Empire Wreckers

S14E18 - TPK

Empire Wreckers Season 14 Episode 18

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SPEAKER_04

Hey everyone, thanks for listening to Star Wars Empire Records, the Star Wars Actual Play podcast that's not afraid to do a mid-season TPK today. Who's ready to do an end-of-season TPK?

SPEAKER_07

Callison's ready to do an end-of-season TPK because we had as we all know, it's a total party kill. But no party. Wait, no, that's not gonna work. I forgot I don't know what I was trying to go for. What I'm trying to say is that you can't have a party without some special king. You know, can I mean we all know that term?

SPEAKER_03

We already do we already do TPK. TPK standing for stomachs and the calls.

SPEAKER_00

No weapons available, no star sword, only a roll of teepee to dram down the enemies.

SPEAKER_07

Hell yeah. Now let's hear from our last total party kill.

SPEAKER_05

And Deliria is ready to use her new skill, preemptive avoidance, to disengage from any an engaged enemy as an end-of-turn incidental.

SPEAKER_04

And if you're ready to disengage from life, why don't you come along with us to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away in Star Wars? It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships striking from a hidden base are preparing for their first strike against the evil galactic empire. During a clandestine mission, rebel spies managed to steal secret data about the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet. With a small group of allies, the Empire Wreckers race towards the construction site at Geonosis, custodian of technology that can destroy the Emperor and restore freedom to the galaxy. So, since your last uh episode, since last time, you would have timed things so that you were able to uh coincide your journey with that of the Emperors, which would have given you time to uh collect and set into motion anything that you may need or may have wanted to do. Currently, uh, you are on board the light cruiser. Uh, but prior to that, Kala would have had her leg replaced.

SPEAKER_07

Wait, did I lose my leg again last time?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, Bo Katan fucking melted it.

SPEAKER_07

Oh right, I forgot about that. Thank goodness.

SPEAKER_04

Thank goodness. Thank goodness I forgot about it.

SPEAKER_07

So thank thank goodness I got that replaced.

SPEAKER_04

Well, who who would have replaced it, do you think? And what kind of leg would it have been replaced with?

SPEAKER_07

Would it have been Rusty? Does Rusty know how to replace a leg? I'm sure we got like medical people at our base, right? Or not Rusty, uh Frank? Oh my god, Frank, yes.

SPEAKER_04

Um, well, you do have a medical person at your base. Her name is Elyria.

SPEAKER_07

Is Elyria really our only medical talent on the base?

SPEAKER_05

You don't have to sound like that.

SPEAKER_04

You would also need some uh mechanical help.

SPEAKER_05

I'm also so I like nothing.

SPEAKER_04

I don't have any cybernetics that you hired. His name is Breaker. Uh he's decent at mechanical stuff as well. Uh but the question Can we do a combined role? I think we can assume we would have had enough time to replace it, but the question is what kind of leg are you replacing it with?

SPEAKER_05

Gun. Gun leg. Gun leg, no.

SPEAKER_02

Sword sort sword leg, sword leg. No, you're thinking like uh planet terror?

SPEAKER_07

Or because let me see here. Are are there like benefits that I can get from cybernetics?

SPEAKER_04

I mean I know there are, but uh Yeah, if you want to spend uh 10,000 credits, you could get a cybernetic leg that enhances your brawn or agility.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, that would be good because like because the tree I just broke into doesn't have another dedication, so I'm not gonna be able to increase my stats, but maybe if I went for the one that increases my agility, and then I can be even better at shooting.

SPEAKER_04

That's uh unless unless you wanted a uh a different type of limb. Like a cyber scanner limb.

SPEAKER_07

A cyber scanner limb?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, if you want if you want to put a scanner in your leg.

SPEAKER_07

I feel like that would just be kind of hard to uh elegantly uh scan things. Or what if it was a bespoke one that was crafted? I guess we don't really have I don't know if we'd have anyone who'd be like uh up for the up for crafting, though, as a daunting mechanics check.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, for purple.

SPEAKER_07

Well if I wanted the agility one.

SPEAKER_04

And so you since you guys would have had time to sort of set everything up. Would you have sought out a mechanic? Because it would have also taken some time for Breaker to rebuild his equipment. Um you probably would have had to have visited a couple of underworld uh shadow ports or gotten the crew of the Yonder to do it.

SPEAKER_02

Do you know what uh do you know what she should get? Uh she should get an eye patch that scans things that along with her pegged leg, and a nice triangle hat. Yeah, carve her eye out too.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, do you have to get my eye out?

SPEAKER_02

Uh not carve your eye out, just have an eye patch where it's just has sensors in it and you get to see through the sensors.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, I think you gotta hook that up to your neural training.

SPEAKER_04

So here's the thing, how about roll me out like a Streetwiser or Knowledge Underworld?

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Like, can we just send out the crew of the yonder to recruit someone? What kind of Streetwiser Underworld?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, this'll be to determine where to find somebody trustworthy to build you a new leg.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, I'll do streetwise.

SPEAKER_04

So we'll call it we'll we'll do it wild style. Give you a Destiny Point. We'll call it a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_07

Wild style. Wild style! One success.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

I can find someone trustworthy.

SPEAKER_04

Fairly, fairly trustworthy. Uh, so you're not gonna get anybody who's like nemesis level, uh, but you don't get any uh threats or anything, so you can probably find a good rival level mechanic.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. I can live with that.

SPEAKER_04

This mechanic uh will have Are you sending the crew of the yonder out to like, hey, here go go get this leg for me along with your other supplies? Okay. And it's a daunting mechanics check to craft this leg. Do you want him to use any uh any destiny?

SPEAKER_07

Um how much do we have?

SPEAKER_04

Uh well I gave you one.

SPEAKER_07

You gave me one.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so you guys have uh four at the moment.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I if this is a long-term thing, let's let him use a destiny point.

SPEAKER_05

What do you mean a long-term thing? Aren't we dying today?

SPEAKER_07

Look, I have to be optimistic. Maybe I will need this in the future.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe one of us will survive.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Wait, if all of us survive, where's all that money gonna go? Oh fuck.

SPEAKER_08

Does that mean you already know which one of us survives? There's so much money.

SPEAKER_02

Interesting.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no. I don't like interesting. I don't like interesting.

SPEAKER_02

I don't like interesting.

SPEAKER_07

I don't like interesting.

SPEAKER_02

Everything should just be good for us.

SPEAKER_04

Uh so it only costs 5,000.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

So they come back. The the mechanic got four success and two threats.

SPEAKER_07

Hmm.

SPEAKER_04

And you want you want agility?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. So yeah, they did it. They come back faster than you would expect you would have expected.

SPEAKER_07

Is it difficult to install? I'm looking at the threats.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it is difficult to install. So the difficulty of the check to install the cybernetic is going to increase by one.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Who do you want to install this into you?

SPEAKER_07

Ugh. This what is it gonna be to install it? Is this gonna be medicine or mechanics?

SPEAKER_04

Installing cybernetics is a medicine check.

