STAR WARS: Retribution

STAR WARS: Retribution

Success!

The last of the Jedi have struck a vital blow to the Empire, stealing valuable logistics data from the hidden intelligence base STATION 509 on the Outer Rim. They have also captured the wily intelligence officer TERRENCE MCFADDEN and kept him alive for questioning.

Armed with this information, resistance fighters can ambush Imperial convoys for much needed supplies, as well as find safe-havens from Imperial patrols.

The crew of the MING MENG and *Cresada's ship* now journey to the agri-cultural planet of PARANELL, where they will meet their patron, LORD MARCEDES DANDERFUL of Alderaan. There they will turn over the information for payment, and processing.

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While in hyperspace, the Jedi question Lt. McFadden to the best of their abilities. To their knowledge, he seems to be a reluctant participant in the Empire's campaign of repression. He gives them a tale about how he served in the Clone Wars and protested against the treatment of the Jedi during Order 66. He alludes that the database aboard Station 509 contains the location of a secret Jedi prison.

He delivers the decryption algorithm for the database in exchange for freedom in exile. This is agreed too, after Lord Danderful verifies that the algorithm works.

The Bloody Wake and The Ming Meng exit hyperspace in Paranell's main orbit, and discover that the planet is now the site of a massive slave market. Because the planet is temperate and optimized for the raising of livestock, the scum of galaxy have decided to use it as a staging point for the storage and trade of sentient beings.

Akis receives a message from Lord Danderful, bidding them to land in the main city of Sydneyville. While exiting the flight terminal, Cresada encounters a slave trader and attempts to purchase some wookies, in order to free them. Unfortunately she discovers the slaves are very expensive, and is only able to free a single female, who is sent back to the Bloody Wake for extended medical treatment.

The Jedi meet up with Lord Danderful at the Mynock Tree restaurant, the most expensive establishment in the city. It resides at the top of the Sydneyville Tower, a massive 20 story tall skyscraper the overlooks the entire city. The restaurant is particularly popular with Rodian clientele. They bring along Terrence McFadden to seal the deal.

After a brief period of bargaining with Danderful, it is revealed that the meeting is a trap. Jiliac the Hutt appears, leaving a message that the Imperials have colluded with Alistair Jaxter, and traced their location by means of a homing beacon onboard the former pirate vessel, The Bloody Wake. He will profit from the Jedi's capture, using the many Rodian thugs he has planted in the restaurant.

Led by the Dark Jedi known only as Leatherface, the Imperials demand that the Jedi turn themselves over, along with Lt. McFadden. A battle ensues when the Jedi refuse. There is a massive exchange of crossfire as the Rodians and the Imperials attack the Jedi.

Fearing for his safety, Nik Var takes charge of Lt. McFadden and sends him diving for cover in the reflection pool. Akis, Raist and Kayleia fend off the Imperials while Cresada attempts blast a hole in the floor to the next level.

Realizing that fighting the combined Imperial and Hutt forces would be suicide, Nik Var completes what Cresada started. She telekinetically lifts up a bantha hide couch (along with Lord Danderful), and smashes it through to the lower level.

The Jedi land in a refresher room after crashing through the floor of the Mynock Tree, and attempt to make a hasty escape through what appears to be some kind of religious temple. They put up a barricade in the altar room as the Imperials follow in hot pursuit.

Cresada smashes a pew through one of the stained glass windows, and tosses a line down in an attempt to scale the side of the building. She and Nik Var slide down the rope and secure it, and use the Force to assist the others in coming down. They decide not to leave Danderful to his fate, despite feeling betrayed by him.

After making their way through a mid-sized paper company, the Jedi head for the garage where they steal an airspeeder truck and some swoops. The Imperials and Rodians follow on their own swoops, leading the Jedi in a hare-brained chase through the city skyways.

Using the Force, Kayleia smashes the Dark Jedi Leatherface into a fall, sending him falling to his demise. Meanwhile, she attempts to lose the remaining Imperial speeders by flying through a line of trucks carrying livestock, but only manages to cut a huge hole through the bottom of the speeder as she catches the top part of a bantha horn.

As the local police join the pursuit, Akis makes a desperate gamble by broadcasting an accusation of an attempted occupation by the Imperial forces. The ploy pays off as the independent-minded Paranellians decide to open fire on their pursuers, to 'shake off the yoke of Imperial oppression'.

Cresada quickly lands in the ensuing chaos, as armed citizenry begin to revolt against the local Imperial garrison.

The Sirius Deception

Star Wars: The Sirius Deception

The trap is sprung! RAIST DEZIEN and the crew of the Ming Meng have now taken control of the pirate vessel, the Blood Wake. After a quick battle against a group of scurvy Feeorins, Nik Var discovers that these pirates are mere soldiers in a much larger pirate fleet.

The Dread Pirate ALISTAIR JAXTER leads a group of slavers known only as the Bloody Fangs. Styled after the privateer captains of the Hyperspace Wars, this ruthless Ubese is merciless to his enemies, generous to his allies, and more vain than an Alsatian shimmer bird.

Alistair Jaxter is the key to gaining access to STATION 509. According to the Feeorins, he has a brisk slave trade deal with the Imperials. It just may be that they would give Captain Jaxter landing clearance should he show up unexpectedly asking for aid...

Discovering 'fan-film' movies that glorify his piratical exploits, former politician AKIS GORDA decides to take on the task of impersonating the Ubese pirate. After hours of reviewing terrible acting, dialogue, and plotlines, Akis is ready for his most challenging role yet: A faceless pimpernel that -only- speaks Ubese.

Better have paid attention to those subtitles..

