Session 37 - End of the Road

• Combat Broke Out!
• Dual Yumi's attacked Hazmat. Ripping through the suit and knocking off the helmet, it appeared that it was a gray haired woman underneath it who looked like an older Nikki. She held onto her wounds - trying to stop herself from bleeding out.
• Nikki upon seeing who it was, offered herself to surrender again - though most of the crew would refuse to let her. 
• The masculine 'Operator' watching over the scene would accept the surrender, but only if everyone would stand down.
• Tamit took to the air with her jetpack; firing a smoke grenade to provide cover for the hostages.
• Vela teleported into the air and used her psionic capabilities to help keep her and her wing suit active.
• Crow and AUW provided protection for the civilians.
• Round Two!
• The acid storm drew closer; now upon the group.
• A squad of eight flying drones arrived with a woman of Nikki's stature; long white hair and headphones over her heard. She wore Light Power Armor with robotic spider limbs on the back to help her maneuver. Each limb appeared to be a firearm of some sort and she kept a pair of swords at her hip.
• When Tamit moved to continue forward and flush out the sniper, the hidden operator fired off a kinetic strike from his rail cannon at the A.I. 
• The shot was enough to knock Tamit offline. Vela swooped through the air still and collected the falling robot. 
• Crow shot one of the drones out of the sky in revenge.
• Hazmat pulled out a nanite device; letting nanomachines stitch her wounds back together.
• Yado Yirar, the four-armed kalian scientist in charge of project SHIELD, came through the communications and agreed for peace when Nikki threatened to kill herself.
• Ban and Tert got the civilians to safety in the transportations. 
• AUW's protection kept the group safe from Acid Rain.
• Combat Ceased...
• Yado explained that Nikki's knowledge was the center piece of Project Shell. 
• Yado revealed that the Nikki's were clones of the body that R inhabited. 
• Yado seemed displeased that Nikki wouldn't come back willingly to be his commander, but she suggested that she would return to him if needed when the day comes.
• Nikki consented to her 'brain' being downloaded as a copy in exchange for her freedom and Remek's contract being voided. 
• With Nikki's brain copy, the 'baddies' left the group to themselves.  One of them left a satchel for Nikki.
• The group finishes the mission...

Session 36 - Hostage

• On the trip back, Ban began to explain what they had learned from the translated historical data...
• The Historical Records were the entire history of the Crag Men. The Crag Men appeared to have been an intelligent and industrious race. A matriarchal society, they had settled large parts of the moon Dysnomia.
• The major events that brought about the end to their society are two fold. One is a civil war between warring factions. The other is the appearance of a deadly and fatal disease which emerged from the swamps of the planet. Those who survived the disease found themselves blood thirsty and mad. What's worse is that the Crag Men believed that the disease was gaining sentient intelligence. 
• The disease, threatening to wipe the Crag Men out, had all known strains of it collected and shot into space. The goal was to shoot it at a nearby moon that had volcanic activity - hoping the diseases would burn up and be destroyed.
• The moon, Algos, is largely believed to be uninhabited. Ten years ago, JumpCorp noted ruins on the surface of it. An expedition team was sent to scan the surface in depth, but a day into their studies, both of their ships mysteriously exploded. All the data collected was also wiped off of JumpCorps servers. 
• A rogue faction held onto one sample of the virus and unleashed in - leading to the devolution of their entire species into the Crag Men as they're known today.
• There were no accounts about the Voids Men.
• During their travel, the group came to a ravine. Across it, there was a group of nine survivors. Several of them were in danger of falling off the edge and to their deaths.
• AUW, Remek, and Tamit leaped into action to help them - pulling up the people in danger. 
• AUW would also tend to the wounds of those hurt. 
• Allei and Nikki were on standby to assist while Crow attempted to talk to the survivors to learn what happened.
• Vela took to high ground where she noted in the distance a reflective light - much like the scope of a rifle.
• The crew learned that this malnourished and exhausted group of people were being harried and harassed - several of them already killed - by a mysterious antagonist who had a powerful sniper rifle at his command.
• He threatened to kill more people, if the crew did not turn over Remek and Nikki over. The group suspects this person to be affiliated with Paragon Science Equipment, the organization after Remek and Nikki.
• The group began to create a plan - hoping to keep the survivors safe while taking down their enemies. 
• As the first part of the plan, Remek and Nikki went across unharmed.
• Across, they were met by a humanoid in a hazmat suit with a voice modulator. 
• The figure demanded Remek and Nikki cuffed themselves.
• Nikki obliged, but Remek refused - activating his invisibility and tossing off his Yumi robots to tackle the situation! A fight was on...

