Pirates of Drinax

(TODO when people are settled in: overview of the game)
== Characters ==
=== Player Characters ===
* Felix Destro
* Khaofiy of the Starla'e
* Regina Rightworth
* Soull Thodzou
* Virtus Aleman
=== The Court at Drinax ===
File:Oleb.jpg|King Oleb XVI
File:Harrick.jpg|Prince Harrick
File:Rao.jpg|Princess Rao
File:Kasiyl.jpg|Kasiyl of the Ahroay'if
* King Oleb XVI
* Prince Harrick
* Princess Rao
* Lord Wrax
* Scholar Voha
* Kasiyl of the Ahroay'if
* Imperial Consul Thao Poloc
* Lady Hil
* Rachando
* Sal Dancet
* Cleon Hardy
* Chieftain Galx
* Harrison Wrax-Rightworth
=== Blue (Bulhai) ===
* Cadmur
=== Clarke ===
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* Keeper Malos
=== Torpol ===
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* Provost Falx
=== Theev ===
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* Admiral Darokyn
* The Widows
* Petyr Vallis
* Hroal Irontooth
=== Travellers ===
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* Margaret Blaine
* Krrsh
* Daniel Vlaw
* Ferrick Redthane
* Miria Silverhand
Grehai Movement
* Prince Richter Grehai
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== Starships ==
=== Drinaxian Harrier ===
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=== Horizon's Glory ===
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=== Grehai Fleet ===
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== Systems ==
=== Blue ===
==== Bulhai Freeport ====
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=== Borite ===
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=== Clarke ===
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=== Drinax ===
==== Floating Palace ====
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=== Exocet ===
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=== Kteiroa ===
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=== Marduk ===
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=== Noricum ===
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=== Oghma ===
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=== Paal ===
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=== Palindrome ===
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=== Theev ===
==== Port Blacksand ====
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=== Torpol ===
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== Sessions ==
=== 2022-01-15 (1105-015 to 1105-073) - "First Prize" ===
Soull Thoszou’s Log - Pirates of Drinax 
Sodh Udheg Calender 0030 041
Messages have been sent out by King Oleb to requesting their presence on the Floating Palace of Drinax.
The Invisible Hand, captained by Rachando and his droid Gabby docks at the Floating Palace. Soull Thodzou, Virtus Aleman and retired merchant captain Margaret disembark to be met by Regina Rightworth.
Rightworth escorts them via the gardens to collect Prince Harrick who declines the invitation stating “I will not be apart of any schemes”. 
Rightworth, Thodzou, Aleman and Margaret enter the throne room meeting King Oleb, Princess Rao and also Felix Destro. The doors are locked and the group engage in a “confidential” meeting. 
King Oleb essentially has formulated a plan along with Princess Rao. Using a battered Drinaxian Harrier that was recovered by Rightworth and Alpha team of the Hawk Guard it was then restored by Destro and a team of engineers, Oleb proposes the group act like pirates raiding systems within the Trojan Reach. Returning 10% of anything they take to Drinax and King Oleb until they become stable and powerful enough to then assist the worlds and restore their standing by protecting them against further pirate attacks. 
After some discussion the team agree and have a tour of their new ship loaned to them by King Oleb. 
It is then that it is learned the group are in the company of Margaret Blaine a renowned and infamous pirate captain of the Reach. Brought out of retirement to teach the crew a few pointers for their first mission, an easy “snatch and grab”. 
Blaine tells the team of their “mark”, one of her old ships which she has been tracking for a few years, Cicendai. On board in a secret compartment are sentimental materials she wants recovered for her retirement. The ship has developed a pattern where it seems to skim fuel from gas giants and rarely dock - which implies smuggling. It is believed to be travelling via Marduk within the month.
The crew gather their items and make themselves familiar with their new home. A bottle of wine is taken from the royal chamber and a toast is made to the new crew, their captain and new occupation as pirates;
“Kagzga gaksog rrasngouthin dzungogu, ghuegzakskha
rrugon ozu.” 
The pond gathers muck, whilst the rivers flow clear. 
