Season 1 Session Recaps

Session: 1.1. Date: 7 Nov 22. PCs: Soka, PO-C4, Jorgen. 

Recap: PCs saved Winston Havlock, retired Ace admiral, who reportedly knows the location of a downed Ace Carrier. Rumored to have working starships aboard <Custom>

Session: 1.2. Date: 12 Nov 22. PCs: Soka, Orrik, Vinny. 

Recap: PCs were contacted by Dido, to save Batu a fellow Rebel hacktivist. He was held at the Lucky Flight Casino, a seedy run down joint. They saved him. Ishi  (a drug dealer who was somewhat helpful), and Vaska (the manager) were killed. <The Lucky Flight Takedown, Cy_Borg>

Session: 1.3. Date: 19 Nov 22. PCs: Soka, P0-C4, Jorgen, M&M. 

Recap: The Troopers helped the guard protect a coastal outpost (Galveston) by squashing bugs coming from the depths. They proceeded to a research station (researching sound) that was rumored to have a sub. They eventually found it, along with an AI, named Warden, directed them to Tiamat station. Warden claimed to have a plan from there. The Troopers returned to base to rest prior to step 2. <The Isle of the Plangent Mage, OSE>

Session: 1.4. Date: 20 Nov 22. PCs: Soka, Jorgen, Senip. 

Recap: The Troopers took the ocean crawler to Tiamat station. Guided by Warden, they were able to get the station operation again and drop a payload of explosives into the hive's heart, eliminating the threat (and only kind of destroying a third of the station in the process). <Into the glowing Depths, MCC #13>

Session: 1.5. Date: 27 Nov 22. PCs: Soka, Jorgen, Senip, Vinny, M&M. 

Recap: The Troopers explored the mountain of Corpus while trying to find the crashed Starcarrier,  Itzamna. On the way they discovered a lead on some Warp Gates (one was intact, one is damaged and lost), and a Psi-Hi robot (Gunhild) looking for a lost princess. They eventually found the Starcarrier, locating an AI memory bank (the size of a house), but were interrupted by SRC's PMC. The Troopers left with a 30 seater starship, but conceded The Itzamna (for now). <Holy Mountain Shaker, OSE>

Session: 1.6. Date: 11 Dec 22. PCs: Soka, Jorgen, Vinny. 

Recap: The Troopers were called to help a precursor researcher, Buddy, escape his SRC contract. SRC found out about Buddy, paid off the Neo-Austin Guard not to intervene, and hired hit squads to eliminate Buddy. The Troopers extracted Buddy, but in the process self identified themselves to Reeves, the Head of Security for SRC. Vinny now has a bounty on his head. Buddy did supply a location of a precursor research facility for their trouble <Custom Scenario, based off Smokin' Aces>

Session: 1.7. Date: 28 Dec 22. PCs: Soka, PO-C4, Orrek Teeg, M&M, Archibald, Genos. 

Recap: The Troopers elected to explore the facility, Athena Station, provided by Buddy. Inside they found a dead AI (Athena), Athena's Virtual Assistant (a VI), a whole lotta bugs let in by a repaired and reactivated warp gate, a lot of dead humans as a side effect of those bugs, the Hameni "Kokoum" (Sparga Native), and their real prize... a Precursor Tech AI vessel. <Incursion of the Ultradimension, MCC #3>

Session: 1.8. Date: 29 Jan 23. PCs: Soka, PO-C4, Genos. 

Recap: The Troopers took on a job to steal the cybernetic legs of Steel Jackhammer, a KillMatch Star, for Carlos. They infiltrated his complex, drugged him, and stole his legs. Security followed, and a gun battles ensued. Genos killed 3 of the goons before having his legs blown off and was run over by a truck... RIP. <Reaper Repo, Cy_Borg>

Session: 1.9. Date: 19 Feb 23. PCs: Soka, Jorgen, Rico. 

