Eve’s fixer, Erich, lets her know a bit more about this “Core Dump” hacker on Mercury. He lives in a city called Az-Zukhruf in the Arab-controlled area of Mercury. He has been retired for about a year and a half and is now “legit.” Erich says that though he is retired, he’s taken a few jobs since his retirement (ones that he won’t get shot at for).

As we are approaching Mercury, we are notified by Bengal that the spam levels dropped off for about 4 hours then resumed, and now are no longer coming through ClimaStat’s servers.

We arrive at Mercury, and Eve contacts Core Dump on the public access board. She asks for help with some computers and he seems shocked that she found him. He explains that he is no longer in the biz and generally doesn’t do computer work anymore.

Eve mentions that she was referred by Erich and Core Dump says that he could probably do it since Erich is an old friend. He invites Eve to come to a club with him and then go back to his place afterwards to take a look at things. Eve asks if he is still talking about computers.

Raptor inquires about how legal it is to carry weapons openly on Mercury, and finds that firearms especially are restricted almost everywhere. He settles on bringing only 4 guns and 2 knives.

We land and immediately go to a high-end clothing store. Eve negotiates the price on three armored suits for Cam, Stitch and Raptor. They are reluctant to buy and wear them, but Eve’s wiles win them over.

We go to the bar, a place called 39 Thieves, and as we come into the entrance area there are several security guards checking everyone for weapons. As they scan Raptor, he looks very agitated and does not want to give up his guns. He warns the guy that he should take his hands off of him. The guy says that he is just doing his job.

Eve sees that Raptor is about to go crazy and slaps two tranq patches on his neck. He passes out almost immediately. Cam and Stitch catch him with much difficulty so he doesn’t fall to the floor. Stitch explains that he has had too much to drink. The security guard says that he can’t come into the bar if he’s passed out. Eve explains in low tones to the guards that she tranqued him so he wouldn’t go nuts, but he should be okay now. The guards let him come in.

We come into the bar and Eve meets with Core Dump, whose real name is Yusuf. She gives him a kiss in greeting and says that the club looks nice. He says that it will get more exciting later as the place gets busier.

Eve spends most of the night socializing with Yusuf and his crew. Raptor wakes up later and demands to know what happened. Eve says that he was about to get everyone in a lot of trouble and had to tranq him. He asks what happened to his gun and Stitch says (lying) that the gun fell out of his holster when he passed out and he was holding on to it for him.

Raptor goes back and orders something to eat, but finds that everything is too dainty and upscale for him to enjoy. We decide that we should go since none of us really fit in except for Eve. She says that she is fine on her own and will accompany Yusuf to his place. Raptor asks her if she will be okay (if she has guns) and she says that she has 2.

The party, less Eve, comes back to the ship. Raptor complains that he hasn’t been in a fight recently. Cam, intrigued, goes on the internet and finds if there is an underground fight club in the area that Raptor could participate in. In a surprising stroke of luck he finds one in the area and convinces Raptor to go. Stitch goes with them.

They arrive at the fight club and Raptor signs up to fight. They put him in the super-heavyweight class and he is to fight against a big looking dude. The fight lasts for several minutes as it seems that they cannot hurt one another. After a while, the other guy is being worn down and finally puts up his hands and gives up. His friends are at the fence yelling for him to be taken out of the ring, while Cam is yelling for Raptor to kill him. The man tries to get away but Raptor takes him down from behind.

The crowd goes nuts, and start chanting “Garignak! Garignak!” They bring out another guy with shiny dermal plating and a girl on each arm. He is pointing to the crowd and smiling. The announcer asks Raptor if he will fight again, and he agrees. He manages to wound the guy, which surprises him, but soon Garignak overpowers him and lays him out. Cam and Stitch bring him back to the ship and heal him up, as he is near death.

The next morning Eve calls us and asks to know what is going on. We explain about the fight club, and don’t ask for any details about her night. She asks for Cam to bring the laptops to Yusuf and he comes down in a short while. Raptor goes somewhere to get a steak, and wanders aimlessly afterwards. Stitch follows him to make sure he doesn’t get into too much trouble.

Yusuf begins working on the laptops and Eve and Cam go to get groceries. Eve buys a side of beef and Cam gets a bushel of corn. They take them to cold storage on the ship. When they return, Yusuf has cracked the first server and says that he has recovered some company emails and financial information, but nothing incriminating yet.

Raptor eventually stumbles upon a sporting goods store and purchases a paintball gun. He does not buy any paintballs.

