After some discussion the Cunning Plan's crew scanned the local system (Bellephron's Fall) and identified Tritium and Kernite on the moon of the 3rd planet (a gas giant). The inhabitants (90k of them) are 40% stable mutants- abhumans, somewhat furry with thick skulls, they have the innes-salient look(ref. innesmouth) They described themselves (the shan'sar) as Freemen but apparently technology had been restricted to palaeolithic era. Negotiations with the freemen resulted in Magos Spirit descending to the surface and using his hull-breacher in combination with charge-powder from the macro-cannons for mining. The lack of experience with demolition and mining in general resulted in some dangerous explosions but the Magos's massive machine frame was un-damaged.
The resultant mining reached the Kernite layer, some 250m below the surface. Kernite in it's raw form is crystalline and milky, sometimes shot through with purple. It has been worn by the shan'sar as jewelery, being only accessible from the surface via deep crevices at the poles. Tritium is an oily brown carbon material prone to releasing vapors that can explode in the presence of flame. It is traded with imperium profiteers who ship it to Karthan refineries for the manufacturing of promethium, various plas and crete materials.
The dust from the large scale mining of Kernite proved toxic however the shan'sar were happy with the revelation of great vaults of the material. The explorers culled herds on the nearby feudal world of Bellephron IV for the shan'sar to feast on and constructed hab units of white plas-steel for the workers to live in. With their hulls full of kernite the explorers departed the system for Baraspine. (21 weeks successful mining endeavor)
The navigator, having glimpsed the mind shattering truth from beyond was unable to plot a clear course to Baraspine. His previous notes made months before were strangely indecipherable to him. The voyage was long and several weeks in the gellar fields flickered...
At first it appeared that nothing had gone wrong. Later members of the bridge crew reported that a vessel had appeared on sensors, running parallel to them in the warp. Cautious of any sensor reading in the warp, the Navigator was sure that the lost cruiser "archangel" was within reach. The tech priest however observed a machine spirit flitting between cogitators on the bridge. Using tech-reconsecration rites learnt from the Exorcist Stormraven's data-stacks and it's mono-servitors the tech preists isolated and destroyed a daemonic meme-virus.
More to follow. Man, this was a long session! (from a plot/detail point of view) I have located a ship building excel spreadsheet.
by this guy http://rtrpg.blogspot.com/ who is obviously ship crazy :p
Crazy Cool.
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