Empire Wreckers
A Star Wars actual play podcast using the Fantasy Flight Games system. Each 3-season campaign follows a group of intergalactic misfits as they try their best to save the galaxy... or destroy it.
Empire Wreckers
S13E04 - Sever
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The Clone Wars have begun. On innumerable worlds across the stars, the manufactured armies of the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems are doing battle against each other for the fate of the Republic.
Led by the valiant Jedi Knights, the Republic's Grand Army has begun to relentlessly hunt the evil Separatist commanders and foil their schemes.
Should any of the Jedi falter in their mission, the Inquiry Division of the SBI stands ready to dispatch specialists to ensure that peace and justice are upheld throughout the galaxy....
Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars actual play podcast that really needs about five hundred dollars in Outback Steakhouse gift cards if you can manage it, thanks. Who's ready for legitimate issues today?
SPEAKER_07Callacet is ready for some legitimate issues, and she'll have you know that her best friend died because of a faulty hollow neck connection, so you better pony up those gift cards.
SPEAKER_05Hello, je m'appelle Mike Dave, a.k.a. Crisson, and I would like to uh surprise this party with several bottles of liquor thanks to this gift card scam that I have uh come up with.
SPEAKER_04Starzan may have talked to some seemingly cool dudes through the hollow net and invested in some uh crypto credits. Starzan, no. That uh totally seemed legit at first. But we're funged. No, not funged. Starzan will kill the funge.
SPEAKER_07No, they're supposed to be non-fungible.
SPEAKER_02And Illyria got a weird email about a show reminder that I don't remember buying tickets to. Oh, there's four tickets on my account? Oh, it's the right email and address and phone number and credit card. Oh, I guess I better find a babysitter for tomorrow then.
SPEAKER_07Who do you need a babysitter for? The rest of us.
SPEAKER_05Starzan does require.
SPEAKER_07Starzan needs to be changed.
SPEAKER_00And if you're ready to record enough audio to make it really easy to fake your voice through AI, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars? The clone wars have begun. On innumerable worlds across the stars, the manufactured armies of the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems are doing battle against each other for the fate of the galaxy. Led by the valiant Jedi Knights, the Republic's grand army has begun to relentlessly hunt the evil Separatist commanders and foil their schemes. Should any of these Jedi falter in their mission, the Inquiry Division of the SBI stands ready to dispatch specialists to ensure that peace and justice are upheld throughout the galaxy.
SPEAKER_07Are you? Hell yeah, we're heroes!
SPEAKER_05We're we're absolute absolutely heroes, I feel.
SPEAKER_00You might you might be heroes. Uh you might not be. You might have not had a chance to uh demonstrate your heroic abilities. Cause it's been a couple of months, honestly, since you got uh any kind of mission. Uh once you were hired by the SBI, you were given a sort of uh feeler mission. You took care of that, uh, and you've kind of been left to your own devices with your new apartment on Coruscant for the past couple of months, because it turns out Jedi don't fall to the dark side every day. Like, you know, maybe it's not a as big an issue as the SBI was worried about, or maybe it's just that the war hasn't been going on for long enough, but uh so far you guys have gotten a stipend. Uh generally, your all of your uh needs are covered, your your food and stuff, and at the end of at the end of that, after after every month, you find that you're having about five hundred credits to spare.
SPEAKER_06Ooh, okay.
SPEAKER_00So each of you would have about a thousand credits that you could uh do what you will with.
SPEAKER_07Yay! Money parties, parties, parties. Invest in good credits.
SPEAKER_04You can buy soul crypto turn 1,000 into many hundred.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so now that you are uh private citizens more or less, now that you're not because this is the first time in your lives you wouldn't be living in the Jedi Temple or aboard a Jedi Service Corps ship. So, uh what have you guys been up to for the past couple of months?
SPEAKER_02Made a secret family. You made a secret family? Whatlyria, are you pregnant?
SPEAKER_05Like with like with us or with what?
SPEAKER_02I'm joking.
SPEAKER_05I'm very curious what that means. What that mean though?
SPEAKER_07Come on, Elyria, we won't judge you if you decide to, you know, get pregnant and start a secret family. Have you been having a lot of parties? Come on, Chris, we've been having parties, right?
SPEAKER_05Oh, we I was about to say, we uh we've bought so much impact uh for you.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you so how much of that uh crate is left?
SPEAKER_07Right, because I got a whole fucking crate.
SPEAKER_04Did we all just spend the whole two months just doing party drugs?
SPEAKER_07No. Listen.
SPEAKER_05I do it responsibly, okay?
SPEAKER_07I mean 20 doses and it's been a few months.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, cut yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Like two two and a half months. Two and a half months. Uh you know what? I'd be doing some meditation. I'm gonna say uh of the 20 doses, I probably have like two left.
SPEAKER_00Okay, let's uh let's roll a discipline check to see how well uh you've rationed your impact here. Uh so let's let's call it a three purple discipline.
SPEAKER_07Three purple discipline. Okay, I have two green.
SPEAKER_04Oh, I got it, I got it. This week on Euphorcia. Ooh!
SPEAKER_07Two success but four threat. I did manage to ration, but I am not feeling good.
SPEAKER_00You're kind of right now with those four threat, you are in the suffer blacks to agility cunning and intellect base checks.
SPEAKER_07Oh no. Would that go away if I took another dose later on? Uh, it might. I'll bring a dose with me. So, uh, could I say I w I was able to keep three aside?
SPEAKER_00Uh, sure.
SPEAKER_07Okay. I have three left.
SPEAKER_00That that feels very generous. Uh Chris, have you uh so have you have you been partying while Olyria's been doing all these drugs? Have you been?
SPEAKER_02Cala, don't put that on Elyria. I am not doing all those drugs. How dare you?
SPEAKER_05I uh I've been told many times by you guys, hey, it's uh I know it's not we don't we're not really in school anymore, but it's a school night. Please keep it quiet.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you guys like have basically spent your entire life in like a religious school. So like, how are you like Amish kids on Rumspringer?
SPEAKER_07This is like the homeschool Christian kids going to college for the first time and having freedom.
SPEAKER_05I love that. I love that.
SPEAKER_02Um I've been going to space yoga classes.
SPEAKER_05Spoga. Except like I uh have different I have different theme parties. Um I I do different drinks for those uh themes. Sometimes we do costume stuff. Uh I I try and make sure that everybody's included, but there's not too many people. Um I where where are we staying at?
SPEAKER_00We've got an apartment in the Senate district, so fairly like uh Agent Gray said that it wasn't much, but it's still it's a four-bedroom apartment in the Senate district.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we actually have our own rooms and everything. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_00So uh why do you roll me a roll me a three purple charm to see how well your parties have gone? Oh fuck. Oh fuck.
SPEAKER_05Uh three purple charm. I got one success and two advantage. Ooh, so they've gone quite well, yeah. Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_07Illyria, are you sure you're just gonna go to yoga again? I promise the parties are fun.
SPEAKER_00Is we even have a quote unquote slang for sneaking up to the roof to practice with your purloined lightsaber.
SPEAKER_07Ooh. Maybe. I'm gonna go meditate alone. She'll be in her bunk.
SPEAKER_02I need to go not covet the possessions that I don't have.
SPEAKER_07Just goleming out over this lightsaber.
SPEAKER_02No way, I'm elegantly performing lightsaber forms of this purloined lightsaber.
SPEAKER_00Are you saying that golem can't be elegant? Keeping the blade turned off and making all the sounds with your mouth.
SPEAKER_05Are you sure you don't want to come to a party? We're doing a lightsaber off party soon. We get to do a lightsaber measuring contest. Excuse me.
SPEAKER_02Yes, I think I am secure in my uh decision to go do my own thing.
SPEAKER_05This this is this universe's uh version of Wizard Stick where every time you drink you add it to like your It's called wisest wizard, you bitch!
SPEAKER_00Oh oh I'm sorry. So you so you've spent a lot you guys have collectively spent a lot of time feeling wise. Yeah, baby. Uh so Starzan, how have you been exploring this new concrete jungle?
SPEAKER_04Starzan is accommodating to his new environment. This concrete. This concrete.
SPEAKER_07I I probably would just like prefer to climb places instead of you know someone's just having breakfast in their apartment and start across the window like a lizard.
SPEAKER_05Every once in a while I'm brushing my teeth and you're just in the corner of the shower, just sort of like staring.
SPEAKER_07Do you want to see how good I am at climbing walls?
SPEAKER_04If the fastest way from point A to point B for Starzan is to like climb a building and run down it, then he's just gonna Tom Cruise his way through the scene.
SPEAKER_07Listen, the fastest the the shortest path from e uh between any two points is a straight line, and if that line happens to be going directly up the side of a skyscraper.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So, Starzan, if you've been climbing like skyscrapers and stuff in the Senate district, uh, why don't you give me either a perception or maybe a survival if those are the skills that are kicking in for you? Three purple, just to see if you've like noticed anything in in your neighborhood. Okay. Something strange.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, this Jedi's fucking uh senator.
SPEAKER_07You're gonna say this is on the conception of Luke and Leia. Wow.
SPEAKER_04Wow. Uh five success, one threat.
SPEAKER_07I really noticed something.
SPEAKER_04And it does-I don't like what I notice.
SPEAKER_07Starzan doesn't know what sex looks like, so this is very strange.
SPEAKER_04Starzan is actually canonically afraid of having his seed stolen, so someone will uh continue the Starzan lineage without his permission.
SPEAKER_05He he constantly has a chastity belt on him.
SPEAKER_04Starzan is an important cog in a royal line that could result in a civil war if his bastard were to challenge his sister for the throne.
SPEAKER_07Is that why you have to wear the loincloth to cover up your embarrassing chastity belt?
SPEAKER_04Just like knock on it.
SPEAKER_00It's an it's an everlast, I bet. So, so Starzan, uh, you've been like at these par like you're you're uh like a pretty like big specimen here, so like at these parties, ha has your climbing been like mostly due to like you like escaping the people that Chris brings over. You're like, I know, I know your intent. Tarzan must go to bathroom.
SPEAKER_07Not today. Jesus is keeping me pure.
SPEAKER_00And uh what you may have noticed as you've been going out uh as well is that twice a day, at the same time every day, uh a Republic military gunship does like fly past your building. Like it's regular enough and the path is like close enough. Like seeing like gunships from time to time isn't super uncommon, especially with with the war on, but like it seems like you you do get the feeling that like maybe they're keeping tabs on you, maybe you know, they're just making sure that you're not getting it up to anything that's gonna like harm the SBI, but they are keeping an eye on you, it seems.
SPEAKER_05I mean, we are technically an investment, so I guess that's fair, but I don't like it. I will grab the nearest of the group.
SPEAKER_07Pull the blinds, they can't see me doing my shit.
SPEAKER_05I'm I moon the plane.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you you could you can if once you notice this, this could be something that you shared that everybody kind of knows now that they they are keeping an eye on you, that you're not that you may be free, but you're not free.
SPEAKER_05No. Free costs uh costs as a sacrifice. Freedom has a sacrifice.
SPEAKER_07I just know that like twice a day we all have to sit on the couch and quietly and politely read a book and do nothing else.
SPEAKER_02Wow, they suddenly started acting wise. After two months of bender is weird. I wonder how that happened.
SPEAKER_04Starzana just holding a book like sideways. Just kind of looking at it like, hmm.
SPEAKER_00You have to stop sweeping all of the cans off of the balcony down to the lower levels.
SPEAKER_04That's gonna fund our parties.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I tried to introduce her to tomfoolery and you she wouldn't take him.
SPEAKER_07Tom Foolery's so much fun, Elyria. You should have you should have taken Chris up on it.
SPEAKER_02Why would I be romantically entangled with any of your friends?
SPEAKER_07We said anything about romance, Elyria. Just live a little.
SPEAKER_00So if you're trying to uh remain pious, that would probably also be a discipline to see how how pious, if there were any sort of moments where you indulged a little bit, that would probably be a three purple discipline.
SPEAKER_07Can you resist the pleasures of the secular flesh?
SPEAKER_02It's not fair. Why did I put all those ranks into discipline?
SPEAKER_07That's not fair. Did you fail to resist the pleasures of the secular flesh?
SPEAKER_02Three failure, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00So the advantage is it only happened once, but it was a three failures worth of once.
SPEAKER_07But you had an advantage, maybe it was a good once.
SPEAKER_05You you actually went out with tomfoolery on a date and it didn't go well.
SPEAKER_02And that's why I will not take your dating advice ever again.
SPEAKER_05What is one of you once? Tomfoolery is uh uh what's the word? Something that starts with an F. Uh foolish.
SPEAKER_03Freak.
SPEAKER_04You were on thin ice there, early 2000s comedy.
SPEAKER_07My brain was just like, you're not saying that, are you? Fool Foolish.
SPEAKER_04Has Chris on to aged well?
SPEAKER_05I know a character based on Van Wilder? Let's see. Let's see. Uh foolish, I say. Uh I say, we'll get you we'll get you somebody who you who really uh melds well with you.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, like maybe maybe the problem is that you took him on a date. I like I just don't think Tom Foolery's like, you know, the dating sort. He's like, you know, a fun time boy.
SPEAKER_04Fun time boy? He's just a giggle.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I don't have time for fun, I only have time for serious things.
SPEAKER_07Is it fun for you to do those things?
SPEAKER_05Can you can you please tell me? Because he wants to know what exactly on the date went wrong. Uh-oh. Do we want to know this?
SPEAKER_07Tell us what happened with Tom Foolery, Alyria. No. Damn. He doesn't kiss and tell. Can I perceive Alyria? I wanna know what happened on our date with Tom Foolery. No, your cool is actually pretty okay, I think. I won't perceive you.
