The session starts on Thoras with Redlen being offered an opportunity to wipe away his debt by bombing a financial institution of the Velt owned Thorian Mining and Trade Company. The bombing goes fairly smoothly with only one security guard catching sight of Redlen before losing him in the crowd as the building exploded. There were only a few injured in the incident.

Redlen met up with the rest of the crew in a local bar. After a short introduction, they made their way off the planet. During takeoff, they were ordered to power down for search and seizure due to the recent terrorist attack. When Redlen explained that he might have had something to do with the attack, the crew decided to flee as the penalty for anyone anyone who might be affiliated with terrorist are very severe.

After escaping, the crew make their way to the nearest warp point. Redlen has a hard time adjusting and develops a rivalry with some of the crew. Near the warp point, they are intercepted by a Velt patrol cruiser, but due to some quick thinking by Por, they are able to confuse the them with red tape and make a getaway.
They arrive in the Endara system and preform maintenance at a nearby station. They decide to make a visit to the planet Endara to study the Qwarge. On the way, they are attacked by a pirate ship, but are able to make an escape. They arrive at Endara and Por manages to convince the Qwarge to let them meet with the promise of technology. The crew lands on the planet.

End of session.

After landing on Endara, the players are stripped of weapons by the Endaran's and met by their ambassador. Por and Trenton impressed the ambassador with some tech trinkets. The Endarans wanted Trenton to fix a Velt Fusion generator they were using in exchange for allowing Tali to take samples from their underwater heat vents and allowing Por to tour their city. They also offered some oxygen tanks for trade.

After retrieving the samples and taking the tour, Por, Tali, and Redlen met back at the surface, however the Endarans refused to release Lemons. Lemons managed to sabotage the Fusion reactor and escape, taking the Endaran diplomat hostage. After a short shootout with some security guards the players managed to escape, leaving the diplomat behind.

We join our heroes in orbit after their escape from Endara. Having a chance to analyze the underwater bacteria samples, Tali discovers unique properties that can be used as a cheap, efficient, and safe alternative power source. She sends the results to Endara, forever changing their course of history and helping them to break their reliance on foreign power sources.

The players traveled to a station in Cuniculun Rocks to trade the Oxygen they received from Endara, refuel, and preform maintenance. They catch up on the news hearing that Thoras is under strict military rule from the Thoras Mining company after the attack and all the financial information has been restored from backup. Icrion also announces a new self improving supercomputer coming online which will help them unlock the secrets of the warp points and hopefully allow them to allow them to connect to more systems.

While on the station, Lemons received a message from an old friend that they might have a lead on the person who framed him for the accident on Cuniculun Rocks before. Taking Redlen with him, Lemons meets up with his contact in a nearby bar. His contact revels the person who set him up is connected to the Thoras rebellion. Redlen also recognizes him as one of them men who helped him blow up the Velt Mining Company financial institution, although he keeps this to himself. Lemon's contact let's him know that the man mostly likely fled from Thoras and is now on Kebb.

Soon after, a bounty hunter enters the bar, looking for a fugitive. The bounty hunter orders everyone on the ground. Redlen, suspecting the bounty hunter is after him, just sits there like a baddass drinking his tequila. The bounty hunter confirms it by walking up to Redlen, but Redlen pulls a Han Solo and shoots the bounty hunter in the leg mid sentence through his introduction. Although wounded the bounty hunter continues to fight and proves to be a formidable foe. Lemons makes a break for it and Tali, who is nearby, hears the commotion and rushes to the scene due to her reckless curiosity. Tali meets Lemons in front of the bar, who quickly explains that Redlen is inside. Tali rushes in while a second bounty hunter tries to stop her, but Lemons tackles him. Tali is able to lay down some covering fire and cause a distraction by lighting the bar on fire so that she and Redlen can escape out the back door while Lemons escapes through the front. They manage to give the bounty hunters the slip and make it back to their ship.