SPEAKER_07

Oh thank goodness.

SPEAKER_04

Uh so it starts as hard, so it's gonna be four purple.

SPEAKER_07

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_05

That's that's it.

SPEAKER_04

I will you know what? Let's let's keep it bouncing. I'll give you a destiny point. We'll make it a red and three purple.

SPEAKER_07

Keep it bouncing!

SPEAKER_04

Because of despair, you can suffer a critical injury from a botched surgery.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my god. I can also re-roll a medicine check once per session. Dude. I think that's all I have for upgrades.

SPEAKER_07

Did we accumulate any crits last time?

SPEAKER_04

You did.

SPEAKER_07

Oh man. Can you imagine if you accidentally killed me? Because I had it didn't have my crits healed when you installed this thing.

SPEAKER_04

I think installing it is the healing.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I don't know what the point of having three yellows.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no. What happened?

SPEAKER_05

Four failure.

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_05

One advantage. Let me re-roll. I'll use my re-roll. Okay. Maybe I should use that later on, but uh let me re-roll this. Three failure. One triumph. Three advantage.

SPEAKER_07

Is there someone else that you can call in with the triumph?

SPEAKER_04

Well, the the failure with triumph is that you can't install this leg, but if you want to, you can use the parts from the leg to fix up Kala's existing leg.

SPEAKER_07

What? And you're gonna take apart the leg I just got built?

SPEAKER_04

Or you got a triumph and advantage?

SPEAKER_05

One triumph, three advantage.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, one triumph with three advantage. So before you left, you can take you can have taken Kala down into the the medical facilities of this uh underground city on Alishan where you've been making your base. I don't think you've really explored it all that thoroughly. It's a pretty big underground city. And they were doing a lot of odd scientific experimentation.

SPEAKER_07

Ooh, do they have medical labs down there?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, they got medical labs. Like it was a scientific outpost where people were doing a regrow your leg.

SPEAKER_07

Give me a clone leg.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, they're gonna parasite on the end of it like that. It won't be ready until you actually get to geonosis. It still needs some time to bake. But you can bring along a leg in like a vat that is that is growing. The uh outer layers of skin are still being stitched together, but uh you could potentially uh on the trip attach a clone of Kala's leg.

SPEAKER_07

Sorry, you're you're saying the leg will be uh You're saying the leg will be ready when we get to Geonosis? Yeah, it's a flash-grown clone, so it's uh So there is a non-zero chance that the medicine check to put this leg on me fails and I have to spend this entire session legless.

SPEAKER_04

No, you can do you can have the leg. You're you're prepped, it's just that the uh the leg itself isn't ready.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so it just has to be socketed on then.

SPEAKER_08

And it's a clone of her own leg, it's not gonna be like a Tamara Morrison leg.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, well I guess I'll have a clone leg then.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you can you can deroboticize yourself, get your get an actual leg back.

SPEAKER_05

A normal shitty leg instead of a good fake leg.

SPEAKER_04

Now. While you were preparing.

SPEAKER_07

That means I can't I'm not gonna have the plus. That's not oh man! So I'm not gonna get the bonus to agility. Unequip my cybernetic leg. Fine. Paid five thousand dollars for it. Don't even get to have a bonus to my agility.

SPEAKER_04

Well, it's still there if you want to, like, you have three legs.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_05

Like you can decide on the hold on to the leg for the next time you for the next time you use lose a leg.

SPEAKER_07

But if I get the opposite leg chopped off and then I have to have two left feet, I'll never be good at dancing. Then you'll never fuck.

SPEAKER_04

Two seconds, man. So while you were getting prepared, um, did you make Trilla face her own demons?

SPEAKER_07

Because I I think that it's like we were we were like, oh, maybe she should go do that with a Jedi while we're out. I don't know if any of the Jedi went down there with her to do that.

SPEAKER_04

Well, do you do you want that to have happened?

SPEAKER_07

What do you think? Yeah, probably.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

So I'm gonna roll I'm just gonna roll a force die to see if she succeeded. Ooh, one light side.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, does that mean she she's defeated her darkness?

SPEAKER_04

Uh when you yeah, when you returned to Alishan the last time, you did notice that she seemed a lot less threatening, as if she could no longer access the dark side of the force.

SPEAKER_07

How how does she feel about that? Bad?

SPEAKER_04

Well, uh, she feels like she's uh wearing a blindfold and earmuffs.

SPEAKER_07

Eh, she'll get used to it. She wasn't someone who had to use the force to uh fuel her senses, was she?

SPEAKER_04

No.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

But it's just it's damp now.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, her force is damp. I guess she she did not go through the uh the character growth to be like we are coming back around before getting her darkness blasted out. She's just going cold turkey.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Cold blast.

SPEAKER_07

Look, she'll be fine. She probably won't be very useful to us on this mission, but like she'll be fine. Are you bringing her? I don't know if we should, honestly. Like, if she's.

SPEAKER_04

Who are you bringing with you? Because on this ship, so you have Sabe's uh light cruiser. Sabe is there. It's her ship. Uh she has a crew made up of freed slaves that have begun helping her fight against the huts.

SPEAKER_07

Um Is Ahsoka with her?

SPEAKER_04

Ahsoka's not with her.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, do they I thought they were staying together or did they separate? I guess they must have separated.

SPEAKER_04

Breaker is uh Breaker's coming because he has to operate the equipment.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Uh ooh, I'm like, should we bring Grey? Because Grey would have uh be able to talk the Imperial talk if we needed help uh bullshitting. But also, if this if this does end up being a suicide mission, we will need someone to run the base.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so before before you left, uh Grey would have outlined the plan that he and the others came up with. And the plan is thus, and based on that, you can maybe decide who else you want to bring. There are any other external forces that you might want to get involved for whatever reason. Yeah. So basically, what Grey laid out to you before you left was that they have the schedule for the Emperor's next inspection. He's gonna be arriving to Geonosis aboard his flagship, the ISS Majestic, the Star Destroyer, which will dock with the skeletal superstructure of the battle station. From there, his itinerary is to board a shuttle and take a guided tour of the superstructure.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

So Breaker has analyzed Moth Loam's code cylinder and is able to generate up-to-date encryption algorithms for uh the Light Cruiser's IFF. It is going to be borrowing the registry of a cruiser called the Shirak. And in order to transmit the signal using Breaker's equipment, you need to be within the superstructure itself. A short-range burst is gonna be harder to detect than something that you're casting across the entire Imperial fleet that's there. And since all of the construction vehicles are working on the Death Star, doing it from inside is probably gonna give you the best chance of not being detected. So you're gonna have to fly into the under construction Death Star.

SPEAKER_07

And so that's the signal to make it like crash down into the planet, into Geonosis.

SPEAKER_04

To take over the construction vehicles, and then from there you give it the whatever orders you want.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Because like the construction vehicles, would that include Palpatine Shuttle, or would it just be a little bit?

