Short Summary of first session: July 28th 2002
Major Alex Coleman, Steward Bailey, Ltnt Colonel Kraiger and Messalina Kitiara of Regina found themselves on a shuttle taking them to the Subsidized Liner Pony Express. That ship would take them to Berengaria, where they would mount their own ship for the exploration intothe Egryn Sybsector.
The Rooky Pilot should have been a first warning: Everything was not as it should be.
Barely on board the Pony express we were led to the captain who seemed angry at us, which at that time was quite a mystery to us. After all, neither of us knew the guy.
We were invited to join him on the Bridge for the jump to Jumpspace where an incompetent rooky engineer almost managed to blow up the engine. Kit intervened in time, in spite of the captains protest.
Later that kid told us several things:
1. He was really a jump theory expert and not qualified for the job he had been transferred to.
2. The Captain and this ship had originally been planned for the Expedition to engryn, but in the last minute, a freelance team (us) had been put on the job. That's why the Captain was so angry at us.
3. BT seems to have a real personell shortage and the War with MC is not quite as over as we were made to believe.
Point 3 was made quite clear to us when we were accosted in the lounge by two black clad men (probably MC Personell?) while just settling down in the lounge. We declined their "friendly" invitation to follow them and managed to disarm them when they were distracted. One was wounded and shipped off to sick bay, the other was dragged off by ships security.
Kraiger had watched the purser sneak around the ship and enter the cabin that these two men had come from. So we paid the cabin a little visit (without the captain knowng of course). We found some money and a card (if I remember correctly)
Thats when we took a break.