ELROOD SECTOR: Episode Three: Wheelin', Dealin' and Fishin'

[Starbeard]

Vale Starcloud

"Mynocks! I figured something would be out there, complicating things."

Vale settles into a spare seat on the cramped bridge and looks for some puffed space crackers to munch on while watching Clark and Kit float about outside. His boots look good resting on the navigation console.

[Zhym]

Kato stands in the corner and makes a sad face at the deactivated droid. "I know how you feel," he says.

[Starbeard]

Vale looks over to Kato from his swivel chair and volunteers the open bag of puffy snacks munificently. "Shpsh cwahkah? Dayr dlishss, Shweet Keshl Shpice I fink."

[Monsieur Rose]

Zuul

The warning of subterfuge ringing in his ears, Zuul decides to follow the droid and make sure it deactivates.

[max_vale]

Aboard the Nova Kestrel and the hulk of the Wayfarer; inside the massive ring of space junk and wrecked ships orbiting the Planet Korad; Elrood Sector


Kit and Clark, aboard the Wayfarer

Professor Clark did what he could to shunt as much power to the computer banks that Kit'katarra was working on to get the vital information they needed; namely the coordinates to the mineral rich world of Alluvia and from the soft, happy-ish growl the albino Wookie made, the one time Academic figured he did okay....

Kit'katarra used every bit of technical and computer knowledge she had....plus she tried her best to attune herself to the Force the way Vale had taught her and she was happy to download the required coordinates into her Pocket Computer for transfer back to the Navicomputer on the Nova Kestrel when they got back aboard....

Everyone else on the Nova Kestrel

In the back of the ship, near the engines, Zuul and Kato noticed that R2B4 was decidedly NOT deactivated and instead had extended out an 'arm' to plug into the Ship's systems. Zuul came stomping up and started to say something when a clearly 'after-market' hatch popped open on the back of the Astromech Droid and a powerful Stun Blaster attacked to an arm angled out and pointed up at the Barabel and cut loose a blast of concentric stun rings that slammed into the big Barabel....

Zuul hit the Deck and Kato noticed he wasn't going to be getting up quickly and even more alarmingly, the 'blaster arm' was starting to swivel towards him as the Droid continued its work on the ship's systems with its' other 'arm' and let out a nasty sounding 'kerZLAPT!' sound....

In the cockpit Vale suddenly stopped eating his chips as a strange tremor in the Force came over him, he could tell something NOT right was happening near by.....Kato's AURA suddenly spiked as Surprise and possible Anger/Fear/Concern all welled up at once. Clearly SOMETHING was happening in the aft compartment of the Ship....

Kael meanwhile had his attention draw to the scopes and screens of the ship as a new heading was scrawling across the screen and Helm Controls were being locked out of the Cockpit.....somebody or some THING was plotting a course back to Korad and was negating the ability of the Pilot or Co-Pilot to do anything about it.....


*Zuul is Lightly Stunned....he's out for 2 rounds and then he'll be at -1D to all actions for 7 rounds as he comes out of it dazed and disoriented.

[Zhym]

Kato barely has time to say "What the...?" as the droid's weapon arm swings toward him. He reaches for his blaster, hoping he can get a shot off before the droid does...

Seems like using a luck force point would be useful here, so let's do that.

[Rex]

Kit

"Roar."

"Got it, lets get out of here."

Kit starts back to the other ship.

[ateno]

"IT'S THE DROID!" is heard over the intercom.

Knowing he cant out computer the droid made for this action he makes a quick decision.

Kael gets up and grabs his blaster and sends a quick comm. "Away party, the droid woke up and is trying to take over the ship.
Get on board fastest."

Kael will head to the last position of the droid And will hopefully shoot at the data probe in the wall. Using his last force point

Kael

[kipper]

Clark simply nods in full agreement with Kit, continuing to keep a watchful eye for any mynocks as we return.

[Monsieur Rose]

Zuul

"ZZZZ..."

[Starbeard]

Vale Starcloud

Vale tosses his snack aside and chides himself for becoming too lax. Drawing his flashing lightsaber, he dashes from the cockpit with Kael and attempts to disable the droid in any way necessary.

