Episode 5 : Can't Run Forever

Episode 5 :Can't Run Forever : The FIFT learn that those backstories, that they thought were not going to mean anything, can come back to haunt them...or at least give them new things to shoot at.

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## Episode 5.1 - Dec 3rd, 2015:

JOHN SMITH’S secret past has come back to haunt him, with
the rest of THE FIFT learning that JOHN, real name GRAAL TOSH, murdered a man
after finding him sleeping with his wife, and has been running ever since.

After failing to rendezvous with CRIK, the bounty hunter
sent to collect JOHN, due to an unfortunate navigation snafu, THE FIFT decided
to try and tackle the newly revealed threat of RUSH MODUN head on.

Returning to THE WHEEL, they used ROJ’TEK’S contacts to
learn that RUSH used to do business on the smuggler haven system of
SOCORRO.  Traveling to VEKEYYA, the
capital spaceport of SOCORRO, the group no sooner had landed as they found
themselves witness to a firefight breaking out after a deal went south.

Realizing that one of the combatants could be a potential
ally against RUSH, the group pitched in to help a Trandoshan weapon merchant
named THAMOSS, who promised to provide some critical information about how to
get to RUSH in exchange for some help retrieving some cargo…

## Episode 5.2 - Jan 14th, 2016:

THAMOSS had set the FIFT on the trail of the TITAN’S MERCY,
offering an exchange of information about RUSH in return for the safe delivery
of the cargo and the ship.  While it took
some time, and a number of near fights, the FIFT managed to pluck some
information about the whereabouts of the ship.

Using the cover of night, the FIFT tracked the ship to the
gang’s hideout, and were making their approach on the ground when they were
attacked on two sides.  First by the
gang, who got the drop on the crew after they missed a security cam, and second
by a pack of wild Socorrian Sand Panthers, who tore a plethora of strips off
the crew.

In a last ditch effort to save themselves, JOHN used one of
the group’s thermal detonators to blast open the entrance to the bunker.  The crew tries to regain their senses as the
dust settles from the blast…

## Episode 5.3 - Feb 18th, 2016:

The dust has cleared, showing the destruction of the thermal detonator on the entrance to the hideout, with the gang strewn around in bits and pieces. Exploring the hideout uncovered nothing of real value, and the crew was soon back in VEKEYYA with the TITAN'S MERCY and the cargo to exchange for the information THAMOSS has about RUSH and his complex.

The information shared, a secret and unguarded entrance to the complex, known only to a few of RUSH'S closest confidants as an emergency escape route should the complex be breached. With this information in hand, the crew sets out to scour the market in VEKEYYA for gear to help them breach the complex in secret.

Waiting for the cover of night, The FIFT land the KRAYT FANG a distance away from the complex before making their approach. The search took some time, but the secret entrance was found, and the crew were soon inside the complex ready to hunt down RUSH...

## Episode 5.4 - Apr 7th, 2016:

THE FIFT have breached RUSH MODUN’S compound, and VARLOV has
hacked into the security system, allowing him to act as the eyes and ears of
the group as they sneak, room to room, on their way to RUSH.

The crew manages to make their way through most of the
compound, blocking pathways for potential attackers as they go, until the reach
a section of the compound that seems very different from the rest.

Knowing that there are likely hostile targets on the other side
of the door, HR7-HA6 makes use of some of the disabling poison grenades that
the group had purchased for this incursion, and JOHN and GENKO followed in with
their poison darts.

The guards were no pushovers though, and while THE FIFT
managed to defeat the guards, while preventing any contact to the rest of the
army stationed above, the crew took a real beating, and are forced to quickly
heal up before venturing deeper into the compound and a confrontation with their
enemy…

## Episode 5.5 - Apr 19th, 2016:

Having breached the inner sanctum of RUSH MODUN’s compound,
THE FIFT cleared room after room of RUSH’s personal quarters, encountering no
further resistance.

In RUSH’s pleasure room, JOHN made a startling discovery,
his estranged wife SENA TOSH, found naked and subdued, hanging from the
ceiling, a seemingly willing participant in whatever twisted relationship she
now shared with RUSH.

Storming RUSH’s bedroom, they caught him unawares, and
DREZEK put him down with one shot.  All
that was left was for JOHN to close the book on his previous life, which he did
by plunging a knife into SENA’S throat.

Having escaped the compound, and SOCORRO, THE FIFT intended
to return to THE WHEEL, but they were waylaid by CRIK, and soon found that they
were unable to flee due to sabotage of their hyper drive.  Quick thinking by VARLOV and GENKO got the hyper
drive running again, allowing them to flee to nearby LLANIC, where they hope to
repair the ship and lay low for awhile…