Leaving Cuniculun Rocks, the players made their way to Icrion. Docking at the Icrion Warp Point station, they explored the guest area of the station. Tali bought some AR googles to help deal with the Augmented Reality overlays of Icrion. They scheduled a meeting with a Icrion representative which put them on an indefinite waiting list. Exploring the station, they met Victor Lazlo, a Velt corporate type that offered to help schedule a meeting with an Icrion representitive in exchange for discrete transport to Kebb and then Thoras. The characters agreed and the deal was struck.
Meeting with the Icrion representitive, Por offered “amorus” relations between the Tau and Icrion people. As a way to further communication, Por agreed to have his conscience copied so it could remain on the station in a cyberspace to continue with a cultural exchange. Por could return in a few months to reintergrate with his forked conscienous.

Tali plead for the plight of her people. The Icrion representative sympathized, but would not allow any formal settlement deal. He did however offer to help fast-track some Icrion naturalization papers and provided some minor space habitat technology improvements.

After the meeting, the characters had some down time. Lemons got a sweet animated nano tatoo. Redlen went looking for weapondry, but was restricted from getting any of the good stuff. He then spoke with Victor. Victor offered to employ Redlen as his personal bodyguard while on their way to Thoras in exchange for providing Redlen with armor and weapons, as well as protecting him from legal reprocussions of his actions. A deal was struck.

The characters left for Kebb. While passing through Cuniculun Rocks, their ship was purused by the bounty hunter previously encoutered, Loman Boon. He asked for the surrender of Redlen and no more trouble would befall the rest of the crew. Lemons strongly objected and Victor demanded that there be no delay. They quickly outran Loman.

Soon after they arrived at the Kebb system. The crew joined Victor in his meeting on Kebb. They made their way down to a saloon in a small settlement on the planet's surface. On arriving, Lemons and Redlen were suprised that Victor's contact was the same man who had set up Lemons and helped Redlen with his bombing.

END ON CLIFFHANGER!

Continuing from last session, the crew of the Athena (our heroes) are on Kebb. Victor is meeting with a man who calls himself Jericho, the same man that setup Lemons and helped Redlen. Lemons pulls his pistol on Jericho and an argument breaks out. Redlen explains how Jericho and him might have had something to do with the bombing on Thoras. Jericho tries to explain that Lemons was never supposed to take the fall, but the Thorian Mining Company pinned the crime on him to prevent the news of the rebellion. The rebels are fighting against the unjust abuse by the Thorian Mining Company of effective slavery through debt and monopolistic policies. Due to his overly trusting nature, Lemons gives Jericho the benefit of the doubt, for now. Victor continues his meeting. Lemons listens in and hears how Victor made a deal with the Icrion to implement economic sanctions on the Thorian Mining Company if they attempt any aerial bombings, but will not give military support to the rebels. The rebels are unsure of moving ahead with a full blown rebellion without air support.

The meeting is cut short when several heavily armed soldiers pull up in front of the saloon and start shooting. After an extended shootout, the crew of the Athena manage to kill most of the attackers and take one hostage. They find out the attackers were private security forces sent by the Thorian Mining Company. They've been monitoring the building and there are reinforcements on the way as well as more guarding their ship. Jericho tells them they can probably get transport off-world on the next town over, several days ride from here. The characters grab some quick supplies and a few space horses and make a hasty exit.

The crew of the Athena make their way through the desert. After spending a few nights surviving in the wilderness, they approach the next settlement. However, Redlen is caught while hunting by the bounty hunter Lowman Boon. The rest of the crew soon give pursuit. At the outside of town, several Thorian Mining Security guards intercept Lowman and Redlen. They demand Redlen be handed over without paying the bounty because he is now a wanted terrorist and falls outside of normal bounty hunting protocol. Lowman frees Redlen and they fight off the security just as the rest of the crew of the Athena show up. Lowman departs since he has no more business with Redlen. The crew arranges for a new transport ship and make it back to the Athena in orbit.

