Firefly: RotR - Story Details

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Before Episode One

Trigger Event: The Raven's Eye, a space station and shipyard in orbit around Highgate in the Blue Sun System, is breached by an unknown cluster of ships whose opening salvo fuses the station's magnetic docking locks, preventing any ship in hard-dock from easily departing.

Those ships powerful enough to do so, blast free, heedless of the inevitable damage to the station and subsequent loss of human life, but with rare exception these ships, themselves damaged in their violent departure, are picked off before they can escape.

As the assailants from the invading fleet breach the station, a sparse handful of resourceful souls steal a Dakota Class Light Freighter hung in dry dock awaiting repairs and not sealed in place by the fused mag clamps on the outer shell, tearing away from the station under cover of debris left behind by the violent departure of larger vessels. The stout little ship is surprisingly agile, dodging potential hazards as it flees the system.

Its register lists its original wartime designation as the Duizhang De Duzhu (Captain's Wager), but it's current designation is the Jiangshi (Blood Ghost). It is owned by Ke Jian of the Hóng Tiān'é (Red Swan) tong.

Opening Scene: Forward six months. The thrown-together crew that fled the Raven's Eye together in an appropriated ship has had time to get to know each other and their peculiar little vessel - which seems to have been heavily retrofitted to accommodate work somewhat less legal than its original mission design. The tong boss who owned her before them was plainly a smuggler or worse. But for all she doesn't look like much, she's a gorramn fine ship.

And now her crew has its first legitimate job.

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Episode Archives

• Episode 1 - The Kingfisher's Daughter post 002-528
• Episode 2 - An Honest Job post 529-1487
• Episode 3 - Negotiating a Peace post 1488-?
• Episode 4 - Dead Man's Hand post

WIP -This page is just notes for me as I develop the structure for the next episode. Nothing secret in here. Everyone is free to look at it if they like. If you prefer no-spoilers, don't click.

Former Crew

• C.Z "Valdosta" Borzonov :: Pilot
• Fabrizio "Breeze" Quentin :: Engineer
• Ai Lin :: Mercenary (Not Eligible to Rejoin // per site moderators)
• Daisy Lewis :: Reader
• Solstice Jones :: Mechanic
• Gillian :: Hacker
• Maggie :: Wrangler
• Moody :: Fixer 2d8; 1d10/5pp
• Bolade :: Public Relations /4pp

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