This campaign takes place in an alternate version of the Star Wars galaxy. It picks up some years after “Return of the Jedi” has concluded. The events of the new movies don’t/won’t be happening in this version of the galaxy.
Following the death of the Emperor, the Empire has split into the following factions:
Our characters are mercenaries that operate out of Smuggler’s Rock, one of many Shadow Ports that operate throughout the galaxy. It (like all the other ports) acts as a hub for mercenaries (and other such folks) with shops, lodging, repair services, and jobs.
Jobs are provided by the Shadow Syndicate via a shadow broker (there’s more than one!). Each broker provides different types of missions. It’s up to the captain of a ship to go see these brokers and then select one of their missions for their team to go on. Successful completion of these missions provides a payday for the captain and crew.
We begin in hyperspace, aboard the Nova Ranger.
Raylan Brook is the captain and the crew consists of Ev’ran, Lowrathkarr (aka Rath), and Pellet. We're en route to a small planet in the outer-rim territories to pick up a shipment of weapons meant for someone else. We're using false identification logs for the Nova Ranger. We're pretending to be the Crimson Cutlass.
Raylan lays out the plan: Ev'ran will pose as Ruxo, the captain, and meet our contact, Grellen, on the landing platform. Pellet will drive the Ox, our repulsorcraft, to move the shipment as soon as possible. Rath will go with Ev'ran to act as intimidation in order to get Grellan to hurry up.
When we land, Ev'ran and Rath talk with Grellan and successfully get the shipment secured. Before we can completely load up the shipment, someone by the name of Roddick Feyn comes up to us and tells us he knows for a fact that Ev'ran is NOT Ruxo. We pay a small "fee" to not get found out. We get what we came for and leave. However, Roddick still rats us out (bastard) so when we leave, we are chased by 10 fighters. Whoops.
We manage to evade 9 shots from the other fighters but still take a few. We manage to hit 1 fighter. They fire some homing missiles at us but we make our escape via hyperspace with 87% of our shields intact. However, we don’t have enough hyperspace fuel to make the full jump so we fall out of hyperspace early.
Thankfully, we’re close enough to the planet Lovas so we can get some fuel from a contact that Raylan knows. When we arrive, we find that it’s apparently deserted. This is a cause for concern to Raylan, so we leave the ship to investigate.
Enter Helseth, who was hired by the family that runs the fuel depot to protect them from attackers (we don’t know this part yet!). She’s hurt from a prior attack, but when everyone hears us walking about, she takes a med-shot to get her going again.
We enter the house not knowing that they have a secret basement and, as a result, almost get shot by Helseth. After an initial terse moment, we all get on the same page: bandits have been stealing the fuel and they need our help to get it back. We agree because we’re kind of nice but also because we need that fuel too.
After making our agreement to help, we see a small group of bandits approaching from the distance. The leader has a bounty on him, which we can utilize to make some extra cash. We have a brief confrontation that results in Pellet getting shot (not too bad though).
We know the bandits are holed up in a canyon that’s not too far from where we are, so we decide that we need to bring the fight to them. Also, the fuel is there. Raylan stays behind while Ev’ran, Rath, Pellet, and Helseth head to the canyon in the Ox.
We reach the canyon. Helseth and Ev’ran go to look closer. Rath and Pellet stay back a bit.
Pellet gets MEGA BORED, and so does the following while being told to wait:
1h - tinkers with a stun grenade (makes it better?)
2h - almost shoots herself with her blaster and thus alerts the baddies that we’re there. Rath intervenes and fails (why is Pellet so strong?!). Ev’ran turns on the stun grenade to stun Pellet, but she ends up being fine while he gets stunned and Rath gets dizzy.
3h - nothing of note (thank goodness!)
Ev’ran and Helseth find a good spot to climb down the side of the canyon (somewhat sneaky-like… hopefully). Rath spots 4 people down below. There are a couple huts here.
We all start climbing down (Ev’ran, Helseth, then Rath). Rath slips a bit on the way, which makes enough noise to alert one of the baddies. Helseth attempts to take him out, but isn’t able to. Rath jumps down to the roof of a nearby hut from the wall, and then makes a critical jump onto the bad guy that takes him out.
Rath takes out a guy in the first hut. Doesn’t go quite to plan but still successful.
Ev’ran attempts to take out 2 dudes in a hut with his blades from on top of a table but fails spectacularly. Rath jumps in and throws one guy at another. Helseth finishes a dude off with a kick.
Pellet throws a detonator at some speeders as they go by and now everyone is on alert.
Rath and Helseth take out the remaining dudes. A droid appears afterwards, so Pellet shoots it in it’s fuel cell (her mining experience told her to do this).
The area we’re in has a big-ass ship in the middle with the canyon wrapping around it. A base of sorts is built into the side of the canyon, which has a huge door leading into it. The fuel cells that we need are here and hooked up to the ship.
Rath starts reversing the fuel flow. It’ll take ~50 minutes to fill the tanks since they are mostly empty.
Pellet drives the Ox down from the top of the canyon very stylishly. She points the gun towards the huge base door.
We notice there’s a smaller, older door off to the side. Ev’ran and Rath head in there. It’s a room full of computers and big windows with metal shutters in it. Rath fiddles with the circuitry to bring back power. We open the shutters so Ev’ran can see out of the room. Rath accidentally opens the huge door.
Pellet starts shooting immediately. There are 3 droids with heavy armor inside. 1 droid sees Helseth, shoots, and misses. She missed her shot first though, so all’s fair and what-have-you. Pellet shoots the droid and puts it on it’s ass.
Ev’ran keeps the door open at just a sliver. Rath asks about cutting power to the base but not the fuel cells. Ev’ran says that’s a no go. However, he can see some cameras.
Pellet wants to slingshot the fuel cell into the base...
Rath closes the metal shutters for the room he’s in with Ev’ran.
Pellet fails her Space Fast Five maneuver and thus puts us all in danger. Not wanting to lose all the fuel, Rath runs out of the room to disconnect the ship from the 2 fuel cells. It takes 1 minute for the fuel cell to explode and it takes basically that entire minute for Rath to do his thing. He makes it back into the room at the last second before everything explodes.
Ev’ran takes control of a turret that’s inside the base and kills one of the guys within range.
Pellet drives in with the Ox and throws a thermal detonator, killing 3 baddies, and returns to the entrance.
Rath jumps on the back of the Ox so Pellet drives it back into the base. She attempts to slice a guys head off but misses. Rath shoots the guy with the turret.
Rath runs to get safety equipment and shoves Pellet on the way out.
Helseth shoots the not-headless guy and kills him. Pellet doesn’t like this and tries to hit Helseth. Ev’ran shoots Pellet with the turret, winding her.
Ev’ran leaves to take the fuel back to the ship on a speeder and will come back for us later. Helseth, Pellet, and Rath search the base.
Helseth finds and picks up a crystal, which gives her a strong feeling of where to go. It leads her further into the base. Pellet finds a gun (it’s broken) and Rath finds a ship part (go-fast part).
Helseth is force guided to 3 dudes. Pellet swiftly takes them out with her blasters. The last guy, Marco (no helmet), fakes surrendering but Pellet shoots him in the shoulder (preventing him from arming a thermal detonator).
Rath pins Marco to the ground (one hand on his neck) and takes the detonator from him.
Helseth guides us further into the base to a cave-in. Pellet is able to clear it with ease. Inside, we run from a bat type creature by crossing a skinny bridge (Rath carries Marco for speed). On the other side of the bridge, we find a room that ultimately contains a holocron and a lightsaber.
Pellet calls Marco her ward, but he doesn’t really go for it.
Tie fighters fly overhead. Marco tells us someone was trying to make a deal with the "true empire" for the crystal that Helseth found. We run back to the command room. On the cameras, we see some very buff stormtroopers and a Vader looking MF (we learn later that this is Lord Kabal).
We trust Marco enough for him to grab a blaster (with some death glares) and make a run for the back of the base to another ship.
Marco and Rath run into a ship right away to get it powered up. Rath sees what a complete fucking mess it is. He also knows that a terminal must be held in place in order to power the ship. The other terminal can be kept in place with parts but takes 3 minutes to do so. Rath gets very lucky with finding a replacement screw after the original is dropped.
2 stormtroopers show up and Helseth takes them both out with the same headshot (critical hit!).
Pellets sees a mech with arms (grabby hands, drill, and electro-blade) and hops in.
Another trooper appears that Helseth also makes quick work of dealing with (another trooper cries in pain because his friend is dead).
Pellet goes to where Helseth is. Meanwhile, another trooper shows up.
Pellet grabs Helseth (after a couple of tries) and yells to the trooper that Helseth has the crystal (BETRAYAL). Helseth screams "NOOO!". Rath runs part way down the ramp of the ship and sees what is happening. Pellet makes some speech and tries to tell Rath to get back on the ship. He does, but shoots the mech arm holding Helseth first (freeing her).
Rath gets back on the ship and plugs in the last terminal (holding it) so Marco can finally power up the ship. Helseth, now free, runs to the ship. Pellet manages to snag Helseth’s bag from her with the other mech arm (contains the crystal AND THE HOLOCRON) (ULTIMATE BETRAYAL)
Helseth almost doesn’t make it onto the ramp. However, she gets lucky and doesn’t get shot.
Once on the ship, Helseth sees what Rath is dealing with and takes over holding the terminal (using her rage over Pellet to do so). Rath puts in the go-fast part to give this rickety ship a boost.
Marco flies the ship down a long, sweeping runway out of the base with a very small gap to exit out of. A canyon gap waits for us at the end. Marco only scraped a rock once on the way. We clear the cap (barely) thanks to the installation of the go-fast part. Rath and Helseth lose their cool a bit during the jump.
Meanwhile, Pellet joins the True Empire by wooing Lord Kabal with her charisma (we don’t know this, however). Before our escape, she managed to tell us "tell Raylan y’all were getting too soft for me".
As our escape vessel lands, it bounces several times before eventually coming to a stop due to engine failure. TIE Fighters have appeared in the sky, so we have to abandon ship. Rath grabs spends 2 mins retrieving his go-fast part. The TIEs take a shot at us and almost hit Helseth. Thankfully, they miss.
Meanwhile…
Ev’ran made it back to Raylan. They fuel up the Nova Ranger and take off. 18 TIEs are spotted on scanners as well as Rath (no Pellet). Raylan and Ev’ran adjust course and head for Rath’s position.
2 TIEs approaching the Ranger, so Ev’ran shoots 1 which causes it to collide with the other TIE. Raylan takes a shot at another TIE and takes it out. Shoots at another one but misses. The cannon jams after this, so he moves down to the lower cannon.
Helseth takes out the last TIE that’s actually near us with her sniper. She manages to do this while Rath keeps her stabilized (since her medicine from earlier is wearing off).
Ev’ran shoots the remaining 4 TIEs that are in the area (12 remaining… somewhere). He lands the Nova Ranger, so Rath scoops up Helseth and runs to the ship. Marco follows suit.
We set course for Smuggler’s Rock, but have to ditch 2 more TIEs before we can manage it. In orbit, a Star Destroyer releases yet more TIEs (14, to be exact), but we escape before we have to deal with any of them.
On the way back to Smuggler’s Rock, Rath and Helseth catch Ev’ran and Raylan up on what happened and how Pellet betrayed us. We also introduce them to Marco, who offers up his medical skills to look after Helseth’s wounds. The news about Pellet breaks Raylan’s heart.
One week later…
Raylan has retired and left the Nova Ranger to all of us. He appoints Ev’ran as the new captain. Additionally, he introduces us to Elgin and Cassir (aka Cas) plus Cas’ droid, Ana. Raylan has worked with them before and vouches for them as new members to the crew.
We (Ev’ran, Rath, and Helseth) spend some time getting to know Elgin and Cas. We all visit the various shops to buy the things we need/want/desire and hit up the Gemstone Cantina to blow off some steam. Cas is suspicious about the circumstances of Raylan’s retirement…
Raylan is now one of the shadow brokers on Smuggler’s Rock.
As our first mission together as a new crew, we’ve selected to collect the bounty on one Zul Sleebo. He’s got a 50,000c bounty on his head. He was last seen on Aradona 4, Aradona. Of note, Aradona is under the jurisdiction of Sakallo the Hut. This means there are Hutt battle cruisers around the planet.
We have a Chiss contact named Zahan that’s willing to reveal Zul’s last seen location on Aradona. When we get there, we can find him in Club 74.
