Jake Kessler- Neut pilot and sport personality
Joseph Renner- Phoenix Squadron Legionnaire
Zakir Anae- Orgotek Communications Officer
Chan Jiu-Mao- Ministry agent, possibly assigned as a punishment
Ramon Gutierrez- Norca agent, also possibly assigned as a punishment
Xingshang MacAvoy- Exotic Aescullapian teammie.

Greg Leon- Trinity Contact
Lostin Smedley- OBC Producer- a flake
Dan Mahr- Cameraman

(Summer 2120) A group is assembeled for a joint OBC/Trinity project. A "COPS" like show is being created to showcase psions as a force for good. First, the disparate personnel must learn to work together. Special Virtual Reality pods are used to train the force. The simulation involves investigating an asteroid base called Ceres-4. The simulation involves a surreal aberrant infestation and ends with the destruction of the base.

Click here for a picture of the Gibbs escaping the exploding asteroid

Phanom Rung- HK Crimelord and ex-Ministry Agent
Giorgi Solov- Triton contact and group advisor
Maurice Weh- HK actress and star of Shining City II
Joel Whitlake- Jovian Alliance pilot
Li "Ricky" Wo- Henchmen forced to work for Rung
The Gang of Three- HK crime fighting group comprised of Chun Chang, Jim and ol' Jing

(09-02-2120) The group is ordered to break up a Xianggang (Hong Kong) smuggling ring run by Phanom Rung. At the opening of "Shining City II", thuggies interupt a meeting with the Aeon contact. Jake hits someone with a folding chair, while Ramon shoots someone. Finding that they have been set up by the contact, the group decides to lay low and attend a banquet on the invitation from an actress that Ramon rescues. Another attack takes place in the banquet, highlights of which consist of throwing drunken prawns and running across a firefight carrying a large table as portable cover. After joining forces with three local genre hero types, an interrogation leads the group to an airport. A Jovian Alliance Trey is siezed and is found to be carrying a load of twelve clones on ice.

The plot thickens- the clones are exactly like Xingshang. After rendezvousing in Vladivostok with Giorgi, it is discovered the real Xingshang died of LAO when she was three, and that her rich lunar estate mogul father Ian MacAvoy started an illegal cloning lab to remake her. Our Xingshang is one of these clones.

All of this footage was caught on film, so the group has a seven week deadline to trace the clones to the source before they can get a hint of what is going on (due to OBC's airing). Additionally, it is discovered that Giorgi Solov is a quantakinetic working for the Aeon Trinity.

(09-12-2120) The group heads to Luna to get information from Ian MacAvoy about the cloning operation. This adventure also sports a meeting with the Qin ambassador. He seems to know a lot about certain members of the group, asking Chan about his past and Zakir about the Yi.

A group known as the New Space Brigade is causing problems, especially with the Olympian electrical and grav-crystal networks. After investigating the Pit, the New Space Brigade is found to be a small aberrant "cult" started by a man called "Henderson". He takes care of two Aberrant twins who didn't know any better than to obey him. Before the group can react, Jake makes arrangements to send the two twins to an Aeon facility in Chicago. It turns out that Henderson is the 78-year-old son of the same "Dave Henderson" from the Space Brigade, accidentally left behind when they fled Luna.

When the group tracks down MacAvoy, he claims that Xingshang knows that she is a clone but that he said he had nothing to do with her cloning. However, researchers must have continued it on their own without his interdiction. He tells us to go to a "shell station" that is orbiting Europa.

(10-24-2120) The group heads toward the Southern Cataract, an obscure belt station, in search for clues to the clone slave ring's masters. They are sent with the JS3 Kraken, although they don't know why. After some investigation, many things are learned. The Southern Cataract was a medical station, but is now a den of iniquity. Illegal research into man-machine interface and nanotechnology is being done, primarily in an effort to repair the station's owner Osiris, who was made this way by a figure known as the Fool. This (evil! EVIL!) shadowy figure is found to be behind much of the bad doings on this station, and is highly involved with the clone ring. The group runs into Phanom Rung in the bowels of the station. Thought to be a powerful Ministry agent, his psionic attacks are quite weak and very basic, which surprises the team. He escapes, but is killed in a bizarre ship explosion. Before more can be learned, a Scarab filled with Fourth Legion troops comes to the station and takes it over. Giorgi is publicly killed, and Osiris is crippled. Without any more words, the Legionairres leave.

