8-607: Cold Case
Kort responds carefully, “I think that our employer would be very unhappy if I let you open that case.”Jennie completes the jump calculations and the FTL drive spools up. The image of the gold ship...
Category: Module 08: Cold Case
Perhaps against her better ethical judgement, Lia has signed on as a temporary crew member of the merchant freighter Spanial, which has been employed by shady Overcrat Zayaire Preston-Lischost to transport a cargo and it’s escort, one Samuel Kort, to an uncolonised, and therefore restricted, system. The ship is then to return with whatever it is Kort wants the Spanial to return with and deliver it back to Mundo Zargo.
8-606: Spanial, Control
Shape is similar, the surface patterns and colours are different, suggesting different materials.Jennie nods toward Kort, “You’ll have to talk to him and Karmen about that.”She switches to internal comms, “Gregar, FTL drive status?”He...
8-605: Spanial, Control
As Spanial pulls away, tension in Control slowly subsides. After a while Jennie tells Gregar he can reduce emergency thrust, and the feeling of pressure pushing Lia down into her seat subsides to...
8-604: Spanial, Control
All those reactions seem appropriate; though others in Control seem a little more scared than excited.Ipan’s evaluation seems accurate.
8-603: Spanial, Control
Jennie’s quite nervous and doing her best to cover it because she’s in the big chair.The static stops.Ipan says, “I’d say they’re heading back toward the planet, take them a while to reverse course...
8-602: Spanial, Control
It’s fair to say that no-one else here has a definitive answer to those questions.Jennie says, “If it was a warning shot and they’re slowing down, I think getting further away might be a...
8-601: Spanial, Control
He looks to Jennie to make sure she isn’t freaked out about the idea, then receives her nod and fiddles with his console.On the screen the gold ship twists, and three flashes of light...
8-600: Spanial, Control
Ipan plays with his console for a bit and says, “I think, uh, they’re trying to communicate but we don’t understand the message format. That signal just got a lot more complicated, like they’ve...
8-599: Spanial, Control
Previously the changes in volume and amplitude were quite pronounced, making a harsh and unpredictable sound. Now it’s more even perhaps more…melodic? If you can use that term when describing what’s essentially white...
8-598: Spanial, Control
It’s still Lia’s voice, but after the recording of her voice plays the comms are picking up several seconds of static. That static has just changed.