When we arrive on Aradona, it’s supposed to cost us 200c a day to dock our ship, but Cas says he "has got it covered" (aka he hacks the system to make it seem like we’ve paid). From our dock (Dock 17), we take a tram to Club 74 (which costs us 50c).
In the club, we speak with Zahan and he tells us the terms of his deal: Zul will be on a yacht called Odysseus. It’ll cost us 10,000c of the bounty to get us on the yacht. We (begrudgingly) agree to the terms of the deal as it’s the path of least resistance for us to get to our target. Zahan tells us we can find the yacht in dock 117. Additionally, we’ll have full contact with Zahan while we’re on the yacht where he can attempt to help us, but only so long as it doesn’t reveal himself as the one providing aid.
The yacht is pretty fancy. The main points of interest to us are the club area and the casino. Zahan also places the Nova Ranger (with us in it) on the yacht.
There are servants that work on the yacht and Jahan is able to provide us with uniforms that allow us to blend in. The uniforms all fit for the most part, except Helseth’s dress doesn’t quite fit and Rath’s uniform is… basically a fancy table cloth that’s been turned into a poncho.
Zul Sleebo is at a craps style table with a lot of people surrounding him. Enroute to the table, Cas spots Zabrak guards, which we’re told are part of Zul’s entourage.
Helseth and Rath head to the table. On the way, Rath grabs his favourite drink (called a Bloodied Boss) because he couldn’t help himself.
Elgin has an attractive woman catch his attention (who tried to take him back to her room). He tries to delay but she walks away. He heads for the table too.
Zul is surrounded by 8 guards. A spot opens up next to him that Rath and Helseth notice.
Cas pretends to be a waiter and brings Zul a drink, but that does nothing to take his attention away from the table. On his way around the table, Cas attempts to hack the dealer-droid. It doesn’t go so well, as it attracts the attention of the yacht guards...
Ev’ran is on the floor now and near the table.
Cas stealthily slides a stun gun from "his cart" to Helseth, which she picks up. Elgin distracts the approaching guards, but does a poor job of it.
Cas distracts everyone by knocking over the dealer and getting the lights shut off (thanks to Zahan).
In the dark, Rath goes for the grab on Zul, but Helseth accidentally stuns Rath instead of Zul. Rath makes it a small distance (knocking over 6 people on the way) and falls to the ground with Zul under him. Elgin gets a gun from a guard, but isn’t able to knock the guard out with it. Cas grabs everything from the cart, runs across the table and dropkicks 1 guard. The lights come back on.
Rath manages to stay awake and is able to knock Zul out with a punch to the head.
Helseth stuns 1 guard, but gets shot by another. Rath has 2 guards on him, each of which are armed with rifles. 1 is pointed at his back, the other at his head. Elgin shoots 1 guard, blocks attacks from ship guards, and then uses him as a meat shield. Cas takes 2 shots (and is heavily damaged) but kills 1 guard before getting hurt.
Ev’ran sees Rath with the guards and attempts to help: he slides in, kicking away the gun pointed at Rath’s back and aims to take a headshot at the other guard. The shot just barely misses. Rath’s wookie rage kicks in. He knocks the gun at his head away (though the guard is still holding it) and although he isn’t able to get up quickly, he forces the guard into some splits (ouch). Now standing, he grabs the other guard’s head and rams it into his knee (yikes).
Ev’ran grabs Zul and makes a break for it.
The guards attempt to take more shots at us but they all miss (thankfully for us!). One of the guards that tried to shoot at Cas has a blaster malfunction which causes the miss.
Ev’ran runs out with Zul and no one is in the way to stop him. Rath follows Ev’ran out of the club and eventually catches up. Ev’ran passes Zul to Rath and tells him to take Zul to the ship, put him in the brig, and prime the ship for take off.
Helseth headshots one guard. Elgin slides across the table to Cas, winding the guard. Cas takes the guard’s gun and misses his shot. Elgin dodges 1 shot and gets hit by another.
Ev’ran is about to turn to run back to everyone else, but a ship guard emerges from a room off the hallway he’s in. The guard sees Rath running off with Zul, so Ev’ran kicks the guard in the head (knocking him out).
Rath reaches an elevator, but there’s a ship guard inside. Rath walks in, grabs the guard, and smashes him into the ceiling (thus, knocking him out).
Helseth takes cover behind the table. Takes a shot at one of the guards but misses terribly. Elgin gets his gun back and shoots a guard (as a body shot, it wasn’t super effective). Elgin gets hit by a headshot AND LIVES!!! The guard that took the shot is now stunned.
Ev’ran runs towards the group, but sees a lady going for the alarm. He knocks her away from it.
Rath comes out of the elevator and sees another ship guard. A swift punch to the head takes care of him.
Helseth headshots another guard. Elgin kills the second last guard. Cas beheads the final guard with their own vibro-blade.
Rath gets to the hangar, and sees 4 guards in it. The rest of the crew are calling for the elevator he’s in so now they are all together again.
Cas runs around the room and stabs 1 guard in the neck. Ev’ran shoots another guard in the body but they remain standing. Helseth misses the shot she takes, but Rath (now enraged) takes the guard’s head off with his sword. Elgin takes a shot but misses.
The guards take a turn to shoot back: 1 shoots Rath (he’s fine) and the other pulls out an explosive, threatening to detonate it...
Negotiations failed, so combat ensues (Helseth failed to do "a thing" twice).
Rath (enraged) jumps to the guards and cuts off their hand, and then his head. Getting a signal from Ev’ran, Rath tries to throw his sword at the remaining bad guy, but critically fails and instead impales the captain in the stomach.
The other bad guy is a bit shocked, so everyone gets a turn to attack at once. Helseth missed, Elgin hit, Cas waits, and Ev’ran gets to stay standing. Elgin’s shot knocks the guard down, so Cas attempts to break his neck, but just ends up hugging him.
Rath decides to get the ship ready and everyone (except Cas and Ev’ran) follows right away. Ev’ran (with sword) walks to the ship and shoots the guard on the way by. Rath flips the switch by the ramp (ship on) and with everybody on board, Helseth shoots the control box for the door and we take off (with everyone in their positions and Zul Sleebo in the cell).
Cas starts patching up Ev’ran from the co-pilot’s seat. Rath retrieves his sword (obligatory apologies and awkwardness abound). A Hutt warship sees us, but arrives just as the hyperdrive spools up.
Back at Smuggler’s Rock, droids collect Zul Sleebo and leave us the money. Marco makes a deal to be our doctor but needs 6000c first. Rath feels bad about impaling Ev’ran, so he offers 2000c so that Ev’ran only has to give 4000c.
Rath cleans up some scorch marks off the ship. Surprisingly, there’s no other damage.
Helseth is practicing her "thing". Rath hears her. Marco does too. Her sword skills are good. Not so much for other stuff.
Cas goes looking for pistols from Mollek. He will give a discount if Cas can get a girl’s number. He gets it with ease because she likes the way Cas looks (200c discount scored!).
Rath heads to the Gemstone to get his favourite drink (a Bloodied Boss) from Udo the bartender (15c). Unfortunately, Rath isn’t well received in the bar by the other patrons.
Helseth runs into Cas on the way back from seeing Mollek. Helseth also wants a good deal on firepower. She gets Mollek "a date" with the same girl (Carri) by bribing her 200c, which gets Helseth a discount.
In the Gemstone, a racist (to Wookies) jackass starts talking to Rath. He brags about how he used to hunt Wookies and really enjoyed it. This really rustles Rath’s jimmies (having been taken by hunters as a youngling). Rath does recognize that the emblem on the man’s clothing is that of the Kathrak crew. The racist man hopes he never sees Rath outside of Smuggler’s Rock. Rath agrees because he’d kill him otherwise.
We start a new mission: a 30,000c bounty on a club owner that’s done wrong by a Hutt. The club is located in 1313 district on Coruscant, which is where we’re headed. There’s 1496 gangs in 1313, which makes it sort of it’s own crime syndicate.
The client is Zuta the Hutt. The club’s name is the Caustic Temple. Their cousin’s name is Torug (note: forget why this was important?).
The target is Vika (a Twi’lek). Zuta wants her alive. If we bring her back dead, then we only get half of the bounty. We’ll get a 5,000c bonus if we complete this within the week and an additional 15,000c for causing no damage to the club. Zuta is a Hutt of his word.
When we arrive at 1313, we get our own personal pilot named Dinni. He’ll take us wherever we need to go. We head straight for the club. When entering, security asks if we’re affiliated with Zuta the Hutt (we say no, obviously).
Inside, we see that this is a multi-level club and we’re on the bottom. Rath and Elgin head for the bar and both get a Bloodied Boss. Ev’ran gets his own drink. The first floor has 2 blue Twi’leks but neither are our target.
Ev’ran and Cas (along with Ana) head upstairs to scope it out. They find the VIP room.
Elgin meets a Togruta at the bar. He follows her off to a private room and is, likely, busy or otherwise occupied for the next 19 minutes.
In the VIP room (using Dinni’s pass and some bribe money), Ev’ran and Cas find alien trafficking happening. Ana spots another blue Twi’lek in another area of the VIP room. Ev’ran and Cas go to meet the Twi’lek, thinking it’s Vika (it’s Vex, a decoy).
Ev’ran offers to provide services, which gets them a meeting with "Vika". There’s a man (with a droid) speaking with her already. Cas spots a lightsaber on the man’s belt, so he messages Helseth to tell her about it. Ana leaves to follow the man once he’s finished.
Ev’ran and Cas get a meeting with the real Vika. She offers them a job making a deal on buying blasters. This acts as an authenticity test of sorts. She gives them 10,000c but can only spend 5,000c to make the purchase.
Helseth follows the man (meeting up with Rath on the way). She and Rath catch up to the man. He gives his details to Helseth. When she looks, it says he’s EZRA BRIDGER!!
A droid follows Ev’ran out of the meeting, so he messages Cas to split up and to meet up with the rest of the crew.
Cas and Elgin meet up with Helseth and Rath outside the club. Cas fills everyone in on the "plan". Ev’ran hangs back a bit to let everyone meet up first. Everyone makes it back to Dinni and his ship, where Ev’ran informs us that we are to call him "Captain Rorlock".
Enroute to the blaster deal, we drop Cas off on a nearby roof so he can provide sniper cover (in case things turn south). Dinni drops us off around the corner. Ev’ran gives him a 50c tip so Dinni offers to use the transport’s turret to protect us.
We approach the trading point and find a group there waiting. The aliens initially try to get 8,000c for the blasters, but we (Ev’ran) charisma our way down to 5,000c (saying something to the effect of "more-more is better" and the aliens being like "yeah, more-more sounds good").
We get back to Vika’s with the blasters. Elgin and Rath stay on the lower level and make Cas and Ev’ran carry the guns. Helseth goes up with them.
A guard leads Cas, Ev’ran, and Helseth to a service elevator and they all get in. Elgin heads into (partially) the bar. Rath waits by the entrance.
Ev’ran, Cas, and Helseth arrive in a room at the top of the elevator. Vika speaks to them through a screen in the room. She knows Dinni works for Zuta the Hutt. Vika says "Why are you trying to fuck me?". Cas responds "The only one trying to fuck you is me". Vika digs it, but also can’t believe he just said that. She disappears from the screen and Dinni is dragged into the room and has spilled the beans. Cas shoots him in the head before he says too much in the room.
Rath and Elgin hear shots over comms, so move to get to the VIP room. Elgin attempts to get in for 50c (for both of us) but the guard wants 50c each. For this, Elgin attempts to punch the guard. Rath is able to retain him (surprisingly) before anything actually happens and offers the guard 100c each (Elgin translates for him). The guard is pretty unhappy, but he goes for it.
Vika comes back on the screen. Ev’ran is very charismatic and convinces her to let us make it up to her. She says taking the guns (which were for Zuta) and putting explosives in the crate and killing Zuta with them is how we can make it up to her. She gives us 5 minutes to come up with a plan.
Rath knows we can’t burn ourselves, so we just need to keep Vika constrained long enough for Zuta to confirm the contract.
Ev’ran divulges the plan to Cas and Helseth: we bring Vika with us and "turn her in". Once the contract is confirmed by Zuta (meaning we’re off the hook), anything that happens to him after that is no fault of our own.
Helseth gets a message from Ezra. He’s leaving Coruscant soon and has something for her.
Vika returns to the screen. She agrees to the plan but has some conditions: 1) we turn on Zuta and protect her; 2) we wear explosives and she controls the detonator. Ev’ran convinces her to instead only keep our ship until the job is done.
