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game_systems:mindjammer [2020/04/09 17:01] – Andrew Christiangame_systems:mindjammer [2020/05/16 11:37] – [Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows] Bryan Stephens
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 +==== Episode 4: Living History ====
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 +While all of 7S7 is not on an assignment, SABAR is recruited through ExSol to help hunt down SulliedMen on the world below. Douglas receives a message from Nari Llashrm, Minister of Security, telling him where his old ship is located. Douglas has been growing increasingly concerned, as he does not remember blanking out the memory backups on board the //Unity//, nor does he remember giving them the actual override codes. Knowing where his old ships is, there is a chance he can access one of the back up nodes, which would reveal any tampering of the ship’s memory. This would help him reconcile his memory of being woken up by someone in an encounter suit. 
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 +Douglas sends the message to the team, and they discuss going to the coordinates. The ship is surrounded by 8 cloaking satellites, in a solar orbit trailing one of the systems gas giants. Accessing telescopic records does not show any activity in the area, and there are no radio transmissions. Titus is the most reluctant to go, being worried about the possible danger to the team, but the decision is made to investigate, stealthily. 
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 +Titus is able to spot the satellites and sneak through the field. Inside the cloaked is the //Unity//, powered down, but with clear zero-point APU in operation. A small interplanetary ship is docked to the side. There is a local mindscape instance within part of the ship, around the computer core, bridge, and crew quarters. 
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 +Douglas directs the team to the drive section, where the most hidden archive is in place. Cimon accesses the computer, and is confronted by the suddenly reactivated AI personality, Evangeline, a steampunk avatar/interface left by “Dougie”. Evangeline tells them that one of the 4 cores is already been removed and thus self-destructed. The one in the drive is still safe and secure behind its bulkhead. The team sets to work getting to the drive. Cimon leaves drones to watch for any approach, and while Douglas is working, a sentinel bot comes upon the team. The advanced warning gives Douglas and Malstox a chance to block any communications it might make while the rest of the team goes into action. Cimon tries to activate something, but the old technology just cannot hear him. Owari begins hand to hand with the bot, while the others take shots which bounce off of hits armor. Owari takes a couple of hits which slow her as she wrestles with it. Douglas and Malstox race to engage it and help slow its movement. Owari is then able to crush and rip off an arm, forcing a shut down. 
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 +Douglas and Malstox go back to retrieving the unit, while Cimon downloads the bot’s memory. Cimon works with Evangeline to report in over the intercom as if the bot is still on patrol. 
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 +Back on the ship, Douglas is able to share the records which show another ship approaching from the side, and docking with //Unity//. Encounter suited figures awake Douglas from his stasis, and then knock him out, and do something to his mindscape implant. The team immediately asks Dr. Tilton to look at Douglas, except for Cimon, who suddenly goes into standby. Alarmed, Tilton leads Douglas and Malstox in investigation into Cimon. Apparently, he shut down seeing the encounter suit figures because of a small unit implanted in him. Tilton is able to remove it, and Cimon now is able to remember being intercepted during his journey between the stars, within 2000 AU of where the //Unity// was boarded. 
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 +Immediately, the whole team checks each other for similar devices, finding one as part of Douglas old Mindscape implant. Everyone else is clean. It is clear to the team that the implants have been recording and transmitting information without their knowledge, in an encoded way. Cimon promises to try to track how it transmits. 
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 +Feeling they are on a clock before the hole in the bulkhead is discovered, Douglas pushes for answers of the three people on the ship or blowing the ship up. Cimon suggests destruction of the other two modules of information. The team is easily able to get to both, and destroys the first, but contemplates leaving the second to be found, as they feel this information may need to get out. 
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 +Cimon and Dr. Tilton move to the edge of the Mindscape instance and Cimon attempts to handshake into secretly. While it looks like he was successful, the thoughts he is able to glean are all superficial. Suddenly, he is trapped in an imposality he is unable to overturn. Seeing he is cut off, Tilton goes to yank him back, as the Mindscape instance flows into the area. 
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 +In the accelerated space of the Mindscape, two hyperintelligent minds talk at racing speeds. Lisa Emotha is with SciForce and confronts Cimon. It is fast clear she knows who he is, and who his companions are and their histories. As 4 security bots move in, she opens a link from Cimon to the rest of the team, commanding them to stand down and talk. Cimon relays the information (excluding the transmitters) and offers that they have with the SciForce team is looking for. Dr. Tilton recognizes the woman who told him he was banished. Everyone is escorted to the Hanger, and Titus flies around to be close to the team. 
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 +Ms. Emotha explains that the information in Dr. Tilton’s report is why they obtained the ship and are investigating. It becomes clear they see this as a threat to the Commonality and this information is why Tilton was banished. Cimon gives them the data and after the exchange the team is free to go. 
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 +SABER rejoins the team at ExSol 7, where the team immediately make sure he is free of the transmitter. They meet with Keepu and tell him the full story. He is concerned and promises that ExSol will start its own investigations. He also suggests that maybe work away from the Sector Capital would be a good idea, and they are told to head to Olkennedy, at the edge of the sector. Orders would be waiting for them in the Mindscape. Once safely in 2-space, the technical team begins working on understanding the transmitters. 
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 +1 Refresh 
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 +1 Aspect to be spent on Equipment Only (From Kipu)
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 ==== Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows ==== ==== Episode 3: Love Makes for Strange Bedfellows ====
game_systems/mindjammer.txt · Last modified: 2021/09/23 15:04 by Bryan Stephens

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