Chickens In The Dark - A Zaibatsu/Hostile Mini Campaign On Colony World - Tau Ceti

 The Mendoza cartel's operations along the Chinese game trails on  Tau Ceti got a big bang from the September group's demotition work. The September Group then mopped up any remaining forces. We began pushing deeper into thier operations. The Mendoza's Cartel has set up with the Chinese black market forces and these run deep on Tau Ceti. 

This follows on the heels of our mission from May 19th's Hostile game session. Here we're playing different PC's with a revenge operation on our plate. The biggest problem was the fact that DM Paul had inserted a sniper with a spotter in the jungle surrounding the Chinese black market forces. Since we were connected with the American forces on Tau Ceti this was an off the books operation. Eventually we got the sniper & spotter. And then blew the entire camp and base off the map.  We then went on a shopping trip to the black market in American side  & bought new weaponry from the Dirty Wars Supplement

  We commuicated with our Japanese contacts as we dined on Devil Cow steaks and fries on the American side planning our next move. We knew that there were supply lines along the Chines controlled corridor and while we had shut down Chinese black market operations for a time. We need them crippled & we contacted our TLA embedded agents. Things we grim on the TLA's side as we had pinched off arms to the resistence and the Chines were not happy with the situation. 
We needed more intel on the Mendoza Cartels ties to the American and Chinese corporations. We sent in two of our assassins to gather intel in the Chinese capital. More to come! 

Cartel Genocide - A Zaibatsu/Hostile Mini Campaign On Colony World - Earth - Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum

 So in tonight's Hostile rpg game, we're still dealing with the fall out from Zozer Games's Street Scum - Situation Report 010 & the taking in of our Fixer Thackery. Whom we saved serveral sessions ago & put on our Russian mercenary unit known as the September Group's payroll. We ended up destroying 'The Vendetta' because of certain unsavory practices that Sentyabr'skaya gruppa aka the September group wasn't having. The Blood Eagles the rivals to the Vendetta took it personally and this led to a blood feud that has bloodied the streets of Neo Houston. Tonight's session follows events from back in December 10th of 

And tonight more nasitness as the Blood Eagle's Mendoza Cartel bosses decided that enough was enough! They sent four homemade tank dreadnaughts against our group. This was a huge mistake as the dreadnaughts are equipped with two flame throwers which took out the gate guards at our head quarters. This ended up having the party declare war on the Mendoza Cartel after the homemade tanks were destroyed with shaped charge booby traps. 
We were not amused at the thought of being attacked in our own house even though technically the party isn't originally from this universe. We took the place of the September group of this universe by taking over thier old headquarters after the originals were killed. We contacted the US police forces and had our hackers dig into thier data bases with our internal contacts. Then we hit the Mendoza Cartel's operations within Neo Huston with raids and slaughtered all of the cartels personel within Neo Houston. 
We then brought several of our assets who have been operating outside on assignments back in house to boost the ranks. We then went on a shopping trip to the black market in Dallas & bought new weaponry from the Dirty Wars Supplement

Our blackmarket contacts in Dallas got very nervous because of the amount of weaponry & ammo we picked up. They wanted to know if a gang war was going to happen in Neo Houston?! 
We simply growled, "Could they get bigger guns?!" And then informed them that they might want to abandoned any operations within Neo Houston. At the stroke of  midnight, the entire headquarters of the the Mendoza Cartel in Neo Houston disappeared in a puff of smoke as an orbital sat weapon took it out. We also took out  the Mendoza Cartel's operations out on Abyss & Tau Ceti! 

Merry Christmas Massacre! - Blood Eagle Gang Secrets - On The Streets - A Zaibatsu/Hostile Mini Campaign On Colony World - Earth - Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum

 One of the big questions for the PC's has been whose bank rolling the Blood Eagles gang. The gang took over a town last session. Victory Downs has some stragetic importance to the gang from last sesssion on the blog here. 
And this is because the abandoned town of Merry Christmas Texas was smack dab under the FTL hyperspace crash of the USS Atlas  that claimed the lives of one hundred and two people who completely disappeared in a cloud of nothingness. The town was originally a space craft savalage and repair facility. Now it's abandoned among rumors that it's haunted. 

Merry Christmas Texas is also the dumping ground for the local crime lords & Yammoto Najurai an exacutive for the Matsuyama conglomerate is bank rolling some of this with corporate funds. Any dead human, animal, etc biological materials disappear. Metal of any kind is untouched and there are vast haunted graveyards of unrusting wrecked space craft hulls. The hyperdrive of the Atlas is still spilling it's hyperspacial signature out into the Merry Christmas valley basin. 
The Blood Eagles lured several of the September group's scouts into the basin with tails of an unknown R&D facility where the PharmaSynthesiser technology is being researched. 
Our adventurers got to the edge of the valley just as thier hacker broke into the data base of the Blood Eagles. And found the Warpstone report leaked by the Matsuyama conglomerate to the Blood Eagles. It was already too late! The Blood Eagles got into a fire fight with the September group's scouts forcing them deep into the valley of Merry Christmas. And that's when the hyperspacial things attacked! They took one scout so quickly that neither group had time to react! 

