Star Wars: brothers in arms

[TheThan]

You and your squad sit aboard the stromtrooper transport Delta 1, en route to the star destroyer Invincible. Freshly out of boot camp, you are in your brand new jet black imperial uniforms. Your armor, weapons, gear and personal belongings are stored under your seats in grey spacers chests. The seats line the sides of the small craft.

You can see into the cockpit of the ship and you see the heads of the pilot and co-pilot, two soldiers also wearing the black uniform of stormtroopers, you also see the glowing blue tunnel of hyperspace, it spins clockwise as the ship barrels along its trajectory.

“We’re approaching the Dellalt system, prepare to cut to sub light engines.” The pilot says over the intercom, as he flips on the red light, indicating everyone should sit down and buckle up.

The small ship shutters as it reverts back to real space. Moments later you feel the ship lurch as the pilots begin manipulating controls and the ship swings around and faces something amazing.


“Hey corporal, you may want to take a look at this” the copilot calls back to Corporal Beltane.

[Seanfall]

Marr had been sitting most of this time anyways watching the other members of his squad. They hadn't had much time to socialize which suited him perfectly. Reaching up he smoothed back his hair with his cybernetic hand, then the pilots spoke up and he had to buckle up in his seat. These shuttle rides always got a little rough coming out of Hyperspace. They spoke again, this time to the Squad's commander a noble born named Beltrare. Marr stayed silent waiting to see what happened next.

[Saulk]

Corporal Beltane Dhurka looks between the men and then rises, pulling down the edges of the top of his uniform, straightening it crisply. His last glance was reserved for the highly polished protocol droid that sat at his side. Vaiken, knowledgeable in as many forms of military procedure as there were stars in the sky sat there, as valuable to Beltane as he was motionless. He walked forward, towards the cockpit of the craft, looking down to avoid tripping over the bulkhead as he passes the doorway into the cockpit. "Yes, pilot? What is wrong?", he said, in a noticeably formally accented voice, a testament to his heritage and family. He stood to his full height, hands clasped behind his back once he had entered the cockpit, looking at whatever it was the co-pilot felt he should see.

[russdm]

Zor looks up from reading something on his datapad, and glances over at Marr, "Think we should suit up? It doesn't sound good to me."

[RandomLunatic]

Gage, who had spent most of the trip watching the hypnotic dance of blue lines in the viewport, got up and followed Beltane at a respectable distance, wondering what was going on.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth Daruss is jerked out of a shallow sleep as the ship reverts to realspace, the buzz of the intercom, and dull pull of acceleration rousing him fully. He nudges the trooper next to him gesturing up to the exiting Corporal and the cockpit. "I know its against regulations, but should we check it out?" He rolls his shoulders a bit, stretching his lanky frame as best he can in the acceleration couch.

[Seanfall]

Marr didn't look up at Zor when he replied. "Were we given an order?"

[TheThan]

“Oh there’s nothing wrong at all.” The copilot says with a big grin on his face, and a touch of humor in his voice.

Looking out the windscreen you see a magnificent sight, the pride of the imperial fleet, an imperial class star destroyer hanging there in space. Its sharp aggressive lines cut through the darkness of the void, as light from the system’s sun shows off its stark white hull.

The transport is positioned “above” and to the star destroyer’s port side, giving you a truly magnificent view of the colossal warship.

“We have you on our screens now, please identify.” A board sounding voice comes through the ship’s tiny speakers.

The pilot responds by giving the ships ID number while the copilot transmits the ships’ ID codes and security pass code. Once the security clearance is authorized, the storm trooper transport begins to head towards the ventral landing bays of the star destroyer, you can’t help but notice that a tie fighter lazily flies close to your craft, it’s probably just picking up a visual ID of the little transport craft. The tie looks absolutely microscopic next to the titanic warship that will be your new home.
The ship flies “down” and underneath the huge ship as it makes its way to the main landing bay located in the ventral portion of the ship. After a few moments of flight, the transport touches down expertly on the deck of the shuttle bay.

[russdm]

Zor puts his datapad into a pocket and pulls out his spacer's chest. He picks up and gets ready to head into the star destroyer.

[Saulk]

Beltane draws in a deep breath, looking at the sight of Imperial engineering at its best, the pride of an entire system's worth of production. It's sleek lines were what would plunge into the hearts of the enemies of the Empire. After a few moments, breaking himself of this rapture, he walks back, pausing for a moment just after the bulkhead and looking over the gathered soldiers in the ship. "Let's look sharp. We've almost arrived." He walked to his seat, removing the locker from it and carrying it. He could have handed it to the droid, but this time he would not.

[TheThan]

The back door hisses open and down, forming a ramp and you pile out taking your gear with you. Once outside you collectively form up in a line, with the corporal at the head, and come to attention as per standard operating procedure.

Four officers approach the line, three are storm troopers (distinguished by their black uniforms) and one navy officer. As they get closer, you notice something peculiar about one of the officers, something about the way she walks. Then it hits you, she. One of them is a woman, women officers in any branch of the imperial military machine are rare, rarest of all are female storm troopers, or femtroopers as they’re commonly referred to (although not to their faces).

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth snaps to attention as the officers approach, holding a carefully precise salute, trying to keep his concern off his face. Yes, he graduated from the academy, and as a Stormtrooper, but unless some bureaucrat had been lazy or merciful that was still on his file, and the trouble would likely start up all over again.

[Saulk]

Beltane executes a crisp salute, holding his tongue until the officers speak, silently taking the measure of each of them.

[TheThan]

As they approach you see one is a captain, the femtrooper a lieutenant and a sergeant; the navy officer is a lieutenant as well. When they arrive, as a group you immediately throw a salute and it’s returned by the Capitan smartly.

Corporal Beltane notices that the captain is Captain Rhyka, himself. It’s unusual for a company commander to see to replacement troops himself (that’s usually left to the platoon commander), but Rhyka has a reputation as being dedicated to the effectiveness of his unit.

Trooper Chak notices that the navy lieutenant seems a little unsure of himself, maybe it’s being in the presence of a fem-trooper, maybe its dealing with corps protocol. Since the Storm Trooper Corps is a separate entity from the Navy, they don’t share the exact same protocols. So it’s easy to see how a navy officer would be hesitant in exactly how to proceed.

You stand at attention and wait for several minutes while the officers conduct the troop transfer procedure. While the officers conduct their business the sergeant conducts his, giving your new squad a solid initial inspection.

Captain Rhyka is a tall man, lean with a short flattop haircut, and blond hair. He has a hard blue eye and a deep scar on the left side of his face. The scar runs vertically from his hair line down to the middle of his jaw, a black leather eye patch has been literally bolted to his face, the eye patch has a silver emblem, a stylized storm trooper helmet (resembling a skull even more than usual) with two blaster rifles crossed directly underneath it.

The lieutenant is of proper height for a storm trooper if not slightly under weight. She’s pail skinned and wears her strait black hair earlobe short and slicked back. She has an average chest, not too voluptuous but not flat-chested either. All in all she cuts a magnificent image in the all black uniform. If there was ever a poster-child for women in the military she would be it. In armor she would be indistinguishable from the typical storm trooper. The sergeant is dark skinned with a high and tight hair cut and a pock marked face. The navy lieutenant is fairly nondescript, the sort that's easily lost in the background.

[Saulk]

The admiration with which Beltane looks upon Rhyka is obvious even under the veneer of military discipline and propriety. The naval officer doesn't even truly seem to register to him - a different world, so separate as to be alien, and of course the alien was best for service only. The woman was something of a curiosity, and he did have to catch himself letting his gaze linger a bit longer upon her, especially as he doubted the explanation he would offer - looking given that she was something of an oddity in his experience - would sound any better than what she might assume.

"It is an honour to be here, Captain Rhyka," he said at the first opportunity to speak.

[A'den]

Rergun woke up from his deep nap in time to follow the others down the ramp with his kit and crate. He fell in at the end of the line dropping his kit to the left of his feet as he snapped a salute on reflex at the approaching site of officers. One's a schuta, damn gonna be interesting...

The recently shaved head under his patrol cap showed the faded ink of old tribal tattoos, skin bleaching and laser etching in basic had worn them away to nothing almost. The shadow of his tats were hidden by the patrol cap just barely.

[Seanfall]

Marr snaps to attention and salutes as the officers approach. He notices the Female trooper, but doesn't react. He withheld judgement of other soldiers till he fought with them, It was unusual. But then that spoke to her skill and resolve didn't it? Captain Rhyka looked threatening and tough, as any commander should. His spacer chest was sitting next to his ram-rod straight frame, short black hair slicked back ice-blue eyes sharp and rested.

A thought occurred to marr about what the Captain was doing here, but he didn't give voice it wasn't his place to speak out of turn.

[RandomLunatic]

The remaining at attention part was easy enough-there had been plenty of that at Caridia. No, the hard part for Gage was trying not to stare at the captain's eyepatch. Or at least not getting caught doing it.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth keeps his expression carefully blank and paying no undue attention to any of his superiors. Once the fighting started, there would be plenty of time to take their measure. He was not unduly surprised by the presence of a female trooper, it has hardly normal but with the shear size of the imperial military, such things happened far more often then most traditionally minded officers likely thought.

[TheThan]

Finding everything in order, the navy lieutenant throws a crips salute, turns on his heal and trots off, trying to not look like he’s too eager to depart. Meanwhile the sergeant finishes up his inspection, and apparently finds nothing to gripe about too much. He turns to the captain and nods.

“Duly noted Corporal,” The captain says in response to Beltane’s adulation. He cranks his head to look at the whole squad out of his good eye, “At ease" he says, and everyone relaxes a bit.

