Into the Wild Blue Yonder

They started in Orcrist. Belter (Darryl) is a Scout with a scout ship, so is
working for the scouts. Seymour Standage (Ian) is a Diplomat, Ernest Worthington (Chris) a Doctor, Bad Pitt (Shane) a Marine, Bobby "Blade" Morton (Jeff) a Navy and  Matt yet to play.

The scout ship has Jump 2 but I gave it enough tanks for two jumps. Scout ships do not have guns. Grav 2 drive.

They were sent to map 1024 - someone had reported an Ancients site on
one of the four planets in 1024 (no water nor gas giants nor bases
here).
As soon as they jumped in, they came across a debris field of a
destroyed ship - a Imperium navy frigate the "Lovechild".
So they checked out the hulk and found some bodies and bits. No sign
of the black box. Forensics revealed plasma damage, beam weapons, and
that the wreck was a few weeks old.

A day or so passed and they started to detect navigational signals
from a buoy in orbit around p4 (shaded by the planet when they first
arrived).
These signals did not match any known frequency band nor config.
So they headed off up there. Enroute, another ship jumped in, so they
went silent-running and prepared for a Jump themselves. They timed the
jump (one hour prep) so that they could get close enough for a visual
and scan before the fuel was burned and jump engines engaged. So back
to Orcrist to make a report.

The ship spotted was a Zhodani destroyer, but the Zhodani are at peace
with the Imperium at the moment, and 1024 was off limits to Zhodani.
(1024 was off-limits to the Imperium, too). Nevertheless, Seymour Standage
went to visit the Zhodani embassy (in the Orcrist Star-port).
(Zhodani in my Traveller are pale buxom vampires rather than psionic
arabs - I don't have any psionics.)
The Z ambassadoress claimed that the ship spotted was a fake or a look-alike.

Back to the Scout Depot and the group was ordered to 0925. There was
another buoy here, with the same strange signals.
Nothing else, so they then went on to Nosea (0724).