Cybernetic: The party digs deep and gets serious

Today was momentous for my Thursday group. They not only had appropriate reactions to everything that happened to them, they actually identified their current employer as a less than nice man.

It started with their triumphant return to Tokoro Kobayashi, the guy who had them kill a gentleman for reasons never asked. They said they got the job done and Tokoro allowed them to browse his armory, taking a certain amount in weapons and equipment as payment for doing the job and so they docked their ship and took their shuttle to the main hangar that would lead to said armory.

Well Daniel Knight, the party leader, got lost in the hallways of the ship as he sort of just declared he was going as the rest of the party was still discussing whatever. He never went anywhere in the main base and he left his group and the guy in it who could navigate the base for him.
Several failed spot checks later, he meanders into a room with a person all cut up and suspended in the air. A woman. Now he gets a feeling of recognition and realizes that this is his long lost wife (who he never named, it was a footnote in his backstory that his significant other just sort of disappeared) and that she was brutally experimented on. He calls in Talos, the homicidal robot party member, for support (or something, it was never quite clear why he called in the robot).

They were watched this whole time and silent alarms were tripped when they attempted to get into the room she was in. Tokoro explains calmly and clearly that she had to be taken and experimented on as she had biological implants that gave immense strengths at very little cost and that he wanted to learn and equip his men with them. That she was serving a greater good. It clicks in Knight's head "Holy Mother! Our employer is actually the bad guy!" and him and Talos contemplate what to do about the still living nightmare patient that is Knight's wife.

cut back to the Armory...

"Where'd Talos and Daniel get to?"
*everyone shrugs*

back to the Nightmare ER...

Knight is trying his darndest to shoot this woman and put her out of her misery, but just can't seem to work up the gumption to do it. He just failed the will save to murder someone so close to him and lost his nerve for a mercy killing.
There was a brief pause as his player weighed his next actions...and then there was an idea!

the idea

Being the sensitive guy that he is, Talos volunteers to shoot Knight's wife right in the face (originally he was going to use his chainsword, but he was talked out of it). Just like that, Tokoro's prized genetic paragon was killed. A squad of the extremely professional and heavily armed Kognis Kommandos were already en route to gun the two of them down. It was a fairly straightforward battle, Daniel took advantage of the small doorway into the lab and Talos took advantage of the soldiers being less than chainsword proof. The encounter was over in several rounds with no serious injuries to either characters.

but meanwhile at the Armory...

the rest of the party was having a grand ole time shopping around and picking equipment while the party leader was having his emotions destroyed and fighting off execution squads.
That is until a squad of Traitor Special Operations Marines came stomping into the room demanding they line up against the wall. There were five total. The three present party members (Fayd, Ami'Rah, and Jaegar) all comply as Fayd thinks up a workable plan. He does by the way and the end result was magnificent...
Lilith Ami'Rah discreetly drops a plasma grenade that isn't primed at the edge of a very large ammo cache as she follows the soldiers loud and increasingly frantic command, she joins the others on the wall.
"Don't I get a final request?" Fayd calls out behind him to the soldiers aiming at his back.
"...speak it!" the Squad Sargent barked.
Fayd slips his hand into a hidden pocket in his suit, thumbing a smoke grenade.
"Breath deep!" He tosses the grenade behind him, judging the distance perfectly...

He pulls off a stupendous tumble check...

A beautiful throw, he actually hits one of the Marines dead in the chest with a Super Adhesive Grenade (basically it builds a wall around whatever it blows up next to, trapping anyone inside it)...



















It traps all three of the soldiers...



















He turns to face the two heavy weapons guys. These chumps can't be that bad right?

The first one pulls off a pretty righteous shot with a railgun. I rolled hit location.

Guess where I rolled

Fayd staggers from the blow and, despite an embarrassing injury, he prepares to easily dodge the second shooter's attack...

I rolled hit location again

He still ended up saving the day, though he lost two of three possible parts in the process. His smoke bomb was the distraction the other two needed. They ran through the confused and panicked soldiers, getting to the door of the armory and slamming it closed in a hurry, but not before Fayd took a little revenge shot at the Plasma Grenade that Lilith had dropped on top of the ammo crates. He hit and it set of a chain reaction of hundreds upon hundreds of bullets exploding outward and doing stupidly high damage to the squad sent to kill them. They died looking something akin to bloody swiss cheese.

The party met back up at the main hangar and  boarded their shuttle to get back to their main ship, fire it up and make good their escape. Jaegar took a few extra seconds to sabotage the four other attack shuttles in the hangar, dramatically reducing their maneuverability in the asteroid field this secret base is located in.
They fly out the hangar, laughing hysterically as the shuttles that are sent after them sluggishly move about and are pretty much all destroyed by small clusters of rock that regularly hurtle about outside of the gravity generators near the docks for the higher tonnage ships. They get back home, fire up engines, and haul out of there in a hurry.

There were two things I liked about this session in particular:

1) The character development of Daniel Knight and wrapping up a fairly important sidequest that was integral to really making this character live and breathe.

2) Fayd received two consecutive shots to the penis. From railguns.