Brad Kirkland- CSA operative designated to aid the characters
Gunter Hoek- Kenyan/German Kostbaar employee and Trinity agent.
Cyrus Smith- UVA astronomy student
Crystal MacKormik- UVA history student, from a well-to-do family
Sa'kto Nambu- UAN AE student at Axum's Pearl facility
Hsu Chen- Chinese EE student
Chengir Kaph- Saudi med student

General Shen Lau- Corrupt Chinese General
General Grace Spalding- Zealous FSM General
Monstoro- Norca freak-of-nature assassin. Has serious mental problems
Marie Kessler- Norca agent and sister to Jake. Also appeared in Blood and Ether

Kip- A girl from a blight village who tags along with the group
Monstoro- Norca freak-of-nature assassin. Also appears in Secrets at the Top of the World
Marie Kessler- Norca agent and sister to Jake. Also appeared in Blood and Ether and Secrets at the Top of the World.

(12-03-2120) The group is tired from the events of FiHP, but are called into action by the Trinity on behest of the Norca. A Qin diplomat's ship has crashed in the FSA's blight zone, and a rescue attempt is to be mounted (a clandestine rescue, to avoid a diplomatic incident). Two Norca agents introduced as Phil Blank and Jocelyn join the party, although Jake quickly exposes his sister's cover. The party takes a Banji Peregrine to FSA territory, avoiding the 5^th Legion and landing in the blight. Encounters with raiders endears the party to a peasant village, and the group gains Kip, a girl who serves as a guide.

An injured Qin bodyguard is encountered traveling in the waste, apparently looking for the ambassador. The group attempts to communicate with and follow the Qin, but runs afoul of an FSM patrol. A firefight breaks out, but most of the FSM troops are killed by a mysterious sniper (or snipers). The search continues, and eventually the downed ship is recovered. The lone bodyguard turns out to be an assassin who attacks the ambassador. The group barely manages to kill him. The wounded ambassador is evacuated and must be removed from it's suit (We see a slug!). The Qin is then returned to Pai del Fuego, and everyone is offered Norca whores.

(12-23-2120) In an effort to shield the characters from *spoiler* fallout from Signals and Flares (and the ensuing UN investigation), they are sent on a scientific/PR mission aboard the newly re-commissioned jumpship Yi. The mission involves studying a magneto-star in the Aquilla system, as well as dropping off frigate sized "jump pods".

Randolf Carter (2)- White trash Ductran ISRAn who may have changed the future
Howard Philips- Electrokinetic assassin. May have shown up before
Sylvia Hewlitt- Al-Alif ISRAn
Shan- Qin ambassador (see Act Three- Powerplay Luna)
Chen Jiu Mao- Ex-PC, now head of xeno-studies at the cube (see Act One- Simulations and Reflections)
Shannen Masamune- Xingshang's aunt and genetic template for clones
Greg Leon-Trinity worker, the first contact, seen rarely since Act 1 (see Act One- Simulations and Reflections)
Baka- An abberant that can create energy-based multiples of himself. Attacked Leviathan in Act Eleven- Exodus
Giorgi-One of the last Quantakinetics, he's apparently not dead (See Act Three- Powerplay Luna and Act Five- The Seeking)
Col. Arton Gilliss- UAN colonel. May be the same as the leader of the Hamemos gang

 (12-31-2120) The PCs are invited up to Luna by the Qin embassy, as part of the new year celebration. The team gets holiday bonuses. Score! Gunter says he will be gone until the 7^th of January. They arrive early in the day on the 31^st. Jake finds a mysterious message from a Randolph Carter waiting in his room. He then leaves to visit the pit, and meets the leader of the Hamemos gang (from Act Three- Powerplay Luna). He finds that the gang of kids known as the Sweeners (from Act Three- Powerplay Luna) have been murdered, and that the Fool and the President (leader of big pit mafia) were involved somehow. Meanwhile, Joe and Zackir are visited in their hotel room by a representative from the MacAvoy Corporation. It seems that Ian MacAvoy has gone missing recently, and that Xingshang's wherabouts have been called into question (Trinity has given a cover story that she boarded the Kraken bound for Khantze Le Ge). The group reunites, enhances their spiff, and leaves for the celebration.

