Five Parsecs from Home: Turn 8 - A Quest ends...

So I hadn't played in just over two years... Reviewing my Google sheet I discovered I somehow had enough quest rumours to get a final quest mission...even though you are meant to move planet between each quest mission. From a narrative perspective it actually worked because it looked like the local governor making a last ditch attempt to off my crew. I ran with it and decided that I would revise the rules and carry on on a new planet as it makes sense from a narrative perspective to get out of dodge. 

A rabble quietly approached The Pelican, attempting to remain in the cover of some shipping containers.

The crew of The Pelican warily stocked up in preparation for a hasty departure from this rock. They had obviously outstayed their welcome and needed to get out of dodge. Lars had set up to cover as the rest of the crew shifted various containers into the cargo hold.

Seeing movement Aralay Brenko and Estelle Phillips moved into more covered positions. Phillips saw an opportunity to open fire and got off a few shotgun blasts taking out one of the shifty figures. Unknown to her he was one of the rabble rousers. The rest of them faltered right away, then decided to keep going.

One of the rabble swung to the left and opened fire with his rifle. Out of cover, moving cargo Oslan Baratski was hit, a dark patch spreading across her leg. Mao also took some fire and was lucky enough to be able to scamper to the relative safety of the shadows under The Pelican and the cargo crates.

Estelle Phillips also had to duck for cover under a hail of rifle rounds.

Seeing movement Lars opened up, his rattle gun tearing chunks out of a storage garage and also one of the attackers.

This death forced the attackers to take cover, retreat and regroup, they took some ineffective fire but nothing happened for a little bit.

Augustus Holmes managed to get a bead on another person taking a shot and putting a hole in him.

Then disaster stuck as a brave attacker ran up and sprayed wild fire at Estelle Phillips. She crumpled and fell under the fire! Meanwhile Lars and Mao were taking inaccurate fire.

Augustus Holmes and Mao exchanged fire with other figuresn, taking them out. This was helping keep this side safe and was forcing the rest of the attackers to advance around the containers...where Aralay Brenko was lying in wait.

Aralay stuck! Running out of cover she swung her blade at one of the attackers, his head flying away from his body.

Caught in the open the other attackers panicked, fell back a little then regrouped. Aralay managed to pin one of them.

She then charged in and in the desperate grapple both she and the attacker fell back from each other, tired, and worried.

Before she could recover a hail of bullets slammed into her sending her to the floor.  

Augustus Holmes charged around opening fire on the remaining attackers, knocking one to ground.

Holmes, Lars and Mao caught the remaining person in a pincer and while Mao took the fire Holmes closed in for the kill. Upon investigation one of the final people killed was the governor himself! He had been determined to witness the job being done and see it through. It did not go well for him unfortunately. They managed to find a purse on him with enough credits to probably look at upgrading some weaponry at some point. 

 And with that it was time to leave. Holmes, Lars and Mao carefully carried Brenko, Baratski and Phillips back to The Pelican and got them into the medbay. It turned out none of the wounds were going to leave any permanent damage. The only thing left to do was to hightail it out of there.