The Coordinate Shakedown
Participants
Overview
During the crew’s first night on the strip (Session 01 - The Ragged Edge of Space), Leocadia Zavia, leader of the Rusted Blades, held a corner table at The Comets Tail. Two of her bandana-marked crew frog-marched a captive miner to her, and she leaned in and quietly extracted a set of coordinates from him before having him escorted out — all while the bar carried on around her, untouched.
Shackleton Magellan worked one of the bar’s repurposed service bots across the floor and turned it into a listening device, aimed at the table. He had the feed and the miner was beginning to answer when Ronin Sanchez, oblivious to the operation running past his elbow, loudly shouted at the bot to clear off — cutting the audio at the worst possible second. The numbers went unheard.
Afterward, bartender Roland Mohamed confirmed what Shackleton already suspected: Zavia runs the Rusted Blades out of Processing I, and she is not someone who makes a request twice.
Participants
- Leocadia Zavia — ran the shakedown; leader of the Rusted Blades.
- A captive miner (unnamed) — the source of the coordinates; escorted out afterward.
- Rusted Blades crew — two bandana-marked enforcers.
- Shackleton Magellan — bugged the table via a service bot.
- Ronin Sanchez — inadvertently blew the surveillance.
Outcome
- A set of coordinates changed hands. The crew saw the shakedown but never heard the numbers — an open lead into the Rusted Blades and, possibly, the hidden Thidian Belt smuggler base Holger Graeme flagged.
- Confirmed Leocadia Zavia operates from Processing I (via Roland Mohamed).
- Established that the Blades operate with quiet, calculated menace in plain sight on MacMillian Station IV.