I’m Captain Tyrlis Rhyka, 827th legion, first regiment, 2nd battalion, 4th company. This is Lieutenant Rose, your lieutenant and Sergeant Tucker your sergeant.” He says, with confidence and authority in his voice. “I only have one rule, everyone fights, No-one quits. If you don’t do your job, I’ll shoot you myself. Welcome to the roughnecks.”

Without hesitation the sergeant yells out “Rhyka’s Roughnecks!” and you find yourselves responding with a proper military “Oorah” war cry in response. A proud smile tries to creep its way onto the captain’s face, but he forces it back down.

Turning to the lieutenant he says “Lieutenant, carry on”. The two exchange salutes and he turns and walks across the hangar.

“Sergeant, let’s get these men billeted.” The lieutenant says also with authority and confidence.
The sergeant immediately kicks into gear.

“Grab your gear and get on that trolley, double time it! Move Move Move!” he says pointing across the landing bay to an awaiting ground car with an open back and bench seating.

[RandomLunatic]

Gage fell out of formation with a will, hefting his locker into the back of the transport and plopping down on a bench.

[Seanfall]

Marr gave another salute, but seemed unable to be 'at ease' just yet. Hefting his chest with one arm he follows the orders and hops onto the Trolley after quickly stowing his kit. Once seated he relaxes at last, crossing his arms and leaning back. After casting a superstitious look at his fellows he reaches into his uniform with his left hand pulls out a set of tags, burnt and half-melted.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth jogs over to the ground car with the rest of recruits, stowing his locker under the seat and tapping out a staccato tune on his knee as the rest of the troopers take their position.

[russdm]

Zor will follow along as ordered.

[Saulk]

Beltane climbs onto the trolley after stowing his gear, followed closely by Vaiken. It was good to have put names to faces, as he now knew the command structure that would be over them all during their time here. The place was not unlike where they had trained - the same level of regimentation abounded - but this was different and he knew it. This was "real". There were no training exercises here, no fake munitions. He watched out the side of the open trolley, musing on what his fate would be here in this place.

[TheThan]

Once everyone is aboard and situated the trolley, the driver punches it into gear and it speeds off out of the hangar and down the corridor towards a massive cargo lift lined with yellow and black “danger” stripes.

Lt. Rose, sitting up front, twists around in her seat to address the group. She starts giving a basic breakdown of the 827th.
“The 827th is fortunate, the entire legion is stationed onboard the Invincible. This makes logistics inside the legion easy. However because we're not spread out across multiple ships or planets, squad for squad, we don’t see as much combat as some of the other legions do. However command has compensated by keeping us on a combat rotation schedule, in theory this keeps every regiment combat ready. Additionally, our regimental officers demand a strict training schedule, guaranteeing we’re ready for action when it comes. Make no mistake, the roughnecks is combat company, expect to be in fights. If that’s not your thing, get over it or I’ll transfer you to a logistics unit before you become a problem. But be warned, the captain meant it when he said he’d shoot you for not doing your job. ”

The vehicle stops inside the cargo lift and it begins moving up, taking you into the bowels of the warship. And the lieutenant continues.
“I expect all of you to learn your way around the Invincible. It’s a big ship and easy for new troopers and crew to get lost in. I do not want you getting caught wandering into restricted areas. That embarrasses the captain, something I will not stand for, and it gives me an unwanted headache, trying to explain your idiocy.”

Lt. Rose continues on for a while talking about the history of the company, how it got it’s start in the clone wars, and how Captain Rhyka rebuilt the company after the cloning program was shut down. She explains how the company got its name as the backbone of the regiment and the hardest working company in the entire legion. A reputation Captain Rhyka and his officers are diligent in keeping relevant.

Eventually the vehicle comes to a stop in front of a large set of double doors.

‘This is where we get off ” Sgt. Tucker says.
Everyone piles out of the trolley.
“Sergeant Tucker, I’ll leave you to handle things from here,” Lt. Rose says.
The sergeant gives the lieutenant a salute, which she returns and then climbs back into the vehicle and is off. Once the lieutenant is out of sight, the sergeant pulls out a thick cigar and lights it up.

[Saulk]

When they are off the trolley and at ease for a moment, Beltane turns to Vaiken, speaking softly but not inaudibly. "Transfer a complete map of the Invincible to my datapad. Include all relevant areas, especially marking those that are off-limits. Take scrupulously care that we know where those are, too." He turned back to watch the flame ignite the Sergeant's cigar. He was determined that he would make a good impression here, and if that meant studying maps of the starship to avoid areas that were forbidden, that is how he would spend his time.

[RandomLunatic]

"So where is our squad in that rotation the LT mentioned earlier?" Gage asked the sergeant.

[TheThan]

“ Since we're in first regement, we're near the top of the list, actually sort of near the bottom of the top, if that makes any sense. I'll make a training schedule avalible to you...Now I’ll show you to your bunks.” He says after taking a long drag on his cigar.

He opens the door and you step into a fairly narrow but long corridor. Evenly spaced down the corridor are hexagonal shaped alcoves. The walls are slate grey, but the floor is red grating and there are plenty of light panels in the ceiling, making the corridor well lit. Peering in one of the alcoves, you see two sets of bunk beds set against the side walls and four lockers set into the far wall, facing the corridor. Storm troopers are everywhere, some are in armor, some are dressed down in more casual wear, some are even wearing nothing but a towel rapped around their waist. You know, the customary sights, sounds and smells of a military barracks.

A storm trooper, in armor with his helmet tucked under his arm squeezes by you and says, “Fresh blood eh Sarg?”
“ Don't you know it,” the sergeant responds.

The trooper pulls his helmet on and heads out the door, not even stopping to throw a salute.
You continue down the corridor until you reach two empty alcoves.

“Here we are, let’s see… SJ-521, SJ-961, SJ-728. He says indicating one of the empty alcoves. " And over here we have SJ-408, SJ-782, SJ-314 and SJ-372.” He says, reading designation numbers off a data pad.
“Now I’ll leave you to get acquainted with the rest of the unit. Since I've got better work to do around here than to babysit new troopers.

The sergeant turns and heads back the way you came, not even waiting for you to throw a salute or anything.

[russdm]

Zor will claim a locker and a bunk and link up to the ship's computer to get a map of the ship and a location(s) for everywhere restricted for the map so he could avoid going to those places. (Zor is getting a map and marking down what is restricted so he won't get lost and won't end up anywhere he isn't supposed to be; you can ignore this if our corporal has his droid give us the information)

Zor will then check to determine meal times, then get back to his reading before going to meal or needing to do a job. He will place the spacer's chest into the locker, remove gear and sort it out if need be before he settles down to read. He will observe the rest of the barracks, to see how much attention the newbies are getting and will speak to anyone that comes up to him politely.

[Seanfall]

Marr claims a locker as well, silently he stows his gear. Quietly he removes his armor and after making sure it's nice and clean stows it as well. Plenty of time to muddy it up later, after stowing his things he looks around at the others he'll be bunking with after a moment he walks away from them unsure of what to do now. He removes his toolkit from his gear, and peels the top of his uniform off, fully revealing the Cyber prosthetic that had replaced his left arm and the scarred torso on which it rested.

The arm was mostly black except for the shoulder which was white with the Imperial Seal stamped in black upon it. Removing a few tools he began some routine checks on his arm, he didn't think anything was wrong but he needed something to do and it had been a while. Any important maintenance would have to be done by someone more familiar with medical operations but basic things he could do himself.

[RandomLunatic]

Gage quickly claimed one of the lower bunks for himself, then started transferring his gear from the chest to the locker, making sure his armor and blaster were both readily accessible. And then he started asking around for the local watering hole.

[A'den]

Rergun stowed his kit in the other bottom bunk and snagged the adjacent locker he looked at Marr, "Nice arm catch a grenade the wrong way?"

He smirked and popped his trunk open as he sat on his bunk and laid his blade across his thigh before running an oil rag up and down the gleaming blade.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth claims a bunk and sets down his chest, unpacking his armor and placing it, and his assorted gear and oddments into his storage locker. This completed, he begins his daily weapons maintanece regimen, cleaning the exterior, checking the sights zeroing, and scraping blast residue from the power pack slot.

[TheThan]

Zor finds a simple map of the star destroyer. The map contains the basic layout of the ship, where the crew quarters are, where the bridge is, where the landing bay is, engineering and the weapons bays (for the capital scale weapons) are located. Storm troopers of your rank do not have access to the bridge, engineering or the weapons bays.

However, the map Vaiken downloads is much more detailed. It gives the layout of the corridors in the star destroyer, showing you where the locations of the mess hall, the brig, officers quarters, briefing rooms, smaller engineering bays (which you do have access to), and a handful of other places. It even details who is billeted in which parts of the crew portion of the ship.

As you unpack your gear, a trooper steps up to you; standing in the middle of the hall way. He has black buzzed hair and is wearing a white tank top and black PT shorts. He has a tattoo on his right deltoid; a stylized storm trooper helmet, again bearing closer resemblance to a skull, and two crossed blaster rifles underneath it. It’s the same symbol on the captain’s eye patch.

“Replacement troops eh. I’m Hicks, NJ-458,” he says, rattling off his designation mechanically. “I’m sorta the unofficial welcoming party around here.”
“Let me introduce you to the guys.” He says waiving his hand for you to follow. He heads down the corridor, and nods to a dark skinned trooper lying on his bunk in his undershorts and a white tank top. He’s reading a letter written on a piece of actual paper.

“That’s Loverboy, he’s got a girl in every port.”
“Lies, unsubstantiated rumors,” he says, looking up from his letter, “It’s from my girl. She promises she’ll save herself for me.” He says, indicating the letter in a self satisfied voice.

“Yeah, too bad he never promised her that, hahah!” Comes a humorous voice, and another face pops into the conversation.
Loverboy grabs a knickknack from somewhere and throws it at the new face, who takes it in stride with a chuckle.

