S&V - The Outfit (OOC thread)

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Red Star Parts and Service

A boutique parts store owned by Yoster’s friend Sully, is right around the corner from the Katsubo. It has a show room, four vehicle bays, and an office. Sully can be found there most afternoons, along with a sales clerk, and a handful of tough looking mechanic types, who may or may not or may not do other sorts of work for Sully. Most days there will also be a handful of racing types hanging around as well, browsing the shelves, working on their rigs, or hanging around out front of the bays shooting the breeze. Yoster knows pretty much everyone who frequents the shop, and can often be found here himself when he’s in between jobs.

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Astra House

Yoster’s cousin, Kaelia, lives in fashionable Shamballah with her corporate lawyer husband, whose name Yoster can never remember (he’s a dick). She’s a straight arrow citizen, and finds Yoster a little embarrassing. She might have some idea that he does the dirt, but emphatically doesn’t want to know more. Yoster doesn’t get invited to many holiday meals there. Kaelia’s father, Gallial, has been off planet for years, and Yoster has no idea what he’s does or where is he is. Sully is more like family than anyone Yoster is actually related to.

Astra House is an upmarket apartment complex on Remakan Loop in Shamballah. It has 3 towers, a landscaped courtyard and underground parking.

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Lefty's Yard

Lefty's warehouse/abode is nestled in the Shenobi district, an old junkyard of containers that he has since put to use hiding his stash. There is a small temp-hab office that Lefty has repurposed as both his office and home in the back, and the containers themselves house his stash and simultaneously house the underground tunnels he's been digging to expand his enterprise's storage room. His most valuable stuff is hidden down here.

The compound is well defended with as much innocuous trash used to create barriers to entry as Lefty can manage, creating a chokehold entrance that his limited camera support watches, or otherwise presenting such a precarious threat to any fool brave enough to try climbing the walls of junk and risking both noise and a nasty infection.

Lefty is almost always here, a recluse. He uses contacts and middlemen to arrange exchanges and trades via his most loyal compatriots - all vets he served with (and was NCO over), Brun included.

Brun has a go bag (some spare weapons, cash and travel docs) hidden here at Lefty's place until she can find a more permanent solution to hide it. Lefty knows about it and may well have snooped inside out of his own curiousity. It's only a good hiding spot for the moment as Brun knows Lefty's paranoia keeps his compound safe.

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I see that we're operating with Bylaw #42613, no citizen who's name does not contain a 'Y' may operate or reside within a registered junkyard. That's good, keep the Heat low folks.
 
I see that we're operating with Bylaw #42613, no citizen who's name does not contain a 'Y' may operate or reside within a registered junkyard. That's good, keep the Heat low folks.
There is something of a theme emerging here.
 
I should spend some downtime liberally salting my little domain with high explosives for that inevitable junkyard shootout. Maybe some punji sticks...
 
I should spend some downtime liberally salting my little domain with high explosives for that inevitable junkyard shootout. Maybe some punji sticks...
Sully reminds you that booby trapping his workplace is an egregious violation of OSH policies - even the milk toast version that passes for the law here. He also requests that you try not to blow up too many of his patrons - folks prefer their spare parts not to be covered in gore and the neighbours ask awkward questions about loud explosions at odd hours. He makes it pretty clear that you're responsible for cleaning up and disposing of any bodies.

It also occurs to you that minefields are normally marked and there are good reasons for that.
 
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Yoster reminds Sully that the OSH regs can kiss his hairy ass, but the point about customers is well taken. Yoster immediately begins looking into non-lethal options....
 
The Halimar Job

Yoster’s thumbs tapped the battered steering wheel of the stolen Renshi-600 in time with the music playing on his node. It was a chill new mix from Boosterplex, very zen, which he needed. He was starting to feel a little tense. He clenched and unclenched his hands on the wheel. This was taking too long. He adjusted the rearview mirror and took another look at the front door of Halimar Holdings. No movement. Dammit. He adjusted the mirror again to look further back up the street. He could see the occasional car passing the intersection, and the neon for that breakfast joint was on. A hovercab hummed overhead through the morning mist, dome light off, probably heading back to the cab stand. The city was waking up. Fuck.

He adjusted the mirror again to look back the front door of Halimar. Still nothing. Shask had told him this was a simple smash and grab. In and out, no fuss, no bother. He’d said twenty minutes, maybe less. He’d been gone an hour. Yoster grimaced at the thought of what might be keeping Shask this long and regretted again that he’d been broke enough to even consider this job. Shask was a nutter, totally off his rocker on whatever a soup of stims, juice and ice he could get his hands on. He had a rep for unnecessary wetwork, but Yoster had put some of that down to gossip and rep building. People didn’t rub your mane if they thought you were likely to chew their arm off. Now Yoster was starting to reconsider.

