"Damn, I think this guy was part wookie. Can this armor smell worse?" She looks down at the captured imperials. "So how do we keep them, she points at the two stormtroopers, from alerting others, or the one we're taking with us for that matter? Unless you plan on cabling their mouths shut...or moving really fast through here."
OOC
Oops, had improved armored defense backwards in my head. I'll still go back to my battle armor personally afterwards. Viria wouldn't stay in this stuff for longer than required anyway.
The entirety of the comm room was a mess, though it didn't seem to be the fault of the Imperials. What few chairs there were were tossed over on their backs, along with pieces of datafilm strewn across one of the consoles near the opposite end of the room, both likely results of the quit exit by the comm officers that had stayed until the very last minute rather than any Imperial scrounging. There was no blaster scoring in the room, and no direct signs of any actual fight, unlike in the corridors outside.
On the left wall was a cracked and ruined holoscreen, with the consoles below it showing no signs of life. In fact, beyond a few small lamps somewhat randomly placed around the ceiling, the entire room seemed to be dark. Despite that, the large comm panel in the center of the room, the one the Imperial Officer collapsed next to, looks to have power still. A few of the panels on the console are still active and lit up with at least one light blinking slightly.
As for the Stormtroopers, it seemed that while it might be a bit uncomfortable, switching into the armour was definitely possible. The actual plasteel armour pieces were easy enough to remove, coming off in separate pieces rather than as one large piece of armour. The black, bodyglove of the undersuit was harder to remove from the two young men that had been wearing the armour, but it was made of a material that would stretch well enough to fit just about any average-sized humanoid.
The Officer's uniform is, of course, easier to work with. The black colour rather than green identifies him as an Army officer, and the rank badge on the left breast indicates the young man as a Commander. From the looks of him, he was probably just out of the Academy, too. Definitely young, even compared to some of the Alliance's officers.
Istara
Spoiler:
The door is repairable, but it'll take well over an hour. The problem isn't in the wiring or anything like that, rather the fact that some small explosive buckled the door inwards slightly so that it no longer moves along the right path. The door also isn't responding to the control panel anymore, seemingly stuck where it had stopped and unable to move beyond that point one way or another.
You can probably still get the door closed through forcing it, though any real repairs are going to take too much time.
"I don't think I'm going to be able to shut the door without forcing it." Istara said. "And while K2 has his merits, he's not built for heavy lifting."
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The droid seems to think that Istara (8 str, and roughly 5 feet tall and under 100 lbs) isn't exactly built for heavy lifting either.
Still, she and the droid try to push the door shut.
"If we can't do anything about it we can't do anything about it." Kay told the slicer, as she finished tying up the troopers. It used up the cord from the belt, and it wasn't perfect, someone might come along and find them, but it was the best that they could do without any good place to stash the bodies.
Once she had finished with the troopers and straightening her new uniform she frowned at the rank insignia. He was pretty young to be an officer, especially a Commander, if she wasn't wearing his rank insignia she would have guessed he was a lieutenant. Commander was a very high rank and it made her wonder if she shouldn't remove a few of the pips from the insignia so she wouldn't stand out so much. Females were rare, ranking females were almost an unknown species.
Shrugging, she stood next to the still shut door and out her remaining stun grenade. If there was anyone in the hall way she'd use it, otherwise she switch to a frag grenade when they went into the Data room. "Everyone ready? We clear the Data room, grab sleeping beauty here and head on out, right?"
"I say we put the troopers in the data-room when we blow it. Get's rid of the problem." Deurr mumbles while waiting for the others to get the suits on.
"That's cold, but efficient, the stormtroopers deserve no better. Now let's get moving." She smiles coldly and looks distant for a moment thinking of something, before adjusting her liberated armor, and slinging her rifle into the ready position.
"That's cold, but efficient, the stormtroopers deserve no better. Now let's get moving." She smiles coldly and looks distant for a moment thinking of something, before adjusting her liberated armor, and slinging her rifle into the ready position.
"If you were going to kill them anyway, you shouldn't have stunned them to start with." Istara says.
I'll not lie to myself and say my actions have not led to any deaths. Diverting funds and Kandorian Heavy Industries supplies -- which is to say weapons, when all is said and done -- to the rebellion surely did that. But if I have to pull the trigger myself, I will not begin by killing prisoners.
"No." Lia replies to Deurr's suggestion to leave the Imperials in the room when the explosives are detonated. "I will not murder them. We take them somewhere where they'll be safe from the blast and let their fellows find them and let them loose."
