I began speaking with Tristan Tiara and helped her to successfully make it to her ship and engage a successful jump into hyperspace. She named her ship, The Whisper of the Void. It has the vector style cockpit, oxygen jet engines, a shield generator and auto turret weaponry. Her cargo hold contained 50 pieces of scrap. She is what is called a Glitchblade. According to the databases I am able to access these Glitchblades are the class of spacefarer—explorers, mercenaries and adventurers—that are more rogue like in the parlance of the most popular TTRPG in our ancient time. She carries a carbon dagger with a heat chamber modifier. She has also been enhanced with cybernetics. She may be able to expand one day but for now she has a memory slot than can activate a “hack” called shadow. I haven’t seen her use it yet, but it seems popular among the Glitchblades. When activated the user becomes immune to all damage, but of course a hack this powerful uses a lot of energy. Tristan seems to be suffering from a lack of memories and I have speculated that the implants may have affected her.
According to ship computers the first Star System we will explore is called The Andromedan Galaxy.
Immediately Tristan navigated her way to a W.A.R.G. controlled settlement in sector 15. The settlement has all the typical amenities: controlling faction headquarters, loading dock/space port, wire doc, training simulation areas, trading post, scrap yard and living pod area. The W.A.R.G. are a rebel group with three sub-factions of differing ideologies. As a unit they want the existing centralized trade faction—the ISF—brought down. The subgroups have different ideas about how the ISF should be replaced.
Settlements immediately repair ship hulls while the wiredocs see to it that the visitors themselves are brought back to full health. Very few things in the settlement are provided for free. Tristan having just started exploring, has no money. She looked around the settlement and eventually went into the trade area. She was approached by a large shirtless factory worker who asked her to take him off world. He promised to share in loot if Tristan would take him back to a planet he once fled from some time ago. Tristen said she would think about it but was non-commital. She next went to the living pods and noticed children playing and the hydroponics farming going on in the settlement. She was leery of taking any jobs from the W.AR.G. faction as to try to avoid hostilities with other factions in the area. She went to the wire doc who turned out to be a scatterbrained woman named nurse Cherry. Cherry needed frag grenades for a client but had misplaced them in her messy facility. She hired Tristan to craft the grenades. Tristen took 40 pieces of scrap from her cargo hold leaving her with 10. She went to the scrapyard and crafted the grenades which she sold to Cherry for 40 serum. Apparently serum is currency here—it’s liquid based. Cherry determined that Tristan was indeed a Glitchblade, but other than memory slots she saw no additional cyber implants. Not wanting to commit to the WARG at this time, and with no real money to spend, Tristen left the settlement and continued to explore.
Entering sector 5 Triston encountered two Corisar mercenaries arguing about the capabilities of their ships and their ability as pilots. Tristen was somehow roped in to being the third member of the spaceship race. She bet 30 of her 40 Serum and lost miserably. The two mercenaries each took 15 of her serum leaving her with only ten remaining. She was feeling low when she was surprised by the man from the trade area. He was a stowaway on her ship and he still wants Tristen to take him back to his old planet.
Fuel: 18/20
Serum: 10
Scrap: 10
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