Yoster rolled down the car window and lit a cigarette. The synth-tobacco was harsh, but welcome, and he inhaled deeply. The smell of the morning mingled with the cigarette smoke. Car exhaust, wet pavement, a whiff of something foul from a nearby alley, and just a hint of the sea. More cars were passing by the end of the street, and the wait was making Yoster nervous. He decided that he’d hang another five minutes and then he was gone. Traffic would pick up any minute now and then there’d be way too many eyes, too much exposure. Yoster tapped off his ash and took another deep drag, his fingers drumming impatiently on the steering wheel.

CRACK

Yoster heard the sound of gunfire behind him. In the rearview he saw Shask, long jacket billowing, slowly backing out of the front door of Halimar, pumping rounds from his hand cannon back through the doorway. Shask held something in his left hand. Yoster flipped his cigarette to the street and fumbled for the car keys.

CRACK … CRACK CRACK

Shask stopped firing, and there was silence in the street for a moment, then he tipped back his head and started laughing manically. He thrust his hands skyward in victory, his still-smoking heavy blaster in his right hand, and what Yoster could now see was a severed head in his left hand, held by the hair.

“Holy shit,” Yoster said, far more calmly than he felt, “he’s bloody insane.” In the rearview, Shask began dancing a jig while he waved the head toward the door. Yoster could see streamers of blood spattering the front of the building. “By the holy void.” Yoster whispered. The rumors of Shask’s insanity hadn’t even been close to the mark. Shask finished his dance, threw the severed head back thought the doorway, and began walking up the sidewalk toward the car. As he got closer Yoster could see that he was blood from head to foot, bloody enough that it was dripping on the sidewalk as he paced toward the car.

Fuck no, thought Yoster, and started the car. The engine sputtered, died, then caught, growling and roaring. In the rearview he saw Shask pause for a second, and then begin sprinting toward the car. Shit, shit, shit! Yoster thought, and pounded the gas. The tires on the Renshi smoked as he slewed out into the road.

CRACK

A bullet shattered the rear windshield, and whined past Yoster’s ear, putting a hole in the front windshield big enough to put a fist through. Yoster crouched low in the seat and floored the gas. In a moment, the only sign that Yoster has been on the street was a set of smoking tire tracks.
 
Bayeux-Linden

Bayeux-Linden is a medium-size wealth management firm that (like most wealth management firms) specialises in investment management and tax evasion. It also runs a chain of safety deposit vaults.

It has several shareholders, but the major share holdings are through three shell companies that are rumoured to be owned by the Keisha Meiyo, an organisation reputed to be a Yak clan (needless to say they deny that there is any such organisation as the Yakuza).
 
Keisha Meiyo

Name for a syndicate reputed to be a Yakuza clan. It is one of the major clans in Vetawa.

These clans tend to take on the trappings of the traditional Japanese Yakuza (some draw identity from Triads or Premani) in an attempt to project legitimacy, although they are not actually connected with the Terran Yakuza clans, which largely no longer exist.
 
Colloquially known as the Wasabi Mayo, just not to their face. Or maybe the Keisha Girls. :grin:
 
Who are our main competitors in Shenobi? I'd like to talk about specific targets if we end up going the frame job route.
 
Who are our main competitors in Shenobi? I'd like to talk about specific targets if we end up going the frame job route.
History of Central and Southern Startown gangs

Formerly, Shenobi, Erdos and Central Startown were the territory of a wannabe Yak clan called the Sindikat Naga, or Dragon Syndicate. This underwent two schisms. The first splinter broke the gang into two factions.

The first retained the name Sindikat Naga under its original Oyabun Nasem Terahono and held control of Shenobi and Central Startown. Terahono was killed in a turf war against one of the Naga Baru factions (see below) and the gang split apart, leaving a power vacuum in Shenobi. One of the senior Kobun, Hechi Suvarov has a kept a small rival faction in the Shenobi area; this is a small criminal enterprise that has control of some city blocks where they run racketeering and has perhaps 5 insiders and some intendants. He's not strong enough to take you down, but you're occupying the same turf and there's occasional argy-bargy. You will probably have to get rid of them at some point.

