Path of Blood: Adventuring in the KFC.
The KFC has found a deadly challenge! The planet of
G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga (B8669RK-D in the K'trekreer Sector) is
a K'kree planet held by the old intolerant regime of the
unenlightened T't'tkahk Xeng Kirr (2000 worlds). They have not yet
built an operative jump drive, but they have managed to keep a
force of in SDBs that have succeeded in holding the swarms of
vampire fleets at bay. It is a prime planet of 4 billion K'kree.
The KFC would dearly love to get their hooves on
G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga.
However, the evil decadent TES (Technologically Elevated
Steppelord) has rebuffed the KFC's attempts to convert them from
their old fashioned ways. Therefore, they must die.
But, G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga is too well defended for a simple
SAS (Smash and Smash) mission. Nuking the planet from orbit is not
an option.
The KFC mission planners have devised a coup that should allow the
KFC to take over G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga with deadly simplicity.
By dropping an asteroid on the main population center, it would
utterly swamp the planetary forces. The bombardment will be seen
as an opportunity for the hovering vampire fleets. The KFC fleet
would arrive to provide aide and assistance including some large
KFC dreadnoughts (The KFC Super Buckets).
Once in position, the KFC would insert itself into the positions of
power and gradually take over. Once in power, they can safely
convert any survivors of the bombardment.
The asteroid is to be targeted on the main population center, which
is far from the industrial centers. (Precaution from the days when
the Virus ran rampant on G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga.) This is
fortunate as the asteroid will cause a maximum of chaos in the herd
without losing too much of the high tech industrial power that the
KFC so desperately needs to carry their mission out across the
entire T't'tkahk Xeng Kirr (2000 worlds). Also the grief of the
loss will make the survivors more willing to look up to their brave
'saviors' and so conversion from their evil ways will be
facilitated.
The job of the players?
The players are the crew of the Xing't't!. An old K'kree
Xeekr'kir! class merchant ship, renovated by the KFC. In the hold
is the 100 tons of the fusion powered mass driver that will drive
the asteroid across the system to G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga. The
crew must transport the drive to the system's asteroid belt, power
it up, and set it on course, all the while avoiding all detection
by the G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wuggan defenses.
The unloading of the drive will be a difficult operation. To do
so, the crew must set it out in (gasp) vacc suits! It will require
3 weeks of work in hard vacuum. The isolation and close quarters
inside the suits, even with the open area of the ship for relief,
will be quite a strain on the pastoral K'kree.
Once the drive is set up, the crew of the Xing't't! must make a
microjump to G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wugga. There they must pick up
their agents who have laid the ground work for the conversion of
the planet. G'ekuwadlewix!-wugga-wuggans are suspicious of the KFC
crews, but, since they are K'kree, they are not overly aggressive
toward them. Refs: treat encounters with the militia as law level
9. This will give them an excellent opportunity to view the fine
planet they have just marked for demolition.
What a pity these barbarians are such racists. It's a good thing
we're here to save them.
Scott 2G Kellogg