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	The station's Voidmaster knows the elder ~~Talfore~~ Macharial of old, and treats		The station's Voidmaster knows the elder Macharial of old, and treats
	our Captain with courtesy. The station will help us with parts, and we		our Captain with courtesy. The station will help us with parts, and we
	are welcome to give our crew liberty, so long as they respect the		are welcome to give our crew liberty, so long as they respect the

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	Meanwhile, at Macharial Base, one [[Lucius Holt]] takes his Astropath		Meanwhile, at Macharial Base, one [[Lucius Holt]] takes his Astropath
	confirmation exams, needed to allow him to seek employment as such.		confirmation exams, needed to allow him to seek employment as such.
	Unfortunately, no ship requires his services at present. [[Jahazer		Unfortunately, no ship requires his services at present. [[Jahazer Simoom]], by contrast, was sent here by the family. With a couple
	Simoom]], by contrast, was sent here by the family. With a couple
	cruises with Macharial ships behind him, he looks forward to his next		cruises with Macharial ships behind him, he looks forward to his next
	voyage. [[Livienne Corvus]]' player has secret conversations with the GM.		voyage. [[Livienne Corvus]]' player has secret conversations with the GM.

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{{Gamelog
|Session Date=2010/09/03
|Campaign=YuriRT1
|Author=Jason
|Session Title=Out Of Gas
}}
Realizing that we are, for all intents and purposes, nowhere, we make
repairs while sending out scouts. The system has 6 solid planets, of
which the first four are too close to the star, and the other two are
tolerable but devoid of life. The system features six more gas giants,
which seem to be unravelling. Augury array scans suggest a possible
space station around a moon of the sixth planet, but the local
gravitational tides daunted the red shirted crew too much for them to
refine the result.

The techs inform [[Opiter Castus|Opiter]] that they can make the
Gellar field work for maybe a day by cannabilizing other ship's
systems. [[Anastasia Xanatov|Anastasia]] fails to determine the ship's
exact location. Perhaps we can scrounge circuit boards from the system
beacon.

[[Marneus Machariel|Captain Macharial]] summons
[[Jotham Lentillus|Jotham]] and [[Bors Tovon|Bors]] to escort him to
the engine room. He warns us to expect trouble, so we appear in armor,
regalia, and full weapons loads.

Opiter and Anastasia assign the navigation work to their minions, who
do better. A couple systems over, barely in range, there's a system
with a freelance scrapyard. Opiter orders the one who found the world
promoted and stomps off. Anastasia then complains that it took them
too long to find the solution.

Arriving in the engine room, the Lord Captain blames Opiter for
breaking the engine. "Just kidding!" {{ship|Solo Drakban}} just needs
a few parts, is all. Or else it might become a sublight ship. The
yards at SR-651 are our best bet. It's a system with tricky
conditions, so it was full of wrecks already. The breakers just
harvest the local natural resources.

The Lord Captain orders us to set a course for the edge of the system
that will take us past the sixth planet, allowing us to get a good
augury of the possible space station. Navigator Xanatov has a little
trouble with the gravity gradients, but we get there, and we decide to
board the station. The planet is larger than Earth and mostly water.

Flying toward the station, we pick up debris - not large debris, just
space garbage. The station looks like a Mk III Wayfarer station, able
to support eight to ten thousand people, and the debris suggests it
was in heavy use at one point. Our augury arrays pick some sort of
noise coming from the station. It sounds like someone beating on the
inside of a pressure door. Disturbing, but we cannot afford to let
that deter us. We prepare two boarding teams, with an Engine Seer on
each team, and a third team collecting debris from the area.

Meanwhile, at Macharial Base, one [[Lucius Holt]] takes his Astropath
confirmation exams, needed to allow him to seek employment as such.
Unfortunately, no ship requires his services at present. [[Jahazer
Simoom]], by contrast, was sent here by the family. With a couple
cruises with Macharial ships behind him, he looks forward to his next
voyage. [[Livienne Corvus]]' player has secret conversations with the GM.

