Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi

[Dire Lemming]

Yeshua is once again confused. "How is he going to torch the planet if he's stranded on it with just a raiding party?"

 

[Shayuri]

Kestrel considers.

"We could disable the shuttle, gather what crew are willing to rebel, and leave the ship to regroup with Voda and Lorem. Then we'd be in a better position to choose the place of the battle. Or we could just use whoever's willing to rebel to secure an area of the ship, call Voda as backup, and face Thorren here."

She shrugs and looks at Anariel.

 

[possum]

She exaggerating slightly. Basically, she said that Thorrne would cause as much havoc as he could before he's found out and the local militia gets the nerve to strike back.

 

[Rhun]

Sorry for the silence, guys...I've been busy and kind of lost track of things! Oops.

Anariel considers Kestrel's words. "Personally, I like the second option. Even if we disable the ship, we don't know that Thorren would come to us...he may just decide to make repairs as best he can and then leave, which would put us in a bad position. I say we find a place to engage him here, within the ship, and call Lorem and Voda for back-up."

 

[Dire Lemming]

Yeshua nods. "It'd be a waste of a major advantage to let him get on board... but I understand the need for certainty. If we take off and try to find him with the ship he could just hide. If we let him come on board first, we can trap him." He looks at Marissa. "You won't have to convince them alone. Mikal and a number of his friends are already behind us, and he's working on convincing the rest as we speak... We should go meet with them to set up our ambush. Maybe if you asked everyone to report to the mess hall for an emergency briefing... say it's about intruders. In the mean time we can call Voda and Lorem."

 

[possum]

"I'lll do my best," Marissa replies. "What do you suggest I say to them, Jedi?" she asks. "After they've all gathered?"

She then motions to the empty communications station.

 

[Dire Lemming]

"Well first of all, please call me Yeshua instead of 'Jedi'. And you can call Kestrel and Anariel by name as well." Yeshua gestures to his two companions respectively. "It'll get confusing otherwise. At this point it'd be best if we just explain the situation. Fifteen members of the crew are either on our side, or in our custody, not including you. So we have the advantage. If the rest aren't with us, they at least shouldn't try to stop us. Let's call them and go though, we don't have much time."

 

[Rhun]

Anariel moves to access the comm system, sending a coded message to Lorem and Voda telling them to make all haste to their coordinates.

 

[Voda Vosa]

Voda lets the cargolift with the food net to the refuge zone. "Lorem, we must make haste, hurry my friend" he says.
Voda will try to go to the coordinates as unseen as he can.

 

[possum]

The mess hall is teeming with the pirates aboard the ship, some of whom never left after midday meal. The group of Jedi's original collaborators have been filled in, and are waiting in the front "row" of tables next to the place where Marissa is going to speak, ready to help if anything begins to happen. Marissa looks at all of you for reassurance before stepping on the makeshift stage.

***

Voda and Lorem

You slink through the city, avoiding the marching of the pirates back to the ship. You leap across the irrigation canal that would take about an hour to cross on foot on your way to the ship, only to see two hovertrucks with the local government's logo on them pull in towards the ship in the short distance. About 20 men storm angrily out of the vehicles and head towards the entrance...