LiH: Session Seven - "Mining Outpost 11"

The Ashen Angel docks at Mining Outpost 11 and the crew disembarks, heading up turbolifts to the main level of the outpost. Jebbo's subspace communicator rings and he is forced to stay behind and take the call. Upon exiting the lifts, they are immediately met with the din of the miners, workers and other inhabitants of Mining Outpost 11. A security guard steps forward and asks if they need help. Belinda Vog speaks up and explains that she has business with Kathos Loof, the Head Foreman of this mining outpost. The security guard leads them down the hall and into the Mining Command Center.

Kathos Loof in the Mining Outpost 11 Command Center

Kathos Loof stands in the center of a circular command console interacting and speaking with several mining teams via multiple screens. When introduced to Belinda Vog, he only gives her his partial attention. She asks to speak with him alone in order to conduct some business, He simply tells her She'll have to wait, telling her "I have real work to do" and orders the guards to escort her out of the command center.

Vog, visibly frustrated, orders Fri to "Have your people blend in with the workers here and gather whatever information you can," while she, Fri and Rima Borealis wait to speak to Kathos Loof. The Security guard returns with datapads for the crew to fill out work forms on, as is standard procedure for people who have come to the mining outpost for general work. They collectively head to the attached cantina and mess hall to have a drink, fill out the forms and to gather information from the workers.

The crew goes to the bar and begin mingling with the outpost's miners and workers who were taking their evening meal and break here at the bar. Katerr asks for the strongest drink they have and is serves something which doubles as an engine degreaser while Missindi and Rallyn approach a table of miners and ask them if they've found anything interesting in The Graveyard. The table of miners are heavily intoxicated and begin telling a tale of a giant space slug who inhabits the graveyard, but it is quickly revealed they are merely joking with Missindi and don't have any special stories to share, in their experience, there is nothing but rocks out there.

The Cantina at Mining Outpost 11

Missindi returns to the bar to get a drink with the rest of the crew complaining at the situation and is met by a large Gamorrean named Gorg. Gorg does his best to hit on Missindi, but Rallyn intervenes by helping Missindi fake being sick. Gorg chivalrously takes Missindi to the medical bay where he continues attempting to flirt with Missindi to no effect. Eventually, due to Rallyn's rebukes, he gives up and returns to the cantina and speaks to Traxim, lamenting about how he hasn't found love. Traxim encourages Gorg to travel and see other places in order to widen his chances of finding love, but it isn't clear if Gorg will follow his advice.

Fri decides to approach a table and try her hand at finding out what the miners know. Name dropping Zaz Kamiroz allows her to find out that both Kamiroz and Hanos Darr were very well regarded workers, Kamiroz being well on his way to becoming a foreman himself when they seemed to just up and leave a week or so ago just after working with a third-party survey team.

A little later, there is a shift change on the station where all the patrons who had been at the cantina when the Crew arrived leave to their barrack or to start their shift and another shift enters. With them is the Station's Foreman, Kathos Loof. Traxim and Katerr ask him about Karmiroz and Darr, as well as a recent survey team that uncovered ruins what may be intact from Alderaan. Kathos Loof looks around the cantina suspiciously and replies, "We had a special survey team come through a few weeks ago and an unusually large part of his crew, including Kamiroz and Darr left the station after the survey team logged their report of via our comm unit and left. I don't know what the team discovered out in the asteroid field, but I know it involves the Empire. I don't have anything against the Empire, but if you're planning on crossing them, do so without involving me or this station. I won't get in your way, but I am turning in and getting some shut-eye for this shift, I expect you to be off my station by the time I return to work in 6 hours." With that, he heads to his private quarters.

The Mining Outpost 11 Machine Shop

The crew quickly hatches a plan to slice into the station's comm system to retrieve the survey report. Traxim distracts a few of the engineers in the machine shop in order for Missindi to deploy her tracker droid. Digging into the survey files, she finds the following report, along with coordinates to Asteroid 7785.

BREAKVCD7927

Code AlderTracker3

ImpScoutSecSurv

Alderaan Sector

Mission 46/N

MB1411-V

MB1711-V reporting. Our exploration of the Alderaan asteroid field has been extremely successful. We have found the ruins of the Royal Palace buried within a large asteroid, designated 7785 by Outpost 11's tracking station. In addition to finding the mostly-intact structure, we discovered something even more amazing. A man who identified himself as Bail Organa, Viceroy of Alderaan, was found living within the ruins. He refused to return with us to the outpost and was left behind until an exploration team can be sent in.

ENDREPbreakbreak

Successful in downloading all the information they could, they returned to the cantina and shared what they found with Fri, Belinda and Rima. Belinda asks for the data to be transferred to her datapad so she can transmit it to her crew who will meet them at Asteroid 7785. She walks to the Comm station at the other end of the cantina to speak to her crew. While she does this, The Crew and the Ashen Angel discuss that whole situation seems very much like a trap, because something about it doesn't add up.


As they discuss their next move, two Gamorreans, a Human and a Twi'lek approach and accuse the crew of saying disturbing and speciesist things. They say a human woman just told them all about it, and as the crew looks for Belinda where she had been moments before, they find she is gone. Realizing they have been double-crossed, they move to leave, but a barfight breaks out as the Gamorreans attack. After a round of fisticuffs, Catharian claws and an acid splash from Rallyn, the fight is broken up by the security team. Kathos Loof comes out of his private quarters and orders the Crew of the Ashen Angel to be thrown off the station.

They Crew rushes towards the turbolifts and back to the Ashen Angel, telling Jebbo Belinda had double-crossed them and to get the ship ready to depart. Jebbo explains that he just watched a small shuttle arrive and receive Belinda before taking off again into the Asteroid field. The crew arrives and takes their positions as they detach from Mining Outpost 11 and give chase to Belinda towards Asteroid 7785.

Mining Outpost 11