Back in Cinefus Maleficum, we board the station. Without station
power, the doors won't open. We use the ship's boarding ring to
attempt to force our way in, and through the use of a Fate point, the
boarding collar makes an excellent connection. The cut portion of the
ship's hatch blows in, showing that the station lacks power ''and''
pressure. We also hear a faint noise, like water rumbling through old
pipes, and possibly a vague whipering noise. Jotham touches his head
to the bulkhead and the whispering becomes an odd, Low Gothic version
of the Voidfarer's prayer. We move forward to investigate, attempting
to meet Team B somewhere in the middle.

We do, in fact, meet them in the old command center. We have some
random items of perceived value to the Machine Spirit, but Team B has
discovered something that looks like a large, speakerless Voxcaster,
which turns out to be the source of the prayer. They also have a
large armored box, full of dataslates. Half the team, along with Bors,
return to the ''Drakban'' with loot. Opiter and Jotham stay on the
station, Opiter searching while Jotham observes the voxcaster. Opiter
realizes that the station must be pushing 6,000 years old.

The debris team have found random stuff, old containers with
unreadable writing, garbage, nothing of obvious value.

With all the good stuff we found, we can get 4-5 days of Gellar Field
operation, but still not enough to get us to a known safe destination.
The big win from these station parts is that we can avoid scavenging
parts from ''Drakban'', so we won't have to face down anarchy with
broken subsystems. Victrus tests the ship's weapons on the debris
field, with adequate results. To the warp!

Twenty-eight hours later, we emerge from warp at the edge of SR-651,
and hailed automatically. The automatic hail gives use the course we
need for the inner system, which Anastasia faithfully follows. The
debris in the system creates a short debris storm that nobody enjoys,
but we get through it. The yard consists of a collection of asteroids,
chained together, with habs sprinkled around. Ah, the life of the
Void-born. Captain Macharial deals with the locals and explains our
needs, and they invite us to a docking point. We end up inside an
asteroid, full of other Rogue Trader ships, some of whom have a
reputation for piracy. This could be an issue, since Bors and Victrus
really, really hate pirates. Ol' ''Drakban'' chooses this moment to go
rogue, one of the dorsal turrets tracking a nearby ship without
command, and that makes us very popular with the neighbors. Jotham
goes to bless the rogue turret's command console.

The station's Voidmaster knows the elder Talfore Macharial of old, and treats
our Captain with courtesy. The station will help us with parts, and we
are welcome to give our crew liberty, so long as they respect the
neutrality of the station and don't cause trouble. And look! They have
an Astropathic Choir! Marneus phone home.

Phoning home means a trip to a different hab on a different rock,
which gives us a chance to sightsee. Anastasia sees a Tyrant-class
battleship hull out there, stripped to the girders, crawling with
workers. Flying through all the traffic requires concentration, but
Anastasia manages, and then the Lord Captain gets his message off.

On Macharial Base, Lucius gets a call. No, it's The Call - he has a
ship! Seneschal Livienne Corvus and navigator Jahazer Simoom also
receive summonses to wait upon the pleasure of Lord {{npcref|Talfore
Macharial}}. They have two hours to collect their personal effects
before their transport leaves for the Expanse, to meet up with
''Drakban'' at SR-651. As they depart, The Macharial stops Livienne,
and hands her a dataslate containing "the information that [she]
need[s]." Jahazer reviews his memory and assures himself that he knows
the area.

On SR-651, Marneus finds a lounge where he can sit quietly and await
an Astropathic response. Marneus and Anastasia don't notice, but
Jotham overhears a conversation between a Rogue Trader typed and a
plain looking older man, dressed in plain clothes. The man in the
plain clothes flashes the badge of the Inquisition. Yow. A young woman
and a muscle-grafted man at a nearby table are watching Marneus.
Anastasia recognizes that one of the people in the lounge wears the
uniform of {{npcref|Aspyce Chorda}}.

