This page describes a 2020 Tabletop Event run by Trese Brothers with the top backers in the Cyber Knights: Flashpoint Kickstarter. The events of that tabletop game provided some background for the developing storylines in CKF.
Irkmine Transport Hub Heist (2230)[edit | edit source]
In 2230, Cyberknight Yossarian, led his team consisting of Face Shimmer, Agent_EX Lupin, and Gunslinger/Sniper Catalina on a heist to steal a piece of prototype technology carried via hovertruck on behalf of Rook Technologies by a commercial driver. This job was offered via Dublin, a Matsumoto researcher.
Using a refueling permit, the team landed in their own shuttle at the hub while the target transport was landed, presumably for its own refueling or loading of cargo. Shimmer, having done some Legwork to acquire some background information on the staff at Rook Technologies associated with this mysterious technology intended to impersonate a new hire personal assistant to Dr. Kenneth Kinkle, someone in R&D who routinely goes through a lot of personal assistants.
Lupin had modified a small crate with breathing holes and a lock that opened from the inside, marked as cargo for the target shuttle. Being extremely flexible, Lupin lodged himself as the cargo within this box. He was carried into the target shuttle. Shimmer and Yoss attempted to walk out of their shuttle to the destination shuttle, hoping to talk their way out of trouble. With Shimmer meeting some initial success distracting the refueling crew, Yossarian was able to get abord the shuttle unnoticed using a side door. Shimmer eventually approached the shuttle but was stopped by security personnel. She dropped the name of Dr. Kenneth Kinkle, only to discover he was arrested that morning. Shimmer was taken into custody and instructed to get aboard the target transport.
There was significant security detail on the transport. The immediately visible guards on the transport included two heavily armored men at the rear augmented with neural targeting cyberware, and a security captain deeper within the transport. A fourth guard was expected to be near the driver up front.
Yossarian radioed to Catalina, who was settled in a high vantage point in a nearby tower just outside the hub, to not allow the shuttle to depart. Catalina opened fire at the heavy security detail that was mostly clustered at the rear door of the shuttle where the loading was happening. One guard was eliminated in a single shot. The second guard was also eliminated with another sniper round, however it pierced this guard and hit Yossarian in the center of mass. The security captain ducked deeper into the transport for cover. Lupin emerged using a nano-filament whip and sliced the captain through his face, however, in so doing, he also severed his own arm.
At this time the shuttle lifted off with Shimmer, a badly wounded Lupin, and Yossarian on board. Shimmer tended to Lupin while Yossarian headed to the front to deal with the final guard and the driver. The guard immediately surrendered to Yossarian, who took his firearm from him. The driver agreed to take us anywhere we requested so long as we let him live. Yossarian instructed him to drop them off in Fenian territory at the street level at an illegal drop off site. Upon landing Yossarian honored his promise and allowed the pilot to go free along with the surrendered guard. They took the crate containing the mysterious nano-technology they were paid to acquire, Lupin's arm, and the guard's gun with them. The shuttle departed.
Seeing Brave Star arriving in force at the transport hub, Catalina packed up her belongings, hailed a cab and left the tower.
The Kidnapping of Mr. Noro[edit | edit source]
Shortly after the Irkmine job, Dublin brought Yossarian's team a second, more sensitive assignment. Mr. Noro, a senior Matsumoto data processor whose headware held sensitive corporate information, had been abducted during a staged emergency landing of his transport shuttle; his pilot was shot and the shuttle firebombed. A group calling itself the Seven Dragons had demanded a ransom, and while Matsumoto intended to proceed with the exchange, Dublin — working outside his usual channels to keep the operation quiet — hired the team to run a discreet parallel investigation and recover Noro alive if it could be done safely.
