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4. Repairs #SST25

4. Repairs The ship docks aboard the Forge of Arcanum space station were well designed to make it as easy as possible to make repairs, and even featured a crew of autognomes able to make repairs at any time. The Council of Arcanum’s flagship had returned to dock an hour ago and already the three mechanical gnomes had already gotten to work, hanging from harnesses connected to moveable gantries they worked to repair the small holes and scorch marks within the armour plating and to the flagship’s hull. While these autognome mechanics were constructs rather than living people, they did have a small amount of sentience, all of them enjoying their work and feeling a sense of pride at getting the repairs done. They worked for several hours, patching up the worst of the damage, while the repairs weren’t complete, the flagship would be usable in an emergency. Still, when the trio went into rest mode, they were confident that the next day of repairs would have everything working properly. Alas, the trio were not awakened from their rest mode the next day, nor the day after. The council had fled the forge, fearing it’s discovery they went deep underground back on their homeworld, with the mechanic trio remaining dormant for hundreds of years, until one fateful day that a group of adventurers would awaken them once again.
sep 4, 2025, 10:24 pm • 6 1

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5. Freighter #SST25

5. Freighter The Planetcracker, as it was once known by it’s now former crew, was a Bombard class freighter, it’s defining feature being the incredibly large cannon whose barrel and firing mechanisms took up a majority of space on the cargo deck. It’s hardly fair to call it a freighter at this point, but the crew used it to raid various worlds, and the cargo holds were once filled with exotic treasures from across space. The last voyage it was on when it was captured by the Council of Arcanum, had been to a world known as Theramore, a land whose people filled with bright colours, vibrant multicolour lights, and many gadgets and music playing devices. Some of these had been taken, with the pirates hoping to sell much of this on for a profit. Though they had also taken on a more ‘legitimate’ job, transportation of exotic creatures to be brought to rich collector’s private museum. There were a group of cute little rodent creatures, while in a separate area kept sealed away were four rare beings capable of disguising themselves as a variety of objects, but unbeknown to the crew, or those soon to capture this ship. This sealed container had formed a crack.
sep 5, 2025, 11:00 pm • 3 1 • view
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6. Tandem #SST25 Short and sweet, may have had to look up the word tandem, but it's a little prequel to Fighter.

6. Tandem The two ships flew in tandem, the single seat fighter hidden behind the council’s flagship, both as protection and to hide the fighter from the freighter that the pair were on the way to ambush. While this worked well tactically, the ships were fairly basic meaning that the fighter couldn’t really see much aside from the rear of the flagship, meaning that a crewmate of the flagship was having to make large hand signals in order to direct the fighter. As both ships approached the freighter, the flagship started moving to be positioned side by side with the freighter, and as such this crewmate began waving his arms wildly, signalling to the fighter pilot to move out of tandem and over to the flagship’s port side.
sep 6, 2025, 10:40 pm • 4 1 • view
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7. Green #SST25

7. Green Deep within the bowels of the Forge space station lay the arboretum and nursery areas, a passion project by a member of the council. She loved nature and wildlife, and knowing that a potentially world devastating event was coming, had made sure to take creatures and plants from the world below to keep them safe. Here she stared at one such grouping, within a glass case, a swarm of bee-like creatures moved between their hive and a series of rare flowers of many colours. She knew she had to leave the Forge soon and may not return for a long time, but she just hoped above all else that the systems she’d put in place would allow everything here to survive, or that the suspended animation bubbles her husband had created would save them, until such time as someone could take them from this place.
sep 7, 2025, 11:02 pm • 4 1 • view
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8. Spaceport #SST25

8. Spaceport Vaylin sat on the dockside of the spaceport, playing with the adorable little critter she’d taken as a pet some time ago, watching the rest of the Council, including her partner Victor, working on the final stages of assembly of their ship. Their spaceport had been constructed in secret, higher powers and other titanic beings may feel threatened if the group can pull this off, flying into space and being among the stars. Tucked away it was a fairly simple affair, a large warehouse built far from prying eyes, with a few cranes and sets of scaffolding to help with assembly. Vaylin couldn’t really do much but watch, her specialities lie within the weapon systems which had already been installed, while her real passion was living things such as her pet Jade Vine Dragonling keeping her company. Elsewhere within the spaceport her supplies lay waiting to be loaded onto the ship, several crates of animal eggs, kept dormant until a time at which she can safely incubate them, along with a box of plant and flower seeds of various types. She sat for a while before closing her eyes and drifting off, being woken some time later by her partner, letting her know it was time to go, to all board the ship, and fly out into space for the first time.
sep 8, 2025, 10:39 pm • 1 1 • view
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9. Hunter & 10. Convoi #SST25 I missed yesterday so today is a double feature.

9. Hunter Eddison had been searching for hours, he’d been told to find and enact justice against the council of arcanum for their many crimes. He’d searched all above the planet’s orbit but there was no sign of them whatsoever. For now his energy was spent and he began to drop down to the planet’s surface. It would take years for him to find them, in between he carried out multiple other jobs for his lord, mostly protecting citizens from the chaos unleashed upon the world. Then one fateful day he received a message from a couple of council members, co-ordinates for a subterranean bunker along with a request that they be allowed to leave. Eddison soared through the sky at high speed, launching off energy blasts at the co-ordinates for this bunker, explosions rapidly carving up the ground and opening up a path for him to blast his way in. All but two of the council attempted to stop him, firing off numerous attacks that bounced off his shielding. The two remaining members simply watched as Eddison annihilated the rest with blasts of energy. The couple just giving him a nod as they left hand in hand. 10. Convoi A small group of merchant ships flew quietly through space, trying to give this one planet a wide berth, a strange energy field surrounded it and there were concerns raised about it’s second moon unnerving some of the crew. The captain of the lead ship just wanted to just get through this system as fast as possible, this area of wild space unnerved her, and after seeing through her scope the absolute horror show of what looked like an asteroid, but upon closer inspection appeared to be this horrifying mass that looked like a cityscape had merged with it’s citizenry, she just wanted to get past here as soon as possible. There’d also been a ping on her long distance scope she was wary of, something was out there that could be a threat, but the scanners couldn’t find any further detail. Whatever it was wasn’t pursuing, but it unnerved her knowing something was there. The rest of the bridge crew looked up as she breathed a great sigh of relief as they moved out of range of that system.
sep 10, 2025, 10:20 pm • 2 1 • view
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11. Dropship #SST25

11. Dropship The moon came up quickly as the ship descended toward it’s surface, the shielding glowing red as the ship entered it’s thin atmosphere, this small explorer class vessel sought to be the first to safely touch down upon the surface. The crew had been fitted with sealed suits for space exploration and stood together ready to rappel down ready to explore. The doors opened and all at once the six of them dropped down, the ropes lowering them the remaining distance to the surface of this moon, as the eerie red glow of the planet’s other moon backlit their ship. Boots on the ground, they all began moving around, exploring, experiencing the differing gravity here, while some of them looked for any rare minerals to pick up and take back, unique items that could be used, or pretty looking rocks or materials that could be taken back to their planet and sold to those groups who worshipped the moon as a deity.
sep 11, 2025, 11:03 pm • 1 0 • view