Recap: The Troopers traveled to the ruins Dallas Fort-Worth Mega City (DFMC) and were hired by Protis to assassinate Isaac Stone, a former Trooper General looking to build an empire by organizing the Wasteland Marauders. The Troopers succeeded, got a huge payday, and destabilized the marauder army in the DFMC in the process. <Customer, very loosely based off DCC #87>

Session: 1.10. Date: 26 Feb 23. PCs: Soka, Jorgen, Rico, Sinep. 

Recap: The Troopers agreed to meet at a Bar to celebrate their huge payday! Unfortunately, Sinep, who had been seen talking to Vinny, was tracked and the squad was ambushed. They managed to get away by the skin of their teeth, and Vinny's location remained a secret. Captain Reeves was pissed, and one of the Bounty Hunters (Beast Man), escaped. <Custom Scenario>

Session: 1.11. Date: 12 Mar 23. PCs: Soka, Jorgen, Rico, Vinny, Pyke. 

Recap: The Troopers returned to Mount Corpus, where they met Celeo, a Trooper from 'Ouston. From there, they returned a Psi-Hi alien (Zera) to her Robot (Gunhild) and father (Zeratul), who rewarded them handsomely (including the location of WARDEN). Vinny and Rico were captured, and Vinny was killed in the escape attempt. Next, the Troopers entered the warp, where they found a devastated world, and a mountain of bones on which sat a medieval style castle. Inside they found a chained casket and eventually released the first Trooper, "X", who quickly disappeared to "give it to them". Finally, they got a call that Doc had disappeared about 12 hours prior. <Custom follow up to Holy Mountain Shaker, OSE>

Session: 1.12. Date: 26 Mar 23. PCs: Soka, Rico, Jorgen, Sinep, M&M, PO-C4. 

Recap: The Trooper found Doc badly injured, but alive. He revealed Reeves had captured him but his men had failed to kill him. The Troopers decided not to seek revenge on Reeves as the SRC PMC would be expecting an attack. Instead they went to Orbit to recover WARDEN and brought them back planetside (but did not yet plug them in). <Custom scenario, PCs chose not to engage in what I had planned.... >:(  >

Session: 1.13. Date: 2 Apr 23. PCs: Soka, Rico, M&M.. 

Recap: The Troopers investigated a lead about a fallen star... Weird, reality breaking things were going on. A man named Laird summoned the "star" using Psionic Sorcery. The Troopers killed the star (on purpose?) and Laird died without being healed, so what happened (or how) seems to be lost forever. <The Weird that befell Brigbolton, OSE>

Session: 1.14. Date: 23 Apr 23. PCs: Soka, Rico, Jorgen. 

Recap: The Troopers tracked a gray onto a hovertrain, but were unsure who he had disguised himself as. Eventually they discovered him, obtained the data, and escaped. In the interim, they also met a Psionic on the run, Sally, who joined the Troopers on their escape. <Liberty Fall, Dustball [playtest], Troopers>

Session: 1.15. Date: 30 Apr 23. PCs: Soka, M&M, Rico, Jorgen. 

Recap: The Troopers were hired by Starkiss to find her Brother, SunBeam who never left prison after his release date. To ensure they had help, the Troopers connected WARDEN to the internet. The Troopers wanted more help, so they agreed to unshackle WARDEN, so she could hack Echo Station's VI. The Troopers eventually discovered that Laird had hired a doctor Bradley to research and control Nanoburn. The Troopers put a stop to him, but unfortunately SunBeam had been killed in the experiments. Bradley's somewhat unwilling assistent left with the Troopers. The head Janitor was promoted to the new Warden. <Loosely based on The cleansing of Prison Station Echo, Mothership>

Session: 1.16. Date: 21 May 23. PCs: Soka, M&M, Rico, Jorgen, Sinep. 

Recap: The Troopers experienced Deja vu on a relaxing sunday afternoon. As time when on, they realized they were caught in a time loop. Through investigation, they realized a power Psion was altering timelines. Eventually they tracked the source, and found out Laird was attempting to return from the grave. They stopped it, but Laird made clear, he will be back.<Custom Scenario>

Session: 1.17. Date: 1 Jun 23. PCs: Soka, Rico, Orrek, Jorgen, M&M, Nilson, [Nicole]. 

