The wasp clearing efforts continue; Cam starts up the bilge pumps to get some of the drenched bees out and Raptor and the robot help to move them towards the drains. The group then goes to the cargo hold to see what is there. There are 6 crates in here. The plans are off-colored seaweed with small flowers. Cam takes a look at them and thinks that they are terrestrial plants that have been colonized by other solar life. They must be providing chlorophyll for the other plants so they do not need sunlight; some kind of symbiotic relationship. In another there are large metal slabs. The next one has a bunch of paintings. The last one has cultured bioware that was to be delivered to a corporation. Man-bot helps take the cargo to our sub.

Rex goes astral into the control room and sees two disgusting corpses and almost vomits. Raptor walks through the other rooms and finds nothing else. The engine room looks heavily broken. The logs say that the crew tried to recover from the hack and reboot the system and regain control, but screwed themselves in the process.

Cam tries to figure out how he could make the sub float again but it seems hopeless as the ballast tanks are certainly leaking. Eve notes that we might have better luck if we sell the salvage rights to someone else who has the means to raise the sub. Raptor grabs the nearest tool he can find for Cam and returns to the ship. Eve looks for any IDs or other personal effects that she might find.

We head back to the sub rental place but the proprieter is not there. Instead there is a mafioso and his thugs who try to shake us down. Raptor charges into the room and shoots the leader and we start popping his buddies. After taking them out we drag the bodies onto the sub and take off. We shut off any non-essential systems so we are camouflaging our signal.

From the corpses we take 4 Zoa Executive Armored Clothing and 1/2 Suit Form-Fitting Armor. 3 Optimum 2 assault rifles, a modified Ceramic Natama Namax pistol (rating 2). Also a credstick with $1500 on it.

We find the other vessel again and put the dead guys on the other sub and made it look like they killed one another. We then return to the rental place and Rex checks it to see that no one is there. Unfortunately it has been ransacked and the money that we put down on the sub is long gone. We scuttle the sub and take the mule, the scrubber drone (from the sub dock) and the loot and head back to the ship.

As we are heading through town on the mule we see a traffic camera that seems to be following our position. We can’t do anything about it so we head onto the ship as soon as possible and leave orbit. We head to Ganymede to talk with Aparna and see if we can find any leads on the group that tried to shake us down. She offers us medical help as well as food and supplies. We give her some weapons for the resistance’s use.

Back on the ship we decide to check on the last of the crates that we hadn’t opened, and Raptor sees small spores coming out. To stop them from spreading, Eve grabs a blowtorch and burns it off of him.

We stay on Ganymede for a while to lay low.