
6/16/16 - Log We're home, after a visit with the Valkyries. We call the Malthar about a problem he has and we're going to try to help him out. Mr. Beadle has the station held hostage. He's wired to explode and has a deadman's switch. We offer to use the the Freeze Field gun to take out Beadle and save the station. We're talking with the Malthar about getting on to the station and take out Beadle. Is his deadmans switch on to off or off to on? We fly up to the station and disable the external cameras and open the airlock. Inside the airlock is an L6 warbot. Acting quickly, Kyle jumps the bot and deactivates it. We get the functions and reprogram the bot to obey us. We move to a computer station and hack into the cameras and security systems. We find Beadle and see that he's pushing his deadmans switch every 10 seconds, maintaining the bombs so they don't explode. It's a direct wire system, so no way to radio it out. We're trying to find the best route to get to Beadle and incapacitate him and deactivate the bombs. We set up a plan of attack, but we head down to the shop level to load up on all the equipment we could need. We're going after Hush Screens to avoid the Warbots Sonic Devastators. As we get there and enter a shop, we see a blood trail headed into a store room. Following it, we find a dead security guard. We recover a holopad he had been carrying. On the holopad it has his orders from the Malthar to keep an eye on the station. He tried to contact the Malthar via laser and was found by the a combat bot and killed. He saw something and felt it was very important to get a hold of the Malthar. Yaz does a rewind on the cameras to see what the guard saw that was so important. A ship landed in the docking bay and 4 warbots escorted 6 sathar on to the station. Yaz starts tracking the sathar by tracing their steps via the cameras. The sathar are with the WNB and have attached a device to it. They are also downloading information as fast as they can from the station's computers. We roll the cameras back to see what happened to the guard and see that he was trying to use his pistol as a signal gun. A combat bot saw him, called others via wall plug and they came and killed him. In the room with the bots and sathar is a large trunk. The sathar are nervous about it and the warbots are covering it. Kyle comes up with the idea to activate the fire suppression system and take out the oxygen to kill the sathar. Yaz hacks the computer to turn off the life support. The sathar collapse due to deprivation and the robots pull Beadle out of the chest. The robots get confused and plugged into the wall to get information. When they do this, we hack them and break the sathar programming. The sathar collapse due to deprivation and the robots pull Beadle out of the chest. He's unconscious and one of the warbots hits him with a staydose. We go to the WNB and analyze the device attached to it. Eusyl figures out that it is a device that made it into an encrypted subspace radio. We deactivate the WNB and moments after we feel an explosion. Looking at the external cameras, we see a fighter has shot the station. There are 5 fighters attacking, all with assault rockets. The station ends up taking enough damage to become a useless hulk in space. We also see that the Sathar fleet has jumped in. The pirate clans are attacking the UPF...so are the sathar. We load up 5 warbots and the 6 dead sathar into our ship and thrust away, toward Pinnacle Station. Mumba gives us priority to land and we get on the station. The session ends on a cliffhanger. We end up with 5 Warbots. One is armed with a pair of Machine Guns and the others are all armed with a pair of Laser Rifles.