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After a lot of planning and preparation, the crew of the Bedlam ships off to Ceres, to break into a Company Bio-hazard unit to recover the body that Gawain was exposed to, before the Company can do something nefarious with it.
The bulk of the session was a lot of dice-rolls, assisted at times by one of several Aspect invocations that they created during planning, plus the ones they'd accumulated from previous adventures. From a game-mechanics standpoint, they created a set of boosts/advantages that could be applied to rolls later as the story unfolded.
They also used an invocation from a previously-held Aspect — Favors from the Russian Mafia — to acquire a temporary set of contacts to get them into the company HQ without incident, and to acquire records and information on the body before actually going in after it.
What They Discover
What They Discover
The visible state of the body:
It had started into the grinder process in the REC-U, and is missing its feet and lower legs to varying degrees.
The Company started an autopsy. Chest-incision has been made, and the skull has been opened.
There is visible sub-dermal mesh at the ends of the legs, and around any incisions:
It looks like there are actually two meshes — The first is the titanium one that is (hopefully) expected.
The second is some sort of dark-gray material
There’s also a lattice around the exposed bone: It looks like the same material as the titanium mesh, but much coarser.
It’s heavy: maybe half again what would be expected.
Additional items from the autopsy/other reports:
The normal long-muscle tissue is atypical, closer to cardiac muscle, structurally, but even that’s not a great comparison.
At a guess, it’s capable of much stronger contraction, augmenting strength.
The cardiac-like properties would hint that it’d be much more “fuel efficient” too — perhaps much greater endurance?
The second mesh appears to be a carbon-lattice-stablilized room-temperature superconductor:
It would maintain a consistent temperature at all times, effectively funneling heat from wherever else in the body to the radiators in the lungs.
What’s going on in the body itself:
Titanium sub-dermal mesh.
Superconductive sub-dermal mesh
Titanium reinforcement around the bones. In cases where there’s a sealed enclosure (skull), it’s only on the outside.
The data-port is behind the left ear. It looks like a standard high-speed port.
There is some sort of small computer-looking electronics nestled between the temporal lobes and the cerebellum, connecting to each other across the front of the join between the brain and spinal cord.
There are connections from that to the eyes, and into parts of the brain.
There are no optic nerves.
The eyes are perfectly normal-looking, which is unusual: They should, at minimum, be bloodshot from ruptures in the blood-vessels.
They are electro-mechanical.
They have receptors that would extend visible range into IR and UV at minimum.
There is a small aperture in the right hand, between the middle and ring-finger knuckles.
It’s made of metal, and has glass in it — Lenses for focusing a laser.
The laser mechanism itself is in the hand. It looks like it was some kind of gas-based laser, but the gasses have long since escaped.
There is some kind of power-system in the chest-cavity, near the diaphragm between the lungs.
There are power-lines running from there to both legs and to the right arm.
There is also what looks for all the world like some kind of heat-dissipation structure in the same area as the power-supply, and radiative surfaces in the lungs.
There are (temperature-insulated) connections from this to the second subdermal mesh
The Outcome
The Outcome
The Bedlam crew manages to pilfer the body, secreting it away in a “smuggler’s hold” built into one of the Bedlam's missile-tubes. Though no decision had been made about how (or, indeed, whether) to dispose of the body, at least the Company no longer has it.
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