Chapter 3 - To Cholganna

AD-hoc begins scanning the planet, using the pod data to determine a starting point, it only takes a couple hours to narrow it down to an area a few thousand kilometers in diameter. You'll need to enter the atmosphere and make some mid level sweeps to see if you can home in on the ship or it's debris.

As the ship crisscrosses the search area for the last time, AD-hoc is sure he's narrowed the crash site to a 10km x 30km rectangle. The thick canopy of jungle makes it nearly impossible to make out which direction the ship was traveling when it hit, but the debris spread gives a clue. AD-hoc identifies for Pergano a likely landing site. You'll be setting down in a 'clearing' that's just a little smaller than the ship. You should be at one end or the other of the Sa Nalaor's crash.

Once landed, the steam off of the ships hull is thick as the humid air heats up even more than usual. Lowering the ramp your greeted with a rush of tropical smells. Life, in all it's glory, is plentiful in this jungle. A few km's north of your position should be where you may start encountering remains of the ship.

Jeswain consults with AD-hoc, getting a bearing and checking the location of the Sun versus the North/South reading on his datapad. Checking the flap on his holster, he nods at what looks to be an solid wall of trees and vines. We can head off that way, the wreckage should be easier to spot since we're on the ground. Keep a sensor out for the wildlife, sounds like they ran off when we landed, but I imagine their curiosity will get the better of them soon enough.

He strides forward into the jungle. As you move to follow him, you hear the sound of the ramp retracting. Dancy is locking up the ship, she'll be awaiting your signal if you need her to move the ship closer to anything you find.

The journey is rough and hot, most of the group spots occasional dangerous looking plants or the eyes of a strange creatures easing toward them. Ken, happily takes random shots at the creatures that he sees and even a couple that Blih spots and points out. The noise and impact of the blaster bolts seems sufficient to scatter most of the creatures you see. Pergano, head down and using all his limbs to traverse the rugged ground witnesses none of this, and is occasionally startled by the sudden blaster fire. A couple hours pass this way until...

Ahead, you see a narrow, winding valley, one of many cutting through the rugged and overgrown terrain. A small river is visible through the trees. A rocky dam at the southern end creates a long, oblong lake filling much of the valley floor behind it.
After a moment, you realize that the dam is actually the rusted hulk of a ship, jammed between the rocky outcroppings of the opposing bluffs. The color is similar to that of the surrounding rocks. Water pours through huge holes in the hull, flowing through the decks and out through engines, among other exit points, until it plunges down a series of natural falls and continues south.