“You have sixty seconds to eject your stolen cargo before my gunners blast you out of the sky,” Brigadier Tassada Kor barks into the comms, watching the battle from her position on the bridge. The decorated vesk officer commands the dreadnought Talon’s Razor, crewed by 435 stalwart souls loyal to the Veskarium, and she did not tolerate pirates in her corner of space. The targets of her ire, three smaller ships darting and wheeling in the viewport in front of her, spit lasers as they arced close before speeding out of range of her vessel’s firing arcs. The Razor’s hull shakes violently, sparks raining into the black as enemy weapons slam into the shields. Tenacious opponents, Tassada admired them for it, but their insolence must end. When Tassada directed her crew to the outskirts of Veskarium space to investigate reports of piracy, she unintentionally kicked a hornets’ nest of smugglers and their mercenary escorts. The vessels in her crosshairs now were the last of the ragtag armada challenging the Talon’s Razor.
Tassada grins, feeling the thrum of the gatling cannons firing as her gunners retaliated. A spray of cartridges slams into one of the enemy ships and it explodes into bits of metal. Tassada wheels her mobility chair forward to better focus her cybernetic eye on the wreckage. Aided by her augmentation’s magnification capabilities, she quickly pinpoints a cluster of escape pods and a polycarbonate cube stamped with the Veskarium’s official seal.
“That’s one way to take back our cargo,” Tassada tells her crew, not bothering to switch channels, wanting the remaining smugglers to hear. “Engineering, report.”
“Our super orbital particle cannon is back online.” A male voice replies. Tassada grips the doshko holstered to her chair in anticipation.
“What are you waiting for?” She yells at the gunners. “Fire at will!” A blast of blazing white light envelops the viewport, searing the image of disintegrating spacecraft onto Tassada’s retina.
“My crew easily overpowered the pirates near sector 5 and are detaining survivors. Unfortunately, we were not able to recover all the stolen goods,” Tassada explains. She taps a claw against the datapad, sending the report off to her superiors. Needing a place to dock the heavily damaged dreadnought for repairs, she heads to Spaceport 5.1. Encountering an electrical storm on the approach means grounding the Talon’s Razor for some time, though being this close to the satellite grants Infosphere access, and she decides to be prudent and file her report while her crew lands the craft.
Tassada frowns at an incoming transmission signal from her datapad. “Brigadier Kor, this is Command 5. We received reports of a squad of pahtra insurrectionists absconding with a cache of experimental weapons. They are suspected to be in this sector now. Track them down and make sure the weapons don’t make it into the hands of the rebels on Vesk-6.”
The brigadier growls at the thought of rebels stealing Veskarium property while she idles in the spaceport. She scrolls through the station’s secure feeds while composing an acceptable response to her superior. She stops at a docking request from a Starfinder vessel. Scanning the associated records, Tassada discovers the Starfinders docked at Spaceport 5.1 four days ago and just completed repairs to their own ship. A working ship and a capable crew were all she needed.
“It’s not over yet.” Tassada mutters as she heads to the Starfinder ship.
Get ready for some Near Space exploration this month with two awesome new scenarios. First, take a trip Into the Veskarium (Starfinder Society #3-11) with a repeatable quest pack for characters in the levels 3–6 range. Into the Veskarium introduces four rock star authors to the Organized Play family: Alison Cybe, Ivis K. Flanagan, Jan Martin, and Abbey Schnell. Don’t miss their debut!
After our tour of the Veskarium, we return to home space with Starfinder Society #3-12: The Vast Experiment: First Flight by Kyle Elzy. During this exciting adventure for characters in the levels 5–8 range, PCs visit Aballon to perform a test flight on a new generation starship prototype built by Resurgent Technologies.
See You in Space!
Jenny Jarzabski
Organized Play Developer
Starfinder Society November Previews
Thursday, November 12, 2020
