Prologue

Prologue
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The characters are introduced and begin their adventures. James Welthammer steals some ketracite. Sherif Adams leaves the hospital and buys a ticket off-planet. Cho is summoned to appear before the Earl of New Tokyo. Dr. Icarus Hicks uncovers a secret plot. Chan Lee leaves home to seek revenge.

Episode One:
Sitting By Desolate Streams

Act One
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Ensign Weathers is introduced and barely survives his first space battle. Chan Lee crash-lands and is rescued by a beautiful woman. James gets arrested by ImpSec. Icarus ponders the plot he uncovered, and makes a fateful decision. Sherif Adams travels on a space liner. Cho is hired by the Earl to kill Prince Tomo.

Act Two
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Chan Lee continues to recover from his injuries. James is interrogated, then released on the orders of a powerful friend in high places. Cho fills in her gang members on their roles in her hatchet job. Weathers nurses his crippled ship back to base. Sherif arrives on Minos and gets a job. Two ImpSec cops investigate the house of Icarus Hicks after he fakes his own death.

Act Three
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Icarus goes to a seedy bar in search of a ride off the planet. James Welthammer's crew escapes from impound. Chan Lee looks at some fish and talks with his rescuers. Sherif visits a soup kitchen and copes with smog. Weathers visits with his son and prepares for an offensive. Cho's gang refine their assassination plans..

Act Four
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Hicks and Welthammer meet up in the bar, and agree to travel together. Chan Lee gets a visit from Prince Hoon, his estranged long-lost brother. Weathers attacks a MK convoy, and uses previously unnoticed telepathic mage powers a heck of a lot more effectively than Deanna Troi ever did. Sherif's mage powers land him in jail after an industrial accident, but then allow him to (literally) bust out of prison. Cho is hospitalized after an overdose, and is visited by an old rival.

Newsletter One
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The Emperor is ill...Piracy is on the increase...Martial Law in New Madrid...religious riots in New Israel

Episode Two:
Dreams of an Unholy Night

Act One
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James and Icarus escape from the bar in a hail of gunfire. Sherif rescues a rape victim who thinks he's the Messiah. Weathers runs afoul of an Imperial Regulator who snares him in a devious trap. Chan Lee puts a little Joy in his life, then heads off to kill the Emperor. Cho goes into a coma after her sister Shoko betrays her to Cornelius.

Act Two
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Weathers has a mind-mage duel in the middle of a space battle, and somehow gets out with his synapses and ship both reasonably intact. The Devil himself thinks Sherif is the Messiah, and tries to re-enact the Temptation in the Garden scene from "The Passion of the Christ", but Sherif goes way off script and kicks Satan in the cojones. Icarus gets himself shot while helping James and his soldiers escape from the Talavera Spaceport. Chan Lee is betrayed by Hoon and brought before the Emperor in chains.

Act Three
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Weathers moves his ship to a new hunting area, while his nemesis becomes a pawn in palace politics. Sherif checks out a competitor for the title of Messiah. Chan Lee's fate is decided by the leaders of the Imperial Government, and that fate is not a pleasant one. Icarus spends some time as a patient instead of as a doctor, while James is confronted by a traitor among his own crew.

Act Four
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Dame Cynthia gets tossed around a bit. Weathers' marines kill a bunch of cruise liner passengers, including a relative of the royal family. The Emperor gets so pissed about this, he apparently chokes to death on his own bile. Welthammer tosses a Fake Shemp out the airlock. Tiller and Hicks mess with Losada's brain, and send him back to school. Sherif goes to a public rally and denounces the fake Messiah. Chan Lee has such an uneventful voyage to G2 that his story does not even make it into the results.