Ezra messages and says that he’d offer to help us, but he can’t stay that long. Helseth messages Rath to go meet up with him but he doesn’t see them right away because…
Rath and Elgin run into the racist Wookie hunter on their way back through the bar. He’s got 7 crew and 3 Wookies. Rath begins to see red. The racist hunter sees Rath and says "Fancy seeing you here". Rath responds with "Leave those Wookies or I’ll rip your head from your body". The man responds "I’d like to see you try".
Helseth and Ev’ran convince Vika & co to intervene with 15 guards to diffuse the situation. They separate Rath and Elgin from the hunters and Rath gets a free drink. Cas searches Dinni’s body and finds the keys to his ship and 95c.
Rath sees Helseth’s messages (finally) so he and Elgin get into Dinni’s ship, hotwire it, and fly to the coordinates that Ezra provided to Helseth. Neither of them are very good at piloting atmospheric ships, so we arrive too late to actually see Ezra. He left behind a message and a crate.
Vika enters the room with 4 guards. Ev’ran confirms the plan. 2 guards are going to be "part of the crew".
Rath and Elgin make it back, but with some scratches on the sides (oops).
Cas attempts to romance Vika, but she pays him no mind. We fly to Zuta’s without issue (aside from Helseth force pushing Cas’ twirling blaster from his hand).
We enter Zuta’s palace (led by a guard). Marco is here (in disguise). Rath and Cas see him in the back of the room, near Zuta. Vika is able to hold her composure just barely long enough for us to be paid.
Vika gives a speech about none of the 8 guards surrounding us in the chamber needing to owe her money and, if they let her, she will kill Zuta. Zuta can’t object because Marco has his blaster in Zuta’s mouth (and restraining his hand from putting us in the pit).
Vika kills Zuta and tells Cas "now" (i.e. let’s get it on).
Cas and Vika are close, but no labels. Ev’ran is trusted by Vika. Rath and Elgin give Helseth the gift from Ezra. Elgin buys an ion attachment from Mollek.
Captain Raylan invites Ev’ran for a drink at the Gemstone Cantina. Everyone comes along with Ev’ran. Raylan knows about the Wookie hunters and shares the following:
The racist man’s name is Barath. He works on a ship called the Cogora Mantis, which is captained by Colvath Dracol (looks like a devil)
The Cogora hunting clan is bigger than Smuggler’s Rock
Raylan also tells Ev’ran that Dorucks 8 (a jungle moon) is nice this time of year. Nexu (looks like a tiger) are hunted on Dorucks 8. The season gets "colder" the longer we wait.
Cas leaves the table to get some training from a pistol expert (since Raylan is unavailable). Elgin leaves to go meditate before wanting to do some sparring. Ev’ran goes to get supplies. Helseth opens up to Raylan (with Rath still present) about her newly discovered force abilities. Raylan warns her to be careful and tells Rath to keep an eye on her mood while hugging (Helseth notices).
Elgin stops meditating when he hears Rath and Helseth returning. Cas returns at about the same time. Cas thanks Marco for a job well done (since his appearance has been completely altered).
Ev’ran asks Marco (via message) to look up the hunting clan. Helseth speaks with Marco about holocrons. He warns that the triangular ones within the Empire taught how to hurt people.
Elgin and Rath spar for 5 rounds. Despite Rath being less experienced, he wins each round. Ev’ran returns just as they finish up. Elgin divulges (to Rath) that he used to spar with Jedi (how old is he?!?)
We leave Smuggler’s Rock almost immediately. Marco recaps what he found on the Cogora ship: it’s been around for a long time. It fought/competed with Mandalorians. 4000 clans in total. Slaving is a recent thing (started with the Empire).
Marco and Cas try hacking to track the Cogora ship. They do make progress.
Helseth manages to open the holocron and can learn how to meditate from Jedi Master Azul Abomb. He says the next lesson will be available when she is ready.
Elgin got his ION attachment. Tested successfully on the Ox.
Rath gives a heartfelt thank you and hug to Ev’ran for doing this mission for him. He knows there’s no money in this. It’s purely for personal reasons.
We land in a clearing on Dorucks 8 an hour from the enemy ship. Cas sends Ana out to scan the area. She spots 3 people walking towards us, but not into us. Helseth climbs up a tree to get a look around. She witnesses a frog-type creature eat a bird from the sky.
We set up an ambush for the 3 enemies approaching our general area. Helseth and Cas take a high point in the trees. Everyone else hides within the trees. Cas and Helseth snipe 2 of them, leaving the third for Ev’ran to point his staff at their neck.
Ev’ran interrogates her. She drops her weapons (long blaster rifle with 3 clips, 2 detonators, and a small med pack) to the ground. She says there’s 12 crew for us to deal with. Ev’ran disagrees and cuts off her arm. She changes her tune and tells him 16. She agrees to lead us to the ship, but only if we cauterize her wound first. Helseth comes down from the tree, swaggers over, ignites her lightsaber, and cauterizes the wound. Elgin is surprised by this and says "You’re no Jedi.", which Helseth is peeved by.
Before moving on, Rath and Elgin search the bodies of our prisoner’s companions. We find some stuff and then dispose of the bodies appropriately. Cas searches our captive and finds a stun gun (which he takes for himself). Elgin and Helseth discuss their beef. Elgin thinks Helseth is using the saber like a plaything.
Ana detects the ship and another droid. Cas relays this information to Ev’ran. Our captive: "that’s probably Senna" (controlling the droid). Everyone else is probably out hunting. Captain is definitely there. 18 Wookies on board the ship. They came here for Nexu on their way to a Wookie sale.
The plan is this: Elgin and Rath stay outside with Ana as overwatch. Ev’ran Cas, and Helseth approach the ship with our captive with a bogus story about saving her.
Our captive’s name is Kin. We are greeted by the droid operator, Senna. Kin tells Senna the story of being overrun. Senna buys it (surprisingly). She asks about our ship. Say we got turned around and we need the Captain’s help. The Captain doesn’t quite buy it but offers us a Nexu as a gift.
Ana begins circling the chip, but the other droid is on the move. Elgin and Rath book it to not be detected. We make it, but only just barely. Elgin is feeling out of breath from our sprint, but Rath is feeling good.
Kin offers to lead us through the ship. She thinks we can take the crew but maybe not the captain. Helseth is sent to free the Wookies. Everyone else goes with Kin. Helseth can sense the Wookies, but she feels 1 much more intense pain, so she heads to it instead. She uses her lightsaber to open a locked door. Inside, she uses her saber again to cut a circle out of the cell door. She’s not strong enough to move it but she can see a girl being held prisoner inside!
Ev’ran, Cas, and Kin approach the kitchen. The cook (Stamek) is making Nexu burgers from the cubs of a butchered one. Must stealth past him. Ev’ran fails but Kin defuses Stakem so he doesn’t alert anyone else.
Ana detects 4 hostiles approaching. Cas relays to Elgin and Rath. They decide to flank them.
Kin leads Can and Ev’ran up to the 2nd level of the ship.
Helseth uses the force to push the cell door in. It makes a LOUD noise. She hears footsteps approaching.
Just as Kin is about to open the door to the Captain’s quarters, they hear the noise from Helseth echoing through the ship. It spooks Kin, who opens the door and then makes a break for it. Ev’ran and Cas rush in, catching the Captain by surprise. Luckily, there doesn’t appear to be anyone else in the room.
Elgin and Rath (quietly) decide on stunning the hostiles with a grenade.
A guy shows up at the cell where Helseth and the prisoner are.
Ev’ran and Cas attack the Captain. Ev’ran melees and misses. Cas shoots at the head twice (the Captain dodges both) and 1 chest shot (hits).
Elgin fumbles his stun grenade and knocks himself out. Rath goes berserk and kills the 2 hostiles that were closest to him by punching them in the head (one comes off; the other is caved in).
Helseth tries to intimidate the guy, but it doesn’t work. So, she cuts off his hand and splits his blaster. The girl grabs a blaster and finishes him off.
Cas loses both his blasters to shots by the Captain. Ev’ran dodges attempts from the Captain to cut off his hands.
Rath gets shocked and shot, but he’s still standing. Elgin is still down.
Ev’ran tosses a flash bang at the Captain and rolls/flips back to Cas. The Captain notices this and blocks. Cas shoots the stun gun twice. The Captain barely gets back behind cover.
Rath tries attacking the closest guy but misses. Elgin finally comes to and tries to help, but his gun malfunctions.
Helseth runs with the prisoner. She wants to leave, but Helseth convinces her to stay to free the Wookies. There’s 12 of them in cages and most of them are angry. The prisoner shoots the lock.
Can and Ev’ran hear Wookie roars. The Wookies kill Senna. Ev’ran shoots a pipe to fill the room with smoke so they can escape from the Captain. 2 Wookies are rounding the corner.
Rath avoids a blade attack from one guy, but takes 1 body shot and dodges a second one (gun guy calls for backup at his location).
Cas & Ev’ran manage to say "friends" in Wookie. They almost don’t hear them but they stay to help.
Rath takes out his sword. He misses a swing but does manage to disarm the guy. Elgin flies with his jet pack to the gun guy with his sword. He misses the direct hit, but manages to hit on the backswing (which thankfully kills the guy). However, he is now flying wildly out of control and gaining height.
Helseth follows some of the Wookies and that leads her to Stamek. He has a repeater and begins shooting. He hits 1 Wookie. Helseth dodges and pushes the girl out of the way. The other Wookie kills Stamek. The Wookie that got hit is alive, but needs Marco to help keep it that way.
Elgin starts spinning down to the ground. Ana sees this. There are hostiles approaching too, which Ana also sees. To prevent anything terrible from happening, Ana speeds over to Elgin and corrects his course so that he won’t crash too badly. Elgin is very dizzy and vomiting.
Rath starts moving towards the ship. Cas alerts him to the incoming hostiles to the north.
The Wookies manage to break down the door to the Captain’s quarters with some assistance from Cas and Ev’ran. However, this action triggers some stun grenades that the Captain set up. He attempts to escape down a hatch. Cas sees this and throws his vibroblade at him. It nicks the Captain and goes down the hatch with him.
Marco is almost there in the Ranger. The uninjured Wookie understands Basic, so they pick up the injured Wookie to go outside with Helseth and the girl. Marco lands HARD, but no damage to the ship. The girl hesitates about boarding our ship, but ultimately does so.
Elgin is pretty unscathed after his landing so starts running after Rath. Rath doesn’t see Elgin but when getting into the clearing, he sees 4 hunters. Rath gets shot once in the chest but thankfully dodges another. He dives into the tall grass to avoid further shots for now. Elgin sees all this and runs towards them through the jungle (jet pack in hand). It turns out that 1 of the group is a Wookie that the hunters have with them and it starts charging towards Rath.
Cas throws a thermal detonator down the hatch. It blows a hole in the ship (killing the Captain). Helseth force jumps away from the explosion outside of the ship and lands on top of the Nova Ranger.
The Wookies wake up and go with Cas out of the ship. Ev’ran hacks the ship to download info on cargo and such. He considers blowing the ship up, but doesn’t. Cas collects the Captain’s head as a trophy (very, very lucky that it wasn’t destroyed in the blast).
Helseth sees Rath in trouble and everyone has exited the ship. She shoots a warning shot at the charging Wookie. The Wookie stops and gets a shock for doing so. Elgin pokes a hole in the fuel tank of his jet pack, throws it above the group of hunters, and shoots his flamethrower. This blows up the jet pack and kills all the hunters (plus a Nexu they’d caught...whoops).
Now that the captured Wookie isn’t under the control of the hunters, Rath wants to take the shock collar off. The Wookie agrees to let Rath do this. Rath warns that there will be a final shock while he does so. Rath grabs the collar and successfully breaks it off the Wookie’s neck. The two share a big hug. Even though the racist man is dead and charred, he goes over to the body and rips the head from the body (the catharsis was important to him).
As it turns out, the Wookie that had the collar is the clan Elder of all the captured Wookies. The elder thanks us all for freeing them and that they will fix the ship. Marco has healed the injured Wookie and will look after Rath shortly.
The girl Helseth freed is Princess Shora Ressan of the planet Doba in the Debodoria system. She was captured by the Captain.
Also, Elgin lost his gear in the jungle.
Elgin gets a lot of pats from the Wookies (celebratory pats). Elgin goes onto our ship and meets Princess Shora for the first time. He’s very sceptical of her predicament.