Everyone reconvenes for dinner with Eve and Yusuf. Unfortunately Raptor is dissatisfied at the cuisine here and makes a scene, then storms out. Eve is embarrased at the scene but Yusuf seems not to care. Stitch goes to follow him but Raptor says that he is going to kill him if he tries.

Several days pass as Yusuf is working on cracking the servers. He calls Eve one day while we are out and says that he has news. We meet up with him and he says that he recognized a bit of code on one of the boxes. He said that he was working with a guy a long time ago who created the “Shitstorm 3100” which is a terrible spamming software. The guy went by the name “Freewire” and was a notorious hacker. He actually spent some time on Mercury, addicted to BTLs, before he went back to Pallas, and that’s where he probably still is. The program itself took him at least 2 years to write. It is rumored that he sold the code to a chick named Overclock, who Yusuf doesn’t know much about. The code, unfortunately, would take months to pick apart and longer to do anything to stop it.

Meanwhile, Raptor books passage on a shuttle to go to the other side of the planet where he will be more comfortable. Unfortunately they don’t hire there, and he needs to go back. He does so and gets a job as a “laborer.”

On Pallas in St. Gregory, we approach the corporation, ClimaStat, that is the source of the spam messages. We come into the habitat dome and land, then take the hummer to the building.

We decide the best way to figure out going on is to surveil the building. Stitch breaks into one of the buildings nearby with a simple lockpick device. He sees cameras and other security measures, as well as deliveries of office items and such.

Eve is able to lift an ID badge off of a departing IT woman, which she herself could use to gain access to the building. Next she “accidentally” runs into a nerdy-looking analyst, calling him “Johnny” and kissing him madly. He protests, saying that his name’s not Johnny, but doesn’t notice that she’s lifted his badge as well.

Eve and Cam take the disguise of the two people whose IDs were stolen, and gain access to the building. Everyone else stays in the van for the time being. They walk through the building and see that the back entrance has a simple alarm attached to it. On the way back towards the security desk Eve uses her stun baton on one of the security cameras. Quickly Cam disables the lock and alarm on the door and leaves a wire so the others can get in if they need to.

The camera comes back online so Cam and Eve move off. She goes into the restroom and asks Stitch where he thinks the servers are. He thinks they may be in the basement. She comes out of the restroom and tells Cam that they should head to the basement.

Suddenly Raptor and Stitch are attacked by two guards; obviously they have been spotted. Raptor is tasered, but Stitch snipes and kills both of them. Raptor takes off to draw any further attention away from the building.

Cam and Eve continue to the server room in the basement. Cam is not able to log into the system and is marked as a hacker, so he logs out. They decide that they should steal the servers instead and do analysis on them later. Cam grabs a couple of the laptop-sized servers and suddenly they hear footsteps. An IT guy comes in and asks what is going on. Eve strikes him with her stun baton and he goes down. Cam grabs the servers and they find something to put them in, then quickly leave.

On the way up the stairs, a guard appears and demands that they give up the servers they stole. Cam and Eve put the servers down but draw their weapons and fire on the guard. He goes down, and Eve slices his throat. They grab the servers and charge out of the building. The truck takes them away and we seem to have made a clean getaway.

We get back to the ship and decide not to stick around. We leave Pallas immediately.

Eve contacts her fixer, who points her in the direction of a hacker who lives on Mercury. Apparently he will be able to help us out with the servers. We decide to travel to Mercury; the trip takes a day.

On the way, Eve checks the newsfeeds and she sees that the military on Ganymede has released more information about the people who broke into their installation. A very clear photo of Eve (disguised in black) and a fairly clear picture of Raptor were released, as well as the name of Chelle though they have not caught her yet. They believe that our group is still in the Jupiter system, which is obviously erroneous.

Arriving in Ganymede orbit, we hear reported through the news feed about the raid we just perpetrated, and there is fuzzy surveillance video or a few of us in action. The anchor says that it is believed a “yet unnamed” resistance group was responsible for the crime, though no one has yet stepped forward.

The group tries to look for a place that we can stay that is under the radar. Eve calls one of her doctors to see if they can get her official papers for the delivery of the cadavers we are carrying in the hold.

Cam starts working on the truck; weapons and equipment are distributed to the party and it is decided what we will sell and what we’ll keep.

Eve’s doctor responds and says that she is on Earth’s moon. She will have the paperwork drawn up for us by the time we reach there.

Stitch contacts an armorer and says that he will meet us on an uninhabited asteroid to buy the equipment we have for sale. It will take us roughly 30 hours to get there.

