S14E09 - Little Lies

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Wreckers, the Star Wars actual play podcast that thinks it's good that Chapel Rone killed that kid. Who's ready to know exactly what's happening in the media today?

SPEAKER_05 0:12

Kalisetta is glad that Chapel Rone killed that kid. And I bet that when she ran that kid over and drove away, she looked in the rearview mirror, shrugged, and said, Good luck, babe.

SPEAKER_07 0:27

Uh Bonjour, je m'appelle Crissant, and as a member of the Pink Pony Club, I uh refuse to believe that Chaperone has done anything that is unbecoming of a queen. So if she uh ate that kid with a fork and knife, then by all means she ate that kid, and we all love her for it.

SPEAKER_09 0:51

Starzan has apologized for attacking a tall small child when she was approaching Chapel Road. Starzan was hired as local security, but not working for Chapel Road. When the child came close enough, Starzan skewered the child, much like Master Yoda.

SPEAKER_06 1:11

And Deliria does not need security because making eye contact with her is punishment enough.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

And if you're ready to hear only true things, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars? Rebellion is beginning as the Galactic Empire expands its reach across the stars, pockets of resistance are beginning to push back from Coruscant to the outer rim. Small, unaffiliated bands of freedom fighters, revolutionaries, and terrorists are testing the Empire's might, and many are suffering swift reprisal from the Empire's war machine. A true rebellion against the Empire must be united, and a small group of disenfranchised Imperial Knights may have to decide whether they are united in light or darkness.

SPEAKER_05 1:59

They feel like we've been behaving as good people.

SPEAKER_00 2:02

Yeah, so uh you successfully helped uh Prince Shizor rise to the level of Vigo at the behest of Darth Maul.

SPEAKER_05 2:10

When you put it like that, it sounds so tawdry.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

And uh you helped a couple of Jedi escape uh ambush uh from uh the ISB and the Imperial Knights, and things have returned to normal. Uh go back to your uh Knight Council sessions where Scossy Nassage is finishing going through uh his important topics, uh Darth Vader's staring out the window at his ex-wife's apartment.

SPEAKER_05 2:38

Many still doing that, huh?

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Yeah, and Scossie's like, uh, and one final item on the list today. Uh it seems that a smuggler's freighter has been intercepted at the void station in the Dalbani sector. Uh the cargo they were carrying was uh a Jedi and his son. Uh no! And he sends the information to your data pads and he says the uh the Jedi's file has a note uh that he is to be returned to Coruscant if found. And uh does anybody have any recommendations on who we should send to collect him? Should it be us?

SPEAKER_07 3:14

Uh should it be us? Because I feel like I feel like we'll we'll help him live the most.

SPEAKER_04 3:20

Yeah, we can go.

SPEAKER_07 3:22

Yeah, it's uh I I feel as though we are bereft of uh uh assignment to do. We can go and pick Ziz's Jedi up.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Are you sure this is a simple fetch quest? Uh I'm sure that I could find something uh more interesting for such esteemed members of the uh Monoe, we are tired from all the adventurings that we've been doing.

SPEAKER_07 3:45

We have so uh we have been uh uh racked with so much stress lately. We feel as though we need a little bit of a a stop, a little bit of a uh vacation, as it were. Of course, a break from taking a break. A break from taking a break, exactly.

SPEAKER_05 4:03

Hey, what the fuck does that mean?

SPEAKER_00 4:05

Not that entered in the file. Um and yes, make sure the boy comes back alive. The uh father is uh well, you know, if something happens to him, something happens.

SPEAKER_07 4:15

We will be sure that they both are uh uh that they are both in control, and if they are not in control, we will put them in control. Ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Very well, Lord Vader, unless there's anything else. Lord Vader. Lord Vader. Well, we shall adjourn that.

SPEAKER_02 4:38

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:41

Um now, oh god. Cause that was you can read the data pad, um, and the information, uh the freighter was intercepted by uh the sort of local law enforcement on Void Station in the Dalbani sector. Uh it is a uh sky blue YT-1300 called the Yonder. Its crew uh was arrested along with the Jedi, who is positively identified as Kento Merrick. You can see his mugshot. You can see uh the young four-year-old Galen Merrick also has a mugshot.

SPEAKER_05 5:15

Okay, so this is bad. Um, because we met Kento Merrick before. As far as I know, he because he was the him and his son were the ones that we met on like Darth Maul's Trash Planet.

SPEAKER_07 5:27

Yeah, like relatively recently, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 5:30

And if my memory serves, we brought Kento Merrick's lightsaber back for Scassie to archive, so Scassie definitely knows that he is allegedly dead, according to us. Um, I I think, yeah, this might be something where it's like we all gotta actually like talk together in character voice. Uh hey, I uh because we um I I I think that we might I I know we've been trying to like stay inside, but I think this might be the time for us to perhaps uh separate. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_07 6:06

Um what do what do you mean?

SPEAKER_05 6:08

Because are we just like in a broom closet? Can we go to a broom closet to talk? Well, I mean, you could you could go to your ship. Yeah, let's go to go to our ship, check for bugs, check for trackers.

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Yeah, give me give me a three purple uh perception to do a sweep then.

SPEAKER_05 6:24

Uh three purple perception.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 6:27

Lord in heaven, three advantage. That's not good. One success, three threat. Oh well he's got success.

SPEAKER_07 6:34

Uh fuck, two success, two threat.

SPEAKER_05 6:36

Uh-oh. Uh-oh. At least I brought some advantage.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Yeah. So Kala, um, you don't find any bugs or anything. Is there anything else you want to do with that advantage?

SPEAKER_05 6:50

With the advantage?

SPEAKER_00 6:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:52

Um, ooh.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Because I will have this with the advantage while everybody else is looking for bugs. Uh, if you want to review the data pad. Yeah. Um, it seems like it may not have occurred to you before necessarily. Uh, but the you have encountered the Yonder before. If you take a second look at that data pad and the crew manifest, you may recognize some of their mug shots as well. Uh among the the crew that were arrested is a Ronnie Corden of Naboo, a Wookiee named Roar War, uh a Rhodian called Kelko, and a woman from the Unknown Regions called Valarisar.

SPEAKER_05 7:33

No, no, no, no. Okay, so it's like two. How do they even end up together? As far as I know, they weren't, but okay, yeah, so um this is like f a a big chunk of our allies and people who know a lot about us.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

The rest you got success. Uh you don't find any uh devices, but you can all take some strain because it's like you should find some devices. So where are they?

SPEAKER_05 8:01

Where I mean I feel I feel like we should be worried about like anybody was able to put two and two together, they would know that we said that that guy died, so and Kento, because I specifically know that we brought it back, and Scassie was like, ah, this is someone that Lord Vader was searching for. Good job. There's no way he doesn't know. There's no way we're not being set up.

SPEAKER_07 8:25

Is this a thing where uh should we run about this?

SPEAKER_05 8:30

I I feel uh you know, we've been trying to keep it inside, we've been trying to stay in so we can be watching out for people, but I feel like this might be the moment where we need to cut and run. I don't think that it's gonna be safe for us to come back here.

SPEAKER_06 8:43

Especially We can restart our own Jedi group and we can be the Jedi Masters.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

So if Scossie knows, he may be giving you an opportunity to make it right. It's true, he might still uh If if you bring them back, maybe he'll uh that that could save your skin a little bit.

SPEAKER_05 9:03

Okay, let's bring back another lightsaber. We really killed him this time, don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_06 9:10

Like I I was gonna say we could we can run and make our own Jedi Order and be our own Jedi Masters.

SPEAKER_05 9:18

Our own Jedi Order.

SPEAKER_07 9:19

Blackjack. We can be the first Jedi, the first new Jedi, but new spelt NU.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Oh hell yeah.

SPEAKER_06 9:27

We all have uh We'll start our own Jedi temple, and I can invent in cell two Vol Cell 2. Yay! Even more cellates.

SPEAKER_07 9:36

Even more cell.

SPEAKER_05 9:38

A cell even beyond foresight useful for any of this shit?

SPEAKER_07 9:44

Like, uh, cause it should be able to quote unquote tell the future a little bit. Um whose future? Ours. Cause like if this is a if this is a trap, like maybe Ward's foresight will show us how much of a trap this is?

SPEAKER_00 10:03

So this foresight that you have, you can specifically feel uh get insight into a specific person's future.

SPEAKER_05 10:11

So if you want to like get into the future of uh Kent Omeric the Jedi, or even yourself, I guess, for when we get there.

SPEAKER_07 10:19

So we would need to be by this guy.

SPEAKER_05 10:21

Well, does wards what is the range on foresight?

SPEAKER_07 10:25

It's default short range.

SPEAKER_05 10:27

Oh, default short range. I mean, I guess you could do it on yourself if you want to touch short range.

SPEAKER_07 10:30

I could do it on myself. Or or one of the things.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

You could do it on your s I don't know if you could do it on yourself. Maybe one of the others, though, if you're all planning on kind of hanging out together.

SPEAKER_07 10:42

Um I don't know. Let's see what Starzan's future looks like.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

So, uh you want to roll your uh foresight power then?

SPEAKER_07 10:51

Yeah, let's do it.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

I got three Dark Side. So you can sense um Starzan in his future. There is going to be a sense of uh betrayal.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

Ooh.

SPEAKER_07 11:09

A sense of betrayal. Oh no, are we gonna betray are we gonna betray Starzan? Why would we betray Starzan? Oh wait, no, they might betray us. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 11:17

They might betray us. They might betray us. Oh, I have okay. I'm cuz I'm nervous. I'm nervous about Skassy, because I know I know that he knows, and it feels like he let us go a little bit too easily. I wanna roll, cause I can get extra details. I want to roll Seek, and I think I wanna roll it on Anakin. I know where he is, but I'm like, is someone tailing us? Like, is it like we weren't able to find anything? Because we're inside the ship. What if there's like a tracker on the outside of the ship and it's like they're trailing us and there's gonna be a big ambush when we get there or something? I'm gonna roll it.

SPEAKER_07 11:54

Do it.

SPEAKER_05 11:55

We'll see. Two dark side, one light side. That's some bullshit that's a bullshit result. Whatever. I mean, that's it's en it's enough. I can only get one additional detail because it takes two to activate the.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

I mean, I guess you're looking for Vader?

SPEAKER_03 12:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Uh Vader uh appears to be in the temple. Um based on his location, he appears to be in one of the training rooms.

SPEAKER_05 12:24

In one of the training rooms? Yeah. Oh yeah, we don't have any destiny because they all went dark. So I can't even flip it again, another magnitude. So he's in a training room. He's not like in a shuttle pursuing us or anything. Is there anything we could do to check the outside of the ship? Since it's like we're specifically like, that's weird. There should be something on our ship.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

Yeah, you can give the ship a uh a once over. We can assume that your role was for like the inside and outside.

SPEAKER_05 12:49

Oh really?

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 12:50

Uh, okay. But we weren't able to find anything. Fuck. I mean, I guess we yeah, well, we just go go to meet him. Go to meet him. I don't know what else we can really do. We got ever I assume that everyone just keeps uh everything that they need on the ship or on their person. We don't have anything uh sentimental to go back for to bring with us.

SPEAKER_06 13:10

I live a Spartan life.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

She's always kicking dudes into holes.

SPEAKER_06 13:16

You live a fart life. Beans are the foundation of my diet.

SPEAKER_00 13:23

The more you eat, the more you do. So do you want to travel to uh the Dolbani sector then? Oh, I guess we should shut this over with.

SPEAKER_05 13:30

Yeah, I guess I guess when I did the seek, I was assuming we were already in transit, so I don't know, maybe Anakin is gonna follow us. Uh we'll find out.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Yeah, I mean, if you want to have done all that stuff while in transit, you can. Uh, but if you want to roll an astrogation to get there faster, or maybe take like a secret route or something, if you think you are being tailed.

SPEAKER_05 13:49

Yeah, maybe maybe an astrogate- would it be it would be an astrogation to take uh a weird route, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

Yeah. I mean you've already taken a weird route to get here, but uh that'll be a probably a two-purple astrogation.

SPEAKER_06 14:01

Two success, one advantage. Sorry, I'm sick. This is my voice forever.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

So uh the Dobani sector um isn't too hard to get to. It's kind of nestled in between, like along a hyper route between like Hut Space and Boston sector. So it's not too difficult to get there uh with that advantage. You can maybe take uh a more circuitous path, one that maybe wouldn't be monitored by uh the Empire. There wouldn't be maybe any arrestor cruisers that are kind of waiting along the highway for you. Um just sort of taking the back roads that are gonna be less monitored if anyone is keeping an eye on you.

SPEAKER_03 14:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

But after a uh quick trip, you can reach a void station in the middle of uh an asteroid field in the middle of space, this uh big sort of city built onto the back of a large asteroid. Announce that we're approaching. Announce that you're approaching. They uh give you clearance. You are uh there on Imperial business. Business, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_05 15:12

Business.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

And uh a bothen administrator or somebody with a data pad in a nice suit comes up uh to your ship to meet you.

SPEAKER_05 15:23

Who is this guy who's coming out to meet us?

SPEAKER_00 15:25

And he says, Greetings! Welcome to the void station.

SPEAKER_07 15:29

Uh good uh greetings. Uh we are here on behalf of the uh's.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

Uh yes, of course, I can see all of your decals and your armor. I am Baron Administrator Jib Copatha. You must be here for the criminals.

SPEAKER_07 15:46

Uh yes, the uh yes, the Z Jedi uh Z Jedi and Z Jedi spawn. Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

Uh will you be picking up the other criminals as well, or can we deal with them as we see fit?

SPEAKER_05 16:01

Oh no, we gotta pick them all up.

SPEAKER_07 16:04

I I I kinda look at you uh just being like, uh is that the best idea? I I I guess uh I guess that this'll work. This'll work.