SPEAKER_04

Just the KDY stuff.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Um, because Imperial Shuttles are they're made by a different company, Cygnus Spaceworks. You might, depending on Breaker, how good Breaker's equipment is, um, because Star Destroyers are KDY.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe Star Destroyers you might be able to affect, but they are also a lot more robust in terms of like resisting electronic attacks.

SPEAKER_07

Mm-hmm. Because, like, okay, so we have to bring Breaker to actually initiate this thing. Um, I I can fly the ship, that's no problem.

SPEAKER_04

And would I guess in terms of the timing as well, Gray uh would have made a couple of suggestions. So you kind of have two options. Number one is to kick this thing off once Palpatine's Star Destroyer is docked with the Death Star. Yeah. It takes a long time for a Star Destroyer to dock and undock with the space station. There's a lot of metal clamps and stuff. So the Star Destroyer might not be able to escape before the station enters Freefall, but there are also a lot of escape pods and shuttles aboard. Option two is to wait until Palpatine is in his tour shuttle and hope that the station as it falls crashes into him and destroys him.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Option two A. Okay. Standard Imperial procedure, Palpatine's shuttle will have an escort of two TIE fighters. The Imperial Light cruiser has three TIE fighters docked aboard it. Theoretically, you could take those ties out and try to destroy Palpatine's shuttle uh just on its own.

SPEAKER_07

Oh. That's true. Do we have any pilots on the base?

SPEAKER_02

Anybody who's a crazy motherfucker.

SPEAKER_07

Any fighter pilots?

SPEAKER_02

Any out-of-character zap roused hours?

SPEAKER_04

Well, you have Kala. You have uh Roar War, who is the pilot of the Yonder.

SPEAKER_07

Oh yeah. So probably just me and Roar War then.

SPEAKER_02

Congratulations, you're you're being enlisted.

SPEAKER_07

If if we're because we're still dealing with Palpatine, which makes me feel like I should probably be focusing on having a suppression field of extreme range.

SPEAKER_04

TIE fighters are pretty cramped, but maybe you could like somebody could fly you.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Well, because I'm like, if I had that committed, like, would I be able to fly at the same time?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, if it's a if it's a committed power, then that's yeah, you can do absolutely don't have to focus on it. The other thing is, even though you have the IFF codes, the Shirak is not supposed to be there, the ship you're pretending to be, so you will need to sweet talk the Empire once you arrive. That's okay.

SPEAKER_02

We have a sweet talking robot yourself.

SPEAKER_07

I was gonna say, like, I thought we had a sweet talking Chris.

SPEAKER_02

People call me a sex machine. How could I not take that into every part of my life?

SPEAKER_04

And Gray also warns uh that once things pop off, the Empire is going to identify the ship as the source of the signal. Standard Imperial procedure is to do a boarding first to recover the cruiser and identify what technology was being used to uh take over the construction vehicles. So the light cruiser will most likely be boarded.

SPEAKER_06

Oh.

SPEAKER_04

But once they realize who you are, they will probably switch to just uh destruction. And Gray uh he doesn't say it, but it is very obvious that in the plan that Gray and everybody else came up with, they do not have a plan to get you guys out.

SPEAKER_07

Well then like, cause as far as like having on the ship for if/slash when stormtroopers board, like maybe it'd be a good idea if there's like any of our Jedi people who would want to come to assist with like holding the ship, so to speak, and like So you did mention Palpatine.

SPEAKER_04

Is it a good idea to have a concentration of several Jedi in one place?

SPEAKER_07

God damn, that's a good point. Also, I was thinking, attitudes may vary on this. We have been helping Darth Maul with the assumption that he would help us to take down the Empire.

SPEAKER_02

What what's to say that he's actually gonna help us?

SPEAKER_07

Okay, but if not, then like we've just been abetted a crime lord for no reason at all. I mean, I feel like we should at least try to be like, hey dude, how is that?

SPEAKER_02

It's time to cash in your chips, man.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, it's time for you to hold up your end of the deal. Like, if you've been if you have been if he has been amassing, like, various criminal enterpi empires, they may have some he may have something of a fleet under his command. Maybe a small army where it's like, hey, if you guys can come in, like, after we get this thing falling, just to make sure that Palpatine doesn't escape, basically. Like, shoot at escape shuttles. I know that's not ideal. I know there's gonna be like regular people going on those, but like, may like if we don't get him bringing down the station, like make sure he doesn't get out, basically. You know? I feel like we should at least try to cash this in, because that's kind of the whole point.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, if there's any time to do it, it's the uh series, I mean season finale.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, we're all definitely getting out of this alive.

SPEAKER_02

Well, probably the title of the uh episode's gonna be called DOA.

SPEAKER_07

The gang does a suicide run. Can we try to contact him?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, if you want to uh try and contact Mull, I assume you're using uh you're slicing your your calm equipment aboard your ship.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, our encrypted stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Gotta encrypt my calls to my boyfriend.

SPEAKER_07

That you say in Adelaria.

SPEAKER_05

No, I was making fun of you.

SPEAKER_07

I know it's easy to do.

SPEAKER_04

So you can uh call over to Lotham. Minor and the droid proxy answers and he says, Oh, hello friends. It's been a while since we have talked.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, hello, proxy. Uh, you master around?

SPEAKER_04

He is uh currently in a meeting. Shall I interrupt him?

SPEAKER_07

Yes. Uh well, mm, well what kind of meeting? How long is it you uh expect he's gonna be in there?

SPEAKER_04

He is currently treating with a hut by the name of Ganis to try and secure his allegiance for his upcoming criminal enterprise.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I don't know if we'd want to be interrupted there, because that sounds like that might be uh beneficial if it goes through.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you're you're not wrong. We do need to cash this in, though.

SPEAKER_07

We do need to cash this in. Hey, uh, hey Proxy.

SPEAKER_02

Can can you can you can you um take a message? Can you like put pass him a note or something?

SPEAKER_07

Like i if if you think that you can pass him a note without being murderized, um that uh we have a plan to uh take down Palpatine. Is he gonna help us or not?

SPEAKER_04

I will pass along the message.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. I don't know, g do you think it's gonna be quick, uh, you letting us know, or should he just call us back?

SPEAKER_04

I'm sending the message through now.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02

We'll we'll just wait here. Hey, uh, how how have you been, man?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, you've been proxy. Yeah. You still putting on uh the Dooku with the big gazangas for fun?

SPEAKER_02

Or profit.

SPEAKER_07

Or prophet.

SPEAKER_04

Dooku is a very robust training program.

SPEAKER_07

Does he does he ever request you to be Dooku with the big gazangas?

SPEAKER_04

Unfortunately, the big gazangas interfere with my ability to repost.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, that is unfortunate. Uh, yes, that would be bad. You never want to be without your big gazangas, but sometimes you gotta be as I can catch you through. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_02

He didn't have enough of this conversation, I get that.

SPEAKER_04

So he fizzles out. And you see, like, a little hologram of Maul and uh a bloated uh swampy hut that he's meeting with on Lotho Minor. And Maul says. What kind of assistance were you requesting?

