[Gadgeteer Tom]

Of course I allied with Z'Ant early on, delivered Umpani Flag, killed Rapax assasin, stole Molari from Mook, assigned to find downed ship's black box - meanwhile with Umpani, brought back T'Rang arm, scuba dived to rescue Umpani, assigned to blow up T'Rang transporter (keep an eye out for Umpani scouting Rapax).

I did Portal while Diving, to unload unused booty (weapons armor, all too heavy to keep playing with).

He'Li never asked for usual bribe, left VI there (she's too fussy about where she wants to go), but RFS-81 came along (he's at level 20-something and deadly), actually I used the black box in the spaceport computer to get coordinates - but when I returned to Z'Ant - got a lecture about trust then he tries to kill us - loaded earlier savegame, went to Rapax Camp and rescued the T'Rang and Umpani there, returned to Z'Ant with the T'Rang prisoner - again Z'Ant wants us dead (so what could I do - I killed every T'Rang I came across [except for one younger, who wouldn't talk], got into the restricted area in Martin's bluff and found some really nice stuff after killing a mess of Spirits and answering the riddle about "Who are you".

I'd guess that the alliance is toast, although when I went to the Umpani general, he gave me an alliance paper - too late...

Should I go back to a save when the Rapax prisoners are freed, and see Umpani General first ? Or would that too be a waste of time ? Z'Ant wont talk - so I can't even offer him the Rapax T'Rang prisoner...

And if I ascend without toasting the Savant's ship, will he squirm away - and be able to kill us after all ?? Perhaps I can apply the coordinates from the Spaceport computer to blast the cloaked DarkShip ?