“This is Mouth,” Hicks says with a sigh. “We call him that because he’s got a big mouth”
“That’s me, the academy on Cardia sits five centimeters lower than it was before I got there, and they still couldn’t shut me up!”

Turning to the group Hicks says “ What’d I tell you, never shuts up.”

[Seanfall]

Marr glanced at Rergun, "Bomb." was his reply. When the 'welcoming party' came by Marr followed but again remained silent. After they introduced themselves he spoke up, "Marr, SJ-372." he gave a curt nod then remained silent.

[A'den]

"Huh." Rergun grunted and shined his blade until the welcoming comittee dropped by.

"Name's Rergun, SJ--872."

He followed Hicks around midly amused by the antics of the company's 'regulars' it seemed. "So what does anyone do for fun? Been grilled in the Academy, now stuffed in a fancy tin can I need to blow some steam."

[russdm]

Zor stretched his shoulders. "Zor, SJ-314. Though I will go by Chak as its my last name."

Zor glances at his fellow trooper. "I spend most of my time either trying to understand what my father was up to or decoding his encrypted files. I want to find why the rebels killed him."

[Saulk]

Finding his bunk, he quickly places his belongings away, spending some time to meticulously care for them, making sure that everything is in excellent order. The entire time he listened to the introductions and scuttlebutt happening around him, making note of the individuals that were speaking, especially the welcoming party as it were. As his regimen neared its completion, he looked back to Vaiken. "See to it that the entire squad receives a copy of this map. Also, begin querying the ship's records. I want to know if there is anything in particular I should know that will assist in our function here. Make yourself at home and absorb all information you can."

His instructions given to Vaiken, he turned to follow Hicks as he continued his 'tour'. This gave him an opportunity to observe his fellow squadmates as well. A curious lot, but everyone in his experience had a story. His job, he knew, when he did become an officer, would be to help those stories work towards the greater good. He nodded hearing Rergun's suggestion. "I feel as though I could use much the same, Rergun. My name is Beltane, Beltane Dhurka. SJ-521." He gestured back over towards the black droid. "That is Vaiken, my M3PO unit. Where is the best place to blow off some steam on the Invincible?"

[RandomLunatic]

Gage smiled at the antics of the troopers, and when his turn came around, he said, "SJ0408, or Gage. What's there to do around here besides wait?"

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth enters the hall after the other troopers "Kenth Daruss, SJ 961. Didn't pick up a nickname in the academy, so take that as you will."

[TheThan]

There’s the rec-room down the hall. Aside from there, there’s the usual. Hicks says shruging.

Continuing on down the corridor, you come to a cross section. One direction leads to a large communal refresher area, mostly showers and toilet stalls. Directly opposite from the refresher station is a large rec-room. There is a big screen vid screen set into the far wall; it’s playing a pod race, no one is watching it. There are several large tables, two holographic game tables one is being used by a pair of troopers and even a bar, though there is no bartender and it seems to be devoid of liquor. althought a few troopers sit at the bar chitchatting. There’s a group of troopers playing cards at one of the tables.

“That one with the big pile of credits is Gambit, says he joined up to get away from some debtors.”
Gambit seems to ignore the introduction and instead lays his cards down and says “Sabacc!” loudly and two of the troopers throw their cards down in dismay.

Stepping past the intersection, Hicks points at a gruff looking storm trooper, he’s also wearing a white tank top, a folding table is taking up most of the alcove space and there is a stripped down light repeating blaster covering the table. The trooper is cleaning the weapon.

“This is sergeant Stone, it’s not his real name we just call him that because he’s a stone cold killer!”
The sergeant looks up from his work and shoots Hicks an icy glare. He turns to you and says “New blood eh? Just do what you’re told and stay out of my line of fire and we’ll get along,”

“You’re cold man, ice cold” Hicks says, but the only reply is another icy stare and a metallic click as he slides a part of his weapon into place.

“This is Blastproof,” Hicks says, indicating the alcove across the hallway, “We call him that because he keeps getting shot and just won’t die. How many times you been shot man?”

“Five times” blastproof says, as he sits on his bunk reading a dirty magazine.

“Six times, you forgot about the time you got shot in the ass”. Mouth interrupts again, this time squeezing by the group on his way down the hall.

“That was a slug thrower and doesn’t count; it just bounced off my armor.” Blastproof replies.

"Well I think that just about covers all the introductions. We mostly stick to the barracks when we're not on duty or training. The navy yo-yos don't like us getting in their way and most of us would rather not be in their way, so it all works out in the end."

[TheThan]

The layout of the star destroyer isn’t as daunting to figure out as it may have initially seemed. So it’s not long before you’re able to get to the more commonly visited areas of the ship without a map. Those would be the galley, the shuttle bay, your barracks, the staging area and the training facilities, which mostly consist of an improvised gym and a shooting range, both of which are made out of a converted cargo bay that’s been cut in half and modified. The training regimen that Sgt Tucker gave you indicates that you’re not up for drilling for at least a month.

So next to learning your way around the ship, you start getting acquainted with the rest of the troopers and NCOs in the company. They’re a hearty bunch, confident in their abilities but with no doubts in their minds about their own mortality. 3rd squad; sgt. Stone, Hicks, Loverboy, Mouth, Gambit, and Blastproof seem to stand out the most out of the group of soldiers. The whole company seems to be a little lax on the regulations, Stone says that the captain lets his officers and NCOs play fairly fast and loose with the reg. He doesn’t want his troopers so wound up with duty they can’t perform when the blasters start firing.

One day, Stone and Mouth corner Corporal Dhurka. Mouth, as per usual, starts the conversation.
“So Dhurka, what’s with that protocol droid? You some sorta blue blood?” he asks, completely ignoring the corporal's rank.

Before you get a chance to respond, a claxon blares and little red strobe lights drop down from the ceiling in the barracks and star flashing slowly.
“We’re being scrambled, get your gear and get to the staging area!” Stone says, glancing up.
He and Mouth then disappear down the corridor to their bunks to start donning their armor.

[OracleofSilence]

"Damn. Figured it was only a matter of time." Kenth straps his armor on grabbing his carbine as he finishes and jogs to the staging area with the rest of the troopers. the routine had been starting to wear thin, so the chance of action was more a relief then a cause for fear at the moment.

[Seanfall]

It was about damn time, while the loose regs didn't Bother him Marr knew it was only a matter of time before they were scrambled. If you hadn't noticed Marr was wound a little tight, but this knowing it was here that he wouldn't have to wait for the first time since he'd set foot on this ship he relaxed. With Practiced ease he suits up, and quickly test's his helmet's systems, and double checks his gear.

After he's made sure he has everything he needs, including his weapon he heads out to the staging area with the rest of his squad. Letting out a sigh of relief, Finally, i've been waiting for this.

[RandomLunatic]

"All right!" Gage said. The wait had been interminable. He collected his kit and ran to the staging area.

[Saulk]

Without another word regarding his heritage, Corporal Dhurka runs to his gear, putting it on quickly and running towards the staging area. His focused "coldness" settled confortably into place, sharpening his mind to tactics, and combat. He clicked on his commlink within his helmet. "Squad: check in and report."

[OracleofSilence]

"961 checking in." Kenth finishes com and systems checks as his HUD boots up, coming into position with the rest of the company

[Seanfall]

"372 checking in. Ready to go." Marr spoke as he stood to attention.

[RandomLunatic]

"SJ four zero eight, standing by," Gage said.

[russdm]

Zor will get suited up and arrive at place to meet. "SJ-314, reporting for duty."

[TheThan]

after getting into your armor and getting the rest of you gear; you arrive at the staging area and see nearly an entire company of troopers forming into platoons. Heading in you find your platoon and fall in. Everyone is here. Sgt. Stone and his squad is there, he’s modified his armor by taking two additional utility belts and attaching them to his, pulling them up and over his shoulders like suspenders, he’s toting his light repeating blaster. Blastproof is the easiest to spot, the chestpeice of his armor is pitted, marred and blackened from getting shot so many times. Hicks has a scatter gun rigged to his back, says its for "close encounters".

The far wall of the staging area is a heavy blast door, it’s been pulled open and you can see into the adjacent shuttle bay. Sitting on their pads are four sentinel landing craft, each more than capable of holding a full platoon of storm troopers. Their engines look like they are being warmed up, as they are glowing a dark blue.

Shortly Sgt. Tucker comes by, his helmet off and tucked under his arm and a cigar in his mouth. He starts an inspection. He stops in front of Zor and grabs his armor at the collar and gives it a tug. Seeing it not budge, he says “good!”

“This is what I like to see, A bunch of bad ass storm troopers ready to get some. Now get in that drop ship! Go Go Go Go Go!

[Seanfall]

Ah that old military Bravado, he saw a lot of that from his father and his friends. It was...invigorating, Marr gave a quick salute and followed his Platoon and squad into their Carrier.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth throws his salute, hurrying with the squad to the shuttle. "We know what the landing will be like?" He runs through last minute checks of his weapon and checks his wrist datajack. Never know when a little computer use may come in handy after all. The flash of it all was somewhat comical, but at the same time, he still thought joining up was the right choice.

[A'den]

Rergun scrambled out of his bunk half napping half listening to the constant back and forth of the rest of squad. Frelling would seem that way, "Time for fun."

He donned his armor and utility belt, checked the charges on his power packs and belted his vibrio blade to his waist.

[roll0]

[TheThan]

You load into the ship and find your seat with your squad, the other troopers in your platoon do the same. Lastly the lieutenant steps aboard, in full armor sans helmet which is tucked under her arm.
She heads to the front of the ship and gives an impromptu briefing.
“Ok listen up; this one’s going to be rough.
Our mission is to assault a rebel stronghold. Intel says that this is a major rebel base, not some terrorist cell operating out of someone’s garage, so we’re hitting it hard. The roughnecks have been given the task of kicking their door down. The whole company is going in on this one.