SPEAKER_04 16:12

We can't leave them behind. They were helping us.

SPEAKER_07 16:15

I know, but like also but also do we have sp like okay. We we got we got we gotta pick them up and we gotta figure out a plan with uh plan with all of them here because we might still be able to get away with stuff.

SPEAKER_05 16:28

I mean, I don't know if they ever actually uh because like this this crew was the they were the ones that we uh gave that ancient Jedi to to transport to Master E2.

SPEAKER_07 16:40

Oh right, yeah, we gotta save them too. Okay, never mind.

SPEAKER_05 16:43

Because like I don't know we don't know if they ever actually got to Master E2 or not, or if like they might know um how he responded to having multiple Jedi dropped off on him, but yeah.

SPEAKER_07 16:55

No, and we dropped a bunch of Jedi on him?

SPEAKER_05 16:57

Well, we d we uh we sent the one H and Jedi, and then last game we sent those other two to go and find him. And it was like, oh, we don't know if he's actually happy that we can we we've been sending him Jedi, but no, I think I tried to do a seek at the end of the game last time to be like, is he okay with this? And I wasn't able to do it. I rolled too light. But uh yes, so we will be uh taking the uh the crew as well back to Coruscant for questioning.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Well, that seems just fine. We'll just have to sign them all out. It takes a few more signatures, but nothing that you have to worry about. We can take care of the paperwork if you are in a hurry.

SPEAKER_05 17:39

Yeah, yeah, we're in a hurry. Let's uh show us to them.

SPEAKER_07 17:42

Do any of our characters like paperwork?

SPEAKER_05 17:44

As soon as Cal is like, yeah, we don't need to do the paperwork, and Elyria's just like trembling, just like we need the paperwork. Give me the paperwork.

SPEAKER_06 17:53

Nice and legal.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

So he leads you uh to the ship's uh little impound lot and prison, and you can see that the uh the yonder, the blue YT-1300 that you recognize from uh your encounter with the Harbinger is clamped down there, and there are local law enforcement crews that are like doing inspections on it to see if it has any other contraband. But he takes you to the little station, and you can see uh in the cells in the back uh are the familiar Kento and Galen Merrick and the four adventurers that you encountered.

SPEAKER_05 18:36

Uh uh just kind of like nod at whoever's uh guarding, just like these the prisoners.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Yes, yes, these are the scum. We didn't find any others. We're still searching that rust bucket to see if they have anything lurking in the floorboards.

SPEAKER_05 18:54

How how they're I feel like their ship was like cut comparably sized to ours, so we wouldn't be able to tow it or anything, right?

SPEAKER_00 19:02

No.

SPEAKER_05 19:02

Okay. Alright, well, uh, we're we're gonna take the prisoners ahead to Corusant. You'll pass on if you find anything of interest in the meantime.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Yes, of course. If anything else comes to light, we will let you know immediately and we'll transfer it to the Knights Temple.

SPEAKER_05 19:16

Very good. Uh, if you can unlock the cells, we'll uh escort them to our vessel.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yes, yes, just uh do the paperwork over there, please. We just have to make sure everything is scopacetic.

SPEAKER_06 19:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

So uh it'll just be a uh one purple education to do the paperwork.

SPEAKER_06 19:32

Two success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

So you're uh filling out the paperwork, um, going through all the files and things. And it does look very official. It looks uh with that advantage, what you can you can kind of notice that it looks a lot more um standard than uh what you might expect for a kind of outland space station like this. Like the paperwork should be sloppier? At least it should be more idiosyncratic.

SPEAKER_05 20:04

Like, does it seem like it's probably like imperial? Like you're not too far from HubSpace.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Yeah, like the Imperial Bureau of Standards might like it it's not unheard of, but it is a little odd that the paperwork out here is conforming to the Imperial Bureau of Standards.

SPEAKER_05 20:22

Is is that like a matter of like Imperial influence just spreading, or is it like, is this an underground imperial base?

SPEAKER_00 20:30

With with one advantage you you don't know. But it's just it is using um the sort of standard nomenclature and terms and paperwork styles and like forms and things that uh you would have seen when uh especially like during your time with the SBI and stuff, and that you've probably still had to deal with as Imperial Knights. Would like it seems like a lot of the p like the uh the people on the station are Bothins, but it's not like there's nothing idiosyncratically Bothin about their paperwork.

SPEAKER_05 20:59

Oh Bothins? Wait, is this really close to Krant?

SPEAKER_00 21:02

Yeah, it's kind of like so Krant is in the Bothin sector. This space station is kind of between the Bothin sector and Hut Space.

SPEAKER_05 21:08

I could okay, is there anything I could roll for perception just like while we're waiting for Illyria to do the paperwork just for the the people around here? Like, does it seem like it's just like a base going about their business, or are like they're people who are watching us like a little bit too closely?

SPEAKER_00 21:25

Uh give me a perception.

SPEAKER_05 21:26

Yeah, what would that be?

SPEAKER_00 21:28

Because what kind of people are you sort of keeping an eye out for?

SPEAKER_05 21:31

I feel like I I'm I'm trying to keep an eye out for anyone who's like just maybe watching us a little bit too closely when they shouldn't be. Like, not necessarily the people who look like they're in charge. Because I'm like, if it's like the workers, the people who are just like should be just plain clothes, don't give a hell about anyone else, I'm just focusing on my job, workers that are kind of giving us side eyes or something.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Um, so this would be like your f deception that somebody would be you're looking out for?

SPEAKER_05 22:00

Yeah. Or it's like if someone else is trying to play it cool while they're watching us or something.

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Are you looking for like like Both and Spies?

SPEAKER_05 22:07

Yeah, let's say I'm looking for Both and Spies.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Um so if you're looking out for s for a Both and spy level, somebody's watching you, uh, that would be against two reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

Ooh, well, I got three yellow and a blue. So let's see. One success, three advantage. Where are those spies at? Are there spies here?

SPEAKER_00 22:35

You can see that uh some of the uh crew that are dressed in uh nondescript ways are kind of like there's a dude mopping who's got like headphones on that uh every once in a while you catch him glancing your way.

unknown 22:53

Hmm.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Hmm, and they're all both ins? A lot of them are both ins. Most of them are. Um there's various other species humans and you know, kinda anything that hangs out in this area of space, it's near hot space, so there are a lot of Nictos and weakways and stuff as well.

SPEAKER_07 23:10

It is a melting plot pot, you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 23:13

You know what? I got a bad feeling. Um, hey, you guys uh you finish up the paperwork, you escort the prisoners back to the ship.

SPEAKER_05 23:19

I'm just gonna go get things booted up there.

SPEAKER_07 23:21

Okay, do you uh just yourself? You don't need any company or I think I'll be okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 23:27

Because I'm I'm concerned that it's like, oh, we guys fill in this paperwork if they're trying to get things planted on our ship while we're in here. So I'm like, I'm I'm gonna go back to the ship and get it booted up. They should recognize you, so they shouldn't give you any issues, ideally, but like I'm gonna go back to the ship and take a look around.

SPEAKER_00 23:46

Uh, you can go back to the ship. Uh it doesn't look like anyone's like actively tampering in it, or nobody's trying to like act like they weren't actively tampering with it.

SPEAKER_05 23:55

Could I give it a look over?

SPEAKER_00 23:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:58

Look over just in case someone was real quick.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

This would be against two reds and a purple perception.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

That'd be perception?

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 24:06

Oh dear. Um, hmm. Okay, so that's looks like it's uh hmm, hmm, hmm. Um, hmm, okay. So that's two failure for advantage and a despair?

SPEAKER_07 24:21

What if we went back in time just a minute and I didn't do that.

SPEAKER_05 24:29

What if I re-rolled? Actually, I mean Iff Okay, you know what's so funny? Because I like hit roll again just to see what I would get, and it's like still a despair. My god!

SPEAKER_00 24:40

But the next one would have had a triumph. Yeah, so you got some advantage and a despair.

SPEAKER_05 24:45

Um I got four advantage, that's not nothing. Yeah. That's like equivalent to a triumph, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:50

That's pretty good. No. Kinda? So. It's pretty good. It's pretty good. You didn't f you don't find anybody planting anything. It is the advantage and the despair is going to play because you do notice something else. Uh, the despair is that it may be an indicator of how deep of shit you may be in.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Okay, great.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Because what you notice, you notice something else with those advantages. What you notice with those advantages in that despair are just you just catch a peek. As you're going back, uh, you catch just a flash of uh some white jacketed imperial uniforms turning a corner.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

The ISB is on this station.

SPEAKER_02 25:39

Oh no!

SPEAKER_05 25:41

Oh heck! Oh heck! Maybe we didn't do such a good job with muffling that listening device when when Supervisor Gray sent us on that mission. Crap.

SPEAKER_07 25:50

Maybe maybe they just uh they just had a vibe about us. You know, that time when we uh uh spoke up really loudly to be like, no no no, we'll take them. We'll take them. Yeah, no, absolutely. We'll take them. Yeah, no, this'll be a fun just vacation that we gotta do.

SPEAKER_05 26:11

Can I, okay, can I just like in the communicator to the group, just like ISB is on the station, get the prisoners, you'd be fast, and I will get the shit booted up.

SPEAKER_07 26:22

Get that shit running, okay. Booted up. Um prisoners.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Let's let's go ahead and grab these prisoners and then just sort of like You can you can man-handle the prisoners and they they play along, calling you Imperial Scum and the like. When you are man-handling them, uh heiress from Naboo Arani Cordon, she kind of says, Should we run about this?

SPEAKER_07 26:45

Just uh We haven't been we haven't been caught yet.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Just uh uh move with direction. They they move with direction, you can herd them with uh speed back to the ship. No, no, walk with a f quick rhythm. If we walk without rhythm, then we can't predict what step is gonna happen next. They walk at 360 BPM. Okay, good. There we go. Insanely fast.

SPEAKER_05 27:12

Okay, once they're on board, just like, should we should we just get off this station first?

SPEAKER_07 27:18

I don't know where we should go. Um honestly, like, I know, like may maybe the betrayal is happening now. I know this is like maybe going to Starzan's world is the place to go.

SPEAKER_05 27:30

Although we are close to hut space. The huts don't recognize the empire, as far as I know. If we went to Narshada, just like lie low or something, we could just go to like some kind of boring moon in hut space, just to get our bearings and talk with our people. Or just like, you know, an unoccupied patch of space. Is there somewhere in hut space we could jump to? I mean you could just jump into hyperspace. Yeah, I guess we just hump it uh jump into hyperspace.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Hump into hyperspace.

SPEAKER_07 27:59

It's not like they could track it's not like they can track us in hyperspace.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

Alright, Chewy, we're gonna hump into diapers. You're ready to snoof pamps in three.

SPEAKER_05 28:13

You bungle one little word and you'll never let it go. There's the grink there.

SPEAKER_06 28:18

Oh fuck, I was just about to say that.

SPEAKER_05 28:23

Can we can we jump in hyperspace without having a specific destination in mind?

SPEAKER_00 28:28

Uh it's dangerous. Um, but you could just do like a micro jump to get away from the station.

SPEAKER_05 28:33

Yeah, sure. Let's just do a micro jump.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Hang out in space.

SPEAKER_05 28:36

And then like, okay, what the heck happened? What the what happened?

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Arani, she as the captain, she says, Well, we were just doing a uh routine retrieval, and we got impounded at the station. We don't usually take this way, we always try to take a different way back to Krant when we're doing our deliveries. We heard about Kento and his son, and uh we thought we would bring them back and to the camp. They're here right now, right?

SPEAKER_05 29:03

Yeah, yeah. We're gonna go.

SPEAKER_07 29:05

Just making sure we didn't forget the most important bit.

SPEAKER_05 29:07

Yeah, we left them behind. Oh man. Look, they were like right at the back of the cell. We could barely even see them.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Look, we're we're asleep at the time. 1300, popular smuggler vessel. It was I think it was just a random inspection.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Ugh sh shit.

SPEAKER_05 29:22

Okay. You said you were doing uh jumps back and forth with Krant. I I guess you've been in contact with Master Sanjon.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Yes, we've been uh establishing quite a little uh camp there. We brought Relan and um he was actually quite happy to see another Jedi, uh, and we decided that we could make ourselves useful, so we started seeking out other people who were in need, and um I found Kento and Galen.

SPEAKER_05 29:50

Galen. Yes, do we Son? Oh right, uh wait. Oh right, Merrick or um Kanto's son, yeah. Sorry, my brain. It's been like this day only just started, and I'm I've already been so stressed.

SPEAKER_02 30:09

Oh, Jackson Loranth, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

Yeah, we've got a farmer, his little boy from Ceylon, uh a woman and and her son, apparently her husband uh was a Jedi who who uh saved them, uh he sacrificed himself to get them away from some knights. We've got another another woman. Um her husband was a Jedi, he died during the war. We've kind of been trying to help families uh escape and find somewhere safe.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 30:34

Um so they were inspecting your ship. What uh what's the state of your flight logs by chance? Wiped.

SPEAKER_00 30:41

We don't use a uh standard uh Nava computer. Valara, uh, she's from the unknown regions. She's picked up a few tricks there. Uh you have a chis among you. Uh I think it's some of the same stuff that she does.

SPEAKER_05 30:54

Oh, like the uh the the navigating things. That is such a relief. Um okay. Okay, so here's where we at. So, unfortunately, Master uh well, I I don't know about Master, but uh Kanto. He uh we turned on your lightsaber and said that you were dead, and uh people in the Imperial Knights knew that it was you. So uh uh our position in the Imperial Knights is definitely burned now, so we cannot go back.

SPEAKER_07 31:22

We may d we may need uh a different uh identification.

SPEAKER_05 31:28

Or at the very least, um we're no we're we're there's no more inside agents. We're just uh we're just traders now.

SPEAKER_07 31:35

Yeah, we're we're just um homeless.