Catalina used her old Brave Star ties, Detective Oscar Kova among them, to obtain the official case file, which pinned the kidnapping on Fenian gangers. Reviewing the security footage, Lupin noticed the "gangers" moved with a discipline and restraint — no looting, an unnecessary killing of the pilot — that pointed to professionals operating with Fenian cover rather than actual Fenian opportunists. Following the money, Shimmer and Catalina traced a set of cleared gambling debts belonging to the shuttle's pilot back to Nordic Financial Holdings Limited, a Matsumoto-linked shell company, while Yossarian and Lupin worked Fenian territory directly, eventually gaining an audience with the ganger boss Bubble Mac and recovering wrecked getaway vehicles used in the abduction.
The trail led to the Fish Market district, a sprawling black-market tower of chop shops and unlicensed clinics in Ward 4. There, with help from the information broker Mama "K" and a Fenian clinic crew led by a ganger named Zora, the team located a high-end surgical clinic run by Dr. Alan Goodman, publicly known as "Dr. Allgood." Goodman revealed — moments before attacking the party with weaponized nanites — that he had performed a face-swap and transponder-hijack on Noro, sending a decoy toward the ransom exchange while the real Noro was being routed off-world. Yossarian's team killed Goodman and recovered Noro's true tracking signal.
What followed was a running fight through the sky above New Boston: a firefight on the clinic's landing platform against a Seven Dragons kill team, an aerial interception of the hospital transport carrying the real Noro, and a pitched dogfight against military-grade sloops and an anti-craft drone sent to stop them. The team extracted Noro and delivered him to a decommissioned refueling station, where they met Lucas "Tiger Shark" Corbin, head of security for Conrad Dumonde, for the first time. Corbin confirmed that Dublin had survived a bombing during the official ransom exchange, paid the team for their work, and warned them that they had likely made serious enemies within Matsumoto.
Uncovering Nordic Financial Holdings[edit | edit source]
In the weeks following Noro's rescue, Yossarian's team turned their attention to Nordic Financial Holdings Limited, the shell company that had funded both the pilot's gambling debts and, they suspected, the broader Seven Dragons operation. The team hired a freelance hacker, Ion, who traced Nordic to a single, heavily secured office in a mid-altitude corporate tower in Cambridge — long dormant, its matrix connection severed years earlier.
Lupin infiltrated the building through a maintenance drone slot, while Ion, Catalina, and Shimmer entered through the lobby on forged maintenance credentials, distracting the building's security guards long enough for the team to pick the office lock and physically remove Nordic's old server cores for Ion to work on off-site. The recovered data connected Nordic to a decade-old, off-the-books construction project: a hidden communications relay built on the exterior of the New Boston dome, designed to talk directly to an orbital gleamer.
The team sold this intelligence to Lucas Corbin, who paid them to install a covert tap on the relay. Yossarian and Lupin made the trip outside the dome to physically wire the tap while Shimmer and Catalina held a getaway vehicle on the interior platform. The platform was ambushed on their return — an armored strike team backed by an RPG round nearly destroyed the access tunnel, and in the ensuing fight Yossarian was knocked clean off the platform. Lupin, clinging to the edge himself, saved him from a fatal fall by spearing him through the chest with a salvaged grappling gun and hauling him back up, later pulling the hook back out to administer first aid. The team escaped, only to discover their rented safehouse had been compromised in the meantime by a full mercenary strike team — led by the Cyber Knight Wolf King and a heavily augmented Dr. Alan Goodman, revealed to have survived his death at the Fish Market as one of several templated copies of himself. The team fought their way back into the burning building to extract their hacker Ion, who had evaded capture by hiding in an air return vent, before the safehouse was abandoned entirely.
Data pulled from the completed tap ultimately confirmed what the team had begun to suspect: the Seven Dragons were operating under the direction of the Dumonde family patriarch, Gabriel Dumonde — code-named "Archangel" in the intercepted traffic — who was dying and pursuing a plan to transfer his consciousness into the body of his supposedly-dead daughter, Camilla Dumonde, code-named "Princess."