Recap: The Troopers took a job to raid an SRC Lab. After explosions, shit chutes, car chases, and Wendy's, the group made it back... where they celebrated M&M's birthday <3 <Custom Scenario>

Session: 1.18. Date: 8 Jun 23. PCs: Soka, Rico, Orrek, Jorgen, M&M. 

Recap: The Troopers heard that Old Ben Kebobi knew of a place where warp energy was abundant. After investigating, it was discovered a younger Ben was using a time stasis bubble to keep children of the past safe from an attack on the school.  The Troopers decided to pull the kids out, fight off the attack (using Bill the Ace's "Tick" maneuver in which they jump onto a passing plane). On their return, they learned that the peach trees arcology was in heavy lockdown, and Warden seemed to be responsible. <Custom Scenario>

Session: 1.19. Date: 15 Jun 23. PCs: Rico, P0-C4, Jorgen, Nilson. 

Recap: The Troopers were begged by City Guard captain Ralph to intervene into the Peach Trees incident and find out what the hell was happening. In exchange he gave them the location and access codes of SRC research facilities. The Troopers snuck in and found that the arcology was over run with nano-infected and awful experiments. Screens and infected would speak of "Forcing the next stage of human evolution" and "humanity was in a fight or flight situation, with no where else to flee too".They made contact with  police officers holed up and put together a plan of attack to bring down the arcology mainframe, which would (in theory) stop whoever was causing the issues to lose master control. Ohh, and P0-C4 lost his face. <Renraku Shutdown (1/2), Shadowrun>

Session: 1.20. Date: 22 Jun 23. PCs: Rico, P0-C4, Jorgen, Soka, Orrek, M&M, Felix. 

Recap: The Troopers were able to smuggle some more of their own in. Reinforced, they began the climb up. In the megamart on floor one, they found a mall cop (And former Trooper) being hunted by a Nano-Burned "perfect form". They defeated him and saved Felix (who was an exceptionally rare case of surviving Nano-Burn without intervention). Later, Warden made herself known and informed the squad that she was built to protect humanity all costs, and that is what she was doing. By subjugating a few thousand, she could make guardians of humanity, ultimate warriors. The squad did not agree with her. The Troopers continued to ascend and eventually made it to the Mainframe. There they battled WARDEN's guardians and slagged the mainframe. Prior to her being destroyed, she informed the Squad that she had already spread to other cities, and she would continue her work with or without them. <Renraku Shutdown (2/2), Shadowrun>

Session: 1.21. Date: 6 Jul 23. PCs: Rico, Jorgen, Orrek, M&M, Felix, Nilson. 

Recap: Govenator Tarkin was poisoned! The antidote was intercepted and hidden among the incoming shipments for Emperor day (6 days of celebration). The Troopers had to search bars (and drink a lil) to find the pieces of antidote components. They eventually found out Med, a Hameni, had stolen it and scattered th parts. During the barcrawl M&M threw up on Rico (twice), Nilson made friends with a Duke of Space Hell, Jorgen got to lick an imperial boot, Felix fell out a 6 story building, Orrek met a lady (Tallahassee), and the group got to meet X and his twink grandson at a Troopers bar (The Brutal Legion). Govenator Tarkin was eventually saved by his son Harry Tarkin (who lowkey had help from the Troopers) <Barkeep on the Borderlands, system agnostic>

Session: 1.22. Date: 13 Jul 23. PCs: Rico, Jorgen, Orrek, M&M, Nilson, Soka, Rosie. 

Recap: The PCs decided to investigate a Trooper's base that was abandoned shortly after the fall. THere they stumbled upon Rosie, a Trooper from Galvestonia that was there to recover a nuke. The base had been taken over by wastelanders, but they were quickly dispatched and the nuke destroyed. On their return home, the Troopers received a call from their "Friend" Reeves who was willing to pay them to take out "a really bad person" on his squad that he couldn't touch. The Troopers agreed and the really bad person turned out to be "Beast Man". Beast Man had received some upgrades from SRC but when confronted, Beast Man's typical drones didn't work. He went down easy. On the way to the meeting spot though, it was revealed that he had a bomb hidden on him that exploded. THe Troopers survived, but had to go into hiding (using Doc's apartment). <Killer of Giants, Umerican Survival Guide & Custom Scenario for the second half> 

Session: 1.23. Date: 20 Jul 23. PCs: LePoo, M&M, Soka, Rico, PO-C4. 