The hyperspatial entities are all that's left of the crew and the inhabitants of Merry Christmas. The Blood Eagles gang lost three of thier own to the alien entities only puncuated by thier screaming and the ganger's dying screams. Now the Blood Eagles didn't wait around for thier comrades and left them to thier fate. Now the three September Group scouts and thier Blood Eagle enemies are left to the tender mercies of the alien horrors that haunt Merry Christmas valley!! 
We were using a combination Zaibatsu/Hostile which is why the melee works very quickly. The hyperspatial entities are similar but not quite the same as those from the Warpstone adventure within The Solomons. These entities within Merry Christmas are far more bloodthirsty! 

Blood Eagle Gang's Revenge Blood! On The Streets - A Zaibatsu/Hostile Mini Campaign On Colony World - Earth - Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum -

 

The player's learned that there were consquences when it comes to leaving messes behind and it was because of the mess that they left on Abyss. The Blood Eagles were approached by a minor exacutive from Abyss whose got it in for the September Group (our mercenary group of Russian adventurers from another universe). This session picks righr up from the latest encounters at Victory Downs and our November 12th session report. 

Yammoto Najurai an exacutive for the Matsuyama conglomerate wants the  PharmaSynthesiser that the player's PC's have aboard several of thier starships. And he's willing to do anything to get it. The player's PC's were responsible for Yammato San for getting a demotion at the Matsuyama conglomerate after the PC's took off to do a mission onto Tau Ceti without paying for some equipment. A major no no and they did manage to kill off the creditors for the corporation. Yammato San knows about the Starship Voskhod  systems that the player's PC's have incorporated into various starships that they've managed to secure and register. 
Th Blood Eagles Vincent android has the plans for the PharmaSynthesiser technology but is keeping the technology up his sleeve as an ace. He's been stoking the Blood Eagles blood feud with the PC's. And the recent capture of the town of Victory Downs is a major sticking point with the PC's. And now the Blood Eagles breaking into the PC's facilities to steal one of thier   PharmaSynthesisers. While simulating an attack as a destraction to cause as much mayhem as possible was huge violation in today game. 

The PC's are looking for pay back and now have left on a vendetta mission to recover the PharmaSynthesiser's technology. This was after we had a doctor PC in today's game get plugged by a Blood Eagle ganger. And this loss to our party & so now the players  want to thaw another doctor outta of cold storage aboard one of the player's facilities. The feud with the Blood Eagles is getting worse as the gangers work to legitmize themselves. 

Blood On The Streets - A Zaibatsu/Hostile Mini Campaign On Colony World - Earth - Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum -- The Company Town Session Report

 In tonight's game the player's PC's ran across Universal Corporation's Challenge Downs company town. The USS Challenge went down and has a malfunctioning hyperdrive just outside of the mining town. The Victory changed the local uranium depoisit to Zeta B a high yield drive fuel. The problem is that the town is bombarded by the strange radiations of the Victory's reactor system. 

The PC's were wondering why the Blood Eagles were leaving this corporate town alone. They decided to spend time in Victory Downs but began noticing odd things such as the stores selling cans labelled meat, food, etc. After a while one or more of the party began to feel sick. And then looked around for reasons why. And found out the whole town was being bathed in radiation. Further searches of Victory Downs found that there was a synthetic processing and manufacturing plant under the town! Universal Corporation has populated the town with the perfect Synethic workers immune to the radiation of the malfunctioning hyperdrive system. 
Everything was going well until the Blood Eagles showed up and 'killed' the mayor. They couldn't stay at Victory Downs so instead they want to install a combat android from the Nexus 16 batch. The September group backed off outta of town. And we're working on a way to get back into town now. 

Blood On The Streets - A Zaibatsu/Hostile Mini Campaign On Colony World - Earth - Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum

 "010 Street Scum

​Earth 2225. The big city. The corporation has a job for you - you do all of its dirty, secret jobs. Well they've got another one for you. There's a gang called Vendetta on the streets, its hostile and violent, and just the kind of group this megacorporation could use for a new project in the city. 
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​Getting close to the gang will be hard. Getting out alive will be even harder ..."  I just got this situation report from Paul Elliot the author/designer of Hostile. And this situation report is being put to good use as we speak. 
The Blood Eagle gang has gotten thier hands on the Roddy android on some lone desert highway just outside of New Houston. The Blood Eagles is holding the Roddy unit and things are not going to go good for them. The Texas AM corporation wants to use the Vendetta gang as a disposible strong arm army. 
The September group are brought in by the Texas AM corporation. The AM corporation  job's is to recruit the Vendetta gang by any means. For bribery and other costs, they will have a spending budget of $100,000. Gangs may not be amenable to just being ‘bought off’ however – they have codes of honour that may require a little more coercion… The company provides a lead for you … a chunin (middleman or street fixer) called Thackery, who deals with the corporations, and who is well known to the criminal fraternity here in the city." 
Everything in Houston and New Houston are being set up for a blood bath. The Blood Eagles and The Vendetta are being set up for violence by the Houston AM coroporation but why?! 
 Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum is interesting because it places two intercity gangs that are being manupulated by corporate corruption and interests. There's a beat here with the gangs becoming possible tools or echoes of violence within a campaign. There's a definitely Mad Max feel to  the Zozer Games Earth worldbook.
Hostile Situation Report #010 Street Scum plugs right into that flavor. Are my players going to go for this?! They've made some very questionable decisions about this in the past. Can the player's PCs survive the Street Scum?!