Apparently, they’ve set up base in an abandoned mineral mine. We’ll be right in their back door, so expect heavy resistance, dirty fighting, booby traps, ambushes, hit and run fighting the works. Fighting will be close quarters, maybe even hand to hand. The mine is pretty extensive, our spies have not been able to get a detailed layout of the interior of the mine, but they did drag up some old maps of the mine via the holonet. I’ve no idea how accurate these maps are.

The mine is too deep to blast from orbit, so we have to pull off an old fashioned ground assault. The basic plan is to have some tie fighters strafe the LZ so we can make our drop, and fight our way into the base. Since we don’t have a precise layout of the opposition’s defenses we’re going in pretty much blind. We’re improvising a lot on this one.

First and second platoons will hit the front door, our job is to hit what we think is an emergency bolt hole, a backdoor if you will, while Fourth hits what we think is a star fighter bay. Fourth battalion provides support as usual. We hope to either cut them down as they flee, or catch them in a cross fire. Either way, we should have them pretty much surrounded. Intel wants prisoners so we're giving quarter on this one, take surrendered personnel or any wounded you come across prisoner, stun them if you have to.

The brass thinks they may be on to our spies so we’re hitting them hard and fast so they don’t scatter. We hit atmosphere in two minutes.”

She then sees to the door securing it and finds her place, buckles herself in and pulls her helmet over her head, instantly blending into the group of storm troopers. A moment later you feel the ship lurch as the star destroyer drops out of hyperspace. Seconds later the landing craft is airborne and cruising out of the docking bay at a totally unsafe speed. Moments later the ship starts rocking and jumping as it inters the planet’s atmosphere.
As the going gets rough, several of the guys from 3rd squad ( sgt. stone, Hicks, Loverboy and the others) take off their helmets and sit on them.

[Saulk]

"Let's do this by the books. Keep a close watch to our front for traps. The rebels will try to thin us out with expendables. Keep the commlinks open in combat, I want to make sure everyone can hear. Watch out for grenades. Standard operations and we'll all be back in the barracks for dinner." The comforting sound of the warriors beginning their descent, and the slight humming up of weaponry surrounded him like a symphony. "Vaiken...monitor the area and provide me with tactical updates as the rebels reveal themselves."

Beltane checked the powercells on both guns, slinging the heavier blaster around in front of him, making sure his smaller pistol is at his hip. He smiled underneath the stormtrooper helmet. This was going to be an interesting day.

[RandomLunatic]

Gage grimaced. He was the one bringing a repeater to knife fighting territory. He drew his bayonet, inspected the blade carefully, and then almost ceremoniously fixed it to the T-21's bayonet lug.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth winces at the reference to melee combat (hardly his are of expertise), and powers up his blaster, though he keeps the safety on. "So, hell of a way to enter the war, huh?"

[Saulk]

Beltane nods, the imminent action making him talkative. "I never thought a mine would be my first live combat, but it's a good day for it."

[A'den]

Rergun smiled under his helmet as he sat silently in his crash webbing. He barely heard the LT over his thoughts, all he needed to know was that it was gonna be up close and personal the type of fighting he preferred. His offhand gripped the butt of his rifle braced against the floor while his main hand stroked the hilt of his blade. He was glad for the armor over his lap otherwise his condition of physical stimulation might be of been a little embarrassing if he cared. Finally after so long he going to wet his weapon in the blood of his enemies again.

"I'll take point." He found himself offering.

[Seanfall]

"Where do you want me?" Marr asked as he powered up his rifle, and double checked it's ammo supply. Any look at his files would show what he was skilled at, It was a little ironic that he favored sabotage considering how he got his arm. "I have a sensor pack with me. In case we need it."

[Saulk]

Beltane nods to Rergun, then turns to Marr. "Try to outflank them. Cut off their ability to duck back into their holes. The sensor package can be deployed if they try to hide from us."

[russdm]

Zor will try to cover someone to make best use of his Comrades in Arms talent, which means keeping no more than 3 squares from someone, preferably behind the point man.

[TheThan]

You hear the screech of a tie fighter flying past the ship as the bumpy ride smoothes out and the ship flattens out. You hear the tie fighter’s guns open up, spitting death as it screeches on a head of the landing craft, clearing the way for your ship to make its landing.

You don’t wait long as the ship decelerates fast enough to tug at your restraints. Suddenly the ship drops straight down, Sgt. Stone and their squad put their helmets on and everyone begins unbuckling the restraints. Suddenly the ship stops with a rough bump and the assault ramp drops down.
Lieutenant Rose is the first out the door, followed closely by her squad (1st squad), the rest of you pile out in a semi-organized mess. You are in a clearing, there is a thin line of trees close by.

The platoon makes it to the trees without incident. Beyond that you see a cliff rising up, forming a mountain. At the base of this cliff there is a large hole dug into the side of the mountain, a primitive track way leads inside and disappears into darkness. Flanking the entrance to the mine there are two large fortifications build out of sand bags. They’re both about 6 feet long and approximately four feet tall. The fortifications are open topped. Sitting on tripods at the front of each of the two fortifications is an Eweb heavy repeating blaster. They are manned and haven’t noticed you; instead they are firing at the tie fighters that zip over head.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth nods to himself as he glances over the fortifications, pondering, and not for the first time, the logic, or lack thereof, of wearing bright white armor in a combat zone, and more startled then pleased they haven't been noticed yet. Lets see if we can avoid getting shot at the entrance... Kenth briefly focuses, feeling out with his mind for the ebb and flow, the slight pulls that denoted the presence of another being, as he scrutenizes both the cave entrance and the fortifications, hoping to pinpoint the location of hidden soldiers.

Use the Force (sense surroundings, DC 15 ignores cover and concealment, and DC 20 ignores total concealment.), as a swift action, and rolling perception to spot soldiers.
Use the Force: [roll0]
Perception (+2 from armor): [roll1]

well, decent perception, pity about the UTF

[Seanfall]

Marr took a breath as he exited onto the battlefield with his squad. "They haven't seen us yet. We can flank them if we're fast and quiet." he offered through the helmets comlink, in the mean time he scanned the area around them looking for any hidden dangers.



Perception
[roll0]

[A'den]

Rergun when the door finally opened to the hiss of atmospherics and change in light the Stormtrooper cleare his seat and made to follow the others out and down the ramp eager to get out in front of the pack. At the clearing he crouched and shook his head, while the hell were they wearing white? He looked at the one emplacement and his eyes scanned for a better trail up to take the emplacement out from behind. He knew the lay of the land and how to move and not be seen maybe some cover fire from here and he could get close take the gunners out.

"Sir, give me a bit of covering fire and I can up close with those gunners before they know it."


Survival: Identify a path up that will give him concealment from the guns. [roll0]
Stealth: [roll1]: Counter any passive perception checks.

[Saulk]

Beltane listens to the reports and nods, speaking quietly into his commlink. "Good. Let us know when you are in position. When he gets in place, I want all fire directed at the emplacement. Just make sure you down that gunner or eventually they will get a lucky shot."

[TheThan]

The lieutenants starts calling out orders.
“Third squad, flank the bunker on our left, fourth squad, flank the bunker on our right. 1st and second squad will provide a diversion. Go!
Both squads head out. Rergun finds an easy path leading up and around the open field, heading up into a steep mountainous path. It seems like a game trail, but it brings you within striking distance of the fortifications and provides you with enough cover not to be noticed easily. Gage even finds himself a fallen log he can use to brace his repeating blaster. From your position you’re up a little higher than they are and can see down at an oblique angle into the bunker.

A few moments after you’re in place, you hear an audible “click” in your comm. Unit. The sergeant makes a double click back through his headset. And then you hear the lieutenant give a charge single.

Two squads of storm troopers charge out of the trees to your left, running up the field. A half a second later, the two E webs see them two, reposition their guns and open fire on the squad. A near constant stream of red blaster fire spews forth from the two tripod mounted guns as they try to rake the oncoming storm troopers. The group of imperial soldiers comes to an immediate halt, as they hit the deck in the grass and return fire.

The blaster fire is only accurate enough to keep the enemy’s heads down, probably intentional. However one of the rebels, a twi’lek manning the E-web, pushes a box against the sandbags with his foot and then hops up onto it. He then presses his crotch into the butt end of the e-web and continues firing laughing like a maniac as he does so.


Perception checks
There are three soldiers in each of the two bunkers. Two are manning the Ewebs each, and the third seems to be acting as some sort of spotter or comm officer.
Feel free to roll initiative.

[RandomLunatic]

Gage drew bead on the nearer bunker, preparing to demonstrate to the dumb alien proper weapon handling technique.

[roll0]
[roll1]

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth shakes his head at the ongoing display of... something occurring on the fortification, then readies his blaster, taking aim at the spotter for the more composed, and presumably professional E-Web crew. To his squadmates "961 here. I've got two operators per E-Web and one spotter a piece. Targets of preference?"

[roll0]

[Seanfall]

"372 reporting, 3 to a bunker, one appears to be busy attempting to mate with an E-Web." He said in a completely dry tone as he made to outflank the group, if he could get in range his Grenade would make short work of the turret teams.


initiative
[roll0]

Stealth
[roll1]

[russdm]

Zor will move and try to nail the E-Web Mating rebel in the head, and he will see what he can see.

Rolls

Shooting the Rebel, two shift actions to aim, add in +1 if closer than 3 squares to squad mates
[roll0]
Damage if hit [roll1]

Perception [roll2]

Initiative [roll3]

[Saulk]

Beltane squints at the gun emplacements and then at the rest of his squad. He spends a few minutes considering the tactical layout, and then smiles, underneath his mask. "Take down the alien. Make it violent. I want all eyes on him dying. When that's complete, move in and take that battery. If we can turn one launcher against the other, we will not have to worry about the second." Saying this, he moved into a more advantageous position to take one of the bunkers when the shots were fired.

