Rorworr runs through a hastily foreshortened pre-flight check. Concentrating on the main drives, he feeds them power at a rate that makes the engines whine in protest. Even so, the power levels claim at a interminably slow rate, while the wookiee glares at the readbacks in an attempt will the engines into warm up instantly.
About a round and a half until the engines are ready to go.
Dorn activates the remote gunnery console, and scans the controls. The ventral turret seems to be off-line, so he quickly switches to the dorsal. Taking aim through the holographic display at the line of snub-fighters, he squeezes the firing stud. Due to an extreme lack of experience with any sort of ship-board weaponry, the cannon blast flies high over the fighters to lance into a forested hillside half a kilometer away.
Valara: The pirates you are shooting at are about 100 m away... the edge of your range. the fighters are just behind them. In melee combat, however, parked starfighter are very large inanimate targets.
Valara and Kaz snap off another pair of blaser bolts as Emtee rockets up the boarding ramp into the ship's corridor. Their blaster bolts miss their targets. Kaz's shot kicks up dust and gravel in from of the pirates, while Valara's bounces off the hull of a fighter. "Dreadful planet," the droid mutters ducking behind a corner, "Simply dreadful. I wouldn't be dissappointed if we never came back."
The pirates' blaster bolts ping off the hull of the Pathfinder as they fulitely return fire. A single blast sails harmlessly into the airlock, causing Zheev, forgotten amidst the firefight, to huddle close behind Valara's legs. All the while, the four technicians continue to prapare the fighters for launch.
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Meanwhile, back at the van...
If anyone is awake back there.
From off in the distance, Arani and Sen hear the sound of heavy blaster fire echoing across the valley. It almost reminds them of blaster artillery used during the invasion of Naboo...