With permission from her Captain, Anastasia goes to make social with
an acquaintance ({{npcref|Kort}}, a rakish fellow with an undeservedly high
opinion of himself), and finds that he feels a vague contempt for the
Machariel, tinged with awareness that the clan does have a history
deserving respect, if not a future. Word of Marneus' history has
gotten around. Eventually Marneus gets messages from both the Choir
and the Harbormaster. The Harbormaster wants to discuss ship's
repairs, while the Choir informs him that Old Man Macharial requires
us to hold fast, keep his mouth shut, and await help. We leave the
lounge and the habitat to return to the dock rock, from whence
we visit the Harbormaster.

SR-651 can meet our needs, but not from available spare parts. They'll
need to do some demand-based salvage of other hulls in system, which
will require time. The expense will be ... considerable, even
astronomical. Marneus displays mad haggling instincts and pays so
little that the poor Harbormaster will eat nothing but protein paste
for a week. The parts begin coming in, but repairs will take seven to
eight days, minimum. Opiter keeps all dock personnel from getting a
close look at the ship, since some of ''Drakban'''s components might
be of interest to scavengers.

After several days, Marneus gets another message from the Choir. A
Machariel ship has just popped out of warp, and they're bringing us
something important. He gathers Jotham and Opiter to write a detailed
report of our experience on the old space station. Opiter, BTW, cannot
figure out what is powering the voxcaster, but he assures Jotham that
it's a Mezoa-pattern Orthoproxy, although it's not.

To nobody's surprise, the newly arrived Macharial ship turns out to
carry three PCs. They have taken advantage of the time to get to know
one another a bit. Jahazer cannot be counted on to keep a conversation
going, while Lucius tends to be guarded. They come aboard the
''Drakban'' and Jotham tells everyone that Jahazer is his cousin and
totally cool, and not in that fake Dane Cook way. Livienne also has
orders from The Old Man, who wants Marneus to get the ship fixed up
ASAP and then bring it back to Machariel Base.

Marneus has a formal dinner for the new arrivals, and during the
conversation, Jahazer relates the long, sad story of the
{{ship|Voidspear}}. We have a brief standown on ship to let the crew
blow off steam, which helps the crew a bit, but those who do leave the
ship (like Livienne) find that Marneus' bad reputation has rubbed off
on the rest of us. Opiter suggests that perhaps we could invest in
some higher quality rations as well, which idea Marneus asks his new
Seneschal to implement. She succeeds and the quality of onboard food
improves. While buying the rations, the purser lets Livienne know that
people seem to be paying attention to them, specifically, and they may
also have people following them. They decide to lead whoever's
following them on a merry tour of the station, especially the areas
with mirrors and reflective surfaces. Yep, it's a woman (small, wiry,
short black hair, carries herself like noble born) and a graftee
(military haircut, carrying a bolter, military bearing). Surprise,
surprise, surprise. They aren't blatantly tailing them, but they come
and go... and of course your humble observer recognizes those
descriptions. Livienne arranges to be met at the ship's docking port,
ducks inside, and then comes out again in hopes of following them.
Sadly Jennie failed to provide her character with a Shadowing skill,
and she loses them. Asking around on station, Livienne gets the
Harbormaster to divulge that the girl is a Rogue Trader, and the
hulking following her XO, from {{npcref|House Yefremova}}. To be
precise, she carries the House Yefremova Warrant. She commands a
frigate, slightly larger than ''Drakban''.

Jahazer settles in and finds that his two mates have some competency,
but no great supply of it, and one clearly shines brighter than the
other. Lucius finds that the old Chief Astropath kept lousy logs, and
in fact he may have been getting a little too Warp-touched. The logs
barely mention the Choir, but since they all died, it hardly matters
now.

When he finally feels like he's ready, Jahazer plots a course for
Macharial Base, and fails to sense the Astronomicon clearly. Ruh-roh!
He nonetheless manages to plot a workable course... which leads us
into the tail of a warp storm. When we transit out of warp at
Macharial Base, an outer gas giant looms awfully large in the
viewports. Anastasia contrives to skip the ship off of the gravity
well, avoiding any major mishap, though the crew do get shaken up a
bit. Our trip lasted only five days and we had no Gellar Field
failures, so it's all good. Macharial traffic control brings us in to dock.

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