After the events on Kebb, the crew of the Athena make their way to Binchura. After docking with the migrant fleet, Tali goes to see her mother, Neema, who is a high ranking admiral of the fleet. At first Neema and Tali's relationship is strained, and Tali fails to convince her mother to listen to Victor. Neema shows Tali secret footage of the Binchura home world which has been drastically altered. It is now egg shaped, partially hollowed, heavily volcanic, and axial spin has slowed to match the orbit.

Despite this, Victor manages to convince Neema to allow him to speak to the admiral board. Victor then recruits Por to help convince the locals to support the Thoras rebellion. Por resists at first, but complies in exchange for some of Victor's speaking time with the admiral board. Redlen manages to accidentally insult some local Binchurins, starting a bar brawl. Unfortunately for him, Redlen lacks Zero-G fighting experience and is beaten quite soundly, although with no major injuries except to his pride.

At the admiral board, Por make a good impression on the admirals in his continuing quest to foster “amorous relationships” with other civilizations. Victor then speaks and is able to convince the Binchurins to promise air support to the Thoras rebellion in exchange for rights to settle a nearby world.

With the Binchurin support secured, the crew of the Athena make their way back to Thoras.

The crew of the Athena made their way to Thoras which is suffering under heavy oppression. After dropping of Victor, they decided to stay to help incite a revolution. They organize a series of rallies with Por as the spokesman to incite unrest in the population. The Thorian Mining Company responds by increasing their prices on essential goods to keep the population busy working just to earn enough food to eat, but Redlen organizes some rebels to help him raid some food depots using precise demolition strikes.

Lemons uses his skill at jury-rigging to help manufacture weapons for the rebels. The Thorian mining company tries to raid the weapon supplies, but they are already too spread out to police the illicit weapons. The Thorian mining company then tries to hire additional mercenaries to help with security, but cannot afford enough to make a real difference.

Redlen the leads another set of demolition attacks against the Thorian Mining Company communication centers, causing a huge collapse of effectiveness in the Thorian Mining Company's ability to coordinate and suppress the riots. This almost pushes the people into revolution, but Por tempers their zeal in an attempt to push towards a alliance with the Tau. The Thorian Mining Company responds by offering to erase the debt on anyone who is willing to turn in rebels. Por manages to prevent widespread infighting by speaking to the rebels and unifying them towards the greater good.

Tali and Redlen make a final push for the Thorian Mining Company's center of operations in the nation's capitol by flying in a covert team lead by Redlen. However, behind the scenes Por is trying to charm the Rebel leadership into a alliance with the Tau with the help of Lemons. However, the strike on the capitol goes so well, the Rebels are confident they can defend themselves without interference by the Tau.

The rebels drive the Thorian Mining Company from several key cities and effectively declare independence. The Thorian Mining Company still controls several areas, but withdraw most of their forces to a nearby moon and loose their blockade on the system's warp points.

The crew of the Athena leave Thoras victorious, leaving the rest of the fighting to the newly established Independent Thorian Government. They transport Victor to Cunniculun Rocks so he can rendezvous with his own ships. They celebrate in a bar (the Rock Lobster) with drinks on Victor. However, their celebration is cut short when the news reports that the Icrion warp point has suddenly been cut off. All that made it through is a probe broadcasting the message, “It was a trap. They were waiting, they've always been waiting. Don't use the warp points.”

The crew of the Athena discuss the possible ramifications of this event when Victor points out that the first effect will most likely be a full out invasion of Tau by the Velt.

The Crew of the Athena discuss the impending crisis cause from Icrion's disappearance. They decide the first course of action is to retrieve the last probe sent from Icrion to look for any additional information on it. Victor departs to make preparations in case of war, but provides contact information.

The Athena departs for the nearby probe which is only a few hours away. On arrival, Lemons leads a small team to secure the probe and move it to the science bay. The probe appears to not be functioning, so Lemons attempts to get it to broadcast the rest of it's message while Tali sets up a receiver. Lemons gets the probe broadcasting again, which causes a horrific maddening wailing to be broadcast throughout the room. Tali attempts to suppress the signal, but it begins to broadcast over the ships intercomm system as well and affect lighting system to blink in a seizure inducing way. Lemons flees from the science bay in a panicked state.

