The Star Wars Iconic Characters: Out of the Jungle.

After hearing the translation Valara shakes her head. "I came from a jungle planet, I do not know how to use computers Rorworr. I geuss I can try though."

Approaching an empty station she pokes a few keys on its keyboard, not too successfully. (taking 20 to turn on the sensors)
 

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Rorworr leads the ship out over the forested valley looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. He orders Emtee to assist Valara, and the little translator droid acknoweledges him by heading over to the Force Adept's console.

She hunts and pecks at the buttons, painfully making her way through the menus and options at a snail's pace. All the while, Emtee bobs over one shoulder and then the other and back, encouraging her to, "Alright, select that menu... Now hit that button... No! The other button... No, no, go back, go back... Not that way, the screen on your left... No, your other left..."

The ship's computer interrupts, |...For the Sake of the Maker, can't biologicals do anything right? Look, it's not that difficult. See there? Your very own sensor display. Now you can watch everything as we get blown out of the sky...| The air above the display lights up with a three dimensional holographic sensor scan of the nearby area. Behind the Pathfinder are a small cluster of blips representing the vehicles on the landing field. Four of them detach themselves from groups and begin persuit. Ahead and a little to the right, is another small blip at ground-level... It must be the repulsorvan with Arani, Sen and Kelko.

Kaz begins the Shield Auto-Calibration program, before rembering that the program could take five to ten minutes, depending on how badly the shields are out of phase. Of course, he could always over-ride the program and run a quick calibration manually... He could be done with that in a few seconds, but would have to re-calibrate them properly later. [See Jury-rig, on pp. 41 & 97, decide quickly.]

Dorn immerses himself in the Force as he swings his turret around to face the squadron of fighters. The fighters show up not only on his holographic tactical display, but also in his mind. He can almost hear what each pilot is thinking, deciding, and instictively knows in what way each will act. [Natural 20 for Battlemind! +4 Attack.] He pulls the trigger, and sends a stream of blaster bolts into the lead Cloakshape. [33 HP damage.] The fighter shudders under the barrage, but the squadron continues on doggedly chasing the Pathfinder.

They return fire, but a only a single pair of bolts manage to strike the unshielded aft of the ship a glancing blow, and the brunt of that attack is soaked up by the hull's armor plating. [7 HP damage.]
 
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Valara watches the holographic display in fascination, at one point she reaches out and puts her hand between the Pathfinder and the cloakshapes. If only it were this easy, she thinks with a sigh.

Now we go to work. Lets see, is there some way to get in contact with Arani and the others, so they can know to get ready? "EmTee, can you let me speak to Arani? Over a comm..unica...tions link she asks stumbing over the unfamiliar word, I know she has one, does the ship?"
 

Roworr cheers at Dorn's shot. "Nice shooting. That should slow them down a bit..."

He pulls his comlink off his belt and tosses it over to Valara.

"Press the blue button on the side and speak into the top. The pirates might be able to tap into the link, so don't say anything we wouldn't want them to hear."
 

Following Rorworr's translated directions, Valara pushes the button and begins to speak into the comlink. "Arani, Arani, its me, Valara. Be ready, we are almost to you in the Pathfinder."
 

Valara activates the comlink, and Arani's voice bursts from the speaker... "-ere are you guys, and what's going on up there? All that noise is scaring away the natives."

While Rorworr closes in on the repulsorvan's position, Kaz simply cannot decide what to do with the rear shields, due to the jarring excitement of the chase.

A barrage of fire brackets the the Pathfinder, allowing the leader to score a solid hit to aft. [-27 HP] The flurry of the return fire momentarily causes Dorn to lose his concentration, and his grip on the trigger.

"We have no rear shields! One more direct hit on the back quarter and we're done for!" Emtee worries aloud.

|...Worthless humanoids. You'll all be the death of me, no doubt...| opines the computer.

"Be ready?" Arani wonders over the comlink, "Be ready for what?"
 
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Oh dear, very sorry about that, very sorry, I'm not use to this kind of stress....

Let me see if I can patch something together with chewing gum, get us some sheilds back there.


*Jury-rig attempt*
 


"Whoa!"

Dorn quickly grabs the firing controls again as the ship rocks under enemy fire. Concentrating, Dorm takes aim at the cloakshapes.

"Kaz, I hope that's some strong chewing gum you've got back there..."

Once again utilizing the Jedi focusing technique of Battlemind, Dorn takes a slow steady breath, concentrates on the Force flowing through him, and squeezes off another blast at the enemy ships.
 

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