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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 1459373" data-attributes="member: 7533">Vor'en's bolts blast through lid's latch, and a swift kick pops the lid open.  Before it even swings all the way wide, a trio of blaster bolts fly over the top of the crate to score the inner surface of the lid.  Luckily, Vor'en ducking downout of the way far enough for the crate to provide ample cover.Vor'en can see a squad of three strom troopers with their recently discharged blaster carbines at the ready, with the messily headless bodily of a fourth trooper sprawly across the hold's deck.  A neatly grey uniformed imperial officer stands nearby, with an astonished look on his face.  Miko, the freighter captain, seems to have ducked behind one the nearby crates.Wriggling and jiggling a knife and fork around the edge of the lid, Arani can heard a half dozen blaster bolts fired off in succession.  She finally manages to slide the blade of the knife through the crack to jimmy the latch open, and lifts the lid to see the same scene as Vor'en.Dorn activates his lightsaber in the tight confines of his crate, and plunges it through the side to cut an exit.  As soon as the gleaming blade pierces the durasteel wall, he hears the previously authoritative voice shout out in near panic, "A Jedi!  Fall back and call for reinforcements!"Dorn finishes his cuts, leaving a wide, circular hole in the side of the crate.  The glowing red edges of the makeshift exit slowly fade as the metal sheds its heat.  A quick glances shows an imperial officer hastily dragging away the headless body of a stormtrooper out the cargo hatch and down the loading ramp under the cover fire of three other troopers.The latch smoothly slides open, and Set peers out from under the lid.  By now, most of his friends have found their ways out of their crates using various methods appropriate to their individual idioms.A squad of four stromtrooper, one of which has been decapitated by a particularly destructive bowcaster quarrel, are retreating out of the hold alongside an imperial officer who is currently talking into a comlink.The bolt flashes through the ranks of the troopers, but fails to hit any of them.  But, the nearby rush of energy and exploding shrapnel from the duracrete landing pad outside only hastens them along in their retreat.Kelko jars his ankles and knees trying to kick out the lid of his crate.  In the confined space, he just can't quite get enough leverage to burst the latch.  Luckily, the captain had been using Kelko's crate for cover from stray blaster bolts, and he pops the latch to open the way for Kelko.  Captain Durn lifts the lid and pokes his head inside.  "Stop goofing around and get moving," he admonishes the rodian, "You guys have to get out of here, and I have to take off, before those reinforcements arrive!"</blockquote>

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