OOC and Questions

Is whoever is going to fetch Areen in this situation telling her who they've got down there?

Yeah, I would assume she does know the person, which is why I'm asking. As an active part of the rebellion she wouldn't trust this person even if everyone else decided it was fine. She's got no way to prove her story and is, by her own account, a master manipulator. Whether Areen knows what's waiting in the cargo hold would change the reaction a bit

Areen will do what is asked of her but she won't like it. Though she's currently deep below deck and unaware of Dant's takeover

OOC I don't mind going on the mission, but Ceebee hasn't really given Cordell an incentive to do so IC.

At the moment there's nothing to corroborate her story, and her appearance has put a lot of pressure on the character relationship between the crew and the late-captain. I think part of the problem might be that we don't have a solid idea of who the captain was? Cordell is a pretty straightforward person, who respects honesty, and appreciates the gravity of being responsible for so many lives, even as he struggles with it. So, he's at a weird point where his choices are to either think the captain was keeping secrets and potentially wasn't who he thought he was, or CB isn't telling the whole story - and that's definitely leaning toward the latter. Unless the captain was just a secretive person? But, I've been playing this wrong if that's the case.

There's not currently any immediacy to the mission at the moment. Cordell is putting the captain's remains into stasis, so whether they bury him now or later doesn't make much of a difference, and CB didn't know how long she was under (nor seemed particularly worried about it, considering she thought it could have been upwards of a year and it's only been a little over a month), so it doesn't seem like her mission is time-sensitive or that the technology is going to give out anytime soon.

Cordell isn't FOR Dante being the leader, but he's not outright against it yet either - particularly if Adil passed the buck, since that's just the order of succession. Dante is skeevy, but hasn't done anything wrong, and hasn't spoken to Cordell yet.

Cordell is against killing CB - he's against killing anyone really, so he'd not do anything to endanger her, and will do his best to prevent harm coming to her. But, getting a weapon against the Empire, or scavenging loot, aren't reasons that would intrigue the doctor into going on that mission, and are actually points against it.

OOC I like the plot hook as written, but I think I might need a different character to be able to take it.

@vagueGM you mean what's in the 'Notes' section?
I'm not sure if it helps specifically, but I do think Cordell would be more understanding of what the captain was doing if he knew. Honestly, that's something that can come up in the RP though. It definitely could be something Adil just talks to the group about, because right now they're all kind of separate in their reactions to what's happened, and they haven't really had time to process anything (I think Cordell just brought the captain down from the deck, so he's been dead a few hours or less at this point).

Cordell is predisposed to trusting Adil, but as long as Adil doesn't want to take the leader position, Cordell isn't in any position to expect that of them and won't force it on them. Doing things in half-measures and being dishonest just rubs him the wrong way. This is where I thought the internal tension might become an issue with a power vacuum where there isn't a solid dichotomy of right-and-wrong.

Cordell's motivations are typical doctor ones - he wants to keep the crew safe, he wants to treat and cure injured and sick people (of all loyalties and backgrounds), he wants to expand his knowledge of medicine to help with the above. On a more personal note, he'd want to confront whoever in the Empire killed his mother, but that may never come up.

However, a mission that puts the crew in danger simply to get a 'tool' that will re-start a war is vastly against his morals - it would have to be something more immediate, and harmful to people, to get Cordell to agree that it's the right thing to do. He'd even be willing to go for it (albeit maybe separately from the bulk of the crew?) if it was just CB who needed care. Initially, I thought she might have been in stasis to stop an illness or injury that was killing her, and the mission was to save her specifically - Cordell would be willing to help with that even if he never trusts her - but getting a tool to fight the empire after the war's already over and lost is antithetical to his feelings as a doctor. At the moment it just sounds like the Butcher is still determined to sacrifice more lives for her (lost) cause.