Thread:Astutulus/@comment-5753538-20121121205356

Aurelia, Victoria, Aron and Astutulus used an enemy APC to return to Belvoir Castle with the prisoners. A satisfied Centurian Jonas gave us a new mission: deliver a case containing a Fusion Cell to George Strongheart II in Edinburgh, exchange for another different case, and return. With Ta'Shaa Ker and Augustus for company, we set out this time under cover of darkness. An Anti-grav generator takes the weight of the luggage and people who are resting.

Travelling by the north road, after down we spot an RD-104 and deduce (it has no night sensors / a 12 hour range / is morning / is flying W to E) that it belongs to Invictus Illuminati. It must have seen us!

Later we meet a party hauling a large fusion bomb along a railway line! Twenty slaves are supervised by armed guards. They talk without violence, but they reveal nothing. Conversation is interrupted by the return of the same RD-104 -- this time unleashing it’s forward-facing weapons! The drone is neutralised by a joint effort, but unfortunately it’s remote operators chose to destroy it by diving and detonating amid the slave party.

An Invictus Illuminati VTOL aircraft promptly arrived to exact further aerial revenge! Again it was neutralised, this time not by firepower but by "causing" pilots to eject and then by "causing" the craft to settle on ground in controlled manner. "Cause" was not readily obvious... but unspoken consensus credits Ta'Shaa Ker with these phenonema!!

In gratitude the slave-drivers become more talkative. Turns out the “slaves” were mere convicts; and these men innocently want to adapt the fusion bomb to peaceful ends; as a power source for the Sheffield Republic. We let them carry on moving it towards Sheffield.

Astutulus and Ta'Shaa Ker refurbish the VTOL aircraft systems, replacing the ejector seats, while others scratch off the I.I. insignia. It was then flown by Ta'Shaa Ker to Oakingham Outpost where we were greeted by Centurian Laurel. 