SPEAKER_05 31:38

We're just look, we got a ship still, which we checked for trackers, and there was nothing on it, which does feel suspicious. We're still not getting over that.

SPEAKER_07 31:46

We have each other, we are best friends. Isn't that isn't that right, everyone?

SPEAKER_04 31:51

Yeah, we have each other.

SPEAKER_07 31:53

Illyria? Starzan? Illyria? Illyria?

SPEAKER_05 31:57

Yes, I'm but uh so you know I'm I'm just feeling like a little a little paranoid right now. And also apparently Chris got a feeling like Starzan was gonna be portrayed in the near future, so who knows what that's about unless it's one of you. But no, we're not we're not considering that right now. Um, our computer has our our ship has flight logs though, as far as I know. So I don't know if we want to be going to Krant right away, because it sounds like there's quite a little base that's getting built up, and golly, it would be a shame if we accidentally led the Imperial Knights right to it because we overlook something.

SPEAKER_07 32:28

Can can we wipe our our uh flight logs? Or uh does that take a little bit more than that? It takes pressing delete.

SPEAKER_02 32:36

Look, it's not just about like because like obviously they're not getting the ship back.

SPEAKER_05 32:40

It's not just about the flight logs, it's about me having a pressin, a pressin feeling like something's God, how long has it been since I've had my shit? Oh, I'm feeling real paranoid.

SPEAKER_07 32:49

Do you mean when was the last time you went to the bathroom? Or what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 32:52

Yeah, give me give me a three purple uh discipline role here.

SPEAKER_05 32:56

Do I need to go do some impact right now? Three purple?

SPEAKER_00 33:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:01

Oh golly. Let's see. Oh no. One failure, one advantage. Can I keep it together at least?

SPEAKER_00 33:07

Um, you can politely excuse yourself so that nobody uh knows what you're doing. They think maybe you're just going to the bathroom to gather yourself.

SPEAKER_05 33:15

Yeah, you know, since I've had my uh shit, I gotta go. You guys, you guys figure this out. I'll be right back.

SPEAKER_07 33:20

Uh where where are you going? Do you de Oh, she did need to go to the bathroom. Okay, every once in a while you just gotta go to the bathroom. It's all we all do it. Everybody poops. Sometimes.

SPEAKER_06 33:33

What if we find a new ship?

SPEAKER_07 33:35

Ones that won't make us sick?

SPEAKER_05 33:36

We could find a new ship.

SPEAKER_07 33:38

So, okay, like how how do we if we're gonna start a new life on what is this episode 10?

SPEAKER_00 33:44

Well it's halfway through the season, it's the midpoint.

SPEAKER_07 33:47

Okay. Uh uh if we're we're gonna if we're gonna do this in Sweeps Week. Then um if we're gonna start a brand new life, how do we begin? Because I feel like we gotta any kind of tracking we might need to get rid of on this uh on this ship or just get a new ship entirely. We still gotta drop off these guys. We still gotta we got we got so much shit that we kinda have to figure our figure out, basically.

SPEAKER_05 34:15

I mean getting a new ship isn't a bad idea because this one does look like an Imperial ship. Like, cause if we're in a hot space, maybe we could find a uh a junk dealer or something who won't ask questions, who'll just sell us something uh something cheap and nondescript.

SPEAKER_00 34:31

Because um Iran says, well look, uh those two Jedi that you sent our way, they have their own vessel. Uh most of the the other ones we've dealt with are refugees. Obviously, our ship is not in service at the moment, but uh we have been considering a move of late, but we weren't really sure if uh you were going to continue sending people our way. But now that you're here, I think it's probably safe. Um The Master did some digging in the old Separatist base and he found something that he thinks could have some maps that aren't on the Empire's radar.

SPEAKER_05 35:06

Can I can I come back just like maps? Okay, what kind of maps?

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Well, that's the thing.

SPEAKER_07 35:11

They they are from the Separatist commander, so they are encrypted, but um I I I give you I give you a napkin because you got some white shit on your phone on your nose.

SPEAKER_05 35:19

Oh, thank you, Chris. That's a that's a real considerate of you.

SPEAKER_07 35:26

And I'm very and I'm very s and I'm very sad because we lost you.

SPEAKER_02 35:31

Only for a few minutes. Now I'm back, I'm back, baby, I'm back, I'm back.

SPEAKER_00 35:34

Back, baby!

SPEAKER_02 35:35

But uh yeah, sorry, maps, maps. Tell us tell us more about the maps.

SPEAKER_00 35:39

Well, Master Ichu he found the Separatist Commander's personal effects, and there were some things in there that he believes are maps that the Empire has no knowledge of, systems that they are blind to, but the encryption is uh is quite tough, so he hasn't been able to access them yet. But maybe if any of you are so inclined, you can take a look, maybe a fresh pair of eyes. I th we should at least make contact, let him know that we're okay, even if it's just a quick pit stop while we get everybody loaded up and off the planet.

SPEAKER_05 36:08

Oh let uh Master Master Sanjon know that everyone's okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:12

Yes.

SPEAKER_05 36:13

Well, I mean if we're loading everyone up off the planet's okay. That that's that's fair. I mean, I still don't know if this is the right ship to be getting people off the planet because like, you know, there were definitely some Barthin spies on that ship who like on that station who are eyeing us and there was like Imperial intelligence there.

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Well your vessel bears the Imperial Crest. I don't think uh There are few who are willing to say no to the Empire until uh your tipip is well and truly cooked, the markings of the ship may yet be of use.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

That's true.

SPEAKER_05 36:50

I mean we we are we are pretty quick, so maybe if we're we're going there and we're like, oh Imperial business, don't ask questions, we load everyone up, like maybe maybe nothing will have gotten back to the planet yet. Because like Master Sentjon would be coming, right? If we're if we're picking up sticks for everybody.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

Yes, of course. If we can find a planet that is uh available.

SPEAKER_04 37:09

I mean if we're talking if we're talking maps, like Elyria, you're you're a good one.

SPEAKER_06 37:12

I have been known to peruse uh a map here and there. It makes sense. I can look it out.

SPEAKER_07 37:18

I've been known to check it out, check a look.

SPEAKER_05 37:20

I'm I'm so sorry, it's just the way that you said like I've been known to peruse maps. I'm just imagining Elyria like in her bathrobe with a glass of wine seductively flim thumbing over a map, just like, ooh, look at the roots.

SPEAKER_06 37:34

Everything sounds sexier when you've been coughing for three days.

SPEAKER_05 37:38

But uh yeah, like we get everyone uh in there, but Elyria could crack that, we could figure out a place, then you know, ditch this ship, get something else, and you know, bing bang boom. We're out of here. Ugh. It's just uh, you know, well, obviously we didn't want to stay there forever, obviously, you know, we knew that this was gonna happen eventually. It's just kind of overwhelming and, you know, just just cut loose.

SPEAKER_07 38:00

We were hoping that we could push it until the end of the time.

SPEAKER_05 38:04

Or at least you it's it's just, you know, it's like uh restarting life all over again. Once again. Had to do it quite a few times, I feel like. But uh, yeah, no, everything's fine. Yeah, no, let's go, let's go, let's go get uh the gang. Let's go see the gang. So I'm so glad that that Master Sendron wasn't mad about us sending people, because we didn't really have a way to check. Uh we were just sending them.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

So sweaty and shaky, you can uh beat feet and crant. It doesn't seem like it's seen uh much action since the end of the war. The Separatists set up a base there for a reason. Um you can bring your ship down. You can see that there is a small encampment that has been set up in the shadow of the old Separatist base. And when your ship comes down, there is a sense of tension uh among all the people down there. Um until uh you land and come out, and Ichu recognizes you.

SPEAKER_05 39:03

Oh yeah, I guess if we're just pulling in at an Imperial ship with no notice, it's like, uh We should probably warn somebody about this. Well, he sees us when we come down.

SPEAKER_00 39:13

And he like he has, you know, he's ready to fight, and then he sees you, and then he comes up and he gives you guys a big hug and he says, My friends!

SPEAKER_05 39:21

Oh, it feels good to be hugged. Oh, Master Senshan, how uh you been good?

SPEAKER_00 39:27

I'm very happy to see you.

SPEAKER_05 39:29

Oh, we're happy to see you too. We're happy to see uh everyone's everyone's okay, everyone's safe.

SPEAKER_00 39:33

Yes, it's it seems as if uh perhaps my exile served a greater purpose after all.

SPEAKER_04 39:40

Yeah, yeah. So uh uh I I'm I'm so how many people all in all have ended up here? I I feel like we we're being told and like I've you know, you might notice I'm a little we're having a day. Uh who how many uh yeah?

SPEAKER_00 39:54

Well you uh obviously know uh the crew of the yonder and uh Brelandre, uh though I have to ask why why are you here, uh uh not aboard their ship.

SPEAKER_04 40:06

Oh, uh yeah, funny story. So they got captured.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Um Arrested Not captured, arrested. There is a difference. I mean I saw it was routine. We made no mistakes. They were just profiling us because of the nature of our vessel.

SPEAKER_05 40:22

What are you, a trandocian split in hairs like this on what counts as being captured?

SPEAKER_00 40:26

Like, war where it kind of growls at you? What do you mean, splitting hairs? What do you mean, trandocian splitting hairs? I learned this kind of talk from my buddy Artie Choke.

SPEAKER_05 40:37

No, just that it doesn't matter right now, War Ro. I'm sorry. Bad choice of phrasing. Like, you know, split in hairs, it's a it's a termin it doesn't matter. No, it's yes, it was routine. They were not captured, it was a routine stop, but the problem is that um uh master Mr Ma Kanto, I don't I don't remember how were you a master or you a knight, Kanto? I don't recall, it doesn't matter too much.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

It doesn't matter anymore, but it's uh good good to meet you, Master Ichiu. And he shakes Ichi's hand and he's holding his son up and he says, This is my son Galen, and Ichiu says, Oh yes, we have several sons here now.

SPEAKER_05 41:11

Yeah. Um, but uh unfortunately, Kanto here, we had turned in, much like yourself, we had turned in his lightsaber as uh proof of his demise, so when they identified him and his son on the station, um our position within the Imperial Knights is cooked. We're cooked. Like it's not explicit there yet, but uh uh we aren't going back there, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_07 41:32

Every once in a while, it turns out the place that we thought was home is home no longer.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

That is unfortunate, but uh we have done well here. Of course, you know. Relin, uh Jax, and Laranth arrived recently. They mentioned that you pointed them our way.

SPEAKER_05 41:50

Yeah, I assume everyone's coming out to meet us.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

And and as they come out, two of them you recognize. Uh when he says this is Morgan Katarn and his son Kyle. Uh, Imperial Knights found them at their farm on Sulon. And he kind of gives you a nod. He was a former service corps member who who left to find a life, but apparently uh that caught up to him. And he says, This is Phila Solosar and her son Cam. Um her husband was uh uh a Jedi master, and uh unfortunately he did not survive his encounter with the knights.

SPEAKER_05 42:23

Oh wait, was this the uh the wife and son of that guy from like our early, early episodes, the Jedi we Oh.

SPEAKER_00 42:34

And uh this and he says, and this is Nietzsche Horn and her son Korin. Uh Koran's father was a Jedi killed by the Gensarai during the war.

SPEAKER_05 42:44

I don't know if we met these two.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

I don't think so. You didn't meet them, uh, but when he says killed by the Gensarai, there was a in the mission where things went badly with the Gensarai, there was a Jedi that was killed.

SPEAKER_05 43:00

Oh right. That was like Ninja Halcyon. I'm looking back at my notes so much for this one, guys. I don't actually just know these names off the top of my head. I'm like, ah yes, Ninja Halcyon. I'm glad I've been taking notes for this.

SPEAKER_07 43:18

I need to draw a picture for every for every character. Maybe I should start doing that just so I can remember some people.

SPEAKER_05 43:25

I mean, honestly, my notes are just like, it's not even notes, it's just people's names and places, honestly. And then it's like, okay, I can fill in the blanks from there.

SPEAKER_07 43:33

Fair.

SPEAKER_05 43:34

But uh, yeah, wow. A lot of people have found the way here. That's uh that's great.

SPEAKER_04 43:38

I man.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

But from the sounds of things, we should leave.

SPEAKER_04 43:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 43:43

Uh we should leave, and I think that we need to be getting rid of our ship, and we hear that you might have a map to be decoded, and boy, do we have someone who loves to seductively fondle maps. I don't know why I said that. I'm really uh Elyria's good with maps.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Uh yes, the chiss. Uh the force works in mysterious ways, I suppose.

SPEAKER_06 44:03

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Well, while I was rooting around in the uh base to see if there was any equipment that would be helpful for a camp, I found the base commander's private quarters and her private technology and her data pads, as it would seem. Do you remember Severance Tan? I believe you took her to jail.

SPEAKER_05 44:25

Yeah. Yeah, she was the the chiss lady who was um who Master Master Ichu and and his Padawan were trying to kill. You guys remember way back when, right?

SPEAKER_00 44:35

What what do you think?

SPEAKER_06 44:36

I remember somebody who looked like me once.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

Half a year ago? Yeah, something like that. Something like that. He starts digging around in his pack and he says, Well, this is um queer-looking thing, but um hopefully you can open it. And it's a data pad.

SPEAKER_06 44:50

Well, your technology is queer too, okay.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

It doesn't look like it's not a separatist data pad, it's not like it's not of a manufacture that is common in the galaxy. Uh, so it might be a chis data pad. So it might have some like chis star maps on it.

SPEAKER_06 45:05

Cool. I will take a look at this. You can use your own gay technology.

SPEAKER_05 45:10

Is it a rainbow data pad?

SPEAKER_00 45:13

I'm not queer, I'm just different, okay? So uh you can boot up the data pad. Um, and the encryption is kind of interesting. It's not it doesn't seem to be like a standard password. Uh it almost seems to be in the form of a star chart. Like the password is almost like a constellation. So you could either use astrogation or computers to unlock it. Ooh.