Helseth uses her lightsaber to remove Shora’s restraints. Elgin still has some beef about Helseth owning her lightsaber (since he’s seen people use them like toys).
Cas has concealed the Captain’s head under his cloak. He enters our ship and also tries to get payment from Shora. Ev’ran silences that right away.
Rath gets "the news" and the Elder offers to bring Rath home. He declines but appreciates the offer. Rath joins the others on the Ranger.
Ev’ran gives Shora a blanket and heads out with Cas and Elgin to find Kin (our former one armed captive). Ana spots her out in the forest.
Helseth and Shora are becoming quick BFFs. Cas grabs a speeder to go after Kin. Elgin and Ev’ran take the Ox. The injured Wookie won’t be able to walk anymore, so Rath goes out to fashion something for them.
While driving the Ox, Elgin tells Ev’ran about how he used to live with Jedi and survived Order 66. Ev’ran has no idea what any of this is, but he gets Elgin to be cool about Helseth (for now). Cas speeds up and catches up to Kin. She stops and Cas stuns her to start bringing her back to Elgin & Ev’ran (in the jungle).
Rath returns with crutches that he crafted from a tree. Helseth helps Marco with some medical solutions.
Elgin kills Kin once Cas pulls up.
On our way back to Smuggler’s Rock, Elgin fixes Cas’ guns and incorporates Dracol’s horns as grips. Rath wanted his armor fixed, but there was nothing left to make repairs. Ev’ran just hangs out in the cockpit.
While waiting for Elgin, Cas store’s Dracol’s head in the fridge. He also looks up the bounty on Dracol. We can collect 30,000c (dead) for him.
Helseth gets to know Shora even more. She was only kidnapped 1 month ago. Rath checks on Shora to make sure she’s ok (she is). He also thanks Helseth for freeing the Wookies on the ship. Cas tries finding any information on Shora and finds nothing about her kidnapping (i.e. no reward).
When we arrive back on Smuggler’s Rock, Rath heads out to see Lianna to get some new armor. Elgin and Cas come with him (but go to different shops). Helseth stays to talk to Ev’ran about the Elgin situation.
Cas tells Elgin and Rath about what he found on Shora (aka nothing) and heads back to the ship.
Rath purchases Wookie armor for 300c. It fits well but doesn’t know anything else about it. Elgin replaces his missing equipment. Ev’ran enroute to get some too.
Cas tells Ev’ran about his Shora info. Decides to see Raylan to get info from him. Helseth meditate with Master Abomb via holocron.
Rath picks up gravity boots & an EVA suit. The ship requires an airlock to be useful, but it’s worth it for now.
Helseth meditates for a few hours. Shora enters and says Marco is quite the charmer. Helseth shows off by force pulling a flower to Shora.
Cas is instructed by Ev’ran to get us a mission. He goes to see Raylan for that and info on Shora. Raylan divulges info. The King had a wife, second wife, and a bunch of kids. Not much else to say on that.
For jobs, we can get a 60,000c salvage mission for getting a transponder from a Star Destroyer on an inhospitable world or 50,000c for a bounty on a Mandalorian.
Elgin rolls all his stuff back to the ship and grabs a drink on the way. Marco needs/wants Elgin’s help to modify a set of armor. Marco starts asking about Elgin’s involvement with Jedi. Noticed an anomaly in his blood.
Rath inquired with the shipyard about getting an airlock installed: 22,000c and 5 days to complete. Can reduce to 3 days with an additional 8,000c. After the inquiry, he goes to have a quick spar with Elgin to get used to the new armor (he’s good).
Helseth opens up to Shora about her past as part of the Imperial military. Shora opens up too. She doesn’t feel like she belonged in her family. Helseth tries to show affection but it doesn’t really work (whoops).
Cas decides to return to the ship to deal with the princess thing. Marco calls to say he has a long distance message.
Both Marco and Cas want to get in on the sparring. Marco whooped by Elgin (fine, but beaten). Rath accidentally damages Cas’ arm but fixes it for him. Cas calls for a "family" meeting. Helseth attempts to tuck Shora in but does so very awkwardly. Shora kisses her anyways.
In the meeting, we decide to take Shora home next (no funny business). Rath tells the crew about the airlock stuff. Helseth suggests talking to Raylan so that’s what he goes to do.
Cas’ long distance message is a steamy one from Vika. His response is more...professional.
Elgin takes some time to clear the air with Helseth.
Ev’ran returns and gets updated on the situation. Tries to find more info.
Rath finds an error with our coolant system. Replaces it with a spare in 1 hour.
Elgin goes to get a new face with parts so he can eat properly. Marco gets him a discount (500c instead of 2500c). Marco goes to get bottles of booze.
Cas goes to get parts for Ana and clothes for Shora. Helseth goes back to talk to Shora. She’s very sheltered and naive. She has no idea why there would be a cover up by her father or step-mother Amarra. Amarra treats her daughters better than Shora so very sad about the potential situation there.
Rath’s repairs are going well (he’s been listening to Wookie clan music while he’s working).
Marco runs into Ev’ran (no luck with info) at the bar. They share a drink and talk about Shora (Marco knows she’s naive). He suggests landing in a city and hitting up the dingy cantinas to learn more. Ev’ran agrees that it’s a good idea!
Cas is on the hunt for a splicing arm for Ana. Puts in an order for one since Smuggler’s Rock doesn’t have any in stock. Elgin is in a very steampunk lab to get his face fixed. He gets 12 days worth of meds for his face.
Ev’ran and everyone else returns to the ship to go over the plan: recon, go to the family without Shora to get a feeling of how they will respond.
Elgin builds Marco’s devices. Helseth meditates with Shora. Rath draws up the schematics for the airlock. Ev’ran flies with Marco learning.
Cas gives Shora the "clothes" he bought for her.
We drop out of hyperspace into the Debodoria system. It’s 200 credits per day to dock at the normal space port on Doba. Cas decides to hack in and get us free docking for the day. Shora and Marco stay behind while everyone else leaves the ship to do recon. We spot 3 others in the spaceport.
The cantina is actually nice and not a dive. There’s no reason for trouble here. Ev’ran says he’ll pay for everyone’s food and drinks. Apparently, "Scrub Town" is the place to "avoid" and the King died 14 days ago in his bed (he wasn’t that old). We have mixed reactions to the food (luga worm) and drinks. We leave for Scrub Town (aka Icara). Ev’ran tried to get the fare down to 60 from 80, but decides not to pursue it.
Scrub Town has a border wall and we need access papers to get in. Cas wants to slice some papers for us, but he can’t without a port.
300c to bribe our way into Scrub Town. We offer 100c each and they agree! We get arm bands with our faces on them. The guards are not concerned by our entrance, to the point where they don’t even look up.
Ev’ran and Helseth notice someone in the alley tagging some metal with "Free Doba". We approach the girl and talk. Her name is Kana Sas. She says the leader of the resistance is Semma Keer. Kana says the King isn’t dead. She agrees to lead us to Semma.
We eventually make it to a large complex. There’s 16 seemingly hand built ships here, 3 of which have weapons on them. A guy named Dukar is trying to build the ships (has been for over a year) and is upset that we’re here. Kana stops him, though.
Semma sees us and approaches. She says the King has been transferred to a mining station. They have short wave communication for slicing. She’d heard that Shora had run off with pirates rather than being kidnapped.
Helseth, Cas, and Ev’ran hear TIEs approaching. The Nova Ranger is being chased by 6 TIEs and 1 other ship. We rush to the communications room to get in contact with the Nova Ranger. We reach Marco, who is in the pilot’s seat. We tell him to escape, but he’s under fire and not doing great and taking a beating. The transmission suddenly cuts off, leaving everyone uncertain about the fate of the Nova Ranger along with Marco and Shora.
The rest of the crew is now stranded.
Rath cries out about the ship. Elgin punches a wall and is angry about the "fake princess". A girl runs into the room and tells something to Semma. She tells us there’s a reward of 50,000c EACH! There’s a video of us at the Doba port and a live video from the palace plays. 50 troopers are around the palace and a large mech lands amongst them. Emerging from the mech is none other than PELLET!
Pellet is going by Lady Cataclysm now. She wants us to turn ourselves in within 12 hours. Every hour after that will result in Ikara being bombed (Rath and Helseth can hear the bombers circling).
Semma has heard of Lady Cataclysm and tells us that she’s in charge of mining facilities for the Empire. With only 12 hours, we have a very limited amount of time to decide on what RISKY plan we want to go for.
Elgin suggests luring the stormtroopers to Cas’ band(?) and stealing their armor and taking Rath and Cas as prisoners.
Semma alerts us that 12 local guards are entering Ikara. The girl who told us about the reward will guide us to the gate. We leave the complex in the elevator with 56 on lookers. Elgin says "Anyone tried anything, I’ll put you in the grave myself". It’s a ghost town outside. We see 3 approaching from behind. Rath growls at them to scare them off. They tell us Semma sent them to watch.
Cas releases Ana. She almost gets seen but doesn’t (thankfully). The girl leads us to a hiding spot. Ana gets spotted (Cas was slow to move her) and gets shot at by 4 guards (2 missed completely and Ana manages to evade the shots the other 2). The guards run into the building. We stop the girl before doing anything else. Elgin gives her some credits and tells her to get out of here. She hugs Elgin and tells him not to die. Elgin’s hand starts shaking.
Cas leads us to the building the guards ran into. There’s 2 posted outside. Elgin throws something to distract them and they look towards it. Neither of them are fast or overly stealthy. Helseth force pulls 1 guard into the other. Elgin is stunned by Helseth’s force abilities so Seth kills them both on the ground. Rath and Ev’ran help move the bodies.
Elgin and Helseth grab blast vests from the dead guards. We make a plan: lure the remaining guards outside. Between us, 3 will shoot and 2 will do melee. The shooting will happen first and melee second.
8 guards come out. Helseth manages to take out 4 guards with her saber, taking their attention away from Ev’ran (who they spotted). 1 guard actually makes a shot but Helseth dodges it. Another guard calls for backup.
Ev’ran tells Rath and Cas to protect Helseth. Ev’ran also shoots 1 guard in the head. Rath takes a shot and gets 2 guards in the head. Shoots the last guy in the back, knocking him into Elgin to take out.
Elgin goes for the other 2 guards in the building. He knicks 1 and kills the other. Cas runs in to go after the other guard. Cas catches him and says to call off the backup. He does but calls for help when he isn’t let go. Cas shoots and kills him.
There are 6 locals in the building and they start to attack (despite Elgin’s attempt to intimidate them). Cas fires a warning shot, so 5 of them stop. The 6th local still attacks Cas anyways and manages to stab him. Cas yells at him that we’re with Semma and he backs off and apologizes. They 5 leave and Cas asks the guy for first aid. His wife can do that.
We all follow. The wife heals Cas perfectly. Helseth found 32 local credits and gave it all to the wife. The son offers to lead us to the sewers. The father says he is coming with us too. Elgin gives the father a blaster. Cas tries to give it to the kid instead but the father takes it back. Elgin hangs back to ask the wife for his medicine. Unfortunately, she’s never heard of it.
The kid leads us across the building to the hole. We enter it. It smells (obviously) but we’re good otherwise.
The poorest people are huddled down here. The kid and the father lead us through the sewers. We’re in single file: the kid, the father, Ev’ran, Rath, Helseth, Elgin, and Cas. Elgin says "I wonder what they eat?" A few notice nets for catching food (gross), specifically piranhas.
A man named Turuk guards a bridge in our path. We see that he has a makeshift blaster on him. "Are you gonna beat them up?" "Don’t think we need to."
Ev’ran approaches with everyone. We all have guns ready to go. Cas says "You need a better face." We convince Turuk to let us by for the price of a small med pack. We also get him to come with us in exchange for a real blaster from Elgin.
While enroute, we all see the bashed up cameras from local security. Cas wants to slice one (maybe). He’s about ready to parkour across the water to the other side before Helseth offers a suggestion: Rath lifts her up so she can cut down a pipe for him to cross.
With the pipe placed, Cas starts running across it but it breaks under his weight. He falls into the water below. 11 piranhas get him, with 1 staying attached after he gets out of the water. He makes it over to the camera and it’s in a bad way. Rath tells him what to do so it will only take 5 minutes.
Everyone else notices things floating in the water. We could maybe jump across on them. Helseth goes for a force jump but fails. Rath is able to grab her before she falls into the water. Elgin meditates and is surprisingly calm right now. Rath notices a pipe above that he can swing off of above the water. It’s not easy, but doable only for himself.