We arrive safely at the asteroid and meet Stitch’s contact. We negotiate 20,000 nuyen for all of the merchandise, and after a few minutes trade everything over. The money is split between the party members and we soon depart for the Earth’s moon.

The doctor’s location is near the Lunar Syndicate. We land and load the bodies up for transit. Stitch says that he is going to stay with the ship. The rest of the party meets up with the doc and she takes a look at the bodies we have brought. She agrees to pay about 50,000 for all of the bodies and cyberware. This is again divided between the party members.

Cam shops around for a new core system for the ship so we can mask our identity if we wish. He finds a place that has one for a Firefly-class vessel that is in pretty good shape, but settles on a cheaper one that needs some refurbishing. He packs it all in the truck and takes it back to the ship. He estimates that it will take him 10 days or so to integrate the second system.

Eve finds out that there is demand for lumber runs from the Earth to Vesta. The pay is only 4,000 nuyen but it is honest money. We decide to do the run, and also get a lead on another job that may require personnel with varied skills.

In a bar on Vesta we meet Bengal, a businessman with Asian features and feline biomods, the most obvious being his cat-eyes. His crew is with him, decked out with mods and tech. He explains that there is a hacker on Pallas that is sending out spam messages which is sucking up bandwidth and causing a lot of trouble. We are to shut him down anyway possible, since the local authorities have been unsuccessful. They have however traced him to a specific corporation, ClimaStat Inc. on Pallas. Software analysts have found that some of the code used in these attacks was used by a hacker Pedro “Freewire” Chin in 2414, six years ago. Chin was charged but never convicted. Apparently Freewire has been rumored to be on Pallas, or any number of other places, or that he’s retired or dead. Bengal offers 45,000 nuyen for the job plus expenses. We agree, but ask for chameleon suits for everyone in the party as well. Bengal agrees.

Bengal further explains that he does not have any “ins” with ClimaStat so we are on our own there, we will have to either break or hack in. He says that the confirmation that the job is done is that the traffic he is causing ceases. That is really all these people care about; they don’t necessarily want to see his dead body or see him arrested.

We do some shopping for equipment; Cam purchases a sequencer and some other devices.

We will be doing another legal run of ore shipment to Eros and then will continue on to Pallas with another shipment before the big job.

Eve climbs up to the guard tower at the entrance and shocks the guard inside. He had already been severely damaged by Raptor’s sniper fire and so he does not offer much resistance.

Raptor sees through his scope a body fall from the sniper’s tower near the rear of the base, he has apparently been killed by someone else. He takes aim and fires at another one of the base’s guards.

Graves is revived from his wounds by the serum but still looks pretty bad. He gets up and accompanies Cam to a nearby security door. Cam tries to get inside but is unable to.

Eve comes into the complex and tries to hijack a vehicle but is unable to.

Aparna comes over our com system and says that another operative working with the resistance is in the base and has already downed a couple of the hostiles.

Cam is able to break into the building and Raptor jumps down to head into the building. Cam and Graves break off towards the vehicle that Eve tried to steal, and run into Stitch. “Hey, you’re that guy!” says Cam. “Uh, yeah. Let’s go get that car,” he replies.

Raptor calls out that there are lots of hostiles inside the main building. Cam lets Stitch know that they need help in the building and he nods, turning back to assist. Raptor goes into the building and lets loose with grenades and weapons fire. Eve and Stitch assist him and soon all of the hostiles are down. They start raiding the goods there.

Cam hotwires the truck and drives it over to the main building. He swaps with Eve for the forklift and starts loading boxes onto the truck. There are 3 crates of armored vests, one crate with 4 Ares Alpha assault rifles, 4 crates with normal ammunition and 1 with APDS rounds. Also one suit of full body armor is found, several with rations and food, and 2 crates with medkit supplies. Also a crate with 2 Walther MA-2100 sniper rifles, a crate of micro-grenades and a crate of 20 Ares Predator IVs is found. We also pile 13 bodies of the enemies killed so we can harvest their cyberware.

We load all of the crates except for the food & water on to the truck. Raptor figures that we will have four minutes left over until reinforcements come since their response time is about 30 minutes. He also realizes that every item is RFID tagged which would allow them to be tracked by the enemy. Stitch says that he has a jammer that could prevent the signals from being tracked.

The truck leaves the base and we do not run into any reinforcements. Aparna says that Chelle will meet us in an ATV on the side of a road. She joins us and says that she has several RFID tag erasers. We keep driving while she and Stitch start erasing the tags.