The team take their roles as follows and decide upon a name for their ship: The Bloodwing when pirating, or Artemis when flying the banner as Drinax. It is later decided to not mention any names.
Regina Rightworth: Captain/Astrogator
Soull Thodzou: Pilot/Mechanic
Felix Destro: Engines/Gunner (also Pilot/Mechanic/Engineer)
Virtus Aleman: Sensors/Communications
The team set a course which takes them via Torpol. Wasting no time and seeing an opportunity to show off, Thodzou quickly brings the ship in close to the gas giant to skim fuel. He succeeds and saves time but is rebuked by Captain Regina Rightworth that “maverick antics” could risk the entire crew. 
Aleman detects something on the sensors which appears to be a medium sized ship entering jump, but little else is able to be discerned. 
After refining the fuel, a course is plotted for Marduk. Destro fires up the jump drive and the crew enter the pocket universe. Aleman uses his skill in hand to hand to spend another week coaching Rightworth and Destro in the art of sword fighting. Margaret hints at some tactics that may help and Thodzou spends his time in pilot simulations. 
Exiting the pocket universe and entering the Marduk system, Margaret shares her tactic of plotting a course close to the gas giant as possible. There the crew should be able to skim fuel and use the clouds as cover to lay in wait and ambush their mark. Aleman sets up sensors to scan and alert of any disturbances.  
After a few days having had plenty of time to skim and refine Aleman detects some small bursts of ECM energy. He suggests these are consistent with an M-Drive “boosting” giving off small flares of energy rather than a constant burst. It is a method commonly used by smugglers attempting to avoid detection. The crew believe this to be the Cicendai
Aleman hits but button and the cockpit lights up red, the crew man their battle stations. Rightworth takes the Center seat as captain and issues her orders. 
“Soull, bring us in closer but keep out of range of their turrets.
Virtus we need to jam their comms, to stop them signalling for help.
Felix, target their comms - just to ensure that no message is sent out!”
Thodzou brings them in and as they approach long range calls out the distances. Destro keeps an eye on this and as soon as they enter within range he fires at the comm station. At the same time Aleman jams their signals preventing any messages being sent out. The Cicendai uses their thrust to try and maintain distance.
An excellent start to combat but the next few rounds lack purchase. After some discussion, concerned about whether their comms are still jammed but against Destros judgement, the crew close the distance. It aids their chance of jamming and also targeting to destroy their comms but makes them within range of the Cicendai’s turrets. The crew receive a critical hit to their jump drive as a result but also succeed in jamming and destroying their comms. The crew drop back to long range and shortly receive a communication from the Cicendai.
Aleman opens up the video link but blocks the crews video from being received. It’s a patchy link but it holds, the captain of the Cicendai offers to drop their cargo and be allowed to escape. Captain Rightworth declines, knowing that Margaret needs access to a secret compartment within the hold. Rightworh requests that the Cicendai can secure their crew in holding and just the captain meet as Rightworth and her crew board. 
The distance is closed and the umbilical is created allowing for boarding. Rightworth accompanied by Thodzou, Aleman and Margaret Blaine enter the umbilical whilst Destro stays aboard the Artemis/Bloodwing. 
The captain of the Cicendai shows, and gives off the air of experience and has the face to fight. He took advantage of Rightworths terminology and chose NOT to secure his crew away; at least not all of them and attends with two armed men in Vacc suits. 
Thodzou gets itchy and as soon as Rightworth gives nod, he and Aleman raise their weapons. The Cicendai almost turn and close negotiations but after some negotiating from Rightworth they board and enter the Cicendai’s cargo hold. 
Aboard their ship are 12 tons of marked pharmaceuticals and 1 ton of narcotics amongst a few other goods. Following Margaret’s advice Rightworth checks the shops manifest and discovers that neither the narcotics nor marked pharmaceuticals are on it, therefore they would be unlikely to report them being taken. Rightworth tells them these will be taken, as she does so Margaret sneaks off to a pipe at the back of the hold, finding her stash and taking its contents before returning to the group. 
Using the knowledge of a secret compartment aboard the Cicendai Rightworth trades this information for where the marked pharmaceuticals were due to be sold. Once the goods have been unloaded the crew return to their respective ships but before they do the captain of the Cicendai says:
“What is that ship, I’ve never seen one like that before?”
