Title:          Out to the Black Session Log
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# Out to the Black Session Log

## Session 01

Finishing up some character details, getting in space, getting a ship.

* Taxion and Alex have a link, Taxion had a bad zero G experience
* Alex holds a grudge against Nexus Dynamics, uncle was scared away or something
* Bloy notices that PCs have a foe or tail
    * Someone tailing Taxion, noticed by Bloy's robot
        * Man with curly hair, on the ship
        * Interested in Taxion's stuff
            * Filing through his gear in the hold
* Bloy's second favorite repair kit is missing
* Asteria
    * Taxion was out in the wilderness, distress beacon, Alex picked up on it
    * Sparcely habitated
    * Flex with Taxion out of the port
    * Maybe steal some stuff from Nexus Dynamics
* Cyphers rolled, all subtle
* They get to the Hamaya Filco, spending from their speed pools to do so
* Some sort of hostile action
* Bloy 20s on hacking, gets direct access to tons of black box info on the system
    * This all happened a year ago, well beyond the lifetime of the distress beacon
    * Originated from Helios, another planet
* Intrusion: deeper space beacon that bloy detects
* Jeremy learns that they've stepped into a honeypot
* Phil rolled a 1, tore suit, party took some time to bring him back
* Nix approaching as they get back on the ship
* Bloy rolls a 1 to try to get the Stars Alive out there fast, so they're adrift
* Player Intrusion something in space disturbing the engines and the mag grapple that Nix is using
* No data after the attack or nothing to record
* Phil, in the center of the ship, hears curly haired guy
* Pirates try to flee, but are all killed except for two who are captured
* Curly haired guy tailing Jeremy has also been captured
* Looks like the Nix

## Session 02

* Bloy rolls a 20 to find hidey holes and whatnot on the Nix, miscellaneous equipment and two cyphers
* they start interrogating guys, especially Matsumura
    * Bloy has some "tradecraft"
* pirates were basically nobodies
* the ship needs to have its transponder hacked or something to stop showing up as the Nix
* plan is to turn in the pirates, claim ship
* go back to Filco, find transponder, take transponder
* Poseidon III
    * agriculture main export
    * no civil war or anything like that
    * people on the fringe looking for new resources
    * Taxion said there was tech to acquire or profit from
* interrogated Matsumura, he said he was hired by Nexus Corp
    * Taxion knifes him, whispers "thank you", spaces him
* the *Nix*
    * no weapons, but hardpoints for weapons
* pirates try to make their way out through the walls to an escape pod
    * they're trying to make their way to the helm
    * they communicate that the party was headed to Poseidon III
    * party tries to find an asteroid/etc. debris field to hide in
* Level 5 cell created for the Nix in their downtime
* Alex investigating the comms sent by the pirate to somewhere on Poseidon
    * Pirates have taken a liquid nitrogen refinery and made it their base
* Poseidon III
    * as they approach, they're beaconed, they identify themselves
    * 5,000-10,000 in the colony
    * doing a week or so to get proper identification
* Next time on Poseidon III
    * looking for corporate secret in order to get an edge over on the Nexus Corp
    * perhaps the Nexus Corp wants to weaponize something that this other corp bioengineered/whatever