SPEAKER_02Is my cool okay? It's fine. What is your cool? So, uh one yellow, one green.
SPEAKER_00So if you've been trying to remain pious, have you kind of um have you been keeping an ear out to hear about like any Jedi stuff?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, dude.
SPEAKER_00If you if you've been if you've been kind of been the one who's still been paying attention to all this stuff, uh what you may have heard is that um Yigen was not reassigned to a new master, and instead she decided to uh stay at the temple to help with Hallen's rehabilitation.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's nice.
SPEAKER_00Good for her.
SPEAKER_07Good for her. I'm glad that someone is, you know, tending to Halland's rehabilitation. I'm still hopeful that there was just something fucked up going on with him and that like he can recover. I don't know if anyone's gonna be.
SPEAKER_00But you know, uh it doesn't seem like he's been uh exiled from the Jedi or anything like that.
SPEAKER_02I hope he does well, but also he did adult nap us.
SPEAKER_05He uh well oh I mean that's this is correct. This this absolutely is correct.
SPEAKER_07Yes, but you know, how about you what if we think about it? It's not it wasn't adult nap it wasn't adult napping us.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you are dead ass asleep.
SPEAKER_07It was training wheels for our newfound and current freedom, which is why we're all spending it so well, Calusette says, wiping some impact from her nose.
SPEAKER_04Plus, uh Starzan should have learned from Jungle Smarts and not gone with Stranger to secondary location.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we bought an stranger.
SPEAKER_00So, uh, you've you've had a couple of months to enjoy your your new lives in whatever form that that takes. Uh but either way, after a couple of months, you do finally the red phone finally rings, and you are summoned back to the carrot, the activator class soldier cruiser that uh waits in orbit. And this time, when you arrive at the ship, uh Agent Gray is there to meet you. You're not uh boarded by clone troopers, and you're not stunned and dragged off to the brig. You're actually uh suspected. Yeah, welcomed.
SPEAKER_07Nice.
SPEAKER_00And Gray, he he greets you. You haven't spoken to him much uh in the past couple of months. He's called every once from all the check-in and just kind of let you know that they haven't forgotten about you. Uh that it's just, you know, there hasn't been any issues that require your uh expertise as of yet. But since he's called you now, now that means that there is.
SPEAKER_07Agent Gray, how ya been?
SPEAKER_00Well, uh, all things considered, I've been doing okay. How have you been? How have you been uh enjoying uh life, I guess?
SPEAKER_07We've been enjoying life alright.
SPEAKER_05Life is like a fine red wine and white wine and tequila and mo rum and coke.
SPEAKER_02And I have been keeping my instrument in tip top shape. Which instrument? My body!
SPEAKER_04Idiot is a great delivery.
SPEAKER_07Nothing else!
SPEAKER_00And Gray's like, well, I I was about to ask, I didn't know you played.
SPEAKER_02It is a figure of speech, but Jed I do use those.
SPEAKER_00Uh I understand, I understand. Um so obviously I'm calling you, uh, which means that there is a matter that I think could uh use your attention. Ooh, that kind of matter. Well, and he kind of leads you back to his office and he says, Alright, so here's the deal. Um There is a pair of Jedi that have not gone AWO, but they were worried about them.
SPEAKER_07Alright.
SPEAKER_05And he hits a little Partners to Lover Partners to Lovers Trend uh.
SPEAKER_00No, not. I I hope not. Uh one of them is significantly older.
SPEAKER_07That doesn't mean anything sometimes. Anyways.
SPEAKER_00Call me by your name. And he he hits the uh a little hollow projector on his desk and it brings up an image of uh an older Jedi man. Like, he looks very like warrior. He looks like if you imagine a Jedi general, like he's kind of uh what you would imagine. He looks kind of battle-hardened, he looks uh a little a little haggard. He he's like he's halfway through a Kurosawa movie right now. He's that kind of guy. And he says, uh, this is Master Ichu Shenzhan. He participated in the Battle of Geonosis alongside his Padawan, Stam Wraith. Ichu returned from the battle. Stam did not, unfortunately. Um he was killed by a separatist commander, and after Geonosis, Stam's sister, Nat, and he brings up another hologram of a young adult woman in late teens, early twenties. And he says, this is Nat Wraith, his new Padawan. And while it has not been bad for the war effort, uh they have been focusing rather intently on hunting the separatist commander who killed Nat. Oh, that's interesting. And from what we understand about uh Jedi and their susceptibility to uh dark forces, we're just a little bit worried that he might be taking this um a little bit. Too far. And by too far I mean into Bothan space. Ah.
SPEAKER_07In a bot.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm I'm I'm gonna ask, like, oh, what's a uh pardon me, but I don't know quite what that means.
SPEAKER_02Oh, what a roll.
SPEAKER_00Knowledge warfare or knowledge uh outer rim, maybe, knowledge core worlds, knowledge education potentially. If there's if there it wouldn't be it might be underworld if you know what those both ins are like. Yeah, if there's a knowledge skull you think would help, you could probably uh know about it. So this would probably be um lore lore might be the one that that wouldn't come into effector. Because it's it's modern politics. Okay. So it probably uh I guess it wouldn't be s no, okay. Probably two purple and a black knowledge.
SPEAKER_04Believe it or not, Tarz Tarzan has a uh rank in xenology. Do you know about those damn bothins?
SPEAKER_05Three success, one threat.
SPEAKER_02What the hell? One success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_07Ooh, three success, one threat.
SPEAKER_04Four failures, three advantage. Well then.
SPEAKER_07Is this gonna be another thing where Elyria opens her mouth to answer that me and Crissadra like, oh, we know about Bothen space?
SPEAKER_00We know Both in Space. Yeah, you partied. Like, there was a Bothan at one of your parties who kind of like filled you in.
SPEAKER_02Damn.
SPEAKER_00Uh, so those of you who know, Starzan, um, you might know how to kill a Bothan if it comes to it, but uh uh you you don't know uh the specifics here, but the rest of you kind of have an idea that um the Bothans, largely due to the Bothan spy net, have remained neutral officially in the war. So they haven't really been openly helping the Republic or the Separatists, though probably if there are Bothan spies that could be hired by either group, they've been they've been utilized. But it's a kind of neutrality where it's like they're fairly mercenary and forcing their hand would be a bad idea because they know a lot of shit.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah, man. Marty Choki told us all about that, right, Chris? That guy fucking cut your throat if you try to make him do anything, though.
SPEAKER_05That man can turn me into a basketball, and I would be A-OK with it.
SPEAKER_07What does that mean? Turn you into a basketball?
SPEAKER_05You know, he could turn he could like crumple me up into a ball, bounce me around, and throw me through a hoop, you know. Is that a is is that a thing?
SPEAKER_07I guess that makes as much sense as any other way I could interpret it.
SPEAKER_05I mean, it makes as much sense to me as like I'd let her step on me.
SPEAKER_02He likes some hairy. You heard it here first.
SPEAKER_04That one seems very literal to Tarzan. Call her Mr.
SPEAKER_00Beast because he's into bestiality.
SPEAKER_07A classic.
SPEAKER_00And and Grace as well, so you seem to uh know a little bit about what's going on in the Bothan sector, so of course it's uh not a great thing that Ichu and his Padawan took uh an assault ship full of clones to a planet in the Bothan sector. We don't want our military assets being uh there visibly. He claims that he's uh identified a potential Confederate stronghold there. If uh that is the case and the Bothans have been helping the Confederacy, then outing that might force the Bothans to side with the Separatists openly. Uh. And if it turns out to be nothing and he's wrong, then sending a warship into their sector could do the same thing. So we'd like you to uh use your expertise when dealing with Jedi who are very uh, let's say entrenched in a particular mission, and see if we can get him to pull out. Sorry.
SPEAKER_07I'm sorry you say that and my mind is going back to the turning you into a bastard all things. So when you when you say deal with a Jedi who's entrenched in a particular mission, um and how we have experience with that, are you talking like do you do you want us to shoot his legs off?
SPEAKER_00No, not not if it doesn't come to it. Uh obviously a peaceful solution would be best, uh, but if you could uh maybe make him understand that what he's doing is dangerous, he uh is a Jedi general. He does have the authority to take his ship uh where he thinks it would be the most useful. He does have a battalion of clones at his command. But uh we hopefully you can talk some sense into him. Hopefully, maybe uh if this all does turn out to be legitimate, maybe you could assist him in doing things the right way. And of course, uh when it comes to Jedi matters, if this is a matter of revenge that he's seeking, uh then that may mean that he is susceptible to uh certain influences, and maybe you can help him with that as well. Just make sure there's no m more no more death than needs to be. That makes sense. And quietly is the the important thing. We don't want uh a bunch of dead Bothins on our hands that are going to uh impact the future of this war. I look at the camera. We don't want many Bothins to die for the information that they'll give us.
SPEAKER_07So uh minimize dead Bothins.
SPEAKER_05If at all possible.
SPEAKER_07So we kill a few Bothins.
SPEAKER_05That seem that seems reasonable. I have no reason for uh uh many Bothin deaths on our hands. So we will say make sure that Bothins are nice and safe.
SPEAKER_00That's good. And because he has been hunting this commander, I'm also uh gonna forward you a dossier about what we know about uh this Severance Tan character. And he presses another button on his uh holo display and uh an image of a woman pops up. She looks like she's maybe like 15 to 20 years older than you guys. She's in like her late 30s, early 40s, and she's humanoid, but even though the like even through kind of the scrambling and color shifting of the hologram, you can see that she's got like long black hair, blue skin, and red eyes.
SPEAKER_07Oh. Illyria, is she one of yours?
SPEAKER_02What do you mean, one of mine?
SPEAKER_07You know, your property.
SPEAKER_02One of those.
SPEAKER_07Well, there aren't a lot of chis around here. Like, is she a chiss? Is she a chiss?
SPEAKER_00She is.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Look, it's another chiss. Cool.
SPEAKER_00Cool. And there is, although like the the the image that they have of her is not uh it's grainy. It's like they don't have like uh an asset rotation of her handy because she's a separatist commander, but uh if you look at her, you can see what appears to be a little metal cylinder hang from her belt, which may have uh something to do with how she was able to kill a Jedi.
SPEAKER_04Ooh. Is she your your shister? Your chister? Your chister.
SPEAKER_02I don't ask you if all humans are your siblings or parents or cousins or whatever.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, even though we're really thinking about it all the time. We are all thinking that, right?
SPEAKER_05Oh I mean the blonde ones anyways.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah, Starze.
SPEAKER_05In one cosmic way, in a cosmic gumbo, we are all related to each other. Well racially, I mean. I mean like in species, we're probably all related to each other. I'm not related to you. Never mind.
SPEAKER_07Okay, cool. Do we do we want to head to the Bothan sector then?
SPEAKER_00So you can uh leave Grey's office with your your dossiers and his thanks and his um insistence that this be done quietly with uh as little Bothan involvement as possible. And you can return, he kind of walks you back to the hangar bay, and you see a clone soldier boarding your shuttle with like uh an equipment pack.
SPEAKER_07Uh, excuse me?
SPEAKER_00Grace says, oh, right. Because this uh matter involves uh liaising potentially with uh the Grand Army, uh we've assigned a very uh talented special forces soldier to help you. He says, Jed, Jed, and the clone kind of turns around and you can see his uniform is like he's wearing like a little you may have seen like on on the news and things, some some clones wearing like these little kind of hip skirts. He's got a shoulder pauldron. Uh, but what's kind of most notable about him, aside from that, is like on his chest is like painted this big logo that's like an old Republic Jedi logo just painted big on his chest, and he's got like a vibro blade slung at his hip that you can see has been kind of like spray painted the same blue color.
SPEAKER_02Fucking Jed.
SPEAKER_00And it says, Oh, oh, you're the you're with you're you're the Jedi.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's so nice to meet you. I I'm a big fan of your work. Um, I'm I'm Jed. Uh I am don't worry, I'm I'm not just uh a a layabout. I I'm an arc trooper marshal commander. I I have I'm gonna I'm gonna be helpful, I hope.
SPEAKER_05Uh you're lacking in a little bit of confidence, aren't you? You've got uh you've gotta be more confident in yourself. You're probably a better person than we are.
SPEAKER_01Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. You're you're I'm just a clone. You're you're Jedi, right?
SPEAKER_07Uh uh uh J we're kinda pre-Jedi. That's a long well, I mean I pre implies that there's going to be a post, and I don't think that's Hey, I not I am not taking away hope from Zis young man.
SPEAKER_04Starz in his own exciting career path.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, like, you know, we're all we're all friends here, right? Yeah you you Jed. Nice to meet you, Jed. Could could I roll perception on Jed though? Because I'm wondering if he's like is he gonna be spying on us? He's gonna be fucking cool.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so you can roll perception. Um Gray says, uh Jed here is uh uh an arc commander. Uh he's used to operating alone in the field. Uh part of a special division of uh clone troopers. He outranks pretty much uh any other clone except for other uh arc commanders. So if something does go sour, he does have the authority to prevent the clones from doing anything that they shouldn't.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00But you wanna you wanna roll against him?
SPEAKER_07So what uh I wanna roll perception to see if there might be like any uh secondary uh uh I guess goals that he has that might be kept from us. Like I wanna know if he would be uh spying on us and relaying our activities back.
SPEAKER_04Well uh Starzen will give him an ocular pat down.
SPEAKER_00Uh so this would probably be against his cool then. Um he is wearing a full suit of clone armor, so there is a uh sort of a limit to how much you'd be able to read him. It's just gonna be body language, so that's gonna be a three purple and uh black perception. I can remove a black.