Actions
Roll for Initiative - [roll0]
Roll for Knowledge (Tactics) - [roll1]

Moving behind the rest of the squad, ready to leap into the attack on the bunker when the firing alien drops.

[TheThan]

Zor’s shot is on target, hitting the gunner in the shoulder at the same time two more blaster bolts from 1st and 2nd squad drills into the alien’s chest, launching him off his perch and onto the bunker’s floor.
One of the others immediately rushes over to the clearly dead twi’lek and checks his vitals, while the other mans the guns.
Meanwhile, the other squad opens up with sgt. Stone’s light repeating blaster, firing at a higher angle into the bunker on their side of the mine inference.

It’s not long before that gun is silenced. Seeing the other team of gunners go down and noticing they’ve been outflanked. The remaining two surrender, throwing down their guns and coming out of the bunker with their hands up. The stormtroopers down there converge on them, weapons at the ready. One of them stun the two, while another one pumps a couple of rounds into the E-webs destroying them.

you get an order to get down to the mine entrance with the rest of the platoon.

[Saulk]

Beltane jumps up and begins moving towards the entrance to the mine, weaving slightly towards the point where they have been directed.

[russdm]

Zor approaches the bunker/mine entrance while trying to keep a squad mate within 3 squares to benefit from Comrades In Arms (It provides a +1 to attack rolls both Ranged/Melee, need to be w/in 3 squares of ally).

After arriving at the entrance, Zor will sweep (point his gun down the way and bring it across the entryway) the entrance, looking to see if what he can find inside. He will have his gun up and ready to fire, with the stun mode off.

If Zor sees a bunch of rebels, he will throw in his frag grenade, unless he has a stun grenade and if so, he will toss that one in instead.

Roll for grenade, if needed, +1 for comrades in arm if applicable and I will add this afterward.
[roll0]
Don't no damage amount on my head right now.

[A'den]

Rerun sheethed his drawn vibrio blade he had been ready to jump out of the shadows for the coup de grace when the Rebels surrendered.

"Come on let's find some with more fight in them."

[RandomLunatic]

"Well, that's a waste," Gage said as he watched 1st and second blow up a pair of perfectly good repeaters. He rose and double-timed on down to the cave entrance.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth hurries down the slope after his squad mates, keeping his blaster trained on the opening and sliding into position against the wall near an entrance.

[TheThan]

The mine shaft is illuminated by dim amber glowrods spaced intermediately apart, the walls are stone and the roof is braced with metal and wooden supports and braces. The vertical supports provide you with some cover if you press yourself against either wall. The floor is stone and has a slight downward slope to it, not enough to make travel difficult or give you an elevation advantage however.

The platoon heads down the mine, leapfrogging their way between the supports. You travel about two hundred meters down the shaft and come across nothing until you stop at a cross-section.

“This isn’t on the map. The rebels could have dug these side tunnels.” The lieutenant says, as she kneels down to present a smaller target.

“What now boss?” The sergeant from second squad spoke up.

“We split up, first and second squad will continue down this shaft, third squad I want you to take the left corridor, fourth, I want you to take the right. Report anything you find, although I’m expecting the comm. System to be less than perfect because of the rocks. If you come to a dead end then hurry back and join up with us.”

Third squad breaks away from the platoon and heads down the left side shaft, you can hear Mouth say something obnoxious, and the whole squad responds with a “shut up mouth!”. Meanwhile the lieutenant and first and second squad slowly start creeping down the main shaft.


game rules information

the shaft you've been ordered down is about 3 squares wide, 3 squares tall and roughly circular.
you the lights are dim and provide only shadowy illumination, that means low light vision is in effect. You can about 25 meters in front of you.

[Seanfall]

"understood." Marr spoke as he headed to the assigned tunnel his helmet lets him see in the low light though not nearly as far as he'd like. To compensate he removed the sensor pack from it's compartment and activated it. Scanning as far ahead as he could, if there was a dead end or an ambush he wanted to know about it.



Stealth
[roll0]

Perception
[roll1]

[Saulk]

Beltane peered down the darkened mineshaft, focusing on picking out details in the surroundings that would enable him to advise his squad of hitherto unseen dangers. This would be a dangerous journey, one made more so by the possibility of intermittently malfunctioning communications. He tightened his grip on the rifle, raising it to the front, keeping it pointed ahead of him as they began to slowly make their approach down the mineshaft.

Spoiler
Perception [roll0]

[RandomLunatic]

Gage alternated dashing from the cover of one support to the next with providing overwatch from the cover of said supports.

[roll0]

[russdm]

Zor will follow along and keep watch out for traps.

[TheThan]

Beltane and Gage vaguely see the outline of some sort of tripod mounted droid, it osculates back and forth and you can hear its gears turning. Marr’s sensor pack picks up it up as well, and tells him there are two droids down the corridor.
Almost without warning the two droids down the corridor open fire, spraying crimson death at your squad. Everyone reacts quickly enough and either drops to the ground or presses themselves up against the walls.

I need everyone to roll initiative.


Everyone that’s posted made their spot checks to see the danger, so no surprise round. I’ve gone ahead and posted the actions for the round for the two enemies you’re facing .

Everyone takes 7 damage from the first enemy, and 8 from the second. They’re using autofire and struck NO-ONE (came awful close there though). But you’re all still in the “squares” the enemies are shooting into, so you’re taking half damage.

[Saulk]

"Take those damned things down!" Dhurka hissed into his commlink, spinning around the corner, the blaster fire crackling against his armour, leaving small hissing places where the blasts have gotten through. He ducked against the door corner, bracing himself and returning fire. He aims at one of them, indicating it as he lines up the shot. "Concentrate your fire on that one first!" He pulls the trigger on his rifle, returning the bright flashing beams on the droids down the hall.

((EDIT: Please make sure you read my spoiler before you take your shots at the droids, squadmates!))


Initiative - [roll0]
Blaster Fire - [roll1]
I am also using my leader ability to grant everyone else +1 to their attacks as long as they can see me

[RandomLunatic]

Gage shouldered the repeater and returned a salvo of blaster bolts.

[roll0]

2x Swift: Brace
Standard: [roll1] both droids
[roll2], both take -2 to attack even if I miss.

Damage: 15/32
CT: Normal

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth swears in surprise as the droids open up, rolling behind a nearby wall and grateful that his training saw him through unharmed. After he braces himself, he snaps around the corner, firing at the droid nearest him.

Evasion means no half damage (suck it droids!).

Initiative: [roll0]
Attack [roll1]
Damage: [roll2]

[Seanfall]

Marr dropped to his belly, too close to use a grenade he opened fire with his Rifle. "Good thing they aim for Bantha ****."


initiative
[roll0]

Blaster Rifle blitz (still single shot)
[roll1]

Damage if hit
[roll2]

[russdm]

Zor shall do some firing and covering.

Rolls:


Initiative: [roll0]
Shooting (bonuses added in) [roll1]
Damage on droid (hopefully impacted): [roll2]

[TheThan]

The auto-gun to the right of the mine shaft explodes in a shower of sparks as blaster shots hammer into it, destroying it. The second gun takes some minor damage from the explosion suffered from its comrade, but not enough to silence it. during the explosion, you can see the two auto guns are backed against a rock wall.


Game rules information


Ok first gun is down, second gun is damaged
Zor, Kenth and I think Dhurka all gain +5 to reflex defense for taking cover,
Marr goes prone, but it doesn’t say anything about providing any defensive bonus… huh.
Anyway second round is up. Feel free to post actions.

[Saulk]

"One down! Well done, men! Now take down that other hunk of rebel junk!" To give credence to his words, as well as to his leadership techniques, he brings up his weapon to fire, aiming at the remaining gun.


Squadmates, remember - the +1 is in effect until the end of the encounter

Fire - [roll0] Damage (If needed) - [roll1]

[A'den]

Firing at prone targets imposes a -5 penalty while swinging a weapon at prone targets gets a +5 bonus, page 151 core.

Rergun charged the remaining turrent heedless of the spew of blaster bolts and jammed his vibroblade at the sensitive servo motors of the turret.


Move Action: Close to Charge range.
Standard Action: Charge if still out of melee range.
Attack: [roll0] Plus bonus, plus Charge bonus.
Damage: [roll1]

[OracleofSilence]

"I guess this is why they used droids. Don't know when to give up." Kenth takes aim at the other turret, but noting his squad-mate's headless charge checks his fire, instead reaching out with his other perceptions, feeling the vaguely cold presence of the droid, and violently hurling it into the wall of the corridor.

Using Move Object on the droid, and throwing it at the wall next to it. Spending a Force Point for +1d6 to the roll as well.
Use the Force: 1d20+1d6+6 (23 rolled OOC)
Damage (assuming large, drop last two dice if not): [roll0]

[Seanfall]

Marr closed his eyes for a moment as the droids explosion lit the chamber. When he opened them one of his squad was charging the droid. Marr chose to hold his fire lest he hit his squadmate.

[TheThan]

All of you except for Kenth are amazed to see the droid lurch to the side and crash into the stone wall at the left side of the tunnel. It explodes in a shower of sparks but the droid's weapon is still fireing, at everything but it's target as the gun whips about the encloses space, spraying the floor, ceiling etc. However Regrun manages to get close enough to finish it off with his vibroblade, finally silencing the machine.


If anyone examines the remains of the droids you will see they are little more than tripods with repeating blasters attached to them. Clearly, an automated defense system rigged up by the rebels in case this section of the base was breached.
Where the two auto-guns were set up, the tunnel makes a sharp right hand turn and then immediately opens up on the left hand side into a large cavern.

