Part of Bravo Fleet: The Devil to Pay

USS Blackbird

Daybreak

On the moon of Ilior, where the criminal elite converge, the Rooks must secure a piece of volatile, stolen technology at an auction where alliances are fragile, enemies are relentless, and betrayal is inevitable.

Mission Description

In the past year, the galaxy’s black market has surged as the Orion Syndicate pushes deeper into the trade of stolen experimental technologies, many of them lifted from the Federation. These dangerous devices, capable of reshaping entire worlds or transporting entire ships and cities in an instant, are now being sold to the highest bidder, threatening galactic stability. Among these is the Kairos Regulator, a device of highly classified capabilities believed able to warp local space-time, and slow time itself for its user.

Tasked with preventing its sale, the special operations team of the USS Blackbird are sent to the luxurious moon of Ilior, where a high-end black market auction attended by the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals will soon take place. Making strange bedfellows with the criminal kingpin Torrad-Var and his beautiful but mysterious aide Q’ira to gain entrance, the Rooks must infiltrate the auction, outbid rival factions, and secure the Kairos Regulator at all costs. But with enemies like the rival Syndicate leader Aestri lurking in the shadows – and the ever-present risk of betrayal – the mission promises to be as treacherous as the prize they seek.

About the Mission

Status
In Progress
Total Stories
17
Start Date
02/11/2024

22 November 2024

Daybreak - 17

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

Cassidy was expressionless, stood before the window with the weak morning light crawling into their safehouse above the Velvet Spire as he listened to Q’ira and Aryn’s explanation. When they were done, he was silent for a long time before he gave a slow nod. ‘Good,’ he said. ‘All we got [...]

21 November 2024

Daybreak - 16

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

The sun was creaking over the horizon, peeking between the highest towers of Kalviris, by the time Dalia Vengoris made it back to her apartment at the end of her shift. She didn’t need to turn on the lights to go through her routine: check the panel by the door for messages, slouch over to the [...]

20 November 2024

Daybreak - 15

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

Aryn’s appetite had imploded, so the noodles were cold and even less inviting by the time he’d finished forcing down the last forkful. Rosewood was still sprawled out on the creaky sofa, Nallera stretched out on the floor beside him, their eyes shut. By the porthole window, Cassidy leaned to [...]

18 November 2024

Daybreak - 14

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

‘That’s crazy.’ Nallera was the first to break the silence, voice shaking as she stood in the mouth of the alleyway and stared at Cassidy. ‘What do you mean, Jessa’s a Changeling?’ ‘I mean, she transformed,’ Cassidy growled, fists clenched. ‘And killed Torrad-Var. So now they [...]