Por attaches his droid to the prob and hacks the probe to stop broadcasting. However, the probe seems to react and counter hacks the droid, infecting it with some sort of computer virus. Redlen shoots the probes interface panel, but the droid is already out of control.

It becomes apparent that the probe is infected with some sort of advanced computer virus that has spread to the ship, so Tali orders activating the ships manual overrides and disconnecting all automated systems. Luckily the Athena has greatly prepared for this type of situation as a precaution against terraformer attack, and the virus is quickly contained on the ship.

Por's droid however is still acting erratically and evading capture, dodging away from Por when he tries to shut it down. Tali leaps after it, but the droid somehow causes nearby equipment to fly off the shelves towards Tali using some unseen force. Tali manages to evade the attack and pull the droid's power supply. The immediate threat is over, but the probe still hums menacingly in the middle of the science bay.

Tali finds a way to securely copy the probe's data using her science equipment. Por wants to “talk” to the probe. The crew cautiously move the probe to an airlock. Lemons refuses to go near the probe, but assists in repairing it's interface panel remotely. Redlen rigs the probe with explosives in case something goes wrong. Tali and Por remain in the airlock with EVA suites while Lemons and Redlen wait on the other side ready to blow the probe out to space if anything should go wrong. They hook up a simple text terminal for Por who tries to communicate with the probe through text. The probe responds with a series of rapid ascii art images which are too quick for Por to comprehend, but cause him to feel compelled to keep watching. Tali studies him while he is watching the stream and realizes that the images are some sort of subliminal messaging that is programming Por's mind. Tali hits the console out of Por's hands and orders Lemons to open the air lock. Unfortunately in Lemon's panicked paranoid state, he assumes she means open out into space (she did not). Tali manages to grab Por and secure them both inside the airlock while Por struggles to reach the console as the probe is ejected out into space.

The crew of the Athena had just ejected the infectious Icrion probe into space and managed to eradicate the computer virus from the Athena itself. Shortly after, Redlen triggers the explosives he planted on the probe after the Athena reaches a safe distance, destroying any remaining data on the probe.

After restoring several critical systems, Por notices an approaching vessel on comms. The vessel is from the Eclipse Foundation, which is the primary corp for adapting and importing Icrion tech. They detected the Athena intercept the probe and the probes subsequent destruction. They claim rights to all Icrion data and demand to board to preform and “audit”. Tali refuses and the Athena quickly escapes.
Shortly after they arrive at the nearby space station. They make contact with Victor and agree to hand over a copy of the Icrion data to him, but they have to meet him near the warp point since he had already departed the station. The Athena leaves to meet Victor, but is intercepted by 2 Eclipse Foundation ships. The Athena manages to lose one pursuer, but is temporarily disabled by the second.
A group of Eclipse Foundation soldiers board, but underestimate the strength of the resistance and are quickly killed or driven off. Victor and some Lazlo Corp ships arrive and drive off the last Eclipse Foundation ship.

Victor gives the crew of the Athena an assignment to help a research team on the old home world of Cunniculum Rocks. A researcher there believes there might be a tie between what happened to Cunniculum Rocks and what happened to Icrion.

The crew arrives and joins the research team. Splitting into two groups, they search for clues by examining the fossil record, examining the city ruins, compiling astrological data, and examining unearthed historic records. They make the following discoveries.

• The fossils of what were believed to be the invading alien race are actually amalgamations of human and animal skeletons once native to the planet.
• The city ruins show that the attacks most likely came from within the city at multiple points instead of from an external source.
• The astrological data shows that a significant amount of mass (size of a small moon) left the planet around the same time period of the alien invasion.
• Historic records show one of the last major breakthroughs on the home world before the invasion had to do with manipulating the warp points.

