Orange is the New Goo

A space-faring Mothership adventure starring: Dr. C.R.U.D, Cordelia, and Willy.
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Not your parents' FBK. It's rawer, scarier, full of content warnings. With Dr Crud, Willy, and Cordelia on a long-haul cargo run, it's FBK in space...space...space...space... (uses the Mothership RPG)
Setting: 
* The C.D.E. Ikarus - a small spaceship doing odd jobs.
* The C.D.E. Bulkhead - A Megalodon class corporate freight hauler that is licensed by CDE. 
Non Player Characters: 
* Captain Maxime Price
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Plot Summary:
The scene opens with Dr C.R.U.D. and Cordelia in the mess hall of the C.D.E. Ikarus while Dr Willy continued his experiments in the med bay and defaced corporate property. The group received a message from the captan that they had accepted a new job, and the Ikarus would be mid-flight docking with a large cargo vessel called the C.D.E. Bulkhead in order to pick up a cargo container from their ship to stow it aboard the Ikarus to bring to Cloud 9.
Cordelia, #1 Worker, read the dossier on the items to be collected, and jumped to action to get this new (small) job done. Meanwhile, Dr C.R.U.D. and Willy discussed the best ways to pilfer from this new container, and potentially the Bulkhead itself while the two ships are joined.
The ships docked, and our group crossed the walkway between, but found that there wasn't a cargo coordinator on the other side - and no piece of cargo to collect. They called out, and pinged comms - but no answer came. With some clever hacking by Dr C.R.U.D. the container the Ikarus was supposed to pick up was located in a hallway just outside the cargo bay it was being stored in. It looks like it had begun being moved to the airlock here, but stopped along the way.
Cordelia figured that somebody probably just got lazy or distracted, so she jogged off to pick up the container herself so the Ikarus and her crew could be on their way. Willy and Dr C.R.U.D. followed along - picking up a few items from a nearby work site along the way.
At the container, it became clear that the reason the package had stopped moving was NOT laziness. Slumped against the container with a massive head wound was a dead synthetic person. Milky fluid bled from this android, and Willy found a strange orange goo that seemed to be both carbon and silica based - and potentially alive.
Cordelia put the dead android on top of the cargo container, and began to move back toward the Ikarus as Dr C.R.U.D. examined this fallen synth - but it seemed the damage was too great, and Dr C.R.U.D. was unable to revive them or download any information about what may have happened.
Aboard the Ikarus, Cordelia moved the new container to the hold for transport, as Willy and Dr C.R.U.D. went to talk to the captain about what had just happened. But upon entering the cockpit, they found the captain oozin with the orange goo, with ship's cabling writing and connecting itself to her as if alive. Dr C.R.U.D. fired off a couple shots as the two retreated, but damaged the ship in the process, and began the contamination protocols - incinerating everything aboard the Ikarus.
From the walkway between the Ikarus and the Bulkhead, our trio watched depiction of the wax-winged man on the side of the ship go up in flames. But the burn caused the ship to list - and began tearing away from the C.D.E. Bulkhead. Cordelia and Willy made it through the larger ship's airlock, but it looked like Dr C.R.U.D. was to be lost to space. Jumping to action, Willy smashed open an access panel, and ripped out enough cable to throw to Dr C.R.U.D. to haul him aboard the Bulkhead to relative safety... but the orange goo made contact with his skin. 
Willy bravely offered the study of himself to learn more about this orange goo, and with a clean sample of his brain, and the offering of his personal AI containing his life's work, he resigned himself to whatever might happen next. There were some attempts at hallway surgery... but they were ill advised.
Dr C.R.U.D. accessed the Bulkhead's systems to locate some way off the ship safely. In an isolated cargo hold, he located a small ship which might be able to suit their needs - if they could just get there. Fighting past a number of infected crewmates, Cordelia and Dr C.R.U.D. reached the cargo bay, and prepared their escape. As they passed the C.D.E. Bulkhead from the outside, they could see the workings of Willy from inside the new collective consciousness brought by the orange goo - defacing corporate property one last time.
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