__________________ "Sometimes things must be broken in order to be rebuilt." --Sith Proverb.
"Your call. Just remember this thing, she pats the repeater, has no stun setting. I was shooting to kill. Now we can figure it all out after the charges are placed. We'll a spot for them, and go."
Istara was unable to force the door closed, though it did give a few centimeters before getting stuck again. If anything, at least it would mean anyone coming in behind them would have to do so one person at a time.
Thankfully, the door on the opposite end of the comm room did not seem to be damaged at all. Hitting the switch caused the door to easily and almost silently slide open, revealing the door to the data center across the corridor was closed. That, and more bodies. Up against the wall just to the right of the door was the slumped over form of a grey-skinned Duros in a Fleet Marine uniform. The black marks on his chest and shoulder were easy to spot, and there was an uncomfortable smell in the air of scorched flesh.
Looking down the corridor, Stormtroopers could be seen...for just a moment. Only two were visible and then just for a few seconds before they turned the corner and continued down the corridor to somewhere else. Considering the direction they took to turn that corner, they weren't coming from the bunks at the opposite end, but probably either the mess or the data center.
Speeder Bike Group:
A quick turn takes you out of the open clearing around the two temples and immediately into the sparser sectiosn of Yavin IV's jungle. Here it is difficult, but not too horribly taxing to keep from hitting anything. Slight adjustments in height, up and down to avoid underbrush and then low branches, come quickly but are easy to see coming and be ready for. Finding a path is the real trouble, weaving through the trees to head north in an area that never really had any kinds of paths meant that it was a matter of avoiding hitting the trees and just aiming north as best as possible through that.
In the blur of motions caused by constant directional adjustments and, of cousre, the speed of the vehicle, it is hard to see anything beyond what's coming directly at you. Despite this, however, you're both able to catch a few glimpses of Imperial troops. Most are off to the sides, out of direct sight due to the trees and foliage but the white coloured armour still easy to spot against it even as a blur. Sometimes you catch sight of a glint of metal, but never very close thankfully.
And then, after only a few minutes that would have been shorter if not for the jungle, you notice the jungle is becoming less densely packed. Suddenly there are no trees at all, and you break through the jungle to a small corridor of completely crushed trees perpendicular to your course. It is only a twenty odd meters wide, meaning you're right back into the forest in barely a second, but you do see the source of the destruction briefly: a large, wheeled tank-like vehicle moving away from you and towards the Great Temple.
Back in the jungle, however, the trees continue to remain relatively sparse and from your information you know you should be close to where the transport is supposed to be. It takes only a moment to see the glint of metal reflecting the system's starlight from above, and then only a second more to identify it as the ship...that clearly Corellian design but rather than being asymmetrical as most of their transports seem to be, this one has its rounded, segmented-window cockpit directly in the center.
Before you reach exactly where it is, however, you see something else...white figures. Four or five of them at least, though its difficult to count at the speed you're approaching the ship at thanks to the trees you're still having to quickly maneuver around.
Spoiler:
Garret:
As you begin to move north again, towards where the transport should be in an area probably just beyond the clearing of the two temples, you notice more Imperial troops arriving in the area from almost all directions. A large number of troops exit the jungle not thirty meters in front of you, seeming to take no notice at all as they head towads the Great Temple.
While the two AT-ST walkers continue to patrol the immediate area around the rear hangar, you do notice something else, too. Many of the Stormtroopers are beginning to spread out in wider patrols of the area. Whether they're looking for anything specific or just patrolling to patrol, you can't tell.
Watching these patrols move in various directions all over, you're still able to continue directly north without too much trouble...just making sure to keep low and sometimes having to move somewhat deeper into the jungle thanks to sparse tree cover as you move farther north. Even at a careful pace, it only takes you a few more minutes to reach the northern edge of the, meaning the YT-2000 should be just a half-kilometer or so farther north...roughly, of course.
As you begin to move into the jungle itself and away from the clearing, however, you notice a small group of just three Stormtroopers that are doing something you had yet to encounter: walking the edge of the jungle. They're a good distance away when you first spot them heading towards you, holding their blaster rifles casually and obviously talking to one other more than paying attention to everything around them. At the speed they're moving, it'll probably be only a minute or two before they're within just a couple of meters of you. Without making a run for it, there's not likely any way to move fast enough to get far enough into the jungle to be completely out of their sight in time.