[max_vale]

Aboard the Nova Kestrel inside the massive ring of space junk and wrecked ships orbiting the Planet Korad; Elrood Sector


Professor Clark and Kit'katarra the white furred Wookie moved quickly back to their own ship, catching sight of the 4 modified 'Asteroid Hoppers' piloted by Slythor's Squib pilots moving towards them from a distance....and seemingly at a quick clip.....

As they came aboard and cycled shut the airlock door behind them, they found the situation on the Kestrel had taken quite a strange turn.....


In the rear compartment, the rogue R2 unit continued in its efforts to 'hi-jack' the vessel while the rest of the crew rushed back to help out....

First, Vale, his hands still stained with 'puffy dust', pulled his Lightsaber and ignited it as he moved in front of Kael and burst into the room, the hum and glow from his blue blade leading the way. He saw Zuul laid out on the ground snoring and he inadvertently bumped Kato out of the way as the latter was drawing his Sporting Blaster pistol and the Jedi saw the stun blaster on the end of an arm extended out of the Droid's body cut loose a blast of blue stun rings. A moment later, he collapsed on the ground, right next to Zuul...his lightsaber switching off as his slack hands let go of it and his chip-dust-stained fingers and face lay on the ground as everything went dark.....

Kato moved quickly and drew his weapon and then felt himself getting bumped to the side and his weapon ALMOST fell out of his grip, but his vision went into seemingly slow-motion and he saw everything with a clarity that ONLY the Force could give him.....or perhaps some really strong psychosomatic drugs....but he wasn't on those....so it MUST be the Force! He saw the Droid fire stun rings and Vale fall to the deck, hit by the blast that WOULD"VE hit him....what a Selfless HERO Vale was! Then he saw a bolt from a blaster fired from somewhere outside of his field of vision slice perfectly thru the extended servo arm the EVIL R2 Droid had plugged into the Ship's computer and with a shower of sparks, the arm was cut in half! Then he lined up the conical-bodied machine of treachery and fired! His bolt flew true and lanced directly into the middle of the machine. A moment later, with a muffled flash and the sounds of a hollow-explosion, smoke began to pour out of various holes in the R2 unit and its lights dimmed as it was fully destroyed.....

Kael moved quickly towards the back of the ship after calling out his warning, not surprised that Vale beat him to the punch. He WAS surprised to find out the Driod was armed with a Stun Blaster, which it used to drop the poor Jedi to the deck with a blast of blue stun rings. He took a deep breath, let it go and fired a PERFECT shot with his Blaster pistol that severed the computer jack 'arm' of the R2 unit into two halves....eliminating the Droid's control of the Freighter in an instant. A moment later, Kato fired a shot that destroyed the internals of the R2 and took care of it from ever being a threat again....

A long moment later, Kit cut loose a roar that Kael interpreted to mean that 'company was on the way, fast' and he immediately raced to the cockpit and saw the 4 Asteroid Hoppers moving in quickly. Kit moved into the Pilot's seat as he sat down and hit the comms panel that was blinking and they all then heard a Squib's voice call out; "Okay hairless ones and hair FULL Wookie....power down or we blast you to bits, YOU BET!"


OOC: Okay, Zuul and Vale are Stunned at the moment and Kael knows that the Hoppers (4 of them) are at Long Range and moving towards them quickly....

[Starbeard]

Vale drools on the ground, only conscious enough to feel glad that his lightsaber automatically deactivates itself.

[ateno]

Kael turns around and starts the ship moving at the fastest movement he can, hoping he can figure it out, not being a pilot.

"I NEED HELP MOVING THIS BUCKET!!

Kael

[Rex]

Kit

Kit will try to get them out of range ASAP, evading as she does so. Powering up shields, then weapons.

Over the comms, "Growl!"

"Man the cannons!"

[kipper]

Clark heads for the ships cannon, climbs aboard, and toggles everything on!

OOC: I hope we have a cannon!

[max_vale]

OOC: You do.....it's the First entry in the Ships & Vehicles Stats thread: the Nova Kestrel.....you've got a twin light cannon right over the Cockpit that anyone in the Cockpit can fire and you've got a Turret with a Heavy Laser Cannon and and a gunwell (a.k.a. the 'spin around chair' like Han and Luke use in A New Hope) in the Left Cargo Bay (Cannon's on the Top of the ship)......PLUS a Proton Torpedo Tube right underneath the Cockpit as well (operable by those in the Cockpit) with 4 Torps......but that's a poor choice to try and use against small, fast, maneuverable ships. Presumably, Clark would be running to the Heavy Laser Turret.

