the Dark times, session 7

A writeup of Monday nights Star Wars Saga edition rpg session.

 

the Dark times, session 7

 

The cast:-

Darjan: Human force adept (Tony)
Kel Orta: Kel Dor jedi knight (Kev)
Cyrus: human jedi knight (Dave)
Sai Rye: human soldier (Chris)

 

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away

 After activating they hyperdrive in the upper atmosphere of Ryloth, Kel Orta & Sai Rye realise it is running hotter and faster than normal, and will probably fail before they get to Siskeen. They manage a controlled reversion to realspace and effect temporary repairs before getting underway again. Luckily the Ravager arrives on Siskeen ahead of schedule.

 On approach for landing it can be seen that Siskeen is still recovering from the clone wars, with ruined cities and wrecks of capital ships visible scattered over the surface. The Ravager puts down in a spaceport, and a customs inspector and 6 clone troopers arrive. They conduct a cursory inspection before leaving, saying they will send a repair crew to assist them. As they leave Kel Orta thinks the inspector was a bit nervous...

 A repair droid and R2 team arrive shortly and start assessing the cost to fix the Ravager. Tark’o and his family ask to leave, and say they will give the team whatever funds they can spare. The repairteam droid breaks the bad news to Kel Orta , it will cost 20,000Cr to repair the hyperdrive, or they can get a new one fitted for 30,000Cr, also repairs to the hull will cost 20,000Cr and take 2 weeks. In discussion the team realises it would be better to sell the Ravager and get a new ship. Tark’o returns and gives the team 5,000Cr, and also says he will have a warm welcome for them if they ever return to Siskeen.

 After asking around the team settle on buying a used YT1300 for 20,000Cr, and being unable to find a buyer for the Ravager decide to move the Ravager to an adjoining dock and strip the computer, shields and sensor systems out of it to fit on the YT1300 later on, and sell the stripped Ravager for 5,000Cr.

 After 3 days the team has nearly finished stripping parts out of the Ravager. Kel Orta and Cyrus are moving trolleys of parts from one bay to the other. Kel Orta hears the sound of troopers approaching, turns and puts his hands up in surrender and sees 2 squads of 6 clone troopers led by an inspector, telling him to drop weapons and surrender. Oblivious as always Cyrus is caught by surprise by 2 squads of troopers, he pauses as the anger flares inside him.

 Darjan and Sai Rye are running diagnostics on the YT1300, Darjan gets a sensor ping from high orbit, the Hunter has arrived. He shouts a warning to Sai Rye, and as they look out of the ship see Kel Orta being held at blaster point. Sai rye heads down the entry ramp to see what is going on, whilst Darjan heads up to the top hatch in case he needs to flee.

 Kel Orta tries to ask what the troopers want, but half of them order him against the wall as the other half point guns at Sai Rye. In the other dock, Cyrus unleashes his anger, shrugging off the stun bolts the troopers fire at him, cutting them down with his lightsabres.

 From the top of the YT1300, Darjan sees Sai Rye and Kel Orta agains the wall, and hears the screams of troopers from the adjoining dock. The troopers stun Sai Rye and Kel Orta. Cyrus vents his anger and frustration on the clone troopers, cutting swathes through them in his dark rage, as more and more of them converge on his position. Darjan flees from the dock and head out towards the ruins of ships away from the dock. As Cyrus hacks down troopers he sees high above him more landing craft approaching, and decides to take the fight to the enemy. He storms a landing craft and sets off towards the Hunter in low orbit.

 The comm system crackles on in the landing craft but Cyrus ignores it. Soon blaster bolts are bouncing off the hull of the lander but he holds it together through his sheer anger, the attacking fighters peel off as he gets closer to the Hunter. After a moments quietness the sky is filled with turbolaser blasts that soon find the mark. As the lander explodes Cyrus ejects in an escape pod.

 As the escape pod slams into the ground, Cyrus’s rage fades, he climbs out V-wing fighters screech overhead, he heads towards ruins in the distance....