Session Summary: While Eli thought he'd gotten a shiny deal with Georg Foster, and lifted off of Shadow feeling particularly joyful, the events that followed highlighted just how much the 'verse hates it when things go smooth. The fact that he'd leaked sensitive Independent information reached the ears of the wrong people, i.e., the authorities, who boarded the
Underdog and produced an perfectly legal arrest warrant for Eli and a search warrant for the ship. While the ship is being searched and the rest of the crew deliberates on how to save Eli, an Alliance patrolboat approaches and engages the Independent patrolboat that came to arrest them. Eli offers his assistance to the Independent officer in exchange for the
Underdog's freedom. The officer is hesitant but the Alliance weapons-fire is uncomfortably close, so he lets them go. Eli keeps his word, somewhat, before the
Underdog turns tail and runs.
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