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25th of April, 4500 CE

Impounded on Catta Primae

by Captain Peter Avignon

GSG (Galactic Surveyor's Guild) - Catta Primae
Frontier Space
23rd of April 4500 - Friday
Upon arrival, we're impounded and told to visit Counsellor Harkonen to sort it out. We seek him out.

  • When we got to his office, Consul Harkonen was not expecting us initially, despite impounding my ship.

  • He needed to get our attention to ask for Benat's aid.

  • On "anonymous sources' he believes Ambassador Qastor, the Pariahan rep on the planet is planning on attacking their neutral spaceport.

  • He said that we can either help him or turn over Arkip, but under no circumstances will I turn over my crew as some part of

  • The Cincastrellan Ambassador Ana Anarcia Carrera is also involved. (Unknown to me - more of a note from Beñat's journal)

  • Beñat doesn't want to involve me, but he has been asked by "his people" to aid in removing Qastor (alive if possible)

  • He's acting against La Matria and her interest, pushing Catta Primae's government into a more fascist position.

  • I'm down to help because Harkonen is behaving in immoral ways.

  • We have intel that Qastor likes illegal cage fights

  • Arkip is going to help because he doesn't appreciate being used as a pawn.

    • 24th of April - Saturday
  • Beñat goes back to Harkonen to play along. He basically wants him to go "Hello fellow comrades, I sure love terrorism as a Cincastrellan, do you have anything I can help with?"

  • Ambassador Carrera cringes very hard

  • Meanwhile, because I am not a wealthy person, nor do I look like I'm there to fight, no one takes me seriously when I try to find leads on the Cage Fights that Qastor frequents.

  • After meeting back up, Beñat suggests someone from the crew with a more imposing presence try to pose as a potential fighter for the matches.

  • He selects himself.

  • So we execute our plot as intended, with Beñat tracking down the black market to buy tranquillizer gas

  • Beñat will then go and tell the Harkonen "Woah, guess they must've known you recruited me"

  • While we get our plan together for the kidnapping, I contact Counsellor Raimus Troy.

  • We take the grav-train over to their office and deliver the Sword

  • We ask him for help with our illegal impounding

  • Without Aidan, we head back to the ship to fill him in on the problem - he will be instrumental in getting us into the Cage Fights.

    • 25th April - Sunday
  • Aidan contacts an old friend or flame of his, Aamina bin Ali, who can get him into the Fights.

  • While I wait for them to do their thing, I have a few hours to spend in the district.

  • I decided to look for a prostitute. While chatting one of them up, Aditi, she tells me they're unionized.

  • After finishing earlier than intended, we talk a little bit more, asking her about where she's from, how long she's been in the sex work industry, and what sort of stigmas exist.

  • The two of them come back (sans Qastor). They were unable to stealthily kidnap him.

  • The new plan is to go to Harkonen and pretend Beñat's cover is blown after he destroyed his bug in a panic ruining the initial plan to record him in the embassy.

  • Instead, we will arrange an accident for Qastor's vehicle, while Beñat goes to visit Councillor Harkonen.

  • Lucid remotely hacks his car computer, running it off a cliff and disabling the grav supports. She notes it was a messy hack.

  • Beñat checks in, gets the impound lifted and fires a few parting jabs about the planet before leaving his office.

  • When the impound is lifted I immediately fire up the ship's systems and take off as soon as the airlock closes behind Beñat.

  • As we leave, news reports and police chatter mention a "traffic collision" having killed Ambassador Qastor.

  • I lay in coordinates for Bandera, via Iska to refuel at a gas giant.

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