The year is 3021. The human race expanded to other planets in the solar system in the mid 2000s due to advances in metallurgy, making super solar batteries. On Earth, the further away from the equator, the poorer you are likely to be, but due to technology, nature is now making a comeback. Poorer people are in large cities. On Luna there are cities and places that are safe, but on Mars it is completely lawless.

Aliens, in particular those of the Vanguard race, have taken notice of humans now and live among them. The Vanguard are just like humans but are smarter and more technologically advanced. They achieved spaceflight capability hundreds of years before humans but only revealed themselves after the humans started traveling to other planets.

Our group is a team of independend consultants named Axaniax “X” Zadra (pilot), Chance Sol (soldier) and Varan Stel (Vanguard, mechanic and captain). We have a small ship with two shuttles that can have mining capability. We are located in what used to be London, but the city is now made up of thousands of skyscrapers built on top of what used to be called London.

A man named Captain Bannell Racket contacts us looking to retain our services. Varan looks him up to see if he is legit, but only finds references to a “Col. Banner” instead. This Captain Racket seems to somehow be associated with Banner. We decide to meet and take a shuttle. At the appointed place there is a hangar where we see a gigantic ship. There are many people working here loading items and doing maintenance on the ship. X camouflages himself and observes. He sees a lot of people among the workers who are ex-military and have cybernetics.

Captain Racket comes out with some soldiers who are casually holding weapons. He greets us warmly and invites Varan and Chance inside. Chance notices that he is older but due to his uniform’s insignias was probably a former high ranking airforce officer. Varan starts recording everything so X can see what is going on. Chance is acting as Varan’s bodyguard.

Racket tells us that they run a mining and shipping business, and recently almost $270k credits worth of copper and silver were stolen by pirates. They cut into the ship, destroying the mining pods they were in and making off with the goods. They were coming from the sun to earth, and afterwards the pirates probably went to the moon.

During the conversation, X sneaks his way onto the ship and shows up just as the group is getting the briefing. Racket is not rattled and welcomes X. He continues to say that he wants us to find the shipment and return it. He offers us one third, or $90k credits for the safe return of the cargo. X tries to negotiate the price, but Racket says that don’t have any extra funds for us on this. He seems serious so we don’t push it. They do have data on where the pirates went. When we go to the moon, we will get free docking fees if we have to dock. We take the job, and Varan says that he has made a good choice — we will do everything we can to return the cargo intact.

As we are leaving, X asks around the docks and finds out about a source named Bobcat and finds that the pirates may be orbiting the moon. Varan contacts a friend of his and he calls Bobcat, telling him that we are interested in buying. We fly up to orbit and meet with them, docking our ship with theirs. There is another ship nearby but no one else that we can detect. Varan and X go over to the ship while Chance mans the helm and weapons in case something goes south.

Varan and X board the ship and see that there are three men on board. They check on the product they have here. It seems legit, but the pirates are nervous. X notices that one barrel has chromatic copper and the other barel has silver mixed with extremely rare Tyrite ore and the third barrel has more ore. X does not say anything about the Tyrite to anyone. It doesn’t seem as thought the pirates are even aware of the Tyrite. The pirates are unwilling to negotiate, tempers flare and the trade is a bust. The pirates order us out and they open up on our ship. Chance has been waiting for this and lights them up takeing out one of their guns. A firefight starts and X shoots a pipe next to the pilot with his laser pistol which spills cooling fluid on him. Varan finishes him off with his rifle. In return X takes a shot in the chest from the other pirate. X shoots the other guy in the leg, but he spins and shoots a fuel barrel. It explodes taking out the whole room. Varan and X are seriously injured but the pirate dies in the process.

X asks Varan to secure the hallway in case there are any  more pirates. X grabs a hand full of Tyrite and hides it in his g-suit.

Meanwhile, Chance shoots the second ship straight through the center taking off its cannons and disabling it. He sees a third ship rabbit and notices that they cut their cargo before they left. It is the missing ore. The crew travels over to retrieve the three abandoned ore containers. Chance space walks to attach a teather to the ore containers and X gently manuevers everything back to the disabled pirate ships.  Once back at the ships the crew salvages as much from the pirate ships as they can. They retrieve 3 g-suits, 2 laser pistols, 1 laser rifle (not working probably easily fixable) for gear. X states that he will be taking a g-suit, laser pistol and the rifle. They top off fluids (7000 credits worth) from the ships.

Then they call their employer to come retrieve the ore containers. Racket is extremely impressed that all of the ore was retrieved and happily pays what was promised. They also run a scan on the two pirate ships and find that there are 25K and 11K credit bounties on them. Varan notifies the authorities of the the ships and retrieval vessals are dispatched. The group departs after a job well done and a bunch of extra cash in their pockets.