Location: Leo 1 Asteroid Base / USS Talon Flight Deck Status: Pre-flight Ritual

 

🛰️ Captain’s Log: The Silence of Leo I

Location: Leo 1 Asteroid Base / USS Talon Flight Deck Status: Pre-flight Ritual

🖋️ Captain's Log: Stardate 8950.1

"The West End tables don't lie. This place is a graveyard of rocks and radiation, but it's our graveyard. The Klon won't find us here. While the Leo I Black Hole screams in the background, we’re using the asteroid's mass to mask our power signature. We’ve begun the survey of the 'Silverado' spiral arm. If there’s a way down to Zimrala, it’s buried in these coordinates."

Stardate: 8950.12 (The 90th Century) Location: The Silver Spiral Asteroid Field, Leo Major Sector Current Status: Low Power Mode. Licking Wounds.

The sensors don’t lie, even if the eyes do. We’ve dropped out of the temporal warp 6,500 years from home. The Klon Queen and her star-spiders are dust and memory now, but the void here in the 90th Century has its own teeth.

We’ve anchored the USS Urland Universe inside a cavernous Mi-Go stronghold we’ve dubbed Leo 1 Base. Outside, the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy screams with gravitational radiation from the supermassive black hole at its heart. It’s a violent, beautiful neighborhood. We’re using the Chronite Crystals found in these asteroids to stabilize our J-Class Drive, but we are running on fumes.

Wayne is in the engineering sub-deck, trying to make 25th-century tech talk to 90th-century magic. For now, we wait. The year is 8950. The stars look different, but the mission remains: survive. 

The recycled air in the Mi-Go tunnels is cold, but the coffee is hot. I took a final sip in my quarters, looking out through the reinforced transparisteel at the jagged horizon of the Silver Spiral. It’s quiet here—too quiet—but the mission doesn't wait for the silence to break.

I’m headed to the ready room now to meet Oracle Jane. We’re taking the USS Talon out for her maiden voyage. She’s an experimental Scout Class shuttle, a science vessel we were still tweaking when the Klon hit. She’s packed with prototype scanners that have never been redlined in a field like the Leo I Dwarf Galaxy.

If the Talon’s sensors are as sharp as the engineers promised, we’re going to see things in the 90th Century that no Federation eye has ever witnessed. If they aren't... well, Jane’s a hell of a pilot. She’ll get us back to the asteroid in one piece.

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📺 Episode Profile: "The Talon’s First Flight"

Mission: Charting the Leo Major Sector

The Science Vessel: USS Talon (Scout Class Shuttle)

• Experimental Scanners: +2D to all Sensors and Navigation rolls, but any roll of a '1' on the Wild Die triggers a system overload (Short Circuit).

• Hull: Light (2D). She’s built for speed and discovery, not a dogfight.

• The Oracle Connection: Oracle Jane doesn't just fly the ship; she feels it. When she’s at the helm of the Talon, the ship’s sensors feed directly into her ESP, allowing her to "see" gravitational shears before they happen.

D6 Space Mission Stakes:

1. The Invisible Ring: Jane must navigate the Leo Ring of hydrogen gas. (Difficulty 15 Space Transports roll).

2. Prototype Calibration: You must spend an action to calibrate the Talon’s scanners. (Difficulty 12 Technical or Science roll). Success reveals the exact location of the Supermassive Black Hole anchor point.

🛰️ System Scan: Leo-Major-One (90th Century)

Based on the Star Wars D6 Planet Generation logic, here is the sector profile for the Captain's new home:

1. System Name: Leo Major Alpha (Base: Leo 1) 2. Star Type: White Dwarf (Regulus Secondary) 3. Planet/Primary Body: Asteroid Belt (The Mi-Go Cluster)

• Planet Type: Asteroid Field (Remnants of a shattered moon)

• Orbit: Inner Rim (High Radiation)

• Climate: Vacuum

• Atmosphere: None (Pressure Domes Required)

🎲 D6 System Stats (WEG Style)

Feature	Roll Outcome	Description
System Gravity	Moderate	Due to the Supermassive Black Hole nearby, gravity fluctuates between 0.8g and 1.2g.
Terrain	Craggy/Cavernous	The Mi-Go carved deep, honeycombed tunnels into the largest asteroids.
Native Life	None (Extinct)	Sensor scans show organic residue, but no "living" 90th-century signatures.
Starport Type	Limited (Class IV)	Basically just the USS Urland docking bay and the Mi-Go landing pads.

🌑 The Asteroid Field: "The Silver Spiral"

Using the random creation tables, let's define the field where the Leo 1 Base is hidden:

• Hazard Level: High. The asteroid field is "active," meaning the rocks are constantly shifting due to the gravitational pull of the Leo I Black Hole.

• Resource: Chronite Crystals. You’ve found a rare mineral in these rocks that resonates with the Urland’s J-Class Drive. It’s the only reason you can maintain your temporal anchor in the 90th century.

• The Anomaly: Hidden within the field is a "Sensor Ghost"—a massive, hollowed-out asteroid that doesn't reflect radar. This is the Mi-Go Stronghold where you and Wayne are setting up the new Command Center.

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Product Identity & Legal

The following items are designated Product Identity of Arthur Earl C. Hedges Jr. / The Adventures of Captain Hedges: The USS Talon experimental scout craft, its specific prototype scanner mechanics, and the character Oracle Jane. All 8950-era narrative elements are original content created for the Captain Hedges campaign setting.

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