SPEAKER_07

Well, we're not sure what kind of uh what forces you've uh been able yeah, you've accumulated, acquired. Cause uh the the crux of the plan, basically, we got the uh the Emperor's schedule for visiting uh uh a superstructure that's under construction. We are gonna be able to bring the structure down, hopefully be able to uh take down the Emperor in a shuttle while it's going down, but if you have any ships or vessels or other forces that can also be present just to be extra certain that he does not escape from that shuttle or escape from the planet.

SPEAKER_04

An Imperial construction project.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. What's with the way you're saying that?

SPEAKER_02

That sounds like a I I think he's cooking. I think he's cooking.

SPEAKER_07

Perception?

SPEAKER_02

Wanna perceive him? I want to see uh uh I want to know what he's cooking.

SPEAKER_07

I do like saying that in character voice, like Callos that's just on the radio, like perception!

SPEAKER_04

I wanna perceive you.

SPEAKER_07

Can I perceive you, Maul? Hey, stay still, I gotta perceive you for a second.

SPEAKER_05

He says that, you just go, hmm.

SPEAKER_04

His uh cool, his uh deception. I think he's lying to you? Or just wanna read him?

SPEAKER_07

I just wanna read him. I don't know if he's like he hasn't said anything to be a lie, but it's like uh that'll be a three purple. Three purple, okay. One success.

SPEAKER_04

Two success and two threat. So you can kind of get an idea. Uh Chris, you can't read him as well as Kala can, so you're not sure exactly what he's getting at. Kala, you kind of have an idea. Um the w he said Imperial Construction Project, he n it might be something that he's heard about, but he you don't get the sense that he knows exactly what it is, but um it's probably not going to be completely new information to him.

SPEAKER_02

In fact, he might add on to what we've already that this is why this is why we need him.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. You uh you have a sort of spark of recognition in your eye there, Mal. Is there anything you know about this?

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna say you have a sparkle in your eye, but you do You're Chris just like you got a sparkle in your eye.

SPEAKER_07

Tell us a story.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I don't know if what you speak of is the same as what I'm thinking of, but the Geonosian diaspora has quite a mercenary streak to them.

SPEAKER_07

The what? Would we know what that is?

SPEAKER_04

The Geonosian Diaspora, yeah, that would be the Geonosians who uh don't live on Geonosis no more.

SPEAKER_07

The way you said Geonosian was very weird there. I was like, the g the j the j it sounded like the Ginosians, and I was like, Who's Ginos? Like the Ginorsos.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no, there's so many brunettes here.

SPEAKER_04

I have heard tell of uh something big being constructed in the outer rim. Something that may be a weapon.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, we're thinking that uh, you know, get rid of that thing, get rid of the emperor, bing bang boom. That's a twofa one. You know a twofa?

SPEAKER_04

That is an interesting plan, but uh such a facility would no doubt be heavily defended. Do you want me to send my forces at it to be destroyed?

SPEAKER_07

Well not well, because our plan is uh includes the destruction of it. We actually have a uh an undercover ship that we should be able to get in real close, and it's not gonna be until we actually, you know, take control of the station and get it to crash into Geonosis that, you know, things are probably gonna start popping off.

SPEAKER_04

Taking control of the station.

SPEAKER_07

Well, to make it crash, to get rid of it.

SPEAKER_04

And how are you proposing to do that?

SPEAKER_07

We got our ways, Maul. Don't you worry about that.

SPEAKER_04

You are a bit strong in the force, but I do not think you have the ability to destroy something of that magnitude.

SPEAKER_07

I don't need to have the force ability to destroy something like that, my friend. That's why we're crashing it into a planet. A planet's very big and very much has the the ability to destroy something like that.

SPEAKER_04

Without the aid of the force, this battle station, if that's what it is, would likely need to be brought down by the very forces constructing it. In order to do that, you would need access to technology that could arrest the capabilities of other vehicles.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, we would, wouldn't we? What are you getting at here?

SPEAKER_04

And in order to arrive at Geonosis unmolested, you would need an Imperial vessel.

SPEAKER_07

Mal, you're talking with a tone that's putting me a little bit on edge. What are we getting at?

SPEAKER_04

My associate Ganus has recently lost the maker of such a piece of technology, and has recently been hunting a stolen Imperial cruiser.

SPEAKER_02

What is he getting at?

SPEAKER_07

Oh, the guy that we stole this slicer from, that's the hut that's in the room with him right now, and I forgot that that was the hut. Well, it's a good thing that's unrelated, then, isn't it?

SPEAKER_04

Malk, he just kinda smiles a little bit, and he turns back to Ganis, and he turns back to you, and he says, Perhaps we will see you at Geonosis. And he cuts the transmission.

SPEAKER_07

I'm so mad. I'm so mad now.

SPEAKER_02

So, uh, that feels as though that didn't go too well.

SPEAKER_07

Ugh. I just gotta put my head through a window next time I decide to talk.

SPEAKER_02

What was even the You're not wrong, Zo! Like, I feel as though we should like it's not a I was with you. I was I was with you.

SPEAKER_07

Thanks, Chris. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's I mean. Every day I just want to put my head through a damn window. And every day I wake up and I'm still alive. I'm still alive. You know what? Every day I'm ticked off about it too. I'm glad this is a suicide mission.

SPEAKER_02

I punched so many holes through a wall.

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God.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, well, gang, we might have.

SPEAKER_08

I don't even want to be around anymore.

SPEAKER_07

I don't wanna be here. I can't believe we tried to cash in one of our ally ships that's been cooking for a while, and this is what's happened. Well, let the gang know.

SPEAKER_02

Like, I I feel as though he owes us, like, so much.

SPEAKER_07

If that hoe turns up and actually betrays us, I'm going to space myself. I'm gonna be ticked.

SPEAKER_02

Mall's about to kill you, and like, you know what? Nah. I'm gonna go.

SPEAKER_07

I'm not gonna give you the satisfaction. I gotta just runs himself off.

SPEAKER_02

Just runs to an airlock and like, fuck you! See ya later, dude. And then space.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, well, I guess let the team know. Uh oops, we might have done a f we might have done a whoopsie-doo.

SPEAKER_02

No fault of our own. We uh everything we did was perfect.

SPEAKER_07

God.

SPEAKER_02

Any other preparations you want to make?

SPEAKER_08

Any other enemies you want to alert?

SPEAKER_07

Someone else make a suggestion.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, do you wanna do wanna bring it up? Previsla's armor with you so uh Bo Katan and the Mandalorians show up.

SPEAKER_08

Would that help?

SPEAKER_02

Would that help?

SPEAKER_07

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02

I mean maybe. Wait, actually, actually, actually.

SPEAKER_07

Just introduce some chaos into the mix. Bring the darksaber while you're at it.

SPEAKER_02

I c I actually. Yeah. Can we call all of our enemies and tell them where we're gonna be? Particularly the enemies that are against Palpatine.

SPEAKER_07

Are you gonna Okay, do we are we do we have to call up Bo Katan and get her on the hollow and just like have the Darksaber like turned on and swinging like a donger in front of us, like, ooh, come get us a genosis.