SPEAKER_06 45:39

Astrogation.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Okay, give me a give me a three purple then.

SPEAKER_06 45:43

Two successory advantage. I'm very smart, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 45:46

Yeah, so this is it's like second nature unlocking this thing. And when you unlock the data pad, you find uh it has maps of Severance Tan's path through the galaxy, out of the Chis Ascendancy, um, into the wider galaxy, but then you notice like something like the path, like it's weird because it seems like maybe Severance Tan had some accomplices or something, because like at a certain point, a single path leaves the unknown regions. The date stamps on it are like a couple of decades ago, uh, until it reaches a planet that you can identify as not being on any of your Imperial Star Charts. And the sort of blip of her path stays there for a little while, a few months, maybe even close to a year, uh, before it diverges. One path heads into the core, uh, the other just kind of like tools around the outer rim. The one that heads to the core goes to Coruscant, and then stays on Coruscant for a little while, and then it splits again. One heads into the western side of the galaxy, goes into Hut Space, the other one heads to the southeastern quadrant of the galaxy, down sort of near Endor and Jaku. And the original path that didn't go into the core, that one kind of loops around and goes up towards the Strand sector where the old Sith Worlds were. But while all these three paths are moving, there is a little beep that's still staying on Coruscant for like a decade. Before, like, you know, like 13 or 14 years later, it suddenly just travels out to the outer rim, and it kind of like moves around the outer rim for a little while.

SPEAKER_05 47:37

Ooh, wait.

SPEAKER_00 47:39

And then that one that's in the outer rim around Wild Space then comes back to Coruscant right around the time when war starts. Wait a second. Updates stop uh around the time Ichu came to first came to Krant to attack the Separatists. So that's when it stopped updating. It seems like the data pad suffered maybe a little bit of damage.

SPEAKER_06 48:04

Well No. The one that was off on its own first was Severance, and then the other two came to Ah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

If if you look at the path that is suspiciously similar to where you were, all of the data about the your location, if that is your location, was not being transmitted from your coordinates. It was being transmitted from uh the one that was in Hut Space.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 48:32

So it was like your location was being transmitted via this other person. Um, you got those advantages. So if you look into the logs, you can see that um there is some not diary entries, but sort of like these clinical uh just sort of data entries. And it seems like what Severance was doing in the galaxy uh was that she and her accomplices sort of left the ascendancy to try and figure out why the navigators lost their powers.

SPEAKER_05 49:05

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

And they started studying uh these other forest traditions. You can see there's logs coming from various sites across the galaxy, Osis, Tython, uh up in the Sith Worlds. Like they they sort of did a wide sweep. But it does sort of have a map of these other two blips. So at least when things shut down, uh and the logs, one of them it seems like was acting as a Star Warden, and the other one was sort of uh moving around various other locations in sort of the southeastern part of the galaxy. So if you th so those might those areas and those sorts of groups may be where your parents are or were, at least during the war.

SPEAKER_05 49:52

Cause like, is there one of them that kind of was seeming like it was staying in specific locations for longer periods of time? In Hut Space? Yeah, because we are close to Hut Space.

SPEAKER_00 50:02

There is also in the logs, um, if you were looking just for a a generic planet, the first place that they stayed before they kind of split off, there's like descriptions and photos, and it seems like it's an old, ancient temple that's way off the maps. It seems like it might be Jedi, it's kind of in wild space. It's a planet called Alishan, which is very close to an archaic word for the force, which is Ashla. So this may be a world that uh was once a sort of Jedi place that then sort of fell into disuse. So that could be an option. There are also some options. The one because one of them was a star warden, that's the one that was sending the messages of your location, potentially your mother. She was kind of moving around just sort of generally in Hut Space, didn't really spend too much time in one place or the other as Star Wardens tend to do.

SPEAKER_06 50:58

How did she know where I was? Was she in my head? Did she know that time that I didn't meditate for a whole week? Would she shape it?

SPEAKER_05 51:06

Is there anything because I can seek, is there any way that I could do like some sort of combined power with Illyria if her mom is still like kind of connected to her? Can I fucking Vulcan mind meld with her and be like, let me seek your mother? Can we hold hands and I seek her?

SPEAKER_07 51:26

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 51:27

Could I could I try doing some sort of weird combined seek with Illyria? Illyria, you gotta hold my hands. I know they're real sweaty.

SPEAKER_00 51:34

Uh astrogation, and you could roll uh your seek power?

SPEAKER_05 51:39

Ooh, yeah. Can we uh do we have to hold hands? We should hold hands.

SPEAKER_06 51:43

I suppose so.

SPEAKER_05 51:44

It takes it takes a couple tries for us to hold hands because I'm real shaky and sweaty. Don't touch me. You can pat me on the back, tell me I'm doing a good job.

SPEAKER_06 51:58

You can help by not touching me.

SPEAKER_07 52:00

Don't touch me, it's sick insane. That that gives you an advantage, just an automatic advantage.

SPEAKER_05 52:06

Ooh, do we have any destiny right now?

SPEAKER_00 52:09

I can give you one.

SPEAKER_05 52:10

No. Well I got because I got two dark side and one light side for C. So I can use the two dark side to activate the basic power if Alyria's if Elyria's doing an astrogation with me. For mine melden.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

So I will give you a destiny because you don't have any. Um, so we'll call it a red and two purple astrogation.

SPEAKER_06 52:30

Uh, one failure for advantage.

SPEAKER_05 52:32

Oh no. But okay. Because Elyria got a failure and advantage. If I uh would I be able to flip that destiny point to use that last light side to get an additional detail, could that help?

SPEAKER_00 52:43

You would have had to have done that like when you rolled.

SPEAKER_05 52:46

Eh. Maybe it's maybe it's like uh you you can't tell where the location is, but it's like once uh whoever's on the other end realizes you're specifically trying to find, or you just get a voice in your head being like, cut that out, come find me here. I've been waiting how old are you, Elyria? What like are you 30 now?

SPEAKER_06 53:07

How long have we been here?

SPEAKER_05 53:08

We've been doing it for a long time. Like, because I uh Cal was 32 when we started this. We've been doing this for several years now. How old were you?

SPEAKER_06 53:15

Oh my god, I was 26.

SPEAKER_05 53:17

How long have we been doing this? How long did the war go for?

SPEAKER_00 53:20

Uh the war was uh three years long.

SPEAKER_05 53:23

Three years. Oh wait, no, maybe maybe uh no, because I was 28 when we started, so I'm 32 now. So you're like, okay, you're not quite 30. You're off the hook this time. Yippee.

SPEAKER_07 53:33

This time.

SPEAKER_05 53:34

Yeah. We're all still young and cute.

SPEAKER_07 53:36

Don't I know it. But yeah, and you can't do that. I think I'm the oldest one of you guys.

SPEAKER_05 53:40

No, I think Kala set's the oldest. I think that was a thing that Kaliset was the one who had been at the service core the longest.

SPEAKER_00 53:46

The dog that nobody wanted.

SPEAKER_05 53:47

Look, I'm not saying that Kala has major abandonment issues, but I am saying I was the only one who was never chosen in any way, shape, or form by the channel. Oh, anyways. Oh yeah, Yogo, Yattel's team, Kala!

SPEAKER_07 54:02

Uh, I choose Anakin Skywalker.

SPEAKER_05 54:05

Yeah, choose that kid who like just got here. He's so much better. But uh, could could could Allyria's advantage be that there it gives some feedback to whoever's being sought and they uh maybe help us out?

SPEAKER_00 54:17

With the advantage, you can't find her. You can't connect with the force, you can't get any information that's going to help you locate her on, like, oh, I know what planet she's on. But with the advantage, you you can sort of reverse the connection and sort of see through her eyes.

SPEAKER_03 54:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:39

And you do see, like, it's dark. Um, you kind of you get a sense where it's like she suddenly like a little like she stumbles a little bit or she's shocked. She's exploring some kind of ruins. Uh you can see some sort of vague shapes, some statues, um, some carvings. If you want to try and identify those, that might give you a clue.

SPEAKER_05 55:05

Would that be Illyria rolling to identify them?

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Yeah, because she's the one who's seeing them. Yeah. You're just providing a little force boost.

SPEAKER_05 55:12

Like, I'm I'm I I'm prov I'm the operator, you're making the call.

SPEAKER_00 55:16

Though if you're sort of sharing the force, maybe you can both see it.

SPEAKER_05 55:21

Okay. We could both roll and see.

SPEAKER_00 55:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 55:24

I mean, I if it's identifying ancient ruins, I feel like Elyria's gonna be better at this anyways, but you know, just in case, what would the difficulty be?

SPEAKER_00 55:32

So you're just catching glimpses. Uh she could be anywhere in the galaxy. Probably around Hut Space, though. That doesn't r necessarily narrow it down. Um to immediately identify it just through this glimpse and not do any further sort of study or research is gonna be uh give you another destiny point, uh, a red and three purple knowledge. Uh either outer rim, lower education.

SPEAKER_05 55:58

You know what? I I don't have ranks, I literally only have a rank in like underworld and a red and three purple. Three success. Oh, Elyria has it. I don't want to risk any of spare.

SPEAKER_00 56:09

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

unknown 56:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 56:11

Okay. So you can sort of um run through your mental Rolodex of like different ancient force cultures, but you do find some like odd-looking aliens that are like, oh, that's I've s I've seen those things before, maybe. Like, and eventually you do remember there was a sort of uh guest lecturer that came to teach briefly with the exploration core. Uh he was a Jedi master by the name of Eno Cordova, and uh his sort of area of expertise was this ancient culture called the Zepho. And you sort of remember, oh, that's yeah, that that kind of looks like those aliens. So although you can't identify like what planet it is it is necessarily, it seems like she is investigating some Zephyr ruins. So to find her, it might be like narrowing down sort of where where the Zephho lived. There is a planet uh called Zephho that may be maybe where she is, but it could also be one of the other places they sort of explored.

SPEAKER_05 57:26

Okay. Cause like if we wanted to just like go to Zepho, you know, go it because Zepho's in is that in hot space?

SPEAKER_00 57:34

Uh it's in the outer rim.

SPEAKER_05 57:36

It's in the outer rim.

SPEAKER_00 57:37

Yeah, but it is also a planet that is like on the maps. Like, you know about it because a Jedi was like coming and talking about it.

SPEAKER_05 57:46

Yeah. Like, do we do we want to just go to Zephyr and um see if we can figure out, like, go explore from there, see if Illyria can spot something that looks familiar from the vision.

SPEAKER_07 57:58

Find a new home.

SPEAKER_05 57:59

Or at least, you know, find find find Mamar.

SPEAKER_00 58:02

There was also uh the planet that they found where they kind of stayed for a little while that was on the chist map.

SPEAKER_06 58:10

Um I think that one. Go for the one. If we want like a place to stick people.

SPEAKER_05 58:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 58:15

At least.

SPEAKER_05 58:16

Or at least, you know, i if if your mum was trying to stay out of notice of the empire, that might be a more likely location for her.

SPEAKER_06 58:23

Yeah. But we also need a secret place to put all these people, don't we?

SPEAKER_05 58:26

We do also need a secret place to put all these people, so maybe here, we'll see. Do we want to f try to swap out our ship first or uh just live stupidly? I don't know where we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_07 58:37

I mean, our our our our natural is to live stupidly. We've lived stupidly for like all of our lives, I feel. Um so I feel as though if we live stupidly again, we could probably uh get what we need here. Is that how that works?

SPEAKER_05 58:54

I don't know. But it would be an extra step to swap the ship. Unless any of our people that we've picked up are better with uh detecting bugs and want to give us another once over just in case.

SPEAKER_07 59:06

I guess are we still rich or are ha have our funds been frozen?

SPEAKER_05 59:10

That's a good point, actually. We should still be rich, but uh we still have your money. We still have our money. Okay, we should have money.

SPEAKER_07 59:17

We could probably trade in the ship uh with uh trade in the ship and then although who's gonna buy a fucking imperial ship?

SPEAKER_05 59:24

It's true. That might draw more attention to ourselves.

SPEAKER_00 59:27

I mean if if you did want to go into Hut Space, an Imperial ship, like, with all the codes, and even if they don't use it, the computer's probably worth a heck of a lot.

SPEAKER_05 59:40

That is true, actually. We probably could fetch a pretty good price for it. It would be of interest to Hut Crime Lords, in any case. Do we do we want to try to do a swappy-doo first? Or uh I think we should I think we should.

SPEAKER_07 59:55

I think swappy-doo is probably the best uh course of action.

SPEAKER_05 59:58

Do a swappy-doo.

SPEAKER_07 59:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:00

Uh but who's to say the huts won't sell us out after we trade it in.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:05

I mean, I mean, who's who is in fact to say, but you know, or oh yeah, sure, let's just go. Unless I'm like, we did help out Shizor last time. We do have a crime lord who is friendly towards us, but I don't know if Shizor has really established his power enough to be uh.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:25

He's also on Coruscant.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:27

He is on Coruscant, he wouldn't have had a chance to get off yet. I mean, I'm sure he's had a chance to get off, but yeah, let's do we would we know of uh which what would be the right planet to go to to find uh hut criminals who would be willing to buy an Imperial ship?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:47

Uh so that would probably be. I mean, Narshada's always an option. Um but streetwise or maybe knowledge underworld?