Newsletter Two
(The second newsletter has not yet been released to the players)

Episode Three:
Treading on Dreams

Act One
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James and Major Shrak talk about their backstory. Tiller takes Hicks to meet Clarke, who unmasks Tiller as a mysterious impostor. Cho wakes up from her coma, FINALLY reveals her last name so we can stop confusing her with Cho Chang, and promptly is ordered quite literally skinned alive for her failure by her Yakuza masters. Adauchi Kago is introduced, and investigates the death of Sherif, who apparently was killed by the mob at the fake Messiah's rally. Dame Cynthia continues to pinch-hit for David Weathers, who is apparently too busy flying his starship to appear in his own storyline. Chan Lee continues his incredibly uneventful journey to G2, and continues to not appear in the story.

Act Two
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Adauchi Kago, with no clue who he is or what he's doing, seeks revivalist preacher Graham Quentin for guidance and is quickly recruited for his holy cause.  Captain Weathers liberates Chapman's Folly from the Middle Kingdom after fighting off two Imperial squadrons sent to hold it, with a little unexpected help from the Western Reserve.  Cho escapes from her Yakuza captors only to lauch a desperate quest for more opium that ends in her complete and utter disgrace.  James Welthammer takes advantage of the precious down time to plot a course home, repair his ship, and catch some sleep.  Dr. Hicks witnesses Lwan Eddington and Arthur Clark paw the ground while debating who should take over if and when the Middle Kingdom is overthrown - and then dies in a tragic accident of friendly fire.

Act Three
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Welthammer is hired to secretly extract an undercover Middle Kingdom spy from the Horadrim Empire.  Cho hunts down and confronts her sister Shoko - only to discover that Shoko didn't betray her after all.  Kago arrives at a Bible Camp on New Paris for a weekend retreat and meets more of Preacher Quentin's vaguely sinsiter followers.  Captain Weathers, abandoned by his Western Reserve allies, fights a desperate defense of Chapman's Folly that is cut short when the Imperial Navy destroys the entire planet.

Act Four
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Cynthia Beatrix hunts down Captain Weathers, only to defect to his side once she finally catches him busy destroying MK stations in retaliation for the destruction of Chapman's Folly.  Cho, following advice from her ancestors, recruits one of her former apprentices to help clear her name.  James Welthammer infiltrates Horadrim space, makes contact with the Middle Kingdom spy, and gets him back to the Resolve, all the while pumping him for information about his mission.  Kago is so bored by Quentin's sermons at Bible camp that he dozes off and sleeps through the the entire episode, not appearing this week.

Newsletter Three
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Rao Crowned Emperor...Chapman's footage is forgery...Yakuza assassinate prince...Quentin claims persecution

Episode Four:
Not Peace but a Sword

Act One
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Cho devises a... unique... plan to recruit her theif apprentice, which despite logic, reality, and bad writing, seems to work.   Captain Weathers enters paranormal training under ex-Regulator Beatrix, and interrogates her about media sabotage.   James Welthammer discovers a diabolical Horadrim plan to control humanity before they capture him and scuttle his ship.   Adauchi Kago's studies at Quentin's Bible Camp is so uneventful we didn't bother including them this week.

Act Two
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Chan Lee makes his grand reappearance, and is rescued by his clan brothers after months of struggling to survive on the prison planet G2.   Cho recruits another of her former appreantices.   James Welthammer, after being captured by the Horadrim, is turned over to Imperial Security who interogate him while he awaits trial on Wilke's Star.   Captain Weathers uses Beatrix's Imperial Regulator credentials to plant a galaxy-wide propaganda message in the Imperial telecommunications network, but is effectively captured by the Imperial Navy in the process.   Kago is not heard from and we assume he has died of boredom.

Act Three
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David Weathers escapes from the Imperial Navy with his manifesto boradcast and his crew intact, but looses his shiny new destroyer.   James Welthammer stands trial for treason, but is suddenly (and violently) rescued by Lwan Eddington.   Cho's attempt to recruit her ninja apprentice fails when he refuses and kicks her ass soundly before she manages to get away.   Chan Lee makes a devil's bargin with Mordred to gain entrance to the Forbidden City, where he prepares to take lethal revenge on Lord Hoon.

Act Four
(Act Four was never completed, and the game broke up.)

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