LogStormlight-Jacko-7

Game log for the 2021/01/18 session of Impulse Drive: Stormlight, as taken by Jacko

Janus reaches out to Edern Trembath to set up the job to move the illicit, daresay abominable, embryos. He's an older gentleman and looks like he hasn't slept in a while. He's a little squirrelly but eager to make things happen. They eager to meet outside a bar in a bit to talk over the mission, as it were, and the dangers ahead.

The crew member who were arrested don't want to endanger Janus or Trembath and so they come up with a scheme of their own; being seen. Franco and Kyruss go find a Watch post and make it well known that they're in town and not afraid to show their faces. Drix does the same and sure enough, all three are soon being unsubtly tailed. Drix finds an old friend of his, Zena Pavond, talking shit about him behind his back and advocating that other Watchmen keep their distance from Drix.

Janus and Ember head to the bar to find Trembath and he's there, as promised. He explains that the embryos require life support, and constant power, and it won't be easy to move them. Janus inquires about where they're being held and it's going to be tight for even a shuttle, less than ideal. In any case, it sounds like the Stormlight can handle things but the captain is curious about payment. Trembath is skint but could arrange a COD situation. Trembath is worried about moving the embryos from his lab to the pickup spot, about the security of it, and Janus loans him Ember as extra muscle. Janus returns to the ship and lets the three arrestees know while Ember heads off with Trembath.

The older geneticist seems like he's been alone for a while and he's jabbering about scientific mumbo-jumbo to Ember while they head for his lab. Ember wonders what Trembath is really up to and he's over the moon in describing to her what he would need for a new life support device, and also details on most other things. He's pretty lonely.

Janus explains the details of the job to Franco, Drix and Kyruss. Patrol corporal Orvuils is a contact in the Tiberius Police that Frtanco has, in case thinks get hinky. The plan is to have Franco and Kyruss go to the pickup point and get it ready for Trembath's package. Drix will take the Stormlight into low orbit and Janus will bring the shuttle to the pickup once things are ready. The crew will load the package into the shuttle and return to the Stormlight. Easy!

Ember can only take so much of nudging Trembath awake as he works and rambles mostly to himself and she drifts off into the Abyss. The embryos are her cousins, in a way, and she hopes that they (and herself) can find a community where they're safe. Meanwhile, Franco and Kyruss are heading for the pickup spot to begin prepping it but the cops are everywhere. Someone's following Franco but Kyruss spots him and alerts the infiltrator to the issue. Franco manages to give him the slip utilizing his chameleon smartskin and begins to prepare his hack and crack for later.

Kyruss scopes out the security surveillance situation and finds a security office nearby that is likely watching via cameras. He presents himself at the office as a duly appointed federal law enforcer and asks to speak to a supervisor. Kare-er, Kyruss, explains that he needs to review their recordings and is allowed to do so. He points out an innocuous nothing-burger and explains that they'll need to move in equipment for forensic analysis, thus setting up cover for moving Trembath's embryos. Kyruss is able to fabricate a facsimile of a warrant over night while Franco stays on premises to prepare a false report of a superpowered human teen wreaking massive amounts of property damage somewhere else in the city.

Janus and Drix remain on the Stormlight and the captain continues her research into agricultural futures and how one might utilize a cut-off grain-farming planet to their advantage. Ember falls asleep thinking of how to prevent the embryos from suffering the same sort of life she's lived through and it results in nightmares of herself turning into an inbred mutant and Kyruss eating the eggs with gusto.

The crew gets prepped for the move and Franco begins hacking the police alert net, dropping in a report that a man matching Trembaths description has been injured, possibly killed, by a teen matching Embers description somewhere on the other side of the city. He's pretty sure he's tripped some sort of counter measure but there's no time for that now. Janus is flying casual in the shuttle while she waits for Franco's signal. He soon gives the signal to Janus and Trembath and the captain begins her approach while the scientist unhooks the crates of embryos. They hustle across the street as the 'forensic' team and Kyruss presents the warrant but something is... off. The guard doesn't seem convinced and so Kyruss pulls his gun.

The guard hits a panic button his desk which raises a security shield over him. Kyruss tells the rest of the crew to hustle while he wrecks the computers. The rest of the crew hustles for the service elevator but finds a locked door in the way. With her frustration mounting, Ember kicks the door hard enough to explode it, much to everyone's surprise, but if it works, it works. They meet Janus on the roof and head up into orbit and the Stormlight waiting above.