Character Information Template

... Sage's Database.
...
... Log In: R
... Password: ************
...
... Password Accepted.
...
... Query: File #[NAME]
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... File #[NAME] Loaded.
...

Subject's Name: TEXT
Subject's Alias: TEXT
Sex: TEXT
Race: TEXT
Age: TEXT
Height: TEXT
Weight: TEXT
Hair: TEXT
Eyes: TEXT
Special Characteristics: TEXT
Typical Garb: TEXT
Status: Alive.

Combat Assessment:
TEXT

Skill Assessment:
TEXT

Background:
TEXT

Motivations:
TEXT

END REPORT
R

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Additionally, write a single paragraph that summarizes your character and their role as part of the Last Parsec crew. Use job descriptions like "Captain" or "Doctor" in it too.

Session 35 - The Flood

• Returning with a containment unit, the expedition leader (Ban) began to load up the sealed and deadly virus.
• AUW provided the correct instructions and methods to do so after he and Crow had been convinced that Horst was a trustworthy source - a Deader who believed in the betterment of intelligent life.
• Allei believed that a guardian was lurking by. Call it a...sixth sense.
• Crow opted to take the lead; checking down one of the nearby hallways.
• He saw there was an increase in humidity, floors and walls slicked with blood, and saw the movement of something humanoid.
• Crow experienced a hallucination - observing his deceased parents and his estranged sister as mutated corpses who blamed him for their deaths.
• Vela, upon hearing noise from the other hallway, moved to cover that one.
• Upon opening it, she found a Cragman. A Cragman that had been horribly mutated and changed into an abomination - boiled flesh, mawed tendrils, and bone spikes. The creature only knew pain and rage - it charged for Vela!
• The creature was not alone - dozens of them emerging from both hallways. The creatures were super strong and could easily kill or maim - luckily the crew was able to avoid being severely damaged by any of them. 
• Vela held one hallway down with her vibroblades while Crow fired down the other way. 
• Tamit would alternate her support between the hallways while Nikki focused on finishing the data collection of her PDD to ensure that they would have all the data stored here. 
• Allei kept a level head and picked her shots off carefully with her plasma pistols while Remek focused on getting one of the doors closed. He'd later support the team with his robotics; dual Yumi's! 
• AUW supported Crow when he took a wound and otherwise kept Ban safe as he began to escort the 'package' out.
• Crow was not alone in his visions...
• Both Vela and Remek experienced various hallucinations that preyed on their weaknesses. For Vela, it was the idea that she lacked strength and was overwhelmed while being helpless. Remek on the other hand saw a vision his new 'girlfriend' mutating and turning on him.
• While the team began to retreat, they were confronted by a new type of monster. A large mass of flesh and limbs that seemed to absorb its kindred to increase its strength. This blob creature easily dispatched one of the Yumi's Remek had sent out. The other one managed to hold the ground long enough for Crow to provide some support with a grenade.
• Through some quick thinking, the crew made it into an adjacent hallway where Vela was able to psionically hold the door shut. The crew then escaped from the monsters - hoping they wouldn't be followed.
• Remek was physically and mentally sick after the experience - seeking solace in some tinkering and trinkets. Vela had a conversation with him about fear and soldiers - to which they had differing opinions. AUW gave Remek some medication to help calm him.
• Nikki got the vehicles ready and would lead the group out - giving the data she collected over to the scientists for examination.
• Crow used his scope to note a strange alien creature on the ridge watching him. It was pale white, its skin stretched across its skeleton with little to no muscle or fat. With a flat head, "gill" like appendages on its neck, and a single eye... the creature was a strange observer who wore an obsidian 'space suit'. 
• He asked AUW what it was to which AUW replied that the description befit the Voidsmen. However, there are dozens of other theories as to what Voidsmen looked like and no concrete proof either way. 
• Allei also observed the  creature.
• Allei kept Remek company, but she briefly shared her insights into theories for what was going on.
• Allei suggested that the creatures they ran into were Cragmen that had gone under experimentation or possible exposure to the virus.
• Allei believed that the virus they brought were possibly 'The Gods' aka the Primordials. 
• Allei pondered a potential connection between the virus and the Deaders since R and Horst have both been interested in it. The Deaders possibly being 'descendants' of the primordials or having some connection to the monsters inside who re-purposed "meat" and the idea that there was a psionic force or hivemind behind them all.
• One theory was that the Voidsmen = Deaders.
• Allei is pondering the idea of blackmailing Ban for his behavior during the recent events. 