SPEAKER_05 1:00:58

Um you got a rank in streetwise.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:02

Do I have it? No, I uh I might have it rank in streetwise as well. Uh yes I do, uh in fact. I can do streetwise.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:10

Now what it be for streetwise or underworld for that matter. I don't know if Illyria wants to roll underworld because it's intellect.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:17

Can I can I give you another destiny point here? Because you may be pressed for time, so we'll call it a red and two purple streetwise. Red and two purp streetwise.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:26

I got two success.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:27

I got a failure, you got it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:29

No, we're good. I got this.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:30

You got it.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:31

I got this.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:32

I was hoping I was hoping to get like a um Um an advantage or something, but no, you got this.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:40

Yeah, get out of here, I got this.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:42

Get out of here.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

Get out of here.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:44

With your bullshit. My bullshit, honestly.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:47

On your bullshit again.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:49

So, uh how because you're looking for are you specifically looking for hot space or anywhere that's just kind of like nearby?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:56

Um, I mean my my inclination.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:00

Yeah, if you're going into hot space.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:01

Aren't we by hot space? Yeah, because we're near hot space.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:04

My inclination is hot space because if it's like, okay, like who's gonna dislike the Empire enough that they might not sell us out and would also have like the means to be buying an Imperial ship and like not give a crap about like being caught with it. And so so my heart says the huts.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:23

Yeah. Second. Yeah, third. Huts are friends.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:28

I mean, let's not go that far, but like, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:31

So what I mean, no other choices, I don't think. If you want to go into Hut Space, Narshada is, you know, you can do anything there, but Narsheda is also known. Narsheda is the obvious place to go. So if you want to go a little more obvious.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:50

Yeah. Uh but also they might already have like Imperial spies there if it's uh that's the obvious place.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:56

How many, how many successes did you get?

SPEAKER_08 1:02:58

Uh two.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:00

Okay. So so there may be maybe two other options then that could potentially be a place that you might want to go. Uh run down the options again, sorry. Uh so one of them is uh a planet called Slaheron. Slaheron, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:17

That's a Slaheron?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:19

Sl Slaheron.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:20

Sla.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:21

Slaheron, man. Uh Slaheron is a uh not a not a nice place to go uh volcanic. They mine to ban a gas there, um, out of the out of the volcanoes, um using slave labor.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:38

So uh you would be selling it to slavers that would be using probably using the imperial uh star path units and its codes and its computers to sort of bypass uh imperial procedure. So it's like if there's anything that the empire is good for, like it's it's law stuff, so it's like you would be helping slavers uh evade the empire.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:01

But they would definitely have an interest in not getting mixed up with the empire.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:06

Yeah. The other planet that might be useful to you is Quesh. Quesh.

SPEAKER_07 1:04:14

Quesh is immediately easier to say, so that's what I'm kind of feeling.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:17

Yeah. Quesh is uh a toxic planet. You'd need to wear a breather to go there.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:24

We're all having trouble breathing anyways tonight.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:26

Or potentially the inoculated, um, but I don't know if you'd have access to that. That's how they get microchips. The r the chemicals uh that are found on Quesch, if they're processed correctly, they can be um processed into a very powerful adrenal stimulant.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:48

Oh, it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:48

So it's like the the air is made of drugs, but not the good kind, the kind that'll kill you if you breathe it without processing.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:56

Okay. That just sounds like poison.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:58

Yeah, that's just correct.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:00

I guess technically you could be drugged and die from the drugs, so I don't know. Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:07

Is that if we're selling it on Slaharin, we're helping slavers, and if we're selling it on Quesh, we're helping drug dealers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:14

Well, drug manufacturers.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:16

I mean, look, I'm a drug enjoyer. I want to support drug manufac I I want to support small drug manufacturers.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:23

Yeah, maybe you'll find the other thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:24

I want to support I wanna support your local drug dealer.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:28

Like, look. I I'm I'm team Quesh. If we uh can think of someone there that uh might be buying.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:35

I'm like, again, uh Quesch is easier to say, so I think I'm kinda going there.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:40

What do you think, A? Quesh our thirst. Quesh, Quesh, Quesh.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:44

Does anybody have any questions about Quesh? Do you get it? Tribe culture.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:51

Let's quesh our thirst with this creepy smog planet.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:54

Nom nom nom nom nom nom.

SPEAKER_09 1:05:56

Starzan not getting an uh immunization. Shot. That's how they get microchips inside of you.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:03

Let's go to the planet that's made of drugs, and I don't know, we'll just wear breathers.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:07

So are you taking everybody there or do you want to leave and come back?

SPEAKER_05 1:06:11

Uh I don't know. I I'm you know, I'm paranoid. I don't know if I love the idea of uh leaving, get letting anyone get out of my sight right now. Like, unless we wanted to uh well no, because like we only have the one map thing to find that uh that one planet that we're gonna go to that's not on Star Chart, so it's like we would all have to be together.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:32

Yeah, like that is the most obvious planet. That is like one that is in there. There may be other chist planets, but it would take it would take you even longer to try and find those worlds.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:43

Yeah, uh I I kind of feel like I just want to keep everyone together. I have this feeling like if we leave and come back, then it's gonna be like, aha, and we've already found you and taken all your people captive. Your pitiful resistance is at its end. Ha ha ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:57

We have to take them all with us and be like, you must be very cool about us selling this ship to drug dealers.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:03

And they kind of like look at each other and the Jedi are like, well, desperate times call for desperate measures, and although handing imperial codes to drug dealers is not at the top of my list of things that are good.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:17

But is this a slavers? Like, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:19

It is better than slavers, and it is better than dying, especially for these children.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:24

Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:26

Which one is worse, may I ask? Dying or the slavers?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:29

I mean, probably dying, but you know, like either way.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:32

Like, if we had to deal with slaves, would you be like, uh, I guess I'm going to uh uh take a toaster bass, or what's going on there? I guess we're gonna.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:45

But uh we got enough breathers for everyone, right? Well, for you guys at least. Uh with would it be.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:51

Wait.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:52

Because they're selling the ship.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:53

So would you have um you probably wouldn't wouldn't have worn them that often because you wouldn't have needed to. But you wouldn't have like just like the standard like little masks that they have on the Millennium Falcon. Uh you would have Imperial Knight sealed helmets.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:13

Oh, okay, so we wouldn't have something that could be like uh lended. What about our our other people who have ships? Because like, well, because Jax and uh Loranth, they came in their own ship.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:24

Yeah, they came in their own ship.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:25

Like, would we have if everyone just like went on theirs and like waited while we swapped out our ship?

SPEAKER_00 1:08:31

Yeah, if you wanted to give them the coordinates to Alishad.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:36

Okay, and then you like go ahead and wave for us.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:39

Still makes me a little nervous, but you know, it's probably okay. Probably okay, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:08:45

Uh if we are able to uh get out of here. Or like if we if we're able to like not make anybody mad, I feel like we're on the right path.

unknown 1:08:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:57

Well, yeah, if we can give them the coordinates and they can go ahead and meet us, then sure. Let's do that. Let's do that, and we'll go swap our ship.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:06

Okay, so you can pass along the coordinates. Them, tell them the place to go that's hot maps. You wanna plot a course, a sort of safe course? To quesh. To quesh.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:16

Do we want safe or uh circuitous? How paranoid are we feel still?

SPEAKER_08 1:09:21

How confident are we feeling if we go circuitous?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:25

I'll give you uh I'll give you a destiny point. You're in a bit of a hurry, so we'll say it is uh a red two purple astrogation.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:33

That sounds easy enough, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:34

Yeah. Either safe or circuitous.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:37

Either way is the same. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:38

Wait, which one like safe flying wise or safe being detected wise? One is safe flying wise, one is safe being caught-wise, right?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:47

I think it would be safe uh flying-wise. Safe being caught. Oh, safe being caught. Yes. Oh yeah, well it's good. What's the circuitous then? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:56

It's the same thing. I have no idea why you suggested circuitous.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:00

Well, when you said safe, I thought it was like, okay, like, you know, we're staying on the safe hyper lanes where it's like, yeah, it'd be very easy to track someone along though.

SPEAKER_08 1:10:09

Yeah, when if they pass too close to a supernova.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:11

Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:12

Five success, two threat.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:14

So you can five success, that's a lot of success. Um, you can plot a course to Quesh that would keep you off of uh Imperial scanners. You can bypass uh void station. Every got two threat. As you're scanning and picking up hyper lanes, there is something odd. There is a warning of an unknown gravity well.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:41

Is this a stealth ship?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:43

Is this a ship in stealth? Can we tell? It's not in stealth. Um, if you do look up into the sky, you can see a very small little triangle hanging in the stars above Krant.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:58

Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:00

If it is an unknown gravity well, then that's likely that they've parked an interdictor cruiser outside the planet.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:07

Are we gonna be able to get off the planet?

SPEAKER_00 1:11:10

I mean, you would have to get beyond its gravity well.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:15

Is that pilot is that gonna be piloting to get past the gravity well? What's that gonna mean for our friends? I mean, War of War is a pretty good pilot. Like I I I get like because like we can radio our friends and be like, interdictor.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:28

And see if we can all get past the gravity well.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:31

Can we encode it? Like, we'll get it.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:33

Uh do you have a way of communicating information that does not require a computer?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:41

Oh, Chris, have you been practicing the mind harp? I dwell! Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:47

Oh it it it was get it was it was getting so quiet, and I was just sort of like, uh, there's so there's there's something I can do here. I know there is. I forget what it is though. Yes, I have a fucking harp. Okay. So while practicing.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:02

Last time you were practicing, you were only able to do like very vague, uh maybe you're a little bit better. Give me a three purple coordination.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:10

Coordination?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:11

Yeah. Uh you have four destiny points available.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:15

Maybe flip one of those. Four purple coordination. Nope. Uh two failure and two threat. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:25

Two failure, two threat. Okay, so you can play this sort of like maybe it's the the tension, maybe it is the uh sort of the rush, maybe your fingers are sweaty, uh, maybe it's that this thing is uh wrong built. But you play this discordant tone. Those two threat? Uh that was two threat. Kala, give me uh give you a destiny point, a red and a purple discipline.

unknown 1:12:48

Oh no.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:49

Oh no, what is that? What does that mean? A red and a purple?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:53

I got pretty good discipline. Like I got two yellow and a green to discipline. I got four success.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:58

Four success. Okay, you're fine. It's fine. So Kala, when uh he plays this discordant note, you feel uh deep inside of you a sense of revulsion at the sound of it. You don't particularly mind the sound. It doesn't sound like anything to you, but it's almost as if there is another you inside of you that doesn't like it.

SPEAKER_08 1:13:27

Oh no. So it's fine. We need an old priest and a young priest.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:38

Kala. I mean I feel like we probably needed one when we went to Kessel, but Galactically speaking, Quesh is quite close to Kessel.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:48

Sick! That's fine. That's fine. I I you know what I passed? I passed it. Whatever that might have happened, just like I'll just get the shivers and just like feels all weird inside when you play that. I don't like it, but I it's like I don't mind it, but I don't like it. I don't know what that was.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:04

So you so you can't play the mind harp and send them uh information about the uh warn them, but you could just call them.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:12

Yeah, I'll just call them. Just call them. Just like uh uh God, they're probably listening to our radios, though. Is there any kind of frequency we could use that uh a decrypted frequency of some kind that we could use or something?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:28

That they would already know to be listening on?

SPEAKER_05 1:14:31

Ugh no. Uh oh god. May how do you know how to phrase this in a way that's like not immediately uh apparent?

SPEAKER_00 1:14:39

Because I mean, you know what? Let me uh maybe they'll just notice it on their own.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:46

Okay. Uh yeah, so you get the feeling that um they know.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:53

How? Uh maybe Starzan feels something. Maybe there's a sort of like maybe Starzan gets a sense that they know somehow. I don't know what sort of connection Starzan would have with the people aboard that ship, but I rolled a force die and it came up two lights, so it seems that maybe something tipped them off, and they are sort of uh like veering away from where the interdictor is trying to plot a path off world that will hopefully allow them to bypass it.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:23

Some sort of familial connection. Yeah, familiar connection. Okay, well that's good at least. We don't have to worry about them, probably. Now, what's it gonna be for us to get away from this planet?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:35

Uh, it is going to be piloting against gunnery.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:38

Who what's that gonna be? Oh man, I have to add a black onto this too, don't I? Yeah. Unless I do more impact.

SPEAKER_08 1:15:45

Is there any way we can add assistance?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:48

I mean Umbody's co-piloting.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:50

Yeah, because I What's a copilot?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:52

I'm good at it.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:53

Okay, Chris, you want to copilot?

SPEAKER_00 1:15:55

Uh probably be me. This is going to start as two red and a purple, but Chris, if you want to copilot, give me a two purple. Four success! Ooh! Downgrade, that just turns red into purple, so uh that is still gonna be against three purples.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:12

Three purples. Okay. Do we uh have any destiny?

SPEAKER_00 1:16:17

Uh yeah, you've got four.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:19

Four? I'm gonna flip one to get another yellow. Because I do have a black on there too. Let's see. Two success, two threat. Ooh, maybe we get they do get a couple pot shots off us while we're on our way out.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:32

You can uh blast past uh the interdictor cruiser getting onto the other side of it. They don't hit you as they fire on you. But uh you don't see what happened to the other ship that took off with you. Uh and you kinda get the feeling that like maybe they weren't even trying to hit you.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:56

Oh, what? What? Oh. Uh is sh should is there um a way that we can look around to see if there's or like uh uh something in the sensors maybe?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:07

Uh well, I mean, once you're clear, if you jump immediately to hyperspace, I feel like with those threats, it would just be like fly, fly, fly, jumble. Don't ask, don't ask questions, and then you're like, huh. That was kinda easy. Oh no.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:20

Too a little too easy.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:23

A little too easy. Uh, could I, okay. Could okay, once we're in hyperspace. God, this is a very tense episode. I am like tense. I am my asshole could crack walnuts right now. Could I roll a seek power on one of the people who is on the other ship just to be like, are they moving anywhere? Like, are they going?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:47

Uh, who?

