Redemption

Ship salvaged by Jacob and Aria on Pherinox.

### History

Originally named *Zixtolo Rokalend Bazzritacksure* ("Happy ambassador of the cloudless sky and peace"). Intended to be the prime minister's ship for diplomatic missions. When attempting to escape Pherinox after his scheduled extraction failed to show up, Jacob found Aria in the library in Heloshia. She was able to direct him to the spaceport, where, due to the 150 years since the planet was abandoned, all ships would be fair salvage.

Jacob loaded Aria's computation units and a small fraction of her archives into the second cargo bay of the ship, where she proceeded to integrate its systems, functioning as its primary pilot and replacing a majority of its intended crew.

The *Redemption* landed on the nearby planet of Brierwood for food and supplies, where Jacob and Aria masqueraded as a newlywed couple. As the ship was equipped for diplomatic purposes, it has a full wardrobe, jewelry, and heavy furniture, some of which Jacob sold for cash and food.

On Raven Interdock, the *Redemption* picked up its second human crew member, Fin Donovan. In order to prevent him from discovering Aria, Jacob told Fin that he wasn't allowed in cargo bay 2, claiming that there was a sleeper on board, a person in suspended animation wired into the ship's control systems whose life support was so precarious that even another human's body heat might be enough to unbalance it.

En route to Listra, the *Redemption* faced off against the privateer vessel *Contempt* as it pursued the *Will-o'-the-Wisp*, a small vessel piloted by Tamra. The Redemption fared well, unleashing its primary cannons and breaching its hull before it escaped. After its rescue, Fin was able to weld the *Will-o'-the-Wisp* to the *Redemption*'s hull temporarily. Later, he and Tamra built a docking harness so it could be detached and operate on its own.

Arriving in the Tzercies asteroid belt, Jacob registers the ship with the Union beacon network, officially naming and claiming it. It receives the Union VID 149-5356-743/5. Shortly thereafter, it is ambushed by a Parasation stealth ship. The *Redemption*'s primary cannons reduced the Parasation's shields to half,, at which point the Parasation ship detonated a massive shock wave that breached the *Redeption*'s aft hull, disabled an engine, and damaged life support. Focused fire from Redemption buckled the Parasation ship's forward shield. At that point, the Union carrier *Tiberius* arrived and demanded it stand down, and the Parasation ship escaped at tremendous speed.

The *Redemption* briefly docked with the Tiberius, making repairs over the course of 3 days. Fin discovered a cache of Union parts on board, the remains of multiple fully functional ships that had been scrapped to salvage their rallium. At this time, Dr. Janet Mason joined the crew to escort Jacob to homeworld.

In orbit around Cordon, the *Redemption* launched a fast docking clamp to allow Jacob and Janet to board. At the same time, Union marines boarded the ship, attempting to seize tha passage and kill the crew. Fin was able to use a Pherinoxian pistol from the armory to kill one boarder, while Tamra hit another with the HEX. While Jacob and Janet are being held on the *St. Clair*, Aria was not able to reach Jacob by com as the Union was jamming the com signal, but Fin and Tamra spliced the EM filters from the long range com system into the short range system, allowing Aria to cut through the jamming signal. However, since they were forced to work with live wires, they both burned their fingers badly in the process, Fin's injuries being the worse by far. Meanwhile, Aria used the primary cannons to significant effect against it, forcing the other ship to evade. As it went down, Jacob and Janet leapt through the bulkheads of the *St. Clair* into the cargo bay of the *Redemption*.

While Jacob was recovering, Aria landed the *Redemption* on Cordon, hiding it in a cave its deep, iron-rich mountains where it could not be detected from orbit. In the process, she accidentally severed the one of the communications arrays.

The *Redemption* then traveled to Hipilandria, landing at Spacedock Stevenson in the capital city of Lenmore. Special Agent Helen York and Commander Vera R'Bannon were in pursuit, but assumed that the *Redemption* would not be able to travel that far, naively calculating its range based on the norm for a ship its size built with Union technology, failing to understand its limitations and the capabilities of the Pherinoxian ship's engineering.

On the Hipilandrian homeworld, the *Redemption*'s crew left the ship to reside in the Galactive 5 living hall. Fin continued to make repairs and improvements to the ship in the meantime. However, an infiltrator from the Parasation stealth ship had landed on the planet, and it attacked Jacob at the spaceport. Jacob found later that the Parasation had attempted to cut into the *Redemption*'s bulkhead to retrieve the package.

