- Through tragic circumstances, one of the leading researchers in xeno-anthropology, R., has left her ship (The Last Parsec) to a group of individuals that she had made contact with over the years. In her will, she hoped that this group would be able to band together, work cohesively, and become a great crew that could better the Known Worlds and the Frontier. If not, at least then to make good lives for themselves.
- Crow (a human bounty hunter), AUW-4Mhfp (an AUW doctor), and Vela (a Khazrak Clanless) banded together and purchased tickets on a JumpCorp transportation vessel to take them to the fueling space station of Midway where R's ship was waiting for them to inherit.
- The three knew each other from shared encounters; the doc patching them up, the bounty hunter freeing the clanless, and the clanless helping track down the bounty hunter's prey.
- The three friends caught up over an early dinner in the ship's cafeteria, but had their conversations interrupted by a group of terrorists with unknown affiliations. It was unclear what they were planning, perhaps a robbery, but before the four pirates and their woman-captain could get the situation under the control, our trio leapt into action and got control of the situation.
- Security would later interview and question the trio, but were grateful for their intervention. JumpCorp secured the area and would be interviewing the sole survivor (the leader) in private. The media only has second hand accounts of the event and JumpCorp is only giving minimal information on the incident in order to avoid sparking any outrage regarding their transportation security.
- Remek (a simian mechanic), Nikki (a genetically engineered human computer expert), and Allei (a human UC student aiming to be captain) made a plan with each other. See, Remek worked for Paragon Science Equipment who technically owned and created Nikki (along with others like her). PSE sought to create the ultimate Walker Pilot, Hacker, and more all in one. To do this, they bred people in sensory deprivation chambers in order to keep outside stimulus from interfering with them. Remek discovered this and conspired with his old school chum, Allei, to free Nikki from PSE and allow her life out in the Known Worlds and the Frontier.
- Remek and Allei both had connections to R. With the timing on the will and the ship, they decided now was the time to make a move...
- The plan was that Nikki would create a video-feed loop on the security cameras while Remek utilized a special compartment in his tool cart to extract Nikki from her chamber and the two of them would head to the garage where Allei would be waiting with the escape vehicle.
- All was going according to plan. Allei stole an experimental stealth ship from the Academy and utilized her fast-talking and various papers that she had collected (some her own, some advisers, and some even from her father--an important general) and came up with the cover of being a bored student here on a job shadow--an internship. Believe it or not, the security and middle management involved bought it.
- The situation eventually lead to Nikki being put on the ship with Allei and Remek heading to board it when Omak. The aurax put a tracker on their ship, but the group managed to detect it. Together, they bluffed their way past him and he let them be.
- It was not until the group attempted to leave was the jig up. With some fancy flying, Allei got the group cleared and Nikki experienced her first taste of freedom aboard the ship with her two new friends.
- The group hyper-jumped to the Midway space station where Allei left enough clues for her father to locate the ship that she had "borrowed".
- At Midway station, the two groups ran into each other and had limited introductions (there will be more involved ones next session). They met the executor of R's will (a JumpCorp suit, a cocky serran and his administrative assistant, a Yeti).
- The executor was quick to gloss over the legal documents and got the group to sign them. Essentially, it gave them each partial ownership of the Last Parsec as is and absolved JumpCorp of fulfilling their obligations to R.
- The group prepares for formal introductions and checking out their new ship next time...
