(G250 02/10/2015 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, MI) 40

(G250 02/10/2015 via Roll20 - JF(GM), AP, MI) 40


Station Beta of Red Bird's Star was the largest in the system and a regular haunt of the local dilithium miners. The Caco was directed to Docking Ring 3 after paying a 100 credit safety fee and a 500 credit docking fee.

Once they had docked Crewman Ceres linked up to the local station comms system and informed Kirk that there was a local trading computer network, but that according to the bulletin boards the best deals were found in the canteenas inside the station proper.

The inhabitants of the station were mainly Banean, but there were also the usual suspects, Norlots, Kazon and even some Numiri.

Kirk and Adam entered the station and took a saunter down the main trading street. They noticed regular and heavily manned guard posts and the fact that most of the people in the station carried side arms but there was no serious trouble.

Kirk surveyed a crowded crossing and took stock of the canteena signs that he saw. One showed a cocktail glass, another a stripping humanoid and another a high heeled red shoe. Kirk opted for the strippers.

As advertised, this gloomy and smoke filled club also contained plenty of naked and half clothed female beings. Kirk started spreading around the credits (he had a large quantity of Kazon paper currency and Vidiian crowns which were all legal currency on the station).

Kirk beckoned over a banean girl and gave her 100 banean paper credits. He then asked her if there were any dilithium dealers around the place. There was and she arranged for one to meet him in an hour.

In the spirit of inter-species relations Kirk then went off with two Baneans called Yvette and Deidre
as well as a gornand called Vella. This cost a mere 700 credits. Meanwhile Adam sat quietly by himself.

It was not the sort of place where one can sit around doing nothing for long though. A Kazon woman wearing nothing but a pair of red panties approached him.
Adam raised a hand and said, 'Sorry, I'm working.'
She shrugged and replied, 'They won't like it if you don't even buy a drink.'
Adam then went to the bar and wanted to buy drinks to take away with him but was told he had to stay in the club. He then bought a small drink and had it at the bar. The Kazon stripper shook her head and watched him with interest.
In the end a Norlot bouncer approached him,
'Are you causing trouble?'
'I'm security. I'm not here for pleasure.'
The Norlot lowered his dark glasses and took a good look at him.
'Security for who?'
Adam silently pointed to the nearby room that Kirk was in where the occasional grunt and giggle emanated from.
'Ok, but I'm watching you.', growled the bouncer.

After a few minutes three girls crowded around Adam, having worked out he was artificial they began asking him questions such as,
'Do you have a willy?'
'Yes' was the reply.
They ruffled his hair and took selfies with him. One asked him for a dance and he refused. After they had worked out they were going to get no credits from him they wandered off.
'You're rude!' said one of them over her shoulder.

Another hour passed and a broad shouldered mail Norlot approached Adam,
'You want to buy dilithium?'
Adam said that he did and went to get Kirk, opening the door and stepping in.
Kirk yelled at Adam, 'Never heard of a communicator?!' and threw a boot at the perplexed avatar.

'Busy is he?' asked the hulking Norlot on Adam's return, 'Buy me a drink then while we wait.'

Kirk finished up and joined them at the table. The Norlot's name was Hertrin and he would give them 340 kg of dilithium for 68,000 credits. Kirk did a few calculations and reckoned he would make a tidy sum refining it and could sell it back at the Vanguard station.

The deal was made and Hertrin told them he would bring the merchandise to their ship in two hours. When he turned up he was in a small van which had a lot of other things in it including a pink skinned female slave.

Kirk had a look through the trader's wears and bought a Norlot Sedation Ring for 10,000 credits and in the end, after some soul searching on the subject of the slave trade he bought the slave whose name was Webble.
Officially, obviously, members of Starfleet may not trade in slaves even if it is legal in the system they are in, but Webble had whispered to him, 'Please help me, he's a maniac!' and he had noticed that she was bruised and had a cut lip.

Once he had his purchases onboard the Caco he talked to Webble and offered her her freedom.
'Where would I go though sir? I want to come with you, this place is a shit hole.'
After talking to her for a while Kirk learned that she was from a low tech level planet which was regularly raided by Kazons for slaves. She was the daughter of a cooper and had seen half her family slain in the raid she was taken in. She half thought she was in the afterlife as she had no notion at all of spaceships and space travel.
'Neelix may be able to help and get you back.' promised Kirk.

Towards that end Adam searched the astrometrics database for planets and found where she had most likely been taken from, an M class planet called Garterian.

It was now 1500 ship's time. It would take them 15 hours to get back to the Vanguard station. Crewman Paterson launched the Caco from docking ring 3 and they started on the return journey.

After a couple of hours Crewman Celes reported that the ships sensors were picking up the pirate ship that had attacked them previously. It was coming up behind them again, creeping up their warp trail.

Adam started to put together some hacking programs that he thought may be of use, but they were not ready by the time the pirates were back in weapons range.
'Surrender or we'll slaughter all of you!' demanded the pirate captain over the comms.
'We've been through this before' stated Kirk.

The pirates began their attack with photon torpedoes which did some serious damage, and Kirk ordered a full stop. The pirates over shot and spent ten minutes getting back into range, travelling at impulse.

As they approached Kirk ordered Paterson to get going at full warp (Warp 4 for the Caco). He did some calculations, at the rate they were approaching he had twenty minutes before they were back in range again.

The safety of Vanguard Station was 11 hours away. A deadly game of cat and mouse had begun.