RB 4-13: Meeting the Tardigrade & Fighting a Sleeper-Killer

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Mission Report


Sat, Jan 13, 2018 ((Dec 29, 2019))
Party: Lyndi Fletcher (Aslene), Jane Irwin (Cael), Cyrus Riggs (Sielic), Proud Flame (Aunne), Haelra Vayn (Basil), Shiro (DragoN), Sylvi (Daewendriel)

The team is introduced to Shiro (chief engineer of their new ship) and Sylvi (consultant on tactical infrastructure and shipboard combat). The team travels to their new ship while discussing ship technology with their hosts. They meet the Tardigrade, which proves to be a collection of Traveler spirits or "shiplets" working together like a family. They get a tour of the Tardigrade. They return to Themis Station for the jumpcore to be transferred from Bron to the Tardigrade. Jassin Torina invites the Herald of the Wyrm Princes to their bar for a drink. Upon arrival, the team is attacked by an AForm Sleeper-Killer. The team protects the civilian bystanders and defeats the AForm.

The Tardigrade

  • Delanos introduces two specialists
    • Shiro, Chief Engineer (technomancy aura, similar to Sarii Hornwood, "magitec", tynkers)
    • Sylvi, Tactical Consultant (technomancy aura)


  • We've been finalizing their deep space systems tests
  • Discussion of taking Bron or shuttle to maintenance platform near asteroid belt (already on Bron: Gatriel, Max, Chuck, and Rictus)


  • In flight…
  • Jane Irwin: Jane bounces a little, impatiently.
  • Cyrus Riggs 2.0: Cyrus breathes a sigh of relief. Bronislav is familiar.
  • DM: > Much discussion of Bron and Skyguard shiptech
  • Jane Irwin: Stygi, a small black squirrel, sits on Jane's head and chirrups curiously, sniffing the air.
  • Phobos, in dog form, flops down near Haelra's feet and pants silently.
  • Max: (txt) During the explosion of a Chaos Orb, Bron absorbed a spelljammer helm and its powers (RB 2-14).
  • DM: Bron's cockpit has four seats: pilot, co-pilot, gunner, and electronic warfare specialist.
  • Jane Irwin: Jane mutters something about silver comets, then listens quietly.
  • Jane Irwin: Jane is glued to the window, listening intently.


  • Delanos introduces the ship
    • Talarion-class cruiser
    • Represents the state of the art in Skyguard ship crafting
    • For generations, we've grown a ship as a singular being
    • This ship is not one being, but many. A swarm of living machine beings, called shiplets
    • The shiplets are spirits of the Traveler
    • Working together to create and sustain a ship, symbiotically.
  • Lyndi and others introduce themselves to the ship
  • Ship "thinks" in feelings and impressions, not words


  • Team gets a tour of the ship
  • Jane Irwin: "Spirits, guys, this is- oh my god. Spirits. Whatever. This is.... AMAZING."


  • Reactor is a Tanyth Aramont Imperial Navy fusion bottle
    • Refuel using water
    • The refueling system includes an integrated screening and purification subsystem, allowing you to use natural bodies of water, comet pieces, and so forth
  • Two reservoirs of metametal: port and starboard
    • Each holds 3 kiloliters
    • Each is full
    • Max: (txt) Metametal is a generic, hypoallergenic nanite resource supply. It's a semimetallic crystal with a carbon nanotube weave, holding a variety of useful molecules and proteins. Nanites can remove the resources they need and use the superstructure and nanotubes as structural supplies. Metametal is created in microscopic beads, to be injected or ingested. Metametal-infused foods aren't hazardous to non-cybernetic consumers.
    • Delanos recommends resupplying metametal from reputable sources, like the Grand Navy of Tanyth Aramont


  • Weapons systems
    • Omnidirectional lasers, with pulse and sustained modes, with up to 6 directions of simultaneous fire
    • Ventral rail gun, forward-firing, with a solution cone radius of 15 degrees
    • 5 rapid-fire missile tubes each on port and starboard broadsides
    • Missiles are self-assembling, with offensive, long-range, and defensive models, and warhead models that include concussive, fragmentation, cryoblast, electromagnetic burst, incendiary, and fission
  • Includes full Navy comm suite
  • Includes a last-generation Navy cloak
  • Includes a last-generation Navy shield generator
  • I was denied permission to give you permission to contract with a Navy-class nova intelligentsia
  • Adaptive hull plating


  • Jane Irwin: There's faint bird squawking. Then Jane's voice, and a few squirrel chitters.
  • Final piece of advice: a new ship has a kind of immaturity, like a child. Be thoughtful how you treat them, and raise them to know honor, courage, and grit.
  • DM: > Lyndi arranges for wall gardens to be added to the Tardigrade
  • Jane Irwin: Jane moves back toward the group.
  • Jane Irwin: She is, weirdly, not looking at her new "cousin" Sylvi.
  • Tardigrade experiments with R3M and Raptor Blue livery

Waiting for the Jumpcore

  • While jumpcore is transferred from Bron to the Tardigrade
  • Rest and relax in guest suite
  • Free to explore the station
  • Gatriel asks to check in with some friends on the station, Lyndi agrees
  • Max: > Gives Gatriel a P3


  • The message is from Jassin Torina, to the Herald of the Wyrm Princes of the Celestial Circle, c/o Lyndi Fletcher. They invite you and your entourage for a drink at the Comet's Dust.
  • Sylvi and Shiro share what they know
    • The Comet's Dust
    • Bartender: Jassin Torina (they, them, their)
    • Was some kind of adventurer before. Lots of contacts. Unusual way of being a bard: military background suspected, gives quiet counsel to inspire. Known to have many contacts across the 'verse


  • Team heads to the bar
  • Upon entry, they're assaulted by an AForm Sleeper-Killer
  • Team protects civilians
  • AForm tries to build allies by trying to infect civilians and Jane's summoned wolves
  • Draco merges with Cy
  • DM: > Cy has AForm Slayer Vision
  • Jane uses Greater Restoration on the AForm, releasing the ghost of the halfling victim
  • Sylvi gets the killing blow


  • Guards show up
  • DM: > Cy and Draco sample dead Sleeper-Killer
  • DM: > Officer orders a lock down
  • Haelra questions the ghost
    • DM: Finelyn Ray, lawyer for the Marcus Cartel
    • DM: Was contracted to open a container
    • DM: > Wants her brother Teon to know that her will creates a trust for his daughter
    • DM: > Teon is merchant marine on a Marcus Cartel trading vessel, the Green Jug
    • DM: > H helps Finelyn pass on
    • DM: > Team has Finelyn's access codes, to investigate her digital files
  • DM: > Jane Blights an assembler pile
  • DM: > Jassin Flame Strikes a pile
  • DM: > Guardsmen set up a magitech containment dome over the Sleeper-Killer remains
    • Max: (txt) BECINN systems combine and coordinate various passive and active defense systems. These systems protect against Biologic, Electromagnetic, Chemical, Info, Neural, and Nanite threats. BECINN systems are primarily mounted as fixed defenses or on large vehicles. Personal BECINN field generators are rare.
    • Draco: It's not tech that anyone on Earth has access to, to the best of our knowledge
  • Jane Irwin: Jane leans against a table, looking tired; she hugs Stygi. Fuck. FUCK. Could have been so much worse....
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