Gravity

## Loot/Exp

* Oracle // 4th Game (December) // 100 eb // 10 IP // 7 DT
* Joker // 3rd Game (December) // 100 eb // 10 IP // 7 DT
* Sanaa // 4th Game (December) // 100 eb // 10 IP // 7 DT
* Yumeko // 3rd Game (December) // 0 eb // 0 IP // FLATLINED

## Summary

The mission was to meet Paloma and Craig Daniels at the Crystal Palace. Paloma's mission was to netrun a secure data vault located outside the Crystal Palace. Craig Daniel's mission is to provide Paloma with love and support. The characters' mission is to 1) keep Paloma and Daniels alive 2) find space suits for everyone involved 3) find Paloma a cyberdeck and/or fabricate programs for her.

The players flew on the space plane to Johnson Transfer Station, where they left Kevin watching the plane as they boarded an OTV to the Crystal Palace. While in customs at CP they were cornered by Miller and Draper of the M.A.R.S. joint "independent" security task force for the Crystal Palace. They wanted to know why the edgerunners were there but the edgerunners didn't tell them anything and Miller let them go. The edgerunners travelled to Torus 2 and their hotel "The Gravity". They explored the "city", including a low-g dance club, and Yumeko sourced enough materials to program cyberdeck programs. Oracle and Joker worked together to steal a cyberdeck. Sanaa met Craig Daniels and Paloma at the Crystal Palace Casino, where they rented a privacy bank and Paloma briefed Sanaa on the political situation on the Palace:

There were two opposed factions. The ESA were the owners of the CP, but they employed Zero-G Highrider workers to keep the whole thing operational. The workers were members of the "OPA", a zero-G workers labor union. The contract was expiring and there were tensions between the two factions as they were both maneuvering to get what they wanted in the next labor talks. Recently an ice-cycler named "The Canterbury" had been destroyed, and a member of the crew sent a message claiming they had been lured into an ambush by a distress call. The OPA was using the incident as an excuse to build tensions against the ESA, claiming that the ESA was behind it. As the edgerunners re-convened in the city they passed by an OPA demonstrator inciting a crowed to violence. They noticed that Miller and other police security were getting caught in the violence and might be beaten or killed.

Sanaa and Yumeko rescued Miller while Joker secured his folding bike and Oracle danced very poorly. A grateful Miller bought them drinks and spilled his guts: He was looking for his wife, Julie Mao, who had been captain of the Treadstone Deep Space Explorer the "Nostromo". She had sent back messages describing the horror of the ship; how they were actually a factory ship turning meat puppets into monsters. The crew were trying to fly back to the CP with evidence against their employers but had gone missing. Miller wanted to hunt down the ship, see if he could recover his wife's body and get justice for her. Coincidentally, the players were also looking for the ship so they agreed to work together. Miller provided the players space suits. They all descended to the space platform and exited an airlock into vacuum. They travelled to the datavault and Miller, Paloma and Sanaa all jacked in. They arrived in a lobby different from what they expected. It was a sparkling underwater look, with a woman lounging in chair in the center of it.

Miller recognized the woman as his wife, Julie Mao. Mao told Paloma and Sanaa that she was still somewhere on, or maybe "in", the Nostromo, and she was connected to the data vault via laser communicator. She gave Paloma the ship's real time flight data in return for "leaving Miller with her."

Paloma began downloading the data. Meanwhile, outside of the netarch, the other edgerunners saw a cargo Orbital Tansfer Vehicle pass by and drop an automated robot container off of it.

They watched as the container "landed" and six space commandos ejected from exploding walls.

Meanwhile Kati started choking out Craig Daniels, which immediately caused Paloma to attack Kati, abandoning the download and jacking out from the netarch. Kati stopped choking Daniels and calmed Paloma down. She re entered the netarch and continued downloading. Meanwhile, the space commandos kicked the heck out of the edgerunners, killing Yumeko and mortally wounding Joker. Sanaa and Oracle managed to get back into the airlock and close the door, with the data in hand, but they were outnumbered by space commandos who had followed them inside. The space commandos demanded they hand over the data. Sanaa reluctantly did so as Oracle became mortally wounded. Paloma, Craig Daniels and Miller limped into the airlock while the Space Commandos took the data back to their cargo container pod and flew away.