help andwilling to deputise (and pay) the characters for their help (or even forget about what they weresmuggling if they got caught).Repairs to ship 500cr  Well The Valkyrie landed on Ison 4, following theinstructions that Harry gave Fayde. Two Marshallsarrived to check out the ship, they were verythorough but failed to find the box in the escape pod where Mog had put it.Once the Marshalls had left, Fayde and Mogdecided to follow the directions they had been givenand call on Harry’s Contact.They got to the barracks section of the settlementand quickly made their way to the contact address.But there was no answer when they rang the door  bell. They wandered off, thinking the guy would beon shift or something, and came back later to see if he was back home yet but still no answer. Faydemade enquiries on each side of the flat they wanted,the one to the left gave no answer as well, and theone to the right produced a reply after a while, froma big hairy miner who had obviously just come off shift and had been woken up by his door bell. Hewas not helpful or polite – severely testing Fayde’s patience and tact.Fayde and Mog managed to get the door unlockedand as soon as they entered the smell which assailedthem gave a clue to what had happened. Theyfound their contact in the bath with his wrists cut,and the razor which had done the cutting still in hishand. The blood in the bath and congealed aroundthe body so the “suicide” must have occurred somedays before. Being careful to leave as little trace as possible they decided to search through theapartment. Finding his wallet with cred stick for \250 credits, and another hidden cred stick with1000 on it, they were happy that they had found theright man, and felt that they had been paid for thetransaction.Fayde makes contact with the company and tries toget a cargo for the return trip to Ison 2. Hodgesoffered cargo. Loading started.Things are looking good for Fayde, he’s starting toget the necessary funds together to get hishyperdrive repaired.Shooting in the corridor outside the ship – the twomarshals dead. Contacted marshal’s office. Theone surviving marshal eventually answers the call,and turns up to talk to the characters. He finds outthat they are waiting to load a cargo, and suggeststhat they may want to earn a little more cash byacting as deputies because of the loss of his staff. Itdoesn’t pay much, but your independent and Idesperately need support. Fayde agrees and deputy badges are handed over along with the first days pay. Fayde and Mog begin their work as deputies by patrolling the warehouse district and trying tosort things out with the CCTV cameras that seemednot to be working properly. While they are doingthis another incident of a man, wearing only hisundershorts, making his way down the corridor thatFayde and Mog are working in. He bumps intothem and refuses to stop when commanded to. Mogfires three LRB stun shots into him and it is onlythe third one which brings the guy down. They callfor medical backup and go with him to the medicalcentre. The doctor confirms that he was affected bythe same drug as the other ‘suicides’, and that thereis some other substance in with the drug which themedical droid was having difficulty identifying.They then decide to go back to the apartment of their contact to try and get more information, after all they reasoned they were now official and coulddo so safely.While still in the apartment there was a moment of  panic when the doorbell rang. The man at the door introduced himself as Hodges, under manager at themining corporation. Jumping to conclusions Faydeassumed the man was a friend of Hodges and thatHodges was due to receive the box they had cometo deliver from their contact. Fayde then informedHodges that they had the box and that he couldcollect it from them on payment of the final fee.Looking as always for that little bit extra.Returning to their ship Fayde and Mog lockedeverything down tight and waited for developments.Sure enough, during the station sleep period theysense that intruders are in their landing bay. Themain hatch is blown in, and an attempt to gas themout of the ship fails as they fight back with the stungrenades that they collected from the Marshall’soffice. Mog manages to hold off the intruders at themain hatch, while Fayde goes to the cockpit to tryand get the ship’s guns into action. Another explosion knocks out one of the landing struts of the ship which lurches into a position from which
 
he cannot use these guns. Glopping the blown mainhatch Fayde and Mog decide to break out of theship by going through the cargo bay hatches antaking the invaders from behind. Unfortunately theinvaders had the same idea. Splitting up it is Mog’smisfortune to bump into the invaders coming on board. Fayde makes it off the ship and gets out intothe landing bay to see the red beam of a laser rangefinder shining from the Landing Bay PersonnelDoor. Making his way through the smoke he firesat movement seen in the smoke, and is sure he hashit one of the invaders. Making it to the personneldoor he finds the Marshal has come to his aid.They quickly sort out the landing bay’s extractionfan system and clear the gas and smoke. The firstthing Fayde notices is the Escape pod laying on thefloor of the landing bay. The invaders must haveworked out where they had hidden the box andtaken it. After all the invaders had access to theoriginal search report which the marshals madewhen they had landed on planet. So the normalhiding places had already been checked out.Suddenly remember Mog, Fayde and the Marshalfind him trussed up in the cargo bay none the worsefor his stunning at the hands of the invaders.They all agree that it has to be the work of Hodges.As it proved impossible to get hold of Hodgesthrough official channels Fayde was all for going tohis residence and beating the crap out of him. TheMarshall regretfully had to refuse official sanctionto the action without more solid proof of Hodgesdirect involvement, so Fayde and Mog handed intheir Deputy badges so that their intended actionwould be unofficial. Mog tried to placate his boss, but they arrived at the management residencesection of the settlement only to see the twosecurity guards close the security fence againstthem. Fayde asked after Hodges, but got anunsatisfactory reply from the one security guard,and neither he nor Mog saw the other Securityguard switch on the power to the security fence.The talking guard dropped back to the protection of the desk, while Fayde and Mog suspecting a forcefield threw something through the security gate,when nothing happened Mog approached the gateand grabbed hold of with the intention of ripping itdown, only to discover that is was electrified. Thelarge charge of power knocked him out, and Faydewas faced with dragging him away from the gate, ashe heard sirens approaching from the back upsecurity team.Hodges repairs damages to Valkyrie, but NOT theHyperdrive which Fayde tried to con him into.Cargo loaded. Marshall asked to have reportdelivered and gave Mog a translator box.Set up a companyFayde-Mog LogisiticsBank loan (see spread sheet)Harry paid off and happy. Warnings about Hodges.Ship Hyperdrive repaired and security systeminstalled.Gamorean security team. Bertha recruiting boss onGamor. Payment 50cr per day from Ison security.Marshall Cestus – 5cr per day to feed eachGamorean, 20 cr to Mog Securities, 20 cr to eachGamorean and 5cr to Bertha for organisingrecruiting at her end.Mail deal with Hodges and the Miners – 50 cr per letter, 75cr per parcel – 10cr to Hodges per letter,and 15 cr per parcel for Hodges to collect rest toJawa’s palace – scrap yard on Ison2 N2 4TDodge 6DMr Jo Black, 500cr per month for protection andservices.Contract made and signed.
Gaining a new specialisation.
When a character reaches a 5D skill he may opt togain a specialisation in one aspect of that skill.This will cost double the die total in character  points to gain. Thereafter the specialisation progresses at the normal rates.
e.g. Fayde has a 5D ship piloting skill, if he spends 10 character points he will gain a 6D specialisation in piloting his medium freighter,and can increase his 6D skill to 6D+1 with theexpenditure of 3 character points at least oneadventure later.
Dear Mr Fayde,Thank you for your recent letter. This authority isfully aware of your business interests and activities,and full details of your vessel are on file.
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