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Faxi

by Captain Peter Avignon

Galactic Surveryor's Guild - Far Δ Expedition


AVG-II
We jump into a ship graveyard
  • A transponder ping shows up

  • Lucid traces it and establishes its a station distress call from orbit around

    • This is an Emergency Broadcast Meltis Station under attack... pirates with advanced weapons... system defence fleet destroyed... unable to respond... calling for assistance... This Message will repeat

  • We scan the surface of the main planet and find a domed city with roughly 20,000 people. It appears that there are several farming outposts, and ruined cities across the surface.

  • Also, Lucid finds that the space station is actually active.

  • The two groups seem adversarial and want us to dock exclusively with them.

  • The planet's atmosphere at one point was earth-like but has ceased to be

  • Estimation: the process of terraforming 500-1500 years ago, but it's reversed over time

    • On the Station

    Hrim Station, Home of the Hrimfaxi/b]
  • A delegation of 1-3 malnourished humans wearing similar jumpsuits, indicating a vague military background

  • Looks like it was a much nicer system but it got smashed.

  • Held together with "duct tape and hope"

  • Chemical propulsion rockets on their ships in the hangar

  • Prelate Kroll is the one who introduces himself.

  • 200 or so years since the people on the surface cut off contact

  • Offers to repair our landing struts, but their salvaged nuclear missiles aren't up to my ship's specs.

  • "The Black Hand" was a band of pirates that attacked roughly 150 years ago

  • They didn't know their distress call was still working.

  • Most of the planets are heavy-gravity worlds with extraordinarily high temps

  • Planets belts sustain their limited industrial capacity.

  • The planet below was inhabitable

  • According to records, the pirates reverted the atmosphere to a phosphorous one by hack(?)ing the terraforming system.

  • Scinfaxi/Hrimfaxi is the name of the system.

  • Recommend using the station as a refuelling depot. Planet-side natives are hostile though.

  • Prelate Kroll says they are all "citizens", conditional upon completion of service to military structure

  • Robot the Robot is tasked with helping out with repairs that the station's habitable sections.

  • Arkip sends us a message about "the planet being a bust".

  • At the same time, the station's alarm goes off

  • Beñat and I run to the ship and shoot out of the shuttle bay

  • After missing his first shot, I line up the ship a little better, and he takes out the missile the second time.

  • The shrapnel from the missile hits the air raft, however, and Arkip gets hit by debris and knocked out.

  • I get them on board, however, and return to Hrim Station.

    • Continue reading...

    1. Bringing the Fight to Them
    2. Personal Log - New Year, New Shipping Codes
      2nd of January, 4500
    3. Lots of Dead Bodies
      2nd of January, 4500
    4. Personal Log
      9th of January, 4500
    5. Personal Log: Ship Upgrades on Mehen
      10th of January, 4500
    6. Personal Log: The Kumarbi Conspiracy
      17th of January, 4500
    7. Heading into the Unknown
      28th January 4500
    8. The Expedition Begins
      18th of February, 4500
    9. Faxi
    10. Eldanea System + Pariahan Fronts
      4th of March, 4500
    11. Against the Solanian Survey Corp
      18th of March, 4500
    12. Obligatory Water Level
      20th of March, 4500 CE
    13. Aidan Thorpe Arrested
      8th of April, 4500
    14. Leunus Prime
      15th of April, 4500 CE
    15. Impounded on Catta Primae
      25th of April, 4500 CE
    16. Captain's Log: Communications officer detained
      7th of June, 4500 CE
    17. next steps
      14 June 4500
    18. the Mistake (the Planet)
      21st of June, 4500
    19. Licking our wounds in Wild Space
      18 September, 4500
    20. Wow, Civilised Space!
      5 October 4500
    21. Opus Dei strikes Guild science facility
      19th of November, 4500
    22. Hey Geneviève (sup, Hüsnü)
    23. Extra-judicial shipping in the Union of Sol
      7 December, 4500
    24. Derelict space Station - Shiva Rao
      11th December, 4500
    25. Welcome to the Aseni Republic of Vega
      16th of December, 4500
    26. Returning with the spoils of salvage
      11th of January 4501
    27. Fancy Auction
    28. Peter joins the Military-Industrial Complex
    29. Operation Murder Galvao [TOP SECRET]
      9th of April, 4501
    30. I'm at Soup
    31. Taking down Galvao
      18th of April, 4501
    32. Xin Heinan Occupied
      May 6th, 4501
    33. THIS MAIL RUN WENT FULL CHAOS MODE! (GONE WRONG? GONE SEXUAL? GONE CLASSIFIED?!) [NOT CLICKBAIT] [100% LEGIT]
      14 May 4501
    34. Save us, Aidan
      16th of May, 4501
    35. Making the Trek to the Jred Frontier, pt 1
      19th of May, 4501
    36. Guerilla Journalism
      20th of May, 4501 CE
    37. Water Crisis on Actium
      12 June 4501
    38. Just your typical vaporator delivery
      13 June 4501
    39. VapeTech® Infiltration: Operation "Clawed Opportunity"
      15 June, 4501 CE
    40. Veii vs VapeTech®
      16 June, 4501 CE
    41. Killer Robot v. Big Bomb
    42. Onwards, to Jred Space!
      26 August, 4501 CE
    43. Arrival on Midgard
      2nd of September, 4501 CE
    44. Jackpot! Lots of ships!
      3 September, 4501
    45. Upgrades, people. Upgrades.
      24th of September, 4501
    46. Merc Doods
      10th October, 4501
    47. Merc Doods 2
      11 October 4501
    48. Merc Doods 3: The Merckening
      11 OCtober, 4501

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