Liberation of Meridian Sector
Level 4
Hours after escaping the overrun planet Budpock players may inspect the cargo hold full of expensive looted goods. The NPC Rayber Farks the heroes captured for money on one of their early missions is discovered unconscious in a crate in the cargo bay. Once she is revived via DC 10 Treat Injury check, players will be informed of how she came into their custody again.
Rayber was sold to the pirates and she had escaped weeks ago by corrupt authorities on Budpock. She had escaped a hidden asteroid mining facility where the pirates used slave labor for hanger maintenance. Rayber managed to hide on an independent trade freighter bound for Budpock before she was discovered. While the smugglers intended to sell her for profit a wealthy family noticed the slave collar around her neck and offered the smugglers enough credits to sell her immediately.
The family was kind enough to have her slave collar removed and life was good on the family estate for a week before Rayber's liberators were killed by the pirates who paid off local authorities to find her. Rayber managed to flee the attack and hide in the family's isolated cabin in the hills.
Rayber requests to be returned to her real family on Cybloc VII. When the Empire maintained patrols in the Cybloc system before they pulled their forces out, Trandoshan slavers satisfied the Imperial's need for regional labor by raiding settlements outside Cybloc's spaceport.
The Stowaway Part 1
Challenge Level 5
Larea Doron has made contact with Alliance frigate Horizon and explained the situation. With a capital ship to back them up, Larea believes without Imperial support the slavers and pirates can be encouraged to leave the Cybloc system.
The Stowaway Part 2
Challenge Level 5
The slavers location has been plotted and the heroes are en route to disrupt their operation.
Alliance intelligence stationed on Horizon has intercepted remote communications from the Car'das smuggling cartel in the Cybloc system. The transmissions have been traced back to the location of the asteroid fuel depot Rayber Farks mentioned. An intercepted message to a rogue technician outfit in the star system has requested a backup generator be installed in an abandoned hanger on the asteroid. Rebel intelligence has arranged for Larea Doron and her trusty pilot Santo Var to pose as the repair crew which will install the backup generator while player characters are free to enter the asteroid caverns and try to seize the pirate fuel depot for the Alliance.
