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PARTIZAN 39: Escape Velocity

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Friends at the Table

Games, Leisure, Fiction

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🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

In a hanger on a beach on the Isles of Logos, Kal'Mera Broun, Jesset City, Ver'Million Blue, Thisbe, Eiden Teak, Avar, Ryrira, and Si'Dra Balos stand around a spaceship. In just over a week, if all goes to plan, they will be inside of it and it will be outside of the Partizan system. 

First, though, they'll need to secure a launch platform, get past security checkpoints on and off world, and ensure the safety of not only themselves but the materials they'll need to actually build something wherever they end up. If, that is, they decide they want to build anything together at all...

This week on PARTIZAN: Escape Velocity

///Operation Dossier\\\

//Organizations\\

Organization for the Foundation of the Orion Republic (OFOR): A group of growing import in Orion territory, who advocate for Orion's secession from the Divine Princiipality and re-establishment as a league of democratic, merchant republics. Both OFOR and their opposition, the yet-unnamed Principality loyalist faction, have support across class demographics. Many.corporations and independent guilds see OFOR as an opportunity for additional profit, while others believe that leaving the Principality is a risk too great to take.

After Law's attack on Oxbridge, OFOR has largely relocated in "The Old Old," a region towards the southern pole of Partizan untouched by Logos Kantel's miracle.

//People\\

Avar (they/them) and Ryrira (she/her): Members of the Church of the Resin heart. Once Gur Sevraq's chief of security and quartermaster, respectively. Have a child, M'reb. Onboard the Blue Channel.

Si'dra Balos (Si/Si's, they/them): During their time in a communications division of the Apostolosian Navy, Si'dra saw the cost of war first hand. Now they dream of a world where people can connect instead of fight. Onboard the Blue Channel.

Jesset City (he/him): Previously worked for Adamant Arms and Manufacturing, Jesset became full time Oxblood Clan lieutenant and then a major figure in Millennium Break. Expert technician, veteran hollow pilot, and Cipher Certified by Stel Nideo. Onboard the Blue Channel.

Eiden Teak (he/him): Soldier and commander in the Sable Court. Wears the wounds of past fights on him with a distinct sort of pride, inherited from his time fighting as an Apostolosian soldier: He's missing right leg under the knee, and a number of his antlers have been snapped and broken. Wears loose olive drab fatigues, marked by the occult insignia and wards of the Court. Onboard the Blue Channel.

Fi'nilo Nicol (they/them): Chief Investigator of the Barranca Loop. Expert at uncovering contraband shipments trying to slip through Apostolos' launch platform.

//Places\\

Barranca: To the north of Obelle lies the Apostolosian province of Barranca, where mediterranian subtropical shores give way to a vast latticework of ravines and crags. There, military bases and civilian settlements sit in the crooks and alcoves, shaded by high canyon walls. Rising above it all is the famed Barranca Loop, a massive suspended cable system that runs up above the atmosphere like a giant bridge, and which allows Apostolos to launch ships and cargo into space. Heavily patrolled and under complete control of Stel Apostolos.

//Divines\\

The Divine Motion (she/her): Long after enemy fuel tanks run empty, Motion continues to power Apostolosian machines of war (like its infamous retinue, the Black Century) and service  (including the massive Barranca Loop that allows Apostolos to regularly launch ships spaceward). Ver'MIllion Blue's rival. 

//Things\\

The Blue Channel: Kal'Mera's Broun's corvette. Though it's rated for spaceflight and features a cargo space large enough to hold at least three hollows, it does not have the ability to break escape velocity on its own. 

The Voice of the Exemplar: Howls and echoes through the canyons of the Barranca, where its power is captured by the Barranca Loop.

Modular Base Kit: A collection of materials for the modular construction of an off-world headquarters for Millennium Break. Includes housing, water and air filters, an energy generator, communications equipment, agricultural gear, and basic trade goods (whether to be used as bribes or for the legitimate purchase of land).

//Additional Notes\\

Primary Objective: Escape Partizan

Secondary Objective: Safely extract with the Modular Base Kit

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)
Featuring Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart), Sylvia Clare (@sylvisurfer), Ali Acampora (@ali_west), 
Produced by Ali Acampora
Music by Jack de Quidt (available on bandcamp)
Text by Austin Walker
Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
 

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0:14.0

writing in a time of fracture, A Ram Nadeo yearned to return to an age

0:17.0

when we moved between stars, unburdened,

0:21.0

flittering easily through the warm cosmic glow.

0:25.3

To that end, he developed his many stars thesis, a plan for an empire, so broad, so stable, so universal, that total freedom of motion would return.

0:39.5

The father of asterism would not live to see his plan enacted, which means he would not live to see how

0:45.2

wrong he was.

0:47.4

While war and the perennial waves slowed travel between systems in the early days of the

0:52.0

Principality, the creation of the Port Cola system

0:55.9

utterly redefined its character.

0:59.2

Nido had written of utopian freedom, but his imperial design knew only the grammar of

1:04.5

domination which is why though faster than light travel returned to the

1:08.9

Principality after the creation of the Port Colis it did so only as an extension of imperial power.

1:15.3

These monolithic structures, floating hexagonal stations of stone and

1:20.9

circuitry, hang at the edge of every principality system linked in an expansive

1:27.0

networked chain.

1:28.8

They track every ship that moves, all of the cargo that is, and refuse anything objectionable.

1:36.0

To use it at all is to be a drop in the blood of the body of Empire.

1:42.0

But oh, the power that it has. If you know the right words, have the proper clearance,

1:47.6

if your oath is unquestionable, if you internalize and perform the stately somatics properly, it will whisk you away.

1:57.1

The Principality will bring you to wealth, to family, to your gods, to beauty to freedom, and all you have to do is bring it with you. Oh, Welcome to Friends at the Table and Actual Play Podcast focused on Critical World

2:36.5

Building smart characterization and fun interaction between good friends.

2:39.5

I am your host Austin Walker and today we are continuing our game of Beam Saber by Austin Ramsey,

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