While Tallie fights a pair of sea serpents, Brasha begins to make some sense out of the alien weather machine in the Aculean Hiveship. Lemon is requested by Akim to help him deal with a cavern filled with psychic anguish made material in the form of a smoky crystal called void glass.

The crew of the Bazaar Encounter set to work on tasks to get the Aculean colony back on its feet. While Brasha and Lemon observe the weather-altering machine in the hiveship, Tallie goes on an underwater patrol with Koof and some Aculean warriors. And Akim makes a startling discovery in the lower levels....

Awaking underground and having breakfast with some of the terraforming crew, our heroes are led to the Hive Mother's chambers and are shown what their true task is: help repair damaged equipment vital to hiding the Aculean people from the Swarm.

Hours of swimming later, the crew arrives at the home of the not-Formians. Introductions are made, and stories shared with Kodai, an elderly Shirren tending to a clutch of eggs.

I've been wanting to have a deep dive chat with Alison for a good while now. They've been a real champion for the Starfinder system and are probably even busier than I am.

The crew descends to the subterranean hive of the insectoid aliens that have recruited their assistance.

Discovering someone was left behind, the crew begins to put some pieces together around what happened to the terraforming team on Kizor-4.

This week I get to hang out with Federico Sohns of Araukana Media and we chat about his ttrpg system Nibiru. If you like the setting of Starfinder HALF as much as I do, you will find Nibiru to be very fun as well.

This week I sit down with one of the players in my off-the-record playthrough of the Starfinder AP Fly Free or Die. Eclipse is an extremely talented vtuber that plays games and makes music on Twitch. Be sure to give her a follow! https://www.twitch.tv/darlingdemoneclipse

Landing at the site of the terraforming crew, there's not a soul in sight.

This will be the 50th episode of Hex Grid Heroes. Thank you to everyone that's stuck with us this far, I am entirely beside myself with pride at how far we've come as a show I owe it all to the friends who've gone on this journey with me, and am going to redouble my efforts for the next 50.