When the orbital bombardment began, Helen and Vera found the docking location of the *Redemption* and attempted to go to the ship, finding Fin there. Aria used the ship's secondary weapon systems to pin Vera and Helen down, giving Finn time to release the ship from the docking clamp, allowing Aria to escape with the ship to rescue Jacob.

In orbit, Jacob and Aria found the Hipilandrian HASTE vessel *Eon* being pursued by a Parasation ship, and intervened to allow it to escape. Unfortunately, the Megalith appeared, trapping the *Redemption* in its gravitational defense field, slamming Jacob around with such tremendous G-forces as to cause him to nearly black out several times. When the Kester mass driver hit the Megalith, Aria was able to break the *Redemption* free of the field, but the ship was floating dead, with Jacob unconscious. She was forced to shut herself down. Unfortunately, the *Redemption* was on a collision course with the remains of the *Terryon.* Returning the favor for allowing them to escape the Parasation pursuer, the commander of the Eon used its HASTE drive to pass the Redemption, sweeping it up in its field and pulling it away from the impending collision and saving Jacob, at the cost of whisking the ship off to a place where the rest of the *Redemption*'s crew couldn't find him and Aria.

### Technical details

The *Redemption* is an exceptional ship by Union standards, packing more into a smaller space than is possible with Union technology. It has excellent armor plating and shields, at least two engines, and small but powerful weapons, but does not appear to be a military vehicle. Its weapons are capable of taking on a fully armed Union warship.

The *Redemption* has primary, secondary, and tactical weapons systems. The primary system consists of three main cannons that use charged particle beams, able to do significant damage both to the *St. Clair* and the Parasation scout ship. Secondary weapons include systems capable of shooting down hard-head torpedoes from *Contempt*. Initially, its main cannons are underutilized, limited by power production bottlenecks. Fin recommends installing a 845 power unit in the unused crew quarters, which would also reduce load on the engines and improve speed, but as they don't have access to Union equipment, the plans have to be defered. After finding the scrapped parts on the Tiberius, Fin is able to make the modifications.

It has maintenance bots, including ones specifically for the cargo hold. Tamra comments that the bots are very stupid when Aria isn't controlling them.

Launching it from Pherinox required a tow from the hangar to launch pad. From there, it was able to use vertical lift engines to launch.

Like most vessels, it has rallium-based artificial gravity.

- Originally had nice rugs, expensive heavy furniture, and expensive clothing and jewelry, but Jacob sold much of it on Brierwood.

- Named at Union marker beacon, claimed as salvage. Jacob says the name was something a friend would have wanted.

- Sensors can be blinded by hard-head torpedoes

- Can tow a ship the size of the Wisp at quarter burn

- After the battle with the Parasation scout ship, lands at a sealed dock on *Tiberius* for repairs. Fin reports that the repairs will take 3 to 5 days, 2 weeks for full repair.

- Has a messaging system that Jacob forgets to use.

- Its short range radio can be jammed, but Fin wires in EM filters from the long range array to circumvent it

During the *St. Clair* event, its hull was breached and it was boarded by Union marines. All electronics in the primary cargo bay were disabled by a magnetic pulse grenade.

### Rooms

* Primary cargo hold: large enough for sufficient food for travel, the HEX, and the VOX.
* Secondary cargo hold: contains Aria's computational units.
* Passenger cabin: has 3 rows of seats and a large wooden conference table.
* Cockpit/bridge: designed for a large crew (pilot, copilot, comm officer, tectical officer, astrogation engineer.)
* Prime minister's quarters: Filled with luxurious furniture. Has a wardrobe, initially full of expensive clothing for prime minister and his wife, larger than one of the crew bunks.
* Crew bunks: On the lower deck. Each bunk rooms two.
* Passenger suites. Fin installs additional power units here.
* Galley: Has refrigerated food storage and preparation tools.
* Armory: Contains powerful energy pistols of Pherinoxian design that emit ghostly white light capable of annihilating a fully armored shock trooper's torso.
* Infirmary: Janet treats Tamra's compound fracture here, and Jacob recovers from his coma here.
* Sensor room: Where Fin and Tamra splice the long range EM filters into the short range system to communicate with Jacob. No cameras.