The battle of Guo's Star has ended in a hard-won victory for the planet Dirac; the vast pirate fleet of Reynard's Free Station has been pounded into submission by hidden planetary defense weapons. However, some of the pirates are not willing to surrender or go quietly into the night; the controllers of module D8271 spitefully programmed their segment of the station to execute a deorbiting burn before fleeing. In ninety minutes, the module is expected to enter the atmosphere of planet Dirac and impact somewhere near a heavily populated major metropolitan area; tens of thousands will die and many more will lose their homes and suffer from radiation poisoning. Your team is drawn from the crew of the only ship able to intercept module D8271 and rendezvous with it soon enough to have a hope of redirecting it: a small crew transfer shuttle on its way back from the drone control and maintenance base of a mining operation in the Kanewell trojans. To avert disaster, possibly including the deaths of some of your loved ones on the planet below, you will need to gain control of the rogue module and redirect it to hit somewhere less harmful.
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Heathbar Corona Occupation: Shift Supervisor, Mining Drone Control Skills: Leadership, drone control, general spacer work and life skills Age: 44 Appearance: Man, fit with short hair, prematurely grey, brown skin and eyes. Heathbar is a career spacer with the Evershine Mining Combine. He is also active in the Kanewell Drone Operators Union. He has two wives, a co-husband and six children on Dirac and enjoys playing zero-g sports in his free time. Chai Kawaii Occupation: Pilot, Crew transfer shuttle Skills: Small spacecraft handling, atmospheric operations, field maintenance of small spacecraft Age: 31 Appearance: Woman, black hair, light brown skin, green eyes. Chai dreamed of being a space pilot since she was a little girl, and achieved that dream, though until today it wasn't as exciting as she imagined. She is an aspiring author and has lots of time to work on her stories with her passengers mostly in hibernation on the long trips between Dirac and Kanewell. Moe Waters Occupation: Drone mechanic Skills: Mechanical and basic electrical repairs, troubleshooting, service of mining drones Age: 25 Appearance: Woman, blonde hair with light skin, tattooed Moe is a tinkerer by nature and sort of fell into her job as a drone mechanic after ended up stranded in the mining colony on Tom after a breakup. She did online classes and VR tutorials to hone her skills and is headed back to Dirac for vacation after a six-month tour in the Kanewell Trojans. Granite Dotch Occupation: Mining engineer Skills: Mine design, demolition, mineralogy, logistics Age: 31 Appearance: Man, bearded, light skin, red hair and freckles. Granite's parents wanted him to become a musician, and indeed he does enjoy playing the optical zither and guitar, but he always had a fixation on caves, mines, tunnels and other similar places. This led him to his career as a mining engineer with Evershine Mining Combine. Pan Yong Occupation: Drone operator Skills: Drone and mine operations, general spacing skills Age: 22 Appearance: Man, medium light skin, black hair, short and muscular. Yong is from an old family on Tom, the Lagrangian companion of gas giant Kanewell on which there is a significant mining colony. His family owns a restaurant chain there and a plastic resin factory. He decided to make his own fortune rather than going into one of the family businesses and put years of 3D game playing to good use as a drone operator. Pepper Geek Occupation: Drone operator Age: 23 Skills: Drone and mine operations, general spacing skills, Appearance: Woman, medium-brown skin, red-and-white swirled hair. Pepper's family relocated to Tom from Dirac after making enemies with the corrupt administrator of the desalination plant on which their farm depended. Having spend virtually all their resources relocating, Pepper and her siblings had to start working from a young age. Emery Bushrod Occupation: Live support technician Age: 38 Skills: Biology, hibernation, atmospheric and environmental controls and systems, shooting Appearance: Somewhat androgynous-presenting male, tall, long hair, dark skin. Emery is on their second career, after starting out as a security guard. They went back to school to learn life support systems after a close call involving a malfunctioning CO2 scrubber on an orbital shuttle - they never wanted to be at the mercy of a broken life support system again. They work for Evershine Mining Combine.