Tech-World acting classes

While the treasure ship made its way towards the Tech-World system, the crew searched the ship to see what they had to use or sell.

Checking through the ships lockers and armoury the following were found 8 stunners, 20 snub pistols, 20 vacc-suits, 20 flak jackets, 4 battle dress, and 5 PGMP-13 heavy weapons.

The ships safe was found to contain 320KCr as well as formal letters to demand access, passage and fuel typical of an Imperial Navy ship. Going through the crew quarters an array of personal possessions and clothing was found, of which about 150KCr was money or easily traded items. In the machine shop and engineering bay was about 34KCr worth of spare parts and tools.

Gathering up uniforms and ID cards the crew decided that they would imitate the navy crew as closely as possible, at least on Tech-World. Slayed would play Captain Torsa, but would hope to be protected from the limelight by First Officer Jagad who would act as liaison. Similarly Unter would be in battle dress with Marine Commander insignia and be playing Commander Harc, and Lady Nitrane would play the part of a generic crewman as assistant medical officer, there not being any female crew left in the officers ranks that she could easily pull off.

In the cargo hold was found 120 tons of Dust Spice, 100 tons of Advanced Electronics, and 100 tons of Advanced Manufactured Goods. The cargo manifest was found which could be used to sell the goods if need be.

The treasure ship emerged from jump in the Tech-World system and scanned for the Harriers. Not detecting them the ship proceeded to the planet and demanded a docking bay. There it was met by spaceport personnel and a delegation of scientists, some of whom were still filing in when the ship came to a halt and shut down engines.

Looking down at the reception committee, the party identified some of the scientists as those they had met before, and so Slayed was reluctant to emerge from the ship. Jagad was insistent however that to not greed the welcoming delegation would be highly suspicious. To allay fears she said she would do all the talking and hopefully they would pass without notice.

Unfortunately for the party plans, as they were introduced, Dr Gerret Hodal went wide eyed almost immediately but kept his mouth shut. His strange reaction got Archon Dreek to look closer and he then raised an eyebrow in recognition. None of the other scientists seemed to have noticed them.

Following the introductions a discrete meeting was set up with the two scientists and at that Jagad made it clear that she knew that they knew that they knew each other, or something, and so any pretense was dropped and the party admitted that they'd come into possession of the ship and were trying to open the vault.

It struck the party that perhaps the experts on Tech-World could open the vault, and some time was spent going over how it opened and what could be done. The scientists determined that it would almost certainly could be opened but they would need to put considerable computer power into it as the astrogation computer would need to be fooled into thinking that it had jumped to the right system, and what's more that the star systems matched exactly to prove its location.

The party decided that while it would be a good fall-back position they didn't have the time to sit here at the moment. The talk turned to what the travellers had promised to the scientists, and as a gesture of goodwill the scientists were gifted 25 tons of Advanced Electronics. They remained hopeful that their agreement would come to fruition as they wished to be free of the GeDeCo who controlled the spaceport.

As Slayed, Nitrane and Unter returned to the ship they were informed that the Harriers had just arrived in system and were hailing them. Glad to be reunited it was arranged for them to be berthed adjacent to the treasure ship.

To be continued...