At the party, the group is introduced to Ambassador Shen, Chen, and Otha Herzog. The proxy excuses himself, while Shen invites them to a private dinner at 10:00. The reunited group mingles until then, meeting Sylvia Hewlitt and her fellow ISRANs along the way. Howard Philips introduces himself to Jake as another representative from MacAvoy, and questions him along similar lines. Col. Arton Gilliss of the UAN military is spotted, and looks very similar to the leader of the Hamemos gang. The group finally sits down to dinner with the Qin, being served their favorite foods (Renner likes finger food). Questions come up about the blue Qin from Act Eleven- Exodus. Ambassador Shen then brings out a woman that bears a striking resemblance to Xingshang (only older), leaving while the group questions her. The woman is Sharon Masamune, Xingshang's aunt who was brought onto the evil cloning project to fill holes in the clone template genetic pattern. She reveals that Ian MacAvoy did not start the project and she doesn't who she worked for. She also revels that there were thousands of clones produced, even exempting failures and abberants (literally). The group assures her safe passage to Trinity, then leaves her with the Qin.

The group returns to the party as midnight approaches. As the holographic apple begins to drop, Zackir senses a noetic disturpance. A man tackles Jake just as the lights cut out. He apparently saves Jake from an attack, as the holo-projectors are reconfigured into a laser, striking the bar stool where Jake was sitting. A tense battle takes down Howard Miller, Jake's would-be assassin. Jake's savior is Randolph Carter, an ISRAn who has seen Jake in his visions for a while now. He feels that Jake was destined to die, but that he also had to save him. Relative calm returns for a moment before everyone feels a taint spike. Anubis, the abberant from Act Five- The Seeking, warps into the middle of the atrium and gives Herzog a cryptic message. Just then black-garbed terrorists (later determined to be FSM) descend from the ceiling, firing automatic weapons into the crowd.

The group acts quickly to disarm the terrorists. Their fire seems concentrated on the Qin, whose bodyguards quickly return fire. Renner gets shot in the gut (but the armor absorbs most of it). One of the atrium's windows is hit, and threatens to expose the room to vacuum. Before it can, Anubis teleports the room (minus the terrorists and the bodyguards) to a nearby lava tunnel. He lies dying from the taint expenditure, and talks briefly with Otha Herzog. He entreats the group to track down his daughter (and gives a mind print of her to Jake). Everyone else evacuates, finding themselves near the pit (near the same dome from Act Three- Powerplay Luna). The group proceeds to the nearest LAMP tube, meeting a Trinity action team led by Greg Leon. Responding to the massive taint spike, he demands the group show him to the nearby null zone. Everyone winces as Jake receives a taint-based telepathic message, then heads back to the cavern.

The group finds a figure standing over Anubis. It is beetle-like Xingshang abberant, last seen in Act Six- Chronicle's End. She mutters cryptically, touching Anubis's head and then teleporting the group (the characters plus Greg, Sylvia, and Randolf) to the Leviathan. Up on the bridge they meet Baka and Jessica Ford, who has merged with the Leviathan. The ship is in another galaxy, which keeps Baka from leaving. Xingshang reveals that she is aware of an organization that wishes to use her clones to create an army of teleporters. The Prophet apparently has both the Upeo Wa Macho prometheus chamber and the ability to clone humans with sufficient latency (ie: Xingshangs). The group considers the logistical challenges of stopping such an organization, and Xingshang remarks than only Giorgi could put together such an operation. Jake then reveals that Giorgi downloaded himself into his mini-comp when he was forced to dissassociate, and actives the Giorgi program. Giorgi explains he is rooted to a physical point interdependant of the expanding universe, and cannot reform his physical being. Leviathan then jumps to that point, and Giorgi reforms (as Baka, now two light months from Sol, leaves via warp point).