The second got control of most of Erdos and Sirtis and called themselves Naga Baru (New Dragons). These were led by Kanta Motuhake. Kanta was subsequently assassinated by his 2IC Damad Hadsiputra. The Naga Baru didn't last long and Hadsiputra was killed in an internal struggle. The gang split into three factions that each occupy territories in Erdos and Sirtis:
  • The Yatu (Swords) are the largest faction, based in Erdos, who appear to have designs on the power vacuum in Shenobi
  • The Tora (Tigers) are a smaller faction based in Sirtis.
  • Some of Hadisputra's loyalists retain the name Naga Baru but have largely gone underground and are dormant.
When the Sindikat Naga split apart, another Kobun managed to retain a toehold as a minor gang running racketeering in Central Startown. It's another small syndicate like yours and mainly runs protection, vice and racketeering in Central Startown. The call themselves the Naga Sejat (True Dragons) under Risano Losa who now claims to be an Oyabun.

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Is it believable that Suvarov's crew could have pulled the heist? Or are they too small time? Same question about the Swords. Those seem like they should be our first two priorities...
 
Is it believable that Suvarov's crew could have pulled the heist? Or are they too small time? Same question about the Swords. Those seem like they should be our first two priorities...
It doesn't really sound like the sort of thing that any of the locals would do - and the location is all wrong. This was in Devaki, a city conurbated off Vetawa to the west, way out of their turf. You're pretty sure none of them would have the nouse to pull off something like that.
 
Syd's Electronic Repairs

Syd's is owned by the Eponymous Syd, an ex-Navy electronics tech. He's tight-lipped about his past, and there are rumours he was involved in some unsavoury business or another. There's not much he doesn't know about electronics, though. He has a repair shop near Darko field, where he does a lot of repair and servicing work for free traders and various other customers.

Some say he maintains fire control systems and avionics for pirates and smugglers, and that he's part cyborg himself. All we know is he's called Syd. He claims to be of Smeg descent on his mother's side.

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Seaview Motel

The once-picturesque village of Lillias is now just a rundown part of Kumar, although you can still see Welcome to Lillias signs on the roads in. A few people still frequent the beach, enough so strangers in the area won't raise eyebrows.

The Seaview motel is a rundown motel from Lillias's tourist heyday that still hangs on. Now inherited by Chorus Shannan, a part-smeg woman in her 50s, it provides her a meagre livelihood. She was raised well enough to have a healthy distrust of the authorities, and will take in people to hide in her motel, providing groceries and other supplies.

An overgrown pathway behind the sections in the block allows discreet egress from the units. The motel is walking distance from the terminus of the Pontefract-Kumar branch line of the metro.

Next to the motel is the village with shops on Akhitakata Rd, with ambience provided by neighbouring fish farms.

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Nocturnes

A chain of 24 hour gastropubs that provide pub grub of varying quality at all hours. They are popular with shift workers at the starport.

Most of the staff turn over fairly quickly and tend to be very young. Night shifts have a lot of college students.
 
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Anupama-Bintang-Varsha (ABV)

Defunct engineering firm that used to service starship components and other heavy equipment. ABV collapsed under mysterious circumstances with accusations of embezzling levelled at management. Litigation held up the firm's assets for many years. After the opening of Korova starport plans to sell the Moseli sites were shelved and the sites now lie derelict.
 
Podkayne's

Upmarket cocktail bar towards the north end of central startown. TBA
 
Lapia Snail

Not actually a mollusc, the Lapia Snail is an indigenous life form native to Denaspar that got the name for the shell that gives it a superficial resemblance to Terran gastropods. Lapia Snails are farmed in coastal farms around Nusantara and are notable for being delicious when cooked. Their physiology is not unlike Terran crustaceans with an armoured exoskeleton that they can fold their legs and sensory organs into for protection.

Lapia Snails feed with a radula-like organ that can scrape organic matter off almost any surface and cut through shells, bones and even synthetic materials. They will eat almost any organic matter and are rumoured to have been used to dispose of bodies by organised crime gangs.
 
Moseli Polytechnic

A tertiary institution offering trade certificate and degree courses in a variety of disciplines. It has a substantial astronautics department, mostly housed in various buildings on a campus distributed through Central Startown. Owned by a consortium of the Moseli local government and three of the major spacing guilds, it still remains popular as a relatively cheap astronaut school offering training in all of the major disciplines. Its presence in the region was a major lever in the original campaign that kept Moseli Starport open. Students can be found working part-time jobs in the Startown area.
 
Sansha

Sansha is a 1st generation terraformed world near the trailing edge of the Neutral Zone. With a total population of approximately 300 million, it is governed by 6 major states and approximately 40 minor ones. Although there is no planetary government, the Economic Union of Sansha has a substantial degree of sovereignty over its member governments, and is most famous for the banking treaties.

The banking treaties allow for anonymous accounts and have very liberal provisions on the identity requirements for financial transactions, which are barely adhered to by several nations on Sanaha, most notably Lillias. This has given these nations, collectively known as the Sanhavens, a reputation for tax evasion and money laundering.
 
