Session Seven

• After the fight
  • Cameron wanders to sick bay and gets treated for his injuries.
  • Renkov decides to retreat to his room, dealing with the after effects of the attack.
  • Fiz'git amuses himself making copies of the fight
  • Kader drinks in celebration of the child he helped usher into the world...
• (Somehow) TonySoprano winds up in the brig, along with his two goons
• The next morning
  • Cameron's feeling much better
  • We decide to keep things low key... mostly
• The ship's attacked by pirates in rebel colors
  • 2 assault shuttles, dropped off by a Corellian Cruiser.
  • Fight!
  • Cameron, Kader, and Renkov all remain in their quarters, pretending to be normal passengers
  • Fiz'git, on the other hand, fights back
    • He duels with a wicked hacker and gets booted from the network
    • Undaunted, he uses a (previously established) backdoor, storms on... and kicks the infiltrator out
      • Infiltrator's dump is so hard, his drive is fried
    • Fiz'git shifts his view to the bridge, which has been taken by bad guys
    • A little playing with the plumbing later, and the CO2 on the bridge creeps up, sending everyone to sleep
  • Meanwhile, the fight advances through the ship
    • A few doors down from Cameron & Renkov, a blaster fight breaks out
    • Grinning, Cameron decides to intervene with a grenade
    • A nasty fight breaks out, with Cameron and Renkov aiding their neighbor... who turns out to be TonySoprano.
      • They ally.
    • They fight several patrols via clever tactics and surprise, one goon dies.
  • Meanwhile, Fiz'git dispatches Kader to secure the bridge, now that the bridge is full of unconscious people
    • As Kader approaches his destination, he's taken prisoner by a roving bandit
      • Kader pretends to be a sheepish prisoner for a while, then draws the bandit's gun.
      • They struggle; the Bandit's in much better shape than Kader, but eventually Kader stuns him with his own pistol.
    • Kader drags his prisoner with him to the bridge, where he stuns the bad guys
  • Fix't turns the oxygen back on
  • Hacker Boi finds Fiz'git's room and kicks in the door
    • He's pissed! They fight; Hacker Boi falls to the ground with a bullet in his lung.
  • Meanwhile, the pirates are running thin
    • Cameron, Renkov, TonySoprano, and the remaining bodyguards close in on the docking vessels.
    • Renkov and Cameron pretend to be a pirate patrol returning
    • They then ambush the crew; Cameron's captured blaster conks out on the first shot
  • The pirates retreat and are followed by a trapped vessel (grenades & blaster packs set to explode).
• Our victory is celebrated; Kader, Cameron, and Renkov dine with the captain-- as does TonySoprano.

Session Eight

• After a night's rest...
• Fiz'git decides to lay low, as does Kader
• Cameron approaches TonySoprano and offers his services as a bodyguard
  • They gamble, high stakes. Cameron wins.
  • TonySoprano accepts Cameron's offer, delighted at Cameron's personality... and at the chance to twit Renkov.
    • TonySoprano promises to send a diplomatic bag to Cameron, so he can depart w/ his blaster (etc.)
  • After 1.5 hours, Renkov comes by to claim Cameron
    • Cameron enjoys twitting Renkov
  • Renkov storms off; Cameron hustles to "save his equipment"
    • Cameron moves out to a nearby room, provided by TonySoprano
  • Renkov gets a visit from a pair of babes... courtesy of Tony.
    • He declines w/ an all too authentic curse
• Ship arrives at cloud city
  • We all get through customs
  • Immediately after, Cameron's reunited with his gear
• Fiz'git and Kader stay "very low profile" for the next few days
• Renkov plays up his wealth and eccentricity
  • Nice rooms; situates nicely
  • He later rents a cloud car to "explore the planet" (actually to count TIEs and readiness)
• Cameron is treated well by his boss, Tony.
  • When he returns for his shift, they head out to rough up accountant
  • They do; in the process, the duplicate books are protected by bomb
  • Cameron dives, covering his boss with his body
    • They come away essentially unscathed
      • Cameron turns the kill order into a humiliation suggestion that Tony backs
    • Cameron's sent to the mafia doctor
      • He feigns a sprain, gets some pain killers, nothing major
  • The next day, Tony escorts Cameron to meet his father, the crime boss.
    • He's fed a great breakfast, praised, returns to duty.
• OOC Discussion; what can we do?
  • We decide we need to:
    • Access TIEs computers
    • Update w/ "updated recognition", that will ID a Rebel Destroyer as the Chimera
    • We'll also need a way to cancel the TIE's visual recognition.
      • Maybe the Salmonella?
  • Maintenance contacts will be key, since they might have a path to the imperial quarters.
    • Fiz'git won't be able to do the physical infiltration, since an alien will clearly be out of place.
    • Renkov, on the other hand, has skill enough to take the virus/update and install it, if led to the proper location and provided Fiz'git has done the prep

