Star Wars - Rebellion

[Mickerus]

As Ryn speaks, Leo stands and listens, and the molded features of his "face" somehow seem more emotionless than ever. When his turn to speak comes, he replies with an equally level voice.

"You find honor in the destruction of others? In my time, I've seen many people killed, and many more droids destroyed, but not once was there anything honorable or even dignified about it. If you want to keep a momento of your act of defiance against the Empire, then that's absolutely fine with me. Just don't forget that you pulled it off a corpse."

"As for your feelings, do you really expect any consideration when you give nobody a chance for it? You hand off this helmet that means something to you and run off to fetch one of the others as a replacement without bothering to tell us? Why did you hand us that one in the first place? And who ever mentioned damaging the helmet? I know I never did; all I need is access to the comm-link, and at most the memory chip inside it. You are the one that assumed I'd be tearing the thing apart. I fix things, Ryn. There's a difference."

"And for our mutual truthful confessions, I do think we're lucky to have you around. But your impulsiveness is going to get you and maybe even all of us hurt or killed." Leo glances down at Ryn's side, then looks him face to face again. "I may not understand too much about human nature, but I do know one thing; Fondling that blaster isn't going to help us. Either use it or let me go."

 

[dpdx]

Ryn backed away about a meter, and squinted at the droid, quizzically.

"Okay, fine. I expect that you don't know a a lot about MY traditions, either, but this is a lot more than just a trophy for my cabin wall, or a piece of headgear for my best friend. I handed you guys that helmet specifically BECAUSE I TRUSTED you, and I figured all you needed to do was tap the comlink. When your crew boss over there... ", nodding past Leo at Calven, "started talking about ripping into my helmet, I needed to lay some ground rules, quick. You're right, I don't know you that well, so I made some incorrect assumptions about what you would respond to with a higher degree of seriousness, and for that, I apologize.

But it's also plainly obvious that you're making incorrect assumptions about me, as well. I'll point them out:

First of all, we're not going to complete this mission without killing organics and yes, possibly deactivating droids, in some cases, permanently. I promise you that, but I also promise you something else - I'm not gonna wait to act just to see if I'm wrong. That'd be death, and for organics, that's the only shot we get.

Second, if all that is was a corpse, we're not having this discussion, are we? But it wasn't, and you know it. It was a soldier of the Galactic Empire acting on orders to imprison us or kill us. What I foolishly threatened you with back there? They just do. They don't care how many protocols you know, cause you don't get to reason with them. At the minimum, you get wiped and reprogrammed. I haven't been 'activated' nearly as long as you, but that I've seen. I grew up with those bastards ruining my planet.

Third, I take not getting shot very seriously, and if I trust you, I'll take you not getting shot very seriously, too. That's why Izon's only singed, and why our assailants are floating downstream, face down. I killed all of them, and I'm not going to be made to feel guilty about making that happen. I'm glad they're dead, because it means we're not. And although you're pushing it, I actually like you guys better than the gnarkrheiwee. So far." Ryn smiles.

"So if you're worried that I might get you killed, or everybody else, call your former employers' business associates and have them pick you up - the shuttle's that way. But I'd rather you stick around, watch us succeed and help to complete this mission."

 

[maddmic]

The constant bickering and outspokeness of certain individuals had irritated Izon to the point that he was wide awake again. Getting up he looked around at the group and saw Ryn with Leo not too far from the group. In a loud voice, he spoke. "Alright. We've had a big day everybody. Every one here is probably still trying to catch up with what's happened to us thusfar. The fact of the matter is we're all important to one another right now if we're going to find the singer." Turning to the passengers who just happened to be caught up in the mess he continued. "Now, we've got to find a civilized place for those of us who didn't sign on to help find this girl. Once that is done, then the rest of us can concentrate on acheiving our objective."

Izon looks at each person in turn again. "We need to stick together and calm down a bit. I could care less where each of us sleeps, but I prefer to be outside where I can here the enemy coming. Speaking of sleep, I'd like to get some now as I had planned on getting an early start on these tracks in the morning." With that, the soldier turns around and finds his lying position again and tries to sleep off the strains of the day. As he tries to drift off into sleep he thinks to himself. 'This is the junk that I have to deal with when I don't work alone.'

 

[dpdx]

Ryn walks back to the hangar, gets his stuff, and goes off to the barracks to sleep.

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Andre manages to hack into the troopers comlink frequency inside the helmet, after restoring power to it. The channel is open but quiet, with only soft static coming through it.

After Ryn goes off to the barracks by himself, the rest of the entourage settles into the hangar and tries to get as comfortable as possible. Despite the difficulties of sleeping on the hard ground in the cold night air with an open building as the only protection, the rest of the night passes uneventfully.

Ryn finds the barracks to be a bit more comfortable but not much. Both barracks buildings are also ruined. One is missing nearly an entire wall and the other has a large section of collapsed roof. He does find some beds though and at least sleeps off the ground.

The morning brings with it the hint of rain. The sky is clouded over, with gusty winds occassionally passing though the ruined base. The clouds look as if they could open up at any moment and dump a lot of rain, which would make a mess of the tracks Calven found the previous night...

 

[dpdx]

Ryn wakes up early, rubs the wool out of his eyes, and gathers his stuff. Dawn has barely broken when he rises, and as he walks past the hangar to the river to wash up, he notices Leo keeping watch at the hole. Ryn waves to him, and keeps going, being careful to pick a place upstream from where they dumped the bodies.

Ryn washes quickly, as he notices the light rain, then walks toward the hangar. Poking his head in, he sees everybody else arrayed out on the floor of the hangar. He turns toward Leo, and says, "I was out of line yesterday. Again, I'm sorry."

Nodding towards Izon, he asks Leo, "How's he been?"

 

[Mickerus]

"No need to apologise, it's already been forgotten. Izon will be just fine so long as he doesn't push his wound too much. Andre checked the stormtroopers' commlink, looks like they were only set on one frequency. I've been checking it occasionally, but it looks to be a dead channel right now; nothing but static. It may have just been this group that was using it."

 

[dpdx]

"You think we better roust the others, in case this rain washes off those tracks?"

 

[Calim]

Andre stirs several times during the night as the hard ground and dropping temperatures make for a lousy bed. He wakes with a start however when he hears voices. He looks around and sees Ryn speaking to Leo. He makes his way to his feet slowly, the sleeping position he had chosen had not been the nicest position on his back. He makes his way over to the two whilst still rubbing his sore and aching back"I was thinking if we have not seen anyone else and that radio in that helmet has stayed quiet why couldn't we use there ship to get out of here. I mean they had to get here somehow after all."

 

[dpdx]

"Good morning, Andre."

Ryn notices Andre rubbing his back and winces. "You feeling OK?"

"I was thinking if we have not seen anyone else and that radio in that helmet has stayed quiet why couldn't we use there ship to get out of here. I mean they had to get here somehow after all."

"Yeah, but if I remember right, they left in a pod, and those usually only hold eight people. They might have a ship at the base where they're holding the girl, though. Could be worth a look."

Ryn looks around to see if anybody else is stirring. "We should probably start on those tracks, before this rain starts to wipe them out."