SPEAKER_04Two success, two threat.
SPEAKER_07I got one success, two threat. Hey! I got two threat.
SPEAKER_02He called us Jedi, so I'm I'm cool with him.
SPEAKER_00You're just like my friend. There is something like about because you got those threats, there is something about him that you may like not understand at first. And it may be because you're not familiar with clones, but uh aside from that, like, you got that success. So you can see that he's he doesn't seem to have any ulterior missions or anything, or if it is, it's not like at the forefront of his mind. It's not something that he's obviously thinking about. And what you get is the sense he's called Jed. He's got this spray-painted Vibroblade, he's got this ancient Jedi insignia sprayed on his armor. Like you may have heard about certain clone soldiers having more autonomy. You may have like heard through the grapevine that they're starting to develop personalities and nicknames. It seems like this guy's a bit of a weeb.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna get him laid.
SPEAKER_07Are you gonna show him your saber? Not that you have one, of course.
SPEAKER_05No, I'm not gonna show him a saber. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_02Also, you know clone troopers are like infants.
SPEAKER_00Are you saying that to me? And that's what they missed. That he is a ten-year-old boy around you guys.
SPEAKER_07Oh, this lad.
SPEAKER_05This poor lad. Oh no. Oh, he need he needs. Unfortunately, I feel as though alcohol will de-age him more than age him up, so.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Well, great to have you aboard, Jed.
SPEAKER_00Well, it's great, it's great to be aboard. I like uh I I'm a big I I really like the Jedi. I really like how, like, do you have like lightsabers and stuff?
SPEAKER_01Because I've got I've got like a vibrablade that I've been practicing with a little bit, but it's not like a lightsaber or anything, but it's uh it's it's I s sometimes like I think I've I've managed to uh pick up uh some pamphlets and things, and I've uh watched a uh like a tape that teaches the sheet show, and I've been tr trying to do some of the moves, and I've been watching um a lot of holodramas. I watch I love do you guys know about um Revan? Like I love uh like the Revan movies. Um and every morning when I'm doing my warmups, I I put on the Revan movies and I do all the moves right alongside him so I can stay in tip top shape. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02This is the first time of the podcast where I've experienced secondhand embarrassment.
SPEAKER_07Oh, he's 10, he's a boy. Is he just an excitable lad?
SPEAKER_04Is he a Space Talk star? Space Talk. I don't think he's allowed. Oh, that's right.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you had to be 13 to sign up for Space Talk. Why while he's saying that, could I try to just like herd him up the ramp and just like uh oh wow, huh?
SPEAKER_01So have you ever met um uh Yoda or or Mace Windu or or um uh who else is there? Oh, oh, do you know Anakin Skywalker? Is he really the chosen one? Is that true?
SPEAKER_07Would because we all would have met Yoda.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Because he teaches at the academy. Would we have met Mace Windu or Anakin though?
SPEAKER_00I don't know. Would you have? How old is he at this point?
SPEAKER_07Oh no.
SPEAKER_00So Anakin hit the temple about 10 years ago.
SPEAKER_07Um, so Anakin would have been after I left the temple at least. Yeah. But may would he have been there the same time as you, Alyria?
SPEAKER_00So I think Alyria, you would have been Yattle's Padawan during the time when Anakin first showed up. Oh uh Chris and Starzan. Um, how how long have you been with the service core? Um, I feel like Chris Yours was a little more recent.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because you were you like were a Padawan.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, for you were you were you stayed in high school. Yeah, pretty much. About five years. Yeah, so Starzan and Chris would have been apprenticed to other Jedi. I think that of the four of you, Starzan and Chris may not have been around, because like the time like Anakin went like right into being like Obi-Wan's Padawan. So I think Starzan and Chris, if you were doing Padawan stuff, it would have been like you may not have been around, you probably would have been off doing your own thing. But given that Yadel was also on the Jedi Council when Anakin first came to the temple, I think Elyria, if you want to have met him, you could have.
SPEAKER_07Have you met him? Do you hate him?
SPEAKER_02I just think it's so typical for them to be like, this little white boy is the chosen one. Whatever. I don't know. I I d So typical. I was around him, we were both young, uh, but I I I whatever.
SPEAKER_05I don't remember much of my of my past. I'd rather live in Zanal.
SPEAKER_02Look, I had a lot of dramatic stuff going on around that time, so how am I supposed to remember some little white boy?
SPEAKER_01That's uh I'm sorry to hear that. I heard the Jedi go through some pretty painful trials.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. I did go through some trials.
SPEAKER_07Have you ever gotten your hand cut off? Would that do is that a good thing to you?
SPEAKER_02Did not cut off children's hands when I was training.
SPEAKER_01Oh well. Is it such a thing? Well it's just like, because when you're dueling and stuff, right? When like in the Revan movies, like when when they're dueling against the Sith and they go and they chop the hands off, and then like sometimes they get their hands chopped off, and sometimes they could get it reattached, but sometimes they get like a robot hand instead.
SPEAKER_00Like, um, did you ever hear about what happened? Like, so when Revan uh when he fought uh Darth Malik, he cut he cut like his whole lower jaw off and he had to wear this like this thing around his neck and it gave him like a cool robot voice.
SPEAKER_05This guy's not gonna tell me why Last Jedi was actually a bad Star Wars movie, is he?
SPEAKER_00That hasn't happened yet, he hasn't seen that.
SPEAKER_02Sorry, are you are you only recounting Sith stories to us as if they were very, very cool?
SPEAKER_01No, this Revan was This was the Revan movies. Oh, you because remember Revan, he was like a Jedi and then he became a Sith, but then he became a good guy again, and he he saved the Republic. Remember?
SPEAKER_04Starzan is incredibly fascinated by all of this. Like, oh lore.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we are yeah yeah, haven't you seen the Revan movies?
SPEAKER_02We didn't really watch movies in the temple.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah, but you've been in the service c like we Elyria.
SPEAKER_04What is a movie?
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah. I'm about to show you a whole new world, Tarzan.
SPEAKER_00Can I kind of take Elyria aside?
SPEAKER_01Is it true that Revan um got married and that he had a secret family and that there are some of Revan's descendants that are actually like still around?
SPEAKER_05I'm sorry, I haven't seen any of the Revan movies.
SPEAKER_02Maybe you should go to the archives.
SPEAKER_01Oh, I can't. I'm just a clone. But maybe if you guys are Jedi. No, after the mission. I'm sorry. We have we have to go and we have to go and do do our duty. I'm I'm I'm sorry I'm taking up so much of your time. This is uh I I put my I put my pack on the ship. I guess.
SPEAKER_05We we we really need to get him to stop uh fanboying on us if uh if only just for his own sake.
SPEAKER_02Every moment we delay is a moment closer to that being in a war with the Bothins or whatever.
SPEAKER_07Okay, can I can I kinda take Illyria aside and just like so wait, are you like trying to actually sell that we're we're all Jedi to this to this guy, this lad?
SPEAKER_02I mean he just assumed I he's seems like a really big fan of the Jedi, and I didn't want to like crush his dreams upon meeting us immediately.
SPEAKER_07Okay, you know, it's okay. We keep a lie alive. I can help you out with that. We can lie to this boy Illyria, nothing wrong with that. I just want to make sure we're all the same.
SPEAKER_02We're not lying, we're just not clarifying, and technically, we're like a branch or whatever.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we're affiliated with the Jedi. It's basically the same thing. But it's not Jedi, right? It's not lying.
SPEAKER_05That's the name of our show, Jedi-ish. Jedi-ish.
SPEAKER_07Jedi, really.
SPEAKER_02I think we've delayed our mission long enough. Okay.
SPEAKER_07I'll get on the controls. A as you say, Illyria.
SPEAKER_00You can uh get onto the questing quail with Jed excitedly like watching how you do things.
SPEAKER_07Did you wanna come sit up in the cockpit, Jed?
SPEAKER_01Oh, well, if there's room, I don't I don't want to be like a bother or anything. Okay, you can go back down then.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, oh Chris. Don't don't be a potty pooper. Come on up, Jed!
SPEAKER_00So so he comes on up, uh, and he like watches like how you're gonna do things, and and he's like, Are you gonna use the force to navigate?
SPEAKER_05It hurts. It hurts it hurts to use the force all z all the time, okay? Just just just just you don't use the force. The for you just uses you. You just flow with the force. Just just allow the j just uh use the force to guide you.
SPEAKER_02You're not even our astrogator.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Let the astro do a work.
SPEAKER_02Let's go.
SPEAKER_00It's gonna be a two-purple astrogation to get to the planet Krant in the Bothen section.
SPEAKER_02I put my hands on the controls and close my eyes.
SPEAKER_00Maybe you should open your eyes and try that again. That's the uh that's the stereo.
SPEAKER_07I know you've only used this chip once and you haven't actually like navigated anywhere, but you close your eyes, concentrating, touch the controls, and then it just starts blasting like uh that's my shit.
SPEAKER_05I was about to say and then the radio starts playing cool by no doubt.
SPEAKER_07Oh, we're we're pretty close, both Gwens to five.
SPEAKER_00So if you want to navigate with your eyes open, you can add a blue onto that from your advantage.
SPEAKER_02I I concentrate better when I'm listening to music. Three success, three advantage.
SPEAKER_00There we go. Yeah, and he's like, yeah, I get you. And he starts to and it's like filtered through his helmet, so it sounds like it's coming out of like a drive-thru radio. Yeah, just like that. So uh you got some advantage on that astrogation.
SPEAKER_02Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00Uh so what with that with that advantage, you will be able to control your approach. So how do you wanna do this? Do you wanna come in as like SBI, you know, open up, make your presence known? Do you want to play it stealthy? What's your nobody gets shot?
SPEAKER_07I mean, we're we're there on official business. If it's like we're specifically going for what what was the name of this Jedi Master? I should probably show you.
SPEAKER_00Ichu Shenjong.
SPEAKER_07Ichu Shenjong.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's Padawan is Nat Wraith.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I'm I'm not a very good liar, so like, we probably could we probably could just say like, hey, we're part of the SBI. Uh we're part of the SBI, we're kind of here for not uh uh here to kind of uh make sure that the uh whatever the situation is going on here is go is going smoothly. Although I feel like they might do less things there, but that might also be part of the point.
SPEAKER_02Is it a war crime to shoot us out of the sky in this ship?
SPEAKER_07Well, look, if we're approaching the ship that Master Sanjan is on with all the clone troopers, and it's like, hey, SBI business, we uh we got uh Jed here who outranks all those other stormtroopers. If he's telling the stormtroopers, like, no, we you gotta let us on, like we we gotta talk to Master Sanjon first, right?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we need to see that his motives are uh haven't gone out of control or whatever.
SPEAKER_00So you can uh drop out of hyperspace a respectful distance away, and your vessel, being a uh Republic ship, does a little uh handshake with the other Republic ship, and they hail you. Hello! They say, uh, this is the Acclimator Assault Cruiser Stratagem. Uh I'm reading you, Question Quail.
SPEAKER_05Bonjour, uh je m'appelle uh Chrissant. We are here uh we are here uh uh as a part of the uh SBI uh to uh assist with the uh pe the peaceful resolu uh resolution of your mission.
SPEAKER_00Peaceful resolution. Um and the SBI sent you, you said.
SPEAKER_05Uh we wee.
SPEAKER_00Alright. Um I assume that means you'd want to talk to the general.
SPEAKER_05Uh y yes, please. If you uh if you may. If you uh prefer, we can also uh meet up on uh the planet when we get uh when we get there as well.
SPEAKER_00Well you might have to. You see the general's taken a scouting party down, he's not currently on board. We uh if you would like to be brought aboard and wait from here, we can arrange that, but um I can also provide his coordinates if you'd like to touch down and meet with him yourself, though of course he is a Jedi, and you know how they can be.
SPEAKER_05Ah, yes, yes. They are very uh every once in a while they could be very hot-headed, I understand.
SPEAKER_00Well, no, I mean uh slightly elusive and uh going off the beaten path.
SPEAKER_05That's also true.
SPEAKER_07Look, if they give us the coordinates, we can find them, I can find them.
SPEAKER_05You can find them?
SPEAKER_07I can find them. I'm a hunter by trade.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, she can find them. Give us the coordinates, child.
SPEAKER_00Very well transmitting. And uh don't call me child, please. I was a member of the JDF for twenty years before this war kicked off.
SPEAKER_05I I I I realized that I didn't press mute harden the mute button hard enough. Oh, uh sorry, yes, yes. I'm sorry, of course.
SPEAKER_07Send me the coordinates, adult!
SPEAKER_00Send me the coordinates, adult. This this adult man sends you the coordinates. Yes, yes.
SPEAKER_06Chris, you alright?
SPEAKER_05I I am still getting overhang.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna say the two last two months have caught up to you.
SPEAKER_05Oh no. I sound like I've been smoking since I was born.
SPEAKER_00As you get the coordinates, you can see that the planet Krant has a couple of kind of colony cities on it. It doesn't seem to be very heavily populated. Um, and you may notice that uh the stratagem, the acclimator cruiser, is kind of like hiding behind the planet's moon almost. So the Bothans who live down there may not know that the Republic is fully there. So you may want to plot a course, if you want to kind of fly under the radar, as it were, plot a course that won't get you spotted.
SPEAKER_07Okay. What would it be to plot that kind of course?
SPEAKER_00So, uh, if you want to avoid detection by the Bothins and potentially the Confederacy, or even uh the Jedi, uh this would probably be a two purple and a black piloting, and you are uh going through your withdrawals.