Cas finally gets into the cameras and he can see future sections. Grass in one section has something metallic in it. He finds turbo lasers and knows sensors can be damaged to screw up the targeting.
Ev’ran goes for the jump. He makes it to the second box but slips and falls in the water. He "forgets" how to swim and starts walking to the wall. He starts to climb out but gets attacked by a lot of piranhas. Helseth attempts to force pull him out but she isn’t able to. Ev’ran and Cas start patching themselves up.
Helseth gets Rath to throw her across the water so she can avoid the water and force pull herself across the rest of the way. Thankfully, it works!
Elgin goes for the boxes and falls on the same box as Ev’ran. No fish attack him at first so he swims to the wall. However, onces he makes it there, fish attack him once he gets there. He slips at first but gets going shortly afterwards (he also swallowed some water).
Rath manages to climb across on the pipe above without incident.
Cas joins the rest of the crew. He loops the cameras so no one can see us. We see an object up ahead. Elgin and Rath throw trash at it. Rath sees it blinking and knows it’s a motion sensor for activating a turbo laser. Elgin and Rath grab some throwables for the turbo lasers. We all run by without issue and go to the nearby wall to climb it.
Rath has a slow start but everyone starts to climb up. We all manage to climb all the way up but not without a couple hiccups along the way for Rath, Helseth, and Elgin. At the top, there are more guns. Rath and Elgin throw stuff to distract the guns. The guns move to each side. Cas misses 1 shot but lands the other one, destroying the gun. Ev’ran takes out the other gun without issue.
Rath finishes climbing up the rest of the way, but Elgin struggles. Rath tries to help him but he’s too tired. Helseth and Ev’ran attempt to help too. It kinda works and Elgin is able to make it up. At this moment, Elgin decides this would be a good time to make a bomb from the turret parts.
Everyone moves to the sides of the doors in front of us before Rath uses one of his any keys to open the doors. Elgin tries to use his bomb, but it blows up almost right away. He tries to throw it away but is hurt by the blast force. Down he goooooes.
There are more guns inside, so Rath throws more debris for the turret to shoot at. Cas shoots out the sensor and the turret stops shooting. Rath and Helseth go over to Elgin to see how he is (not great). Rath does some first aid that isn’t great, but enough to keep him going
6 HOURS LEFT
We walk cautiously down the hallway. We approach an opening-ish but hear a hatch opening with workers coming down. They are coming to check on the turrets. Unfortunately, they spot Rath and yell "What the hell is that?!"
Ev’ran acts first, using his staff to try to knock them out. It doesn’t work. Helseth tries to "flex" but fails to tap into the force. Rath goes in to throw them. He gets the first worker and tosses him like it’s nothing. The second worker dodges the throw and takes a shot at Rath. Rath is able to dodge it. Cas attempts to take out the guys with rifles. He misses one but hits the other. Elgin runs up (almost) to one of the thrown guys, points his gun, and yells "Put down your weapons!"
The crew, surprisingly, surrenders and Ev’ran begins interrogating. Turns out that the Empire is surrounding Ikara because of us. The lead worker agrees to lead us through the sewers if we let his guys go. We agree to his terms.
The crewman silently leads us through the sewers. Elgin is doing "ok" drug-wise. We reach a motion sensor and Cas takes care of it for us. We encounter more sensors. Cas is able to hit them until the 3rd one. We start running. Eventually, more workers come and we are surrounded from both sides.
Luckily, there’s a manhole above us. Ev’ran tried to open it first but can’t. Rath goes up and opens it no problem. He checks first before climbing out and sees vehicles and stormtroopers. We all begin to climb out.
Ev’ran is spotted by the troopers, so he shoots one in the head. He then starts running the other way to distract them. He almost makes it around the corner before getting shot in the back, causing him to fall over.
The crewman yells "They’re over here!" and runs, but Cas turns him into swiss cheese. Helseth tries sneaking to the nest vehicle but is spotted and shot at. She still makes it to the next vehicle. Elgin hears others coming up from below and attempts to shoot them. He misses with his sword. Rath loses it and shoots the 3 troopers and the sewer dude in the head.
At this moment, Lady Cataclysm shows up and proceeds to carpet bomb us with concussive grenades. Everyone goes down except for Cas, who has no choice but to surrender.
Rath and Elgin wake up first. Rath knows right away — this is prison. Everyone is in a tube (6 in total). There are troopers in the middle of where we are surrounding crates of our stuff. Rath angrily roars "PELLET!!!". A trooper approaches to shock him but decides not to. The roar wakes everyone else up.
Cas tries to use Ana to escape, but she’s stuck in the crates. The troopers see this and "deactivate" her (they hit her a bunch). Elgin tries to play dead, but it doesn’t work so he just gets shocked a bunch.
Helseth can see out the window: Lord Kabal’s flagship has arrived. Rath and Elgin know it too. We can also see we’re headed for the Doba mining processing facility. Lady Cataclysm is monitoring from out in space.
We land at the facility, where we and our stuff get brought out. One of the troopers is holding Helseth’s saber. Lady Cataclysm joins us in the room. Ev’ran calls her "Pebble" and gets shocked several times because of it. Elgin calls her a bitch and almost gets shocked too. The Imperials stop her.
Lord Kabal enters the room surrounded by saber wielders. He takes Helseth’s saber and connects it to the holocron that they took from us before. A star map appears now. It shows a LOT of black holes with a light in the middle. Kabal approaches Helseth — she can feel his presence. It is powerful, but she resists. He leaves and goes back to his shuttle. Rath got a good enough look at the map to be able to count 97 hazardous black hole clusters. He can figure out where that is with a map.
Rath mentions Raylan to Pellet, which makes her visibly upset. She says he never gave her a chance. Elgin calls her a fucking child and gets shocked for it. Rath tells Pellet that Raylan wanted him to protect her. Says not doing a good job of it.
We get brough below to a prison area to a room with other prisoners in it. Helseth is released first. She turns around and gets shocked. She doesn’t go down. She gives the troopers a look and then moves in. Elgin is told to move but "can’t". The move on. Cas is released and cooperates. Ev’ran is released, tries to fake tripping, gets stunned, and falls. Rath gets skipped while they go back to Elgin. They try to kick him but he grabs the leg and pulls him down.
Cas reacts to help. The trooper reacts poorly and Cas gets the rifle and pushes the trooper back. Cas takes the shot. The rest of the troopers react. One misses the stun. The one on Elgin tries to break free and eventually makes it out. Elgin gets stunned. Cas gets shot with a stun but stays standing. The troopers outside shut the door, leaving us and 5 troopers locked inside (3 standing and 2 down).
Cas runs over to Rath’s tube, managing to get a shot in as he goes. However, the trooper manages to evade. Another trooper tries to get the jump on Cas but gets stunned. Rath is free of his tube now.
Elgin wakes up enough to see Rath walking out of his tube. Helseth runs around to the last trooper, force pulls him to her, and gives them a blow to the head. It almost breaks his neck but not quite. He’s away but out of it. Helseth then finishes the job and breaks their neck. Rath walks over to the door of the prison and SMASHES it. It doesn’t move, but there are fist sized indents in it now.
Red lights come on and the other prisoners grab guns and say the droids are coming. The old man says "the troopers stun, the droids shoot to kill". Cas asks who he is and says he was the King of Doba. We tell him about Shora and he breaks down crying. Cas slaps him but it does nothing. Helseth is… having a moment. She meditates to calm down.
Rath sees droids (one of which is a spider droid) and troopers approaching. A True Empire guy approaches and throws a very powerful concussive grenade through the food hole. Elgin puts a trooper helmet over the grenade before it goes off. Elgin, Rath, and Cas all make it. Helseth goes down with everyone else.
The guy orders us to surrender or be killed. Cas mocks that he will shoot Helseth but we eventually do surrender. We are all stunned to knock-out-ville.
Cas wakes up first. He slaps Elgin and Rath awake. Ev’ran is missing. Helseth has a force dream with Master Abomb. He warns of Kabal making an army of dark Jedi. She wakes up (startled) after that.
We see everyone walking away and eventually follow them. We’re going to break rocks in order to find obsidian. There’s no guards. Spider droids keep watch and droids are sent to kill when someone steps out of line. Some people here are frail, but some are buff and pushing others around. Loader droids bring rocks in giant bins to be brought in for breaking rocks. Ikara resistance has communication with the miners, so we should be able to find them.
We’ve had a long day of breaking rocks. We know how things go: the True Empire doesn’t come around unless there’s trouble. Resistance is brewing. We also learn that King Oroda gets mistreated a lot.
Ev’ran is returned to our cell before we get back there. He sees 2 prisoners spitting on the King. He tries to intervene. They don’t take kindly to that. Ev’ran gets them to back off so he can drag the King to another corner.
We all return to our cell. Elgin goes to meditate. Ev’ran was taken to a room with the Empire admin. Helseth was taken (unbeknownst to us) to a room by Captain Spyke, where Lord Kabal and a bunch of guards are waiting.
Kabal is looking out a window that overlooks Doba, the asteroids, and star destroyers. He mentions Pellet’s name and Helseth can feel her anger for Pellet rise up at the mere mention of it. Kabal offers to be rid of Pellet to have Helseth at his side. She refuses, despite her rage. Kabal says Helseth’s companions are inconsequential to the galaxy. She says, "Not to me."
Finally, the rest of us notice Helseth is missing. Elgin noticed, but we all see how messed up he is. Food arrives and one of the guys that was spitting on the King takes 2 meals (one of ours). Ev’ran, Rath, and Cas confront him. He dodges a punch from Ev’ran and kicks Rath in the groin (he mad now!). Cas expertly takes him down and Ev’ran knocks him out.
We talk to the other guy. We learn we can apply to fly ships for collection in space. We learn the first guy is part of the resistance, so Ev’ran wants to wake him up now. Rath offers to slap him awake but Ev’ran tells him to stand down. We wake him up, and he’s friendly once we mention Semma. Tobrin is the local resistance leader. The resistance has been active for 1 year. Ev’ran says "That’s 364 more days than we need."
Elgin and Cas wake up first, although they see the King is already up. He wants to make up for his mistakes. Elgin doesn’t want to be a liability and doesn’t want to fight the Empire. He confides in Cas and the King that he has a genetic disorder that he needs pills for. The King offers his medical facilities.
Ev’ran wakes up and say "fuck, you guys talk a lot." He heard everything they were talking about, including Elgin’s confession. Rath wakes up now too.
The King doesn’t know why the Empire and Lord Kabal are here aside from the obsidian crystals. Helseth wakes at the mention of Kabal. She remembers the words "Valley of the Jedi" from her dream and mutters it to herself. Ev’ran and Rath hear her but don’t inquire further.
We get breakfast and then have to head to work. The resistance member we share a cell with is willing to introduce us to the leader so we can talk to them about a plan. Upon meeting them, it’s clear their plan isn’t great, but neither is Ev’ran’s counter plan. It basically boils down to getting control of the control center and using the station’s weapons to take out the Star Destroyer.
Elgin goes to work instead of meeting with the resistance leader. He mutters "I am not a liability" over and over. Eventually, another prisoner notices that Elgin is shaking and says that he has that too. Elgin says he’ll help and the prisoner breaks down a bit as he gives Elgin a hug. He kind of hugs back. Rath sees this from a distance and is a bit confused by it. The prisoner tells Elgin who makes the medicine and he goes to see her. Rath hangs back, but is ready to go help at a moment’s notice.
Ev’ran wants Cas and Helseth to cause "trouble" and get others on board. Helseth reveals where she was taken to the others. She can also feel Elgin through the force due to his distress. Helseth offers to try going to Kabal but Ev’ran and Cas say it’s too risky.
Elgin talks to the lady about getting medicine. She’ll give it to him in exchange for doing her work too. He agrees, so the lady gives him a shiv-like needle to administer the dose. Elgin manages to convince her to give him a second dose, but stops her from injecting him again (the first dose has kicked in). He returns to the prisoner that told him about the lady and gives the injection to him. He’s ecstatic and thanks Elgin.
Helseth and Cas work out that they can get upstairs via the spider droids. Ev’ran stops working and a droid comes over. He demands to parle with the admin.
"We have an efficiency problem", Ev’ran says.
Day 1:
A laser guides Ev’ran to an elevator and he goes off in it.
Rath notices that Elgin is in beast mode now, effectively breaking rocks like melons.
The resistance prisoner approaches Cas and Helseth. There’s a "problem" in engineering and he can lead them there to get parts for blasters. We can all go. Some positions for parts and some for piloting (i.e. mining). Elgin agrees to go with Cas, Helseth, and Rath.
