NJO 22

March 26, 2021

[7:47 PM] Caleb: So previously you all along with another mysterious party were pursuing this strange group that seems to be a combination of First Order and Confederacy individuals following your latest kead led you to The Unknown Regions.  You got waylaid by a ship and going to a space station met a captain of a species unfamiliar to you you seem to have arranged for them to help you in your pursuit and were waiting for word to leave while touring the station you last left off in the unusually designed conservatory.(edited)

[7:48 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...is it me or is that plant...moving?"

[7:50 PM] Zubi: Aren't they supposed to?

[7:51 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...not the ones I am familiar.  Not on their own."

[7:52 PM] Caleb: some of the plants do seem to be moving in interesting patterns especially some of the ones in the colder areas

[7:53 PM] Esren'Nilos: "You'd especially not expect it from the ice plants."

[7:53 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((Is there a guard on duty or a chaperone with us?))

[7:54 PM] Caleb: ((No chaperone with you but there are black suited individuals further into the conservatory))(edited)

[7:54 PM] Esren'Nilos: turns to one of them.  "What is the policy on flower picking here?"

[7:54 PM] Zubi: They don't smile very much, do they?

[7:54 PM] Coil: They seem pretty stoic.

[7:55 PM] Zubi: I hope it doesn't bother them if I smile.

[7:55 PM] Zubi: also looks at a guard. "Does it?"

[7:58 PM] Caleb: responding to Esren the individual responds much more haltingly than the captain did as if they are unused to Basic " smaples can be harvested of most of the specimens"

[7:59 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Sounds good."

[8:00 PM] Caleb: the guard turning to Zubi responds again very haltingly  "it does not"

[8:01 PM] Esren'Nilos: will reach in and take a flower.

[8:01 PM] Zubi: Oh, good! The flowers are very pretty.

[8:02 PM] Caleb: ((Esren was it a cold flower or more tempeate?))

[8:02 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((Let's say cold))

[8:03 PM] Caleb: The guard looks confused at your description of the flowers and heads back away from your group

[8:03 PM] Caleb: ((roll me a d100 Esren))

[8:03 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...not very pleasant are they?"

[8:04 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((48))

[8:04 PM] Coil: I don't think they're used to visitors.

[8:04 PM] Zubi: They seem all right. They just seem... confused.

[8:06 PM] Caleb: Esren you pick a flower it is bright orange as you hold it the stem wraps around your wrist which feels a bit chilly now but too bad

[8:06 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...huh, interesting."

[8:06 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Coil, do you like it?  I think orange would look good on you."

[8:07 PM] Zubi: tries reaching out to it with the Force! Why not.

[8:07 PM] Coil: looks at the guard.  "What kind of flower is this?"

[8:09 PM] Caleb: ((Zubi roll a wisdom check))

[8:11 PM] Zubi: ((23!))

[8:14 PM] Caleb: The guard looks and looks somewhat puzzled "It is a Csilla ... flame would be the closest in your language "

[8:14 PM] Coil: nods.

[8:14 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...seems an ironic name.  It feels just slightly chilly."

[8:14 PM] Coil: Your world must be cold.

[8:15 PM] Coil: Well.  Compared to what we're used to, I suppose.

[8:16 PM] Coil: I'm told that Mirial is pretty cool and dry, but I"ve only been there once or twice.

[8:17 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I've never been there.  Is it like...snowy cold or more just...barren?"

[8:18 PM] Zubi: Does it feel like home even a little?

[8:19 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Whose home?"

[8:20 PM] Zubi: Coil's, I mean. Mirial.

[8:20 PM] Caleb: Guard : Csilla is frozen most of those on it live underground

[8:20 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Wait, is Csilla the planet then?"

[8:21 PM] Caleb: Guard: Csilla is the main Chiss planet

[8:22 PM] Coil: I was raised on Nar Shadaa.  Mirial was never really home, but it's where Mirialians come from originally.

[8:23 PM] Esren'Nilos: "So, what's the plant called?"

[8:24 PM] Caleb: Guard: Csilla flame is the closest translation Its full name is

[8:24 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Ah, I see."