SPEAKER_07I know. So I have another black. Uh what do we have for Destiny? I don't think we have that many.
SPEAKER_00You have two.
SPEAKER_07Nah no, I won't use it. I have I have a yellow, three green. Let me just see. Do I have anything to I don't think I have any things specifically for my piloting. No. It's fine. Hmm. Two failure, one advantage, but a triumph.
SPEAKER_00So you are flying down. Uh you you did fail to uh fly under the radar. So that means somebody spotted you. You got advantage and triumph though. So that means like at a certain point as you're plotting a course down, uh, you can feel quite strongly. Are you using your your seek power as well?
SPEAKER_07Um shh, let's say yes. Let's say yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so this, because you got that triumph, you don't need to roll it, but you can feel that there are some kind of bright spots in the force on the planet. Uh, they are in a kind of secluded area that are away from the Bothan cities. But as you're kind of making that connection, you can feel how strong in the force, like you can find Ichu because he's like this little burning beacon, but you can also feel from that just how strongly he's committed to his mission. Where it's like he may be a little hard to dissuade, and it may be difficult to get him to pull back from what he's doing. And you can feel that like that connection is going both ways, so he's also aware of you, but it seems that like he can sense that you're not enemies, at least.
SPEAKER_07I was gonna say, can I telegraph friendliness in the force?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can make this brief uh psychic link with him through the force, and although you do get a sense of how committed he is, it doesn't there, there's no no bad vibes yet. Yet.
SPEAKER_07Yet.
SPEAKER_00And you can set down in this little makeshift camp that he has set up. And you can see that, like, this camp, it it's not uh the landing zone where uh you were told that he was gonna set down. It seems like they've kind of been on the move since then. And this little camp that he's made, kind of in a clearing in the woods, it it seems like it's just him and like three or four clones.
SPEAKER_07Is his paddle on there?
SPEAKER_00No.
SPEAKER_07Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00But when you do set down, he recognizes the shuttle as Republic and he kind of gives you like the the the nod. He gives you the nod like hey.
SPEAKER_07Uh exit the ship, give him the nod back.
SPEAKER_00Just like sup. And he kind of examines you and he recognizes your robes, uh, and he says, uh, I'd heard that the service corps was going to be deployed in this war.
SPEAKER_01Have you been sent to help?
SPEAKER_07Um sorry, you go ahead, Chris. No, you go ahead. You're the communications expert, Chris. You go ahead. You go ahead.
SPEAKER_05Uh we are absolutely here to help. We are here to make sure uh we are here to make sure that uh everything goes as smoothly as we can. We have uh as few fatalities as possible.
SPEAKER_01Well that would be ideal, though uh I hope you don't mind me saying uh given the uh the decimator, I was hoping that the council would send somebody a little bit more experienced, though I uh do welcome your assistance.
SPEAKER_05Oh you've got to walk before you can crawl, am I right? I suppose. Anyway, uh we just want to know what is uh what it what is the uh particular goal of this mission? Where did what is what is the uh what is it that we are after? What are we here?
SPEAKER_01They didn't brief you.
SPEAKER_05Uh they they told us to uh come out and help you immediately.
SPEAKER_01Hmm. That's interesting. So how much do you know about uh what we're doing out here? Did they tell you about the decimator at least?
SPEAKER_05Uh I believe I believe they didn't, actually.
SPEAKER_07Well they they told us that he brought the ship here. He they aren't supposed to be here. He's like Yeah. He he's there off the books, as far as I know. Cause he's on this mission of revenge, and we either have to stop him or assess if he is in the right and assist him.
SPEAKER_05The the issue that's that we uh run into, uh, Monsieur, is not necessarily that uh they haven't briefed us, is that you haven't necessarily is that you haven't necessarily briefed them. So we want to uh we want to be able to help as best as much as we can, but we're told you know what you do. Really?
SPEAKER_01Yes, I I I'm guessing that you may not have been actually told about uh what's going on out here in its entirety, which I uh I'm not surprised to be honest, that they would do this. Please inform me. So, uh we discovered after uh an altercation with the Separatist Commander Severage 10, that they at least tell you about her.
SPEAKER_07Yes, they did. Yeah, no, that that was the the chis lady.
SPEAKER_01Well, that's good. Did they tell you what she was doing?
SPEAKER_07Well, they they told us that she was a responsible for the death of your former Padawan and that you and your current Padawan maybe um wanting to get a little payback, perhaps.
SPEAKER_01Jedi do not seek payback. We do what's right for the galaxy and we serve the force. What are you getting at?
SPEAKER_07I'm not getting at anything, Master. We're just here to try to assess uh how you doin'.
SPEAKER_01Well, right now I am uh attempting to regain my composure because, as you may notice, uh I am down to only a few good men.
SPEAKER_00We were attacked in the woods by the Confederates, and we barely escaped, and they kidnapped my Padawan, Nat, Stam's sister. Were you briefed on her? We were br briefed on her uh a little bit.
SPEAKER_01Uh so they told you about me, they told you about Stam, they told you about Nath, but they didn't tell you about the Decimator. You're not one of those inquisitors, are you? I've heard that they've been sending people to snoop around in Jedi affairs.
SPEAKER_05I I do I do the Donald Sutherland point. Uh folks uh uh no. Uh not uh uh no, we are not uh we are inquisitive, but we are not inquisitors.
SPEAKER_01Very well. Well maybe my actions will prove that I have nothing to hide, but maybe you might want to talk to your bosses about why they didn't tell you about the decimator.
SPEAKER_07We'd like to hear your opinion about the decimate p decimator, as the person who's been uh boots on the ground here.
SPEAKER_01Well, the decimator is a weapon that was being developed by the Republic that Commander Tan stole the blueprints of and has been building here on Krant. We tracked her down. I have no idea how close to completion it is, and it combines, well, uh, the Republic's deadliest war-waging technologies, but the problem was that its primary weapon was missing an important component that the Republic didn't have easy access to. Okay, which was Khyber. It is a uh focused kyber laser weapon. Now I don't know why the Republic would be building such a thing, and why they would be building such a thing that requires something that's so dear to the Jedi. But uh the fact that your superiors didn't tell you about this leads me to believe that they didn't want anyone to know about this thing.
SPEAKER_07Uh well, we are in a war time, you know, lots of sometimes things have to you know what, that's not that's not the point.
SPEAKER_05I'm not I'm I I am also very curious about what you just said, but uh We are in a war, but we weren't two months ago. Also, uh, you know, I feel as though our side should be able to handle the amount of secret uh secrets that there are, but you know what, there's probably a good reason why we weren't told everything. I wish we were, but sometimes.
SPEAKER_01You're with the service corps, right? You look old enough to have built your sabres, even if you uh didn't necessarily make it to knighthood. You've been to Ilum, yes?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_00That place is Ilum. Well, if they were going to put these decimators into full production, they would have had to have strip mined the planet to get enough kyber to actually do it.
SPEAKER_07I mean, look, like uh Master I i it sounds like, you know, this maybe isn't a good thing for this person to uh have, regardless of why the Republic was making it. So maybe, like, you know, first order of business just getting those blueprints back from her is what it we're here in here?
SPEAKER_00Well, first order of business is of course to uh take her out, as I mentioned. She is holding my Padawan hostage.
SPEAKER_07How did she get your Padawan?
SPEAKER_01We were ambushed in the woods. Krant is uh not an ally of the Republic.
SPEAKER_07Like is Krant is the planet, right?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Are are you s saying that you think they're already aligned with the Separatists?
SPEAKER_01Well, from what I've been able to gather, she's set up a uh factory, and she would need the help of the Bothans to get the resources to put this factory together to build the decimator. You think they crant be trusted. Look, I think the Bothans may have uh been neutral, but I think that these Bothans are not.
SPEAKER_05Sorry, I just really like the idea of uh a Drax-like character who speaks exclusively in metaphors.
SPEAKER_07Inside you are two Draxes, one oic speaks exclusively in metaphors, the other doesn't does not understand them at all.
SPEAKER_04Stardan is known for his linguistic flares. He's a very cutting linguist.
SPEAKER_02What would she have to offer the both ins that would entice them to align with her?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Maybe you should shed some light on that.
SPEAKER_02Wow, racist. Oh, okay. We're not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_01I don't know much about your people, but I know that they are.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, me neither. Oh, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01Wait, what do you mean? Your people?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, what do you mean about Can we not sk can we not get in on with the conversation about canceling this fellow, okay? Let's let's let's continue. Let's continue, okay?
SPEAKER_07Like, look look, if that's gonna be a problem, I've been working with Elyary for like, what, ten years now? Ten years now. I I won't hear any questions about her loyalty.
SPEAKER_01I'm not questioning the loyalty of a member of the Jedi Service Corps.
SPEAKER_00I'm just saying that perhaps she would be able to shed some light on the mindset of what somebody from the unknown regions could offer the Bothans.
SPEAKER_02You know how young kids are taken to enter the Jedi? Uh how would I know?
SPEAKER_07I mean uh I mean that is a fair point. Are there any like resources that are exclusive to your homeworld that she might have brought that Bothans might be interested in?
SPEAKER_02Girl, why don't you roll knowledge? I'm sure we have about the same.
SPEAKER_07Well, maybe I will. What would that be for knowledge?
SPEAKER_00Uh, if you know about uh chist stuff, that would be a four-purple knowledge, probably outer rim. If you want if it's uh about like their military assets, that may be uh knowledge warfare.
SPEAKER_07If it's I got two green knowledge, but Elyria's being real sassy. So sure, I guess I'll roll it. Three failures, three threats. I'm just really taken aback by that response. Shit, Elyria.
SPEAKER_02Three failure, five advantage.
SPEAKER_04Oh no, you guys, somehow three success, four threats. Oh Starzan's.
SPEAKER_07Oh god, my brain hurts from knowing. Is Starzan's planet real close to that area?
SPEAKER_04Sure. I do not know how I know this. If one person knows it, maybe we have to fight them at some point. Did they try and conquer Eggarice? Get their asses kicked.
SPEAKER_07You kicked him back to Scylla.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Egorace is kind of it's it's out there. Uh one one maybe one of the few planets that put up a defense against the Chis. But uh so potentially uh like the Chis Starzan, what you know, like on your planet, maybe you didn't even know about them as like the Chis. Maybe it's something that you only came to understand after meeting Illyria. Maybe on Egg Rice they were only known as the Blue Man group.
SPEAKER_04But I I absolutely love real cool performances. Love that like the Chis, who are like all dark and mysterious and from the unknown regions, have like my dumb ass as a neighbor and Starzan. I'm also from the dark mysterious other world.
SPEAKER_00The blue man group, of course. So, uh, like generally what you what you may know about the blue man group is that e like their isolation makes them different enough that uh if that they have technology and weapons that could be useful for like spies. Like uh you don't know any specifics since you got those threat, but it's like the weapons that they attacked your people with weren't regular blasters, the their tactics weren't regular, their communication devices didn't use standard channels, so it's like if if they want stuff that's hard to track and hard to like follow, then chiss stuff is probably pretty good for that, because nobody's monitoring like those particular communications methods. Uh like forensics investigators may not be able to identify like a chiss weapon as opposed to a regular blaster. So if somebody was shot by one, they have no they may have no idea who did it. And all of that could be helpful to things uh if there's if there's Bothan spies here, if there's a widespread spread Bothan uh spy network on Krant.
SPEAKER_02Can my advantage be that he that dude stops being a prick to me?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you since you don't know it's like any sort of suspicion, uh, because you did get those advantages, you can kinda tell that like the reason he's suspicious of you is because he is mad at Severance Tan. Ooh. He he is like you are like a proxy for him.
SPEAKER_02Look, man. I just got here. I didn't kill your Padawan.
SPEAKER_00I understand that.
SPEAKER_02Do you though?
SPEAKER_07May maybe you should try acting like it then.
SPEAKER_05Do you though? Listen, I I I under I understand.
SPEAKER_01Correct this is not behavior befitting of a Jedi master. I've already lost a lot in this war, and I just don't want to lose any more.
SPEAKER_05Uh we are here to help you in the most peaceful way we can absolutely can. And send I'm gonna show you a good time, okay? And why does everybody why does a good time always have to be fucking with you? Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_07Uh I'm sorry, it's just usually when people say you're gonna show someone a good time, that's what it means.
SPEAKER_05No, we can go uh go uh go out to, I don't know, a club or go out to a bar or just uh hang out uh uh hang out and watch movies or something like that. It doesn't have to be sex, Jesus Christ. Anyways, listen. We need we need listen, we need to save your Padawan. We need to be sure that nothing happens. So you n uh so we are here to help you and uh I would like for you to allow us to uh allow us to uh be on the plan of what uh whatever plan you have of in order to save your Padawan.
SPEAKER_01I would be honored to accept your assistance.
SPEAKER_07Okay. But we still gotta kinda like keep this on the DL from the Bal uh not the Balasaz, the Bothins. Cause, you know, like if they find out that the Republic's here when we are not really necessarily welcome here right now. Like, you know, yeah, if they're working with the Separatists, that's not good, but it's probably still better if they don't know that we know that they're working with the Separatists, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01Of course.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so we can do this nice and quiet, like, right?
SPEAKER_01Which means a small party. Uh I will ask the remains of my men to, if you don't mind, stay with your shuttle.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah, Jed can keep him company.
SPEAKER_00Jed?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, Jed, our boy Jed, who came with us.
SPEAKER_00And you can see like Jed is like peeking like around like he's he's trying to look like he's doing maintenance, but it's like like you guys are Jedi, but this guy's like a Jedi.
SPEAKER_07Wow. He's a master.
