Breakaway

Player Characters
Davis 'Dai' Bush
Joseph Connelly
Isabella Everitt
Tardim 'Tac' Cromwell

Scene 1 Calm before the storm

Alan "So, I should let you know, I've been practicing."

David "Yeah, yeah."

David is in the rec room playing darts. All is calm on Moonbase Alpha, the off duty personnel unaware of the dangers brewing in Area 2 Nuclear store. With another kind of brewing, Isabella is taking a few bottles of her latest Ale, Moon Juice to one of her friends, when the base is rocked by an almighty explosion!



Scene 2 Emergency survey

All personnel are recalled to duty. There is a build-up of magnetic radiation in Area 2, which is what has been causing personnel to fall ill. Several Eagles are employed with moving some of the nuclear Waste canisters before there is an explosion. David, Isabella, Tadim and Joseph are assigned to Eagle 5 along with Kai and Penny as part of a survey team. Their role is to act as communications relay between the Eagles and Main Mission.

David manoeuvres his Eagle into the correct position and Isabel is able to monitor Area 2 with Penny relaying information to Main Mission. Isabel warns of an imminent explosion and Main Mission give the Abort code! David moves Eagle 5 away just in time as bolts of electricity shoot from the moons surface, another Eagle was not so lucky and explodes!



Scene 3 Eagle down!

Eagle 5 is ordered back to base, but this time there was no warning and the ship is hit by bolts of electricity. The Engine is damaged and several small interval explosions. The Eagle is going down but David manages to make a successful crash landing and no one is injured.

Scene 4 Breakaway

The Crew are just recovering when there is a mighty explosion from Area 2 and G-Forces pin everyone to the ground. Glancing out of the Eagle window the blue green glow of the Earth is getting smaller and smaller. The moon has been blown out of Earths orbit!

Scene 5 Return to Moonbase Alpha

Once the G-Forces subside the crew done spacesuits and begin the walk across the moons surface back to Moonbase Alpha. It takes around an hour to reach the Moonbase, and when they get there they see damage, some small explosions and air venting from several areas. The comms are down and the doors locked, but Isabella and Joseph are able to run a bypass and enter the Moonbase to safety.

Scene 6 Base in Turmoil

Back inside Moonbase Alpha many Alphans are scared and confused, many still do now know what has just happened.  People are running around in a panic, corridors are filled with smoke from exploding computers, light fittings and even support beams have collapsed in part of the base.

The PCs do what they can to help.  Tac using his authority to try and calm people.

A young woman, appears injured, a broken arm, struggles to move a beam that has collapsed and is wedging door closed.  Inside the room is a mess of overturned tables, and three scientists are trying in vain to open the door.  Beyond them the external windows has a large crack that is getting bigger.  Isabel is able to make a makeshift sling for the woman while Tac and David are able to move the beam, freeing the scientists just in time, the window explodes moments after the door seals blowing the contents of the room into space.

Turning a corner Joseph sees an Alphan fighting a fire, so grabs an extinguisher to assist.

Isabel then get a comm from Paul Morrow in Main Mission.

Paul Morrow "At last, I need someone, anyone, to get to nuclear power control, they need help."

The PCs head as fast as they can, asking the scientists they have just freed, which include Professor Nadia Salib.  On reaching Nuclear Control they scientists on duty say they need help with a slow power down, if they are forced to do am emergency power down it could take a week to restore power.  Isabel assists, as doe Nadia who is experienced in Nuclear Science. 

Test 1. Success

Test 2. Success

Test 3 - with Threat raising the difficulty level, Isabel fails and her computer explodes...  But despite facing defeat Isabel keeps hold of the controls and pulls the lever to make a successful and safe power down.

GM Note - Isabel chose to 'accept defeat' so she could add a favourable condition, that being that her action was a success.

A general order goes out telling all staff to report to their posts.

Scene 7 The Lost Earth

As they make their way to Main Mission, eager to make a report they find out what is going on and how bad the damage is.

The Mood is sombre.  Everyone appears stunned at what they have just been through.  A few quiet voices continue to issue instructions for further damage control procedures across the base.  But it appears the worst is over.

Commander Koenig steps forward to address the base and explain the situation, "As you know, our moon as been blasted out of orbit.  We have been completely cut off from planet Earth.  As we are, we have power, environment, and therefore the possibility of survival.

If we should try to improvise a return to Earth, without travel plans, without full resources, it is my belief that we would fail.  Therefore, in my judgement, we do not try."

Together the eyes of everyone in Main Mission turn to the window where Earth has become a distant speck.

Moonbase Alpha is alone in the universe, the fate of Earth unknown.  but what mystery and adventure might await the humans of Alpha out in the endless and unexplored universe?  The human voyage into the frontier of space has begun.