Navasi fails to transfer the data, but luckily doesn't set off any countermeasures. Luckily, CiCi, Tixylix, and T'Krunch all succeed. You have completed the task and finished your mission!
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An airlocked antechamber leads into several living quarters and a medical bay. These rooms can be filled with breathable air and kept at normal atmosphere to accommodate visitors to the facility.
In the medical bay, you find a first aid cabinet with 4 mk 1 serums of healing, 2 brown nanite hypopens (Starfinder Armory 106), and an advanced medkit.
In one of the rooms, you find a copy of a move-out checklist, listing all employees and their assigned rooms. The vandalized room belonged to an android biologist named Vinderelle.
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This is another research station.
DC 20
The experiments were abandoned quite suddenly.
After exploring the facility, you can head back to Absalom Station. If you'd like to review the data from Sanson-56 to figure out more, please make a Life Science, Physical Science, or Science-related Profession check.
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"'N what happens if the wee things get out 'n can survive on the asteroid?"
"Then, they get to keep the asteroid, I say." notes T'Krunch as he confirms the dwarf's review of the leftover equipment and workstations and determines that the team here performed biological experiments examining how different microbes survived on the asteroid’s surface.
Once back on Absalom Station, he reviews the data from Sanson-56 to try and figure out more.
Sobok reviews the data as they travel, but doesn't learn much.
T'Krunch pores through the data and finds something interesting. Sanson-56 was about to publish new findings on several asteroids when Astral Extractions bought the company. The data indicates that one of these asteroids was a prime candidate for mining and filled with valuable minerals, but was also home to microbial life. Pact World protocol, enforced by the Stewards, requires a full environmental study on any microbial life present before an asteroid can be mined to determine if the life is native to the asteroid or a result of contamination from an outside source. If native, the asteroid is protected and can’t be mined so that the novel lifeforms can potentially develop. Astral Extractions suppressed the data about the asteroid, likely to set up a mining operation without consideration of the microbes present.
Celita meets with you when you return to Absalom Station. "“Well done, Starfinders. You have performed admirably, and I look forward to working with you on future assignments.”
She seems particularly impressed with T'Krunch's analysis.
Your last assignment is for Fitch! While she technically has an office at the Lorespire Complex, you know that she's much more likely to be on the Master of Stars, the Society's finest starship. Fitch tells you to come packed for several weeks in the Vast.
When the shuttle docks on the Master of Stars, staff stationed to the ship quickly crowd around to receive their packages and other mail from home. Fitch’s office is just across the hallway, clearly labeled. Inside, Fitch carefully paints a small model of the Master of Stars. “Oh, hey, it’s the newest recruits! Thanks for coming out here to the Armada! I love it here on the Master of Stars. I get itchy feet back on the station. I was just painting my model to be consistent with the latest updates on the ship’s exterior, but that can wait for later.” Fitch moves the model to a cabinet containing dozens of model starships: every model ever owned by the Starfinder Society as well as other styles from all over the galaxy. Her office walls are covered with blueprints of various starship models and many photos of young ysoki.
“Anyway, I have excellent news! We’ve identified four new planetoids in the Vast that are part of a solar system we’ve never been to! That is, no one in the Pact Worlds has been there. Or at least, no one in the Pact Worlds has written about it. The star is named Estokine, and I’d like you to head out there and take some scans of each planetoid. Don’t land your ship on any of the planets, since we want to analyze all the data and images before we decide whether to send a ground team. I’m assigning a Pegasus to you for the mission; you’ll need its upgraded sensors. I’m also sending along one of my other Wayfinder agents who does a lot of this kind of work, in case you need any help.”
"Did any of the long range scans pick up signs of sentient life?" Sobok asks.
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"Four new planetoids? the dwarf asks while counting the Ysoki children in the pictures. "Too bad it isn't [X], one for each of the little ones eh?" How were these discovered?
CiCi asks for all the data available Eskotine & planets associated with that type of star. "How much time forr rrreading can we expect?"
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Four new planetoids, it will take us forever to travel each planet. I'm still trying to explore all of my homeworld.
