We are each approached separately by a corporate liaison who wants to hire us for a job on a ship. They agree that our payment will be at least a few thousand nuyen per month and it will be work worth our while. We all agree to meet near the spaceport docks of Vespa at a Firefly-class ship and a representative named Eve.

One by one we show up. A twitchy, large man with combat boots and scaly-printed dermal plating introduces himself as Raptor; a tall man in a nice outfit holding a cigarette says that people call him Graves; and a skinny, dirty fellow with spiked hair and welding goggles says that his name is Cameron. They meet Eve, an attractive Asian woman who seems a bit disappointed with them. She leads them into the ship and shows them around. She asks Cameron if that is his real name, and he says yes. She says it’s a terrible idea to use your real name and that she will call him “Tool” from now on. He ignores her and goes to get his tools.

Raptor and Cameron both work to get their equipment on board. Raptor sets up racks for his firearms and ammunition and Cameron sets up his workshop near the engine room.

Eve is notified by a corp contact that the first job is a salvage operation on Hygiea concerning a man named Red Selwart who is in the bio-med industry. Red is offering 15,000 plus expenses for the retrieval of the items that he is looking for.

The group gathers in the mess (except for Cam, who is tinkering around in the engine room) and Eve announces what the job will be. Everyone agrees that the Hygiea mission will be sufficient. Eve calls down to the engine room that we must leave, and Cam says that he is currently taking the engine apart for maintenance. Frustrated, Eve tells him to put it back together so we can leave.

Cam puts the engine back together in about an hour, and goes up to the cockpit to set up the flight plan. The ship takes off and Cam announces that it will be about a day until we reach Hygiea. He returns to his workshop to get things set up and everyone else takes the next day to get settled in.

Eve searches for any info on Red and his corp. Red reports to the Vice President of the R&D branch for New Age Bio-medical. It is a smaller company compared to most bio groups, and they have a lot of contracts with privately-run medical facilities. They apparently have no dealings with any of the big corps on Earth.

The next day we land on Hygiea in the city of Miyahon. As we are preparing to disembark, Raptor sees Eve and she looks completely different than before. She has blonde hair, a larger bust and different clothing. He pulls a gun on her and demands to know who she is. She says “You know me as Eve.” He looks confused and puts his gun down.

Eve contacts Red and says that she is ready to meet. They agree on a place, and Red asks how many people will be coming with her. Eve asks us if there’s anything specific we’d like to negotiate for; Raptor says that the ship is sorely lacking on supplies and Cam agrees, saying that we need parts for the engine and the medical bay is pretty bare. Eve says that she will see what she can do.

Red explains that he had a shipment going from Rhea to Hygiea and the ship (a Bumblebee class) was hit by a stray asteroid and lost hull integrity. There is a safe in the lower deck with highly classified medical prototypes. He needs to hire us to retrieve the prototypes off the books so the company’s competitors are not aware of the problem. He says that he will pay us 15,000 nuyen and we are free to take anything off the ship that we need as well. Eve negotiates for 20,000 nuyen as well as some medical equipment that they may have to stock our medbay and two more space suits. Red says that he could give us 16,000 as well as some medkits, a med-dock and the space suits, and Eve agrees.

Red gives Eve the key codes to deactivate the ship’s auto defenses and the codes to access the safe. He also gives us a schematic of the ship and points out where the hull breach may have occurred. He says that the ship is in the gravity well of Saturn and may have been spotted by scavengers already. The ship is not important to him, just the contents of the safe.

One of Red’s security guards meets us at the ship with a crate that has the medkit, 6 sets of supplies, 2 bio-monitors, 20 trauma patches and two space suits.

We leave for Saturn and reach orbit in 2 days, seeing the derelict ship where it should be. We arrive and halt the ship just outside of weapons range of the derelict and try to send the disarm code. Cam quickly realizes that the defense systems are offline and have been so for two days. Someone else must have been here and raided the ship already.

Eve does a scan of the immediate area and does not detect any other ships. Also a scan of the Bumblebee doesn’t reveal any life signs or movement.

Cam elects to stay on the bridge; the others suit up and jump out of the airlock to the other ship. They search around and find the access hatch to the lower deck. The safe is sunken into the floor. They scan the area for any traps or explosives, but don’t find anything out of the ordinairy. However there are scuff marks by the safe as if someone was attempting to pry it out.

Eve enters the open code and the clamps begin to open, but one sticks and does not retract completely. Raptor decides to use plastic explosives to blow open the shroud, and sets charges on either side. After the explosion, it is not completely blown off. He tries another two charges and the panel is destroyed. The chest is dragged off of the ship through the hull breach and to the cargo hold.

The three return to the ship and start looking for salvage. Most of the ship has already been rifled through and anything of value stolen, but Cam recognizes through Eve’s eye feed that the parts on the Bumblebee’s engine could be usable towards 4,500 nuyen or so of maintenance.

As Raptor is checking the cockpit, Cam goes to the engine room and starts disassembling the spare parts for our ship’s engine. Just as he’s starting, Eve announces that another ship is approaching us on sensors. Raptor, Cam and Graves make for the ship before the interlopers arrive.