SPEAKER_05We we me we may need to get you away from him. He may c clomp onto you. Did you say clomp or glomp?
SPEAKER_01Yes. Oh no. Oh no. But we should remain quiet and try and perhaps infiltrate her factory without drawing too much attention. She did, of course, discover my own landing zone, so she may have eyes everywhere.
SPEAKER_07Well then we will just have to move real carefully.
SPEAKER_00We'll be on our tippy toes. So Ichu can lead you uh through the jungles towards uh the separatist factory, but how do you wanna do you think stealth would be the best way? Do you think potentially um survival to navigate the jungles and kind of uh if you are spotted, kind of act like the animals?
SPEAKER_05I'm kind of good at stealth, so I'd probably go for that myself. My stealth.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, probably probably stealth, because it's like we we could act like the animals, but like it might be better if we're just not noticed at all.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so if there are uh droids that are buzzing around, or if there are other untoward agents, that'd probably be uh a stealth against whoever is watching you. I'm gonna give you a destiny point because you are a little low and there may be many people watching you, so this is gonna be a stealth against two reds and a purple.
SPEAKER_05No how many destiny points do we have? Uh you have three now. I'm just gonna-help.
SPEAKER_04We're just gonna get caught. That's part of our plan now. Part of our plan is to get caught.
SPEAKER_00Or if you if you want to uh keep an eye out rather than doing stealth, you could also roll perception. If you want to because if you if you if you want to roll perception as uh against potentially the stealth of the people who are hiding, if there are any.
SPEAKER_07Since since this is technically a role to find like reach, find and reach this person, would you allow my expert tracker to come into play so I could remove the black that I have to add?
SPEAKER_00Um Yeah, because you're you're trying not to be uh detected. So that would be involved with following a target, would also be like laying low, would be part of that. So I'll allow that. Okay. So if anybody does want to roll perception against the uh agents that would be out looking for uh Republic interlopers, that can reduce the stealth roll for the rest of you.
SPEAKER_04Ah, okay. Oh who is the Perceptiest? I do have a rank. I have two greens and a yellow.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because I I have a yellow, two green, and I can take away a black, but that would just take away the black that I'm adding. We're the same, I think, in this case.
SPEAKER_04We are the same. Wait, I don't understand. Okay. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_07Unless we both want to roll.
SPEAKER_00Or would it just be one? Um, if you want to leave it to one, you could. Uh like basically it would be whoever rolls the best, kind of thing.
SPEAKER_04Okay. Do we have a good uh destiny pool right now?
SPEAKER_00Um you only have three, I think. Yeah, you've got three right now. So this this is gonna be a perception, uh, or potentially survival, because it is looking for wilderness uh predators.
SPEAKER_04I actually just recently upped my survival. I have two ranks in survival. Yeah, you go. I am jungle boy.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so either perception or survival uh against three red.
SPEAKER_04The span of destiny submit three yellow. Hell yeah. That's how it goes. Fight fire with fire. Team success.
SPEAKER_00Nice. So, uh yeah, Starzan, as you're stalking through the jungles, you can see, like, you are you are a man of nature. You are a man among beasts, and you can see the clumsy, he like armored, like with their mechanical camouflage. Uh, you can see the people that are watching and looking for you. Uh, you can smell, even with their camouflage suits, you can smell the bothins that are searching the forest for Republic interlopers, and you can help to guide uh the rest of your group away. So I'll use complex hand signals to position where to go. Why is he flapping like that? So that is only going to be one red stealth. Nice.
SPEAKER_04Uh nice. Guys, just be quiet.
SPEAKER_07Hell yeah, one success for advantage.
SPEAKER_05That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_02Three success, one threat.
SPEAKER_00Three success, that's it. Okay. So all of you uh can sneak through the woods with Master Ichu bypassing uh these Bothans that are out searching the woods for Republic Interlopers. So it does seem like the Bothans are like actively, actively helping. And you can reach the outskirts of this little kind of uh makeshift factory town. There's a lot of prefabricated buildings there. There's like some uh like almost like battle droid dispensaries, like canister buildings that are popping out these soldiers. There are a lot of worker droids that are clearing the woods and like bringing them back to like these little portable refineries and like digging up ore from the ground. And it seems like they're they're really like putting in the work. At the center of this whole operation is this ancient dilapidated uh temple that seems to be like the heart of this factory, and Kala, you got advantage on your stealth.
SPEAKER_07I got four advantage.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can kind of like sense a very strong like force presence coming from that ancient dilapidated temple. I don't know if you would know necessarily what that temple was, if you would recognize the architecture, but it seems like regardless, it seems like tan is in there. The problem is you'd have to get past this factory in the first place. And it does seem like you can see that they are building just one right now, but they are putting the finishing touches on this big, like 30-foot-tall tank with an unfamiliar-looking weapon resting on the top. It's almost like uh like a like a glowing red globe of energy.
SPEAKER_07Hmm. I mean, if we're kind of surveying the temple from a distance, would we be able to do perception to see if we can spot any kind of more out-of-the-way uh spots where we can enter that might make it easier to sneak by all the droids?
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, if you want to give me a perception. So this is there's a lot of people kind of milling around. There's a lot of droids milling around. You can even see some like bothins as well that are helping and kind of leading things. So if you want to try and find a safe route through this factory, it would be kind of difficult, so that would be a three purple perception.
SPEAKER_02Three failure. One failure. Hmm.
SPEAKER_07Three threat. Ooh, I got one failure. I do have natural hunter, where once per session I can re-roll any one perception or vigilance check. We all got failure, right?
SPEAKER_05I I didn't, but I didn't get success.
SPEAKER_07What do we have for Destiny?
SPEAKER_05You have two.
SPEAKER_07Could I flip one and then do natural hunter?
SPEAKER_00Uh, sure.
SPEAKER_07One failure, one advantage! Wahoo!
SPEAKER_00Wow! So, you didn't that didn't help you, unfortunately. Uh, Chris, as you are like looking and kind of scrambling to try and get a vantage point, um, you make a little bit too much noise, and you hear uh some of these bothins that are out in the woods saying, like, you know, did you hear that? Let's go investigate. So they are coming towards you. Uh Kala, you hear this as well. So even like as they're coming out, you can see that they're like coming out of a hole almost, kind of in the woods. Oh. So there is a potentially secret underground entrance that leads somewhere in there. But if that's where like the bothins are coming out of, it's probably not gonna be like just an a straight shot where you're not gonna run into anybody.
SPEAKER_07Don't suppose anyone has like knockout gas grenades or something that we could throw in there.
SPEAKER_02We only had like $300 before this week.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I didn't I should I didn't get any either. Can I can I kind of like gesture at the Bothins coming out so we can maybe uh hide before they find us?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you got three threat crystals, so there are three of them that are coming over to investigate.
SPEAKER_04Should we cleverize them?
SPEAKER_07Well, how big are Bothins? Bothins are human-shaped. Are they wearing helmets?
SPEAKER_00Uh, they are wearing camouflage gear. They are wearing like sneaking suits.
SPEAKER_05Are there other races on this planet other than Bothins, or is it just like pretty it's all Bothins. It's all Bothins? Okay.
SPEAKER_02Bothins all the way down, baby.
SPEAKER_07Cause if we were able to take all three of them out like real quiet and real quick, and then three of us could wear the camouflage suits. See, I don't know how helpful I'm gonna be with that, because I got a big fucking rifle. I have a slug thrower rifle that I think uh don't have a silencer for? Yeah, I don't think I have a silencer.
SPEAKER_04I'm not really a human shape, despite being the human of the group.
SPEAKER_07Um You're a fucking monster.
SPEAKER_05Can we can can we like stealth and hide from them?
SPEAKER_00Or have they already like seen us? Well, you would have to like hide again, because they're coming over to where they heard you. So it would be a it would be a little bit of a scramble and you wouldn't have a lot of time. Um And you you do have Ichu with you.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, so it's like you know, Ichu uses lightsaber, cuts off a head, stars and, you know, clobbs them with his big meaty fists, and then Elyria and Chris, what you you guys both just got sticks?
SPEAKER_02My training stick has the stun setting.
SPEAKER_07Oh yeah, you could stun him.
SPEAKER_05Let's not cut off some heads, okay?
SPEAKER_02Just wrap them on the heads.
SPEAKER_05Uh the dead pe dead people really ruin my vibe, okay?
SPEAKER_02I just want to say we came here to prevent a war of the bothins, uh, so cutting off their heads would be counterintuitive.
SPEAKER_07I was talking off the cuff, okay? Just clo it I'm just saying, I can't really do clobberin'. Not a clobberin' person.
SPEAKER_05It's not clobbering time for you.
SPEAKER_07It's not clobbering time. My gun can't stun, unless you can't, you know, shoot out the knees. I mean, it's pretty stunning, but you know, not necessarily the effect we're after.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I've fucking shot out some knees before in my time. AKA R our uh masters. Our masters. That was fucked up. You did what?
SPEAKER_02Well Our Master was evil. He's in the hospital now. He's getting treatment, it's fine.
SPEAKER_05He he he's g yeah, he he he went to the dark side. He he was gonna do a genocide. Let's just deal with these both.
SPEAKER_02He also adult napped us and made us go AWOL.
SPEAKER_00And you as you're as you're continuing to tell him the story as these bothins are approaching, like uh he like these rocks, like this big rock just like lifts out of the ground right in front of your face as he's levitating it, getting ready to hurl it. Not at you, at the bothans. At the both.
SPEAKER_04That's fine.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Uh problem solved.
SPEAKER_02Uh is there a stun setting on that boulder?
SPEAKER_00No, but it's quieter than a lightsaber. Oh, problem solved.
SPEAKER_02Is it?
SPEAKER_07Well, if it'll take out all three of them. It won't. It's uh it's like head-sized. Oh.
SPEAKER_00You couldn't pick up three rocks that are head sized?
SPEAKER_04Can I just pick up a giant boulder somewhere? Yeah, it would throw it.
SPEAKER_00Hey, if you want if you want to pick up a rock and throw it with your muscles, you could do that. That would probably be an athletics.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, okay. Hey, if you can if he knocks out one person with a rock, and then you coconut the two heads, two other heads together, I feel like that would uh be successful.
SPEAKER_04You mean two combatants who haven't acted yet this round?
SPEAKER_00Uh something like that, yeah. So this is gonna be uh so Ichu's gonna hurl it, like as as you guys are talking and planning and and bragging about how you took down this Jedi in front of this Jedi that you may have to take down. Uh he he's kind of like on his mission, so he just levitates this rock out of the ground, this moss-covered rock, and it just whizzes through the jungle, snapping a couple of branches, hits one of these both in square in the head, and he goes uh tumbling back down this little uh soft ridge. There's a crack as it impacts, he's probably not getting back up. And the other two are surprised. So uh why don't you roll your brawl then Starzan? Uh this will be against their vigilance to see if they see you coming.
SPEAKER_04Brawl versus vigilance, okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh that will be because this is kind of like calling your shot that will be two purple and two black. And actually, we'll call it a red, a purple and two black, because they also have a rank of adversary.
SPEAKER_04Flip a destiny. Two success, one despair, two advantage. Jesus fucking Christ.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can do it, you can clunk their heads together, uh, and they do drop back down this like hole that they climbed out of, and it seems to be like there's a it's almost like it seems like it's probably like a um maybe a well or something, but as they drop back down, it's quite a large well, but you can hear them like banging loudly against the sides as they do, and they land in like a a heap down at the bottom, very loudly, like splashing in the little bit of water.
SPEAKER_02This was much quieter than a lightsaber, thank you.
SPEAKER_07Oh, sassy.
SPEAKER_02I was gonna make a joke about how like when he opens his lightsaber, Carly Bray Jepsen's Runaway With Me starts.
SPEAKER_05The horns are just like Star Zen, next time I'm gonna need you to make sure that there's a safety net.
SPEAKER_00And if any of you are paying attention to what's going on in the camp, uh, you can see that like one of the security patrols like presses something like to their ear to get like orders from somebody, and then they quickly run over to a little cabinet, open it, and start sending uh probe droids up into the sky to search for whatever caused that and took out the uh bothins that haven't reported in and loudly fell to the bottom of the well.
SPEAKER_07Uh, we might just have to go down the hole. We might just have to go down the hole. Go down the hole. Yeah, everybody in the hole.
SPEAKER_05It is time to run now, Mac.
SPEAKER_00You can uh run and climb down the hole, climb down this well, and when you get to the bottom, uh you do find that it is a long hallway that leads, like it seems like maybe this is a sewer system for the temple or something. There, there is some kind of water system here. It has been like greatly expanded and cleared out. There are buttresses that were put in place by the either the droids or the bothans when they erected this camp, and you can see like it's been blown out with explosives. But you can see down at the end, there are like you hear them before you see them, but the telltale Roger Rogers of Battle Droids coming to investigate.
SPEAKER_04Oh no.
SPEAKER_07Do do we see the Bothins that Starzan knocked down? Yeah, they they you would land on them as you climb down the well. Are they are they dead or still unconscious? Oh, they're quite dead. Oh, ow. Ow.
SPEAKER_05Uh what a what a despairing time.
SPEAKER_07Is there anywhere in this well where we could hide from the droids?
SPEAKER_00Um, no, it's just like a straight shot. Like it seems that they expanded the temple's sort of water transfer systems, uh, and they just blew it up so they could like have a straight shot so they could send people out. So there there is nowhere to hide, really.
SPEAKER_07How many droids can we hear?
SPEAKER_00Uh, there it looks like there's about half a dozen of them once they get their flashlights on.
SPEAKER_07Half a dozen.
