CHAPTER 1: LEONOV

SHIP'S NAME:
OWNER:
CAPTAIN ABOARD:

AGE:

HULL SIZE:
TYPE OF ENGINES:

NO. OF ENGINES:
FUEL CARRIED:
LAST OVERHAUL:
LAST MAINTENANCE:

Leonov
USSR
Colonel Tanya
Kirbuk
2 Years

4
A - Ion (uses
atomic reactor)
3
Methane
A.D. 2008
A.D. 2008

LIFE SUPPORT CAPACITY

MAIN:
BACK-UP:

13 crewmen
8 crewmen

PASSENGER ACCOMMODATIONS

   FIRST CLASS:
   JOURNEY CLASS:
   HIBERNACULA:

none
11
6

COMPUTER

LEVEL:

4 (a network of
17 level 1
computers)

PROGRAMS
     Analysis
     Communications
     Computer Security
     Damage Control
     Information Storage
     Life Support
     Maintenance

LEVEL
4
4
2
3
5
1
1

COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT
Videocom, Intercom,. Radar, Energy Sensors, Portholes, Cameras, White Noise Broadcaster

ADF:

MR:

DCR:
HULL POINTS:
WEAPONS:
DEFENSES:

*See "Ship Movement"
in the Introduction
*See "Ship Movement"
in the Introduction
32
20
none
none

OTHER EQUIPMENT
Telescopes, Doppler Scanner, Electrochart, 3 Work pods, Acceleration Gauges, 2 Remote Probes

2. Reactivate the Discovery and bring it back to Earth.

3. Investigate the nature and purpose of the alien artifact called "the monolith."

4. Survey and explore Jupiter and its moons.

1.2
THE SPACESHIP LEONOV
BOARDING THE LEONOV

1.1
BRIEFING

In A.D. 2001 the United States of America found a 3.4-meter-high monolith on the moon. The monolith had obviously been produced by alien technology and placed on the moon for mankind to discover. When sunlight struck its surface, the monolith sent a mysterious radio signal to Jupiter.
The United States immediately launched the spaceship Discovery toward Jupiter to find out who (or what) received the radio signal. The Discovery carried the most advanced computer ever built, called HAL. During the trip, however, HAL went insane and killed everyone on board but the captain before fiinally being shut down.
When David Bowman, the captain of the Discovery, arrived at Jupiter, he found a huge, 2-kilometer-long monolith in orbit around Io, one of Jupiter's moons. Except for its size, the monolith was identical to the one on the moon near Earth.

   Bowman used a work pod to explore the mysterious monolith. His last transmission before disappearing forever was, "My God, it's full of star!"
   A few years later, the United States began to build another ship, the Discovery II. Its mission was to be to travel to Jupiter and find out what happened to the Discovery and its crew and explore the monolith. The Discovery II is still several years from completion.
   However, the Russians have completed their own spaceship, the Leonov. The Russians are sending the Leonov to Jupiter to explore the monolith.
   The United States government has asked each of you to accompany the Russian spaceship to Jupiter. Your mission objectives, in order, are:

1. Rendezvous with the Discovery and retrieve any data in HAL's memory banks.

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The trip to Space Station Five was uneventful. You were delayed for a few minutes, but now a shuttle is taking you to the UNCOS Leonov. As you draw closer to the Soviet ship, you notice that it is smaller than the Discovery, but more complex.
An hour later, the shuttle docks with the Leonov via a large clamp that juts out from near the front of the Leonov.

Captain Tanya Kirbuk meets the PCs as they board the ship. She tells them that she will give them a brief tour of the ship. The rest of this section describes the Leonov through Tanya's tour. Use Map 1 to help describe the ship to players. During the tour, Tanya and the other Soviet crewmen answer any questions about the ship that the PCs ask. All of the Soviets who speak English have noticeable Russian accents. After the tour, the Americans will be placed in suspended animation in hibernacula for the 2-year voyage to Jupiter.
Tanya leads the PCs from the air lock hatch to the flight deck in the nose of the ship.

FLIGHT DECK

There is no gravity here. Tanya, the PCs, and the crewmen who work here all wear shoes that cling to the floor.