Ev'ran meets with Captain Spyke, the admin, in an interrogation style room. They talk for a while and, eventually, Spyke makes Ev'ran a new pilot.
The group is led to a large room, which has a large elevator and a bay door. Helseth and Rath volunteer to be pilots. The worker shows Cas and Elgin which "faulty" parts to look for. Elgin knows how to do it better. However, they both fail to actually steal anything and must now scrub rusty parts instead.
Ev'ran eventually gets brought to the same room as the rest of the crew, so meets up with Rath and Helseth. Rath can't determine whether any one of the ships is better than another, so we all choose a ship and hop in. Rath and Helseth's ships are good. Ev'ran's ship, however, catches fire. He quickly escapes and gets into another ship. Helseth is, surprisingly, a stand out pilot. Rath does ok (big Wookie in a small ship). Ev'ran... not so much.
Day 2:
Helseth once again is a stand out pilot, so she gets a chocolate bar as a reward. Rath and Ev'ran do well at piloting as well.
Elgin gets caught stealing and is thrown in the brig for 2 days. He's become very addicted to the "medicine" from that lady, so 2 days without it will be interesting for him. Cas doesn't get caught and is able to make a "blaster".
Helseth meditates overnight and can feel the obsidian through the force. Realizes she can replenish force abilities through the obsidian.
Day 3:
Cas gets caught stealing and is thrown in the brig for 3 days.
Day 4:
Rath listens to a sub-light engineer for the day. A good sport about not understanding Rath.
While out piloting, Ev'ran and Helseth see Lady Cataclysm shooting rocks and showing off the suit she has.
Elgin is out of the brig and is back to normal(ish).
Day 5:
Piloting goes smoothly for Helseth and Ev'ran.
Rath starts getting the hang of sub-light engineering.
Elgin, in his infinite wisdom, manages to make an improvised bomb. "Now what?"
Day 6:
Cas is out of the brig. He gets his "blaster" back but drops it immediately. The spider droids are on him in no time.
We all see shots fired on the lone Star Destroyer.
Ev'ran wonders if perhaps Marco has come back. He asks Rath if there's a way to find out from where we are, but he says there isn't.
Cas takes a shot at the spider droid. He misses the first shot, but hits with the second shot. The spider droid takes a shot back at Cas, but misses. The other prisoners almost take this as a chance to rebel, but don't because of the droids.
Ev'ran hops in a ship to fly it into the other room. He also tells Rath to get in touch with the resistance. It's not a smooth flight for Ev'ran due to the confined space.
Rath grabs Helseth and talks to the engineer. He says we'd have to get upstairs to get contact. Flying is the fastest way, so Rath and Helseth hop in ships and fly out. Once in space, Helseth is able to see the owner of Smuggler's Rock (or at least, his ship) is here! She relays this to Rath. 14 TIE types leave the station to fight the ship. Thankfully, they don't see Helseth or Rath.
Elgin throws an axe at one of the spider droids and does big damage. He rallies the other prisoners and they all attack that droid. Cas shoots the droid again and hits. His second shot causes the blaster to overheat. Cas sees this in time and is able to throw it to the droid, killing it.
Ev'ran manages to take care of the remaining droid by smashing it to bits with the arms of the ship.
Elgin starts salvaging parts from a droid to make blasters. He's able to make 1. Cas wants to make a franken-spider-droid. He fails with the first one. Ev'ran brings the final droid over for Cas. Only the stun gun works, but it's better than nothing.
Helseth and Rath arrive outside the tower. The only way in is through an air-lock, but the only way to successfully do that would be to temporarily space ourselves (these ships can't dock with the air-lock). We decide instead to space the room and everyone in it.
Elgin finishes the blasters and gives the shittiest blaster to himself. Troopers (no droids) come from the elevator.
Rath and Helseth realize their plan to space the whole room is a bad plan. Both of them remember the bay the TIE types left from. We fly down there to start a new plan. On our approach, we get scared by a TIE, but it's empty, so we head on in.
Ev'ran is still in the ship with a limited view but has the hatch open.
Cas and Elgin are ready for the troopers. The other prisoners are looking up to them. 9 troopers come through the elevator. Cas attempts to fire the stun gun on the droid but it fails twice. He reaches into the droid and gets it to fire. The stun gets 7 troopers (5 fall to the ground. 2 stay standing but are stunned). Cas sees a gas pipe and takes aim: it blasts all troopers with smoke. They are all blinded.
Elgin takes a wrench from a prisoner ("I'm gonna get you a blaster"). He goes for the 4 troopers that are still standing. First trooper hit in the neck (broken), second trooper hit in the gut (folded over and down), third guy hit hard but still standing, and fourth trooper blocks.
Ev'ran tries to fly down the tunnel but doesn't do a good job. Elgin sees it coming.
Helseth and Rath leave their ships. No one is there...for now. There are 5 TIEs ready to go in the bay. There's multiple levels to the bay as well. For the level we're on, we know what's to the left, but we don't know what's to the right. Helseth tries to meditate but no such luck. We spot a control room on the second level, so decide to go there to figure out where exactly we need to go. Rath leads the way towards the turbo lifts.
There are 2 officers in the control room who are NOT PAYING ATTENTION. We sneak in. They are so clueless that we are right behind them without them noticing. We see 4 ships on the radar flying around the Star Destroyer. 1 non-Imperial ship took a beating. Rath recognizes the NOVA RANGER as the ship that took the hit.
Cas tries to run to Elgin to get a blaster. He has to run under Ev'ran's ship but stops before getting hit. Cas takes a shot at one of the troopers (very buff). The trooper sees it but takes the hit in the head. Nothing happens and he keeps moving towards Cas. Elgin tries to knock the blaster out of the other trooper's hands. He misses, so tries to tackle instead but also manages to miss. Ev'ran figures out his shit and gets the ship under control. He tries to grab the buff trooper but misses both times he attempts it.
Helseth gives the signal and Rath bonks the heads of the officers together. They are OUT. A call comes in over the radio from upstairs to give a warning. Helseth handles it nicely and is able to learn that droids are being dispatched and there are droids patrolling. We take the blasters from the officers. Helseth also changes into one of their uniforms. Rath now knows where to go. He also spots 2 troopers coming from a hallway on the first level. Both Helseth and Rath hide.
Cas manages to knock the buff trooper down to the ground with his blaster. Elgin rallies some prisoners and then goes for the other trooper. He hits his shoulder HARD (extreme pain). 2 troopers are getting up now. Ev'ran goes for the buff trooper and grabs him. He smashes the trooper and rips his leg off. 1 trooper takes a shot at Elgin and misses. The other trooper throws something in Ev'ran's ship ("Oh for fuck's sake!"). Ev'ran is out cold and, unfortunately, smooshes the 3 resistance troopers (boooo).
Cas takes the buff trooper's blaster and shoots the trooper who took out Ev'ran. He hits but it's not very effective. Elgin uses a helmet and hits the trooper in the head. Both helmets get crushed. The final trooper goes for Cas. The trooper misses Cas and manages to hit a wire, electrocuting himself. Ev'ran is awake now.
Rath hears the troopers say they are coming up to the control room. He tries to see where they are, but doesn't get a good look. Helseth sees him worrying and grabs his arm to play prisoner. 1 trooper comes up and sees us leaving the room. Helseth convinces one of the troopers to go down the left hallway. The other trooper stays, but finds us out. They start shooting at Rath, but he dodges. Helseth misses her shot and Rath closes the door.
Ev'ran, Cas, and Elgin try to get changed into armor. Some of the other prisoners try to do this too. Everyone hears a loud BANG, and metallic walking. It's LADY CATACLYSM. Elgin throws his improvised bomb to the other end of the hallway. Lady Cataclysm enters the hallway. Cas calls for the elevator and yells to get in.
Elgin detonates the bomb.
Lady Cataclysm goes flying backwards and into smoke (HOLY MOLY). Pellet will no longer be any trouble.
Elgin is "ok", but Cas and Ev'ran are fucked up from the force of the blast throwing them into the back wall of the elevator. 3 prisoners also made it. Ev'ran has full body fractures and internal bleeding. He's still moving on his own though. Elgin is burned. Cas is too and his right leg is no good.
Rath and Helseth run for the lift. The trooper sees them, so Helseth shoots but the trooper dodges. Rath shoots and hits the trooper in the head. We both go down the lift and sprint for the elevator to head upstairs to the control center.
Cas, Ev'ran, and Elgin are hurting. They decide to go down to the cell level to go across and up to the other levels. 3 droids are on this level heading for the elevator. Elgin shoots one of the guns on a droid's arm, knocking the arm off. Ev'ran shoots the "head" and it falls. Cas yells "For Doba!" to raise up the moral of the rebels but he misses his shot, so it doesn't work.
The droids shoot back. They hit a little bit. One prisoner gets hit, takes it, and charges the droid while yelling "FOR DOBA". The prisoner knocks the droid off the bridge and down to the work area below. A revolt sorta starts down there. Cas, Ev'ran, and Elgin all miss the last droid. They hear "beep, beep, beep" from it. The remaining prisoners knock the droid off the bridge. Ev'ran grabs the King and he agrees to get his people.
Rath and Helseth reach the control center. There's 7 people in the room, including Captain Spyke. Helseth uses the force to pull Spyke's rifle to her and points it at him. He's convinced to let us live. Spyke orders all Imperials to evacuate the station due to revolt.
Rath sends out a signal to the Nova Ranger with the controls from Spyke. Helseth announces to the crew to go to the main hangar. We get there and the Nova Ranger appears. Raylan is piloting and yells "MOVE YOUR ASSES". Spyke grabs all our gear for us and we all pile onto the ship. Raylan yells "WE GOT 'EM! LET'S GO!!" over comms.
The Nova Ranger is OUTTA HERE!
Cas, Elgin, and Ev'ran have been healed up over 1.5 days thanks to Marco and Rath. They are feeling surprisingly ok!
Helseth spends that time with Shora. She shares what happened to her and Marco. Helseth is an open book and totally honest about what happened to the crew on Doba.
Spyke made himself at home. He's painted his armor and is drinking at the holo-chess table. Cas retires to his room. Elgin tells him "I'm sorry."
Elgin sits and drinks with Spyke ("I betrayed my Empire"). Spyke opens up to Elgin and Elgin shares his secret with him (he's a defective CLONE). Spyke comes from a long line of military people/family.
Rath and Marco are EXHAUSTED. Marco goes to clean up and sleep. Rath does the same and stops to check in on Elgin on the way. While Rath is there, Spyke says to Elgin "I'm glad I didn't have to fight that guy."
Helseth meditates to try to speak with Master Abomb again. She doesn't make it, and feels VERY worried about the galaxy. She goes to find and talk to Rath.
Cas is in his room and fixing Ana. She's on again by not flying. She gives the equivalent of a droid whimper. Cas can't fix her right now, but will with new parts when they get back to Smuggler's Rock. He hooks her up to do diagnostics. She's ok. It's just her body is bad. Cas goes to join Elgin and Spyke. Spyke takes to Cas right away (as an ex-Imperial spy).
Ev'ran wakes up after his stay in the med bay. He goes to find everyone else. He's terribly bruised but otherwise ok. He goes to see Raylan. Raylan says "it wasn't easy or cheap to get you out" and that "the ship looked like a Hutt's asshole". Raylan cashed in every favour he had. Marco knows pain too.
Helseth shares her vision with Rath and what Kabal told her. Rath tells her about what he saw on the map. He can get us there!
Raylan lands us on a beach planet for a vacation for a couple of hours.
Before relaxing, Rath thanks Raylan for getting us. "Couldn't leave you behind.", he says. Rath thanks him again and Raylan says "Don't thank me yet. You own me." Rath goes outside to jump in the water and float for a bit.
Cas grabs his blasters because he missed them so much. Gets an urge to scratch his leg, but gets sad that it's a metal replacement. Marco appears. "Sorry buddy, that's the best we could do." Cas mentions the run in with Pellet to Marco. He feels nothing about it, but says Helseth must be happy (and was upset by the holocron theft).
Ev'ran goes into the water, waist deep, and just stares into the distance.
Helseth comes out just as Cas says "Well, she's fucking dead". Helseth is overcome with joy and tries to run into the water with Shora. It doesn't quite work as Shora was confused and faceplants in the water. Helseth smooths it over and gets Shora laughing.
