Session 14

This session was probably one of my most successful to date.  Thanks to our upkeep last session, we basically went straight into game; Simon got a rendezvous from Terran Resistance with a brief overview of the mission plan.  They were being sent in to neutralize the WoB bioweapons lab through a back door, while the rest of the Resistance on-site made a diversionary assault on the main gate.

The party arrived to the considerable confusion of their handlers, who had sent in a group they thought was the Denver team about ten minutes earlier.  Alexei arrives at the scene in time to sort out that the PC's are not impostors, but the team who went ahead of them certainly was.  The PC's rushed in to discover the door already breached and serious damage to the facility, although the research labs they were supposed to neutralize were untouched.

The party quickly dispatched the remaining guards and discovered that the base's self-destruct sequence had been engaged.  A rapid search through the base located the closest self-destruct charge, as well as the branth (progress too deep had been cut off by a tunnel that was presumably collapsed by the impostor group, who the party assumed to be the Missouri Cell.)  Simon went to work hacking the self-destruct system, while Shin and Cho worked frantically to disarm the bomb.

When the party was satisfied that the base was safe for a few minutes, they began frantically collecting samples from the lab.  When Simon successfully broke the self-destruct's command system, it immediately dialed up the "Secondary Method", i.e., the Righteous Justice in orbit.  The party figured they only had a few minutes, so they kept collecting samples, and Cho kept watch over their escape route.  Shortly before they finished, most of the base started to collapse as Simon's hacks proved unequal to the task they set out for, and the falling debris landed on Simon, critically injuring him and rendering him unconscious for the rest of the session.

The partial collapse also separated Cho from the rest of the party, and the bulk of the party from the exit.  They fought their way out from the debris, and discovered that the branth containment lab had been breached, and three of the animals were loose.  Clark moved forward, and used his animal handling and some spare food to lure the branths back into the facility.  Alexander placed a microgrenade on the defused bomb to set it off again, and Shin carried Simon out.

Shin also found a battle armor suit in the lab enclosure, apparently being used as a hazmat suit.  He took a few minutes to put it on as the first shots from Righteous Justice's battery started to land.  Once Shin was suited up, the party fled the facility, with Simon in tow, without further incident.  Alexander detonated the final bomb, presumably destroying the branths and the remainder of the base.