Session Nine

• We got off to a slow start; once Kevin reminded us that viewing hyperspace arrivals was possible (via a movie example), our plans got knocked off course.
• (Extensive and time consuming planning.) Finally, Action!
• Renkov meets with our maintenance contacts
  • They collect trash
  • He gives Renkov a map of the imperial sector-- based on educated guesswork, not actual plans
• Cameron and his boss go to the imperials to pay a bribe.
  • The Imperial Commander (a Major) demands 5000 credits more and gives them 24 hours to come up with it
    • Cameron and his boss discuss how pissed Papa's going to be
    • They're right; Cameron's chased out as they plan a hit
• Kader kills some time wandering the station
  • He stumbles on some moth balled cloud cars
• At Cameron's urgent call, we gather together
  • We plan and decide to have Cameron break cover to prevent the hit
    • Our other info is exchanged
• Fiz'git and Renkov plan on a ductwork infiltration
  • It's a little tricky in places, but soon they're in the imperial sector
  • It takes patience, but they get access to an office and work the computer
• Cameron returns to his employer, whose eye has been blackened
  • Cameron breaks cover and promises them the contract once the station changes hands
    • He agrees to pay the 5000 out of pocket
    • Boss's Dad prepares for the fleet by filling local tankers w/ Tibanna gas
    • Cameron & Son deliver the cash to the Major and endure some gloating
• Kader preps the fleet and gives the timeline (48 hours)

Between game talk

Scott> What's left to do, other than waiting for the fleet?

Kev> Couple of things come to mind, Kader could use the freq we were given to contact ....

Ah heck, cyborg city brain guy...cant remember his name atm... let him know whats happening and upload the sensor IFF codes to overlay on the sensor readings for the ship coming in (so our star destoyer and escorts look like the Chimera and its escorts)

One thing that might be kinda interesting to do, if there is something like e-mail still, fake a msg from someone on the Chimera sending a msg to the Major here on cloud city giving him a heads up, Something like "You should know Grand Admiral Thrawn is enroute to visit you at this time, he will be inspecting the mining operations and your command. Suggest you make adequate preperations to greet him when he arives." Or possibly a more general msg to that regards, " he expects you to be prepared for his arival...."

ORRRR......

Cameron could pay another visit down to the Major when it gets closer to the time they will show up on sensors, and say he was sent by Thrawn to inspect the goings on here ahead of time....has made his report and Thrawn is on the way will be here in...oh 1 hour, good luck....something along those lines....

I'm thinking Cameron because if I remember background correctly he is ex empire and can play the part well, and has been seen by the Major already, might get there fairly easily....

Kev>:

Post session 10

This is one of those times where i'm kicking myself, and going back to the comment I made the other day, this is a lot more difficult not knowing that much about the game system. We were sitting on tons of poison gas to use to take out the entire empire controlled area and had no clue it was toxic....Minor detail to know about Tabbana gas.... Could have played thru things a LOT differently if I/we had known about that.

Scott>: While true, it wouldn't have felt very Star Wars like, if you know what I mean. Our sessions are best when we embrace, "Do something" instead of worrying about efficiency and careful planning. I'd rather pick something sub-optimal but Star Wars like (like your choice to try to talk the storm troopers into surrender) than something optimal but anti-heroic like cyberpunk/Shadowrun. Does that make sense?