A Billion Suns by thedace

My first game of A Billion suns.

Space is cold and so is gaming outside in April!

We decided on a Scale 3 game with it being a first outing for myself.

The Three contracts generated were

• Demolition contract
• Supply contract
• Rhexis Harvesting contract

A brief synopsis of the contracts respectively –

• Destroy 3 aging Nuka Cola facilities
• Supply a dying planet with humanitarian aid
• Harvest a volatile natural resource

I was playing as the Vindaloovian Empire, My good friend Nigel as Noodle Corp.

Jump gates opened either side of CM1981, a dying world.

Much needed aid had finally arrived, enough hopefully to tide over the remaining few people until their imminent extraction, or maybe a final meal.

The Cargo Ship of Noodle corp. was first to dock with one of several space elevators. Containers of high protein food and clean drinking water were made ready for offload.

From a second jump gate emerged a ship bearing the insignia of the Vindaloovian empire (a perfectly round poppadum, no beginning and no end)

The ship approached the planet at great speed and on a strange heading.

Then the attacked came!

The Docked Noodle corp. ship was a sitting duck, docked and with weapons powered down.

The Vindaloovian ship used its Powerful yet unwieldly mining laser to cut the stationary  Noodle corp. ship clean in half. Vital aid spilling out into the void of space along with the crew of the doomed ship.

This space elevator rendered useless was of no use to the Vindaloovians, so the ships heading was changed to the next closest one.

The Cargo of 100,000 litres Very hot Curry and 50,000 pints of Larger was unloaded without any sign of re enforcements from Noodle corp.

Once the cargo was emptied and the captain of the ship tipped (a Vindaloovian Tradition) engines were engaged and mission was accomplished.

Why the attack?

Vindaloovians are a proud people and a number of their people were trapped on the surface of the doomed planet.

Healthy food and liquid that doesn’t contain alcohol are poisonous to Vindaloovians. What kind of a last meal would a protein shake be anyway!

Part 2 to follow soon.