SPEAKER_05 1:17:49

Um, let's go. Cause they were all together, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:53

God, maybe we shouldn't have put them all together. Maybe we should have taken them.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:56

Um Well, well, uh I mean, we didn't know. We didn't know! We didn't know! We were thinking that everything was gonna be just okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:04

Oh god, okay, I'm gonna roll Seek on I'm gonna roll Seek on Kento. No, I'm gonna roll Seek on Galen, his son, because I know they specifically wanted Galen. So if it's like if they're going after the other ship to try to get to them, I wanna roll Seek on that kid. Ooh, two dark side, two light side. You know what? I we sh do still have three destiny points. I'm gonna flip one, I'm gonna take two strain, and I'm gonna use two dark side to activate the power, and then there's two light side to get two additional details.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:36

Please. Okay, so you'll take some strain. Now, I'm gonna roll their piloting to see how well they did. Okay. Um I don't like the way you said that.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:48

I don't like that. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:50

So, you in terms of direction, they're not moving away from Krant.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:57

No, oh no.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:58

However, you get one of the additional details, you get the sense that they rolled failure with advantage, so the ship is not destroyed. You get the sense that everybody is alive. Uh they being captured though, like You do get the sense that they are being captured. You do get a sense of confinement.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:17

Uh I'm gonna fucking kill myself. Why does this keep happening?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:22

Can we, um, we're in hyperspace.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:26

I don't think we can really turn around.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:28

I don't think we can turn around. You've only been in for Can we? Yeah. Like, you can stop and jump back.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:33

I don't I don't think that wouldn't be good. I don't think that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:39

We can't leave them though. Like, we can't be like, okay, anyways, let's go sell our ship now.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:46

Like, live today, save them tomorrow kind of thing.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:50

Look, we'll go back, we'll charge in, we'll see what the situation is. Maybe if it's like they're still being pulled in by a tractor beam or something, like, you know what? We can make this work. I believe in us. I'm the void baby, I believe in us.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:04

I believe in us.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:07

Okay, team, we're turning back around, hands in the middle. If we if we die here, we at least die trying to fix our mistakes.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:15

That's not really punchy or anything, but uh It's what a good Jedi would do.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:22

Yeah, it is. It's what a good Jedi would do. Maybe we never made it, but we can try to live to those ideals again, right?

SPEAKER_07 1:20:29

Uh I feel as those as no no better way than to die with my best friends.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:38

With the besties.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:39

Isn't that right, Elyria?

SPEAKER_06 1:20:41

I already said my thing.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:43

Yeah, Starzan. I just want you to have some semblance of emotion, please.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:50

Please cry with me. Dyria said something very poach by Valeria. Starzan has to get his shit together and get in the game. Get your head in the game, Starzan. We're being emotional.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:00

It's time for one last ride.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:05

Star that I can't.

SPEAKER_08 1:21:10

Star unit at a time. Quarter parsec at a time. Quarter parsec at a time.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:15

You can't tell if I'm crying because my skin is blue.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:20

Okay, let's turn around. Let's blast back. I'm gonna can I can I get my suppression field here? Oh, because gravity.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:31

The gravity well.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:32

Oh no, my spaghetti!

SPEAKER_00 1:21:34

You can put up your suppression field as you uh drop out of hyperspace, turn back around from whence you came, lock onto the gravity well outside a crank. Drop out of hyperspace as the interdictor begins turning away from the planet.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:50

Can we forcibly bored?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:53

Uh you're not being uh stealthy, are you?

SPEAKER_05 1:21:56

I d why would we be stealthy?

SPEAKER_00 1:21:58

Yeah, not at the point.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:00

I think we're pretty I think we're pretty screwed, dude.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:03

We're we're we're past the point of being stealthy. By the way, I got three dark side and two light side on my suppressed.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:10

So You're not being stealthy.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:12

We're not being stealthy.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:13

Yeah, so you obviously you get hailed.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:16

Obviously we get hailed. As we're charging for an open hangar bay.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:20

Yeah, you and you can say there are prisoners. Charge towards the open hangar bay, and you hear a voice that says Um sorry guys, I thought I scared you off with those uh blasts. What are you doing back here?

SPEAKER_05 1:22:32

Oh god, is that Anakin?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:33

It's gray.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:34

It's gray, gray, you bitch.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:37

Gray, Grey is uh seemingly leading this operation.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:42

Gray, fancy seeing you and fancy hearing you here.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:45

What is uh what is happening? What uh what are you do- why why why do we have the uh vibe that they've been captured?

SPEAKER_00 1:22:53

Oh, the uh your friends in the ship, yes. We've uh we've detained them. We have the uh the Jedi and the children of the Jedi and uh the three smugglers. Uh don't worry, they're all safe. They're not gonna be harmed, um, they're just gonna be taken to detention. We're gonna process them, and things could go well for you if you agree to cooperate with us.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:19

Hyperspace away! Cooperate. What is a c what do you consider cooperation, Gray?

SPEAKER_00 1:23:25

Why don't you slow down? Why don't you sit down in the hangar bay and we'll talk?

SPEAKER_06 1:23:29

We'll hang out in our own ship while we talk.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:32

Well, I mean, I am uh obliged to offer Imperial Knights a uh an executive suite for their residency aboard our vessel if they would so choose. I have no reason to uh not offer you this.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:48

God. Let's set down. Let's talk. Let's cock, Ready.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:53

So you can set down in the hangar bay next to the detained ship. And as you set down, he said there were three smugglers that were detained. You can see him handing a briefcase to Arani Corden as she boards the other ship.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:12

Betrayal! The betrayal! The betrayal! It was foretold!

SPEAKER_00 1:24:17

The rich girl from Naboo betrayed you.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:21

Oh, I can't betrayed her friends! You betrayed us after we specifically asked you not to.

SPEAKER_07 1:24:29

See, Starzan specifically feels betrayed. I feel very Starzan feel very betrayed.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:34

How dare.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:35

I oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:37

And Gray says, I know the looks on your faces are a little dumb right now. I fuck you! Look, did you did you like the whole Bothan thing? Was that a good feint? We thought maybe you'd suspect the Bothins, you wouldn't look at the people in your midst. Uh, Rani is uh turns out she's quite a patriot. Um Nubians stick together, I suppose.

SPEAKER_08 1:24:58

What's a Nubian? Sorry, Auntie.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:02

Just don't ask her what her opinion on Gungans is.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:06

You know what? I thought I uh did a pretty good job with that idiot little listening device you gave us. What tip?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:12

Well, just uh building suspicion, uh maybe a hope. Why don't you why don't you come back to my office?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:19

Oh are all our friends like, are they just like gone, they were just like taken captive? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:23

I mean, you arrested everyone else. Why are we keeping up this pretense that you're not going to detain us and re-educate us as well?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:31

Well, frankly, I don't have the authority to do that.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:34

What do you have the authority to o over us for?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:37

The ISB is not in control of the Imperial Knights. You operate at the discretion of the Emperor and Lord Vader. So legally, I can't do anything to you.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:51

Oh, but legally, what can we do to you, Grey?

SPEAKER_00 1:25:54

Well, we could talk about that in private.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:56

I mean, you just told us out the fr out in the open what uh you can do to us, which is nothing. So what can we legally do to you?

SPEAKER_00 1:26:03

I mean illegally, the ISB has a lot of uh executive powers. Um if you were to be found sympathizing with Rogue Jedi elements, uh I could uh pass that report back to the knights. We could leave your punishment up to them, or we can talk.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:21

Let's talk. Fine. Let's talk.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:24

So if you agree to it, he takes you back to his office as as bare uh as his other offices. And he says, I miss these little uh these little chats that we used to have. You were always my favorite team. You always got the job done. You always uh had society's best interest at heart.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:42

Exactly. We have society's best interest at heart. Society uh's best interest at heart.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:48

As do I. And I hope we can kind of see eye to eye on a few things. Yeah, like children.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:56

Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:57

That is unfortunate. Um, but what were we supposed to do? Space them?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:02

Well, that's Like, is are those the only two choices?

SPEAKER_00 1:27:06

Look, I am a I'm gonna cut to the chase here. I have a very strong belief in the separation of church and state.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:13

Uh frankly said last time.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:16

Frankly, I don't think that the Imperial Knights uh should be in the position that they are. Uh no offense to you personally, but uh during the war I saw how corrupt the Jedi could be, and I don't want another group filling that void, and I have reason to suspect that the How do I put this delicately that the theology at the heart of the Imperial Knight is perhaps a risk to the Empire.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:50

Oh my god, a triple rogue element?

SPEAKER_07 1:27:53

My my can I can I roll something to make sure my head doesn't fucking explode?

SPEAKER_05 1:28:00

Die because our heads start spinning 360 degrees on our necks and just snap it?

SPEAKER_00 1:28:06

I don't know what it is you believe what you know about um the government. I'm I am a spy in a organization of spies. It is my job to find things out. And there are things uh that you can find out if you know where to look, if you know when to look. Are you familiar with this individual? And he presses a button on his desk and a hologram comes up of about a decade younger, uh maybe closing it on 15 years younger now, uh Darthmall.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:42

Nope, no idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:43

So this individual was involved in the blockade of Naboo uh some time ago. I think you most of you must have been children back then. It was never really determined who he was or where he came from, but eventually there are records to suggest he was um a Sith. That is the same religious organization that now is in control of the Imperial Knights, uh supposedly an ancient enemy of the Jedi. And this, and he brings up another hologram, is a traffic camera. Now it's a little fuzzy, but if we zoom in here, this was uh not long before this hologram was taken on to boo. If we zoom in, if we zoom in, if we zoom in, we can see the same individual standing on uh the balcony with uh at the time Senator Palpatine.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:35

How long have you had this?

SPEAKER_00 1:29:37

A couple of weeks. I uh started digging into this. Um I noticed some peculiarities. Uh Lord Vader and Palpatine seemed to be getting on quite well. I remembered hearing that they had some kind of prior friendship, uh, even before the war, and I may have intercepted some uh encrypted transmissions that may have mentioned the word uh Darth in relation to the Emperor. I believe that uh the Emperor may be uh an acolyte of this Sith religion. And uh, you know, religion has no place in a modern galaxy.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:15

Well like not in the governance of it, but you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:19

We saw what happened with the Jedi, we saw the corruption there. I I have come to believe since the end of the war that perhaps perhaps it was nothing more than a conflict between two opposing theological sects.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:34

But why are you detaining these so-called religious people when they're not even in control of the government? They're just trying to live their lives.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:44

Yeah, like look after the war. I just need an excuse to talk to you.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:47

Is that it? Then why were you shooting at us? So you said you thought you scared us off, or was that just all a ruse? Did you know that we'd be stupid and try to turn around to save them?

SPEAKER_00 1:30:55

I think I know you quite well at this point.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:57

Ugh. Look, Ray, I'm not I don't know what to make of this right now, because you're telling me, like, look, I'm with ya. I don't think that the Jedi should be back in a position of power like they were before the war, but they are a religious order. People are allowed to practice a religion.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:16

Now You just you destroyed forgive my language, you destroyed the fuck out of that sorcerer.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:21

Okay. Did you did you plant a second listening device on me? Cause I thought I gummed that thing up good.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:26

Well, I heard what happened.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:28

Oh well, yeah, okay. Yeah, I guess you hear about the down the grapevine we did get the Empire back in there afterwards, didn't we?

SPEAKER_00 1:31:34

It's when I realized you could be a uh perhaps an effective weapon.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:38

Oh, well, thanks. I love being referred to as an effective weapon. You do know how to make me feel so special, Grey. You always have.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:44

Well, you were cast out by the Jedi, as uh I am to understand. You are perhaps to be cast out of the Imperial Knight, but the ISB will always have a place for you, or at least I will always value our relationship.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:01

Perception, perception, I've been Grey, look tell us we're good boys.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:06

Look, look, I know we're susceptible to being given positive feedback by anyone. Perception. Is he lying to me? Are you lying to me, Gray? Don't toy with me like this. Don't tell me I'm a special boy if you don't actually mean it. I don't actually say that in character voice, but Are you just trying to get us to admit to something? Perception. Perception.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:27

You wanna perceive him?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:28

I gotta perceive him. I gotta know uh my my heart it can't take it anymore. It can't take being jerked about like this. Not anymore.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:35

Okay. Uh so this will be against his cool or his uh discipline, his deception? What do you think? I mean to you?

SPEAKER_05 1:32:46

I wanna see if he's lying to us. If it's like if it's like, do you actually think that we have a place in your hawk grey are you just are we just, you know, dumb and easy to manipulate and you know how to manipulate us?

SPEAKER_00 1:32:57

Tell me the truth. Okay, uh perception then.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:01

Okay, we'll see. One failure for advantage. He can sense my distrust and he has to set my mind at ease.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:09

Well, you got those advantages. You can't read him. You don't know if he's telling the truth, but when he says he always valued your relationship, it you can't be sure, but it felt like he was like his fingers might like might have lifted off the desk as if he was gonna reach out and touch your hand.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:28

Like my hand or just like brawl the hour. Your hand. My hand. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:33:33

Maybe like some sort of shaky.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:37

I l I love a girl that's really sweaty. The hand inside you. I'll I'll kinda like look, glance down at that and like kind of give him a bit of a side. I just like, what? But uh I oh god, Cala's very, very susceptible to anyone.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:57

To somebody saying, like, uh if you I respect you. Oh god.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:02

I don't want to get rid of you. I don't think you're a gross little rat person.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:07

That's your love language.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:09

Being told I'm not a rat person. Yes. Yeah. Specifically that.

SPEAKER_08 1:34:14

Perfect.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:14

You're so happy you'll gnaw on something just to I uh look, Ray, I I wanna trust ya. I really do. Like, I you know, when you came back to the temple, it was like, oh nice, it's uh uh it's our boy, it's Grey's uh he's back. It was good to see ya, and like but you got a bunch of like this kids. There's kids, I wait are you gonna take them back to the Imperial Knights? Cause like you know what's gonna happen to them. Anakin was specifically looking for one of those kids, like, I don't know, to make his new apprentice to who knows what.

