Classic Traveller 02 - Inflammable Carnivorous Cows
Date of Session
20260909
Present
Navy Starman Esperanza Klein - T
Aerospace Flight Leader Milagrosa Moreau (KIA) - B
Aerospace Pilot Xia Becker - M
Events
Crew resumes at Texas Seven, on whim invite Kana Ma, a loiterer at the bar, to drive their truck: He tears offroad through the massive cow fields. He is of indeterminate age, with blue-tinged eyes, ear canals, and cuticles: He says he is over seventy, but looks mid thirties. He speaks about the joys of eternal life and seems connected to the anagathic trade (illegal on this planet).
The paty abruptly murder him and leave him in a field to be eaten by carnivorous cows, stealing his two doeses of anagathics. They continue to the slaughterhouse-town of Gom: Night has fallen, and the black smoke plume from the burned slaughterhouse (the cows are inflammable) hangs still in the air, darker than the night sky and underlit by the purple and green lights of a heavy police-militia presence around the central industrial area. Gom is a concentric town, with industrial slaughterhouses at the centre, lighter industry around that, then low-density suburbs of boxy houses around that: To retrieve their frozen man they have been given a safehouse address in the residential district, which they go to. They find it full of AELF fighters, a dozen of them.
They meet their contact William Sun, and find their man in a cryogenics mobile casket. It is their mission to take this man to a distant planet. The crew offers the freedom fighters an anagathic tablet; they discuss the political propriety of such a drug and are initially hesitaant, but their opinions are shifted by the argument that eternal life would allow their experience of the revolution and heroic deeds to live on forever and not be forgot by future generations.
I roll for a random encounter: It's police. They can be seen down the road, a small party searching house to house. The crew and revolutionaries debate is the doors down the street are kicked down one by one. Eventually the party sees the twelve freedom fighters off to battle the police-militia while they manhandle the cryo-casket into a van and make their escape through the streets and onto the highway. They are packed into this shitty van, a gravitic shuttle (high tech for this world) pulls off belatedly from its patrol or search over the central district to pursue them. They partake in a running gun battle, and prevail in killing the gunner. Guns blazing, they ram through the roadblock seen last session onto the highway: In so doing Milagrosa is shot dead, her body slips from the van. The crew race on.