In addition to these facts, the team also found a remarkably well preserved military bunker. Exploring the bunker, they found a single human preserved in a bio pod. Upon releasing him, he rapidly mummified and started releasing some sort of mist. He also became violent and attacked. He seemed unfazed by having his head shot off, but was subdued by blowing off his legs and arms. However, the mist he was emitting continued to advance in a strangely intelligent manner and proved corrosive. The crew was able to evacuate and capture some of the mist in a canister by reversing the oxygen pumps that were pumping air into the chamber. The rest of the mist condensed into a slug like creature and started eating it's way out of containment. The chamber was sealed in by collapsing the tunnel with demolitions.

The session starts with the crew of the Athena still on Cunniclum Rocks. They are joined by two new crew members, Decatur Khal-Mai and Finn “The Falcon” Strangeways, whom have had their contracts with the science team expire.

Tali receives communication that the Terraformers are rampaging and all Binchurin ships are being called back. They plot a course to Binchura. On the way, Decatur and Susan get into a fight in the ship's kitchen when Decatur invades Susan's space. After trying to eat each other, they decide the best way to settle the dispute is with a cooking challange. They both have to cook three meals using combat rations as the main ingrediant which are judged by Tali, Redlen, and Finn. They end up tieing, gain respect for each other, and both become the ships cooks. Decatur gets record ratings on his show.

After reaching Binchura, they crew finds that the warp point is unstable and are thrown off course. The recieve a distress call from nearby and find a civlian ship being attacked by Terraformers. Tali decides to help them and they manage to destroy the Terraformer ship. However, smaller terraformer robots attach themselves to the civilian ship and the crew has to do a space walk to fight them off. They manage to do so, but not before Decatur recieves a moderate injury.

To Be Continued…

After rendezvousing with the Binchuran fleet on the capitol ship Zeus, Tali spoke with her mother Neema. Neema gives Tali a special mission to investigate a strange object detected on the Binchuran home world that caused terraformers to become inactive.

The Athena fights it's way to the Binchuran home world with the help of a few escort cruisers. A small team consisting of Tali, Redlen, Lemons, Fin, and 2 Red Shirts, land on the planet near the object. The object is surrounded by inactive terraformers, but on closer inspection, the terraformers are not inactive and are actually busy inscribing intricate runes into the stone around the object. Redlen knocks one over and and angers a group of terraformers. He and the Red Shirts distract the terraformers while Tali, Lemons, and Fin secure the object.

The object appears to be some sort of probe or relic left over by an ancient civilization that predates the Binchuans. The terraformers have repaired and powered it somehow. Lemons sets up some sort of sky hook so that Tali can quickly pick it up on a fly by in the shuttle. They pick the object up, but anger a huge swarm of terraformers.

Meanwhile Redlen and the Red Shirts are fighting off the terraformers and sent up a distress single. Tali swoops in, but only has seconds to spare to pick up the crew. Redlen makes it aboard, but the two Red Shirts fall behind. Tali has to make the decision between saving the Red Shirts or letting the Terraformers retrieve the relic. She attempts to do both, but ultimately has to leave before the Red Shirts are on board. One Red Shirt manages to make it by having Fin reach out his shotgun handle for the extra length as the Red Shirt does a running jump from a ledge as the shuttle passes by, but the other Red Shirt is knocked down and killed.

The Athena manages to escape the planet with the help of the two escort cruisers staying behind and getting destroyed. The Athena makes it back to the fleet and the mission is considered successful, but the Terraformers are attacking in full force.

The Binchurans learn from the probe that the Binchuran Relic contains a similar virus to the one on the Icrion Probe, and the Terraformers are likely infected with the same virus which might have been the cause for them to go rouge in first place.

The Athena evacuates the Binchuran system through the warp point before the Terraformers arrive, but something goes wrong and they end up orbiting Ashan. They quickly discover that the terraformers have somehow altered how the warp points are linked by altering the orbit of Binchura. Binchura is now linked to Ashan, bypassing many of the defenses the Binchurans setup to prevent the Terraformers from leaving the system…

To Be Continued.