Raptor asks if he should keep a gun on Stitch in case he tries something; Eve says that she and Stitch go way back and he’s definitely on the up-and-up.

Eve comes up with a list that we will give to the Resistance. Chelle relays that info to Aparna and after a moment she agrees to take what we’ve offered. They will meet us at a local scrapyard for payment.

Shortly thereafter we meet with them and payment is transferred (2,200 nuyen per person) and we give them the promised goods. They thank us and say that this will help their cause immensely.

We leave the planet and begin to count and stow our goods. We take stock of the cyberware in the bodies that were stolen for future harvesting.

Later Raptor hears that Sakura has the weapon permits ready.

Eve formally introduces Stitch to the rest of the group and asks what he has been doing. He replies that he has just been taking jobs, trying to make ends meet. Eve says that our group has been pretty successful so far and says that we could certainly use one more. She asks the rest of the group what they think and they seem okay with Stitch joining. He agrees and it is official.

We decide to keep the truck but to refit and paint it so it can’t be tracked back to the military base.

We stay in the bar for a long while and drink and eat. Eve drinks quite heavily, and though the others warn her to slow down, she says that she is in control.

After a few hours and quite a lot of drink, the dinner crowd filters out of the place and the bar crowd comes in. Aparna comes back and finally it’s time to get down to business. She tells us that there is an outdoor rental business in town that is a part of the resistance, and we should meet there to discuss our plans further.

We leave the bar for the rental business, and Eve is having a lot of trouble walking. Raptor asks Cam to help her out (calling him “Tool” in the process). Cam begrudgingly accepts and walks along with her.

When we arrive, Raptor finds a stim-patch and puts it on Eve to sober her up. We meet a woman at the door and explain who we are. She lets all of us, except Eve, in to an adjacent room with several more people and we begin introductions.

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Negotiations go extremely poorly until Eve and Aparna return, whereupon Eve has changed her appearance. She introduces herself as Eve here instead of Natasha, and Aparna senses that she has lied. Aparna confronts Eve about it but Eve says that she would do well to not delve into our group’s past — we are just here to do the job and get paid. Aparna asks if they mean to harm any of the resistance members, and Eve says no. Aparna says that she believes her.

Eve comes in to the main room and meets the man, Randolph, who explains about the location that we will be expected to gain entry to. He covers where the plant is, what they think goes on in each building, what their defenses are and where the possible entry points are. We decide that we will go the next evening and Raptor will provide a distraction while the rest of us get into the complex.

The next evening, we take our positions and signal the resistance members to attack. They detonate an explosion on the base and Raptor, from a nearby ledge, starts firing at the guards. Cam is hoisted up at the wall and begins clipping at the razor wire. Cam is suddenly shot by one of the guards in the tower, but he seems okay and continues to clip through. Soon he is able to get all the way through and swings over the wall. Graves follows him into the base but Eve stays on the wall. She takes a shot at one of the advancing guards and Graves stabs him. A second one is sniped neatly by Raptor. Graves is suddenly shot by the sniper and falls; Cam drags him behind the building and decides on his next move.

Raptor and Cam rush back to the ship as they heard about the other ship’s approach. Eve tells them that the ship will be on top of them in about 2 minutes.

The ship makes a comminique with the Redemption, and they identify themselves as Rhea Saturn Border Control Authority. They ask what we are doing. Eve says that we are on a salvage mission and are registered to do so. The man, a military looking fellow in a combat helmet, says that he wishes to dock with us and check our papers. Eve agrees.

Eve yells at the others to hurry back to the ship, and presently Raptor and Cam float over onto the ship. Cam rushes to the bridge and Raptor takes up position on the scaffolding of the cargo bay. Eve is trying desperately to hide the safe in one of the hidden compartments. She turns off the gravity to assist her in lifting it.

The Border Patrol ship attempts to communicate with us to board, but Eve is not ready. She makes up an excuse and Cam shoves the bridge comm microphone into the speaker, causing a feedback loop.

Eve gets the cargo hidden and turns the gravity back on. She lets the Border Patrol men in, and Raptor readies his elephant rifle. They come in and ask for Eve’s papers. She said that she doesn’t have any, since we came across the ship and figured that we could get the license later. The Border Patrolman says that it doesn’t work that way, and they’d like to take a look around. Eve puts her arm in his and leads him around the ship. He seems satisfied with everything and lets us go.

We decide to go to Rhea and get a real salvage license, since they are not that expensive. The trip takes 2 hours.

