105-1105 – Marduk
The Lady Luck started at Marduk, with the goal of reaching Drinax. This was partly because Penelope and Louis had been summoned by King Oleb of Drinax, and partly because they had a mission to deliver drugs to Rachando on Drinax. They also carried two tons of contraband drugs – what turned out to be highly pure “Red Breeze” stimulant uppers – that they had stolen.
The party sold the shuttle that they had seized from the drug smugglers, before they left Marduk. They could only get a heavily discounted price – the smugglers didn’t exactly have licenses and a full service history – but still made good money. There were no trading goods available at that low population, low tech world that were worth trading for, so the crew picked up some cargo that awaited delivery.
In jump, they passed the week by learning and practising – Louis spend time in a virtual range increasing his ability with slug-throwers to 2 – and by working on the broken crew droid that they’d siezed at the illicit factory. This was done successfully, and, after recharging, the robot (which you still have to name) was rebooted successfully, immediately commenting on the dishevelled state of its new owners. Apparently an extremely capable steward droid, it set about cleaning, dusting, cooking and sewing with the obvious goal of turning the Lady Luck staterooms into those of a luxury liner.
112-1105 – Torpol
The Lady Luck jumped to the waterworld and pleasure planet of Torpol first. Luckily, they were not intercepted by a system defence boat nor searched by customs. They deliver the cargo for a small profit, and Penelope contacted Robert Fennick, a fence with obvious facial work done to his cheekbones, at the high port, to whom they offloaded their two tons of highly pure Red Breeze for a (very) good price: 170kCr per ton. Fennick made it clear that he was willing to help them shift more such cargo if needed. The party haggled to bought a few tons of Robotics at a discount, and filled up the rest of the hangar with cargo as well as some mail bound for Torpol. Then it was departure from Torpol without ever having left the highport, and burned slowly out to the hundred-diameter jump point before dimming the lights and entering the week-long jump bubble to Drinax.
During the flight, they worked on repairing and upgrading the lower-tech sentry bot that they had taken from the drug smugglers, replacing the fixed machine gun mount with an interchangeable one that also fitted a stunner. They were extremely successful in this task, too. Robotic science seems to be a strength on the Lady Luck.
120-1105 – Drinax
On arriving in Drinax after a fast jump, the crew sold the cargo at the highport at a substantial profit before transitioning down to the floating city of King Oleb and delivering the drug sample to Rachando.
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