the Dark Times session 13 (unlucky for some)

The cast:-

Corran Montari: human assassin (Tony)
Kel Orta: Kel Dor jedi knight (Kev)
Cyrus: human jedi knight (Dave)
Captain Kidd: human pirate (Chris)

 Back aboard the Hunter, Vrask debriefs the team. Again Cyrus interrupts and has to be discilplined several times. Given the success of the mission and that he has no immediate need of them he gives the team a week off. He sends Corran off on a recon mission, and asks Cyrus to stay and give him all the information he has about the Blazing Chain pirates. Cyrus gives info as to disposition, bases and contacts for his old pirate gang, and then volunteers information about Kel Orta’s padawan and the other padawans that fled at the end of the war. Vrask thanks him for the info and dismisses him.

 Kel Orta and Cpt Kidd spend a few days working on their ship, fitting a concussion missile launcher to it. Cyrus spends his time constructing a lightsaber, and completes it apart from the crystal which he needs to synthesise or acquire. Thinking that Kel Orta will not let him have shore leave, he speaks to the ships fixer the droid EDE, who arranges 48 hour pass for him for a few hundred credits.

 Cyrus arrives on Cularin and immediately starts making enquiries about arena/gladiator fighting. After a day, the agent he speaks to is unwilling to pay him top credit price, so he reveals himself to be the infamous wookie killer, the agent gladly agrees to pay him 50,000Cr and tells him to come back in 3 days.

 Back aboard the Hunter, the deck officer contacts Kel Orta regarding the whereabouts of Cyrus. Kel Orta is shortly summonsed by Vrask, and told to retrieve Cyrus immediately. 

 Arriving on the surface, Kel Orta and Cpt Kidd start hitting the street to locate Cyrus. After a day Kidd finds Cyrus whilst Kel Orta learns that the wookie killer is on the bill for a fight the next night. Kidd tries to persuade Cyrus to return to the Hunter but he won’t.

 The night of the fight arrives. Quite a crowd assembles at the venue, and old factory in the industrial district. Kel Orta observers from the crowd, and Cpt Kidd puts a bet on Cyrus winning. Cyrus enters the makeshift arena, and in stomp two large loader droids. Droids hover overhead to record and transmit the fight.  Its a hard fight for Cyrus until he calls on the force to lift both droids in the air and slam them together to finish the fight. The racket of the crowd ceases immediately, then they start to run. Over the noise and chaos some of the team can hear sirens as local enforcement officers approach.

 Cyrus looks for his agent but he is nowhere to be seen. Cpt Kidd decides it is time to leave the area. Kel Orta receives a message from the Hunter, a force user has been reported in their area, they are to apprehend him and bring him into custody. In the distance the team can see Imperial shuttles landing in the city.

 Thinking better of trying to bypass the enforcement officers and Imperials, Kel Orta gives his ID code and the team returns to the Hunter. Vrask questions Kel Orta, asking why Cyrus was using his abilities openly, and how he had gotten off the ship without authorisation. Vrask orders Cyrus to confinement (the floating cell in space), and once he is out of earshot then orders Kel Orta to interrogate then execute Cyrus. The Empire executes force users and given the public display on the planet someone has to pay the price.

 As he is being escorted, Cyrus breaks free of his guards, and runs into the depths of the Hunter. He accesses the computer but can only get the escape pods to eject, not being skilled enough or having the time to cause anymore distractions. The alarm is raised that Cyrus has escaped, and Kel Orta doubles back to the hangar bay. As Cyrus enters he sees Kel Orta stood in front of the freighter. Kel Orta gets Cyrsu in a force grip starting to choke him, but Cyrus force slams him to break the grip. Kel Orta comes back at him with his lightsaber. Cyrus force disarms him and slices at him but misses. Kel Orta uses force disarm himself and gets the saber back. Cyrus force slams Kel Orta away, and dashes into the freighter as Cpt Kidd arrives and opens up with his blaster rifle. Cyrus seals the hatch and limps into the cockpit. Kel Orta and Cot Kidd head to the fighters as Cyrus struggles with getting the ship to take off, his lack of training and injuries making it harder to get the thing moving.

 Soon enough he lifts off and is out of the bay, only to get caught by the Hunters tractor beams. He redlines the engines but its not enough to break free. The fighters launch and come round on approach to the freighter.

 Cyrus tries to lock a concussion missile onto the tractor beam projector, missing with his first shot. His second shot catches one of the projectors, knocking it out. He fires the engines again and eventually breaks free, with 6 fighters in his tail. Kel Orta and Cpt Kidd lead the attack, repeatedly firing on the freighter as Cyrus desperately tries to get away.

 The freighter is soon disabled, and drifting in space. The fighters come round for another run and finish it off, it explodes into a ball of flame. Cyrus makes it to the escape pod, in the confusion only Kel Orta picks up the pod on his sensors, Kidd and the other pilots think its a confirmed kill. Kel Orta goes after the pod, blasting it repeatedly until there is nothing left.