SPEAKER_00 1:34:46

I know the way uh the way I see it, we have a few options here, or at least, um I have a few options. You may have more, depending on how you feel things are gonna go. Option one, you help me out, we make the galaxy a better place, we figure out what's going on all the way to the top. We don't want the galaxy to be ruled by a satanic pedophile cult. It's true, we don't. Does that make sense? And that may require keeping up appearances. If we can deliver the renegades back to Coruscant, your place within the Imperial Knights would be restored. You would have the resources of the ISB at your disposal, or at least uh as much as I can provide without drawing undue attention, and uh we perhaps can uh make sure that the galaxy is facing the right leadership. Option number two is we find some way to uh keep these detainees out of the hands of the Imperial Knights. There are detention facilities that we have access to, that we have taken individuals to before, that the Imperial Knights have not had access to. Uh the Separatist commander that came from Krant, uh Severance 10, we have her in custody still. We could probably take her, take them there or to another location. Option three.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:11

Oh, okay. Option three, because I'm not loving either of those first two.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:15

And this is the one that he's the most hesitant about.

SPEAKER_07 1:36:18

Oh, well, I I guess you don't have to say it at all then. Oh well, never mind then. What what what do you have to say? What does what is the hesitation? Option three is the one that I don't like.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:29

That's the one you don't like?

SPEAKER_05 1:36:30

Well, well, you haven't told us what it is yet. Please, Gray, just spit it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:34

Well, there's also an option four, which I'm not a fan of either. There's a fourth option that is also bad. Option three is I continue my work without you, and uh we come to a situation where you are aboard an Imperial Interdictor Cruiser, vastly outgunned, and uh you end up being shipped back to Corsant in body bags. Option four.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:00

I thought you really liked the dead in body bags, or like as a Trojan horse, or it's so optimistic we explode out just like haha.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:13

Option four, which is body bag sounds comfortable.

SPEAKER_00 1:37:16

Not one that I relish is that this interdictor cruiser is unfortunately lost to a handful of rogue imperial knights, and uh the ship goes down with all hands dead, and the imperial knights responsible become enemies of the empire, along with any survivors that may have turned a traitor.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:44

Now, Grey, I I gotta tell ya, off the bat, option one, that's right out. The entire reason why we, you know, were concerned about the Jedi, it came down to, you know, kids being indoctrinated into a religious order, kids being thrown into a meat grinder for a religious order, and what you just proposed is. The first option is just doing that exact same thing. We can't have more dead kids. I feel like, can we all agree on that? No more dead kids.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:11

No more dead kids. No more dead kids.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:14

Option two, I got concerns with, because you're saying that, you know, okay, uh Severance Tan's still in a facility and the Imperial Knights haven't gotten and like she's still there, but like, do the Imperial Knights even know about Severance? Do they even care about her? Whereas like these are people that they would very much care about, and like what's to stop the Emperor from changing the rules and being like, nope, ISB is dissolved, just the Imperial Knights, they're them now. You know, I just I don't relish the idea of being murdered. Personally. Others may disagree. I hope not. I don't relish the idea of any of you being murdered either.

SPEAKER_07 1:38:49

I think you're very likable.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:51

Oh, thanks, Chris. I think you're pretty likable too. Uh so where does that leave us, Grey? Because like option four, that's uh that's um that's a big ask on you. That's a big hamp ran on you.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:05

I would lose all of my resources. You would lose all your resources, but But I also know that many of the files that I've been digging around in are files that I am not cleared to see. And if my uh curiosity were to be discovered by my superiors, my career would be in jeopardy anyway.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:24

That's true. It might only be a matter of time before you would be having to come out and join these people regardless. What do you think, Ray?

SPEAKER_06 1:39:31

I feel like we both have quite a bit of info on each other now. Of course, yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:39:36

In order to uh just telling you all this puts you in a very powerful position.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:41

I mean, I I don't think any of us have any interest in relaying this information back to the Imperial Knights, back to the Imperial.

SPEAKER_07 1:39:50

Back to the Imperial Knights who I feel as though are wondering why we're still missing if they are aren't already trying waiting for us to be spring the trap.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:00

I mean, if we do go rogue, how well guarded is this secret detention center? Could we perhaps go there and gather those detainees before going rogue?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:12

Well, like I said, the uh the Imperial Knights have not been let in on its location. There are other members of the ISB who have strong feelings about the knights continuing on in the Jedi's place and wanted a location that was not vulnerable to them. However, that means it is designed to thwart the powers of the Jedi or the Imperial Knights. Of course, the the detainees, many of them, former Jedi. So it would not be easy to access.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:46

But again, I mean, honest opinion, if you put all these people in detention, and then the next day the Emperor said, You gotta give access to these facilities to the Imperial Knights, could you say no?

SPEAKER_00 1:40:58

The Emperor doesn't know about these facilities.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:01

Well, then what's the excuse for where all these people went?

SPEAKER_00 1:41:04

They are uh listed as dead.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:07

Do we uh uh blowing up?

SPEAKER_06 1:41:10

But as we know, people listed as dead have been discovered before.

SPEAKER_07 1:41:14

Yeah, but you know, what once is a mistake, twice is just like uh, you know. I I I I feel I feel like they've done it before, they'll probably do it again. Like make a mistake that somebody's dead that make a mistake that somebody's dead and just realize, like, oh, okay, well, I guess we fucked up again. We're really bad at paperwork.

SPEAKER_00 1:41:34

Yeah, because like, you know, the IS is very good at paperwork. That is what makes this facility so uh discreet. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:43

Although one of the people who uh kind of person that set all this off was someone who I uh we had already claimed was dead and provided uh evidence of death to the Imperial Knights, and then it's like, oh, not dead, so they might uh just be prime to uh be suspicious of that. Cause I'm so sorry. Remind me, plan number two. If they were gonna go to a detention facility, would that be us returning to the Imperial Knights afterwards? Or would we also be detained?

SPEAKER_00 1:42:12

Well, you could return, but all those that you hunted would have to uh have been lost. We would confirm this, of course, that you uh led the Empire right to them, and we destroyed them. We destroyed their camp, bombarded it from orbit. And although the specific detainees that were specifically requested could not be acquired, your loyalty would still be without question.

SPEAKER_04 1:42:40

I mean, uh, would it though?

SPEAKER_05 1:42:42

Because like I I mean like they it's they know that we already faked one Jedi's death.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:49

Did w did we, or did we make a mistake?

SPEAKER_05 1:42:52

I mean I guess if it's like, oh we thought he was dead. We just took his lightsaber, we were pretty sure. He must have gotten better after we left.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:01

Well, we took his lightsaber. How did he did we say how he died? Did we just stab him and then leave him be?

SPEAKER_05 1:43:06

I don't know. I don't think we said how he died. I think we were just like, we killed him.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:10

Maybe there's an explosion, we're like, that'll do.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:13

But the point is that like I I feel like even if we went for the detention option, like, we wouldn't really be comfortable doing that unless there was a concrete way of us getting him out afterwards. Like, you can't you can't just throw a kid in jail and leave them there.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:26

Well, I mean, desperate times.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:30

That's not a good thing, Grey. That's not a thing to continue to want to participate in.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:35

As long as as long as the children don't get hurt, but even then, like what kind of car does it are they gonna get at uh uh in in a detention center?

SPEAKER_02 1:43:44

Like, how many how many kids how many kids are already locked up there, Grey?

SPEAKER_07 1:43:49

A number that I am not currently aware of. I thought you were gonna say a number that I'm not comfortable with saying.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:56

I I th I thought it was gonna be like a number I'm not proud of. Like, God, I don't know. I look, I'm still kind of feeling option four here.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:07

And getting the detainees from option two. Oh, I mean, I guess with the people being detained there.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:15

With the people being detained there. I mean, I guess if we were able to bust them out afterwards, like you said, Severance Tan was still in prison, and Elyria, you might have some questions for her. Now that uh, you know, you found some stuff.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:26

Yes, that's what I was implying.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:29

Yeah. But hey, any chance you could like uh maybe on the slide drop us the location of one of those uh where they may or may not end up being detained, though?

SPEAKER_00 1:44:39

Um no, I couldn't do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:44:42

Grey, you can't we can't be doing it.

SPEAKER_07 1:44:45

We can't go if you're gonna if you're gonna help us, you can't help us halfway. Because I don't know. Okay, that that that makes more sense.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:52

Would you be making an effort to find out? Because like I I feel like we can't go along with this in good conscience if part of the plan is children being put in prison for an unspecified length of time. That's n honestly no better. Like the Jedi were bad, the Imperial Knights are bad. That may might be worse.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:12

If that is unpalatable to you, then um well. You know, while we were talking, I uh may have uh overridden the force field on the Rhodian cell.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:26

Okay. I'm not sure where you're going with this graze saying that uh, you know, is that a the is being overridden so people can just gun the Rhodian down, or uh hey, there may be someone just running loose on the ship who's already trying to take it apart already.

SPEAKER_00 1:45:41

So the reason he mentions this, because he has like a some screens that are kind of embedded in his desk that he can see that you can't. And he's been periodically kind of been glancing down at them, these little monitors. And as he says that, you start to hear alarms blaring outside. He says, we probably have about 10 minutes until this ship goes down.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:02

So, uh, what do you say, Gray? You coming with us?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:05

Your uh argument about detaining children. That is very uh interesting that we would do that.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:14

It is interesting, isn't it? And that it's been pr a common practice.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:18

Yeah, when I said it's happened before, I hadn't really said that out loud.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:23

Kinda makes you feel all nauseous inside, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_00 1:46:26

Well, it doesn't make me feel uh great. Now, I've I've been with the SBI for a long time. I thought uh I would could be loyal to the ISB. I understand potentially that this uh that this corruption, this uh evil wizardry may have its roots very deep if it's able to make us think that this is okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:48

Because it's not. And you see that.

SPEAKER_00 1:46:50

I think I'm going to uh dedicate myself now to eliminating all wizardry.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:56

Ugh is that is that where we've landed with that conversation?

SPEAKER_00 1:47:01

Yes, the satanic pedophile cabal that rules the galaxy has twisted our minds and made us think that locking up children is good.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:09

This seem this seems um relevant to something. I don't know what though.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:15

Yeah, that's that's no good. Like, maybe we can kind of work on nuance regarding just like regular regular religious orders, but like, you know, I feel like we're at a we're at a good a good place to start, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:47:26

Look, I like you guys. You guys have been kicked out of every church that I can imagine. I have no problem with you.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:32

Okay. Uh you know, kind of salt in an old wound, but yeah, yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 1:47:37

So, uh, if if you'll have me, I suppose we are uh Rogue Bedfellows.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:44

Ooh. Oh.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:47

That sounds like my last several relationships. I won't go. Hold on, hold on, hold on. How many shades of gray are we getting into here? Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:47:56

Let's hope 50. Now shake his hand. Welcome, uh, welcome to the gang, Gray.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:02

We're sorry you're here. He takes off his rank plaque and he puts it down on the desk and he says, Look, we're we're we're friends now.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:12

Yeah. I don't have to call you superadvisor anymore. Hey, do you have do you have a first name we could call you? Because we always just called you Gray.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:18

Uh, my first name is Atheist.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:20

Atheist? Oh, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:21

Atheist I'm not a Christian.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:25

Well, it's good to meet you, Atheist. Let's get to our ship and get the heck out of here.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:31

So you can leave his office. Uh the alarms are blaring louder outside of his sort of soundproof room. Uh there are crews running uh to the engine room. You can hear people shouting that somebody put a bomb on the hyperdrive.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:49

Hell yeah! Love a bomb.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:52

I mean.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:53

Yes, I do.

SPEAKER_07 1:48:55

I like I love a bomb, how about you?

SPEAKER_06 1:48:57

Oh my god, somebody rolled their mechanics roll really well.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:00

Everybody was so good at mechanics. Are are we like running to the hangar bay and we see our gang like running from their cells just like okay?

SPEAKER_00 1:49:08

So you do hear over Grey's calm uh some stormtroopers that have mentioned that they have the detainees pinned down. Are they at near the detention level?

SPEAKER_02 1:49:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:24

We gotta go free them. Help our friends.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:26

So you can run down to the detention level where they have the uh detainees pinned down.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:34

Oh, hey Gray, how uh how loyal are they to you?

SPEAKER_00 1:49:37

They're loyal to the Empire. I am just a uh person.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:42

Oh, so we couldn't like pretend that we're holding you hostage or something. It's not gonna make a difference. You gotta give you a little bit. These ones no. You got a gun, right?

SPEAKER_06 1:49:48

And approximately how many are there? Uh just so we're prepared.

SPEAKER_00 1:49:51

He does have a gun, he does have a sidearm pistol. The the Jedi have been relieved that they're lightsabers, so they're like pulling. out like wall paddles and trying to use them as shields to try and like move down the hallway uh and just sort of levitate these these shields with the force but there are half a dozen uh black armored stormtroopers but type that you probably haven't seen before oh uh they seem leaner than other stormtroopers uh when they shout at each other their combat barks are just like garbled static um they feel off somehow in the force are these robots uh no if if you uh were to survive this encounter you might come to know them as death troopers so there are half a dozen of them uh and two uh repainted uh IG100 Magna guards trying to break through the defensive Jedi with Electro Stabs.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:57

Ooh like it would mess up all of our stuff too but I do have three EMP grenades. Actually, because what's the range on EMP grenades?

SPEAKER_08 1:51:07

How much do we need technology though?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:09

Well because like our our our friends they don't have anything so it's like if we were able to huck it far enough away from us down the hall just at these guys and then we can go charging afterwards.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:21

I have a force attuned blaster would that get knocked out by an EMP?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:25

Not if we threw it far enough away.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:27

I'm just saying because it like yeah it must possess the force to operate this weapon.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:31

I feel like if it's a blaster like it's still technological? Yeah I guess. What do you guys think? Yes.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:38

I'm I mean Starzan doesn't use anything technological.