[8:25 PM] Caleb: the guard proceeds to talk in another language for about 15 seconds

[8:25 PM] Zubi: ... does Nar Shadaa feel like home?

[8:26 PM] Coil: Not really.

[8:26 PM] Esren'Nilos: will take the flower and wrap the stem fully around his wrist.

[8:28 PM] Zubi: Where does?

[8:28 PM] Zubi: waves to a kid at the other end of the garden.

[8:29 PM] Caleb: the guard departs the area  your group is in again

[8:29 PM] Coil: I'll let you know.

[8:29 PM] Coil: ... I think.  I don't know what it would feel like, I suppose.

[8:30 PM] Esren'Nilos: eyes the guard.

[8:30 PM] Caleb: the child looks curiously at Zubi does a kind of confused wave motion and goes back to working on a panel.

[8:30 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...that's suspicious.  ...we should follow that guard, I think."

[8:31 PM] Coil: Why?

[8:31 PM] Zubi: Why is it suspicious? Is he thinking about hurting someone or something?

[8:31 PM] Esren'Nilos: "He was talking to a superior I think.  Something is likely up."

[8:32 PM] Esren'Nilos: "No idea.  Didn't focus on his emotional state."

[8:32 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Ugh, probably too late now.  Fallen off of that."

[8:32 PM] Zubi: I mean... that's probably good? isn't it?

[8:33 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Depends.  If they attack us then I'll say no."

[8:34 PM] Coil: What exactly do you think he's telling him?  "Sir, they showed interest in flowers.  Shall I prepare the gallows?"

[8:35 PM] Esren'Nilos: "We are the first visitors they've had in seemingly multiple generations.  I cannot tell what they think of us."

[8:35 PM] Zubi: They think we're weird.

[8:35 PM] Coil: Of course they do.  It's objectively true.

[8:36 PM] Esren'Nilos: "That is true."

[8:36 PM] Zubi: laughs.

[8:37 PM] Esren'Nilos: smiles

[8:38 PM] Esren'Nilos: "I am...perhaps...a bit paranoid."

[8:39 PM] Caleb: around now the Captain enters and approaches your group(edited)

[8:39 PM] Coil: Captain.

[8:39 PM] Zubi: smiles and waves.

[8:40 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws : An interesting place to gather, We should be prepared to leave shortly

[8:40 PM] Esren'Nilos: bows a bit.

[8:40 PM] Coil: Just admiring the flowers.

[8:40 PM] Coil: We're apparently a bit of a curiosity here.

[8:41 PM] Zubi: Everyone seems really nice!

[8:41 PM] Caleb: Captain: nonviolent visitors are somewhat of an unusual occurrence

[8:42 PM] Esren'Nilos: "You still intend to join us in finding these...not sure what to call them.  Terrorists?"

[8:42 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws :Potential intruders in Ascendancy occupied space

[8:43 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Yes."

[8:44 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws :Is your ship capable of navigating through space previos ships we have seen of similar construction were not able to.(edited)

[8:44 PM] Zubi: I'm surprised there aren't more visitors! Botanists would love the garden.

[8:45 PM] Coil: We've done okay so well.

[8:45 PM] Esren'Nilos: "What do you mean previous ships?"

[8:46 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws : other detected incursions into Ascendancy space.

[8:47 PM] Zubi: Visitors.

[8:47 PM] Esren'Nilos: "But these were not able to travel properly?"

[8:50 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws: some of them

[8:52 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws :If that is all cleared up do you have any further questions or wish to see more of the station?

[8:53 PM] Zubi: Oh, I'd love to see more of the station! Where do people usually hang out for fun?

[8:53 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Or get food.  I am curious to try the cuisine."

[8:55 PM] Coil: Food might not be bad.

[8:55 PM] Coil: Is there a canteen?

[8:56 PM] Caleb: the captain indicates where the cafeteria is and where a lounge/library is on the map.

[8:57 PM] Esren'Nilos: shows the captain his flower.  "So, anything I should know about these?"

