Starship vs. Dragon

In my last post I commented that I had an opportunity to try out a local game designer's system in lieu of my regular game and promised to post a summary of the session. Said summary is long overdue and is now brought to you by the letter 'P' for Procrastination!

The adventure we ran was a very simple concept: Important diplomat chased by assassins crashes on restricted, underdeveloped, planet and must be retrieved and protected by the PC's. Our crew was a Lawman, a Smuggler informant of his and a Kryzmalian (humanoid crystalline entity) Novice Kineticist (aka Force User) sent along for the experience he would gain and the benefit of his skills and training to the others.

Entering orbit, the group's first encounter was with a being known to fantasy characters but highly unfamiliar to space farers: a dragon. Taking the ship to be some sort of territorial rival the dragon descended upon them and, in the ensuing battle, drove them out of the sky. By diverting power to the shields they were able to prevent their total destruction and, when the dragon landed on them for the killing blow they trained their remaining functional weapons on it and drove it off with a point blank volley from their fusion cannons.

After leaving the ship in the care of the repair-bots and making their way through the semi-jungle they found themselves in, the group's next encounter was a small, primitive village where they were taken for monsters (the primitive people were essentially human). However, successful mimicry and handgestures allowed them to avoid slaughtering the entire village and communicate what they sought after several moments of tense posturing from the locals. Upon seeing the Kryzmalian, which had remained hidden until this point, the villagers assumed he was some sort of deity and one among them volunteered to lead the group to the "piece of fallen heaven".

Upon arrival at the diplomat's ship the group encountered a party of primitive adventurers investigating the wreck. As adventurers are wont to do, they ignored the attempts at parley, took the party at face value for the monsters they appeared to be and attacked the group. Despite their technology, the party was outnumbered and the opposing group had two "shamans" with them, what the rest of the galaxy would consider Kineticists. The battle was long and arduous with only a single PC survivor (the Lawman) remaining in the end. Afterwards, he was able to retrieve the diplomat and her guards from the wreckage of the ship and return to his own vessel, by now repaired, and depart, leaving the primitive locals to weave tales of wonder that would become legend and myth in later years.