SPEAKER_02Uh at least we don't have to feel bad about killing droids.
SPEAKER_07And something. Um, if I can tell like where they're coming from, would I be able to like get primed with my gun so as soon as they like come into view, I can just pop one of them.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're they're Roger Rogering all over the place looking for uh where the sound came from.
SPEAKER_07And it's definitely gonna give us away, but you know, feel like that's sort of where we're at.
SPEAKER_05At this point, I feel like we've been given away.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we've been we uh we're we gotta shoot, or we're gonna get we're gonna got got.
SPEAKER_05Alright, let's let's uh get out of this as peacefully as we can.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, peacefully as we can. Let's shoot.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so so they are coming uh down the hallway. They are kind of doing their little waddle walk as they're as they're heading towards you. Uh, but they are rapidly uh going from extreme to long, and eventually soon they will get into medium range.
SPEAKER_07Are there any of them that seem like they might be more in charge of like communication? Like, if is there one where I could take it out and then it would not relay a distress call to the rest of the people?
SPEAKER_00Um, not with this level of darkness, you wouldn't be able to tell.
SPEAKER_07Dang.
SPEAKER_00Unless any of you have like dark vision or something.
SPEAKER_07Do any of us have dark vision?
SPEAKER_00Uh uh. They they are still pretty far away.
SPEAKER_07Would Yes!
SPEAKER_00Oh, you do. If you wanted to use Kala's rifle scope, you could also potentially add a blue onto that. But it would mean that uh Kala wouldn't be able to fire right away. You would have to hand it back to her.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And if you want to use my rifle scope, I can give that to you, and then I can quickly do some impact before I take my first shot. Master Senjon, look away.
SPEAKER_02Why even wait? Just hand me the rifle and start snorting.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, can you hold this for a second?
SPEAKER_05You're doing a lot of barrel of the gun. You cockaroaches wanna play? Okay. I'm reloading.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, Cal, if you want to reload quickly while uh reload.
SPEAKER_07If if I'm taking with if I'm taking another dose of impact, would I still have to take a black?
SPEAKER_00No, while you're high, it's uh that body.
SPEAKER_04Excellent. You have night vision, which is crazy.
SPEAKER_00What was the pupils widen? I guess how many how many dice do you want to roll against? So if you're waiting until they're in short range, it's only gonna be one purple. If you're getting them at long range, it's gonna be three, but it you're gonna be able to identify them more quickly.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I'll do three purple.
SPEAKER_00You have no destiny points at the moment. Do you want one?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_00No, thank you.
SPEAKER_02One success, three threat.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you can, because you got that threat, it does take you a little while, so you won't be able to uh hand the rifle back to Kala with enough time for her to fire before like they have a chance to try and see you guys. But you can identify most of them are just like unpainted battle droids, but there is one that has yellow stripes and a sort of uh antenna backpack that is leading the group.
SPEAKER_07Excellent. Go for that one.
SPEAKER_00But let's see if they uh are able to find you guys in the darkness. See if they spot you.
SPEAKER_07They probably have my vision.
SPEAKER_00One advantage. So as you guys are kind of moving and scurrying, they do like know that something is down there. And you can hear them, and they say, Whoever it is, you better hold before we shoot you.
SPEAKER_07Can I shoot the yellow one? Yeah, you can shoot them.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so the impact lets me upgrade my role. Yeah, I'll give you a uh destiny point here as well. So they're in medium range, so that will be a red and a purple. If you want to make sure to take them up by doing a headshot, that'll add two blacks.
SPEAKER_07I'll do that. I'll call my shot. Could I uh take a strain to do an extra maneuver and aim twice?
SPEAKER_00Uh, yep. And you'll also have a black from the darkness.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Ooh, this is a big roll. One sec one success, three advantage. Wahoo!
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can fire in the darkness, the bullet uh explodes the battle droid commander's head. Uh you got three advantage?
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_00So because you got enough to crit, but. Not enough, not enough to crit, but because you did get those three advantage, uh so there's six of them in the group. The commander goes down, and his link, because he did have that like backpack. He is kind of leading their connection to if there is a droid control module here. That link is briefly severed. Two of them don't come back online, uh, but there are three of them that do after a moment. So there are three three battle droids left that are coming towards you. And they start firing at Kala.
SPEAKER_07What? Why?
SPEAKER_00So they've got they've got flashlights, so they're not gonna take that uh black from the darkness. You're at medium range. There are three of them left, so they effectively have two ranks of ranged heavy. Uh a success in two threats. Oh boy. So Kala, that is ten points of wound before your soak.
SPEAKER_07Oh, I only have 12 wound! That's seven wound.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Just get peppered.
SPEAKER_00But they did get they did get two threats, so as they're firing, they are blasting like the dirt and rock walls of this tunnel, causing a lot of smoke to come up. So uh the remaining droid he says, Watch it, you're gonna make it fly!
SPEAKER_05Can I uh can I come out of my hiding spot and like shoot another one in the head?
SPEAKER_00Um Yeah, there is a lot of smoke. Uh so are you rushing out of the smoke to get a better better vantage point, or how are you? Um the darkness.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Uh yeah, I I'm I'm gonna see if I can get a better position here.
SPEAKER_00That would be using your they're at medium range, so if you want to run into short range out of the smoke, that would be a maneuver. Uh and if you want to. You'll be close enough at short range that the darkness won't really matter as much. You'll be clear of the smoke, so that would just be a one purple. If you want to call your shot, uh, that will add two blacks, but you might be more effective. And and also, how much damage do you want to do? Because you do have that uh new holdout blaster.
SPEAKER_05That's what I'm thinking.
SPEAKER_00Um, these are droids, right? Yeah, they're they're standard V1 battle droids.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I don't mind just taking them out here.
SPEAKER_07Hell yeah.
SPEAKER_05They're just droids. They have no sentience.
SPEAKER_07They don't matter.
SPEAKER_05Uh no success with three advantage.
SPEAKER_00So, how what what power setting are you doing on this one?
SPEAKER_05Between one and seven? I'm gonna do I'm gonna do seven.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So if you're doing seven, that's a big blast. If you don't hit them, this is a uh you got three advantage. That is enough. They've been they're blasting like the rock walls and stuff, and there's stuff crumbling, there's dust everywhere. If you want to instead collapse a section of the tunnel on top of them, you could use that to melt one of the buttresses. That that's what kind of what I'm thinking here. Yeah. So you can uh run out of the smoke, charging up your weapon, blasting one of the support columns, and it melts enough for it to bend and buckle, dumping rocks and dirt on these battle droids. They're still uh functioning, but they are kind of like semi-crushed.
SPEAKER_05Okay. Uh can uh should we interrogate them in any way? I don't I don't know.
SPEAKER_07I mean, you could try to if we can get any information about like where in the temple.
SPEAKER_05Although I feel like they I I feel like somehow they would like send another like SOS before they would tell us anything as well, so I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Because they are droids, if you want to interrogate them, that would probably be like a mechanics or a computers.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_00Does anybody get a mechanics or computers?
SPEAKER_02Actually, no, not uh I don't have any ranks, but computers? Mechanics? I can fiddle with it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, mechanics would be a hardware solution. Computers would be a software.
SPEAKER_02Let's go of software.
SPEAKER_00So if you want to hack uh one of these droids, one of these do you want to hack one of the ones that's still functioning?
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, okay. So if you want to hack one of these droids, uh they are they do have one intellect, so that would be uh I got I gotta give you a destiny point. Give us as many destiny points as you want.
SPEAKER_02Yay, two success, one advantage.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so you can plug into uh one of these droids that is still functioning, uh, and it doesn't have the mental capacity to stop you.
SPEAKER_07It's pathetic.
SPEAKER_00It's afraid. It's afraid so you you can just download like whatever it knows about this base, which is like partial schematics, where it's been, potential patrol routes, like anything that it knows, you can just have access to.
SPEAKER_02Where's the prison or whatever they would keep a Jedi paddle on?
SPEAKER_00So, uh what you can gather from this battle droid is that there is a specialty prisoner that is being held in the lower levels of this temple. Like, it did pass by the cell on the way back. Like when it came uh to investigate, it like it did pass by where this uh special prisoner is being held.
SPEAKER_05Let's go.
SPEAKER_00Uh let's see if we can go that way then. And it is a dungeon. Like, it does very much look like this was a d dungeon. If anybody wants to roll lore on on now that you're inside this temple, maybe get a better idea of like what you're looking at here. What kind of lore? Probably three purple and a blue for you guys. Oh, a blue, eh?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_02One success, three advantage.
SPEAKER_04One success. Failure and advantage.
SPEAKER_00Illyria's got it, I'm not bothering. Those of you who succeeded can recognize the architecture style. Uh, this was a Sith temple.
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_00And a very a very old Sith temple. Um, Chris and Illyria, you got advantage. Maybe jogged, your memory jogged by Jed, but you can see like there are statues uh kind of lining the walls of this very like hopefully exaggerated in size, tall, uh, human-looking Sith Lord with like a weird like thing around his mouth as if his lower jaw had been cut off and he was wearing like something to cover it. So, based on that, it seems like this is a Sith Temple that dates back to the time of Revan and Malik in the old old republic. And maybe, maybe that uh now that you know this is a Sith Temple, if they were building if the problem with the Decimator was that they didn't have enough kyber, then probably the Sith Temple might be why they're why they came to Krant, and it might be might mean that they're able to get that thing up and running if there was uh kyber to loot here.
SPEAKER_07So we should probably be stopping her right quick.
SPEAKER_00But uh, as you're exploring this dungeon, you can uh come across this cell. It is like an old style cell, like metal bars, no energy fields. This is it's the kind of cell where it's like, we want the people in here to rot even if we lose, kind of cell.
SPEAKER_07Are there a couple skeletons chained to the wall?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, there's some their the former occupants are still in there. Uh their robes have largely rotted away. There may still be some leather from their belts or some uh ancient armor-bearing Jedi sigils. But uh you can come to the cell where uh an Ichu is very like he's the first one to see his Padawan in there, shackled, beaten, dirty, and he just slights the door open with his lightsaber. And he says, Somebody, somebody help me get her. I I will help get her. You can help carry carry her out. She feels like uh quite frail for a Jedi. Like, it doesn't seem like like she's had anything specifically done to her, but it feels like there, like, there's an emptiness of spirit.
SPEAKER_07Oh. Is there anything we could roll to discern exactly what's wrong with her? Like if something specific, like, do they steal her soul, or is she just like despondent?
SPEAKER_00Um, well, since you know this is a Sith Temple call or Illyria, you got uh three advantage on your lore roll. So pres like you can kind of guess that what that this thing may have had some old like Sith torture devices left over. You can see, like, in the corner there is like what appears to be potentially a torture rack or something. A torture thing.
SPEAKER_07Is she still in there, so to speak?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, she but sh her eyes are kind of rolling back into her head and she's like clammy and sweaty.
SPEAKER_05Can we can we like give her some uh like medicine or something? Not impact, but like, can we is there something that we can do to like jolt her with uh some adrenaline that isn't impact?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, if you want to. Medicine her?
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Uh can I even just is somebody good at medicine? I'm not very clear.
SPEAKER_07I think Elyria would be the best at medicine. Yeah, that seems likely.
SPEAKER_02What? You mean me, the healer?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you the healer. So we'll call this a I hope you're the best at medicine.
SPEAKER_00Three purple medicine to kind of make her lucid.
SPEAKER_02Oh. One success, one threat, one triumph.
SPEAKER_00You can bring her around and she's able to like like support her own weight. Says, like, she kind of looks at you and she says, Th thank you. You you came you came back for me, Master, and Ichui kinda upholds her.
SPEAKER_01He says, Yes, I I wouldn't let her keep you. We have to avenge your brother yet. Oh, of course.
SPEAKER_05Uh uh uh pardon? Uh please repeat.
SPEAKER_07Well, we knew that was the thing that they were here for. Can I kind of look at the Padawan though and be like, uh, Master Master Sanjon, I'm not sure if sh she's looking um looking for avenge in though?
SPEAKER_01I can do it. I can I I just need a weapon and I can fight.
SPEAKER_07Girl, I'm looking at you. I don't even know if you can really walk.
SPEAKER_00She is she is shaky, but she is determined. Uh Illyria, your your threat is like, your triumph is that like she's like, she is okay seemingly, she's kind of shaky, but your threat is that she is she is still determined to continue the mission. She's still driven by this.
SPEAKER_07Uh uh. I don't know about this. Like, uh like uh Master Padawan, nice to meet ya. Um look, can I kinda like quietly to to Sanjon, just like you already lost one Padawan. Are you really gonna let her go in and do this too?
SPEAKER_01I will take care of Severance Tan.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Uh, but again, you taking your young Padawan in who's already been captured and tortured. Are you sure that's a good idea? Cause like it feels like you're gonna end up with two dead kids on your hands.
SPEAKER_01If she's willing to fight, I won't be able to stop her. She is her own person. We both want to see this done. We both want to see the decimator destroyed, we both want to see Stam avenged.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Okay. I voiced my objections. They are were unheeded. That's fine. We wanna go and see if we can uh kill this lady. Kinda sounds like killing this lady is the way to go.
SPEAKER_05Uh yeah. I mean, l I mean, if we can avoid it, we we might we should, but if we uh but if this lady gives us no other choice, then we could uh have to give no other choice.
SPEAKER_07Would would I be able to roll Seek to kind of pinpoint where exactly in the temple she is? Yeah. Okay. Don't know if this'll work, because I do only have the one force rating. We'll see. Eh, one light side, can't quite do it.