"Don't worry, Ziamat. We don't need to fully explore each one," notes T'Krunch in response. "Just need to get a taste for each."
"Speaking of tastes, what else can you tell me about your homeworld?" he inquires. "Do the locals there usually grill their food? Or do most simply rely upon their breath?"
"The scans should take about an hour per planet. You’ll check the chemical composition of the planet and its atmosphere, image the surface, look for signs of life, that kind of thing. We can't see much from here on Absalom Station other than that they exist. The whole mission could be anywhere from a couple of weeks to about a month. Don’t worry; I’ve got your ship loaded up with food and movies!"
A kasatha woman in a crop top introduces herself. "Hey, newbies! I'm Sashkri. This should be a pretty chill mission."
You board the Pegasus and reach the solar system in days.
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Responding to Tcrunch Well it depends upon where in Castrovel you are. It is called the wild for a reason. So you can live among the cities like you are living in the 31st century or live among the cave men like you are in 10,000 BC or somewhere in between. Just watch out for Azlanti, they tried to take over Castrovel once, or at least part of it.
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Ziamat rewords things so Navasi understands. Some tribes are untouched by modern civilization and other tribes have only been touched lightly.
"Sounds like food preparation techniques must vary pretty widely on your world." notes T'Krunch.
From his vantage at a science station aboard Pegasus, T'Krunch sees another world come into view. He commences scans.
He is not sure that the initial scans are all that promising.
T'Krunch has to get used to the scanners during his first attempt at scanning the fourth planet. After the computers run their full course, taking about an hour, he realizes that he had a setting wrong and needs to start over. Luckily, things go well the second time!
It takes hours to fly to the third planet. Anyone can try to analyze the data that you took on Planet 4.
This planetoid is furthest from the sun and very cold. There are interesting crater patterns on the surface indicating that it once collided with another planetary body. It may have originally been an asteroid that got knocked into orbit around this sun.
T'Krunch finishes running the scans on the third planet, when suddenly, sensors start blaring! An attack!
Three tiny starships with skulls and crossbones painted on them appear behind you!
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"Seems we've found a potential ice box," remarks T'Krunch. "This planetoid, the furthest from the sun, is very cold. There are interesting crater patterns on the surface indicating that it once collided with another planetary body. It may have originally been an asteroid that got knocked into orbit around this sun."
When the sensors pick up the apparent pirate ships, T'Krunch shakes his head. "Looks like someone else has designs on raiding our new found 'fridge. Or, I suppose, they're intent on raiding us."
Sobok takes action as the pilot!
Sobok has lost piloting initiative, which means you go first!
Sobok flies like a salamander in the sea.
"What? I did evade there!" Sobok says indignantly.
Indeed, Sobok evades!
T'Krunch learns that these are UIE Petaltails, a low-cost, popular starship option throughout the galaxy.
They are tiny racers, with speed 6 and maneuverability perfect (turn 0).
They have AC and TL 14, they have 20 hull points, and they have basic shields 10 (3 each in the forward and aft, 2 each in port and starboard).
They have light laser cannons in their forward and aft arcs.
The three ships move closer!
Navasi misses, but Ziamat hits, taking out their forward arc and dealing 2 HP damage!
The third ship gets a lucky shot!
They deal 4 damage to your port arc! It does not get through your shields, so no crit effect.
Engineer is up for next turn!
Moving on to helm phase!
The three ships get closer to you and surround you!
Sobok swims through space like a feared space gecko.
Ziamat strikes 3, taking out their aft shields!
Start of the next round, and engineering is up!
Ship 3 moves first, then the Pegasus, then 1 and 2.
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Sobok flies like a lizard in a maze of space.
Tixylix works to divert engines to guns.
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Tixylix works to divert engines to guns.
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CiCi recites, "Bypassing safety protocols can lead to injury, termination, death or worse." She opens two panels that are centimeters but dozens of protocols apart. She sticks an i-spanner in one an e-wrench in the other and connects them with coupler. "Starships shooting at you! can lead to injury, termination, death or worse."
Maintenance panel access.
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Ships 1 and 2 move to face you!