We join our heroes as they orbit Ashan with the Terraformer army on it's way. They come into contact with the same research team they worked with on Cunniculum Rocks which is currently investigating legends about how the ancient Ashan people created servants from metal and lightning and how those servants rebelled and the Ashan people created a giant Ziggurat to steal back the lightning. They decide this might hold a clue to defending against the terraformers, and the go to help the research team.

Talking to an Ashan tribe, the learn where the Ziggurat might be located, but the area is guarded by a rival tribe. The crew decides to fly into the area with a single tribal to avoid attention from the other tribe. They take a young tribal woman named Kamala to be their guide. They quickly find the crevice that leads to the ziggurat underground. While exploring the caves, the rival tribe comes to investigate. Decatur distracts them by going back with tribals to the village to eat and hunt with them.

The rest of the crew finds the ziggurat underground. It appears to be some sort of EMP broadcast device. To repair it, they need a power source, fix the physical damage, and attach some sort of targeting device. Lemons figures out how to power it by jury-rigging up a device that will focus energy from the ships beams weapon to power it. For the targeting device, they need the probe they recovered from the Binchuran home world. Tali convinces the Binchuran fleet to let them use the probe as the targeting device for the ziggurat.

The Athena rushes out to meet a Binchuran ship with the probe while Lemons fixes up the ziggurat. The Athena manages to secure the probe and escape with the Terraformers hot on their tail. They install the probe and use the ziggurat to destroy the terraformers right before they reach the planet.

As the crew celebrates, Redlen discoveres he has some how accidentally married the tribal woman Kamala.

It's been about a month since the crew of the Athena defeated the Terraformers at Ashan. In the fallout, the Binchuran's struggle to rebuild and relocate to Thoras. The war on Tau has heated up with a full blown civil war between the Tau and war with the Planetary Consortium, a coalition of the most powerful Velt corporations. Por departs to Tau to help his people.
War has come to Thoras as well, and the Binchuran's find themselves dragged into another unwanted conflict due to their alliance. Looking for someone to blame, Tali has come under scrutiny for help forming the Thorian alliance and also being blamed for the heavy losses during he terraformer conflict. The Binchuran council has decided to use Tali as a scapegoat to assuage the Binchuran people. With her future among the Binchuran's looking bleak, Tali's mother Neema suggests that she take the Athena and leave, choosing banishment over a dishonorable discharge and loss of her ship.

Meanwhile Finn and Redlen are having drinks at a local bar. While discussing events, Redlen mentions his involvement in the rebellion, soon after a war buddy come by and mentions a battle he fought together with Redlen… the same battle where Finn's parents were killed. Flying into a fit of rage, Finn Falcon Punches Redlen, and a full brawl breaks out. Tali shows up to collect her crew, putting a stop to the fight before Redlen and Finn can resolve their fight.

With little time to spare, they rush back to the ship the entirety of Tali's loyal crew has assembled, knowing full well that following Tali result in them never being able to return to their people again. They slip out unhindered as Neema has distracted the security for them to escape.

Finn manages to calm down and is willing to stay on board despite their involvement in his parent's death, although tensions are still high. On their way out of the system, they are messaged by Victor. Victor power has greatly diminished in the face of the Planetary Consortium, and he finds himself outcast with few resources and on the run from assassins. He however has a mission of great importance. He has received news that Icrion has reconnected to the Cunniculum Rocks warp point, but has been oddly quite and the Eclipse Foundation (now part of the Planetary Consortium) has setup a blockade of the system. Victor wants the Athena to run the blockade and find out what is going on in Icrion. He hints the answer might be able to bring and end to the war and possible have even greater implications to the safety of the whole system. Tali agrees and heads for Icrion.

The Athena manages to run the blockade and enter the Icrion system. The system is completely devoid of activity or communications of any kind. They come across the same station they stopped at when they first visited Icrion. The station is on emergency power and looks derelict with a huge hole in the side of the hull and floating debris everywhere. The crew decides to land and investigate.

To Be Continued…