DM TO DO LIST

• Last Parsec Description Filled Out
• Re-Evaluate New Edges and Hindrances 
• Currently reviewing with new material... 
• Update NPC List
• Update Game Timeline
• Finish "The Crew" Page
• Have PCs fill out information templates 
• Include an extra paragraph on just crew role 
• Create/post stats for Crew Members
• Offer more crew member recruitment
• Revisit Main Storyline Quest
• R's clues
• R's question/answer 
• Game Timeline.
• we're past the 1 year mark. Terra Nullius was only 2 years.
• How long do we want to play?
• Have at least two other APs we can do.
• Technically only halfway through current AP, but PCs have done a lot of side quests (though there's still more of those to do). Transparency. 
• Revisit Ruleset / System
• Consider looking at Savage Rifts material and see what can be added
• Currently reviewing... 
• Review purchased Savage Worlds materials to see what can be implemented 
• Currently reviewing... 
• Consider alternative systems (too much time invested)
  
• Write Terra Nullius Epilogues 
• Matt/Josh (Aria and Managirl)
• Dan/Kit (Angel and Setter)
• Gav/Rick (Roan and Redford)
• Drew/Rob (Kembu/Trajan)
• Max/Rob (Del and Manu-Nui)
• Max/Chris (Death Otter and Mei-Xing)
• Need to weave in the following...
• Klein
• Watchdog
• Middleman
• Gwen
• Nacht
• Hannah
• Lukas Baer, Darrell Johnson, Luna the KNIGHT
• Tanner the Devil, Brittany and Lisa Trent, Syler, Kimberley Meyer, Master Borai, Kyou
• Abraham Campbell, Cain Campbell
• Prometheus, Kazz and Wisk, Prisoners 
• Factions
• Genesis
• Grell Street Urchins
• Homeless Shelter
• Cartels (featuring: The Winged Serpents) 
• Lucky Cat Inn
• EARTHQUAKE
• The Barbarians
• The Azer Dynasty (featuring: Rickenato)
• Caravans 
• Cabal
• The Raskes
• Quiet Mountain
• Kasai Caravan
• The Olympians 
• Bulletes Brawl 

Session 34 - Repairs and Excavations

• On the fourth day - the group ran into an issue. One of the vehicles broke down on the road...
• Remek began the repairs with Nikki's assistance.
• The laborers gathered around to take bets on how fast Remek could finish. 
• Vela, Allei, and Crow kept watch. 
• Vela found a piece of glass which she shared with the scientists - who knows? Maybe its a relic of od.
• Allei found vehicle tracks and spent shell casings in the immediate area.
• She would later wonder if some kind of ambush was planned here.
• Crow spotted a campsite near a cave high up nearby. 
• At that campsite, there appeared to be an insectoid (cricket) and a rakashan who were bounty hunters. They were out here collecting pelts of Cragmen. They soon left - seemingly unaware of the Last Parsec's crew.
• After the bounty hunters left, Vela went to investigate their cave.
• Vela found the cave had a natural source of water and vegetation. 
• Vela found the corpse of the white-furred cragmen. It appeared that the bounty hunters had tried eating it. 
• Vela found a Voidsmen Power Crystal.
• She found a few other misc. things from the Cragmen Corpse.
• After Remek finished repairs, the group continued their traveling. On the fifth day, they made it to the site...
• The group ended up finding two hidden entrances that they believed would get them into the site.
• The group opted to take one that was a little more difficult to find. The laborers began to excavate an entrance. 
• The group kept watch while the excavation went underway. 
• Tamit felt a familiar feeling here before...
• She sensed a possible connection to the Primordials here - a type of advanced wifi / cloud.
• She searched old data and found that she had once been here before with R.
• With the door excavated hours later, the group proceeded inward.
• The door possessed a psionic signature, but also could be felt by those gifted with Weird Science. 
• Vela opened the door with her psionic strength.
• The 'tomb' appeared to be advanced technology built into the natural terrain. The first room appeared to be archive library room with numerous datapads.
• Nikki would hack these datapads and collect the data - it will need to be translated later.
• Bathed in twilight, the room brought back memories of R and Tamit being here. 
• In an adjacent, sealed away chamber -- a virus locked in a strange container was waiting. It appears R. came here for one sample of this. The other sample... would be an interesting find for the expedition, but had the group rightly cautious of it. 

