SCAVENGER HUNT: Episode Five: Paradise Unbound

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Aboard the Light Freighter Nova Kestrel; 'Paradise System'


As the Rebel Party took off from the 'Trash Moon' in the heavily damaged Ghtroc Light Freighter*, they noticed the Star System which had previously been full of 'rings' of garbage was suddenly in complete chaos....in fact, a streak that looked like a comet, but was actually a massive chunk of.....something....suddenly slammed into the 'Moon' they had just been on and the moon was suddenly breaking into pieces....

At the controls his Ship, a still-recovering from his brush-with-death-by-vacuum Cal forgot all about his pain as he painfully noticed how his ship 'handled' thanks to the pounding it had taken from Teehl's Pirate ship while L9 the cooking droid was at the controls. The lurching and shaking of the helm controls occupied the Pilot's attention, while in the co-pilot's seat, Jackson noticed with alarm that on the sensor scope in addition to the suddenly 'system wide garbage flying in all directions'; there were suddenly no less than FIVE ships in the system with them. Four of them were the circular, Ugor Battlewagons closing on them from one side while the fifth was the heavily armed Pirate ship, that was beating a hasty retreat from the system.....

The rest of the Rebels had to deal with L9 prattling on and on about his 'near consumption experience' until Spilfer slipped behind the Droid and deactivated it with a literal hammer blow to its off switch by means of a hydro-hammer he pulled from somewhere. The lovely silence didn't last long however as the speakers suddenly came to life with an Ugor message over the comms system....

"HEAVE TOO YOU RABID GROBERS OF DE HOLY OF HOLIES! WE WILL SOON COMBENCE BLASTING YOU TO MOLECULES IF YOU DO NOT BE TURNING OBER DE PRIME MOVER!"

Jackson and Clark can see that their scanners are showing numerous chemical rockets are being armed on the Ugor ships and old-fashioned Plasma Discharge cannons are heating up on the spherical Ugor war-ships that are rapidly closing on them....


*The Nova Kestrel is heavily damaged and its speed and maneuverability are minimal (i.e. Speed gets a +1 to any rolls, nothing for Maneuverability). The Shields are completely down and drained, but the weapon systems, comms and sensors are all still working. The Ugor ships are just now getting to Long Range, but it will be at least 3 rounds until you are clear of all the junk in the system to be able to attempt a Jump to Lightspeed.

[Rex]

Kit

Kit heads for the medical bay with a roar.
"Grl..."

"Battle Stations!"

[kipper]

"There's no way we can fight them, our only hope is to avoid being hit until we can bug out of here!" Clark says as he makes his way to the gun turret. "And with our shields down, we need to keep lost amid the junk to block their line of sight and fire on them when they can see us to keep them occupied so they can't target us!"

[ybn1197]

Jackson runs a quick analysis/diagnostic of the systems on the ship attempting to see what (if anything) can be fixed quickly and where he can pull power from in order to get some more life out of the shields.

[Monsieur Rose]

Zuul

He hears Jackson mumbling about needing more power and shrugs. "We've got a bunch of these blaster power packss. Maybe we could tie them into the ship?" Zuul remarks with all the expertise of a eunuch in a whorehouse.

He moves to the cannons, ready to blast. "We should blast the trash behind uss, making it harder to get a clean shot. Right?"

[kipper]

Zuul
"We should blast the trash behind uss, making it harder to get a clean shot. Right?"

"Sounds good, let's do it," Clark replies.

[Starbeard]

Vale gulps and does his best to clear his mind of distraction. He attempts to look into the Force with his senses, using his farsight to help direct the pilot towards debris clusters that would screen the ship well without being difficult to navigate.

OOC: Farseeing from the navigator's seat, hopefully to make the piloting rolls through the debris a little easier.

[Solo4114]

Cal pilots the ship as best he can to position it such that as much debris as possible is between the ship and its pursuers. The basic idea here is to prevent a clear line of sight/targeting on the ship, so that weapons won't have a clear path to the ship.

