I've posted a few more updates on the party's progress since my last update here.
Some were minor (their steward droid's version of events at the start of the Borderland Run, for instance -
https://drinax.net/borderland-run-week-1-patricks-version/ ) but in the second session of the Borderland Run, the party continued their investigations into Captain Envai's Cavern; met Amaldae the Vargr and found out more about their "cargo"; got accosted (and hacked - a good idea by Dungeon Musings that I stole) by burly private-eyes; used Sam Kegii, whose Leaky Bucket they had previously fixed for him, as a decoy to raise their misdirection index while retreiving their mission target's luggage, and travelled to the settlement of Hernon's Claim, where they now knew their cargo to be hiding.
https://drinax.net/borderland-run-2/
One of the player charcters - Anastasia - is a psionicist and journalist, and the player decided that she would post an article about the goings-on on Pourne to try and shift opinion towards the party's contact on the planet:
https://drinax.net/pourne-star-players-version/ I love it when players get involved like this!
The party had also sent their other ships (the Shinkiro and the Grey Area (formerly Redthane's flagship with a stupid name none of us could remember) to conduct piracy in Hilfer, and the same player wrote a piece to undermine the governments on the planet and provoke discontent about the rising levels of piracy. You don't often see actual piracy in accounts of PoD campaigns online so this was quite smart stuff:
https://drinax.net/hilfer-political-journalism/
In the next session, the party find Prince Hteilotorl and dine with him This let me plant seeds of sympathy for someone they knew so far as a wanted war criminal, and who they were debating turning in for the 5MCr reward offered by his enemies (dead or alive, where the bounty for "alive" had to be collected from a system in Gushemege, suggesting strongly which option was preferred!)
After smuggling him offworld they head for Acrid, where they are introduced to the Revolution on Acrid plotline for later, and on to Pandora, where about 15 sessions of research and questioning pay off and they find Captain Envai's Cavern:
https://drinax.net/borderland-run-3/ (and very nearly die to a robot I made far too brutal for a group mainly toting stunners).
Finally, I posted a bunch of the INS stories I had been dropping between sessions, including ones trailing the FFW that go back to the original JTAS #1 issue:
https://drinax.net/imperium-news-service-1105-summary/
