Welcome to Fan........tasy

Fantasy turned out to be very nice. The atmosphere perhaps a little on the dense side, but temperate and wet and lush and green.

Locating the coordinates found on the pad in Dr Astor's lab, the party's scout ship did a scan of the area and, unusual for a TL3 planet, detected a source of energy near a small settlement. The starport (such as it was) was about 300 km from this location.

The landing pad was more a patch of dirt that had been cleared, and the port authority a small hut with a youngster poking their head out. The refuelling facilities were a small pond from which the ship's refuelling hose could be used to suck up water (but mind the frogs).

Asking about other facilities the youth in charge of the starport suggested that he could get some breads, cheeses and dried meat which were what people usually asked for. The party agreed that they sounded fine but to hold off getting any just yet.

The party took the air raft to near the settlement at the found coordinates. There Sparrow was left with the air/raft while the other three proceeded on foot. Aware that Slayed and Unter had better stealth Lady Nitrane stopped a little way short of the settlement to let the others scout to either side of the settled area.

Slayed found a high tech level building, a prefabricated construction of moderate size and integrated into the village. There were stacks of wood to one side and a small cart leaning against another wall. Unter came around the other side and eventually noticed the building also. Meeting up with Nitrane again they returned to the air/raft.

As they were deciding how to approach the situation they heard the unmistakable sounds of a space ship landing, just the other side of the settlement.