If anyone wishes to peer around the corner into the cavern then please roll perception checks.

game rules information

combat round is over. these things lasted exactly as long as anticipated. which is good.

[A'den]

Rergun wiped off the blade with his glove before returning it to its sheath and drawing his blaster rifle from the strap on his back.

"Filthy clanker." He crushed a photoreceptor under his boot before sliding against the wall and looking around the corner.


Stealth: Using the corner for partial cover: [roll0]
Perception: [roll1]

[RandomLunatic]

Gage gave the sentry guns a quick once-over as he passed to see if anything was left worth recovering.

(([roll0]

Friggin' roller.:smallfurious:))

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth relaxes slightly as the gun stops firing, pushing off the wall and advancing down the hallway with the rest of the squad. As the cavern comes into view, Kenth peers into the room, attempting to determine precisely what occupies the space,

Sense Presence UTF: [roll0] (for the purposes of Perception, if higher then 15 ignores concelementr, if higher then 20 ignores total concealment)
Perception [roll1] 19 with helmet. (total concealment does not provide any bonus to stealth

[Seanfall]

Marr stood up, a little unsure as to what made it smash into the wall. Faulty gear maybe? Well it didn't matter right now they had to move on. Marr pushed it out of his mind and following Rergun's example again pulling out his Sensor Pack to get a read.


Stealth
[roll0]

Perception
[roll1]

[TheThan]

Peeking around the corner, Regrun and Kenth sees a large cavern; centered in it is a cargo skiff partially loaded up with crates. Next to that there is an older model cargo load lifter, but it seems to be non operational as the side panel has been pulled off and a rebel tech is bent over it working on the mechanism.

Standing between the cargo skiff and you are several crates that look like they are waiting to be loaded up onto the cargo skiff. You spy two more rebel techs manually loading a black crate onto the cargo skiff; a brown furred wookiee is also helping load boxes onto the skiff, doing the work of two people. Clearly they are trying to evacuate the base. The cargo skiff is pointed towards a larger corridor that probably leads out.
Regun also sees about five rebel soldiers taking up position among the crates of cargo. It looks like they heard the shooting from the short fight with the sentry guns and must be acting as a rear guard.

Meanwhile Kenth senses the presence of ten entities on the other side of the rock wall (where Regrun is looking), even though there are only nine visible. Two of them are non-human. Marr’s sensor pack also picks up nine life forms other than your squad.
Beyond the loading area there is a series of windows and a door set into the stone wall.
The two sentry guns are wrecked, nothing seems salvageable.

Game rules information

Regrun and Kenth get improved cover (+10 reflex defense) because they’re peering around the corner (I imagine only two people can peek around a single corner at a time).
The rebel soldiers are using the crates as cover
The wookiee and two of the three soldiers spotted both Regrun and Kenth as they peaked around the bend.

Surprise round:
Only Regrun and kenth get to act because they are the only two in position to shoot or be shot at. The rest of the squad is not caught off guard, but there’s a rock wall between them and the bad guys as well so they can’t be attacked either.
But only two soldiers and the wookiee get to act.
Feel free to roll initiative and post actions, but only Regrun and kenth get to act this round. everyone else’s actions will take place in the next round.

[Saulk]

Beltane took a knee, moving up against the wall for cover, aiming out with his rifle, knowing that Rergun and Kenth would be reporting back with the positions of the enemy as soon as they saw something. If something came around the corner, he wanted to be ready to take it down.

Actions
Perception Roll (to see if there's anything else to notice) - [roll0]
Initiative - [roll1]

Question: Does this count as a new encounter? That'll determine whether my +1 command ability is available again.

[OracleofSilence]

"961 here, I've got ten hostiles in the larger cavern. They appear to be attempting escape. Firing now." Kenth takes aim and fires at one of the more exposed soldiers before ducking back behind the wall.
Initiative: [roll0]
Attack" [roll1] (+1 if command effect still in place)
Crit Confirm: [roll2]
Damage: [roll3]

[RandomLunatic]

Hearing the contact report, Gage prepped a grenade...

[roll0]
Move: Draw grenade

[Seanfall]

Marr took up position waiting for his chance to get a shot in.


initiative
[roll0]

[A'den]

"Roger 961, got eyes on nine."

Rergun flipped his rifle over to auto and set his sights on the thickest pack of rebels he could get in one burst. He broke the silence with a scream of auto blaster fire.


Swift: Switch Blaster Rifle to auto.
Standard: Auto Fire Attack. If I can get 4 rebels in a 2x2 square he'll aim for that, barring that the most rebels he can hit with a 2x2 attack.
Attack:[roll0]
Damage: [roll1]
Inititave:[roll2]

[TheThan]

Regrun opens fire with his weapon, spraying blaster fire into the area, he manages to catch two taking up positions too close to gether and they’re forced to keep their heads down. Meanwhile Kenth takes more precise aim and catches a rebel in the chest, blasting a nasty burning hole in his chest and putting him on his back. He doesn’t move. Return fire is sporadic at best and inaccurate, you see blaster bolts slam into the wall in front of you, leaving smoking holes and showering the area with some shrapnel.

Game rules information

Surprise round is over. Regrun wounded two rebel troopers with his autofire, failing to hit both of them, so they take half damage.
Meanwhile Kenth manages to straight up kill one.
Regrun and Kenth have improved cover, giving them +10 to their reflex defense (making them near impossible to hit) while the others have total concealment and cover because of a big rock wall In the way.

In order for everyone to get in the combat, someone’s going to have to move into the room. You can make the distance to the crates in one round. either that, or people make a move action to make way for another.

So we’re moving on to the first round. I’m keeping track of initiative. Regrun and Kenth are at the top of the round again, so i'll need another action from you two.

[A'den]

Rergun braced his blaster rifle against his chest and looked for another cluster of rebels he laid down another swath of automatic blaster fire.

2 Swift Actions: Brace Blaster Rifle.
Attack: [roll0]
Hit: [roll1]
Crit, autohit and double damage 24

[Saulk]

Taking a deep breath, Beltane ran for the crates. No commander gained respect from the troops hiding in the back. Not that he was going to be taking chances overly much, but he still had to be seen to be making a stand. Once there, he ducked for cover and opened fire, blasting at the nearest enemy soldier.

Actions
Move: Close distance to crates and cover
Attack: Open fire [roll0] Damage (if needed) [roll1]

[RandomLunatic]

"Frag out!" Gage called as he pitched the grenade around the corner, then charged forward while the rebels were distracted.

((Going to move up to the crates as my move action, then throw the frag at the densest concentration of enemies as my standard.

[roll0] plus range modifiers (+1 if point-blank)
[roll1] +1 if PB.

Damage: 15/32
CT: Normal))

[Seanfall]

Marr followed the others in letting off a blaster bolt into the nearest Rebel. "Should we start offering Surrender?"



Blaster shot
[roll0]

Damage on hit
[roll1]

[TheThan]

The rebels are hammered by a volley of blaster fire from Regrun as he sprays crimson death madly into the room. He hits a rebel soldier center mass and a technician near the cargo skiff, They both go down. A blaster bolt slams into the wall doing nothing. Gage's grenade lands amongst the rebels hiding behind the crates, you hear a trooper yell “grenade!”, but its too late, the device detonates in a deafening explosion, one trooper rag-dolls up and onto the crates and another is blown backwards into the center of the room. The remaining techs scramble for cover, shooting high as they go.

In the madness of someone chucking a grenade in an enclosed space, Beltane, and Sgt Tucker make a mad dash to the relative safety of the crates, firing shots as they go. Beltane is rewarded with a scream of pain as his shot finds its mark, the sergeant’s shot goes wide.
Suddenly a big brown furry thing appears in front of the two leading the charge, a heavy fist comes crashing into the side of the sergeant’s helmet and he goes flying into the wall with a sick crunch. The sarg slides to the floor and doesn't move.


Game rules information
Regrun kills one trooper and an enemy techie with his amazing autofire crits.
Gage’s grenade finishes off the two that Regrun's autofire damaged last turn
Beltane drops a fifth guy.
Beltane and Gage now have cover vs the two remaining techs. But Beltane is in melee with the wookiee. He engaged both him and the sergeant.
The wookiee and the two remaining techs are the only badguys still standing.

On a side note, I forgot how much better autofire is in Saga vs. how bad it is in D20 modern.

[A'den]

Rergun grinned under his white helmet feeling the flood of satisfaction with his first real kills of the day. Seeing the Wookie charge in at the sergeant and drop him like a ton bricks sent a flare of rage through the trooper. He slung his blaster rifle and drew his vibroblade. He broke cover and charged the Wookie a primal battlecry ripped out his throat as the heat of battle started to take over his senses. The leather wrapped hilt of his vibroblade held tightly in an overhand grip felt good as he used his other hand on the pommel to power assist the blade as he plunged the it into the Wookie's furry backside.

"RRAWWWRGGGGG!!"


Swift: Drop Rifle (its on a sling so just hangs near his back.)
Move Action: Draw Vibroblade.
Standard Action: Charge Wookie
Attack: [roll0]
Hit:[roll1] Used in two hands.
-2 to my defenses until my next turn.

[OracleofSilence]

"Damn!" Kenth breaks is focus from shooting, attempting to time his next action to Rergun's blow, attempting to hurl the Wookie away from its target, this time into the edge of the skimmer it had recently been loading. This completed he sprints for the crates within the room, ducking behind on and yelling to the room in general "Rebel forces, surrender now. Drop your weapons and you may survive. Continue fighting and no quarter will be offered or given." internally, he is somewhat more conflicted This is ****ed up. If we capture the Wookie, it'll be sold into slavery, and most of the others will likely be executed or sent to a prison world.

