Star Frontiers Chapter 3: Planet of Mystery part 1

This episode had two guest players, the first was Matt who plays B'zzt a Vrusk survivor of the first Volturnus Expedition and the second is Greg playing a Kurabanda Warrior Prince!

 The party have become official members of the Ul-Mor tribe after defeating the Quickdeath in the trial by combat. N'nami and Goro elect to stay and build up relations with them while the rest of the group head out in search of the survivors from the first mission.

Brock, Gorruck, Lynx and Marcus set off in the skimmer for the forests of the Kurabanda people. These monkey-like humanoids dwell in the treetops of a vast jungle of Bachanda trees to the northeast of the desert.

Edge of the Kurabanda lands

Arriving at the forests edge the party is overcome by the size of the Bachanda trees, each trunk ranging in size from a single prefab dwelling to the width of a space cruiser and reaching up to thirty meters or more high. Also, they are packed so close together the skimmer cannot navigate between them!

A sudden laser blast followed by a scream draws everyone's attention to the tree tops. A small monkey-man is seen falling to its death, and human with a laser pistol yelling "Take that you tree-dweller!".

Marcus commands his robot "Scotty" to fly them up as high as the skimmer can go so the party can get into the tree tops and find out what is happening!

The group is able to move along the giant branches of the trees like an above ground highway, and within minutes find themselves overlooking a band of Star-Devils that have surrounded a group of five Kurabanda and a single Vrusk!

B'zzt a new PC

The party jumps in and deals a terrible thrashing to the Pirates! Brock debuts his patented melee attack where all hits are always to the groin!!!! A sonic-disruptor is almost the undoing of Lynx but in the end his sword prevails over hi-tech weapons.

Ermorada, the Kurabanda Prince

The party discovers that B'zzt is a surviving crew member from the first expedition. He and Commander Jameson were living with the Kurabanda people and helping them fight off the pirates, who have been kidnapping small groups of the natives for unknown reasons. The leader of the group they saved is called Ermorada and he is highly impressed with the battle prowess of the party.


Upon returning with Ermorada, B'zzt and the surviving kurabanda warriors to their village nearby, the party

Chief Auramada

interrogates a couple of pirates they were able to take captive. Ermorada, it turns out is the son of Auramada the Chief of this tribe. They discover that a week earlier Commander Jameson was captured by Pirates while defending the village from a raid. B'zzt relates a tale very similar to what they party experienced when they arrived in the system as far as the ambush and destruction of the initial starship. From the pirates they uncover that they are indeed a large group of surviving Star Devils that have been biding their time out here at the edge of explored space. There is a small outpost nearby and a larger base up in the mountains where the Star Devil himself is using the indigenous people as slave labor to strip mine the planet for resources.

The group decides to make a commando raid on the Pirate Outpost, joining them is Ermoada and an elite cadre of Kurabanda warriors all trained in the use of scavenged laser pistols. The force sets off in the skimmer and sets down a few kilometers shy of the outpost right at dusk. Gorruck proceeds on foot and scouts the location out. He returns with news that though small the outpost is surrounded by a military grade electrified fence and at least one level 3 combat robot makes a perimeter sweep every half hour.

B'zzt is a trained Demolitions expert and says he can disable the fence with a small amount of D-19. The party splits into two groups, the first consists of Brock and Marcus who disguised in pirate jumpsuits will approach the outpost on foot with Ermorada as a "captive" and see if they can get in. Meanwhile, Gorruck will lead Lynx, B'zzt and the Kurabanda in from the western side nearest the Generator room and penetrate the fence with charges if the first team's plan fails.

Combat Robot

The plan goes awry and the combat robot attacks Brock's team! As this is happening Gorruck and the others blast their way into the base and a running battle ensues! Lasers! Grenades! D-19! The deactivation and reprogramming of a combat robot to the side of the party by Marcus! More lasers! Sonic Disruptors! Doze Grenades!

A second Combat robot is encountered inside the outpost by Gorruck and company. Lasers, Sonic blasts and a well placed charge of D-19 from Lynx on the roof make short work of this dangerous opponent!.

Kurabanda Warriors!

The party is able to scavenge quite a bit of gear and ammo as well as a fully functional Skimmer. They make off with tons of info on the Star Devils as well as a captive to interrogate. A grisly discovery made at the Outpost was that the Pirates are making use of crude cybernetic surgery techniques to enslave the indigenous people. An Edestekai that died from a failed implantation of said device was found and looked over by Marcus.

Back at the Kurabanda village the party goes over all they know. It is determined that the Star Devil himself and a large group a pirates somehow survived the massacre and made it to this system where they have built a base known as Slave-City One. From there they are strip-mining the planet and sending the resources back into orbit by shuttle to at least one if not more Pirate Starships. The Commander and a large number of Edestekai and Kurabanda are being held captaive and used for labor at that base. Also there is something called the "Artifact" marked on the holo-map, and the captured pirates were only able to relate that the Star Devil himself and his closest Lieutenants know anything about that. Brock is insistent that the "Artifact" be a priority for the group, though none understand his predilection for this.

Auramada agrees to send word to other local tribes to join them in a fight against the Star-Devils, while the party decides on the next course of action they will take.

Stay tuned: More Star Frontiers is coming......