SPEAKER_02

What's her number?

SPEAKER_07

Did we get that? I don't think we did. I don't know if we call her up.

SPEAKER_02

I I I I text messaged Zin, hey, you wouldn't happen to have Bo Katan's number. I'm I'm a number of headband.

SPEAKER_04

So Zin, she was working in the Senate. She was working uh with people who knew people who knew people. Mandalore never joined the Republic uh or the Empire. Their representation in the Senate was minimal, so I don't think she'd have any Mandalorian contacts, especially none that are on the more mercenary side of things. Shh. Fine.

SPEAKER_02

I do one of my I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

What does everyone else want to do?

SPEAKER_02

I I don't really play Far Cry games anymore, but one of my favorite things to do is just lure everything around there and just watch from a distance. It's the best. Uh yep. Can we can we can can we can we cash in any other friendships?

SPEAKER_07

Can we can is do we have a way of contacting Ahsoka of contacting Pivot? Her new her new codename.

SPEAKER_04

You have a mind harp. Have you been practicing with that?

SPEAKER_07

Oh yeah, Chris. Do you want mind harper?

SPEAKER_04

I can mind harper. Yeah, who do you want to try and mind harp? Because you could potentially mind harp various different people.

SPEAKER_05

Uh hey everyone, meet me at Geonosis if you can in one month if you want an ass kicking.

SPEAKER_07

Cause, okay, like who who who might we want to um get? There's uh there's there's Ahsoka. I'm like looking back at my notes and being like, what names, names, what are names? Elyria's parents are with us. I don't know how much you can see.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, they're they're on Alishan, being adults.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Um Can I mine harp Poketan? No. You could if you uh You could.

SPEAKER_07

You're really focused on her.

SPEAKER_02

Is there is uh like is there anybody else that we can think of here? Because like I'll like I'll do it. I am kind of I'm I'm mad enough, man. I'm mad enough.

SPEAKER_07

You know, it might just make things wack-a-doo enough. Like maybe maybe Ahsoka first, see if you can mind Harper.

SPEAKER_04

Because what would be the uh benefit of getting Ahsoka involved?

SPEAKER_07

I guess.

SPEAKER_04

Because it's the same, like you have Jedi.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

It may or may not even be a bring be a good idea to bring them.

SPEAKER_07

The Jedi, yeah. So maybe if we just see if we can get Bo Katan, lure her out.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Give me my harp.

SPEAKER_07

Wheel your harp, sir.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I get my two assistants that you guys have never seen before uh to wheel out my harp. It's not as if that it needs wheels, but I have them wheel it out anyway.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, it's like a tiny handheld harp. You have it on a cart.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you, Alfred.

SPEAKER_07

Go welcome, sir!

SPEAKER_02

It's a it's an old crickety robot.

SPEAKER_04

So this will be roll me a charm with your force dice. A charm with my force dice. Yeah. Do I just roll the force dice or the charm and force dice? Charm and force. It'll be against three purple.

SPEAKER_07

I'm gonna leave the room before you do this, because I remember that uh Avaloth does not like the mind harp and it makes me feel all oogy inside.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, that's something you could do. You could bring out the monster.

SPEAKER_07

Oh god, do you want to summon Avaloth? Yeah, we're not gonna deal with Kala today. Look, if we if we almost get a TPK, maybe I can do that again. Everyone else has to roll up new characters and I'll just continue playing as Abeloth next time.

SPEAKER_04

I w I wonder if Abeloth how she would feel about this powerful wizard that's would she see him as competition?

SPEAKER_07

Would she see him as a friend? Shaped like a friend. I don't know if there I I could really communicate with Abeloth in any meaningful way. Maybe if I stay in here while Chris mind harps, then I'll uh I'll get thrown into a brain blast with her. Actually, I'm not gonna leave. Let's see what happens, Chris. Mind your harp.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, let's see what kind of chaos I can muster. Alright, so uh here we go. I got what the fuck? I got uh uh where six success, one advantage, two triumphs, two light side, and one dark side. Okay.

SPEAKER_04

That's an insane role. That is an insane role. You're calling you're harp- who are you harping? Bo Katan? Uh uh Bo Bo Katan. Yeah, you can be explicit in your message to her.

SPEAKER_05

He just got really good at the mind harp because he would use it all the time to be like you up to Zan.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Would you like to be explicit with Bo Katan?

SPEAKER_02

I I I was ex uh explicit by saying you up, Bo Katan, but like not in that way.

SPEAKER_07

Uh I'm looking back at my notes and I'm seeing the note that uh Starz or Starzan was going by Twercules, and I'm like, what if it's like she gets the mind message, but it's just you and you put on the armor and you have the sword and you just drop an ass to taunt her? Drop it low.

SPEAKER_02

What it uh what if I told you uh or does she she doesn't know where the uh darksaber is, right?

SPEAKER_04

No.

SPEAKER_02

What uh uh I will tell her, it's like what if I told you I know exactly where uh exactly where to find the lightsaber and when Well, you're you're sit you're singing a song in her head, so she can't answer. Okay, well okay. Uh meet uh meet us at uh the coordinate the coordinates of the uh Yeah, come to Geonosis for an ass kicking. The geonosis for for an ass kick uh kicking. Uh we uh you you can also uh you can also help with the uh bringing down of the Emperor. Uh two birds, one stone. Uh if you're fe if you're feeling lucky, uh we're feeling lucky too. Signed two percent.

SPEAKER_08

Two percent is.

SPEAKER_04

So you can send that message, hopefully she gets it, and hopefully she uh takes action.

SPEAKER_02

Because if we if we how if we if we plant the lightsaber on somebody, she can kill that person for the lightsaber, and then we can continue and then, you know, we don't have to die for having the lightsaber.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, we'll slip the darksaber into Palpatine's pocket. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I don't think that'll work. I think he might be able to wield that fucker, but still it sounds like a good idea.

SPEAKER_07

He might be able to become the new Mandalore. I mean, I don't know who else we can call. I clearly made a bad choice, but um, what do we say? We just want to do this? We just want to make it happen? Who's that big monster again? Avalon? Abaloth. Hey, Aboloth, you up! Just yell to myself. Let me focus real hard and be like, Abaloth, you up.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, uh, give me a discipline then.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no, okay.

SPEAKER_04

Give me a discipline against your own discipline, but I'll give you a destiny point. So upgrade one of those.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so against three red. Cool. Interesting. One failure, one threat, one triumph. She has she has nothing to say over to me, but I don't get immediately get taken over.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you're not losing it. Um, you can feel her stirring in there, where it's like, should something happen, she could be brought out.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. I'm prime in the pump.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

You know, it's like how I have to set five uh alarms in a row to be able to wake up to get to work in the morning. This is just the first alarm for Abeloth. This is the uh, you know, it's gone off, but you're allowed to go back to sleep for another 15 minutes. What I'm saying is I'm not getting taken over just yet.