Using Move object to hurl the Wookie into the nearest hard surface available (assuming its the skimmer), and spending a force point for +2d6 damage, then spending a move action to run for cover inside the room as well.
UTF: [roll0]
Damage[roll1]

[Seanfall]

Marr moved up behind the others, "You heard the man, drop your weapons now!" He said leveling his gun at the nearest Rebel.

[RandomLunatic]

Wow, Gage thought as the Wookiee went flying. Congratulations would come later-now, he ventilated the beast's hide in payback.

((2x Swift to brace and then autofire the Wook.
[roll0]
[roll1]

Dam: 15/32
CT: Normal))

[russdm]

Zor will try to take down a rebel.

Actions:


Initiative [roll0]
Using 2 swift actions to aim, plus in for Comrades in Arms (I am assuming that I am close enough to an ally. If not, take off 1 for the talent not working
[roll1]
Damage to hit, [roll2]

[TheThan]

Rergun charges at the wookiee, but the wookiee is just a bit quicker, and kenth’s blade misses it’s mark, but slices a bit of hair as it passes. But then the wookiee is lifted into the air and thrown against a large crate, head first. Then blaster fire lights him up, scorching his hair and severely injuring him.

Roaring in pain, the wookiee, faces Rergun and lets out a terrific wookiee battle roar, which seems to reinvigorate him, despite the blow to the head and the multiple blaster shots. He steps forward and takes a swing at Regrun, the guy with the vibro blade, roaring as he does so. Fortunately he manages to stay out of the reach of that deadly fist.

meanwhile one last shot from zor convinces the two remaining techs to surrender, they throw down their guns and step out with their hands up; however it's clear the wookiee has no intentions of surrendering.

Game rules information

Rergun missed by a fraction, even with a flanking bonus.
Zor also missed.
The wookiee took a lot of damage and used his second wind to stay in the fight. He’s also moved one step down the condition track.

[russdm]

Zor will move up to keep his gun trained on the Rebels, until he get close enough to put binders on. He presumes that the others will finish off the wookiee.

[RandomLunatic]

Gage kept blazing away at the Wookiee too dumb to know when to quit.

((2x Swift to brace and Autofire the Wookiee.
[roll0]
[roll1]

Dam: 15/32
CT: Normal))

[OracleofSilence]

"Give him this much. He seems smarter then the rest." Kenth takes aim and fires at the wookie again.

2 swift actions to aim (why not), and standard action to shoot
Attack: [roll0]
Damage: [roll1]

[Seanfall]

Marr switched his gun to stun and went to cover Zor as he binds the Prisoners. "Just put the thing out of it's misery already." Marr might not like aliens but he's no sadist.

[A'den]

Rergun ducked his head away from the Wookie's massive fist and swung his blade in a check swing then followed his feint in a horizontal cut even as blaster bolts darted around and between the trooper and the Wookie.


Move Action Deception: [roll0]
Standard Action: Melee Attack [roll1]
Hit: [roll2]
Crit, double damage for 20

[Saulk]

Beltane moves over to assist those binding the prisoners, his gun carefully trained on them, seeing and thankful for the fact that Rergun and the others had his back with the Wookie. He would have been finished had it not been for them. But there was more work to be done. He turned to Marr. "How does the area look? Do your sensors pick up more hostiles inbound?" He punctuates this question by dragging one of the boxes over near himself and those others binding the prisoners, ready to drop behind it into cover.

[TheThan]

Kenth’s shots are wide as they try to avoid a friendly fire incident. Meanwhile, Regrun is having better luck and manages to deliver nasty slash across the wookiee’s huge abdomen and then dances away. This gives Gage enough room to light the wookiee up. Several blaster bolts slam into the wookiee and he finally succumbs to the barrage of crimson death and hits the rock floor with a heavy thud. smoke rises from his bloody and burnt corpse.

Meanwhile the others try to bind the two techies. But they find they have no binders, so Marr just pumps a stun blast into the two techs instead.

[A'den]

The Wookie's blood soaked his weapon's blade to the hilt and droplets sprayed over his armor as Rergun got out of the way of another barrage of blaster bolts. Since the beast wasn't mewling its last breath on the ground he whipped his weapon in a tight circle and struck at the Wookie's neckline in an overhead cut.


Standard Action: Melee Attack: Since Beltane moved away guess I lost the flanking bonus? [roll0]
Hit: [roll1]
Move Action: Ready Action: Withdraw if the Wookie targets me with a Melee Attack.

[Seanfall]

"We really should send in a requisition request for binders." With the Wookie finally down, marr again did a scan with his sensor pack. "Give me a moment and I'll see if we have anyone coming to join the party."



Attack
[roll0]

Stun Damage
[roll1]

Perception: 32 (roll in OOC)

[RandomLunatic]

"Medic! Sarge's down!" Gage said, moving up and bayoneting the properly supine carpet for good measure. Then he lifted his helmet and spat on the beast for good measure. "SJ-408 to platoon lead," he said, trying the comm. "Do you read?"

[OracleofSilence]

"Hey, give it some respect. No need to be a prick about it." Kenth raises from behind cover, heading over to the cargo skiff hopping on and examining the containers, hoping to get a look at their contents.

[RandomLunatic]

"He had it coming, the way he decked the Sarge," Gage said, lowering his helmet back into place.

"You gotta show these savages their place. And rub it in. They're not like you and me-they don't understand subtle hints."

[OracleofSilence]

"Dunno about that. But hey, who am I to say?" Kenth frowns inside his helmet as he speaks, but doesn't voice the rest of his opinions.

[russdm]

Zor shrugs. "Its the best fate he could have gotten, to go down fighting. It was the best outcome he could get considering what the Empire does to his kind."

Zor will go through the stunned rebels to see if they have any IDs or anything else on their possession.

Perception: [roll0]

[A'den]

"Kark off you sound like stinking rebs." Rergun cussed at Kenth and Zor.

He knelt next to the Wookie's head and with his vibroblade easily scalped the dead animal. He stood up and the stuffed the scalp in a utility belt pocket taking his trophy. He rose and wiped the Wookie's blood from his blade on the dead beasts fur, the blade hissed through the air as he spun the last few droplets off and flourished it before homing it in its sheath. He grabbed his blaster from his sling and made sure it was switched from auto to semi.

"Hey Corporal, lets put some karking guards on these plugs and keeping looking this may not be their only bolt hole."

[TheThan]

Marr’s sensor pack picks up one unaccounted for life form, it is in the room on the far side of the cavern.
Kenth finds nothing more interesting than machine parts and blasters, all military grade gear. One of the boxes even has ready to use proton torpedoes.
“Come *stshshs* fourth squad *stshshshs* sit rep *stshshshs*.” That was the lieutenant on the comm, her voice is filled with static and the comms are clearly picking up some interference. You also hear the distinct bark of blaster fire coming over the comm.

Each of the stunned rebels has a tool belt and Identification and some petty credits on their persons. One is a rodian the other a human. They had blaster pistols but they dropped them when they surrendered. The wookiee has a bowcaster attached to his bandoleer. The other dead rebel soldiers have comlinks, blast helmets and vests and blaster pistols.


ok so, It was the sergeant that went down, not the corporal. Saulk's character's the corporal.

[OracleofSilence]

"Damn. these guys are well equipped. They were loading some proton torpedo's into this thing." Kenth hops down from the skiff, glancing around as he does so. "Anything else out there?"

[Seanfall]

"We got an unaccounted lifeform." Marr motions towards where he picked up the reading and headed that way, rifle up still set on stun.


Stealth
[roll0]

[Saulk]

Beltane nods and spreads to a position where he can set up crossfire with Marr if the unaccounted for being is a threat. He thumbs his rifle over to stun as well. "Affirmative. Let's check it out". He takes steps carefully spaced to match Marr's, approaching with caution.

Actions
Perception - [roll0]

[TheThan]

Marr and Beltane flank the door to the second room and one of them opens it.

Inside there is an improtant looking human. He’s holding a box full of data cards and is dumping them into an small incinerator. He looks up and sees you, what do you do?



Game rules information.


Surprise round is here, roll initiative, take an action.

so originally I rolled an attack roll. but then I realized that he probably doesn't know you're at the door. so then i decided to give you the initiative.

Although I did critically hit Marr but rolled minimum damage. It made me chuckle.

[Seanfall]

"Freez...oh screw it." Marr fills the air with a burst of Stunbolts. "He's a commander take him alive!"


Autofire
[roll0] (+3 from dex -5 from Autofire)

Damage
[roll1]

initiative
[roll2]

[russdm]

Zor Initiative: [roll0]

[Saulk]

Beltane does not need to see or hear anymore, and in fact had his finger squeezing the trigger the moment Marr speaks, blasting into the man with stunning fire.

Actions
Roll Initiative - [roll0]
Roll Attack - [roll1]
Roll Damage (if needed) - [roll2]

Two natural 20's in a row! I need to play the lottery tonight!

[TheThan]

Blue blaster bolts fly and the rebel leader is hit several times, sending out a shockwave of blue energy as it impacts the man’s body. Unfortunately it’s not quite enough to knock him out and he stays onto his feet, although just barely. His blaster fires sideways shattering the glass window to his right.


First round over, move onto the next round.
Enemy has taken a bunch of damage and moved two steps down the condition track.

[RandomLunatic]

"SJ-408 here. We've secured some sort of storage facility. The Rebs were packing it up when we entered. We've got-contact!" he quickly amended as blasterfire rang out, turning and spraying bolts through the window at the source of it.

(([roll0]
2 swifts to brace and then use Aid Another to suppress the leader.
[roll1], target at -5 to attack if 10 or more.

