FREFNA
An encounter / chain of encounters for players in Syntheim who've escaped the dying world of Tethra, finding a holdout of the escapee nobles.
Finding them with indignity and depravity, breaking the laws they held those below them to and repeating the same fatal behaviors that bought them to ruin once already.
These are the rich fleeing the titanic, before anyone else knew the iceberg was coming.
What they looted from our dead world
-Synth bodies, some organic, currently populating them with VI for hard labour, many in cryo
-Luxury Cyber Drugs, 20% chance of BlueDart Subverters in the stash, Wargrave will take hold
-Tip of the Fountain, the Lotus Engine, storage of those who would escape Tethra & Orna
-Vast amounts of Credits, stored and encryped to codes left to those within the Lotus Server
-Several ships, now damaged and stranded in Frefna Prime's Orbit
Notables
Marisha Tanner
-Claims to be one of the incarnated few who are to repair what's gone wrong, the VI do not follow her commands
-Will take desperate and extreme measures to get to the old Cyber supply, will be applying all she can find to the Lotus engine
-What is her goal here? Is she really willing to murder for a relatively mundane thrill for the others stuck in storage?
VI11226
-Broadcasting distress signal but will fire on non-Tethran ships (matters for what ship the players escaped Tethra on)
-Virtual Intelligence inhabiting a heavily modified synth body on the bridge of one of the falling ships, plugged in haphazardly like a computer with organs spilling out
-Would be overwhelmingly painful to a human embodying that synth, what butcher ordered this?
-Are they a VI or were they once a regular synth soul, now downgraded?
Engineer Aden
-Heavily Wounded Synth, broadcasting on local comms from Engineering
-Complaining of terrible Digital Migraine along with physical injuries crippling his escape
-Victim of Wargrave Subversion, puppet mode dropped on seemingly fatal injuries
-Auto Defences in room still subverted
President Ossian
-Former President of Tethra
-No shame over decisions made on Tethra
-Will form from a hologram if the Lotus Engine is approached and powered
-His recordings litter the ship if emergency power is restored, a request for evacuation of precious cargo
-Distinctly looks like a Synth in the party, if there are any hidden
Time Pressure?
The ships the runaways of Tethra have acquired are damaged from the recent jumps, out of fuel and systems failing across the board. They're going to fall into the freak geology of Frefna Prime and anything of value is going to burn up with it.
What makes this different from other 'Distress Call' encounters?
The ships are recognizable to the players, these are the privileged who got to escape the apocalypse weeks earlier than they did. There is an element of vengeance and a definite theme of resentment to boil to the forefront.
There's a possibility of the group moving from singular ship play to fleet play, it would be a tough jump to accomplish and the desire for some retribution about what they've been going through the last 10 sessions may outweigh that.
Frefna Prime?
The offshore taxhaven of Tethra and the Gaelic colonies. Megacorps founded this outpost as a token settlement to dance around paying their share and to host those from the other empires who would want to reach agreements.
Mountainous with vast canyons filled with clouds of an unbreathable mix. Oxygen just about sticks to the mountain settlements when pressure masks are used.
What else is in Frefna system?
An abandoned Sangha shipyard, from a failed colony attempt. War hit this place and now only the ruined shells of half built ships and asteroid scaffolding remain. Perhaps a safe place to hide.
Extreme Solar activity is blocking sensors and making spike jumps into rest of the System a slow affair of several smaller safer jumps.
The other world in Frefna system is Celia, a banking world hosted on floating islands. Cut off from outside contact and having a major economic crash due to recent Apocalyptia.
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