July Session: Plotting, Negotiating, Building, Blowing up a Helicarrier

The Destruction of Captain Grigoriiy's Helicarrier

This Session ran in several important parts: 1. Tense negotiations with Orks 2. Establishment of a mining colony 3.Return to Tonunia to handle business.

1. In the first portion of the session, the group engaged in gunboat diplomacy with Orks (particularly Captain Longteeth), and leveraged the power of their alien bioweapons to frighten the Orks into submission and come to an accord. The Orks agreed to protect the system from external threats in exchange for the group leaving the turtle planet(a dead world once home to a species of turtle like humanoids with spacefaring technology and a love of highly advanced bioweapons) alone. The crew did have to show their hand and use the bioweapon on an Ork runt to achieve this. It worked.

2. Setting up a mining colony on the time-dilated gold/platinum moon. Having garnered an accord with the Orks, the group turned to setting up a mining colony, known as Hibbing-Biwabik. Colony was a mix of refugees, skilled laborers with a strong religious element. The colony is supported by algae farms, and regular export runs from chartist captains. 

3. Return to Tonunia. The group traveled back to Tonunia to deal with reports of terrorist attacks on the outskirts of their dig site. This led to negotiations with Golva and discussions with members of splinter factions on the planet. Additionally, the party took a look at some bodies from one of the paramilitary groups. The group gathered some small information before a lucky scan detected a large moving object with a nuclear generator. 

This object moved in fairly close to the central storm zone on Tonunia before a lucky shot from the ship's lance struck it, causing catastrophic damage. The floating object, which turned out to be a sort of floating platform and home to expertly trained paramilitaries went down, and the group was able to capture it's leader, with some difficulty. 

Roughly 7 months of in-game time elapsed during this session. Background note: Things have gotten really rough in the core of the Imperium, with the Eye of Terror opening up, Cadia falling, and the empire effectively being split in twain.