Cassius, Chapter Three.

What's happened so far:

In the months past, two gangs have been "having it out" on Cassius.  One gang was led by the Inquisitor Arkhan Lan, the other by the Rogue Trader Miguel Quasar.  In their first encounter, Arkhan Lan stole some pertinent information from under the noses of the local police, the Vrall Enforcers.  Quasar and his Eldar cohort were also looking for said information, and decided to set an ambush to try and steal it from Arkhan.  The battle was bloody, and Arkhan still escaped with the plans intact, but both gangs had taken casualties.

The information gained put together another piece to the puzzle of the mysterious caves beneath the cities of Cassius.  What were they for?  Who built them?  More importantly, what was down there that could be fashioned into a makeshift weapon?

Quasar hired some locals and assaulted the hideout of Arkhan; while the Inquisitor fell to the insidious Death Seer Yog Soth'oth (Quasar's murderous Eldar bodyguard), the plans remained intact and in the hands of Lan's gang, who were "taken over" by Sgt. Hulka.

Without warning, the communications systems on Cassius were disrupted while an alien vessel plummeted to the planet's surface.  A satellite infected with a malicious computer virus was fought over by the Marines Errant and the Apostles of Contagion.  The Errants captured the uplink computer, which had uploaded the virus, and quickly left the planet's surface to deliver it to the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Lan's men (Sgt. Hulka) and Quasar clashed at the crash site of the alien ship the same day the Errants and Apostles were duking it out over the satellite.  Upon arriving at the site, Sgt. Hulka jumped on board and downloaded starmaps and other vital information onto his data-board, jumped on board a toad (Cassius's ubiquitous utility vehicles) and raced off the board.  Quasar got caught up in combat with several automated defense robots that emerged (heck, just materialized ala-necron style) around the alien vessel.  Quasar found himself badly wounded and surrounded by Hulka's men, he was captured and roughed up and held for ransom.

The next day Yog Soth'oth, Hiro, Oblio and Damon (the four Eldar left from Quasar's gang) decided to make a deal with Hulka; if they could find the location of the caves mentioned in the information stolen from mission one, Hulka would release Quasar.  The Eldar, lost without their leader, stumbled into xenophobic districts and came up empty handed.  The cops were called, and the Eldar ended up running for their lives.  Quasar was eventually sold into slavery on an off-world site.

Hulka's crew then learned about a factory that was full of equipment and weapons- a backlog of production that could probably be looted for pretty easy pickings.  They infiltrated the factory, found a few cool things, before the Vrall Enforcers arrived and chased them out.  Before they left, a nasty automated "killer robot" controlled by the factory owner came out and really laid out some fearsome damage.  They all escaped with their lives, but had to pick some bullets out.

That's a quick summary, I'll try to archive the missions as they were planned.  But for now, let's move to the next mission fluff.