Dam: 15/32
CT: Normal))

[Seanfall]

"Stun bolts only! we need him alive, don't hit the disks!" Damn fool, same one who went ape on the wookie wasn't it? Marr couldn't quite tell in the midst of the fight, bloodthirstiness that was something you didn't want it would blind you make you stupid. Whatever the cause or reason, Marr let out another autofire hail of Stun bolts.


Autofire
[roll0]

Damage
[roll1]

[TheThan]

Blaster fire rakes into the room through the shattered window, hitting everything but the man inside. Still staggering back, the man lifts his blaster and fires, however as he pulls the trigger a stray blaster bolt slams into his hand and the pistol explodes in a flash. Fortunately the flash suppressors in your helmet keep you from being blinded and you see the man hit the floor clenching the stub of his hand, he begins screaming in pain.

Moments later you hear the Lieutenant on the comlink,
“I read you SJ-408, where’s your sergeant?”

This time she comes in much clearer, and with almost no blaster fire in the background.

[OracleofSilence]

"961, moving to secure intel. Someone else grab the prisoner. I don't have binder cuffs" Kenth moves into the room, grabbing any surviving data cards, and checking for any computers, or other data storage devices in the room.

[RandomLunatic]

"Keep it down in there, I'm on the comm!" Gage yelled unsympathetically through the window at the wounded Rebel.

"SJ-408 reporting. Sarge's down, the Rebs got him. We've captured a storage cave that the Rebs were trying to clear out when we arrived. Seven enemy KIAs and three prisoners. Injuries all around, but no casualties besides the sergeant. We're still securing the place. End sitrep, over."

[Seanfall]

Marr holds up his gun, deciding to holster it for the safety of everyone around him. "Apologies for that last barrage, I got a little trigger happy." He says as he approaches the wounded man. "We need a Medic, he might go into shock." Marr spoke as he tears a strip of cloth from the mans pants and uses it bind his one and half hands. "I don't think of us have binders, How did they expect us to bind any POW's?" He mumbles as he ties the man's hands and then searches him.



Survival (tying his hands with a makeshift binding.)
[roll0]

Perception to search him.
[roll1]

[RandomLunatic]

"Liquid cable?" Gage suggested. He glanced down the passage the squad had not come from, then started pushing crates around to afford himself a position from which he could rain blaster bolts upon anybody advancing up the corridor from cover.

[TheThan]

“Rodger SJ-408, I’m inbound with a medic. Hold position and keep the place locked down until we arrive, it looks like we’re almost through here.” , That was the lieutenant on the comlink again. It sounds like the fighting has died down quite a bit.

Marr does his best to bind the wounded man, he’s too hurt to offer any resistance, and he doesn’t seem to have anything of interest on him besides identification.

A few minutes of quite later you hear footsteps approaching, then a squad of storm troopers appear from the long corridor. It’s Lieutenant Rose with first squad. The squad starts spreading out, Lt. Rose heads for you while another breaks off from the group and kneels beside the fallen sergeant. He pulls a medical kit out from the backpack and starts working on the fallen sergeant.

[Seanfall]

"Three Captives, including this one. He was destroying some Datacards when we found him. They could prove useful." Marr said after offering a quick Salute. "How did the other groups do?"

[RandomLunatic]

"Sir," Gage said. "Nothing of interest since last report."

[TheThan]

Lt. Rose responds, “The others did fine, minimum casualties, unfortunately minimum prisoners also” she says, “and never ever salute an officer on the field, unless you want him to get shot”, she says her voice completely deadpan.

“Now show me this Intel you’ve captured”.

As she speaks the medic returns and simply shakes his head.
The Lt. replies with a simple “damn”. Then the medic starts administering aid to the wounded rebel leader.

[OracleofSilence]

"Sir, do we have new orders?]" Kenth brings the pile of remaining data cards over. "This is all I could get my hands on in there, but I didn't have time to carry out a thorough search."

[TheThan]

After a few minutes of rummaging around, the lieutenant comes to the conclusion that there is nothing else of interest but the box data cards.
Then she gets a signal on her comm. She raises her hand to her helmet as if listening to something in her ear.

“We’re done here. Take the intel and the prisoners back to the surface and start loading up. The captain wants to bury this place, so we’ll set explosives, if any of your troopers has explosives he can lend a hand. Just leave the materiel, we’re going to bury this place so deep nobody’s going to get to it. Besides there’s not going to be much left once we’re done.” She says to Beltrare after a few minutes of listening.

[RandomLunatic]

"I think I've got enough boom to bring this chamber down," Gage said. "How long are we setting the timers for?"

((Gage will take 10 for setting the timers as well as placing the explosives to ignore DR.

He is also going surreptitiously look for anything trophy-worthy to loot. [roll0]

[russdm]

Zor will stand watch.

[Seanfall]

Marr took a look at the Datachips being moved, he didn't know why but part of him was tempted to swipe a couple and see what was on them. He knew he shouldn't but still he couldn't resist, seems the good little soldier still had a rebellious streak in him. He picked several of them up with his left hand, trying to be subtle about slipping one away down his wrist as he gave them a look over. "Too bad we didn't find him sooner. I wonder what he managed to destroy." He laid them back down making his move and slipping one of them away.



Sleight of Hand.
[roll0]

[TheThan]

The team gathers up the rebel techs and the rebel commander. All of which are coming out of being stunned. They’re lined up and marched out with Marr holding the box of data cards. Standing watch over the prisoners as they begin to leave, Zor notices Marr palm one of the data pads.

As they leave, the storm trooper demo men begin to rig the mine to blow. The primary targets are the mine shafts leading into the mine proper, bury those and nobody can get to the rest. Working fast, the demo crew only takes about an hour to rig the place to blow. During that time, Gage sets his explosives among the materiel the rebels were loading up for transport. Among the munitions he finds a sweet missile launcher and a crate of 20 missiles. All the timers are synced for two hours.

While the demolitions men set their charges, the rest of the stormtroopers begin an orderly withdraw from the area. You notice a platoon of scouts has been brought down to sweep the area in their speeder bikes, looking to clear the area of any outlying rebels that may have been missed.
The prisoners are bound properly and loaded up onto a Lambda shuttled that touched down near your awaiting sentinel landing craft. Marr is ordered to hand over the Intel to Captain Rhyka as he’s the ranking officer in the area.


Gage loses 3 explosive charges, but gains 1 missile launcher with a built in range finder:

Merr-Sonn Plx-1M portal missile launcher (standard missile launcher) (heavy weapon)
Damage, 6d6, stun --, ROF: 1 weight 10 kg, slashing,
Range increments: point blank 0-50, short 51-100, 101-250, 251-500

The missile launcher is an area effect weapon; it holds 4 missiles in a pre-loaded cartridge. Magazines cost 200 credits and weight 5kg. The weapon has one upgrade point (see Scum and villainy for details).
Additionally this weapon has a laser rangefinder attached to it. With the range finder, the user takes no penalties for firing at a target at short range. The benefits of this do not stack with a targeting scope, however it is an after-market kit and can easily be removed from the weapon. It takes up one upgrade point.

Marr also gains one encrypted data card.

[RandomLunatic]

Gage was smiling ear-to-ear under his helmet. His first mission had been a complete success. Even the bulk of his prize couldn't weigh his spirits down.

[Seanfall]

Marr handed the intel over as ordered then took his place among his companions awaiting orders. He did his best to keep the palmed Data-card hidden among his gear, he'd try to have a look at it later when everyone else was busy or ideally back on the ship. He'd probably need help cracking it's encryption but hey it was just rebel encryption. It's not like it was Imperial Intelligence or anything like that.

[OracleofSilence]

Kenth was in a somewhat somber mood as the platoon heads back to their transport. There was going to be some questions when they got back to the ship, no doubt about that. The best thing right now would just be to keep his head down and try to get through it all.

[TheThan]

Eventually the demolitions squads return to the surface and everyone loads up back in the sentinel landing crafts and as a group the whole company of storm troopers blast off back into space, while air borne you feel and hear a deep explosion coming from the surface. It must have been the work of the demolitions that were set. Considering the sound and the shockwave, it’s pretty safe to assume that nobody’s going to be entering those mines again.

The flight back to the invincible in uneventful, although anyone looking out the window will see several other imperial ships in the vicinity, most are lighter warships, corvettes and frigates. However you do spy several assault transports approaching the planet. It looks like command has decided to leave a presence on the planet.

Once back on board the Invincible, the wounded and dead are taken to the ship’s medical facilities. Gage is stopped briefly because of his brand new missile launcher, but the junior navy officer lets him go with minimal fuss. You are debriefed quickly, afterwards you’re able to return back to the barracks for rest.

[russdm]

Zor will keep watch for an opportunity to confront Marr in private, so he can learn what Marr is planning to do with the datapad and whether Marr's plans will result in trouble for Zor. Zor will keep his blaster pistol handy and hidden if need be, just in case Marr tries anything violent.

[Seanfall]

When Marr returned to his quarters, and stowed his gear he would remove his Cybernetic arm. Sanisteam then reattach it. He took out the Data chip/pad and gave it a look over, to determine what it needed to be slotted in, in order to read it. If anyone approached him he'd quickly stow it in a pocket or slip it just inside his arm. Where it would look like a part of his prosthetic.

[russdm]

Zor discretely asks Marr about the datapad and why he took it, plus what he plans to do. Zor will keep his hand on his blaster pistol in case he needs to draw it for self defense.

[TheThan]

Ok guys I’m sorry to do this but I’m going to have to officially end this game.

My life is nutz right now and I basically don’t have the time to DM. It looks like it’s going to be that way for the foreseeable future.
Thanks to everyone that’s stuck it out with me, I’m sorry to end on this note but I feel that I can’t really do the job of DMing justice right now. Hopefully things will settle down.

I posted this same message in the OOC thread, if you checked that first.