SPEAKER_00So you can't quite do it, but you can with that light side if you want to use it, you can kind of get a general sense that she is like quite far above you. From from the outside, you could see that there was a sort of observation level at the top of the temple.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so like maybe just go up as high as we can.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay, I'll relay that to the group. And you have uh the battle droid data and the patrol routes. Uh so if you want to avoid any unnecessary confrontations, you probably could, uh, if you want to do a they probably still would be patrolling though. So would this be stealth if you want to remain hidden?
SPEAKER_05Uh yeah, that sounds right.
SPEAKER_00So you have you have the patrol route, so that can add a two blue. Uh again, these battle droids. Uh I'm gonna give you a destiny point. Due to the number of them, we'll call it a red and two black stealth.
SPEAKER_07Red two black?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you can add two blues from knowing the patrol roots.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Uh since Since we're going after this person, could I apply Kenide again? Or not Keenide, uh, expert tracker.
SPEAKER_00Um, I mean, you're kind of just in a building, so I don't think it would come into play for this one.
SPEAKER_07Dang it. That means that I have to have three black. What do we have for destiny? You have three. Could could I flip one? Because I have a lot of blacks on mine. Flip to upgrade.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Hmm. I got two success and two advantage.
SPEAKER_07I got six advantage.
SPEAKER_05Three success and threat.
SPEAKER_02No. One success, one threat.
SPEAKER_07Oh no, am I the only one who didn't succeed? Shit.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so Chris, uh, Illyria, Starzan. You can you can all get up there. Um, Illyria and Starzan. Um, you each got a threat, so it's like, you guys can stay hidden, but like Ichu and Nat are like racing ahead, so at a certain point you just like lose them.
SPEAKER_04Can we follow which way they went?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they'll they're they're going the same place as you are, but they are they're going ahead. So if you're hoping to spring like a surprise attack, they seem to be like, no, we're going for blood. Okay. Uh Kala, when you first uh were coming down and you felt like those beacons in the force on the planet, it seems like that connection also extended to this chis woman. So even though like you you can kind of see or get like a sense of sort of you can feel what's going on as Ichu and Nat race ahead, almost like you're watching it uh in in your mind. You can't exactly see a lot of details, but you can get a vibe of what's happening because suddenly the bright spots, like the bright spot that was Ichu, starts to turn cloudy, and the little spark of Nat starts to turn cloudy as well. And after like a certain point, the the cloudiness just spreads over everything, and you can't tell what's going on up there anymore. But it's probably not good. It probably means they're fighting, and it probably means they're using black pips.
SPEAKER_07Oh. Just so the rest of the group, just like, he's using the dark side, he's using the dark side.
SPEAKER_05Okay, well, um let's see if we can catch up to him. Maybe maybe I can talk him out of this.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so Chris, Illyria, and Starzan, you can all remain hidden. Kala, she's sensed you, uh, but she's got bigger fish to fry at this point, so sh so you may still be able to get away with uh kind of observing and finding some sneaky, sneaky way to intercede.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_00Uh, Chris, uh, you also got advantage. So as you guys are making your way up, you can find like a ladder basically that goes up to the rafters of the observation area. And you can see it's just like as you climb up and you can see what's going on, and you can see Ichu's, uh, Nat and Severance all having a classic Jedi style uh lightsaber duel. And you can see that like the battle droids that are up there that are trying to keep things running are like running away. The Bothins uh are trying to run away, but like as they do, Ichu stabs the tr the door control panel, locking them in. And he says, You're a part of this too. You don't get to run away.
SPEAKER_07Uh-oh. Cause like if if he's trapped the Bothins in, like, because I can try to like use my gun to take a pot shot at Severance, I don't know how well it'll work. And we can like try to get the doors open again to free the Bothins if we're up in the rafters.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you would be up in the rafters.
SPEAKER_07Okay. Well Kay, can I see if I could take a pot shot at Severance just to, you know, maybe help end this fast at least?
SPEAKER_00Uh, yeah. So, um because she did sense you, um, the all of her natural defenses are gonna come into play on this. Okay. So up in the rafters, you would probably be about medium range. So that would start as two purple. She's got three ranks of adversary, so that becomes two reds and a purple, and she's got a point of range defense, so that adds black, in addition to you uh feeling the effects of your drugs.
SPEAKER_07Uh what do we have for destiny?
SPEAKER_00You have two.
SPEAKER_07You know what? I'm just gonna see what happens here. I will not flip. Are you gonna aim or anything? I will. I'll I'll take a strain and aim twice. Thank you for reminding me. Two failures, but one advantage. Can I at least distract her a little?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can uh distract her. You can what do you fire at instead of her, or what do you hit instead of her?
SPEAKER_07Oh, because is it up here that the the weapon is being built?
SPEAKER_00Um, no, the weapon is being built out in the factory city.
SPEAKER_07Are there any important looking controls or anything up here?
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah, there's a lot of important looking controls.
SPEAKER_07I'll shoot some important looking controls.
SPEAKER_00You can shoot an important looking control, and out uh outside in the little uh factory town that they've built, sirens start going off as like you can see like some like red light start flashing and people start like running. Some people start running away from the decimator, some people start running to it uh as if something is gonna happen. And when you do that, uh she turns around, looks up at you, locks eyes, and then the rafters start to like collapse from the ceiling.
SPEAKER_07Can I cling onto the rafter so it at least doesn't drop me onto the ground?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, to avoid taking uh fall damage, everybody do uh an athletics or coordination. Oh shit. Uh this will be a two purple.
SPEAKER_02Two failure for advantage. Hmm. Two success.
SPEAKER_07Two failure three advantage. Four success, two threats. Surely Starzan got enough success for Illyria and I!
SPEAKER_00So Chris and Starzan, you won't be taking fall damage. Uh Illyria and Kala. Um, you will be taking fall damage, but you got advantage, so you can reduce that by uh four for Illyria and three for Kala. Okay.
SPEAKER_07And Chris Oh shit, I still have my wound from earlier too, don't I?
SPEAKER_00Fall damage uh does interact with Soak.
SPEAKER_07It does? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So because you're still if you're wearing armor, like, it's still gonna come into play here. But I think uh Kala, you're getting pretty close.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, because I was already at seven wound, seven of twenty.
SPEAKER_00So you're at eleven now, right?
SPEAKER_07Whoo.
SPEAKER_05We yeah, when I helped uh the pad one, I probably should have helped you uh as well, shouldn't I? Or uh whoever's doing the medicine.
SPEAKER_07To be fair, it probably should have occurred to me before we left to buy a couple stim packs. It's just been so long since I've been someone who carried equipment. Well, now you know.
SPEAKER_02Now I know. Do you want some healing? Do we have time for healing?
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, you're you're all just you're also rolling off of this uh scaffolding that fell. Stars and uh you don't take fall damage, but you did get those two threat. So uh your sword comes untethered from uh its holster or its scabbard, whatever you have it, and it goes kind of clattering across the floor.
SPEAKER_04I'll try and recover it.
SPEAKER_00You're you're gonna make a move, a big move to go and grab your sword? Yes. Okay, so um you'll need to do this bef probably before Severance can react. So that's gonna be a four-red athletics.
SPEAKER_05It's nuts how we've already fucked this mission up.
SPEAKER_07But we haven't. I'm gonna flip a destiny.
SPEAKER_04Two success, one triumph, one despair.
SPEAKER_07Oh, that's nice. You got started and I'm like, hell yeah.
SPEAKER_00So uh you can grab the sword. Do you want to use the momentum with that triumph to follow through on an attack against her?
SPEAKER_07That sounds great.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Okay.
SPEAKER_07I bet the despair won't come into play at the end.
SPEAKER_00All the the despair is going to make it more difficult. So you can use that triumph to follow through, grab it, use the momentum to carry carry forward into an attack. Uh she does have three points of adversary, she does have uh two points of melee defense, she does you also did get that despair, so it's gonna start as a two purple, and her adversary is gonna upgrade that to two reds into purple. That despair is gonna upgrade that to three reds, and her defense is gonna add two blacks. Jesus Christ. You got this. And this is your sword, so your sword uses the lightsaber skill?
SPEAKER_04Yes. Does this qualify for uh quick strike? Uh, I d she's been dueling these guys for a little while, so I don't think it will. Okay. No, never mind. Uh three success, one threat.
SPEAKER_07Oh shit, nice!
SPEAKER_04That threat, that threat made him go, ooh though. It's only one threat. It's only a little threat.
SPEAKER_00A minor threat. So you can slice her. Where do you where do you slice her? Like where do you aim? Do you like put a cut on her face? Do you uh is it a body blow? Is it a limb blow?
SPEAKER_04Oh, do you like the idea of like a big scar down the face? Like, ha.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so you can you can slash her face. It starts bleeding red, contrasting against the blue of her face. And she takes note of you, Starzan. She takes note of uh your ritually applied makeup, she takes note of the blade, and she says, I thought my people wiped you primitives from the face of Eggarice.
SPEAKER_04Have you come to avenge your clan? The clan is strong. The clan up survives. Capital style.
SPEAKER_00It makes a little reloading sound when you flex.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, it doesn't matter how many of you Jedi come for me today. I think I'm still going to win.
SPEAKER_05Oh, I why can't we all just get along? Oh, Chris. I'm so I'm so tired of all this fighting. I feel so we've lost we've lost the plot in our lives, you know.
SPEAKER_00If you want to stop this fighting, then why don't you help me against this crazed Jedi and his Padawan?
SPEAKER_05I'm trying. I'm trying, but like, you know, trying to help him.
SPEAKER_07Sorry, continue, Chris.
SPEAKER_05No, no, no, no. I'm I'm I'm basically like, we're we're we're try we're trying to get uh catch up to him so that we can tell uh he's there so that we're he's he's fighting her, he's waiting for an opportunity to strike, but you guys came crashing down. Okay. Listen. You'll make uh what you're doing will make things way worse uh before they make him all b uh any better. How how will killing her make things worse? Yeah, uh are you unaware of consequences or because uh because you can see the weapon she's built out there.
SPEAKER_01You know what she did to my old Padawan. You know what she did to Nat's brother.
SPEAKER_07Does she have a red lightsaber?
SPEAKER_00Uh it's yellow.
SPEAKER_07So it's not a red lightsaber.
SPEAKER_05No.
SPEAKER_07Hmm.
SPEAKER_05So so everything that you were telling me before about uh Ven uh about uh making sure every uh everything uh resolves peacefully, that was all a lie, then.
SPEAKER_01I will destroy her without hate in my heart if that will get the job done.
SPEAKER_05I'm pretty sure you have a little bit of hate in your heart.
SPEAKER_01Don't stand in my way. I see, see, there it is.
SPEAKER_05I I saw it in your eyes right there. So he's gonna use the move power on you. Oh, for fuck's sake. Hey, wait, what what are you doing? Where am I going?
SPEAKER_00Oh, three dark sides. Which he will use. Yeah, so he you can feel yourself lifting off the ground, and he just kind of does like a casual wave with his hand and he sends you kind of like rolling away. He's not he doesn't hurl you. He's not trying to hurt you, but he is trying to like, like, he's swatting you away like a fly.
SPEAKER_07Just just to check, because like, would as far as we know, the Sith have not really been around for some time. Would we know that they will use red lightsabers?
SPEAKER_00Um, well, you know uh that Hallon at one point in the past fought Darthmall, that's how he lost his leg. Uh the Obi-Wan's fight against Darthmall and Naboo is kind of general knowledge that's kind of filtered out. Um, you guys are in a Sith temple. I think you like the idea that Sith use red lightsabers would be known to you guys. Um especially at least the idea that they will bleed their crystals red.
SPEAKER_07She's not a Sith though. Her lightsaber's yellow. Severance, you're not a Sith. What's your deal?
SPEAKER_00I am not a Sith. I was once like her, and she points to Illyria. Oh.
SPEAKER_07I was gonna say something mean and I didn't, because I do not believe it, but A nerd? No, I was gonna be like a dropout, but I would not say that. Oh, how dare you.
SPEAKER_05Oh, that would have been way worse than nerd.
SPEAKER_07It would have been, and it would have been insulting all of us. Uh what a uh what do you mean?
SPEAKER_00And she she kind of turns to Elyr and she says, Girl, do you know about our kind on Scylla?
SPEAKER_02In theory.
SPEAKER_00Do you know what they say about us that our powers will wane?
SPEAKER_02I mean, that's probably why nobody else wanted me, man.
SPEAKER_00Because they believed it would be so, belief is powerful, I believed that my powers would wane, and so they did, and because of that I was exiled from my people once they no longer found me useful. But then I came here, and I discovered that the Jedi and others do not face the same consequences, and I began to wonder if perhaps it was the power of belief that made my powers disappear. Once I started to question, my abilities returned. I am not a Jedi, I am not a Sith, I am Severance Tan, and I am my own person.
SPEAKER_05Uh, did you uh torture her his old and kill his old Padawan? Uh I'm still uh hanging and uh hanging out in the air, by the way. No, I'm sorry, I killed his old Padawan, tortured his new one. Uh yes, yes, yes, yes, of course. Okay. Why? Well, as a Jedi Padawan, she would know the way to Ilum. So this is the one that you killed, or the one that why do you need to go to Ilum? We need crystals for our devastators.
SPEAKER_07So all the stuff about strip mining Ilum for the crystals, that was accurate. You are still building the Death Laser with the crystals from Ilum.
SPEAKER_00Oh yes, the repo that was deep in the Republic's files. I just decided that the Confederacy could make better use of it, and Dooku has paid me handsomely for this information.
SPEAKER_05Dooku?
SPEAKER_00Yes. Unfortunately, when Dooku left the Jedi, the access to Ilum was also cut off. Only active Jedi are given the coordinates.
