Territory Nouveau 08: Freeholds Attack!

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They left us here to die, way back when.

The Solar Union. The moons that would become the Commonwealth.

In the beginning they’d taken anyone, the destitute, the hungry, the desperate. Anyone willing to sign their life away, contract themselves to a life of servitude, and take a one-way flight to the edge of the Territory.

A life of hard work for a percentage shaved off interest on their relocation fees. Remainder passed to the next generation. Company scrip for the company store. Things only got worse as time went on.

Contracts meant our work continued apace until Pluto was no more. Mined and extracted of anything of use until all that remained was a field of debris, cold and dead and alone on the fringes of the Territory. A whole damn planet killed by the Gentry and their greed.

We understood our part in it, too. Our labor had been the murder weapon. And while they skulked away with the pilfered remains, we mourned. Not only the scale of the loss we had helped inflict, but our own sorry situation as well. The Charon Freeholds and the thing that had once been Pluto were not unalike in the end. Alone, adrift, dying.

But in that desperation, we found a drive. A spiteful resilience.

We would be goddamned if we were going to die out here, the only memory of what had been done in the dark.

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In today’s episode, the Vehement crew are spread thin and the Freeholds are under attack! Outnumbered and surrounded by Jovian forces, our Freelancers are forced to defend themselves, but what new danger lurks among the Jovian ranks? We’ll hijack some hardware, reveal a few unwelcome surprises, and suplex some mechs, all right here, right now.

This week on Play By Podcast: Territory Nouveau 08: Freeholds Attack!

Play By Podcast is Michael Collins (@arealwriter), Leon Barnes (@SlapKatZ), Liam Higgins(@liamhiggins97), and Max Coe (@_NotMyDivision_)
Cover Art by Ariel Corrales (@arielcorrales_)
Music by Cody Ojea (@CodyOjea)