The Assassination of Kimberlin Dumonde[edit | edit source]
Acting on Corbin's orders, and with Conrad Dumonde's approval, Yossarian's team was contracted to eliminate two more parties tied to the Seven Dragons plot: Dr. Alan Goodman and Kimberlin Dumonde, Gabriel's youngest daughter, who Corbin believed to be complicit. Kimberlin was hosting a week-long fundraiser for World Without Nano aboard the orbital luxury yacht Daedalus' Mistress, and Corbin arranged forged invitations, a Matsumoto transport, and disguises for the team to get aboard.
Shimmer, disguised to resemble Kimberlin's estranged former lover Maya Ajira, and Catalina, posed as her bodyguard, infiltrated the gala on foot while Yossarian and Lupin flew the team's shuttle into the yacht's service bay under the pretense of a coolant leak, with Ion riding along to assist remotely. Shimmer confronted Kimberlin in front of a crowd of socialites, provoking a public struggle that let Catalina put a single, discreetly placed round into her at close range; Kimberlin died in the confusion, believing to the last that she had been attacked by her ex-lover.
The extraction turned violent almost immediately. A wounded Matsumoto mercenary took Shimmer hostage in a service corridor before Catalina killed him; separately, a rival cyberninja bodyguard genuinely seized Shimmer and, after being shot, shielded her body with his own as he died, believing her to be an injured VIP rather than an assassin. Lupin made a solo spacewalk between shuttle bays in a squirrel vac-suit to secure a getaway shuttle, wrestling another Matsumoto cyberninja to his death against the hull of the yacht along the way, while Yossarian and Catalina fought a retreat through the service corridors with Shimmer in tow. The team escaped into a nanostorm to shake pursuing interceptors, badly damaging their stolen shuttle in the process, and made it back to New Boston to prepare for the rescue of Camilla Dumonde.
The Rescue of Camilla Dumonde[edit | edit source]
With Corbin's help, the team acquired a military-grade shoulder-fired rocket and staged an ambush from a derelict rooftop deep in Los Zagales territory to shoot down the shuttle carrying Dr. Alan Goodman back to New Boston. The attempt narrowly failed, and the rooftop's collapse during the ensuing firefight — compounded by an assault from Shimmer's old tormentor, the pimp Neon Rick — nearly killed the entire team; Yossarian was gravely wounded and Lupin was buried in the collapse. Recovering in the aftermath, Yossarian experienced flashbacks belonging to the previous Cyber Knight who had carried his cyberware, revealing that Gabriel Dumonde had stored the location and access codes to Camilla's cryo-vault in a hidden data partition — the very information Lucas Corbin had killed that knight trying to obtain.
Armed with this intelligence, the team infiltrated the Seven Dragons' warehouse compound via a hidden sewer tunnel, splitting into an overwatch team above and an infiltration team below. Inside, they located the Seven Dragons' vault: Camilla Dumonde, still held in cryogenic stasis, with less than two hours left on her thaw cycle. Ion patched directly into the vault's systems and opened a line to Camilla, who was awake and lucid inside the chamber; she offered the team a substantial stake in the Dumonde fortune and corporate citizenship in exchange for helping her survive and depose her brother Conrad, whom she despised. The team agreed, while privately deciding they would still collect Corbin's payment for the job regardless of the outcome.
Freeing Camilla triggered the compound's defenses. The team fought through Wolf King's mercenary crew and a second, more heavily cybered iteration of Dr. Alan Goodman, who nearly overwhelmed Yossarian and Catalina with a nano-based attack before Yossarian's anti-nano systems broke his shield. Wolf King himself was killed after Lupin caught a live grenade meant for the team and threw it back into his face. With Camilla recovered, the team fled the collapsing warehouse under fire from Matsumoto's own forces, fought off a pursuing squadron of attack sloops during the flight out, and delivered Camilla to a Matsumoto military base, where her corporate citizenship was reinstated and confirmed.
Three days later, Gabriel Dumonde died, and control of the Dumonde family fortune passed to Camilla. Lucas Corbin and Conrad Dumonde remained at large.