Giorgi and the group discuss possible leads to the Prophet. A strategy for future months is formulated, and Xingshang returns the group to the UAN, roughing them up a bit with her warp to provide a believable cover story. It is decided that the people (abberant included) who were aboard the Leviathan will form a secret association to bring down the Fool and the Prophet (and then disband). The team is left with the daunting task of organising and executing such an operation while still leading their normal lives (for cover purposes)

Kostbaar - Fashion Designer to the stars
Sasha Varin- Kostbaar's daughter, although the heritage is not publically known
Apollo - Tiger (albino)
Hermes - Tiger (albino)
Spencer Alex - psychotic vitakentic

 (01-03-2121) Mere days after Act Sixteen, Dial B for Backstory, the group is gathered together by Gunter. Zakhir is unavilable, but Jake, Joe, and Cynthia Hewlitt board the Gibbs and fly to Rio de Janero. There they meet Ted, Yoshi, and Cecilia, fresh from assignment in Mexico. The group proceeds to Kostbaar island, a small land mass within sight of the city, occupied entirely by the Kostbaar mansion. Here Kostbaar informs the group that his daughter has been kidnapped by an unknown assailant some three hours earlier. Soon a ransom demand is phoned in, for 25 million yuan delivered in seven days. The group begins to gather information, using telepathic scans of Sasha's two tigers, clairsentient delving into the room's history, investigation of the security logs, and examination of the house computer. The following becomes apparent: three intruders enter into the house unde cover of a computer hack, gassing the tigers and subduing the girl through psionic attack. The attack appears to be algesic in nature, and calls are put in for a rogue vitakinetic in the area. The tiger's jeweled collars are also stolen, so Cecilia obtains a tracer to track the collar's transmitter (using NORCA connections). The collars are traced (quite by accident) to the BioSystems warehouse, where Cynthia remotely senses their placement in a packing crate.

There were a lot of good quotations in this one, so I had to write them down.

Ramon Gutierrez?- Rouge Norca, apparantly back from the dead (see Act Six- Chronicle's End)
Captain Arturo Del Gado- Norca Naiad Captain. Appeared in Act Nine- Crimes on High Space. Note, Arturo not Arcturo
Marie Kessler- Reoccuring NPC and Jake's sister.

Francis Modesta- Neut good guy from Act Eight- The Act of Fear.
Shar "Woody" Allan- Orgotek guy. Kinda annoying. Also from Act Eight- The Act of Fear.
Fulton "Stick" Granger- Awesome Legion Pilot. Also from Act Eight- The Act of Fear.
Sprint Centel- Annoying ISRAN J . Also from Act Eight- The Act of Fear.
Diego- Ex-PC
Brad Kirkland- Ex-CSA agent
Jok Something- Aescalapian #4 for our group.

(01-18-2121) Our story begins with Jake waking up in Port Au Prince. He gets a message that Renner is missing. Tracking Renner down leads to the deaths of the entire group at the hands of Ramon Gutierrez (the evil one). Ramon promptly kills everyone.

The rest of the adventure is played by Francis, Shar, Fulton, Sprint, Diego, Brad, and some Aescalapian (Keen). They had been abducted by the Norca, and sent to Far Nyumba (or so they think). They are told that Marie Kessler is a powerful Clairsentient Latent (as is Jake) and had a vision of something happening on Far Nyumba with the whole group (+Arturo and Greg). They are led by Proxy Del Fuego (or so they think) to a anthill looking temple. Inside is a tessaract thing and an evil bio-computer. The computer is subdued, and everyone thinks they are safe.

However, the whole experience was actually a simulation inside one of the secret Norca sneaky-ships (the Naiads). The story ends with the Norca Naiad freighter being attacked by chameleon suited baddies. They seem to know the secret routes of the Naiad (possible Norca leak?) and attack from a frigate that is teleport capable (Upeo clones in action?). The Naiad is desroyed and the group escapes in a little bitty ship.

(01-18-2121) Our story begins with Jake waking up in Port Au Prince. I know this is a repeat, but so was the scene. Instead of going to get Renner, Jake warns Gunter of the ambush and gets some coffee.

Regginald- Norca Quantkinetic
Mr. Rich Guy- Eccentric Rich Guy