SPEAKER_07Wait, so Do Dooku paid you not before he left the after he left the Jedi, correct?
SPEAKER_00I have been working with Dooku for some time, but as far as I know, he was no longer a Jedi when I became his acolyte.
SPEAKER_07Okay. So we are still gonna have to stop you from doing whatever it is that you're doing here.
SPEAKER_00Why would you stop me?
SPEAKER_07You just said that you're building a devastator and you're gonna have to strip mine Illum to fuel it.
SPEAKER_00To fight against a corrupt republic and to fight against a corrupt organization. Look at Master Shenjone and his Padua and they're ready to kill me in anger. I mean That doesn't sound like something a Jedi would do, does it?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I don't think a Jedi would build a death laser either.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, with respect, you would pull me down from the seal and I'm a little bruised.
SPEAKER_05See see how uh he's she's taking you on? She's trying she's trying to get under your skin. Just just s just sort of uh arr uh arrest her, bring her back, and we'll uh don't out justice the correct way.
SPEAKER_00I don't think that Master Shenjon would allow me to be arrested. I think he won't let this end anyway other than with my death.
SPEAKER_07Master S-on, I know that you I mean I probably shouldn't do this. My persuasion is not that good. I don't have much charm.
SPEAKER_05I I got I got some charm here. Chris, you're our hope.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, Chris, you're our you're very present, aren't you?
SPEAKER_05I need you to look uh into your heart. Your Padwan. Would he look at you right now and be pro and be proud of you?
SPEAKER_07Flinging the dark side around, man.
SPEAKER_05See that darkness in your heart, you need to expel it.
SPEAKER_00This is gonna be charm. This is gonna be charm against his cool, though, because this is like he's set on a mission, this is gonna be against his discipline. Okay. So this is gonna be against two reds and a purple. He is quite set in his ways. He's been on this mission for a long time. He is using the dark side, so that's also gonna add two blacks.
SPEAKER_05I'm gonna remove one of those blacks. How many destiny points do we got? We got one.
SPEAKER_04Now, some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light.
SPEAKER_07Can you aim on a charm check?
SPEAKER_04Aim for his heart.
SPEAKER_07Aim right at your gaze, right into his eyes.
SPEAKER_00I mean, you do have your pheromones, right?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, oh yeah. You can heat up his uh frozen heart with a cool island song.
SPEAKER_05Do pheromones add uh blue or at all, or let's see.
SPEAKER_00Uh falling pheromones. Um, you can spend two strain to upgrade. Okay, I'm gonna spend two to upgrade.
SPEAKER_05Let's see.
SPEAKER_07I do like the cool island song. Like Croissant is gonna be like, settle down, master. Here, have a bellini.
SPEAKER_05I got interesting, two advantages and a triumph.
SPEAKER_07Oh. Oh, maybe I'll persuade the Padawan instead.
SPEAKER_00You you can see like him like gripping his lightsaber in his hand, like twisting it, and Severance deactivates hers, and she turns to like you guys, and she says, If you want me to demonstrate the conviction of my beliefs, then I surrender. And she places her lightsaber on the ground. As she does, Ichu like races forward, swinging at her, screaming, and as Padawan leaps and intercepts the blade to prevent him from killing Severus. Yeah! And but she's very weak. She's just been tortured, you manage to help her a little bit, but she's still quite shaky. Even though she leaps to intercept, her aim is not all that it once was. Her lightsaber is not in the right place to stop his blade.
SPEAKER_07Oh no!
SPEAKER_00Oh no!
SPEAKER_07He's not gonna kill her, is he?
SPEAKER_00He follows through on a swing, it's a hard, strong swing. There's a sizzle and the smell of grilled meat as he slices through his Padawan on an attempt to kill Severance Tan.
SPEAKER_02Oh no! You've become the very person you've seek to destroy!
SPEAKER_05Boy, dramatic irony.
SPEAKER_07What did I say about two dead kids?
SPEAKER_05Oh boys, that's awkward. Um, oh boy.
SPEAKER_07Can I kind of approach him with my hands raised and just like, Master Sanjon, you gotta stop, and I'll like hold out my hand for his lightsaber.
SPEAKER_00He realizes exactly what he's done. Like, as soon as he follows through, like, it hits him, and like he drops to his knees and he like throws his saber away in disgust at what he's done. And he's got like this distant. It's similar to the look that Hallan had when when you uh shot his legs off.
SPEAKER_05No. Where where he where he's just like, oh man, I've really fucked up. Yeah. Um I don't know.
SPEAKER_07Do we have cuff?
SPEAKER_05I guess we can call in our clone troopers to uh we're gonna re we're gonna arrest some people here.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, arrest Severance.
SPEAKER_04Send in the clones.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, bring in poor Nat.
SPEAKER_02Is she dead?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, she's gonna be asked to her.
SPEAKER_02Can I put her back together?
SPEAKER_07Make a miss and roll. It's gonna come up and like, don't worry, Master Sancho, it's gonna be fun.
SPEAKER_04Just pull out a needle and thread. Difficulty is uh eight blacks.
SPEAKER_07Just motion her back into place.
SPEAKER_05This gives some real uh Dewey Cox walk hard energy. Wrong kid died. The wrong kid died. He's just cutting cut in half.
SPEAKER_07Y'all I'll retrieve uh Ichu's lightsaber. Yeah, can we call on our clones to uh arrest and round people up? Let the Bothins go, I guess. Well, I mean they were helping to build a death laser. We'll bring in the clones.
SPEAKER_05I mean, uh like let's let's let's dismantle these disruptors if we can.
SPEAKER_04Who has who hasn't helped build a death laser in their time? Who among us?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, who among us.
SPEAKER_00So when when you shot that panel, like if you look out, you can see that like the the separatist techs are like trying like hell. Like they've managed to keep it from exploding, but you can see it is it has like started to melt, and the weapon is is just like this sagging pool of molten metal right now.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so the weapon's destroyed, effectively.
SPEAKER_00Effectively.
SPEAKER_07Can we find the blue prints if she had them in here so we can confiscate those so they can't rebuild it?
SPEAKER_00Uh yeah, you can you can download them from uh Do you want to download them from the terminal or just destroy them?
SPEAKER_07Hmm.
SPEAKER_00Can we do that?
SPEAKER_07Uh I mean it feels like the sort of thing that no one should have. But also, if the Republic was developing it, maybe we want to look into why that was.
SPEAKER_05Do do our own investigation of this uh situation. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07I'll download it and and delete it off the terminal, but maybe let's just keep that to ourselves and say we just destroyed it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you're not wrong. So you can keep this piece of information. Uh look into it on on your own time, which you should have plenty of, and uh each you like as the like the clones come in. So how how are you ordering them to come in? Because like you've confirmed separatist activity on the planet, you've confirmed that they were working with the Bothans. Like, do you want to continue to make this quiet? Or since uh Severance is seemingly sticking to her word uh that she is um surrendering. Surrendering. Although she does she does seem kind of amused by the entire situation.
SPEAKER_07We're we're we're uh I feel like we should probably still be quiet and not kill Both and civilians.
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, like, do you want to are you calling in um just enough people to clean this clean up this mess quietly, or are you calling in the entire ship to just come down and like blow it up?
SPEAKER_05We're we're we're gonna We we we don't wanna be super invasive, so let's let's see if we can go as quietly as we can.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Okay. So some ships, not not the big acclimator ship, some some ships cut through uh the clouds in the sky and land and start rounding up uh the various beings involved, the bothins who are involved, and the the droids which are shut down and shunted back into their their manufacturing pods and what remains of the decimator. And Ichu, he says, I can't go back.
SPEAKER_01I can't go back.
SPEAKER_07You gotta go back, Master.
SPEAKER_01I don't deserve to go back. The Jedi will try to help me, they'll try to figure out why I did this, but I don't think that's I deserve that.
SPEAKER_05Uh let's not talk about uh let's not think about it as something that you deserve, but something that you may need help with. I d I feel as though it it is even if we don't deserve something, we still deser uh we still deserve to try to be better.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. And I mean, Master, if nothing else, maybe if you go back to the Jedi, you can help other Jedi who are straying from the path in the future. I am not one of the people. So this doesn't happen again.
SPEAKER_04You can become a public speaker.
SPEAKER_07Listen, we're taking you back to the Jedi Temple, Master.
SPEAKER_01Will you tell them I died here?
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_01Let me stay on this planet. Let me exile myself in the jungles.
SPEAKER_04You know what? You ought to tell lies.
SPEAKER_02Didn't he say that the Bothins weren't blameless or whatever the fuck?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you just gonna try to kill Bothins.
SPEAKER_05With what weapon?
SPEAKER_07That is true.
SPEAKER_05Your mind your mind weapon.
SPEAKER_02Your body.
SPEAKER_05Your body.
SPEAKER_02Your instruments.
SPEAKER_06What do you guys think?
SPEAKER_05I I I I do believe he's gonna be good on his w on his word, but I also feel like if we d if we I don't know, like I I it feel it feels like uh the smart thing to do would be to bring him in. But is that the right thing to do?
SPEAKER_07But are we cops?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Space cast I mean we we are on a war right now. Hearing about a master killing his Padawan, that might be like I don't wanna be like make the soldiers feel good, but it might be real bad for morale.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. You're not wrong.
SPEAKER_07Maybe it'd be more heroic to just say, you know, it was uh it was a tragic accident and Master Sengjon, you know, k not k but you know what I'm trying to say. Y you swear you're not gonna cause issues for the locals.
SPEAKER_01I will keep to myself and hope that one day I will uh be out of everyone's misery.
SPEAKER_05Well, just you know Knock it off. See see, uh it's it's okay to ask for help. If you ever need an if you ever need any help, you can uh I don't have a card, but uh I just grab like a bar napkin that happens to be beside it and I give up my phone number.
SPEAKER_07Just by your presence alone, you summon a bar napkin into existence.
SPEAKER_05Uh but yeah, I I I write my I write my number in there and then I'm like uh if it uh if you feel as though you're uh good to go in the back into the land of the living and contact us.
SPEAKER_01Maybe one day, maybe when this war is over, but I think I should stay far away from things like this for now. Alright, it's your it's your life.
SPEAKER_07Enjoy being dead, Master.
SPEAKER_04We'll hear from him in three seasons.
SPEAKER_07I maybe we will come and try to find him again later on.
SPEAKER_00He he recedes uh from uh from notice as the clones come in, and uh like Jed is leading leading the way as you're as you're taking Severance Tan into custody, and Severance says, you know, I could still blow the lid off of this whole thing. I'm sorry, you said you were gonna blow them? Could you see your way to perhaps telling whoever you're working for that I was doing this uh on behalf of somebody else, that I don't know, Dooku or grievous. I was working for Dooku, but if you could find a way to I surrendered to you, I didn't put up a fight once the situation was understood, and I don't think anyone really needs to know exactly what happened here.
SPEAKER_07She was working on behalf of Dooku, that's not a lie. She did surrender, that's not a lie.
SPEAKER_00I'm a patriot, you might say. I've grown to love this part of the galaxy, and I see the republic or the corrupt entity that it is. Hopefully one day you will too.
SPEAKER_07Okay, cool your jets a little bit.
SPEAKER_04We'll Quill your head.
SPEAKER_07Cool your jets there for a second, ma'am. We'll tell them you are working on the behalf of Duke, who will tell you them you surrendered peacefully.
SPEAKER_01I was just following orders. Oh my heart. Oh, my heart all of a sudden started hurting.
SPEAKER_00And and Jed comes in uh and he says, Oh, you gotta!
SPEAKER_05Jed, I'm not in the fucking mood, right?
SPEAKER_01Shut your fucking mouth. Don't be mean to our child. Oh, I'm sorry, I missed the fight. I bet it was really cool looking.
SPEAKER_07Uh uh the Mas Master Sanjan uh didn't make it, Jed. It's a little um neither of them did. So you know, the the mood is a little bit more morose, like maybe bring that down to um Well, but you know what they say.
SPEAKER_01There is no death, there's only the force. Shut the fuck up, Jed.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, also there's some dead bodies, so you know there's that as well, Jed. Again, like the vibes are up here. I need them to be down here.
SPEAKER_01They've but they've joined with the living forces. Down here. Yeah. Down here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_07Down here.
SPEAKER_04Miracle of life. Like I start.
SPEAKER_07Like, I'm sorry. That's all. That's all you need. I'm sorry. That's that's uh you know, a tragic. That's all you need.
SPEAKER_05I start slapping the table, Jed.
SPEAKER_07I need you to shut the fuck up.
SPEAKER_05Jed shuts the fuck up. Oh, quiet.
SPEAKER_00Okay. Uh, if you want to collect Nat and Ichu's lightsabers to be interred along with uh those of all the other Jedi who passed to the temple.
SPEAKER_04Interred or donated to a good cause? Because we're not really dead.
SPEAKER_07Well, when we're bringing Nat back with us, right? So uh she can get a proper service.
SPEAKER_00Proper send-off.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_04Bagpipes a done.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, whatever whatever kind of funerals Jedi Padawans get these days, which is probably not what it once was.
SPEAKER_07Oh. Oh.
SPEAKER_00But the situation uh does seem to be resolved. Those Bothins who were party to this are uh being taken by the clones into the gunships. Severance tan is given an extra guard. You can uh return to your ship, the questing quail, and give your report to Agent Gray, send it back to him, and return to course, and uh where hopefully it'll be a while before you have another mission like this next time on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This episode of Empire Wreckers is brought to you by our top patrons, Alphabros 522, David B, Eric Charles Perazzo, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.