[8:57 PM] Zubi: They're very pretty. Maybe we could buy one? A live one, I mean.

[8:59 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws :interesting usually they only gravitate towards younger individuals.  If you wish some live specimens will be by your ship.

[8:59 PM] Zubi: Thank you so much! Do you do hugs?

[9:01 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws : You are welcome and no.

[9:02 PM] Zubi: All right! Thanks, though!

[9:02 PM] Caleb: she hands you a device " communicate if you need something or when you are ready to depart"

[9:02 PM] Caleb: the captain leaves

[9:02 PM] Zubi: takes it, but immediately gives it to Coil.

[9:03 PM] Coil: takes it the device and turns it over in his hands.

[9:06 PM] Caleb: it is strangely designed but it appears to be a strange shortrange communicator

[9:07 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Food first?"

[9:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: is asking the group.

[9:08 PM] Coil: nods.

[9:08 PM] Coil: Food first.

[9:08 PM] Esren'Nilos: heads for the canteen.

[9:09 PM] Zubi: Ooh, exotic new cuisine!

[9:09 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Yes.  I am curious what we'll find."

[9:12 PM] Caleb: Ok you head through the ship you are getting less obvious  looks now entering the cafeteria area you find it just as plain and undecorated as the rest of the station you see tables with some people sitting and a area against one wall with dishes and food selection laid out .

[9:12 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Well, they are definitely fans of minimalism."

[9:13 PM] Coil: That they are.

[9:13 PM] Zubi: smiles and waves at everyone! Of course.

[9:14 PM] Zubi: ... I wonder if they have proper fireproofing. You can't put things on walls if they're not fireproof.

[9:14 PM] Esren'Nilos: grabs a dish and snags whatever looks good.

[9:15 PM] Coil: tries something colorful.  Or that smells good.

[9:17 PM] Zubi: gets some of everything.

[9:17 PM] Caleb: You all find the food ranges from ice cold to room tenperature nothing is hot.  The food though is the most vibrant thing you have seen it is a variety of colors pretty much a full rainbow. You see things that might be meat and things that might be vegetables.

[9:18 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...guess Csilla is so cold, cooking in general was viewed as...unreasonable."

[9:19 PM] Coil: At least keeping it warm after it was cooked.

[9:20 PM] Zubi: does eat it right up, though.

[9:23 PM] Caleb: It is an interesting thing the food looks colorful and the taste is somehow more so a lot of unusual spices and flavors even in a single dish the strong flavors clash but seem to work as well if you can get past that

[9:23 PM] Zubi: Wow, this is fantastic!

[9:24 PM] Coil: It's pretty good.

[9:24 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Mmmmmmm.  Not what I was expecting."

[9:26 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Well, food of Csilla.  Definitely need to bring some of this back with us."

[9:26 PM] Zubi: And all you need is a chiller.

[9:26 PM] Coil: They could make a mint on Nar Shadaa opening a restaraunt.

[9:27 PM] Coil: One good thing about that place was the food.

[9:27 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Where did you like traveling to?"

[9:28 PM] Coil: Hmmm?  Me?

[9:28 PM] Zubi: Especially if you put it on a stick.

[9:28 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Yes.  You said nowhere felt like home, but surely some places were nicer than others."

[9:29 PM] Coil: thinks.  "Mon Calam was nice.  Naboo.  Kashyyyk.

[9:29 PM] Esren'Nilos: "The Wookie planet?"

[9:30 PM] Zubi: Isn't that one just... trees everywhere?

[9:31 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Would not have guessed you'd enjoy a massive forest world."

[9:32 PM] Zubi: I've never been to Kashyyyk but it looks beautiful in the holos.

[9:35 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...do we want to hit this library before we leave?"

[9:36 PM] Zubi: Sure! That sounds fun!

[9:37 PM] Esren'Nilos: "OK.  Whenever you're ready."

[9:38 PM] Zubi: I'm stuffed to the gills. Or I would be if I had them. Let's go to the library!

[9:39 PM] Coil: I like trees.  No trees on Nar Shadaa.

