LogDeniable Asset-Jason-24

Game log for the 2025/06/30 session of Star Wars - Deniable Asset, as taken by Jason

The Asset hypers into Umbolt, carrying its cargo of fungally-derived medicines and signs of recent combat. We dock up at Levity Station, where to do the best of our knowledge, we are not wanted by any law enforcement agency. We have no trouble getting paid for the cargo. The local repair boss (, presumed Correllian) swings by as Con does hull repair work, and identifies the scorching on the hull as fresh TIE blaster marks without any hesitation. She and Con go out and talk tech together. It's the hottest thing since Sheldon met Amy. Olna worked for Correllian Drive Yard, and freely admits to stealing Hektor designs. She warns Con not to talk about being shot at by the Remnant in the bar, because there's a rumor that maybe the bad guys might have a set of eyes in that same bar. Con ends up hammered, and spends the last couple hours of his night drunkenly hand-fitting hull patches.

Igli, Mylla, and TL-DR go looking for upgrades to the Asset. There's a targeting array for sale, on another station in the system... but it's the one where we're already wanted. There's a guy on Levity who might be sellig an ECM suite. When Igli goes to close the deal, they try to rob him instead. The fight escalates immediately. Igli pulls his slugthrower and fires first, dropping one of the thugs in his tracks. A guard with a blaster carbine blasts Mylla, which is not comfortable at all, and a guard with a blaster pistol misses but makes her duck. TL-DR shoots the nearest guard, then maneuvers to get cover from the guy with the carbine. Mylla climbs the ladder to get after the guard. Igli tries to shoot anither guard, and puts a slug in him, but doesn't put him down. That guy shoots back, and Igli takes a minor burn, but isn't phased. The guy with the carbine shoots at Mylla as she's coming in, but she's moving evasively, so he can't get her in his sights. TL-DR shoots at that guy, which distracts him just as she's closing. His last moments involve being carved by an angry Wookie. Igli takes cover next to TL-DR, aims, and shoots at the remaining criminal, which ends the fight.

One bad guy is slowly trying to crawl away, and TL-DR extracts the location of the ECM suite from him. Igli verifies it, and they leave with the suite. Igli throws the survivor a stimpack, and tells him, "You go back on us for this, I'll finish the job. Don't let me see you on this station again. I see you again, the Wookie tears your arms off."

Back on the ship, Gar does a little field surgery and gets Mylla patched right up.

Con installs the ECM array, and has no trouble installing the anti-guided weapon mod. Olna is willing to give Igli a ride over to the next station, to look for that targeting array. Olna's ride is a B-wing - a venerable, slightly creaky, still fully armed B-Wing. She doesn't go with him, but lets him know that she's covering his six. Igli has no trouble buying the array there. For once, a seller is willing to simply exchange money for goods. Con installs the array and also the mod for True Aim. Igli shoves him aside and says, "Let me try." It doesn't work for him either.

We also notify command that the Remnant interdictor just captured a freighter full of grain. Command would like it if we could find out who's leaking shipping schedules to the Remnant and then do something to interfere with their operations.

Con and Gar go looking through recent comm traffic. Gar looks at navigation-related data, notices to navigators and such. Con ends up digging deep into holonet conspiracy theories. He finds insane screeds about the New Republic trying to starve out the sector until they join. You can tell they're doing it because they took out all resistance on Haslett! Underneath all that nonsense, someone has already effectively created a database of shipping losses in the sector, and they're heavily concentrated around Tabercore, with some around Axom as well. The theory thinks the ag cartel on Tabercore is coopted by said New Republic, which makes Con think maybe that's there the leak to the Remnant is coming from. TL-DR begins thinking about posing as an insurance actuary, and Gar suggests that if we could find out the next shipment that the Remnant will intercept, we could poison the cargo and create mass casualties, thus teaching some fascists a lesson. Mylla will go in with TL-DR, posing as actuary and computational droid. Everyone else will wait on the ship.

We arrive on planet, and the Wookie actuary and her droid visit the Ag Cartel office. TL-DR explains that due to recent shipping losses, their firm needs to recompute risk premiums, and they'd like to see the cartel's data to make sure they have full data. This sends the cartel into a panic. They are so scared that they don't for a moment stop to consider that someone might be running a game on them. TL-DR then accesses their computers and starts pulling records. Every missing shipment has had the same inspector. That guy is going to be having himself an interesting day. But then... someone thinks to double-check, calls the home office, and then security comes to ask them why nobody at Consolidated Insurance has ever heard of them.