Rightworth replies
“And you never will” before closing the door to the airlock.
Shortly after a message is received in text form from the caption of the Cicendai. “Fuck off.” Followed by “Undock”.
During the negotiations Destro assesses the damage and the jump drive has taken a critical hit making any use of it much harder, and much more dangerous. The crew discuss options of selling the cargo with Margaret who shares a contact in Exocet, a few jumps away, which becomes the next plan of action. 
A jury rig fix is done and a heated discussion takes places between Thodzou and Destro about the use of it. Destro wishes to wait until tomorrow as he believes they will have a better chance of a successful jump. Thodzou disagrees but eventually backs off and let’s the captain decide who chooses to wait. 
The crew wait 24 hours, utilising that time to plot a solid astrogation course to Torpol and give the jump drive the best possible chances. It’s still a little dicey, but it’s successful and the crew enter another pocket universe. Aleman begins his coaching again and Thodzou continues pilot simulations. From Torpol they wait a further 24hours skimming fuel and letting it refine before making another risky jump to Blue and then onto Exocet after the skimming, refining and waiting. 
On entering Exocet, Thodzou uses the burst technique to avoid detection and follows Margaret’s guidance to her contact. He attempts to bring it in but aborts having misjudged it and loops round for a second attempt and Margaret warns actions like that could draw unwanted attention. 
Exocet has plenty of water on the surface of the planet but the environment requires the use of breather masks and recommended an enviro suit or vacc suit due to the harsh conditions and grit in the air. Everyone dons a vacc suit except Thodzou who wears his own enviro suit and goggles, making use of his lung implant to filter the air. Destro puts the hoses in some marshy water and brings the refuelling process. The planet is covered in a fungi like growth which masks much of the hideout Margaret directed them to.
The crew meet Aiir Linuuri - Margaret’s contact, who doesn’t seem all that pleased to see her familiar face. The vacc suits have in built comms to speak to one another but Thodzou doesn’t hear anything. The crew are welcomed inside where they can relax their masks and discuss negotiations.
It doesn’t take long for Linuuri to cotton on how green this crew is and if it wasn’t for Margaret’s presence they could have been done out of 400,000CR. Captain Rightworth attempts to show her flat for brokering and negotiating deals inviting Linuuri aboard their ship. 
Aleman begins loudly saying his reservations and almost blurts out a reference to Drinax. Stating his concern that they won’t get ratted out by Prince Harrick and others on Drinax. Rightworth quickly takes Linuuri to one side and escorts her upon the ship. Thodzou then begins arguing with Aleman about now not being the best time to bring up these concerns, and to focus on what we can achieve. Aleman raises a strong argument that the ship is littered with Drinaxian decorations and now Linuuri will see it, which potentially poses a risk. Thodzou agrees but what’s done is done and suggests “Let’s keep her sweet by bringing her business”. 
A deal is struck that between the areas of X and X Linuuri will get first refusal on all goods scavenged. It is also learned that she is especially good at dealing in marked pharmaceuticals. As such Linuuri pays 1.5MCr in Rhodium-Lanthanum bars, stamped to show their mixture. The RhLa 50 bars make up the bulk of it, stamped "10k IMP" and weighing 0.1kg. 
The crew have a team meeting where roles and responsibilities are discussed,mistakes are pointed out but not to put anyone down but rather learn from them and move on. 
* Don’t let anyone on the ship
* Let the captain do the talking
* If you want to say something, ask first and think it through. 
* Don’t close the distance if their turrets are still active! 
It’s decided the jump drive must be fixed ASAP, so the head to Exocet's star port. Not without bursting the drives and sheltering behind a moon for 12 hours to avoid detection and giving away Linuuris hideaway. At the star port maintenance is carried out as well as parts purchased to fix the critical damage on the jump drive. Change was given back to the crew in imperial credit notes, which use ternary cryptographic keys and materials of predictable (harmless) radioactive decay properties to be verified as legitimate extremely easily.