SPEAKER_06 1:51:41

Starzan doesn't think knock their heads together like coconuts.

SPEAKER_05 1:51:45

Can cause would it be ranged light to to hook a gr an EMP grenade at these guards?

SPEAKER_08 1:51:52

Who's got the best ranged light?

SPEAKER_07 1:51:54

So what what what's what's the plan if we decide to go through this? Just sort of like one what you shoot uh shoot at him first and then well it's like because I have three EMP grenades.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:05

Okay. So I can give you one of them I can throw one at the death troopers to try to just take them out. Or like seriously incapacitate them. You would have to run up beside the death troopers to throw one at the Magna guards that are like right in front of our people.

SPEAKER_07 1:52:21

Yeah I I I agree let's do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:23

Okay I'll give one to Chris and I'll I'll huck that first one at the magna guards. I won't I'll drop my suppressed because like we're not dealing with anyone forcey here. So then I can add my force onto that too because I don't actually have any ranks in rangelight. What would that be?

SPEAKER_00 1:52:38

Okay so you're throwing it at the death troopers?

SPEAKER_05 1:52:42

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:52:43

Okay so they've got range defense they have adversary uh so that is gonna be a red and a black a red and a black do I want a what do we have for Destiny? You got four.

SPEAKER_05 1:52:56

Four You know what I'm I can add my force onto this I'm I'll save them because we might need them here. Ooh one success two dark side two lightside I'll use those I'll use those two dark side to get two advantage LFNG Oh oh wait because I didn't use a destiny point I could flip a I could flip one of those destiny points take two strain use the light side and then I could also crit because the critical is for advantage on you should absolutely but you could activate the both the blast and the disorient quality.

SPEAKER_00 1:53:38

Oh I could sure let's do that so I'll flip a destiny point take two strain use all those force pips for four advantage trigger the blast and disorient blast them yeah so you can throw out your grenade it detonates an expertly placed shot it rolls right under their feet and blows up right underneath them the lights short out they get blasted out they crack and pop as the EMP hits them you can see their glowing green eyes and their helmets short out blinding them. They can't see out of their helmets anymore their guns their power packs jam so if Chris if you want to throw the other grenade try and hit the droids now run up to the advantage. I will I will take that uh so that is also gonna be a red and a black red black can I take away a black no you usually can but I guess not this time.

SPEAKER_05 1:54:38

Hmm let's see what we do with this one triumph nothing else but one triumph it roll Oh what if you what if you roll it like a little bit too far but it goes to like the feet of one of our people they can just pick it up and hock it back down over their shields at the Magna cards.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:57

They'll never see it coming Oh Panthar just like fetches it through just brings it back.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:04

Thanks Panthar So it rolls a little long it rolls uh underneath the shields of the Jedi and it rolls behind them and it detonates behind the group of prisoners blasting out one of the door control panels blasting out the lights as a safety precaution the door opens rather than being jammed shut it opens for safety. Ooh so whatever whatever electrical release is in there so they are no longer pinned down and they can head through this door.

SPEAKER_05 1:55:37

Oh nice maybe if we're really lucky the blast would have gotten the weapons lock up they can get their lightsabers back.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:43

But then the Magna guards turn around. Don't you have like another uh EMP?

SPEAKER_05 1:55:48

I do have one more but I I don't think uh Starzana Elyria is great with ranged.

SPEAKER_00 1:55:54

I also and maybe for Star Xana Illyria take advantage of uh the death troopers while they're still uh does out of source I wish to slice them out does Panthar have good ranged maybe can Panthar grip it with it with his tail and just whip it forward okay buddy I'll pull the pin you whip it I don't think he's got great ranged light uh his agility is what's his agility here's agility I've upped my uh I've upped my uh force rating so if he's at silhouette two does that help at all Panthst uh would have four agility got pretty good uh ranged yeah he could he could potentially I mean he'd have some blacks onto it but if he thinks it's a toy bat the toy Panthstar if you want Panthstar to bat the toy uh bat the toy Kala you can you can toss out the uh the toy Panthstar can uh it'll be we'll say it's it's gonna be a uh it'll have the adversary the the ranged defense so it'll be a red and a black to start uh but because PanthStar is a cat uh not aiming that'll add two blacks onto that so that'll be a red and three blacks you can roll uh four greens for Panthstars uh ranged.

SPEAKER_08 1:57:25

I'm gonna flip a destiny.

SPEAKER_00 1:57:27

Flip Adelphia well to success one threat one despair oh dear Panthar so Panthers bites down on it No Panthstar you fool goes off in his mouth you can see sparks inside he's got like this silhouetted teeth as electricity crawls all over his mouth kinda has to shake it off the lights go out all around you that was my last that was my last grenade dang it your your weapons are also shorting out because you're all like right beside each other. So uh these Magna guards are gonna be able to attack without anybody being able to uh defend themselves with an electric weapon. So like lightsabers, blasters, uh it'll take them some time to recharge.

SPEAKER_05 1:58:17

I mean Starzan still has a star sword if he could get an attack in first. So it's a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:22

Yeah if you wanna if you want to try and run in to these Magna guards. Yeah. So they've got adversary and defense so that'll be a red and a purple and a black.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:33

Okay I'm gonna up my strength to six red purple black to success five advantage just slice all their heads off in one sweep.

SPEAKER_00 1:58:44

So you can crit with that 71 hamstrung so the Magna guard's legs clang it slice through its legs can't really do a free maneuver it's kinda like wonky. Uh it's still gonna try and swing at you though getting low on destiny points so I'll give you one back. Thank you kindly thank you sir may I have another one success four advantages that's probably also a crit. Uh it is indeed so nine points of wound uh before your soak it rolls fifteen sudden jolt you drop whatever's in your hand oh no your star sword no but he needs that to live well I do have endure can I use that to uh cancel when the when the character suffers a critical injury with a sphere rating of no greater than easy endure I think hamstrung is like No sudden jolt is easy.

SPEAKER_08 1:59:46

Oh it is easy so I can I'm going to activate endure as an out of turn incidental and commit one force die to temporarily ignore the effects of that injury.

SPEAKER_07 1:59:56

Okay so uh you can hold on then. You can take the star sword once you pry it out of my cold dead hands.

SPEAKER_04 2:00:05

You're never getting it from up.

SPEAKER_00 2:00:07

Use another Destiny point on this other magna guard that's coming after you its cold red eyes uh glowing in the darkness its Electrosap per cracking with purple energy. Uh three failures but four advantages what could that possibly mean it's like just like staggers you back or something. Well with four advantages with three advantages you can disarm an opponent so it's like the first one tries to like smash you in the knuckles to make you drop it you hold on the second one does it anyway and disarms you. So it's like between the two of them they manage to pry the sword out of your hands. Those assholes. Uh does anyone else want to do anything?

SPEAKER_05 2:00:46

I think Illyria has an act of this round.

SPEAKER_06 2:00:49

Yeah no our our our our um our our our electric weapons still out of commission.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:00

Yeah till the end of the round is there somebody who doesn't have access to their weapons on the other side they all left through the door that opened up I mean I guess unless we just want to like try to get away after them rather than uh then sti z stick ground for these guys? Yeah. Because like we just came here to help them get unpinned. And they are unpinned.

SPEAKER_06 2:01:22

Yeah let's hook up I guess we've done it.

SPEAKER_07 2:01:26

I was gonna try and tackle something but if I don't have to then I won't let's I feel like we're a little bit we got away with some triumphs but we are also kind of in over our head. Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_05 2:01:37

Because I I guess our people if they aren't able to get their weapons back right away they might still need help so let's maybe try to get after them if there's a a way to get back to the hangar bay. What what would it be if we were to try to run past these droids?

SPEAKER_00 2:01:50

It would be against their athletics. Ooh athletics versus athletics if if having the number will help you will be rolling against uh three reds and a purple. Absolutely not we're turning back the way we came never mind alright never mind let's go back towards the hangar hopefully they are gonna meet us here. And he says it's probably not safe to uh take the ship you came in uh we do have uh a selection well a small selection of uh unmarked vessels that we use on our operations I mean you got a ship Grey you know what's the best thing he has the best one in here the best give us the most uh nondescript one in here you got it and he runs towards a ship that's got a big tarp over it and he yanks the tarp off and he says it's gonna be a little cramped for all of you but um I mean at least we cleaned the shag carpet and he pulls the tarp off revealing the custard gannet no the custard gannet my enemy I mean I'm familiar with it at least I know how to fly it yeah it's an old one but it's uh it's served us well it's uh completely off the books.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:02

You got all the bugs out of the shag carpeting right?

SPEAKER_00 2:03:04

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:05

Okay good. Let's book it up. Is there any sign of our friends?

SPEAKER_00 2:03:09

You can see them uh the Rhodian uh is fiddling with a little makeshift box with a switch on it. You can see as they run out of the the darkened hallway uh red lights falling them as stormtroopers and death troopers are blasting after them the Rhodian drops the box and he stumbles and he tries to go back for it but the others are trying to get him to get him to not.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:38

Are they just running for the ship that we're on?

SPEAKER_00 2:03:40

Yeah they're t they're coming to meet you. Okay good but he's trying to go back for his box.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:45

Why? What is it? That's the bomb goodthur I put it on the hyperdrive Oh he needs that to detonate the bomb does anyone have move?

SPEAKER_00 2:03:54

Uh no I don't.

SPEAKER_05 2:03:57

Do you want to go run and grab it?

SPEAKER_00 2:03:59

Sure. Okay so this'll be against uh should I ride Panther to get it? I might be faster.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:05

Panther pick it up from with your teeth and don't bite through it this time.

SPEAKER_08 2:04:08

No no no no I'll I'll pick it up he's just the one uh he's just the one driving he's the he's the uh dexterity chick.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:15

Yeah you're gonna like lean real fast I'll do it.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:19

It would be a coordination to pick it up while riding Panthers. Oh I'm great at coordination I can do it.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:24

Oh nice yeah Starzan.

SPEAKER_00 2:04:25

So I'm not gonna make Pantar roll because he could leap in and get it. Uh he has the swift talent he doesn't perform extra maneuvers to move through difficult terrain so he can get there quickly. So to pick it up uh is going to be against the gunnery of the death troopers so well fuck lookan is very coordinate deranged. So that is gonna be a three red coordination.

SPEAKER_05 2:04:50

We have destiny right? Yeah you flip one Starzan? Yeah for the flip of destiny three failures one advantage two dark side three light side oh he flipped if she flips them oh dark and flipped one to do the roll didn't you yes shit so you can't flip again I like in unless you want to use like as many dark sides to get advantage and then it's like oh you tumbled off and Panthstar can just dart in and get it in the city.

SPEAKER_08 2:05:18

Yeah three failures would that be three advantage then?

SPEAKER_00 2:05:21

Yeah you could so it's clear that you're not gonna be able to scoop it up and bring it back. So you got a couple options you could jump off PanthStar and pick it up but then you would have to like get back on they would be able to shoot you again. Option two Panthstar just fucking smashes it and the bomb goes off right now.

SPEAKER_05 2:05:43

Ooh how far away from us is the the hyper drive how good at driving are you you know what maybe we can pilot our way out of this human heart Pantstar's just gonna smash it.

SPEAKER_00 2:05:57

Yeah. Pantar sees another toy puts his whole paw down on it smashes the box with the interdictor the floor suddenly starts shaking beneath your feet as the bomb goes off deep in the bowels of the ship. Everyone run run run race back to the ship board cramp this little uh HWK 290 freighter the custard gannet uh you are familiar with it so you can add a blue you have flown before uh these kinds of ship also do have a plus one to their handling so you can add another blue okay could Roar War roll first to do a copiloting it would depend yeah but the difficulty that you're gonna be rolling against is gonna depend on how good a mechanic this guy is.

SPEAKER_03 2:06:41

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:06:43

So this is gonna be a three red co-piloting. Uh Roar War is gonna roll his copiloting first. See how much he can reduce that by. Oh okay two failures but five advantages so you can add two blues onto that. Okay so still three reds four blues in total against three reds.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:03

Okay what do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_00 2:07:05

You have three.

SPEAKER_05 2:07:06

I'm flipping I'm flipping getting another yellow or try downgrade a red you know what no I already I already added the other yellow.

SPEAKER_00 2:07:13

Got four blues let's see oh four success four advantage baby let's get the hell out of here can blast off out of there it's uh as you guys are getting on the back catch uh is closing as you are taking off it almost feels like if you had rolled worse someone might have fallen out uh but you don't have to deal with that you can rocket out of the hangar bay the interdictor comes up in flames explodes the gravity well gets very strong before it disappears completely leaving just a a hole in space and you can well where are you going?

SPEAKER_05 2:07:57

Where was it we were gonna go before we Oh Quash Quish Quish Quesh that was the drug planet it was um more of the secret planet yeah it was like the the ones with the zap over the secret Alashan was the planet where uh that's off the map.

SPEAKER_00 2:08:17

Alishan okay we're going to Alishan uh so since it is off the map um this is gonna require an Astracation okay it'll start as three purple but uh if you want Valara to help she can uh give you some assistance you can add a blue to that sure I will let her help okay so it'll be a three purple and a blue one success two advantage one triumph look at you I feel the power of my ancestors you feel the power of your ancestors for a brief moment using your abilities now that you are kind of connected to your mother a little bit you see through her eyes once again and she's still on that planet with the Zephyr ruins but you can see she's sort of coming out of the ancient temple of the ruins of the cave and you catch just a glimpse in your mind's eye of the giant rosher trees of Kashyy.

SPEAKER_04 2:09:22

Kashyy?

SPEAKER_00 2:09:23

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