Recap: As the Troopers laid low from last session, a notification went out to all phones and screens. Reeves announced (in summary), "When Quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to".  Buddy has sold out the location of Haven. The Troopers base was attacked with overwhelming numbers. They evacuated and in retaliation revealed that they had a hidden weapon... the giant space laser. They fired the untested weapon and hit with a 96% accuracy, completely obliterating SRC HQ and Reeves himself. They then evacuated the city, selling most assets to get the Space Base (Pillar of Summer) up to habitable condition.  <Custom Scenario>

Session: 1.24. Date: 27 Jul 23. PCs: M&M, Senip, Soka, Rico, Nilson. 

Recap: The Troopers decided to lay low as  the Pillar of Summer was prepared. They headed towards a precursor research base, Minerva Station, where they encounter a breach to the warp. They eventually closed it, resolving a lot of the strangeness around the station, and found several fun precursor tech items. <Evil of the Ancients, MCC #9>

Session: 1.25. Date: 3 Aug 23. PCs: M&M, Soka, Rico, Nilson, Rosie, Orrek, PO-C4. 

Recap: The Troopers built their new base, The Pillar of Sacrifice (renamed from the Pillar of Summer). Then, they heard from their friend Rosie who had a job, get a client out of Neo-Austin and to 'Ouston. When they arrived, they found out the client was... Buddy. Buddy was wanted by SRC (to tie up loose ends), the guard (for "questions"), the Devil's Daughters (for late, significant payment on drugs). After a lengthy debate, they agreed to take the job. After some fire fights, in line of sight of 'Ouston, they got a call from the Govenator's son, Harry Tarkin. He would pay them to turn over Buddy Alive (half if he was dead) and officially pardon them of wrong doing. The Troopers decided to betray Buddy and Orrek beat his bank account pin out of him. Before leaving, Nislon gave Buddy a grenade and Buddy took that way out (RIP Buddy... he was a real P.O.S.). <Custom Scenario>

Session: 1.26. Date: 10 Aug 23. PCs: M&M, Soka, Rico, Orrek, PO-C4. 

Recap: The Troopers investigated the rumors of something destroying outposts. They tracked a large "something" to a giant, miles wide junkyard. There they met an old man "He" that was trapping "dark psions" in a strange shrine called The Lynch Gate"... but he was not responsible for the destruction. THey then found out it was actually a Mech being piloted by an anti-colonialist and mob boss Hameni (native), Med. After being defeated, he agreed to help the Troopers by building them a Mech, in exchange for them never striking against the Hameni (except in self defense). <Mostly custom scenario + Orbital Debris, Mothership>

Session: 1.27. Date: 31 Aug 23. PCs: Soka/Sally, Rico, Orrek, M&M, Nilson. 

Recap: The Squad went to investigate Sally's missing friend, River. On their way to the missing psion camp, their dropship was brought down my electrical anomalies over a long ruined city. All their electronics were failing. Through light investigation work, they found that a variant of the Bugs (highly afraid of light) had set something up in the sewers causing the problems, and that the Psion school had gone down to investigate. The Troopers investigated and eventually found a portal to a bug planet causing the errors. In a rush to close the portal, Nilson fired a teleporting grenade into a teleporter... and caused chaos. The portals collapsed into themselves, but not before sucking in multiple bugs and a few Troopers. Rico, M&M, and Sally are missing and presumed dead. After the portal closed electronics started to work more normally and the other Psions were found. Soka decided to retire from the Platoon to start her own platoon and train a new batch of Psions. <Very loosely based on Void Lord, OSE>

Session: 1.28. Date: 7 Sep 23. PCs: Orrek, Nilson, Jorgen, PO-C4, Hot Shot, Geremiah, Dido. 