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Aboard the Light Freighter Nova Kestrel; 'Paradise System'


In the cockpit of the Ghtroc Freighter Nova Kestrel, Cal deftly maneuvered the ship this way and that, zipping close to various bits of trash here and there and weaving back and forth to put as much of the debris between the Rebel ship and the pursuing Ugors as possible. The moves made off as some of the plasma cannon bursts and chemical rockets collided with junk and exploded in bright, short-lived spheres of light instead of impacting on the damaged ship's hull.....

Next to Cal, Jackson did his best to assess the damage and see if there was anything he could do to try and get the Shield Generators recharged more quickly. Shunting the power for the auto-chef and the holo game table to the generators would allow him to be able to put up a pitiful screen in a few moments*, but it wouldn't be much. Still, the Engineer-turned-Rebel worked diligently to do just that.....

Sitting in one of the two chairs behind the Pilot and Co-Pilot stations, Vale Starcloud closed his eyes, steadied his breathing and reached out with the Force....trying to see possible futures for the group.....a moment later he was confused by a swirling mass of images.....Excited Squibs crying out in joy and triumph; blob-ular Ugors blubbering in anger and outrage; a swirling Black Hole; three or four TIE fighters spitting green hyphens of light; the swirling lightscape of hyperspace....then nothing.....with a blink, the young Human Jedi was back in the here-and-now, and a blinking light on the sensor scope next to him showed that 7 small ships seemed to be racing towards them from ahead and to the right of them.....these were NOT Ugor ships, but with all the junk out there, it was hard to make out exactly WHAT they were**.....

Professor Clark raced to the cargo-bay and jumped into the turret seat for the Heavy Laser mounted on the top of the Nova Kestrel. As he powered up the Fire Control systems, he was surprised to hear the reptilian voice of Zuul near him, suggesting shooting the debris to fill up the space between them and the pursuing battle-wagons with even MORE junk. The Professor agreed and lining up on a big hunk of....something.....he cut loose and turned it into several dozen bits of garbage....that promptly got impacted by a Chemical Missile that exploded several thousand meters behind them, doing no harm to the rebel ship....

Zuul Ksska had moved towards the cargo-bay of the ship, intending to use the Cannon to blast some garbage, but his academic Rebel companion Clark had had the same idea and beat him to the weapon. He made the suggestion to the human, who promptly followed it and the big barabel hissed in triumph while also doing his best to stay upright as the ship turned hard this way and that as Cal maneuvered them all over the place.....

In the medbay, Kit the Wookie made her way there, ready to treat any patients she may receive as a result of the battle. As she left the 'lounge' area of the ship, she head the little Squib Spilfer call out; "YEAH!!! TAKE THAT YOU SKUZZY UGOR SLIME!"; and the cookie droid L9 respond with; "I say....Nefairvean Skuz-Stew is DELIGHTFUL if prepared with the correct amount of Taalkis Spice. Why, I once...", mercifully, the door shut, closing off the med bay from the rest of the ship for a moment....


OOC: Okay, it'll be a couple of more rounds at least before you clear far enough out to be able to make the jump to hyperspace....

*Jackson knows that in 2 rounds, he can put up a weak set of Deflector Shields

**As mentioned in an IM, the Jedi Power Farseeing isn't actually seeing farther than normal (that would be the Power 'Magnify Senses', which Vale doesn't know yet); but rather is the ability to see someone(s) far away and the current/possible future situation of that person(s).....this is the power that Luke uses in Empire Strikes Back to see Han and Leia and Chewie at Bespin and them being taken prisoner and tortured....so I had Vale use the power, only concentrating on himself and his crew....I hope that's cool....

[Rex]

Kit

Kit straps in and listens for any calls that she is needed.

[kipper]

Clark continues creating a cloud of debris behind our ship. He'll also take pot shots at any Ulgor ships if the opportunity arises, his goal here is mainly to keep them on their toes and to make it difficult for them to target us.

[Starbeard]

**As mentioned in an IM, the Jedi Power Farseeing isn't actually seeing farther than normal (that would be the Power 'Magnify Senses', which Vale doesn't know yet); but rather is the ability to see someone(s) far away and the current/possible future situation of that person(s).....this is the power that Luke uses in Empire Strikes Back to see Han and Leia and Chewie at Bespin and them being taken prisoner and tortured....so I had Vale use the power, only concentrating on himself and his crew....I hope that's cool....

