This is Episode 2 of my new Solar Empires role playing game called "Project Wraith". The player characters are playing specialist who have had their identity stolen by some kind of hacker known as "Casper". Casper has been sending them on "jobs" for unknown purposes. In Episode 1 Casper sent the party to the Greek camp of Jupiter's Trojan asteroids to search for a doctor who had discovered the cure to a dangerous Martian biological weapon.
In this episode Casper sent them to Titania right in the middle of the war zone surrounding Station 42 to meet with a contact who knew the location of Casper's hacker friend known as Starfire. Casper sent three of his agents. Spider is a female hacker from Titania. Vogue is a female public relations specialist from Callisto, and Lone Star is a; gambler, drifter, gunslinger, from Titan. They met with Casper's contact several kilometers South East of Station 42.
Unfortunately for the party the meeting was a trap set by the Hell Knight mercenaries. Six mercenary scouts ambushed the party when the team discovered the true identity of their contact.
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| Vogue updates her facebook about rolling a critical on her "Look at my boobs" roll she used to distract the bogus contact while Spider maneuvered behind him. |
Spider attempted to subdue their contact while the rest of the team engaged in a gun battle with the mercenary scouts.
Eventually Spider managed to knock their contact out and then engage the rest of the scouts. The fire fight was difficult. Most of the scouts had cover while the team was out in the open. Eventually the final scout fled the scene after Spider killed the last of his companions.
After defeating the scouts the bogus contact was "convinced" to reveal to the team that he did indeed know where Starfire was hiding but he assured them that the Hell Knights would get to the hacker before they did.
The team arrived at a small compound about 20 kilometers further South East of their landing position. Several armed militia members were on the rooftops of the simple structures that made up the compound.
After convincing the militia members that they were friendly and on an important mission for one of Starfire's associates they were able to meet with militia leader Jim Dutton.
Just as they were warning Dutton a Hell Knight LAGAREV transport arrived on the scene and blew up one of the small compound buildings with it's scatter laser.
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| Spider, Lone Star, and Vogue. I can't remember what was so funny. |
The team immediately took up defensive position to help the militia members defend the compound. About 10 Hell Knight mercenaries dismounted their transport as the transport's gunner covered them.
The mercenaries split into two groups and took up positions in cover just outside the compound. The mercenaries were armed with laser rifles while most of the militia had assault rifles.
The mercenary LAGAREV was eventually destroyed by; Vogue, Spider, and the militia members. Lone Star joined Dutton to engage the mercenaries hiding in the rocks.
Eventually only one mercenary remained alive and only one militia member had been killed. The mercenary warned the team that they would never get off Titania alive.
The team met with Starfire who told them she had irrefutable proof that the Smith and Wilson Agriculture Company had engaged in illegal dealings with several members of the Titania government and that their seizure of farms and Station 42 was a completely illegal action.
Starfire agreed to flee Titania with the team but suggested that they gather a force to escort them since the Hell Knights knew where their ship had landed.
Before the battle Father Padre, another team member, joined them. He had been on a separate errand for Casper who had sent him to Titania City aboard a civilian transport to aid them. Jim Dutton gathered his militia including his men and four improvised armored vehicles. Dutton's forces were joined by a robotic force owned by the enigmatic "Rosie" of Station 42 who also piloted her own Cyclopes mech.
When they arrived at the landing site the Hell Knights had already arrived with three LAGAREVs, one Hobelar tank, an Incubus light mech and two scout squads.
The battle was bloody. Most of Dutton's men were killed and more than half of Rosie's robot troopers were taken out of action. Rosie's mech was also destroyed but she managed to eject to safety. The Hell Knights lost half of their infantry forces and two LAGAREVs. Their mech and tank were also heavily damaged.
The team managed to make it to their ship during the fighting but as they were making a run for the landing ramp a LAGAREV and a lone trooper with a grenade launcher fired on the. Spider and Lone Star were wounded in the exchange and Starfire was badly wounded and in danger of dying.
As they took off in their ship Father Padre managed to stabilize Starfire with his medical skills. The team had managed to escape Titania but the militia forces had sacrificed quite a bit for it. With Casper's resources they should be able to use Starfire's information to completely expose the true nature of the Station 42 War.
Check out the System News Network news report here:
http://systemnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2014/04/notorious-hacker-starfire-escapes.html
Notes: This was a tie in between our No Limits campaign on Titania and my new role playing campaign. We wanted to do an rpg tie in to help us bring the Station 42 War into it's final stage.