The Bloody Wake sets course for Station 509 at the heart of Sirius IV, a gas giant covered by fierce electrical storms

The squat and angular Imperial listening post is unremarkable except for the fact that it exists in the eye of a massive, roving electrical storm. The pressures outside the safe zone are enough to crush coal into diamonds. The station itself features a standard landing platform and docking bay, along with all the usual engineering necessities. A tall dorsal fin snakes up from the station's spine, topped by an observation post made necessary by the sensor interference caused by the storm.

After making visual contact, they are hailed by the station manager, Lt. Terrence McFadden of Imperial Intelligence. When questioned as to why they should be allowed to board, Akis replies creatively in broken Ubese. He implies that they have spotted Seperatist forces in system and have captured droids aboard.

Taking the bait, Lt McFadden allows them to board. They are kept on strict watch by four stormtroopers. Akis and Kayleia are taken aside for interrogation.

Shortly after they land, Raist's crew aboard the Ming Meng makes a flyby, simulating a pirate attack. Lt. McFadden is not fooled and opens fire on the Akis and the others. The fight heats up as Cresada reveals her Jedi powers, sending the station into full alert.

The fighting is brief and intense as Nik Var quickly downs the stormtroopers with her lightsaber. Akis and Kayleia manage to lock their guards into the comm room with a blast of force energy and a melted lock.

There is a brief interlude as Akis and Raist access the station's computer systems to look for the logistical data. They realize it is located up along the dorsal station's spine, unconnected to the rest of the computer network. Their access is quickly challenged by an unknown hacker, who uses the station's facilities against them.

Raist and Kayleia race for the turbolift as Akis fights for mainframe access in the hanger comm room. Their progress is suddenly halted by a massive flying, walking tank- an Imperial space trooper. It fires an explosive missile at them, destroying their R2 unit, J4.

Quickly thinking, Akis brings down the turbolift ontop of the spacetrooper. Raist and Kayleia board one of the other turbolifts and race for the top of the station.

Uninhibited by a mere turbolift, the spacetrooper blast the turbolift into oblivion and flies through the shaft to confront Akis. He is stopped by Cresada and Nik, who have fortified a position by the comm room. Missiles fly and explosions rock the station as the spacetrooper tries to harry the Jedi. Unfortunately for him, the ceilings are low. Nik leaps up and slashes through his armored suit, and then unleashes a burst of Force-powered fire through the gash. The trooper inside is engulfed in flames, and perishes as his jetpack sends him uncontrollably careening into one of the station's many yawning abysses.

Meanwhile, Raist and Kayleia arrive at the top of the station. They are confronted by a lone man, the aging Terrence McFadden. Threatening to destroy the station with a deadman's switch if he is killed, he opens fire on the two Jedi. Raist silences him with a stun blast, and he surrenders quickly. The lieutenant is captured and placed in the brig with the pirates captured aboard the Bloody Wake.

The heroes take over the station briefly. Raist transfers the data to the ship while Cresada cases the joint for valuable goods. They come up with a small fortune in quality electronics and salvage.

Their victory is short lived as an angry Alistair Jaxter arrives on his vessel The Scarlet Masque. He demands information on his missing ship, the Bloody Wake. Akis stalls him while the station is set to blow, The crew make it out on the Bloody Wake just in time as the Scarlet Masque destroys the outpost with a devastating broadside to it's external fuel tanks.

Heavily outgunned by the modified Action IV Freighter, which was a small capital ship, Raist and the rest of the crew skim the heart of Sirius IV, where the gravity of the planet's core gives them a significant advantage. Realizing that the Masque had too large of an event horizon, Jaxter launches fighters to pursue.

Sending false sensor data, Akis manages to redirect one of the fighters into the heart of the planet, crushing it with high-pressure gravity. Nik with her sharp shooting skills, manages to down another, discouraging the other pursuers.

After clearing the planet's gravity well, the Bloody Wake makes the jump for Paranell, leaving behind a very angry pirate captain.

Station 509

Star Wars: Station 509

Imperial forces converge on ALDERAAN as word of a Jedi attack on a refugee camp spreads like wildfire. The violent evil doers are none other than the notorious criminals, NIK VAR and KAYLEIA, apparently now being led by a shadowy Bothan crimelord known as "The Straight". Bounties for the capture of this Jedi Criminal Ringleader have risen to a cool 20,000, dead or alive.

As assault shuttles deploy onto Alderaan's surface, the Jedi are bid to leave quickly by their political benefactor, Lord Marcedes Danderful. They barely have time to collect the evidence left behind by their droid assassins before departing safely into hyperspace.

Upon exiting the Alderaan system, a message from Lord Danderful appears on their consoles...

After fleeing from Alderaan, the crew of the Ming Meng was briefed on it's latest mission: to seize vital logistics information from a remote Imperial listening post. The mission was risky, the first of many actions against the new Empire.

Learning that the Imperials were working with local pirates and slavers, Cresada decided that the best idea was deception. Taking charge of the situation, she led the rest of the crew in a bait and switch- the MingMeng would fake a massive power failure, inviting pirates to attack. The crew would then ambush the boarders, taking them by surprise.

The MingMeng exited hyperspace in the Sirius system, and cut off all power and lifesupport systems. Several hours later, a pirate ship named the Bloody Wake showed up, as predicted. The Feeorin pirates were no match for the Jedi. Interrogation and the ship's logs revealed that the Bloody Wake was part of a much larger pirate armada led by the feared Ubese captain, Alastair Jaxter,

Jaxter was a vain being, and distributed a number of holotapes and documentaries featuring himself to his crew. Akis Gorda proposed a ruse in which he would impersonate the pirate captain, and demand to dock on the Imperial output for repairs. After several hours of study, the scam was ready. Taking the Bloody Wake, the crew departed for the heart of Sirius VI and the Imperial outpost..