The Deep Ether Campaign/Session 7

A wary detente has been reached with the Foundation, thanks to clever negotiation from Garrel, Allie, and Klaus. The Foundation is willing to help the party in its quest against the Naga in return for assistance restoring mobility to the station. While not yet willing to share their technological secrets, the Foundation may do so in future. Collaborating with the Foundation, Garrel has computed the location of Selene Veer's signal, placing it very close to the original broadcast point for Flazel's warning to the Foundation of the Naga invasion millennia ago (and close to the Covens of Corrobel, one of the Naga nest sites). This puts Veer's probable location deep within Naga Space, through Prince Nidev the Vain's space.
Klaus and Allie narrowly diplomanced their way out of a showdown with the Fialta. They learned that the Commandant is almost certainly being manipulated by an occult force, which he believes to be an angel of Valdos. The crux of the confrontation was Migna, Nidev's renegade chancellor. She had killed several Fialta, and the Commandant demanded she be remanded to Fialta "justice".
Unsurprisingly, Nidev's agents have been surveying the station. Whether provoked to action by the departure of the Dalcia's Spoils or by the party's visible efforts to salvage an etheric lance from the gunnery-ring of the station, it seems that Nidev's forces have concluded that their window of opportunity to seize the station is narrowing, pushing them to launch an assault. Nidev's forces consisted of five ships: three lighter, ramshackle vessels driven on by a Margravate warship and what looked like an Imperium cruiser. The three smaller ships, apparently driven on by the threat of etheric lances on the cruiser, rushed the station. While lance fire from the station pinnacle succeeded in destroying one of the smaller craft and severely damaging the port-side of the cruiser, the two remaining smaller craft slammed into the station. One succeeded in destroying the Pinnacle's etheric lance system, the other battered the middle decks where the Fialta had fortified themselves.
Meanwhile, using the skiffs as auxiliary engines (the main etheric engine having been removed and brought to the Foundation to power additional systems), Allie and Klaus "piloted" the Taigun against the Margravate-style vessel (almost certainly commanded by the infamous Captain Jonathan Pickman), with Andropov at the guns. Though they succeeded in knocking out the Margravate ship's torpedo systems, the crew of the Taigun were forced to abandon ship as the last torpedo salvo ravaged the gun deck. Andropov went down with the ship, staying behind to get as many sailors out as possible. Klaus seemed oddly elated by the whole affair, while the party took up defensive positions in the lower decks of the station to await the onslaught of Nidev's forces.
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