5 Parsecs - Jailhouse Rocks

Seeking greater pay, the Hermes crew relocated to the Prison Moon of Tybos. Missions here are designated as Red Zone, meaning more numerous and more dangerous enemies. Tybos is a huge place with gangs in control of many areas. The authorities focus on monitoring and policing the outer boundaries to prevent escapes.

Turn 11 - Save The Tech

The crew got hired by PenalTech to help them safeguard an important comms relay station that intell suggested a local gang had decided to destroy. The team got air dopped in just as the large group of Gangers arrived. 

Gangers forming-up to attack

Skor and Harlan setup a sniper position

The rest of the team form a perimeter

The team quickly set up a permitter around the relay site and awaited the attack which came from two directions, by a large group of shotgun armed Gangers.  

After a brisk fire fight Capt Gideon lay wounded but the attack was driven off and team were able dust-off with a mission successful. Gideon was later fixed-up in the Hermes shinny new med bay and was straight back into the action.  

The Gangers attack

 Mission 12 - The tracker

A background quest in this campaign is the search for a data shard containing a copy of the personality and experiences of Capt Gideon. They want to recover it from the Ossian Veil Assassins who are trying to weaponize it. A tipper has been received that a bot abandoned inside one of the prisoner controlled zones may have a tracking programme that could locate the shard. 

The gang controlled area

So the crew set off into a ruined part of Tybos looking for the tracker. The locals are out in force to stop this intrusion.          

The gangs assemble

The crew quickly locate the right building and enter to secure the tracker just as the locals arrive at the same site, resulting in a deadly close range fight. Luckily the crew had armour which saved them from the multiple hits they took.   

The building is breached 

1st Mate Ivarr is from a race that relishes close combat and must charge if in range, and so it was be barrelled into a group of 8 enemies with his sabre swinging wildly. Four were felled in two turns with the rest accounted for by the accurate shooting of his compatriots.   

 

All hell breaks loose 

Ivarr attacks

The crew made good their escape with the tracker intact and when back at base were able to use it to find the location of the precious data shard.