Classic Traveller 03 - Cold Chain Logistics
Date
20260923
Present
Aerospace Pilot Xia Becker - M
Scientist Beatriz Robinson - B
Events
After breaking through the barricade the shitty, bullet ridden van with a cryogenic casket in the back continues along the highway; A hitchhiker beside the road is picked up (Beatrix Robinson, failed scientist, replacement PC). The van diverts onto rural roads and makes its way through the night. A hitchhiker (random encounter: marine) is ignored. In the sickly monochrome dawn of planet Tagh they come to the depopulated industrial outskirts haloing the Tagh biodome; They are surrounded by hobos (random encounter: thugs), who look like they will strip their van and/or them for parts: They speculate about paying them to smuggle them into Tagh itself, but decide on rolling up the windows for a private chat then slamming the accelerator.
They elect to lie low in a dreary suburb and we fast forward through the week. I give questions based on quality of life for week spent there and elide. They speculate about how to get their frozen man offworld, and decide they will say he is their sickly uncle who they are taking off low-tech Tagh to a higher tech world for medical treatment. Xia attempts to streetwise without streetwise and lose 93 cr worthless photocopied fake ID for their cryogenic frozen man, Beatriz use comp skill to fake ID (i use deferred roll to determine if it will be of quality later).
They realise that only the late Milagrosa's name was tied to the rental vehicle associated with events in Grom and decide to just chance going through the toll-booth check-point of the domed city - the low law-level of this world sees them successful in this gamble. They simply book passage on a ship to neighboring world Karga taking their cryo-casket as cargo: As he goes through customs they roll to see if their self made fake passes muster: It does. They see their man being loaded onto the Blue Rose from the low lounge; They place their bets in the low lottery then slip into unconsciousness waiting to themselves be frozen and loaded.