The Meeting
Director Anderson invites a select group of mercenaries (the players), with special skill sets to the Atlas Corp. HQ, to inquire about a job opportunity. The job is to find and retrieve a "package" from the Atlas Research Cruiser: A23, and return it safely to Atlas Corp. HQ. There is a catch however, the research cruiser went missing a few days ago in rout to Sirillia. Director Anderson has the location for the last place they sent out a communication. The group is also to see the state of Cruiser: A23's crew and ship. If the ship is in good condition the group is to return it to Atlas Corp. HQ as well. Upon completion of the job each member of the group will be paid 600 credits.
The group is given an Atlas B3 Cargo Ship which includes an Osiris Drop Ship. Once the group reaches the coordinates given to them by Director Anderson, they come upon an empty sector of space. The Atlas Research Cruiser: A23 can be seen floating in the blackness. (If players try to contact the Cruiser over coms, they will get static). Upon docking with the cruiser the players can enter it and search for its crew. Inside, they find that the power is out except for the life support systems, (players can turn the power back on by rebooting the system in the generator room). The ship is mostly empty until the group comes upon a few dead/decaying bodies in a hallway. When they enter the generator/engine room they find a few more dead bodies behind a makeshift barricade. Once the system is reset the power comes back on along with some strange sounds of movement and moaning/tricking noises. Strange zombified crew members start to attack the group. The group can now head up to the bridge of the A23 Cruiser to make contact with Director Anderson. However, on their way to the bridge they encounter more of the zombie-like crew members.
When the group reaches the bridge they find the "package" which is rectangular metal box (6' long & 4' wide), it has a small glass window on the top. When the group makes contact with Director Anderson, he tells them turn the ship around a fly back to Skroth 35. Once there, the group is to pilot the cruiser into the surface of Skroth 35 along with the compromised "package". At the same time a ship appears out of hyperspace near the A23, it is a ship of space pirates (The Red Skulls). The pirates begin boarding the A23, unawear to the situation inside. The A23's weapons systems are found to be down and they must be rebooted in the server room. Players must fight thier way through the ship, past Red Skulls and zombies, until they reach the server room and reboot the weapons system. Upon rebooting the weapons systems the auto guns will begin firing on the Red Skull ship.
When the group brings the A23 above Skroth 35, they receive a communication from Director Anderson. He tells them that not only does he need them to crash the ship into the surface but he also needs them to fly down to the research installation on Skroth 35 and collect a different sample from there.
Once at Research Facility Alpha, the group finds that the same fate as the Research Cruiser: A23, has come upon it. Players must fight their way through zombies (the infection) until they reach the data banks of the facility where they must download some data and then retrieve a new sample, which is in a small glass container. The sample looks like fungus.
The group can then leave Skroth 35 and return to Atlas Corp. HQ on Sirillia. Upon return they are met by Director Anderson who gives them their payment and lets them keep the Cargo ship and Drop ship for the extra work they had to do. He also warns them not to speak of anything that occurred on the job to anyone else. He then dismisses them.
Components
Goals
1. Retrieve "package" from Research Cruiser: A23
2. Find out what happened to Research Cruiser: A23 (and return it to Atlas Corp. HQ).
3. Crash Crusier: A23 into Skroth 35, along with the "package".
4. Recover data and new sample from Research Facility Alpha (on Skroth 35).
5. Return to Director Anderson
Relations
Protagonists
PCs
Allies
Director Anderson
Adversaries
The Infection
Backdrops
Locations
Sirillia
Atlas Corp. HQ (on Sirillia)
Atlas Research Cruiser: A23
Skroth 35
Research Facility Alpha
Threats
The Infection
The Red Skulls
Related Characters
Related Organizations
Related Locations
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