Traveller Session 24

Game Date

299-1105

Location

Datrillian → Elixabeth

We have completed 8 weeks of education. I managed to level up my Engineer (Power) to 2. Two study periods completed. will need 3 training sessions for next level. My next study period will be in Gun Combat (slug) for level 1.

Cyn chats with his patient to try and get some more information, he is willing to share some information as recompense for the care she provided him.

We emerge into the Datrillian system and run a passive scan, there is the Gas Giant + 3 ships in system. We plot course for Gas Giant for refuelling and our sensors pick up nothing initially. We get into range for collecting our fuel and this time sensors pick up something else in the outer edge of the atmosphere, it is less than 100 tons but it is maneuvring. We have gone as deep into the atmosphere as we are prepared to go, Masuyo asks me to speed up the process, I am not successful this time. But I will continue to work on it. If I fail it will lengthen the refining time by number of dice roll x 1 hour. Scooping is going well with only 20 minutes left. Fuel collected.

Departing the gas giant

I finally manage to reduce our refining time to 18 hours. so we determine that we need 12 hours more in Gas Giant before leaving atmosphere to head for jump point. Some of us decide to rest while fuel is refining. The strange vessel is apparently shadowing us and is transmitting data, it managed to somewhat catch up to us but our pilot has managed to out maneuver it among the moons around Gas Giant. A faint dot remains behind us and I have a vague memory from my naval career that gas giants can be mined by mineboats, 50 ton ships which are armed with sensor suites, weapons and are unmanned, working in concert around Gas Giants. We can jam it's comms, but it will give away our position. What can we jettison to cause a sensor confusion to aid our escape if necessary? The Vodka & air raft scrap are prepared by the airlocks for potential jettisoning. All non required crew work on this.

Chase does appear to be keeping ahead of the object enough that it cannot get a targeting solution. How close does it have to be to get a lock on us? As we are most of the way to the jump point hopefully this precautionary measure will not be necessary. We are managing to keep ahead of it. We make it to the jump point and successfully Jump to Elixabeth. (Jump 2).

The Jump to Elixabeth and our exit for Jump are both smooth. Two Imperial ships are near High Port. We comm them re Invasion, but they inform us we are not able to land, but they do appear to be concerned about our report. The Anya Vaaska (3,000 ton) asks us to bear on a 260 heading. We are to be boarded. We need our passenger on bridge ASAP. We rendezvous with the shuttle which docks with us and we welcome crew aboard, we all take them to the common room while others search ship. They wish to verify our ID's which all marry up. Nothing flagging up wrongly. Navy guy is searching for contraband but they find none aboard.

We are ordered to pull up alongside the destroyer while inquiry carried out. Viscount Lim needs the information we have for him ASAP this matter needs dealt with now. Navy Lt comms the Cruiser Zairlur and lets us know that we will get him transferred. The inquiry will be carried out here also. We scrape some paint from the cruiser as we pull up alongside it, the Zairlur is 54,000 tons.