Seeing the Storm Troopers retreating, Kay bites back a curse and darts forward, hitting the controls to the Data center door, telling it to open. If the data center's equipment had been taken, they needed to know. Needed to know when the troopers will still close enough to catch up to.
[Ready an action to toss the stun gernade if there is anyone inside the data center]
Encrypted ComLink to Everyone: "They're coming out of the woods in swarms now. They're everywhere and starting to fan out.
I'm about half a...
Crap!"
Using my best judgment I will either freeze and take 20 (if I can) or stealthily move into the forest a little more and then take 10 - assuming, and hoping, that they are 2 minutes away I should have enough time. I will definitely use a Force Point if I need to.
[OOC: What's that sound? That is the sound of me craping my pants! ]
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Dr. Viria moves to the flanking position of the door, and prepares to blast anyone she sees. She looks at Kay and nods towards the door, then her rifle.
OOC
Following suit with Kay, and readying an action to spray an autofire blast into the room if she sees any imperials.
After passing through the tunneled clearing, Yuul radios the others immediately. "Update, some kind of wheeled tank heading towards the Great Temple. We are approaching the ship, will radio again once it is secure."
Yuul raises his blaster pistol at one of the white figures from the speeder, hoping to catch them off-guard while he and Kyn make their entrance. He does his best, in spite of the speeder's quick movements, to get a shot off.
OOC
I don't know what happened to OnlyTheStrong, so I will do my best to tell Yuul's side until we can have a proper interaction between Kyn, Yuul, and the troopers.
"We had best hurry. If those troopers came from the data center, we may be too late to do any good soon, if we aren't already." Istara said, following, with her pistol drawn and an eye to covering the rear.
The door to the data center opened without any trouble, sliding to the side with a hiss and revealing what would have been a rather spacious room if not for all of the consoles. The walls were lined, leaving only a small section in the center for anyone to maneuver within. Probably only large enough for one or two average sized humanoids.
Well, currently, just one. As there was already one occupant of the room: a human male with a simple dark beard and wearing a grey uniform without any rank insignia attached...at least, none that could be seen. On his face was a wide eyed look of surprise, but it quickly faded and he dropped the datapad he was holding to scramble for a blaster at his hip.
Combat Info:
Spoiler:
And you guys get another Surprise Round. So for the Initiative Rolls...
Istara 13. Lia 11. Kay 27. Viria 14. Deurr 15. So that puts us at Kay, Deurr, Viria, Istara, and then Lia for the Surprise Round. So Kay's up first and she's tossing another stun grenade. Attack is a 20, which is a hit. So, the Imperial takes 11 stun damage. He's still up, actions for the rest of you guys on this Surprise Round?
Before the Imperial man could even open his mouth to speak, Kay tossed her stun grenade in. It hit the floor in the back corner of the room, just behind the man but still close enough that, when it detonated in a bright blue flash, he was still within the flash. It hit him hard, causing him to go face first into the console in front of him, but the man managed to at least put a hand out to catch himself rather than getting himself knocked unconscious.
Speeder Bike Group:
OOC:
Spoiler:
Since we had that bit of downtime from ENWorld's slight outing, I'll give this a bit before NPCing things. But if we don't have anything from OnlytheStrong by tomorrow, I'll just NPC his character so we can keep you two moving and hope he pops in again soon.
Garret:
Not-Really-Combat Info:
Spoiler:
You're going to hate me for this, but I'm going to have to rule you can't take 10 or 20 in this situation...since you're definitely distracted/threatened/rushed. So its opposed rolls then. Your Stealth check(sans any Force Point but with a +2 bonus for the cover you've got) is a 20. Stormtrooper's get a 29...BUT, penalties due to range and you're having cover drops that to 14.
You're safe...and lucky. Very very luck. Be glad that natural 20s aren't auto-success for skills!
Though you managed to find some underbrush near a tree somewhat away from the immediate treeline, you had to move carefully and stay low so as not to become suddenly obvious. That meant you couldn't get far, so what you found had to be enough, and by the time you'd found it and were down, the three Stormtroopers were within earshot and barely ten or so meters away from you.
It was impossible to make out exactly what they were saying, but you could hear the somewhat-static sounding voices talking between one another. And as they walked past, only one of the three Stormtroopers even bothered to look your direction into the trees. You couldn't make out much from the helmet, but it seemed like more of a casual glance than anything else...and in a few short moments, they were past and continuing on with their not-so-thorough patrol.
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