Constellation's Rookie Adventure
18 Oct 2023Danzra Le Clerc
Sarah's contact, Sgt Tusla? Big guy tried to recruit me into the UC. I'm not quite ready to put a target on my back just yet. He said that he had a hit on one of the pieces of metals Sarah had described for him. A guy named Moara is using one as a hood ornament on his shop. So, off to Cydonia we went to find him.-----
Before and after the grav jump, Sarah gave me some piloting pointers. The Frontier is more agile than the cargo haulers I've piloted so I have to be lighter on the stick and not oversteer us into an unintentional spin. The weapons onboard are less sluggish too, I think. Anyway, she gave me lots of practice before and after our trip to Mars, where via bartender trying to hustle us for creds gave us the information that Moara was probably headed to Venus.
We got to Venus, no Moara there, but there was a satellite we found that might have information if his patrol route took him this way as we suspected. Unfortunately, there were 3 Va'ruun ships nearby praising their Serpent God over the comms. I wasn't foolish enough to try to take those three on with my meager piloting skills, so I powered down everything but two clicks of engine and patiently snuck my way around a good sized asteroid until I was close enough to download the information we needed.
The information led us to the abandoned Nova Galactic Staryard circling Luna. It was full of Spacers, and a message from Moara that he had patched up his ship and was taking off for Neptune. What a goose-chase!
Finding Moara's ship, he was in the process of being shipjacked so we rescued, and he repaid us with the artifact-slash-hood ornament.
Back to the Lodge we go.