Elgin, Spyke, and Cas are all very drunk. Elgin calls out "Helseth...one second" and goes into the water. Spyke strips down to nothing (BIG DICK; no shame) and walks in with a bottle in hand.
Elgin, crying, talks to Helseth. He really drunkenly apologizes for being a jerk to her before. Helseth starts to cry a little too.
Helseth says, "I don't know what I am" over and over.
Elgin says, "I served under Jedi before. I'm gonna serve you. We're gonna get it back!"
Ev'ran overhears and inquires about Elgin. He says he's a clone. "They said I was a bad clone, but now they're all dead! Now who's bad?"
Rath doesn't get involved, but sees a prime three for climbing and heads over.
Elgin says, "My commander never used to cry. You shouldn't either" and throws his bottle. It's headed for Cas, who shoots it. This gets glass all over Raylan.
Helseth and Shora see a waterfall and head for it.
Rath dives from the tree into the water. He checks on Elgin and ultimately drags him from the water to prevent him from drowning.
Cas talks with Raylan and is warned of all the debt we've collected to be rescued. 3 captains, rushed ship repairs, and more.
Helseth and Shora reach the waterfall (a rock jutting out) and it's a beautiful view. Helseth opens up to Shora, saying "I've had not much experience with this. I'm sorry if I make things awkward." Shora thinks it's cute and gives her a kiss. Helseth feels a swell in the force.
Spyke asks Ev'ran about Smuggler's Rock. He can definitely get work there. Ev'ran says we might need him to scratch our back (since we did his) but he doesn't quite agree. He calls us friends though. Spyke will find his own crew since he doesn't want our debt.
Helseth gets a feeling that Shora might be force sensitive and wants to find out. She does a PERFECT force dive and we all see it from the beach.
I'm so fucked up, Elgin says.
The ship is about 64% ok. Rath will have to fix it.
In hyperspace, Raylan calls a meeting. Jerel Zahn (the owner of Smuggler's Rock) will be collecting all our debts and distributing. Rath knows all about him (ex-pirate, retired, and now business owner). We are now going to report to him directly.
Shora says she can offer shares of Doba's mines and clear our debt. Helseth is feeling riled up because she wants to go after Kabal.
Raylan walks off to the cockpit to prep. Marco reveals he has to be Jarel's personal medic, so he can't be with us. We all agree: we should bring Shora to Jerel.
Rath, Cas, and Elgin go to the workshop. Elgin tells Rath he's concerned that Jerel won't settle for just a small mine. Spyke is there too, passed out.
Helseth talks to Ev'ran about her vision of the Valley of the Jedi. She can't stress how important it is to stop Kabal before he raises an army. Ev'ran asks about her friend (aka Ezra) and Helseth says she will try to get in touch. She'll remove all distractions if she has to.
The lights go on to say that we're approaching. Ev'ran heads for the cockpit. Raylan and him talk. Ev'ran drops Pellet's death so Raylan gets up and leaves. He's upset and crying. Rath finds him in engineering, sobbing. Rath didn't know about Pellet either so they have a little cry-fest.
If I wasn't such a shitty father, maybe I could have saved her, Raylan says.
He pulls himself together before landing.
We're greeted by the administrator of Smuggler's Rock, Commander Darka (he looks like Kit Fisto). Raylan and Marco part ways from us. Darka brings Ev'ran (and Shora) to talk to Jerel.
Elgin goes to his apartment to retrieve his helmet. It's a bit dusty, but still good. Rath can only fix 1% of the ship as is, so he needs to get parts to fix the rest (65% good now). Cas can get a discount on a leg from Marco, so he does. Helseth stays on the ship to meditate.
In the meeting with Jerel, Ev'ran is told that we are to work for him to repay him, 2 captains, and 2 starship pilots that were lost. Ev'ran is still drunk so he's not noticing the small things. Once Ev'ran mentions Shora, it's clear he's been eye banging her. The meeting goes ok, but Jerel isn't into it until Shora offers herself to be married to him (for business purposes). Shora isn't pleased, but it works.
We have 3 weeks to stop Kabal. If we succeed, we get paid handsomely. If we don't, we better be dead or else we still have to pay our debts.
Cas got HOOKED UP by Marco. It looks real. He can feel everything. They also gave Cas a free small blaster that won't set off alarms that hides in the leg. Cas is able to get parts for Ana, but it's 490c for them.
Elgin goes back to the workshop to put his infrared in the helmet. It will take him 4 hours. Helseth getting frustrated at not getting in contact with Ezra. Not too shocked but still sad. She can't even open the holocron and is getting frustrated at how long people are gone.
Hangar Master Stokey has 5 crew (5000c) to fix the Ranger an extra 32% (97% total). The 5 guys get to work right away.
Ev'ran and Shora on their way back to the ship. Shora is visibly upset about what transpired. The both agree not to tell Helseth right now. Shora wants to stay and not be on the mission. Ev'ran allows her to stay in his apartment (it's messy). She says to bring Helseth back ("love of my life").
Ev'ran returns to the ship and calls a meeting to get everyone up to date on the plan. Elgin is skeptical and Helseth questions Shora not being there. Ev'ran gives his excuse and they buy it (for now). Raylan and Marco approach and say they're joining us for the mission.
Rath (with Cas' help) pulls up the black hole cluster on the map. Everyone is kinda like "uhhh". Raylan suggests a navigator and goes to see about getting a droid. Marco says he has an old Imperial code that should mask us, but needs to check with a contact first. Cas masks the transmission for him. Elgin goes to get his medicine.
Helseth talks to her Master and learns a bit about Kabal and the True Empire. Kabal was a Sith archeologist that worked with the Empire.
Marco learns his code is compromised. It's 10000c for a new code. We all chip in 2000c each for the code.
Raylan returns with a new R9 unit for us. It's his treat, since we already own him. Cas checks out it's systems. Also, he's got Ana fixed now.
Ev'ran goes to talk to Spyke so he can pick his brain on Kabal. He tells him some stuff about Kabal but not much. Ev'ran manages to convince Spyke to join us (by appealing to his lack of purpose).
Helseth finds the parts and chemicals to make a new saber. It's a cheap helm and she's making a synthetic crystal. We all buy "vibro" weapons for fighting against lightsabers.
We're in hyperspace on our way to the maw cluster.
Cas works hard to change the transponder on the Ranger. R9-N4 isn't ready to warm up to everyone yet as it's been clear that previous owners have been abusive.
Ev'ran is in the cockpit with Raylan. Raylan has been working on belt shields (1 for everyone). Ev'ran asks a favor: for Raylen to talk to Spyke.
Rath checks the critical systems of the ship and they are fine...AS FAR AS HE CAN SEE. He decides he wants to check in on Helseth since she's been a bit distant, so he goes to find her.
Elgin is finished with his helmet mods, so he also decides to check on Helseth. He brings 2 poles with him.
Helseth gets her new saber together just as Rath and Elgin enter her room. She ignites it and puts on a bit of a little show for them. Elgin offers her a pole and the three of them go to spar.
Rath and Helseth go first and Helseth wins all their bouts (she's been meditating for 3 straight days, after all). Cas and Ev'ran hear the sparring throughout the ship and Ev'ran eagerly heads to the cargo bay to join them. Cas shows Marco some tricks for spinning guns. He impresses Marco and then they both head down to the cargo bay too.
Elgin and Helseth spar next. Elgin improsses and so does Helseth. Elgin just fucking goes for it. They agree to train every day.
Rath and Ev'ran have a bout. Rath wins. Cas and Marco have a bout to test Cas' new leg. Cas wins. Ev'ran and Helseth also have a bout. Ev'ran tries to start with a sort of sucker punch, but it doesn't work. Helseth wins because Ev'ran is sucking. She also force-pulls him to her and goes for the grab.
Helseth has been training for days. Raylan has warned that we'll arrive by the maw the next day.
Day of Arrival at the Maw
Helseth wakes up first. She heads to the cockpit to help navigate. She sees R9 in the corner. She says hi and he beeps back. Sitting in the cockpit, she starts crying with her head in her hands.
Elgin wakes next. He's still unsure about this, but gotta do it. He gets up and heads for the cockpit. Helseth hears him approaching and stops crying. Elgin doesn't hear her at all. He offers to meditate with her and she accepts. Helseth leads them and it goes well. Both are feeling very peaceful.
Cas wakes next. He brews a Zabrach brand tea. He lays out his equipment to check that everything is good. Ana is also awake and running diagnostics on herself. Cas leaves his room and sees Ev'ran.
Ev'ran wakes next. He goes to talk to Spyke but runs into Cas first.
Cas says, "Probably going to die on this mission."
Cas heads for the computers where R9 greets him. Ev'ran continues on to talk to Spyke.
Spyke was sleeping (ish) in the cargo bay. When Ev'ran walks in, he sees Spyke painting his armor back to Imperial colours. He also offers to help with topographical info and help to figure out where to land.
Rath wakes last. He takes a minute to wake up. When he has, he checks in on the engineering area (all the hums are pitch perfect) and then heads for the main room. He finds Cas and R9 here. Ev'ran and Spyke join in everyone shortly after that along with Raylan. Raylan was sleeping in the Ox.
Ev'ran chooses Marco to be his co-pilot, so the two of them head for the cockpit. They find Helseth and Elgin there. Ev'ran asks where R9 is over comms and Cas gets him to hook up to the computer. Helseth offers to help navigate and immediately begins to feel things through the force.
Rath wises up and heads to engineering ASAP. Maws like this have lightning and storms so he needs to be ready.
There are lots of gravity pulls all over. R9 begins to calculate a suggested route. Helseth closes her eyes and feels one with the ship as we get closer to the maw. R9 having to work even harder now. Rath feels tense in engineering but he's ready. Helseth feels that everyone and everything is good.
We get closer and closer to the maw. The ship is fighting Ev'ran but the course to follow is clear thanks to R9. We also see that there are asteroid chunks up ahead that we need to avoid.
Rath diverts power to the sensors (and R9) to help navigate everything. Everything is still going well at this point.
Helseth senses that something is coming and shoves Marco out of the way. Lightning breaks an asteroid and it's heading right for us. We roll out of the way but there's another one coming. We take 34 shield damage from a hit (OW!) but thankfully no actual damage.
Ev'ran is piloting by sight now because we have no nav. R9 panicking but manages to be calmed by Ev'ran. Rath gives R9 some extra juice but he can't calculate at this speed.
Ev'ran asks, "Helseth, what have you got?"
Helseth tries to help but can't do anything at the moment. Ev'ran's got this though and we make it into an inner area of the maw. Sensors are buggy and lots of static.
We get hit by lightning once, taking 2 shield damage. Those in the cockpit can see an Imperial ship being torn apart by the storm. We get past it and we see an orange-ish planet with 2 big Imperial ships (Devastators) on radar.
Spyke is called to the cockpit to help. We get hailed by the ships and Spyke runs to Cas. He gets all available info on the ruined ship (called the Eviscerator) so he can use it to fool the Imperials. We get to continue on thanks to Spyke's fib.
We go down low to conceal ourselves from the Imperials. The planet is completely arrid and rocky. Helseth senses a swell in the force. She let's the force guide her hands. Ev'ran lets it happen.
As we get closer, the force gets stronger and stronger. R9 feels like he failed but Cas re-assures him (a little) that he did a great job.
We reach an area of ancient temples. R9 beeps that we have anti-aircraft weapons up ahead. Ev'ran lands before too long. Helseth goes to see R9.
Spyke asks R9 to provide him with topographical information. Cas notices R9 is reverse engineering the safest route out. Helseth tries to connect with R9 but he's peeved that she tried to do that while he was in the middle of calculating things.
We're down in the valley but have to move on foot quite a ways. Spyke says walking is safest but the Ox is fastest. Ev'ran says we walk. Spyke agrees. We all gear up.
Spyke gets off the ship first. He doesn't see anyone or anything. Elgin gets off second. Then Cas, followed by Rath. Ev'ran stands on the edge of the ramp with Helseth.
Elgin says, "Let's kill us some Empire."
Cas really wants to look at the temple near us, but Spyke stops him. Helseth uses the force to check it to humour him. There's nothing. Ana is sent ahead of us.
For the first 30 mins, everything goes smoothly. For the next 30 mins after that, less so.
Ana picks up 4 transports in the valley around the corner from us. The transports are the type we claimed to be. Ana also picks up 3 troopers near the ships. Just pilots, so not well armored. There's 1 pilot missing and the ships are also all opened up.