[kipper]

^OOC: Yes, the heavy laser cannon turret.

[Monsieur Rose]

Zuul

Still taking a nap. Probably sliding about as people turn the ship around.

[max_vale]

Aboard the Nova Kestrel inside the massive ring of space junk and wrecked ships orbiting the Planet Korad; Elrood Sector


Onboard the Nova Kestrel, the team of NRI Agents...well, 4 out of 6 of them anyway, moved about the ship frantically as they got ready to depart this place before the armed Asteroid Hoppers flown by the Squib pilots on Slythor the Crime Lord's payroll could blast them to bits....

In the pilot's compartment, the Wookie Kit'katarra quickly got into the Pilot's Chair and quickly powered up the engines, getting the Ghtroc Freighter moving and throwing it into evasive action as she also turned on the Deflector Shields and roared into the intercom for someone to man the Heavy Laser Cannon Turret mounted on the top of the ship and she began to move towards open space to make as quick a run as possible to get away from Korad's gravity well so that they could engage the Hyperdrive.....though they'd also need someone to punch coordinates into the Navicomputer to have a destination....like the coordinates they'd just retrieved for the planet Alluvia, perhaps.....

Moving as quickly as he could towards the Cargo Bay where the control seat for the Heavy Laser Turret was located, Professor Clark lost his balance several times as the ship suddenly moved THIS way and then suddenly THAT way in an evasive pattern. The tall and strong Human Academic gritted his teeth and kept his focus on moving forward, arriving at his destination and sliding into the chair and powering up the weapon and firing controls; seeing the quartet of Squib 'fighters' spreading out and moving in; he got ready for the fight coming....remembering the 'Shantipole' Mission from years ago and flying in the Verpine Belt in the Hoppers and remembering how insanely maneuverable they were, grimly realizing they were going to be TOUGH targets to hit. His rational mind DID take a small bit of comfort in also realizing that the small Hoppers didn't have much room to mount weapons, so there was THAT....

Sliding down into the co-pilot seat, Kael powered on the Sensors 'scope' and noticing the 4 swift and quickly maneuvering modified Hoppers were spreading out to 4 different attack vectors and moving to Medium range quickly. He could also tell from the read-outs that though the Hoppers were quick and VERY maneuverable; they were not shielded or well armored and also were lightly armed with just a single Light Laser each. He ALSO was realizing quickly that coordinates would need to be put into the Navicomputer when they reached a distance far enough away from the planet to make the jump to hyperspace*......

In the back of the ship in the rec area; poor Kato went from feeling like a million credits for defeating the 'evil' R2 Unit, to watching the 'Jedi Hero!' Vale and the big Barabel Zuul slide around the cabin as the ship suddenly lurched every which way as clearly a space battle as bout to ensue and he wasn't sure what he could do to help out....

Over the comms, the Squib pilots' showed their poor communication discipline as they all began to talk over each other and over an open line, starting out with; "Okay big, dumb, Ugor-slime ones, we be blasting you now, you BET!"; "But you bet dey NOT blast back and roley-poley Droid be taking 'dem ship over!"; "SHUT MOUF AND BLAST 'EM, DUM-DUM!" and more of the same, until Kael mercifully cut it off....


*Okay, with the jump to Hyperspace; it'll take 3 rounds and somebody (Kael or Kit) needs to plot the course using the Navicomputer (make a Difficulty 15 Astrogation Check (under Mechanical) or Difficulty 10 if 4 rounds are spent doing it...it takes time to plug in the coordinates and plot the course....if you HURRY, it takes 3 rounds, but is more Difficult)...

Right now, the 4 Hoppers are essentially at the 10, 2, 4 and 8 o'clock positions around the vessel and at Medium Range......Clark, in his Turret, can fire at any of them (and multiple of them if he so chooses, though obviously this is more difficult).....Kit (or Kael) can only fire at two of them (those in the front arc) or make a Piloting move to point the ship at the two that currently 'behind' them; but this puts them closer to Korad and making the run to 'open space' for the Hyperspace Jump longer....

If anyone has more questions/concerns about this, please let me know.