The Pirate Mine

Turb wakes the crew to the tales of Baba's past giving better insight to her temperament and potential current situation. She's desperate trying to grasp at a business she once knew and ran with the best of them, this could be her last chance for criminal salvation... The Lady of Fortune and all her glory stood before the crew and didn't take them long after christening it for them to scramble onboard and take off to Diaspora.

Further assistance from Turb they receive enough onboard rations for a week and better coordinates on where they are heading too. Looks like the pirates took over an old mining asteroid formerly owned by Ulrikka Clanholdings. Making no waste on time and with Bob's excellent piloting skills the trip takes shorter than expected.

It was a smooth trip until they ran into some scammers that tried to intimidate the crew into A LOT of credits but they weren't having any of it. The scammers and the Lady of Fortune begin their first dance of space combat. The scammers had no chance as it appeared from a few scan's by Falk that their ship was a old starliner retrofitted with a laser cannon that was of no use thanks to "Doc"'s well placed shots. They easily obliterated this scammers without taking a single shot to their new ship.

Once on the mining old asteroid the crew runs into three Ysoki pirates who looked confused but were determined to protect the back loading entrances of the offices. They had no chance against this haphazard crew, they quickly disposed of these pirates. It was poorly lit but the sound of life was still churning inside the mining offices, someone or something was still inside as rooms were slightly powered and the signs of squatting was apparent. "Doc" led the main charge through the corridors seeing as his size was perfect for at least opening and investigating stuck doors in the smaller passage ways.

It didn't take long for peril to blight the crew as Falk himself took a direct blast to the face of mind spores and Atvar unfortunately took a beating from some old derelict mining lasers. Before the troubles happened, Atvar stumbled upon some weird scrawling on an old info board in blood. Vitaly oddly enough could read it, it was in Infernal giving the crew a riddle to solve "I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?".

Room to room the crew looted the facility of any valuables until they hit the main quarters they run into the commanding pirate and it's junk cycle. It wasn't much of a battle and after a mutilation of the disgusting android pirate boss's corpse "Doc" gains access and control of the heavily damaged cycle as well as a keycard with the Infernal word for "Fire" inscribed onto it.

After some research it seems this pirate leader succumbed to heavy drug usage within his numbers and had to go to further and further extremes to help scratch that itch. So far as to contact a cultist who made a deal with shipments of Sprite being funneled into them they would in turn grant them more funds and access to other drugs not only the dangerous Sprite. Turns out over time the pirates here grew more and more mad on the brink of full mental collapse.