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Assault at the refinery

The group makes its attempt at taking the refinery. Most of the group heads in through the front. They are met by a bunch of armed guys. a big firefight erupts. Soon one of the large cylinders towards the rear of the room activates and becomes a huge security bot. The group prevails and makes it to the next room.

Meanwhile Thendus and Henrique work the rear of the facility trying to make it safe for the group's exit once they clear the place.

The group continues on further into the facility. They are further attacked by more men. eventually Kith makes contact with their leader. After not too long, he brokers a deal with these combatants. They soon have a cordial meeting and agree to work with the crew in securing this facility. They agree to also help them speak to the other squatters in the two other facilities the group is trying to clear. In all they make a great deal with the squatters. The crew will provide them with the necessary cyberware drugs for their services. The crew are a couple of hundred strong.

The group then is asked to investigate a strange anomaly in space. There is a ship that came out of drive space and has been fused together with a frozen dead sperm whale. Some things are just too freaky to explain.

Lennox side mission #2

Lennox invites the crew to the Devoncore outpost. He takes them for a round of golf to discuss some things. First off, he explains that he has credible intel that both Void corp and the Galactic concord are heading to the system. They should arrive in the next 3-5 years. The goal is to get as much legitimate businesses set up before they arrive which would put them in a great position financially as well as secure their future endeavors. He asks that they start expanding themselves by creating new companies and start acquiring real estate & holdings in preparation.  He also asks the crew to take out another rival of Lennox. It is a ship by the name of "Greystoke", commanded by Captain Marcus Fransor. The crew starfalls several times to get to the Greystoke. When they arrive, they expertly surprise the ship and take it out quickly. The mission is practically over before it even starts! Brad the Gold Brick and its crew are becoming a well oiled machine!

Solar Transport Corp. Mission #8A.1

Boomer takes the sky tank out to do some recon around the refinery in preparation for the next ground assault. He is attacked by another sky tank! The battle rages high above the city, both ships equally matched. Boomer puts on his piloting program and takes the advantage. In the end, both ships are almost destroyed. Boomer wins this battle. The other pilot radios in saying "nice shooting" and high tails it out of there to fight another day. The fighter's call sign was "Cinderblock".

Boomer returns to the Brick smoking and sluggish. Henrique gets to work on all of the repairs.

Elsa suggests a stealth mission to plant some explosives around the area. This will help assist in the eventual ground assault of the refinery compound.

Elsa & Boomer head into the Ghettos of City. They get into several gun battles trying to set all of the explosives. They got shot up pretty good, but in the end they succeed.

Safari on Owness

The crew took a contract from a Fraal named Dr. Usanagi to collect live Tundra Rino specimens for $10,000 each and deliver them to Spiral station.  A Tundra Rino is a large and dangerous amphibious quadroped with tough hide, head of a hammerhead shark, and a large horn in the head.

The party used "Nug 1", their trusty 6-wheeled ATV to chase the animals and installed a stutter canon as a non- lethal aproach to knocking specimens unconscious.  Also, Dr. Himleich made weak tranquilizers and later adjusted the dosage for desired effect.

The hunting party composed of Elsa, Boomer, Ryn, and Dr. Himleich, sucessfully captured an adult male and an adolescent  male on the Tundra.  They even tracked one to cave where they discovered a large species of carnivorous plant that disguises itself as a large gourd.

Upon defeating the plant, they baited  the last Tundra Rino with Ryn and to their surprise were ambushed by 4 Red Sash mercenaries on small quad atvs.  The Safari party was victorious and delivered 3 healthy specimens to Dr. Usanagi.  Dr. Himleich also became rather friendly with Dr. Usanagi.

It was also later revealed that Capt. Neyon hired the Red Sash through the XYZ Securities firm to establish independence from the crew.  The Safari crew was displeased but forgave Neyon for the rash attempt.

All in All, a profitable day.

Solar Transport Corp. Mission #8

Lennox asks the crew to investigate some potential new properties he is interested in purchasing. All three are located in the city of Mayfield on the planet Owness. Mayfield city is located on the the continent known as Paradise. It was the first settlement on Owness. It now has some bad areas in the city. These areas are home to dilapidated buildings, ghettos, drug addicts, as well as a large concentrations of people suffering from Cykosis (caused by too much cyberware). So needless to say, the areas that Lennox is interested in are in dangerous areas and the properties are going for dirt cheap.

Neyon heads to the city with "Pat" and Henrique to check it out. They speak to the Govner of the city by the name of David Weissman. he puts them in contact with a security robot that patrols the area by the name of XL-17. XL-17 is a huge bot, he basically tells them that the areas they are interested in are real dangerous and that he wouldn't even go near them. he wishes them luck and offers to rescue them if they get into trouble.

Neyon and his small landing crew decide to check out an old refinery plant. they get into a huge firefight with 2 defense bots and scores of drug addict mercenary hipsters. the battle is fierce but they are victorious. they head back to the the Brick to get mended by the surgeon and will need to plan another assault to actually get into the facility and finish cleaning house.