Knights of the Old Republic: The Last of the Sith(Master Kanas' Group)

[drothgery]

Aerek looks over the map, trying to keep his mind on the situation at hand; Skyka keeps creeping up in his thoughts. But he was supposed to be good at this sort of thing.

It's just a tactics problem. We have seven Jedi -- five whose abilities you know well, and two that can be guessed at. Relying on a lot of stealth isn't going to work; Bud'd might be able to decieve a small group with Illusion, and Sky can disappear when she wants to, but that doesn't do much for the rest of us. A Wookie won't be any better at sneaking around than I am. A strong enemy force of unknown size at one location. That's the final objective. Best course of action would be an air strike at the temple, but I don't have Lysa's fighter wing here. We don't have enough information about the other spots on the map. So...

"What did you see at the 'Temple', Master?" Aerek asked. "Did it look like they had a significant amount of modern equipment? Air defenses, communication, sensor arrays, and the like? I'd like to use your" He looks at Cai and the Wookie... "ship to do some recon, but not if that's going to be spotted by someone with the ability to do something about it. In any case, I think are first goal is to get rid of that question mark -- if there is a second temple, we need to know, and need to know what defenses, if any, are there."

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Skyka Tarkrak: Human/Female (Force Adept 1/ Jedi Guardian 5)

Her emotions firmly hidden Skyka nods her head in agreement, “Master Kanas, I agree with Aerek’s insight. If I might be as so bold to suggest we watch one of the temples in secret for a while we might be able to see if the Sith still have slave labor… If they do and they are Sentarrii then I should be blend in and scout the temple itself.”

 

[dead_radish]

"Sananraaa?" Shryiwook

Spoiler

"Sentarrii?"

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Skyka Tarkrak: Human/Female (Force Adept 1/ Jedi Guardian 5)

Not really sure what the hurry creature had said Skyka only had one guess what it could have been, “The Sentarrii are the true natives of Rollan and I am one of them.”

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

"No one is going anywhere alone," Master Kanas said a little too sharply, "It is too dangerous and far too many Jedi have lost their way due to individual heroics in the past year."

After a deep breath, his voice calmed again and he looked to Aerek, "Most of the equipment looks to be salvaged from the old spaceport. Not the latest equipment, of course, but they've got some things. I didn't look for things like that, though. They could very well have air defense set up. I'd expect all of their security will be tighter after my little run in."

 

[deadestdai]

Bud'd felt it better to listen than make her own suggestions. She was no tactician, though her force skills were perfect should any need for infiltration into the enemy base be needed.

She made this observation known and settled back to continue listening.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Skyka Tarkrak: Human/Female (Force Adept 1/ Jedi Guardian 5)

Skyka is shocked at Master Kanas’ reaction to her idea; she had no desire for heroics or revenge she simply wanted to be useful. Skyka bites back her words of apology, they would serve no purpose, but she did little to hide her surprise at the harshness of his words.

 

[drothgery]

[Cai and Wryy'ethh can see that Aerek's obviously the oldest of Master Kanas' apprentices -- at 26, he's a bit old to lack a Knight's robes, and that, at about 6' 6" and 260 lbls., he's a very big guy (for a human).]

"Okay, let me think about this for a second..." Aerek says, still trying to break down the resources they've got and what they know into a plan of action. "They don't have any long range heavy weapons -- Wryy'ethh and Caitriona weren't shot down -- but they probably have local air defense, at least at the temple Master Kanas checked out. So we can use your ship, but we can't get too close to the main temple that way.

"I think our plan is probably to do what we can to draw the Sith out of the main temple in small groups, if it can be done. We don't want to give anyone a good idea of our numbers or skills; they know one Jedi is here. They might have seen Wryy'ethh and Caitriona's ship come in, but if they were monitoring our communications enough to know who was on their ship and why they came, then they'd be here by now. But planning to deal with one Jedi is a lot harder than planning to deal with seven.

"I don't think we could manage an infiltration on the main temple; too many of us are too poor at sneaking around -- and I have to include myself in that group -- and I think we'll need everyone together when we take that target on. If they've got any smaller outposts, though, it might be worth splitting up. But I'd like to throw a few ideas out about what to do next.

"First, I'm tempted to have Barrick make a few orbits and look for signals; if there are any other Sith installations beyond the temple, they'll probably be talking to each other, and we might be able to find them that way.

"Second, we could do what I suggested earlier and check out that 'second temple'. I don't like leaving a big unknown on the map when we're planning to take on enemy that's got us outnumbered pretty heavily.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

"Yes," the Mon Calamari says, "Yes, a sound plan. I think some reconnaissance would be best. I will attempt to do this. I can also check out this other temple if possible. Harm two soldiers with one shot, is that the expression you humans use?"

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Master Kanas nodded, smiling slightly at Barrick's last comment, "The more we know, the better off we'll be. I can go with you, Barrick. Between us, I doubt much could be missed. That is, of course, if Cai and Wryy'ethh don't mind lending us their ship."