Discussions take place as to whether repair some of the other extensive damage which wasn’t fully repaired before the crew took it on. Due to Exocet's secluded star port it was an attractive idea and one Destro was fond of. However it was decided a better deal could be struck at Blue which has a better tech level or even Tech World. Blue was decided as the next destination as it was only one jump away. Rightworth plots the course and the crew shortly enter another pocket universe utilising the time as before for study and practice. 
On entering Blue’s sector a message is received giving coordinates of a freetrade post called “Bulhai Freeport” and the crew divert for this. On approach their ship is hailed and Aleman determines that the source of the message isn’t the trade post, but intact a ship outside it, quite a distance away. 
Aleman accepts the hail but hides their video. On the screen the crew see an Aslan who has seen far better days, behind can be seen some other aslan bodies. He aggressively and forcefully states his name as
“Anebra the Clanless, and they refuse me entry! Show me your faces cowards, you will vouch for me or be blown out of the sky”
Video link is made and Rightworth attempts to find more information on why he has been refused entry and tries to calm the irate Aslan. Contact is also made with the Tradepost who confirm he has been refused entry due to concerns he harbours an unknown infection. The crew discuss and decide to try help the Aslan, however it’s also suggested if this can’t be done perhaps they can get paid for ridding the Starport of the problem. 
Thodzou offers up his Medkit and it’s suggested a vacc suit would be needed, but concerns are raised that he does t exactly appear cooperative. Anebra even refused to allow anyone to board to assess him. Rightworth attempts to reason with the Aslan but it seems negotiations are over as he starts his thrusters and makes a direct course for the crew.
The distance is large but Thodzou readies evasive action and contact is made with Bulhai to suggest that the crew can handle this issue for a small reward. 
Aleman hits the mark and the bridge is flooded in red light once again. Combat Stations. Destro heads down to the turret, Aleman continues to maintain a comm link and Rightworth attempts to calm to Aslan. Thodzou shortens the gap but holds some thrust back unsure of the Asians ship capability. 
Attempts at calming the irate Aslan appear to be lost as he starts to talk in a strange dialect and issue orders to crew that he no longer has. Thodzou brings them low and into long range and switches to aid Destro on the turret to attack the Aslan’s turret on the underside. Aleman attempts to sync the sensors and lock on to maximise their advantage. A shot is fired and grazes the enemy turret, Anebra makes no change of course and continues to appear confused and hallucinating. A few more shorts fire as distance is maintained, but to no success and the video link shows that Anebra's condition is worsening. Rightworth continues to try and get through to him and at one stage it alsmot feels as though she is close. Thodzou attempts to close the distance but hoovers just outside forcing Anebra to have to close the final gap bringing the ships into medium range which give the crew enough thrust to make evasive manoeuvres.
Aleman gets a reading that Anebra appears to be firing up the jump drive. Concerned for the galaxy that a potentially harmful infection could make it’s way to other planets or ships the crew decide to immobilise Anebra by blasting his jump drive. Destro shoots and cause some significant damage, critically damaging the J-Drive. But it’s not enough to stop Anebra trying, who fires up the J-Drive which fails an causes a mass explosion. Anebra, his ship and whatever else was on there is blown to smithereens.  A moment of silence falls over the crew as they take a moment. 
A hail is received from Bulhai Freeport, the owner of the trade station wishes to meet the crew. An arguement takes place on whether to claim full credit for destroying Anebra as members of Drinax. Rightworth and Thodzou firmly believe identifying themselves as part of Drinax is a mistake whilst Aleman and Destro initially stand on the other side. It is finally conceded that the risk of the ship being identified as part of Drinax in space outside the sector, as they operate as pirates, is too greater risk and could damage the goal and reputation of Drinax. 
=== 2022-03-19 (1105-073 to 1105-145) - "Honour Among Thieves (Part 1)" ===
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=== 2022-05-07 (1105-145 to 1105-194) - "Honour Among Thieves (Part 2)" ===
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=== 2022-07-02 (1105-194 to 1105-239) - "Survival Value" ===
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=== 2022-10-08 (1105-239 to 1105-263) - "Shadows of Sindal" ===
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=== 2022-11-19 (1105-263 to 1105-315) - "Ihatei!" ===
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