SPEAKER_02

Not just yet.

SPEAKER_07

Not just yet. We'll see what happens. What do we say?

SPEAKER_02

Are we ready to pop this thing off just Well let's p let's pop this bottle.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, so we're bringing Breaker, we're bringing the ke the crew of the yonder, we're leaving, we're bringing the crew of the ship. What what was the the ship being going by now?

SPEAKER_02

The Shyrak.

SPEAKER_07

The Shyrak.

SPEAKER_02

Soon it's gonna be the not so Shyrak.

SPEAKER_07

And Chris, what do you think our our our uh our excuse should be for going there, Mr. Sweet Taca?

SPEAKER_02

Um, Sweet Taca's a different character. Uh what what should our our excuse be? What what's the uh are are we the interior decorator? Trash!

SPEAKER_07

Oh, or if it's like uh we're uh we're a secu we we got we got uh a tip that there might be a security breach here. We have to um check the second.

SPEAKER_02

Security breach does sound does sound believable, especially for like that there might have been terrorists here.

SPEAKER_07

We have to go and make sure there aren't any terrorists here.

SPEAKER_02

I'm sorry, did you say terrorist or terrorist?

SPEAKER_07

Terrorists.

SPEAKER_02

Terrorist. There's so many tourists here.

SPEAKER_07

What do we think? Security force.

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna do an astergation so good that we pop out right inside.

SPEAKER_07

More like an aspergation. Hey, maybe Frank loves killing. Does Frank wanna come?

SPEAKER_04

Frank likes killing hand to hand.

SPEAKER_07

Um if the clone troopers are getting hungry.

SPEAKER_04

He is living in a in a KX droid body, so I think if there is like a boarding party, he could definitely help.

SPEAKER_07

Frank, you wanna come?

SPEAKER_04

I will also join.

SPEAKER_03

High five, dude.

SPEAKER_04

He's my brother.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, I thought there might be more that you were saying there. Okay, okay, great! I thought you were about to add on a uh a however something.

SPEAKER_02

No. It's no I want to kill.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. And we got the the crew that was already on the ship. Sabe's crew, and Sabe's gonna be with us too.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Think we uh think we got it. Say it we say goodbye to everyone on the base in case we don't come back. Gray, it's been great knowing ya. Been great knowing you, uh, what was his actual name? Ethius.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I hope that you do come back. Uh and I hope that when you do, everything is different.

SPEAKER_02

Same. Uh is Zinn c or I I I I wanna I wanna send a voicemail to Zinn. Voicemail.

SPEAKER_07

Voicemail. You're gonna go see your girlfriend before we leave. She lives on the base with us, Chris.

SPEAKER_02

Is she is she around? Is she is she available?

SPEAKER_07

She lives here.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, okay. Uh I thought she was like out and about. Um I mean, maybe I don't know. Uh Zen's got stuff to do.

SPEAKER_07

She can't say goodbye to you before you go to die.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, that's the the that that is the ultimate tragedy, you know.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Um Are you gonna leave her something to remember you by for the next 18 to 20 years?

SPEAKER_02

I mean, we I've already I already got a mold of it, so you know, she's fine.

SPEAKER_07

No, look, look, Chris, you're not prohibited from spilling seed. You could leave her something for the next 18 to 20 years.

SPEAKER_02

I I I have a care pat I have a care package filled with my poems, my uh my uh my poems, my best pictures. A very wealthy professional take took those uh pictures for me. They're not very good, I overspent, but you know what? It's a thought that counts.

SPEAKER_05

Um put some holes in your space condoms.

SPEAKER_07

I I love I hope it's just like Chris, do you want to leave her anything to remember you by? And it's like, so this is my porn, this is a picture of me, absolutely not to the other stuff.

SPEAKER_02

I said I left a book of poems.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I thought you said porn.

SPEAKER_08

These are all of these are all of my nudes.

SPEAKER_07

I thought you were just like, I give you my most trusted possession, a thumb drive with the my crimes folder on it. Excellent.

SPEAKER_02

And the message said. That uh uh our relationship has I've had many relationships, but our relationship will forever be the uh uh one that cannot be topped. Oh because you are because you are my top.

SPEAKER_07

Just like she cannot be topped.

SPEAKER_04

I've had many relationships and this was one of them.

SPEAKER_05

My parents are somewhere else, right?

SPEAKER_04

Your your parents are there on the basis. Are you there?

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Yeah. I'll go say goodbye to them.

SPEAKER_08

I'm bringing uh Panther with me.

SPEAKER_04

Bring Panth Star and Trillis Star.

SPEAKER_05

Why would I want to say bye to Severance?

SPEAKER_04

Maybe just send a missile.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, and it's not the same. It's not the same.

SPEAKER_04

Trulis Starzan. Isn't there anything you'd like to say to me?

SPEAKER_08

Um nope. Congratulations on uh choosing the light. It's hard decision. Choosing. Strong word there.

SPEAKER_04

Well, I have a very good, big, broad reason for doing it.

SPEAKER_07

Bw Aw, you are turning her good with your uh no no penis. With your penis.

SPEAKER_08

She's into broads. Oh, you guys were wrong this whole time.

SPEAKER_07

Side-eye Illyria. Oh this time, you say.

SPEAKER_08

This makes a lot of sense. It's all coming together.

SPEAKER_07

Oh yeah, and I'll I'll go say bye to um to ma to Master Sanjong before we go. I feel like we uh have a long history and just like, you know, make sure everything's uh okay if we don't make it back, Master. Make sure that, you know, if things are different this time. If we don't make it back.

SPEAKER_04

Well, if you don't come back, and if you do come back, that is as the force will sit. Ugh. This fucking guy. Right?

SPEAKER_07

You know, I just like made a point to come to you, and it's like, hey, I'm probably gonna die here, and I'm uh really putting a lot of hope that if you rebuild the Jedi Order, it's gonna be better than it was, and that's what you have to say to me, Master? Ichu!

SPEAKER_04

I can tell that you are under a lot of stress. I will not hold your comments against you.

SPEAKER_07

You bitch, I'm going. I hope I die. I'm gonna put my head through a window after this.

SPEAKER_05

I mean, if they have to rebuild, they gotta rebuild big, so they gotta kidnap so many more kids. No!

SPEAKER_07

We specifically didn't want that to happen! Okay, let's go. Let's go. We're done here. Let's leave.

SPEAKER_04

You you can have gone.

SPEAKER_07

Let's get out of here.

SPEAKER_04

You can have got out of there. Uh, we rejoined the present aboard the ship disguised as the Shirak after uh Illyria made her astrogation roll. Um, Genosis is in the outer rim, it's kind of the other end of the galaxy. And you do want to uh approach, you want to choose your approach, so we'll call it a three purple.

SPEAKER_07

That's for astrogation?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

For success.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

Nice.

SPEAKER_04

So no advantage or triumph, so you can't pop out right in the middle of the superstructure. But you can arrive uh where an Imperial cruiser would be expected to arrive, and when you do, you can follow standard procedure, transmit the IFF codes from Breaker, and you get a hail.

