Summary of last week session:
Box text!“Exact dates for the early centuries of St Torrian’s Rock are impossible to find. Some obscure sources go as far as to suggest the earliest colinisation comes from before the Emperor’s holy light reached Carthax, but such claims are only espoused by the fringes of archival expertise.
What we can say with certainty is that that first written contract for the Imperial Navy to make use of docking facilities was co-signed by Lord Sector Argento Galvan & a rouge trader whose individual name is sadly lost to history, but believed by well-read scholars to have been a member of House Allrath, an ancient but now extinct line explorers of some distinction.
It is only from the signing of this contract and it’s sucessors that true stability comes to the Rock, attracting traders and a rapid growth in population and influence. Nine great households have ruled over this evolution across the centuries, each eventually being supplanted by another through politics, bankruptcy, marrage contract or death.
Yet the ninth of these great houses, Hake-Salistein has lasted the longest in this pinnacled place of command, approaching their 18th century of masterful control of both politics and trade upon the Rock.
This unrivalled position of power has also in part been upheld by the Naval contract signed by the first Duchess of their bloodline, ensuring all her heirs a naval rank of Vice-Commodore and a measure of cooperation in the security and future development of St Torrian’s Rock.”
Excerpt by Lady Olivia Molgaard, curator of the Royal Museum of St Torrian’s Rock, from the Historians Foreward to The Histories and Bloodlines of the Noble Families of St Torrian’s Rock,compiled by Trademaster Diago Acard
The team has presented their case and evidence to Mockingjay in full. In his usual emotionless manner, he does congratulate you for having scoped a wide range of connections and identified a likely outcome of our missing Commissar.
He orders the team not press the suspects yet and gives you 24 hours downtime while he considers the next step.
What the team learns during 24 hours downtime:Nothing humans have discovered in 40,000 years travels faster than gossip. Word is the Ascencion Eve riot cost the lives of an inexplicably high number of Royal Guard. Aparently more than five times the number that would normally be expected to perish in such a large, violent and prolonged unrest. Rumours of revenge killings and people settling debts during the riot are rife, but most locals believe even those would never expand the royal guard deaths to such numbers. The most common rumours you overhear are of people pointing the blame to one or other of the private security firms being respsonsible, with just about every private military company on the Rock called a suspect in one rumour or another.
Mockingjay orders half the team to investigate the Royal Guard death rumours by meeting their contact Jeremiah Quintus; while the other half are to infiltrate the Navy Base disguised as Regulator officers and try to determine if Sachavo is a rogue individual, or if there is something more systemic going on with Angels Kiss.
Rose, Dorn & Maya go for Naval investigation. (players present last week)
Tallulah, Dose & Gaenor go for Quintus investigation. (players not present last week)
Team Navy sought out various senior members of staff at the Naval Medicae Schola, and have since moved over the Naval Command are currently waiting outside Commodore Osmani's office, for an unbooked appointment.