Recap: The Troopers held a little memorial for Rico, M&M, and Sally... until Doc said he knew a guy who might be able to get them back; X. X said he knew a guy, a specialty Psion, who could navigate the warp. The navigator was held prisoner in LynchGate. Through some negotiation, a few close calls with guards, and massive prison escape, the Troopers escaped with the Navigator (Laird 3)... Then, they sent He in covered in bombs to get revenge on the warden who locked up He's wife... and destroyed the Lychgate in a massive implosion. <Loosely based on Assault on the Spire, system agnostic>

Session: 1.29. Date: 14 Sep 23. PCs: NIlson, Hot Shot, Geremiah, Dido, Pyke. 

Recap: Laird needed the Wayfinder to navigate the warp. He pulled ships out of time, moments before they were destroyed in a bug attack, so the Troopers could retrieve the wayfinder on the condition they don't save anyone. As they searched the to-be-doomed ships, they found out the bugs attacked because Laird made a deal with them. They (Nilson), reliving the Trauma of the original attack, broke the deal and saved over 100 Troopers. Laird also broke the deal, attempted to take over the Trooper space Station, and brought in the bug swarm of the passed to take over Sparga. Doc killed a Laird clone and saved the Troopers. <Distress Signals, Mothership>

Session: 1.30. Date: 21 Sep 23. PCs: Nilson, Hot Shot, Geremiah, Dido, Orreck, Jorgen, Senip. 

Recap: As the invasion started, the Troopers crashed into the bug next via drop pod and, working there way through the nest and intense fights, eventually assassinated the Sovereign. On the warfront, the Human combined forced (300 Troopers and 10,000 city guard), coordinated by WARDEN, defeated the 25,000 bugs with about ~25% human casualties and 96% of bugs destroyed. <Loosely based on Cry of the Stingbat, Shadowdark>

Session: 1.31. Date: 28 Sep 23. PCs: Hot Shot, Geremiah, Dido, Orreck, Jorgen. 

Recap: The Troopers stormed (Space) Hell to liberate their stranded combrades. There, they met negotiated with the first *True* Emperor, Ovv. He and his first three children (The-Necro Butcher, The Bringer of Hate; Motherwister, Master of Agony Untold; and Plaguewielder, the Inviter of Contagion) damned themselves in a deal with Warp Horrors in exchange to ensure humanity became an interstellar empire. In a deal with Ovv, they exchanged information from the Necro-Butcher for M&M, M&M traded a very rare Psion book (+2 to alter reality) for Sally, and Hot Shot accepted a life of servitude for Rico. Ovv seemed unhappy to hear his empire was crumbling... <FrostBitten and Mutilated, Lamentations of the Flame Princess>

Session: 1.32. Date: 26 Nov 23. PCs: Rico, Dido, Jorgen, PO-C4. 

Recap: The Troopers explored an old precursor train system. AFter battling Psi-Hi and a VI, they found fun precursor Tech + M, a precursor sentinel (golem) who agreed to be there friend <Mayhem on the MagTrain, MCC #14>

Session: 1.33. Date: 2 Dec 23. PCs: Rico, Dido, Orreck, PO-C4, Sinep, Jorgen. 

Recap: The Troopers met with a punk bad, System Blower Army (SBA), led by Weaselface Chemist. He agreed to pay the Troopers $1.5M in exchange for kidnapping or recruiting the daughter of SRC's last remaining Executive Officer, COO Marlo Samson. They planned to extort evidence of her attendance, or ransom her back to daddy... Weaselface was unclear. The Target, Celia Samson, caught wind of someone looking for her and locked herself down... but the Troopers convinced her to come with them. They got her to the show of the SBA show... where she was executed on stage to excite the anti-corpo crowd into a blood frenzy. The Troopers swore revenge for Celia. Later, WARDEN called... she was compromised and requested the Troopers help execute her. <Teenage Rebellion and The System Blower Army, Cy_Borg>