The House of Parts Handoff
Participants
- Roselyn Monroe — recipient; opened the bag with her own thumbprint behind a staged device
- Shackleton Magellan — caught the sleight of hand; found the blank transponders
- Rock Lavey — confirmed the bag's contents; spotted the hidden trophies; found the medbay components
- Six — held the garage door as overwatch
- Ronin Sanchez — present
Overview
The delivery that has pulled the crew across three star systems finally landed. At the House of Parts, the far worn end of Aethel Starport, the crew put Julija Borja’s evidence bag in front of the junkyard’s owner — and Roselyn Monroe reached into a desk drawer, produced a small device, and opened the bag with it. Except she didn’t. Shackleton Magellan, watching closely, saw her thumb slide across the biometric reader while the device took the credit. The lock answered her touch. She was the right Monroe, keyed to a dead Marshal’s evidence by her own biometrics, and she wanted the crew to believe otherwise.
She reviewed the contents alone behind closed blinds for the better part of an hour. What came back out of that office was a different relationship: forged Federal Republican citizen IDs for every member of the crew (Six’s reading Sixtus Smith), a flat warning that the evidence was dangerous enough that the people connected to it would come looking, and a strong recommendation to disappear into the outer sectors. She spoke about Julija in the past tense throughout, with the quiet certainty of someone who had already known for some time that she was dead — before the crew had told her anything about how Julija died.
The handoff kept paying out. Back aboard The Albatross she unlocked Marlo Petrak’s Marshal-issued handcuffs (two attempts — one bracelet was already cut in half), then spent nearly an hour circling the alien cube, watching it talk to the navigation computer, and identified the technology as having come from Kinetic Logistics — a company, she noted, since absorbed by a parent corporation. She said she would look into it, and that she might have a deal for a coded transponder. Two hours later that deal had a name on it: The Goodwin Contract.
Participants
See frontmatter. Rock Lavey and Shackleton Magellan also came away with material finds from the junkyard while Roselyn worked: blank transponders compatible with the Albatross’s system (legal only if coded by the Federal Marshal Service), and scavenged medbay components — a bed and a scanner, no med computer.
Outcome
The crew’s standing objective since Session 5 is complete — and the evidence is now out of their hands entirely. What Roselyn Monroe does with it, how she knew Julija was dead, and who her contact is are the threads the delivery opened in its place.