It is in one of the late Jihad Sourcebooks (I think). Specifically, Precentor Avitue (one of the better BT Villains in my opinion) tracked down the Black Warrior Jump Ship/Dropship(s), boarded them with her cybernetic clown posse and killed them all, leaving the Drophip(s) FLOATING IN SPACE as a warning (blatant adventure hook ;) ).
BUT (can't track it down right now) it is noted that some Black Warriors who had been sent on different tracks as diversions survived (more blatant adventure hook-ism :D )...and the equipment of their dead comrades is there to be salvaged.
It is also heavily implied that Fritz Donner was an Eridani Light Horse veteran, and he left instructions to the Black Warriors for contacting "The Horsemen" for help (or something like that). We know from Splinter #1 that the Eridani Light Horse are a shadow of their former selves, but are still very much operating, and Eridani Light Horse descendant can be found in Imperio Space.
Ther eis cwertainly a whole intro adventure for a RPG here.
- Contracted by a small mercenary outfit (black warrior survivors). They need muscle to go and check around. PCs do not need to hacve mech of their own, sothey can be infantry or dispssessed or whatever, since anything goes for a space adventure.
- They check a pair of systems with nothing to be seen.
- The third system they hit has a derelict jumpship with the sail half retracted and 2-3 dropshoips floating nearby. The dropships show signs of entry damage. The jumpship does not.
- Insert gore aplenty inside the dropships and the jumpshipos. Inside the cargo bay of the jjumpships there are even signs of mechs having been used to fight! There are scorch marks of the targets of the mechs in the walls and floor, but no cadavers of the attackers. Except in the computer registries. Insert willpower rolls or equivalent here or feel really sick for a long time. Some scenes were performed in front of the security cameras on purpose, and they are not pretty. The registers can have been rigged so you can't fast forward the scene but need to watch it full, including the PA at full volume.
- And obviously the jumpship or dropship contains hibernated manei domini for some trigger happy scenes. Or maybe *A* manei domini if you want an Alien-like adventure. He starts picking up the acompanying black warriors.
- The black warriors will not want the PC form spreading that they survived, so after clearing the area they turn on the PC. The PC have to fight it out but they are about to be overwhelmed if ythey stay. Still, there is one dropship (with mechs) attached to the jumpship... and the jumpship is loaded for a jump with a precalculated formula already in. Will you push the jump button to an unknown destination (and likely without having a navigator in the group)?
I might need to play that out....
