Hunted: Enemies of the Empire

[airwalkrr]

[sblock=FreeXenon]You sense immediate danger in outer space along your intended path.[/sblock]

Bata looks sheepishly at the hunk of droid metal. Oh, what ill fortune this is. I just had this one refitted too! I suppose since he saved our lives it was worth it though. Ah well, no use crying over spilled oil. We need to chart a course to the Denouva system. There we can meet with Senator Entress. Bata nods approvingly towards Trangle and makes his way to the cockpit.

As Nyub maneuvers the Crossbow gracefully out of Bespin's atmosphere and into orbit, Bata enters the cockpit and begins giving directions. Lay in a course for the Denouva system. Once we arrive I will give you the coordinates of a space dock we can use that should help us avoid unwanted attention. No sooner has Bata spoken these words than warning alarms begin going off. Bounty hunters! Bata exclaims, There's a ship incoming. Looks like a small fighter. We'll have to take care of it before making the jump to hyperspace.

Everyone will need to man a position on the ship. Available positions are Pilot, Copilot, Gunner (1), Commander, System Operator, or Engineer. If no one else wishes to serve as Commander, Bata will. Nyub would be best for pilot. Jinta could serve equally well as Commander or Engineer. Trangle unfortunately doesn't have skills that lend themselves to running a ship well, but he might do well with the addition of some Force points to his skill checks.

 

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Trangle (Male Ithorian Jedi); HP 21/30 (12) -1

Not at all surprised at this development, Trangle shakes his head in frustration. His mentor has not prepared him for this situation either. He moves forward and thrusts the doubtful feelings aside (taking on the Role of Commander assuming Chr has something to do with it).

With a forceful and commanding voice he says "Jinta you will want to man the guns. Bata get ready to assist Nyub in piloting this thing."

He then issues the following orders
"Take evasive maneuvers and Bata get that jump calculated...yesterday (role of co-pilot, right?)." Trangle will look to the Sys Ops position as best he can, or jump around to assist what ever position that may need his Aid Another attempt.

[OOC: Searching My Feelings and potentially warning the crew would have been completed prior to leaving atmosphere. Would it be possible for me to issue a warning to the crew early enough before they bounty hunters engage so that we are not surprised or could minimize the chance for suprise. If I am able to I will adjust my post to reflect that. I or someone else could have be spending what little time there was while leaving the atmosphere actively searching for danger.

Trangle will aid another or do the Sys-Op/Engineer where needed. I am willing to burn through a Force Point or 2 during this encounter as needed.

I hope taking the initiative like this is OK with everyone. I am kind of useless without the appropriate skills. At least I can appear somewhat useful by ordering people around.

Perhaps Einan's new character could already be in a useful position as a droid character? Perhaps Engineering or Sys Ops?]

 

[Max]

"We need shields up, folks, or this will be a real short trip!" says Nyub, adding to the list of things to do. "Bata, does this ship have anything special we need to know about before the shooting starts? Extra weapons would be good." he says with a grin.

OOC: I'm heading out for a bit so won't be posting quickly for a while. Nyub will, of course, be taking evasive manuvers when needed. I'll read up on the space combat rules tonight.

 

[airwalkrr]

I'll get to work on calculating the jump, Bata says, but I'm not very skilled at astrogation. It is going to take me at least a minute. We can't risk an improperly calculated jump. You'll have to keep him out of our hair for at least that long, or destroy him!

At the mention of shields, Bata cringes, The Crossbow doesn't have shields. I couldn't afford them. Let's just hope he doesn't damage the hyperdrive. The back-up hyperdrive has been malfunctioning so I hope we don't have to use it. We only have one gunnery station so Jinta, get there quickly before the hunter is in weapons range. He's closing fast.

 

[Max]

At the mention of shields, Bata cringes, The Crossbow doesn't have shields. I couldn't afford them. Let's just hope he doesn't damage the hyperdrive. The back-up hyperdrive has been malfunctioning so I hope we don't have to use it. We only have one gunnery station so Jinta, get there quickly before the hunter is in weapons range. He's closing fast.

*thunk* Wow, you think to yourself. I didn't know a Sullstran's jaw could drop that far.

 

[Einan]

From the direction of the refresher comes a flushing sound. Out walks a Zabrak, bald save for the horns encircling his head and wearing a plain blue shirt and dark pants. He looks around, raises his hands slowly above his head and says, "Bantha droppings! I thought this hunk of junk was an abandoned grounder. Umm, I don't suppose you'd lot would like to drop me off somewhere close, eh?"

 

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Trangle (Male Ithorian Jedi); HP 21/30 (12) -1

Trangle snaps out his light saber as it hisses to life, and levels it at the Zabrak. The Ithorian says "We are busy trying to escape with out lives and if you are going to help then pick a station, if not then I think I shall have to take exception to it." Trangle smiles as only an Ithorian can with his 4 mouths.

 

[Einan]

The Zabrak raises his hands. "Just calm yourself, my friend. I'm nobody threatening. I'll just, um, help your gunner over there." The Zabrak moves toward the gunner's post, "By the way, my name's Horst. And I'm at least 60% sure that that ship's NOT looking for me."

 

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Trangle (Male Ithorian Jedi); HP 21/30 (12) -1

Trangle shrugs and puts his light saber away. "Trangle. We are 100% sure they are looking for us so welcome to the fray Horst. How about those computer terminals instead? Are you any good with ship repair. I have a feeling we are going to need that."

 

[Max]

"If you're any good at computers, you can probably get our astrogation check done faster than Bata," says Nyub. "That would let us all get out of here."

Nyub is flying the ship away from the fighter at top speed, however he knows he'll have to go into evasive action soon.