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Post by ffilz on Apr 12, 2018 15:21:39 GMT -6
Ok, off to Bastinadi then. Nothing to roll, so you arrive at Bastinadi. On arrival, there is a 200 ton ship coming in from the gas giant. What your scans pick up, the trader is not of Imperial design.
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Post by ffilz on Apr 12, 2018 15:57:48 GMT -6
From Engineering, Mother calls up that she recognizes it as a Vargr Free Trader.
OOC: I will be using stats and some bits of the OTU Vargr, but don't assume they have anything to do with the Vargr from the OTU...
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Post by ffilz on Apr 12, 2018 16:49:10 GMT -6
You just arrived in the Bastinadi system, the Vargr ship also seems to be heading towards Bastinadi.
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Post by coffee on Apr 13, 2018 6:53:22 GMT -6
Do they hail us at all?
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Post by ffilz on Apr 13, 2018 7:27:21 GMT -6
They have not hailed you yet.
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Post by ffilz on Apr 13, 2018 10:24:56 GMT -6
Absent any strong objections, Perez hails the Vargrs universal peace and hello. Let's give a little more time for folks to respond in case anyone has objections or other ideas.
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Post by makofan on Apr 13, 2018 10:39:49 GMT -6
Captain Jack is all for friendliness
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 14, 2018 2:26:45 GMT -6
Captain Jack is all for friendliness Same goes for Zeb.
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Post by coffee on Apr 14, 2018 20:14:57 GMT -6
Yeah, we should hail them.
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Post by eris on Apr 15, 2018 20:38:31 GMT -6
Perez: Perhaps we should hail them? See if they have any news that might be of interest to us? Logan is for hailing them.
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Post by ffilz on Apr 19, 2018 17:32:35 GMT -6
In very bad Imperial, you get a response: "Captain Narou of the Vargr Trader Farou responding. Is your ship of Imperial registry?"
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Post by coffee on Apr 20, 2018 7:25:17 GMT -6
"Yes," Henry responds.
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Post by eris on Apr 20, 2018 16:09:22 GMT -6
"They should have been able to get that from our transponder." says Logan.
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Post by ffilz on Apr 20, 2018 16:53:28 GMT -6
"They should have been able to get that from our transponder." says Logan. Note: They do seem to have a transponder, but so far your system isn't making sense of their transponder signals. What you have picked up on sensors is compatible with their being a 200 ton vessel and seems to have a signature that would match what your library program shows for a Vargr 200 ton Trader. The library program doesn't have anything to say about indecipherable transponder signals. Oh, and I should also add that the library program makes no mention of Vargr in this corner of space... The known Vargr are actually almost clear across the Imperium...
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Post by eris on Apr 21, 2018 13:17:14 GMT -6
"Vargr where they shouldn't be with a transponder outputting what looks like gibberish in an already pretty suspect non-Imperial system. This is certainly interesting!" Logan says, "But interesting can also mean dangerous, so let's be careful with these folks."
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 21, 2018 22:12:58 GMT -6
"Sounds good to me," says Zeb. "I don't trust those guys."
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Post by ffilz on Apr 21, 2018 23:32:06 GMT -6
Shall we remove the weapon locks? Perez grimly asks the crew and co-captain. You did read the ship description didn't you: "2 Hard points (no turrets or fire control)"...
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Post by ffilz on Apr 21, 2018 23:48:50 GMT -6
Perez queries the ship's computer regarding the transponder irregularities: has anything even vaguely like this ever been seen? You might want to have Professor Albert Durh do the searching for you, he has Computer-3. I've added some of your research notes into the Google Doc as well as Professor Albert Durh and Lukasz Malewski. Someone should assign them a cabin (they are sharing).
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Post by tkdco2 on Apr 22, 2018 0:33:32 GMT -6
Shall we remove the weapon locks? Perez grimly asks the crew and co-captain. You did read the ship description didn't you: "2 Hard points (no turrets or fire control)"... D'oh! I thought we were talking about personal weapons in case we got boarded.
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Post by makofan on Apr 22, 2018 17:52:50 GMT -6
Jack says "I think we should mind our own business. Maybe we can be friendlier once they land"
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Post by coffee on Apr 22, 2018 20:28:20 GMT -6
They may not land. They were just exiting the Gas Giant, right? Doesn't mean they'll have anything to do with the mainworld at all.
Or maybe they will.
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Post by ffilz on Apr 22, 2018 22:52:23 GMT -6
Albert Durh's Computer investigation on Vargr (Roll 7 + 3). I'm also going to give Victor an Electronics roll for comms (Roll 8 + 3):
Between Victor's comms work and Albert's computer work, you are finally able to decode the Vargr's transponder signal. Apparently the Vargr have their own transponder codes, though ships that regularly enter Imperial space usually also, or instead, run an Imperial transponder. The decode does show the transponder code matching what has been stated and indicates a Vargr registry from Khaghz, a system in the Vuerr sub-sector, which is unknown to you.
This may be a ship from a previously unknown Vargr polity. With that additional tidbit, Albert and Victor look carefully again at the transponder information and realize that the decode software (part of the Library program) just glossed over some "errors" that may not have been errors, but instead drift in the transponder codes over the centuries.
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Post by eris on Apr 23, 2018 11:40:16 GMT -6
"Sounds good to me," says Zeb. "I don't trust those guys." "In our current state I think staying away from them is our play." Logan says, "Can we get down to the surface of Bastinadi before they get into ship weapons range? If we can that's what we should do." OOC: I guess we could mount an smg in one of our hardpoints and try to shoot them, if we had to. The slugs might do some damage if their ship was going fast enough and they happened to run into them. Maybe a natural 12 for us and a 2 for them...
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Post by ffilz on May 17, 2018 14:32:30 GMT -6
I moved the stateroom discussion out to a new crew logistics thread. Now I think we can get back to the action at hand...
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Post by ffilz on May 25, 2018 15:13:39 GMT -6
Bump...
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Post by tkdco2 on May 25, 2018 23:26:21 GMT -6
"Sounds good to me," says Zeb. "I don't trust those guys." "In our current state I think staying away from them is our play." Logan says, "Can we get down to the surface of Bastinadi before they get into ship weapons range? If we can that's what we should do." OOC: I guess we could mount an smg in one of our hardpoints and try to shoot them, if we had to. The slugs might do some damage if their ship was going fast enough and they happened to run into them. Maybe a natural 12 for us and a 2 for them... "Staying away works too," says Zeb. OOC: Can we afford a mass driver? We'd probably have a better chance of hitting something than with the smg.
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Post by eris on Jun 3, 2018 14:54:11 GMT -6
Perhaps with the good Professor’s assistance we should contact them? They might welcome a bit of assistance dealing with human authorities.Perez is intrigued by the anachronistic transponder code. "I don't have a problem contacting them and talking, just avoid combat because our SMG's wouldn't be a match for lasers or missiles." Logan grins.
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Post by ffilz on Jun 4, 2018 15:11:27 GMT -6
I'll wait one more day for objection or less time if at least two more players concur with making contact.
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Post by makofan on Jun 4, 2018 15:25:51 GMT -6
200-ton trader? Should be okay to hail
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Post by tkdco2 on Jun 5, 2018 2:15:41 GMT -6
Sure, we may as well hail them.
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