Mission briefing:
The UPF starship is to precede to the Grunash star system and establish a military outpost in the system and build an exploration base on the moon Xilot.
The Grunash system: Located on the far side of the White Light nebula, Grunash is a red giant with 5 planets all gas giants, Hidel, Dridel, Nidel, Feidal and Ginny. Hidel the planet closest to Grunash is a hot gas giant with only one moon, Xilot. Xilot is a earth sized blue moon and receives most of it’s light and heat from Hidel instead of Grunash. The system was charted during the end of the second Sathar war by a scout ship piloted by Varak Grunash (all the planets and moons were named after his children). The scans of the system indicated that Xilot has a rich nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere capable of sustaining complex life forms and also holds large deposits of rare minerals.
The UPF military wished to build a outpost in the Grunash system in case of another Sathar incursion and several mega-corporations wished to exploit the resources of Xilot, none had the resources to do so alone so a consortium was formed between the UPF and the mega-corporations to defend, explore and colonize the system. The UPF would have control over all military operations, land, sea, air and space while the mega-corporations would establish a base colony allowing for the detailed exploration and exploitation of Xilot’s resources.
The UPF starship Kitzz’Itz, a troop transport during the second Sathar war, was overhauled and re-commissioned for the sole purpose of delivering all the equipment and personal needed to establish a permanent colony on Xilot.
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It has been seven years since the end of the second Sathar war the inner colonies a booming, the Humma, Ifsnit and Osakar races and worlds have been admitted with full rights and responsibilities to the United Federation of Planets almost doubling the size of the UPF. With the Sathar threat diminished the UPF and its mega-corporations once again put exploration and colonization of new planets as their top priorities.
Rumors of a consortium being formed between the five largest mega-corporation and the UPF military to explore and colonize a distant world full of riches spread through out the UPF. When official word was released asking for volunteers from all fields to join the exploration and colonization of the blue moon Xilot millions answered but only 6,532 were chosen. Members of all races, specialists from all fields of study, corporate and independent exploration teams as well a UPF land and space forces and your character all assemble and board the UPF spaceship Kitzz’Itz. The two month trip on the crowded ship is stressful to personnel and equipment but disappears instantly when the captain announces the ship will be exiting hyperspace. The faint hum of the hyperspace engines rev’s up to a crescendo and a wrenching twist in your guts tells informs you that you have left hyperspace. The sounds of explosions forward and aft rock the Kitzz’Itz as alarms sound throughout the ship. Several more explosions wrack the ship before the order to abandon ship is sent. You grab your emergency kits and race to the nearest escape pod, when the six of you are seated the pod is ejected and you finally see the cause of the explosions. The Kitzz’Itz is under attack by unknown frigates, the bridge and engines belching flames and oxygen into space. Small fighter craft swoop in and begin shooting down the escape pods. The escape pod automatically begins evasive maneuvers dodging in and out of the wreckage heading for Xilot below.
Dazed by the crash-landing you stagger out of the pod in a daze into a dark dense forest. As you recover from the landing it dawns on each one of you that you are now stranded on a unexplored hostile planet with on way to contact help. The only ray of hope you have of rescue is a barely glimpsed class F landing pad you saw as you were crashing.