Sansha-Lilias Banking Corporation

A major bank domiciled in Lilias on Sanaha, SLBC has come under criticism for its role in money laundering operations and providing banking services for several dictators and criminal parties. Its high net-worth products are popular with the elites of the Neutral Zone and nearby regions.
 
Prince Remakan

High profile right-wing politician in the Nusantaran senate. His full name is Adeolai Batu Remakan Tandrapratna III. The Tandrapratnas are a powerful family in Nusantara with fingers in many pies. The family is most famous for the work Remakan's great grandfather did as the primary broker in negotiating the Neutral Zone treaty between the Commonwealth, the nascent Federation and the major Aferasi clans. This had the side effect of securing independence for Denaspar from the Commonwealth and is credited with enabling the massive economic growth that Denaspar has undergone in recent years, making it the single largest planetary economy in the region.

Remakan is sometimes colloquially known as 'Dobakan' due to his superficial resemblance to Dobakan, a robot character in the eponymous children's show. He doesn't like being called Dobakan to his face.
 
Fraternity Class Hauler

An older medium hauler design dating back to era of the Leyland-Futanari corporation. It was used extensively in secondary routes, and is noted for its simplicity and reliability. It is a modular, unstreamlined design, and does not normally carry its own cargo landing shuttles, making it suitable for routes where infrastructure is in place at both ends. The simplicity and lack of baggage keeps it cost effective for some routes even in modern times so a number of this class remain in service, although the last one was manufactured nearly 70 years ago. The only auxiliary normally carried by a Fraternity Class Hauler is a small lighter.
 
Arjen Madubani

Nephew to the late Brigadier, Arjen Madubani is somewhat high up in Naval Intelligence (NAVINT).
 
Shora Kasugai

Shora is the late Brigadier's personal assistant and probably mistress. She is an attractive, well-groomed woman who appears to be somewhere in her thirties.
 
Cimmeria

A neighbouring nation to Nusantara, consisting of a large continental landmass (about the size of Australia or the continental U.S.) and several bodies of islands. Its economic development is about equivalent to that of the U.S. around the latter part of the 19th century; the total population is approximately 75 million, mostly centred around the South-eastern coast; there are still large tracts of untamed wilderness. A substantial domestic armaments industry and lack of regulatory oversight over arms exports make Cimmeria a major source of black and grey market small arms.
 
Casirim

An island to the south of Ilthar, close to the Yasmun archipelago, which is Cimmerian territory.
 
P40 gauss pistol

An older model of gauss pistol, originally developed by the Commonwealth and for many years a standard issue sidearm of Commonwealth forces. The design was licensed widely and used by many armed forces, including those of several Denasparan states. Although blasters are more prevalent these days, the design of the P40 is in the public domain with a large number remaining in circulation. P40 variants are still manufactured by several third parties and there is a substantial industry in refurbishment, parts and upgrades.

The P40 fires projectiles of a standard form factor widely used for gauss pistol and gauss gun ammunition. The projectile weighs approximately 2.5g and the P40 fires it at about 1km/sec, which is typical for gauss pistols. Armour piercing rounds are effective at close ranges against all but the heaviest body armour. Standard magazines hold 40 rounds and a battery pack to power the weapon.

P40s are very much a service pistol. At about 25cm long they are on the large side for a readily concealable handgun although someone of a larger build could carry one in a shoulder holster or concealed under loose clothing.
 
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Singularity Distilleries

A Karresish distillery that exports a wide variety of alcoholic beverages including several blended and single malt whiskeys. Singularity Blue Label is a range of blended whiskeys sold at various ages, with their '8 year' and '12 year' blends being their most popular exports. Singularity is one of the larger distilleries on Karres and their products are considered to be at the top end of the mass market, one of the better whiskies you can buy without having to worry about rarity, intermittent supply or excessive cost.
 
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T70 Logistics drop capsule

This is a hot delivery system for dropping cargo into an atmosphere. It is designed to handle an unpowered re-entry through an ablative foam heat shield, and a parachute system with a monoprop thruster for final touchdown. The rated capacity is approximately 9 tons at 1G.
 
Goober Gun

This is a non or less lethal weapon that fires an immobilisation agent that foams and polymerizes rapidly, entangling the target. Most goober formulations are based on Para GlycoUrethlyBenzoAcrylamide (P-GUBA), plus polymerising and foaming agents and a (usually) proprietary catalyst.

The gun fires a cartridge, usually containing about 500g-1kg of the base agent. This has a range of approximately 20-30 metres and is capable of immobilising most sophonts. The agent can be released with a solvent.

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Para Glyco-Urethlyl Benzyl Acrylamide (P-GUBA).
 
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I'll work on retro-fitting my character tonight. Shall we put that into play after the current action is over?
 
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