SPEAKER_07

That's all you, Chris.

SPEAKER_02

Uh uh, bonjour.

SPEAKER_04

Hello, uh, Shirak. Uh, we've received your IFF codes, but we don't have you on the itinerary. Can you explain what you're doing here?

SPEAKER_02

This is uh we are here for a an emergency investigation. We have heard that there has been uh uh some possible dang uh some possible dangers uh afoot on the uh structure uh structure here, and we are here to investigate to make sure that there's nothing more uh insidious going on. Okay, give me a uh deception. Decepties down at uh what kind of deception?

SPEAKER_04

So this'll be against is discipline. That's gonna be against two reds and a purple. Two reds and a purple. You have five destiny points.

SPEAKER_02

Fuck. I'm uh flip one of those destinies to downgrade the red. Three success. Uh sorry. Three success, three threat, one light side, one dark side. To which I will use a light side to get rid of a- You already used a destiny point, so. Never the fuck you mine then.

SPEAKER_04

And they say, Oh, you mean making sure that everything is alright ahead of the inspection?

SPEAKER_02

Oh. Uh uh absolute uh absolutely uh we uh we're here.

SPEAKER_04

I don't have you on which manifest as part of the Emperor's Entourage. Uh can you send through your credentials again?

SPEAKER_02

Um didn't add uh I'm gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_04

I didn't I did a specific code clearance for the Emperor's visit.

SPEAKER_02

Um this was a uh uh Canbreaker make us some new stuff. Um just the okay and break it. Uh the the the the this was a uh uh this one's uh directly from the emp uh emperor himself and uh is uh and is off the books. He wants to make sure that we are uh he wants to make sure that we are in are basically invisible invisible here. This is just between me and you by za by the way. This is we're here to make sure that uh everything doesn't just look uh look good for when the big guys get here. We want to make sure that we are kind of like the hidden shopper where we are making sure that everything uh uh everything is uh uh minimal here, so technically I shouldn't be saying uh this to any of you, but I'm not one of the crew. I uh I'm not one of the crew, so I'm just here I'm just here to transfer them.

SPEAKER_07

You're not a member of the people. I know that you're gonna be cool about hearing this after all, buddy. You know, you're the most important member of the Empire.

SPEAKER_04

What she said. Are you so you're trying to charm him now? Yeah. Like you're letting him in on a big secret? Okay. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so uh this'll be against uh his cool then. Um give you a destiny point, that'll be against Arendt Purple. Red and Purple and roll.

SPEAKER_02

I got three success, three advantage, one light side, one dark side.

SPEAKER_01

Ooh.

SPEAKER_02

There's so many symbols on the screen all at once. I just it confuses my uh primitive lizard brain every time.

SPEAKER_07

There's so many advantages you could crit him with your charms.

SPEAKER_04

And he says, Uh, yes, I think I understand. We had been told to expect perhaps uh an imperial knight or two would be joining the inspection. I I take it to mean that is you?

SPEAKER_02

Uh yes. Uh we we, Monomie.

SPEAKER_04

Very well, Sir Knight. Um can continue on. We will have everything ready for the Emperor's arrival.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, but rem but remember, we're not ac uh we're not actually here.

SPEAKER_04

Yes, of course. You are not you are not here. And just one more question. Should I relay a message from you to Lord Vader when he arrives?

SPEAKER_02

Uh uh just tell him everything uh everything is going according to plan.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, I will pass the message on. As soon as Lord Vader arrives, I will tell him that you said everything is going according to plan.

SPEAKER_02

And you know, make sure he doesn't uh make sure you don't tell him who it's from. You just tell him that and he will know what you what you are talking about.

SPEAKER_04

Of course, of course. I will just say it was from the uh Imperial Knights who arrived uh on the Shirak just before he did.

SPEAKER_01

Srr. Srrrr.

SPEAKER_07

You know I wanna- Just before? While we're in transit, because I I just want to get my suppression field on and as strong as possible.

SPEAKER_04

Well why don't you uh Cal, give me a piloting role.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Because the Emperor's not here yet, it seems.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. So you're gonna have to find just a steer in.

SPEAKER_04

Uh yeah, you guys are gonna have to fly the cruiser into the Death Star superstructure.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, what would that be?

SPEAKER_04

So this is uh your, you know, a year in change after uh Revenge of the Sith. So it's not it's not too much more put together than it was kind of at the end of that movie. It's b uh basically just like the the wireframe with some uh a few internal spokes, but Okay. So this type of cruiser has a minus two to handling, so you're gonna have to add two blacks.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

What do you have for destiny? You got what okay, you got five, so you don't need one. Um but it is still gonna be pretty difficult. We'll call it a uh three purple and two blacks.

SPEAKER_07

Three purple and two blacks. Yeah. Do I I don't think I have anything that specifically helps me with piloting my specializations? I think my piloting's pretty decent. Um, four success, one threat, one triumph.

SPEAKER_04

Look at you go. So you can fly, you can position the ship at a very advantageous position. Um, where do you want to put it?

SPEAKER_07

Would it be possible to kind of like fly the ship in and maybe position it in a way where it's not going to be immediately visible, like to any ships that are coming in? So it's like if the Emperor's uh Star Destroyer is docking, it won't immediately be like, hey, what's that thing there?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you can sort of nestle it in behind uh some other junk that is.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Cause then I can also maybe take a little bit more time to like do some meditation while I'm rolling my suppress to try to get that committed. Just calm my mind. Maybe Illyria will come and hold my hands and meditate with me while I calm my mind and try to get my suppress on.

SPEAKER_00

Get my suppress on.

SPEAKER_07

Would there be any because this is just like a pure force roll, would there be any way for my friends to give me a boost?

SPEAKER_04

Um, on your force? Probably not. But as you did get that threat. As you bring the cruiser towards the superstructure, you do get another hail from the battle station itself. And it says Uh, like cruiser Shirak, you're entering restricted space. Please return to formation.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, but uh we were told that we would be able to uh uh go this way.

SPEAKER_04

Who told you you could do that?

SPEAKER_02

Did we get that name of the uh Twitter? Darth Helmet. No, wait. Um Sean Levy.

SPEAKER_07

Just naming names.

SPEAKER_02

Um Favreau.

SPEAKER_07

I think you could just be like, yeah, because we could get the name of the guy that we were talking to, but it's just like, A, we're Imperial Knights here for an inspection, I guess.

SPEAKER_02

Uh we we have sp uh we have special permission. We have uh we are uh uh uh special we are Imperial Knights on a uh uh secret mission that uh only a few only a few people know about, so key uh mum is Z word. You give me a charm. Let's charm it. This will be a two purple.

SPEAKER_07

Two purple, what a pushover.

SPEAKER_02

Right. Oh, why did I add black?

SPEAKER_07

They're not they're not getting used to the- I need a challenge. They're not giving us their best and brightest.

SPEAKER_02

Four it uh four success and three light side, which I will use to make advantages.

