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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Derren" data-source="post: 7311330" data-attributes="member: 2518">Buying and selling ships usually doesnt happen in Traveller much and a patrol cruiser raises so many red flags that it is more trouble than what its worth it unless the PCs go pirate and/or leave the Imperium. Otherwise every time they approach a spaceport or even enter a system their transponder would reveal that they are in a AWOL military ship.Also if they want the help from the authorities eventually they would have to turn in the ship anyway. They could use it to approach Olyx unnoticed for a while though. Altough its still risky as they likely miss important informations and the ruse will be discovered as soon as they prepare to dock or land. And that assumes that Olyx is otherwise empty. If not it gets more complicated (but also offers other infiltration options)And just because the cruiser is away doesnt mean that there are no other ships and ground based defenses ehich make a raid impossible.So for now information gathering and possible sabotage of the cruiser would be the smartest thing to do imo. Especially to find other co conspirators. Large scale bioweapon manufacturing is a bit above a simple lieutenant. You need scientific expertise and a lot of funding. And you need to have a very good reason to spend all this ressources to create a bioweapon. What do they want it for? Hacking military grade computers to take over an imperial ship would be extremly hard anyway and success would depend a lot on GM fiat. They might be able to successfully assault some of the gathering teams on the ground if that is indeed what the cruiser is there for. Just make sure that their mission is not to perform a large scale test on a backwater planet instead. Although the proximity to their base makes this unlikely. On the other hand as the weapon is based on DNA found in that planet its more easy to cover it up as a local mutation.Will their cover as inspection team be blown if they delay? Not that I put much fate on their cover story. Inspectors dont arrive in a yacht.As the bioweapon research has been exposed on Byron are the authorities informed? Something like this normally registers quite high on the imperial "dont do it" list and in a few weeks elements of the subsector fleet could pay Olyx a visit, not to mention remove any protection and support Li has within the ranks of the navy (assuming that he is not black ops).By the way, based on the crew size and armament, I assume this is about a 400-600 ton vessel with a fancy name and nothing even close to a cruiser.</blockquote>

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