[9:39 PM] Coil: ... I am curious what they might know about the rest of the galaxy.

[9:39 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Mmmm, that is something I'd like to know as well.  TO THE LIBRARY!"

[9:42 PM] Zubi: You should get one of those tiny little trees, Coil.

[9:44 PM] Caleb: You all leave the cafeteria entering the library /lounge area you find chairs with cushions some carpeting and  various databanks. And screens also a very nice view of space and the gas giant this station is in orbit around.

[9:45 PM] Zubi: Ooh.

[9:45 PM] Esren'Nilos: looks out at the planet.

[9:47 PM] Caleb: It is quite the view you see the systems sun coming into view around the top edge of the planet.

[9:47 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Very interesting."

[9:48 PM] Esren'Nilos: will check a databank, see what info he can find on their galaxy.

[9:49 PM] Zubi: Pretty.

[9:50 PM] Caleb: ((Roll me technology Esren))

[9:50 PM] Coil: does the same, looking for a galaxy map.

[9:50 PM] Esren'Nilos: ((3, I should've just left this to Coil.  ))

[9:50 PM] Coil: ((17 for tech.))

[9:56 PM] Caleb: Coil  you manage to get on very little of the data you find is in galactic basic you do find maps and are able to see most of them are off the ascendancy and surrounding cultures you do see some of what you would know as the known galaxy but they are out of date from what you can see they date back to the empire era you do note that there are associated documents that show they had some dealings with the empire and the confederacy but no information on how deep that association went.

[9:57 PM] Caleb: Esren looking at the terminal you cant figure it out none of it is in basic

[9:58 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...it's clearly evil.  We should kill it."

[9:59 PM] Zubi: What is?

[9:59 PM] Esren'Nilos: "This computer.  It's all covered in runes.  Runes are evil."

[10:01 PM] Coil: It's called another language, Esren.

[10:02 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Possible, but we should kill it to be safe."

[10:02 PM] Zubi: laughs.

[10:04 PM] Esren'Nilos: will step away and look back out the window.

[10:05 PM] Coil: They had some contact with the Empire back in the day, it looks like, but not a lot of info on what it was.  Could have just been a 'stay out of our hair' mutual pact.

[10:05 PM] Coil: They have some records of nearby inhabitants, but it's a bit out of date.

[10:06 PM] Zubi: Have they just been sitting here since?

[10:11 PM] Coil: I mean, I assume they do their government stuff.

[10:12 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Why would they bother coming back to our neck of the woods.  ...I wonder if they know the empire has fallen."

[10:13 PM] Zubi: ... maybe not.

[10:14 PM] Caleb: Coil  you do note that when you accesed those files on the empire some long range transmission left the terminal you were accesing

[10:15 PM] Zubi: Should we tell them?

[10:15 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Not sure.  Do we have any indication what those "contacts" were like for them?"

[10:18 PM] Coil: Hmmm.

[10:18 PM] Coil: Well.  Someone knows I was looking up info on the Empire.

[10:18 PM] Coil: ((Can I tell if the signal was like. native, or planted in their systems?))

[10:19 PM] Caleb: ((Roll me technology at advantage))

[10:19 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...that's probably not good."

[10:20 PM] Zubi: Is that good?

[10:20 PM] Zubi: I mean... why would it be bad?

[10:22 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Depends who it is.  If it's our Confederates, then we've likely broadcast ourselves to them.  If it's these people, they may see us as a threat.  Lots of possible ways for it to be bad for us."

[10:23 PM] Caleb: Coil  it is hard to tell since it looks like it was attached to the files a while ago but the programming looks different to the Chiss programming

[10:24 PM] Caleb: Suddenly you all hear a low blaring chime echoing through the whole station

[10:24 PM] Coil: ((21))

[10:24 PM] Coil: uses the communicator.  "Captain, I think your systems have been compromised."

[10:25 PM] Caleb: Coil  on top of that you do get coordinates for all the places where the signal went while you dont recognize most of them one of them matches your target coordinates in this sector

[10:26 PM] Zubi: looks around.

