The Widening Gyre Campaign

was a expedition by the Knights Mercantile into the Bishant Exclusion Zone in an attempt to reach (and recover treasures from) the Great Basilica of Bishant.
== Background ==
Twenty years have passed since the start of the Leandran War. Bishant may be a blasted and shattered ruin, but that does not prevent ships, mostly Imperial, from patrolling the Bishant Exclusion Zone with lethal vigilance. Few are the smugglers foolhardy enough to run this blockade, but those that do find themselves richly rewarded in the staccato black market between the Leandran Dominions and the rest of the cosmos. One such smuggling expedition has returned to its benefactors with astounding tales of a secret route into the ravaged remains of Bishant itself, and more tantalizingly, with a few null-warped images of what seems unmistakably to be the Basilica of Bishant, intact. The treasures within such a place would fetch a price beyond reckoning, at least from someone.
Valuable intelligence about this route and the Basilica has passed into the hands of the Lidenian Society, which since the loss of almost all of Lidenia to the Unnamed claims paradoxically to be the last continual chapter of the Knights Mercantile. You are a special expedition organized by the chapter to reach the Basilica and recover all you can, for wealth and power – glory would imply publicity, which would mean your certain death.
== Characters ==
=== Player Characters ===
Character 	Player 	Description
Corporal Durham's Kidney	Craig 	Chief surgeon and religious expert. Sentient biomantic artificial kidney, overpowering and controlling the body of Corporal Durham
Quill'Ka 	Dustin 	Chief engineer, in command of a troop of cyborg capuchins
Gundahar 	Karl 	Chief therapist, botanist
Sylvia Bath 	Kristen	Chief occultist and etherics expert
Zylch 	Sean 	Chief pilot, sniper
Char'Li 	Dustin 	Expedition marine
Karastes 	Sean 	Captured Knight of Adarnum
=== Important Non-Player Characters ===
==== Expedition Crew ====
Character 	Description
Captain Marley	Expedition captain
Fardana 	Expedition first mate
Smee 	Expedition quartermaster
Johansson 	Expedition engineer
Sgt. Alvaro 	Expedition security chief
Doc 	Expedition sherpa
Doris 	Expedition sherpa
Frank 	Expedition sherpa
Ray 	Expedition sherpa
Sam 	Expedition sherpa
Sheila 	Expedition sherpa
Dirk 	Expedition marine
Garp 	Expedition marine
Patch 	Expedition marine
Plumtree 	Expedition marine
Stansfield 	Expedition marine
Trip 	Expedition marine
Dionea 	Assistant to Gundahar
Moroides 	Assistant to Gundahar
Nepenthe 	Assistant to Gundahar
Bartholomew 	Assistant to Sylvia Bath
Bradley 	Assistant to Sylvia Bath
Brent 	Assistant to Sylvia Bath
Felix 	Assistant to Sylvia Bath
Ferdinand 	Assistant to Sylvia Bath
Fritz 	Assistant to Sylvia Bath
George 	Cyborg capuchin
Tim 	Cyborg capuchin
==== Others ====
Character 	Description
Malo 	Leandran exile captured by the expedition party
Galo 	Leandran exile captured by the expedition party
Idrazihn ("Mr. Red")	Failed Seraphim of sorts, angel of Leandra
Zubrath ("Big Boy") 	Failed Seraphim of sorts, angel of Leandra
Gahratel 	Failed Seraphim of sorts, angel of Leandra
== Summary ==
=== Session 0 ===
=== Session 1 ===
=== Session 2 ===
=== Session 3 ===
=== Session 4 ===
=== Session 5 ===
=== Session 6 ===
=== Session 7 (Finale) ===
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