We arrive at a docking station and take the Eden shuttle down to the moon. It only takes us a few minutes to get down, and Eve begins the process to get a salvage license. The person at the desk says that they need a registered SIN, the ship’s license numbers, and the background check takes about two weeks. Eve asks if this timeline can be reduced, but the shortest time is about a week.

Eve decides that it isn’t worth it and we return to the ship. Cam sets course for Hygaea and they start the return trip. Again it takes 2 days, and we return to the spaceport we had originally met the buyer at. Eve makes a communication with the buyer and he agrees to meet us.

As we approach the station the docking crew tells us that they are doing maintenance, and we need to divert to docking bay 17. We agree, and begin to dock. Suddenly we get a comm from the buyer, and he sounds awfully scared. He tells us that we must have been set up, because there are at least 8 heavily armed men in the docking bay waiting for us to exit. We tell him that we are leaving and will meet him somewhere else. He says that there is another base across town that we could go to.

We start traveling to the other station, and see that there is a ground vehicle tracking us. We decide to split up, Cam piloting the Redemption, Graves piloting Eden, and Eve and Raptor on Hades with the loot. Cam peels off and the ground vehicle seems to be tracking him. Eve leaves slowly as to not draw attention and goes to the other base.

Eve and Raptor meet the buyer and make the trade. He says that we have to go back to his office to get the medical supplies, but he gives Eve the certified credstick with the cash.

Cam is continuing to Graves sees that they have turned around and are returning to the original spaceport, and then double back north towards the second station. Graves goes back to the Redemption and docks.

Raptor goes with Red his car and Eve takes Hades back towards Redemption. She sees that the vehicle, a gray van, is now coming towards Red’s car. Raptor tells them that they need to be prepared for battle, and the men with Red pull their weapons (which are unfortunately small arms). Raptor tells the driver to ram the van. He tries, but the driver of the van swerves out of the way. They turn around to pursue the truck.

Raptor opens the back door of the truck and opens fire on the van. Raptor takes several shots at the driver of the van and takes him out, and then turns his attention to the van’s tires. One of the front tires blows out and the van hits a nearby building. Raptor climbs back into the truck and they take off from the scene.

The truck arrives at Red’s building and they drop off the safe. Eve arrives there as well, and Red gives her a case of more medical supplies and another package. There are two vials in the second case, and explains that it is a rapid immune response serum that is not on the market yet but is not dangerous, it is just not cost-effective yet. It is somewhat of a “gunshot wound vaccine.” A 10cc dose will stay in your system for about 3 hours and activates when your skin is cut and you get a platelet response and will heal the wound right away. He has saved 210 cc’s of it and it needs to be injected directly into the blood.

We thank Red and load up into the ship. Before leaving, we purchase two more space suits for the ship and some parts that equal out to 2,000 nuyen. As we are lifting off, Raptor sees that he has a message. Eve splits up the money between us and takes some for maintenance of the ship.

Later Raptor asks Eve if she has the next job lined up. She says no, so he says he may have something that would be worth our time on Ganymede. Everyone agrees to go along.

As we are traveling, Eve receives a communique that a legitimate job is available. A shipment of construction materials from a Smartglass company from Miyahon on Hygiea needs to be shipped to Phrygia on Ganymede. We decide to take the job because it is right on our way. We are paid 5,000 nuyen up front for the job.

It takes almost two days to reach Ganymede, and the glass delivery goes smoothly. We make a quick stop to purchase an Auto-pilot Autosoft for the ship and continue on to Bryce Ridge to meet up with Raptor’s contact.

The town is very small; all of us walk into the main bar. We order drinks and food; Eve is dressed as a Russian woman. Eve asks around about the woman Raptor is looking for, and the bartender says that she works here as a waitress. He says that she will be off work in a short while if we want to speak with her.

Later we meet her as she is getting off of work. Eve says that her mutual friend told us that they needed extra help. Raptor seems very uncomfortable with the pretenses and relaxes when she begins to speak more frankly.

The waitress tells us that her resistance cell against the Bloc government is somewhat outgunned and she needs us to help raid a local depot for weapons to help out their cause. It is lower security but may be difficult to get into because of the hilly terrain. The Bloc has a commander at this base and a staff including guards. Raptor suggests that we take out their leader to weaken the command structure. We discuss other options and ask if the guards visit any local bars if we could steal any of their security cards. Raptor also asks for the schematics of the building.

We ask about payment, and she says that she doesn’t have much, but she could afford 2,200 nuyen a person and free room and board for us. We also could take a cut of what we get from the facility in the form of weapons and equipment.

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.