Editing Session 37

Lim, Nissa and Kale meet at the shaved ice cart at Gabriel plaza. Next to it is the super spud potato vending machine and one selling soft drinks (it's called sergeant pepper). Lim and Nissa are buying shaved ice (condensed milk with red bean paste for Lim, milk with wobbly balls for Nissa). While waiting for the girl who makes the treat to finish, Lim inspects the back of the potato vending machine, where he finds a black box that he pockets while Nissa is on the lookout.
They talk about Gunther, who they are looking to save - Urs was sure to know him from his Belter childhood, though Gunther acted as if that wasn't the case. There's a rumour, that Gunther has killed on command of colonel Trechov - a traitor who has sweet potatoes named after him. After some discussion, it is decided that we should save him and bring him into the oberon system, where Erich could look after him.
Since the change in security personel has occured, the station has been darker than usual.
The trio makes a plan to get some uniforms, cause a bit of a stir with protests and maybe manipulate the electricity near the police headquarters to get a reason to get Gunther out of there. Lim, Kale and Nissa make their way to This & That laundry, where acheron uniforms are printed. They're made out of cellophane, because why would you weave something if the security's name changes all the time. Lim puts on his very slimming helicopter cap to be slightly obscured and walks towards the backdoor of the shop. He has little trouble opening it and finds a printed acheron uniform sample along with a printed set of 50 c&c uniforms, which was ordered by tessa zaal and is meant to be collected by lia venko. Lim suspect it's part of the crawlers ongoing scheme to discredit the company and therefore takes them with them. They take the sample to yello works - a pure belter printing company, where a young woman named Olena - who is also part of the zero g workers guild and is afraid of the current climate - quickly prints out 4 more samples. She warns Nissa, Lim and Kale to take care and not get caught with those.
The three venture home, where they meet Rosmerta. She is puzzled by the sight of the new overalls and doesn't really believe that the black one only ended up in the pile by accident. Everyone else seems to be on mission and she is looking for whoever has left a bag of alcohol shots in the toilet tank. She leaves the others be, when she learns that the rest is planning to go to workers protests in the afternoon. Nissa and Lim try to motivate some others to meet for a demonstration in front of the security headquarters later in the day to protest against the injustices that have happened against union members. Acab is penciled in to give a speech at the event.
In preparation, Lim and Nissa are building stationary smoke bombs, while Kale is forging transfer papers for Gunther. While the former dress up in navy suits, Kale puts on a acheron paper suit - all concealed by the forged c&c paper suits.
On the way, the three hear the humming of the station as well as some protest music. Kale and Nissa start looking for a distribution box away from the crowd, which they find after a while and start randomly cutting cables, until it gets slighty darker in the security station. Unfortunately Kale gets hit by an electric shock, which leaves him slightly distressed and his hand wounded. Nissa is more succesful and soon the lights go out. The chanting to free the Belters is swelling up, smoke arises, and Kale, Lim and Nissa get rid of their C&C uniforms.
Lim starts pushing his pals away while they make their way to the door (especially Arturo, who is now owed a beer), where the transfer papers are scanned and there's a brief chat about the security of the situation. The trio is led towards the cells, which are below the regular floor. There are single cells in the back and a group of 7 Belters is penned up in one of the cells in the front. On the way, the three pass Ren, who is too busy with his terminal to care or reckognise anyone. When they reach Gunther's cell, the cell is unlocked and Gunther is on the floor and in deep pain. After wispering to him, that we're trying to rescue him, Lim is trying to get him handcuffed and on his feet. Since he still seems to be unable to do anything and is holding his stomach, Lim is trying to make Gunther puke, assuming that he might be poisoned. After he has emptied the contents of his stomach, he seems to be slightly better, so the rest tries to get him up the stairs and out of the premises. On their way, Lim is firing another smoke bomb, while Rem is back shooting into their general direction.
Lim is weilding his weapon, which makes the loan slaves of Acheron reconsider their fate and let the small group leave to stay safe.
Outside, after being shouted at by Lim, Acab makes sure the group gets through the masses. He makes his way into the direction of the security headquarters, when he hears that there are innocent workers held in the building. Rosmerta is waiting with the queen of sheeba which the four just reach.

When they try to leave the station however, the gates are getting closed by station security, because radiation values have reached a new high. Except for one...the one leading into the Luther system. A black sphere appears and starts glowing in a pale blue light, which feels like additional radiation. All of a sudden, leaving feels more secure than staying, so they ignore the flight ban and make their way towards the gate leading to oberon.
Optical sensors show something that isn't usually there - the whole hubspace is illuminated, the hubstation gets brighter and brighter, with gates being black holes in the dark. All of a sudden Rosmerta is cursing and informing the others, that the gates have shifted and they should brace themselves for a bumpy ride. When things get calmer again, and the crew has reached the oberon system - the gate glowing behind them. A look at the systems shows, that there are two gates missing now. One of them is the one to Luther.

by Nissa

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