Excellent story!!
I've just read through the whole KoSK thread for the first time... what a great read! Thanks for taking the time to write your story, Doc!
A quick question: am I completely off my rocker to guess that the sessions that challenged the players the least were all modules? It just seems to me like the story flows better when you're DMing adventures that you've come up with on your own...
-two blargs up!
ps - is the current drawing of Vek inspired from Albator? (I'm not actually sure what the name of the Albator anime is in english, but it's a cartoon about space pirates...)