Session 33 - The Cragmen Attack!

• The Cragmen ambush against the crew of the Last Parsec began!
• From his hiding spot, Remek unleashed two robotic fox-women who attacked the shaman and his Cragmen!
• To protect himself, the Shaman conjured earth and rock from the ground to provide armor to himself. Forming a spear/drill with it, he attempted to skewer the attacking robotics. 
• Tamit took to the air with her jump booster - unleashing a hail of minigun laser fire!
• The first round of combat began!
• Remek began with his akimbo laser SMGs against the Cragmen while his robotic fox-women found themselves getting impaled on the shaman's rock/earth spikes.
• The shaman channeled his psionic energy to grow to the height of a skyscraper! Turning into a towering rock monster. 
• Vela threw an energy blade at the shaman while moving to engage with a crowd of charging Cragmen!
• Ban, the leader of the expedition, decided he needed to get a closer look at the shaman. Grabbing his sniper rifle, he moved forward to investigate...
• AUW accompanied Ban - attempting to convince him to return to the vehicle while making sure he was protected.
• Crow focused on the shaman - firing as his giant rock eyes!
• Nikki emerged with a new VTOL light power armor like suit - taking flight, she started firing laser blasts at the shaman! While it may not have been a true WALKER like she had been trained to drive, it was still an impressive piece of tech and a new trick in her arsenal that she had worked hard at getting operational.
• A team of Cragmen charging in managed to severely wound Vela with their superior numbers.
• With trouble afoot, the captain disappeared and went into stealth mode with a plan in mind - budding psionics at work.
• Round two!
• Yumi had some bad luck - swinging her sword and going flying after she was punted by the shaman.
• Remek continued his assault with dual laser SMGS! 
• Tamit unleashed enough laser minigun fire to kill the shaman - but the shaman channeled his psionics to soak the damage and remain fighting.
• Vela cut down multiple cragmen with her blades.
• Seeing the shaman in action and so close to him, Ban actually did a full retreat and pack up in an armored vehicle.
• AUW attempted to incapacitate the shaman with a shock, but found it ineffective with the shaman's new size change.
• Crow's powerful, accurate shot managed to blind the shaman.
• Nikki's new armor kept on impressing a - powerful laser shot wounding the shaman!
• The cragmen assaulted both Vela and Tamit!
• Round three!
• Remek overcharged both his weapons in hopes of stunning the shaman - and it worked! It left him unable to attack.
• With the Cragmen ganging up on her, Tamit used her flamethrower pointblack on a group of them.
• Allei finally revealed her plan! She had been using several rounds to buff herself with psionics and climb on top of the Cragmen shaman! At point blank range, a called shot to the head, Allei's dual wielded plasma pistols went full force into the shaman - melting his brain and bringing his body crashing and toppling down on top of Tamit!
• Vela mopped up the remaining Cragmen.
• Combat was over...
• In the aftermath...
• Tamit was discovered to be largely unharmed, but it had been a close call.
• AUW inspected Allei - worried about her with the budding psionics and the risks that she took.
• Crow discovered in the distance, an albino cragman had been observing the whole thing.
• Tert, Ban's assistance, seemed to be taking the whole scene hard--using the bathroom was cover to have a small breakdown to herself. AUW checked to make sure she was alright.
• While searching around, Allei found $2,000 worth of old tech that could be sold to a collector.
• During the fight, a rock slide had occurred that blocked the path. Rather than take the half of day it would take to fix this, the group opted to find an alternative route. It was more dangerous, but the group managed. Traveling continued...