We talk it over: we agree to quickly take out the 3 pilots and rush to the 4th ship to search it. Spyke fails to grab his target but quickly (and quietly) manages to stun him. Rath runs to his target. The guy is paying no attention so he doesn't know what hit him. Rath grabs him by the neck and slams him into the ground. Helseth is spotted by her target ("Who the hell are you?!") and pulls his blaster. She sees this and attempts to force pull it from him. The blaster moves to her hand with ease. Helseth ignites her saber and goes in for an attack by swinging at his head. The target dodges and yells for help.
Ev'ran, Marco, and Elgin hear this. Elgin splits to go help her. Ev'ran and Marco enter a ship and take the lift up. The pilot is right there. Ev'ran attacks first: he misses initially but takes another swing and hits (cuts down the front). The third swing decapitates.
Spyke arrives at Helseth's location first. He hits with his rifle butt and knocks the target down. Elgin arrives just after.
Rath opens one of the crates with one of his "any" keys and finds armor inside. He tells Elgin, Cas, Helseth, and Ev'ran. Marco, Helseth, and Cas change. Rath drops his target in the crate and takes his comm. Everyone else decides to put their targets in the crate as well.
Rath takes a moment to sabotage 3 of the ships before we move on, which takes him approximately 30 mins.
We continue on. Helseth is exhausted from the armor. Ana chimes in to say "multiple hostiles ahead" along with a fuzzy video feed. There's 60 hostiles in total. Lord Kabal is in the center of a circle of monoliths. All the troopers are kneeling and oblivious to everything. Cas, Elgin, and Helseth notice a tunnel under them.
Kabal appears to be in a meditative state so he might not notice us as long as we don't target him directly. We split up to go underground: Helseth, Rath, Elgin, & Ev'ran on one side and Marco, Spyke, & Cas on the other.
Elgin slips a little but doesn't fall. There are more troopers down here, but no one reacts.
We see crushed obsidian floating up. They glow, join up, and send out LIGHTNING. Elgin & Rath are up but everyone else is down. They both can barely move. Everyone is screaming. Elgin goes down too.
Rath stays standing and sees everything. Everyone falls. The lightning stops and he pulls everyone back to safety (with some WOOKIE RAGE to help him along). They troopers all get up, start stomping their staffs, and sabers erupt from the top. Spyke, Marco, and Cas wake up. Rath feels the power in his chest. Between the 4 of them, they drag everyone else out of the underground and escape (Rath with Helseth and Ev'ran, Spyke with Elgin, and Marco and Cas supporting each other).
We all run to our backup ship where Ev'ran and Elgin wake up. Cas patches us through to R9 to get nav info. Elgin and Rath quickly set up explosives on the other 3 ships. Elgin struggles a bit but Rath brings up back faster.
Raylan takes off and tells us to follow. We get told to stay put but Cas charismas our way out of it ("Do not fire or Lord Kabal will be on your ass").
Elgin blows up the ships and the guns try firing on us. They all miss because of Ev'ran's piloting. Helseth finally wakes up. Rath gets everyone up to speed. We break through the atmosphere and see 12 TIEs coming to intercept us. Spyke and Elgin grab seats in the gunners. Helseth takes the third pilot's seat to help with navigating via the force. Rath heads for engineering.
The Nova Ranger takes a hit, causing R9 to have to recalculate. Helseth gets us the rest of the way through the storm. Elgin takes out 2 TIEs. 5 get destroyed and the other 5 retreat.
Helseth is able to guide us through the asteroids. The Nova Ranger makes it out too. We land on the nearest random planet to drop the Imperial ship and transfer back to the Ranger. It's currently down to 80% good-ness.
As we leave the random planet, it dawns on us all that Helseth is no longer the only one who can sense the force...
'Mooga's' is the former Hutt place and the one running it. Vika has offloaded us here. Raylan has disappeared using his little bit of last reserve credits. As a parting gift, he gave the Ranger a new skin.
We lost all our credits because it was tied up in our Smuggler's Rock accounts.
Helseth wakes up first. We've been sleeping in the Hutt room. She meditates. Rath wakes up next from his hammock. He joins Helseth for meditation, but he doesn't really know how to yet so he's just sitting there with her.
Elgin wakes up next. He also joins for meditation. He's getting stir crazy. Vika has been hooking him up with meds so he's not in ruin.
Ev'ran wakes up next. He also joins for meditation. He's very agitated about not being able to look after this. His eyes aren't even closed.
Cas wakes up next. He also joins for meditation, which he's so-so at.
We've spent 4 weeks in 1313. Helseth and Elgin share a specific force bond. Raylan and Marco are gone.
Biquelle walks in with a job for us. Colus is a dock worker who has misplaced some of Vika's things. He was tracked to the surface before he sells to gun runners. Weapons have been promised to a dangerous gang. R9 can pilot vehicles for us. Authority won't stop us on the way. Action on the surface will attract Coruscant forces.
Biquelle apologizes for Vika borrowing Cas, but he returns at that moment.
That didn't take very long, she says.
R9 goes into the transport. We all follow and rise to the surface of the planet. We decide that Ev'ran, Cas, and Elgin will impersonate the gun runners. Helseth will provide sniper cover from a nearby roof (the safer one of our options) and Rath will be nearby in case things go sideways.
Helseth hops off onto the roof and spots 2 droids on the upper level of the spaceport. She spots Colus (or at least his pants) in the garage. Another droid with a cape approaches. There's an insignia on it for BLACK SUN. The Black Sun ship's turret is patrolling the skies.
We're going to do this: Elgin will ION blast the turret as we land. Everyone runs out (Rath to their ship to deal with it and Cas, Elgin, and Ev'ran into the garage).
We can all sense each other. We also share a bit of a force bond, particularly between Helseth and Elgin. They can, in close proximity, even predict each other's moves.
Marco got a distress call from an old colleague that he could ignore, which is why he's no longer here with us. Raylan had to leave as well to retire in peace somewhere in the galaxy (especially since he burned his bridges with Smuggler's Rock like us)
Back to the plan…
Ev'ran has explained everything to R9, who will follow his instructions completely. As we approach, we see that the guards are looking one way and we're coming in on the other.
The ship whips around into place and Elgin takes his shot: it hits the ship, but it's not the turret. His second shot does hit the turret, and it's out. R9 lands us right next to the ship.
Rath jumps out immediately and rushes into the enemy ship. He beheads the 2 droids that were inside the ship with his vibroblade.
Ev'ran acts next: he rushes out of the transport to take cover behind the enemy ship. He was not very stealthy, so he was spotted by the humanoids and/or droids on the platform. Before Ev'ran can take a shot at anyone (particularly the droid carrying the artillery weapon), Helseth interferes and shoots the barrel of the droid's gun to smithereens. Ev'ran takes out his blaster to take his own shot at the droid. His shots ripple off a force field, taking no damage.
Cas is up: he sees Ev'ran's shot on the droid. In amongst the newly started chaos, Cas can see that Colus is sloooowly backing away, probably to escape. Cas doesn't want him to escape, so he twirls his gun, takes aim at his knee and succeeds, causing Colus to drop to the floor. Next, he looks at the droids: he knows that they have skinny spins that, if hit, could take them out. He takes aim: the first, second, and third droids fall to the ground.
The big droid comes for Cas (which Helseth can now see) and gets battered with the blunt end of his blown up gun. Cas gets laid out on the floor, getting tossed a couple meters. His blasters slide away a couple feet as well, which he's attempting to get. The big droid is coming up behind him to hit his head.
There are 4 additional enemies. 2 of them are stupid so they come charging out with their guns up. One of them takes aim at Ev'ran, hitting his helmet. Lucky for Ev'ran, his helmet is able to deflect the blast, which saves us from having to see his fast for the first time. The other stupid enemy starts looking at Cas.
Rath, while in the ship, comes up to 2 more skinny droids and a big droid. He's able to behead one of the skinny droids but barely misses the other one. The skinny droid has a blaster on Rath and the big droid is starting to draw a blaster…
Elgin uses his jet pack to get above the platform to get a better view. Unfortunately, he overshoots where he wants to be, since he's no longer over any ground to fall to. He can now see Cas on the ground, so he attempts to help him by shooting the droid. He takes aim while still trying to get control of his jet pack. He sees the force field, but it's not looking very strong right now. Cas heard the blast, so he knows the droid is approaching.
Helseth can see Cas and the droid now too. She takes aim: the first shot hits, but the force field is still trickling. The second shot hits too, and now the shield is down completely. Cas knows what a failing shield sounds like, so he knows he can actually take the droid on.
Ev'ran is mad that he got shot at, so he takes aim at the guy that shot at him, aiming for his head: it's a direct hit. That guy is done. There's still 2 more people in the garage, waiting for us. Ev'ran can see, in the back, Colus is still trying to escape, but he's pretty slow with the blown knee.
Cas tries reaching out for his guns with the Force. It doesn't work, unfortunately. Instead, he turns around quickly, taking out his saber, ready to defend himself.
Inside the ship, the skinny droid misses it's shot against Rath (his fur gets singed). The big droid tries to shoot at Rath's right hand to make him drop his vibroblade. However, Rath is able to dodge it.
Outside, an enemy tries to shoot at Elgin while he's still in the air twirling around, but the shot misses. The other enemies try shooting at Ev'ran, but they all miss. Ev'ran can also see Colus nearby now. The big droid takes a swing at Cas on the ground but Cas blocks with his saber, cutting the gun in half. The droid is confused and Cas hears it say, "Jedi?"
Back inside the ship, Rath continues to deal with the droids. He goes for the skinny droid to get him out of the way, but the droid dodges the first attack. It wasn't so lucky with the second swing, so Rath relevies it of its head. Now it's just the big one to deal with.
Elgin bolts down to the enemy nearest Cas with his jet pack, coming between them. Elgin goes for a swing that just barely misses the enemy. Second swing, Elgin goes for the enemy's hand and is able to cut it clean off. Third swing, Elgin goes for the head but misses that.
Helseth, from her vantage point, is able to see Colus trying to get away through the door but instead opts to deal with the droid hovering over Cas. The droid is so focused on Cas that Helseth is able to hit the neck, preserving the head. She now turns her attention to Colus. Her aim is a little off so her shot ends up blowing his other leg off. Whoops.
Ev'ran takes aim at a Twi'lek that's behind cover. He shoots at the head but somewhat misses. Rather than getting the head directly, he hits one of his lekku. The Twi'lek is in a lot of pain now.
Cas goes for one of the last remaining enemies, aiming at her head. The shot hits and now she's out.
The big droid in the ship with Rath grabs a grenade from it's chest and tosses it towards him. Rath doesn't know what it is, so dives out the back of the ship. A flash of light goes off. Rath and Ev'ran know it's a concussive grenade and now the ship begins to take off. The droid has decided to peace out.
Elgin let's the handless enemy run off in the direction Colus was trying to escape. However, Ev'ran isn't feeling as generous and shoots him in the back. He face-plants to the ground right next to Colus.
The Twi'lek with the missing lekku calls out "Don't come any closer! I have a thermal detonator!"
Elgin tells him to go, but Cas doesn't agree and shoots him. "I cover my tracks."
Elgin says, "This how we're operating, Captain?"
Ev'ran says, "Now is not the time for morals. We're in the middle of a job."
Elgin and Helseth share a Force moment, with Elgin feeling like the killing is unnecessary since we're no longer in the heat of battle.
Rath goes to pick Colus like a duffle bag up off the ground and bring him back to the transport. Cas grabs the head and body of the big droid that was beating him up earlier. "He'll come in handy later"
The crew starts to load all the merchandise back onto the transport, pick up Helseth from the roof, and bring everything back to Vikka. We get 2000c each for the job.
Everyone, except Rath, notices that there's a probe droid looking around (specifically focusing on us).
Ev'ran
The Captain
Rath
The Engineer
Pellet
The Demolitions Expert
Helseth
The Sniper
Elgin
The Soldier
Cas
The Spy
Raylan
The Intel
Marco
The Doctor
R9
The Navigator
Notable Folks
Commander Darka
Runs Smuggler's Rock
Stokey
Hangar Master
Jerel Zahn
Pirate Captain of the Harbinger
Dr. Inan Igarra
Chief Doctor
Udo Masu-ka
Bartender of the Gemstone Cantina
Shopkeepers
Lianna Aria
Armor Merchant
Mollek
Arms Dealer
Guzpollo
Chem Dealer
Tenal Zaabu
Random Goods
Shadow Brokers
Malico
Black-Ops
Raylan
Scavenging
Brannon
Bounties
Bako Viz
Combat
