A Wretched Hive (Game Thread)

[Melblen_Cairn]

"This." and Rald points to a small round clear container on  his desk no larger than the palm of a hand. Inside is a minute code cylinder. "I found this surgically imbedded in our patient. The Empire likely did not scan him all that well and probably thought it was a cybernetic implant. But I found none of the trapping of cybernetics around it."

Rald removes the lid and lifts the cylinder out with tweezers and connects a small cable that is  hooked up to the desk. The display lists out several sets of numbers. "When our patient awoke from his coma, he has no memories of who he is. A common side affect to certain interrogation methods. Some patients never recover them. Orsk Me'Lya is his name based off the records you retrieved. He has no recollection of what this is, why it was in his body, or what these numbers mean."

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Need two skill checks a Knowledge : Technology and Knowledge : Physical Sciences

[Nanshork]

Silten examines this find.

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Knowledge (Tech): 14

Knowledge: (Physical Sciences): 22

[Melblen_Cairn]

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You recognize the first and second set of numbers immediately. The first set from having performed Astrogation calculations by hand you know these as coordinates to a place somewhere in space. The second set are planetary coordinates.

The last sets of numbers look like a numeric representation of a transponder code and then a access code for a star ship.

[Nanshork]

"Thiss is a location and then mosst likely a transsponder code and an accesss code," Silten muses.  "Have you done a ssearch for the name Orssk Me'Lya in any databassess?"

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Only cursory searching of public databases so it could not be traced anywhere. I found a few bits. He works in the corporate sector as a buyer for starships. Lived on Coruscant before the war but has traveled across the galaxy since." Rald admits. "Wonder what he did to gain the ire of the Empire."

[Nanshork]

"Hmmm..."

Silten goes to the nearest terminal and attempts to track down just where these coordinates are pointing to.

[Melblen_Cairn]

Searching through the astrogation data, you find it is not in the Resurgence's last dataload or the Banshee's more recent update when it visited a bigger starport. You do locate an old holonews feed for 250 years ago from Salliche.  A woman sits behind a news desk ending a report on a grain blight on the Southern Hemisphere before switching storys;

"...work to find a cure for the blight hampering it's main galactic export. Until then SFE Corp continues to buy out, at a rapid pace, the family farms going under as their crops dry up. In other news the several hundred anti-government protester's have decided to abandon their homes.  Their leaders cite that they will set up a colony on the third planet of recently discovered Whendyll system in the Vadryll Sector to live in a more natural state by what the claim will be their own simpler rules..."

The coordinates you have are within the same sector of space. Usually once a system is uncovered, you would likely find it in a ship's nav data but there is no reference to a Whendyll system either.   

[Nanshork]

"That'ss ssusspiciouss..." Silten mutters to himself.  He then calculates the distance between the coordinates that Switch provided and these mysterious coordinates for a system that has literally disappeared off of the map.

[Melblen_Cairn]

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The battle coordinates provided by Switch end up in a different sector in another region of the galaxy.

"Did you find something?" Rald asks from across the room.

[Nanshork]

"The coordinatess from the code cylinder are for a ssysstem that iss not on any map.  However it iss unrelated to the coordinatess provided by Sswitch.  It sseemss that ssomeone with a lot of influencce, perhapss the Empire, iss hiding ssomething but it doessn't sseem related to our mission."

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Agreed someone has gone to lengths to keep this place and whatever is on it a secret. May still be worth the trip to check it out." Rald says.

"And I will join you." a voice from behind adds. In the open doorway stands the bothan. Looking weak but defying the need to rest. "I want to know why this was implanted in me."

"That, I won't allow. You need to rest. Your memory may return in time but only if you take care of yourself." Rald moves to intercept Orsk and guide him back to bed.

2-1B enters the office and says to Silten, "I have completed the remaining tasks and I am ready to leave when you are Master."

[Nanshork]

"If I learn anything about you I will transsmit the information," Silten says.

"Any lasst parting advice?" he asks Rald.

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Yes, don't get dead." Rald's tentacles wriggle in what you know to be a smile.

[Nanshork]

Hissing in amusement, Silten goes to say the rest of his goodbyes before heading to his ship.

[Melblen_Cairn]

Upon wrapping up your lose ends, eventually you head for the docking ring where the Banshee waits. You come upon Orsk, leaning casually on the door to the airlock. As if answering your questioning stare,

"I gave the good doctor the slip, he thinks I am sleeping. By the time he realizes I am gone, we will be away from here. Look, I don't remember anything, I need to find out what all this means and hopefully make sense of it all. Or at least take control of something."

[Nanshork]

Silten nods.  "I am sstill not ussed to all of thiss...your company iss welcome."  He is slightly relieved, he's been trying to put on a brave face but at heart he's a mechanic, all of this fighting just isn't his forte.  If he could build a machine to fight for him on the other hand.....

Silten distractedly slithers up into the Banshee, lost in thought.

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Thank you" Orsk gratefully replies and follows Silten onto the Banshee.

"So where we headed?" Captain Okeefe asks as the pair come out of the airlock to be greeted by the Captain, Crash, 2-1B, and Corran awaiting your arrival.

[Nanshork]

Silten explains their two possible destinations and his indecision about which one they should go to first.

[Melblen_Cairn]

"Well, I am not sure I like being told what to do by our friend, Switch. I say we take Orsk here to check out whats at the coordinates first. Sounds like someone went to some lengths to hide something, and as I see it uncovering it can't bode well for the Empire." Corran reasons.

"Then to the uncharted system?" the Captain sees both Orsk and Corran nodding in agreement but also waits for Silten to weigh in.

[Nanshork]

Silten nods in agreement.  "To the uncharted ssysstem."