I like the YT-2000. That one gets my vote now. Suggestions on how to spend the remaing 30,000 creds to mod the ship are welcome from all. A med bay is high on my list, but I'm not near my books to figure that out. Thanks MoMo and Marithyme for providing the information. I don't know how I misread the HWK, so that is my bad.
If I may...I'd like to weave together the origin story for our crew. Or at least a rough draft. If any of this doesn't work please adjust as desired. At the time of this posting only myself, MoMo, Tsavo, and Nikcollini have submitted or posted characters, so other PCs will be "named" with [their archetype].
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Adaasha Rebrill (Ada for short is fine), found herself on Kerest V, a temperate planet with a pleasant enough atmosphere, and recently the new owner of a YT-2000 light freighter named The Horizon Chaser. She was however in need of a co-pilot, preferably one with a more robust background in star ship repair than herself.
Pickings on the rim worlds are usually slim, but Kerest was desolate. She had found one or two potential candidates and was mulling over her options when she got a call from an old contact. Major Deoki Willute was an imperial outpost commander who made use of some...less than regulation services when he had personal business to take care of. Major Willute was looking for recommendations for good gun hands, and he was willing to pay a finders fee. Adaasha was familiar with a few people and gave them a call, told them what the major was looking for and willing to pay. Jack Fenn was one of the people she called. When he showed up a few days later, with a doctor in tow, explaining that Wilute was dead, Ada was quite surprised. Next he explained how the Imperials and a mob family all thought he was responsible for killing Willute, which he had in fact not done, Ada was shocked. When Jack pulled a blaster on her and forced her to take off, you could have knocked Ada over with a feather.
Seeing that she was caught by completely unarmed, Ada was left with little choice. She left the Kerset system as quickly as she could. While they traveled, Ada felt more and more that she was partly responsible for getting Jack, and [Medic] in trouble. She hired Jack and [Medic] on as her co-pilots, even though they lacked the qualifications she was looking for.
At their first stop, Adaasha and her crew caught wind of some work being offered by some Rodian government officials or something. The work was simple and the pay was fair, so they took the job. One of the contractual stipulations was that a Rodian named [Infiltrator] had to accompany the Chaser to make sure certain aspects were handled properly. Not a big deal since the ship had the room. When it was over [Infiltrator] asked if he might stay on board. He said he preferred the Chaser's crew to the life he might return to. Ada figured having an extra pair of hands would prove useful and agreed.
The Horizon Chaser tooled around the Outer Rim for a few months, doing their best to keep Jack and [medic] off anyone's radar, but eventually, they ran into trouble. While making a delivery of some black market goods, a Gank bounty hunter named [Bounty Hunter] found them. After some tense negotiations Ada and Jack managed to convince [Bounty Hunter] that Jack and [Medic]'s bounty was small potatoes and that signing on to the Chaser as an enforcer was a much more lucrative possibility.
However, they found themselves facing further complications when they were ready to leave. It seemed [Bounty Hunter] had reported their location before he switched sides. The Imperials had placed a grounded order on the Chaser. Enter Savi, a human politician of small, but significant clout. In exchange for passage off planet, to wherever the Horizon Chaser went next, Savi would pull the necessary strings to get them back into space.
So...how does that sound? I think it weaves all together well and works with what we have posted so far. As I said, make amendments and add details as you feel the need. This was mostly for my benefit to see if I had the thread of the story correct.