Stolanoi Agrippus

RMF Stolanoi Agrippus was a Reticulum Merchant Ship.

She was 17 months away from being decommissioned. She left Stralea for Bormag carrying medical supplies with 27 crew members.

They experienced a small electrical fire on one of the subdecks that was quickly extinguished. This fire had caused a power surge which traveled through the entire subsystems network and wiped a vital portion of data from the jump calculator. The omission of data was so slight that it was not detected by the redundant systems until after the ship had already made the jump to hyperspace. The strain placed upon the engines by the improperly calculated jump was so great that it took nearly 36 hours to power them down once the jump was underway. Apparently, while in misjump the ship passed near some sort of spatial singularity which slingshotted the ship far beyond normal jump capacity.

When it finally returned to normal space, it was off all charts, the jump driver was rendered inoperable and also critically low on fuel. It was unlikely that RMF Rescue and Recovery could have calculated their position this far and there were no occupied planets within the range of detection. The ship set course for the nearest solar system subsisting on minimal rations and power, broadcasting a distress signal. After 11 days of boosting transmission to its maximum there was no response.

Then nearing a gas giant they received confirmation that the distress signal had been picked up and the crew rejoiced, not knowing that the receivers were Mondites on a nearby base. The Mondites sent two small military type dropships who attacked Agrippus the next day; the crew thought they were pirates, and fought back. The first dropship was destroyed but weapons and propulsion were lost to a missile barrage from the second one. 7 members died in the battle including Lieutenant Lin Nance.

They were boarded by Mondite marines. 11 more members died in the room by room combat that followed over the next several hours. Among the dead was Captain Lison Rymerac and First Officer Findley Smiles leaving Ensign Martic Dane in command of the survivors. 2 more men died as they attempted to reach the lifeboat. The only means of escape cut off, and facing a full company of armored merchenaries Dane gave the order to surrender. 3 of the men directly disobeyed the order and were subsequently killed by the attackers. During that exchange another man attempting to surrender was also killed.

The mercenaries then proceeded to raid a portion of the cargo, took Dane, Klima and Parks onto their ship and blew what was left of the Agrippus into wreckage.

Crew

 * Captain Lison Rymerac
 * First Officer Findley Smiles
 * Lieutenant Lin Nance
 * Ensign Martic Dane
 * Cargo Handling Specialist Klima
 * Systems Maintenance Tech Parks