Operation: ShoreLeave 40 (part 2)

I ran the “Egg Drop” mission at ShoreLeave, and though I've run that same mission many times in the past, there were a lot of impressive “firsts” with this group. For instance, I've never seen a group manage to approach the smugglers with such a convincing cover story, and not only get the smugglers to allow them to board their ship peacefully, but actually pilot their ship and attach THEIR boarding umbilical between the ships when the characters missed on their first attempt. I won't tell you the impressive lie the team's Reln conjured up to fool the smugglers, but I will tell you that everyone acted their part perfectly without arousing suspicion until they managed to get themselves perfectly in position to attack. Only a couple light injuries were sustained by the team during the battle, and the smugglers lost 3 of their 5 crewmembers before the captain surrounded to the overwhelming surprise attack. That wasn't all of the surprises for the encounter, though, because after interrogating the captain for some specific information about the smuggling operation, they also thought to confiscate and hack his MPC (kind of like a smartphone). Through the MPC hack, they discovered the true details and realized the captain had lied. Yet there were still more surprises to come from this group of gamers...