STAR FALL: A FORUM GAME (IN PLAY)

Helium: None of the places you know to meet her seem to work out. You learn she was injured in a fight. You might try the local clinics.

This is a moon of heavy industry. It's mineral rich so there's a huge mining and refining industry here.

Rylah: (Try not to refer to your character in third person.) Katya looks at you and says, "Our big local hero. Everyone knows Devereaux. Every once in awhile, some companies out of Star Fall try to take some of the uncharted gates to colonize new planets to expand the Star Fall region. I know that Roberts Industries in particular wants to expand Star Fall to four star systems to increase productivity in the current three. Devereaux was a captain in charge of protecting a new colony. As often happens, it came under attack by Wah'ri raiders. She managed to keep the majority of the settlers alive. One of the raiders hit her battalion with a plasmic bomb. It killed three of her men, and the plasma coated her side. It burnt off her arm and part of her face. If you look at her straight on, you wouldn't notice, but when she turns her head, you can see the scars and welts all over her, and that she's missing an ear. Now you can imagine how painful a weapon like that would be: she kept going, literally until she collapsed. She got the majority of the colonists out alive. She skipped a rank assignment and made full colonel for her bravery. It's why she's a brigadier general at such a young age. Thing is, the Wah'ri don't use plasmic bombs. That's our tech. That's something mercs and pirates use. Devereaux swore she'd get to the bottom of it. That's the last anyone every really heard from her. She shows up sometimes on the news, but that's just to spout army policy like a parrot. It sounds like somebody from our side is supplying the Wah'ri with weapons."

Stealing it is legitimately an option. With two engineers, you can reprogram the ship's security and tracking systems to recognize you as the owner, however you wouldn't be able to land it or outfit it at a regulated spaceport until you found someone who could change it's ID number. That can be done for a fee.

Lintis: You peek around and realize how silly you're being. This is just a building. They don't keep the ships here. They're kept in hangers at the docking port.

Since nobody else seems to be visiting the tavern...

Ozardel: You noticed that Lintis and Agnelia also had messages waiting when you went to the terminals.

Helium: You try three clinics before you find Katya. When you ask, you don't even have a chance to make up a story when a nurse ushers you in to see her. It's odd how things work out: mutates are hated and feared across the galaxy for petty reasons, to the extent that it's even illegal for a mutate to be employed on most planets, and yet, Katya, despite being so obviously a mutate, seems to do quite well for herself. You find her rather relaxed, one of her arms in a sling. Apparently, she also has a hip injury, but you can't see the evidence of treatment there.

"Helium, I'm so happy to see you. Say you have good things to tell me." You pay your debt and as she accepts, she says, "Oh! The whole sum!" She grins. "I can always count on Helium. I hope this doesn't have you too strapped for cash. I can have you join some fellows I'm planning on hiring for an escort mission I've got lined up, if they accept, that is."

Yes. You're there when Helium walks in.

Rylah: Katya says, "This fine individual does jobs for me and occasionally buys information from me. A reliable worker."