Got it, sorry about that! I keep getting confused because I've been playing a wizard in a completely different game who has a Farseeing spell which is like Magnify Senses, so I keep mixing up which one has which effects! As it happens, I was stretching to find a way to use it with my post, and how it's supposed to work is actually much closer to what I was hoping for anyway.

Vale opens his eyes, furrowing his eyebrows in confusion. He speaks out to the pilot. "Be careful, I sense something… a black hole… and Imperial fighters nearby, but also many Squibs. I think we are about to have some company."

As if on cue, the ship's sensor starts to blink and announce seven incoming ships. "Quick, we need to get a reading on those new ships. They could be Squib or Imperial." Knowing that Cal and Jackson would both be better suited to that task even if they split their attention, he un-focuses his gaze and reaches out to sense the emotions and thoughts aboard the new ships. Are they feeling joyful like the Squib he saw in his vision, angry and frustrated like the Ugors, or calculating and callous like an Imperial pilot?

[ybn1197]

Jackson hears Cal to the side but puts it in the background. He needed to get some semblance of deflector shield up before the ship was turned into more space junk.

[Solo4114]

Cal will continue to try to juke and put trash between the Kestrel and its pursuers, but will take a brief moment to use the sensors to ID the incoming ships.

[Monsieur Rose]

Zuul

The large reptilian cheers and encourages Clark as he blasts things into smaller things. On more than once occasion Zuul wonders how he could adapt the gun for a personal weapon.

"Boom!" He says with a toothy grin on his face.

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Aboard the Light Freighter Nova Kestrel; 'Paradise System'


As the Light Freighter turns hard this way and that to avoid both massive amounts of garbage now scattering every which way after the Gravity Projector that had created stable orbits for the junk had been inactivated and moved AND to avoid incoming fire from numerous Ugor battle-wagons, a new group of ships suddenly enters the fray....

Cal glanced at his sensor scopes and saw that the new ships were the needle-like vessels of the Squibs. Moments later, numerous Squib calls filled the comms channel with the likes of "Eat THIS Ugor slime!", "Dibs on dat piece!" and "Death to the Ugor Fanatics!"....

Jackson worked hard and was able to get a minimal screen of Shields to protect the Nova Kestrel while Professor Clark blasted more big pieces of garbage into smaller pieces of garbage to fill their wake; but in the end it didn't matter as the Squib ships tear into the circular Ugor battle-wagons, using their amazing tractor beam technology to ram massive amounts of trash into the ships, tearing holes in the hulls, destroying weapons arrays and sensor dishes, etc. In short order, the Ugor ships are either destroyed or they flee the system. A moment later, a hail comes from the largest of the Squib vessels, the familiar "Momma-ship" of one King Ebarbavbeedee....

In the cockpit and piped throughout the ship comes the King's voice; "Hail, conquerors of heroes! Much good loot-stuff have been grabbed by us due to thoughtful vandalism of Ugorian church-system! Bring now the quest-object and we will keep short end of deal!"

Vale wonders for a moment why he didn't see a black-hole or TIE Fighters....and then remembered that the Jedi Power shows POSSIBLE situations that MAY happen in the future as well as things going on in the present with friends or family that he's concentrating on. Always in motion is the future....

Spilfer quickly worms his way into the cockpit and with a massive grin he points to the Squib Momma-ship Thrifty, "Go dock there! Looks like King is already working over somebody else with deal too. Good haggling time!"

Sure enough, a small transport is indeed already docked at one of the Squib ship's docking ports; a scan would indicate that it's a Mon Calamari design. Another docking port on the opposite end of the ship has a signal light blinking on and off, beckoning to the Rebels....

[Rex]

Kit

Hearing the hail from the Mom-ship, Kit exits the medical bay to check on everyone and make sure they are all OK.

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OOC: Cal, Jackson and Zuul are Wounded

[Rex]

Kit

Kit will see to Zuul first using medical bay supplies to save on the med-packs, then Cal next.

[kipper]

Clark will see to Jackson's injuries, then help Kit with Cal.