[10:28 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws over comm : You should get to your ship we got an order for lockdown just before your message.

[10:28 PM] Zubi: All right, thanks!!

[10:28 PM] Zubi: starts heading back to the ship with the boys, one presumes!

[10:29 PM] Esren'Nilos: moves for the ship

[10:30 PM] Coil: takes a record of the cooridinates and heads back to the ship.

[10:30 PM] Caleb: Reaching the ship you find some food and the plants you requested outside the door

[10:31 PM] Esren'Nilos: "You wrote something down, Coil?"

[10:33 PM] Caleb: Entering the ship you find that for once the goats are in their pen still

[10:33 PM] Zubi: snuggles them! Reinforcing good habits!

[10:34 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Coil, what happened?"

[10:34 PM] Zubi: ... did either of you feel that... awful blankness here a few minutes ago?

[10:34 PM] Zubi: Like on Hypori?

[10:34 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...I didn't..."

[10:34 PM] Coil: No.

[10:35 PM] Coil: The systems here had a virus or something that sent out a signal as soon as I started poking around about the Empire.

[10:35 PM] Coil: The signal was sent to the coordinates we were on the way to before the Chiss found us.

[10:36 PM] Caleb: Captain Zhuws over comm :I would advise you to leave now otherwise you will be stuck in our lockdown till Fleet Investigations arrive we will follow when possible.(edited)

[10:37 PM] Zubi: Fleet Investigations?

[10:38 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Understood.  Thank you, Captain."

[10:38 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Coil, you heard the lady."

[10:40 PM] Caleb: Coil you do note that she also sent a data pack to your ships computer

[10:40 PM] Coil: takes us out.

[10:41 PM] Caleb: You head out clearing the station and making it out of the system

[10:41 PM] Caleb: ((Heading to the same place?))

[10:41 PM] Coil: does, then opens the data packet once we're in Hyperspace.

[10:43 PM] Zubi: stands behind Coil and puts her hands on his shoulders.

[10:44 PM] Esren'Nilos: tries to see the data packet past him.

[10:46 PM] Esren'Nilos: "They seemed nice."

[10:47 PM] Zubi: They did! And the food was really good. They had such pretty skin.

[10:48 PM] Coil: They were pretty reasonable people.

[10:48 PM] Caleb: Coil and everyone else looking through there is basic info in there of good routes to take avoiding ascendancy patrols but also notes from the captain of suspicious things the chiss expansionary fleet has been told to ignore a lot of which matches not just with your coordinates but some of the others you just got from that signal and her suspicions that this is linked to someone higher up in the ascendancy.

[10:49 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...so, there might be more going on here."

[10:49 PM] Esren'Nilos: "...is everyone involved in this conspiracy?"

[10:49 PM] Zubi: ... well, I'm not.

[10:50 PM] Esren'Nilos: "That is good to know."

[10:51 PM] Coil: I don't think I am.

[10:51 PM] Coil: I don't know, maybe the goats are.

[10:52 PM] Coil: They do keep getting out.

[10:52 PM] Esren'Nilos: "That would explain a lot."

[10:52 PM] Caleb: Coming out of hyperspace you find yourself near your coordinates tou see a forested planet with some large oceans as well

[10:52 PM] Zubi: Not this time!

[10:52 PM] Zubi: Oh, that's pretty!

[10:53 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Look, Coil.  Forests."

[10:56 PM] Coil: Hmmm.

[10:57 PM] Esren'Nilos: "Any good places to land?"

[11:01 PM] Caleb: Coil  checking the coordinates you do see some structures but no large structures like you would expect

[11:02 PM] Caleb: Coil  You do see some actual landing pads near the coordinates as well

[11:10 PM] Coil: There's landing pads near the coordinates, but I don't know if we want to land that close.  No other major structures though.

[11:10 PM] Esren'Nilos: "What do you suggest?"

[11:12 PM] Zubi: We could just land a little way out and walk?

[11:13 PM] Caleb: Coil you do see some potential landing spots a ways away from the coordinates.