SPEAKER_04

Nice. So he says, uh, alright, let me just clear it with the command ship. Yes, yes, of course. Um, yes, they confirmed. Continue on your mission. I won't speak a word of it to anybody.

SPEAKER_06

There we go.

SPEAKER_02

Remember, Mum is the word.

SPEAKER_04

Mum is the word. You can park your ship. Uh, Callie, we're gonna set up your uh suppression field.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Uh would okay, would there be enough time for me to roll more than once for this? Because this first one, I got four dark side and two light side. And it's like, uh, two light side, I'm gonna need the range, and uh I don't know if that's really gonna be enough to get me through. Probably.

SPEAKER_04

Like, if you're just trying to get the right sort of feel on it.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Okay. It's like, okay, that was a little bit too much dark side. Maybe I woke Abeloth up a little bit too much before when I was just yelling at her. Just take a couple deep breaths and we'll try again. We'll try again. That sucks though. If I was able to use the dark side, that's a great roll. That was like doubles on everything. Okay, I'll try one more time. Big deep breath. Okay, what one dark side, three light side. Three light side. That's better. I can work with that a little bit more.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

But yeah, so one for the basic power, one for strength, one for range, and then I'll just commit all three of my force to keep that active. So I won't be able to do any mastery powers because I do not dare uncommit, but also that probably would not be coming up anyways. Okay. So any force power is gonna have three failure added to it. And if I get targeted, it reduces it by three force but die.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so um you are meditating, you're getting all of your stuff ready, your suppression field.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Then two star destroyers pop out of hyperspace.

SPEAKER_09

Ooh.

SPEAKER_04

At the uh the edge of the Geonosian fleet. One hangs back, and one continues on towards the battle station superstructure to dock with it.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, I'm guessing the one that's hanging back, that's probably Vaders then. Unless it's uh the Emperor's hanging back. There's no way to know. Well, actually, can we tell which one is which? Because we know that the Emperor is coming on the uh the Majestic? What was it?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Well, uh, Gray did say that the itinerary said that uh the majestic would be docking with the superstructure.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Okay. So we'll we'll we'll wait. We're are we gonna let him uh let them dock, right, and then try to take them out after.

SPEAKER_04

You're gonna go wait till the emperor is in the shuttle. When they go in their shuttle.

SPEAKER_07

Or do we just want to wait till they're docked and the uh emperor is maybe still on there? Okay. Because having uh uh having Roar War and I in the TIE Fighters would probably require uh Roar War or I to be um telling the lie about why we're there. But like I'm okay at lying at least, if it's like, oh yeah, we are ya, we're ya escorts. Roar war definitely could have. They're not sending a Wookiee in there to in a TIE fighter to escort the Emperor.

SPEAKER_08

Even some sort of like voice modulator thing, or even just like a robot.

SPEAKER_05

I kinda like the little shuttle idea, just because then we don't have to do it face to face.

SPEAKER_07

I mean, either way, we don't gonna have to do a face-to-face, but also it's like I feel like the little shuttle might be good just because it's like if there's a whole bunch of escape pods that start blasting out of this thing, like that's gonna be a lot to keep track of, and like a lot of potentially like innocent-ish people that will have to blow up in the process.

SPEAKER_05

Whereas like if the innocent Nazis.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, innocent-ish heroes on both sides. All these not literally the Emperor of the Galaxy people. Just follow orders. Or, you know, at least, you know, it's gonna be a little bit easier to tell which one has the emperor and to focus on that one when we're trying to bring it down. So, uh, do we wanna try to put Roarwar and I in the in the TIE Fighters? Good idea. As well. Okay. So we'll wait till the Emperor goes in his shuttle to take control. I've done my my my thing. I have my stuff committed. I'll go and get ready in a TIE Fighter.

SPEAKER_05

Are we properly attired to fit in?

SPEAKER_07

In a TIE fighter?

SPEAKER_05

I like our clothes. Well, we're in. We've got a month to prepare.

SPEAKER_07

We're in our own ship. Like it's not the the the we're not gonna be out in like the hallways of the Death Star. It's just it's just a skeleton, so we're not gonna be getting face to face. Okay. We'll be fine. It's gonna be work out great. It's gonna work out great.

SPEAKER_08

Everyone's feelings about this are good.

SPEAKER_07

We all feel we're all feeling fine.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so uh everybody's waiting on the ship while uh Kala heads out with Roar War in TIE Fighters to try and intercept the Emperor's tour shuttle.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Kala, you and Roar War can climb into a couple of ties and head out into space. And you can head down to where you see the majestic dock to at uh the equator of the superstructure. There are some sort of rudimentary hangars and docking uh areas that have already been constructed. There is some interior room in there, even though it's not uh fully built out. And as you approach, you can see the Emperor's shuttle departing the hangar bay with two Thai escorts.

SPEAKER_07

Can I can I uh maybe hail the other ties and just like uh extra security detail joining on your side?

SPEAKER_04

And you get a hail back. We weren't told about this?

SPEAKER_07

Uh this is just uh purely on the hush-hush uh only uh uh for uh Is Chris calling me and then I'm hold is Chris calling me and then I'm holding my communicator up to the radio, like making two AI chatbots talk to each other.

SPEAKER_02

I'm j I'm just used to sweet talking, everybody.

SPEAKER_07

No, I wish that you could hear Chris, but you're not here. I think this has to be me or Roar War. Okay, never mind.

SPEAKER_08

So unless you can like serenode Bergewak your way through this.

SPEAKER_07

Uh maybe.

SPEAKER_04

Can Chris whisper in my ear to give me a blue? Um yeah, if you want to have conspired beforehand to come up with a lie.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

For what in case anybody asks.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. This uh no, we uh we uh security forces from the station. We've had uh we've heard that there might be some uh extra security risks that are popping up, so we just want to make sure that the Emperor stays safe.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, I thought that was handled.

SPEAKER_07

Well, you never can be too safe with the Emperor's life, can ya?

SPEAKER_04

Um alright. Uh I'll have to confirm with Black Leader, though.

SPEAKER_07

Uh that's fine.

SPEAKER_04

And you hear, like, a joined comm channel, and uh the pilot on the other end says, uh, Black Leader, do you know about any uh additional security from the station? And you hear on the other end, Darth Vader says, No, I haven't been told about that.

SPEAKER_07

Uh oh. It's a uh new uh It's uh some intel that was of concern to us. We just want to exercise extra security.

SPEAKER_04

Putting on a fake voice?

SPEAKER_07

Well, Vader knows what I sound like.

SPEAKER_04

This is uh You sound familiar, pilot. Have we flown together before?

SPEAKER_07

I can't say I've had the honor. Lord Black Leader.

SPEAKER_08

Lord Black Leader. Lord Black Leader.

SPEAKER_07

I was gonna call him Lord Vader, but I'm like, wait, is that a personal thing? I'll just go with what the other pilot said.

SPEAKER_04

Um, it's gonna be a deception.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Or a charm? I don't know. No, please let me do a deception. Please let me do a deception.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Uh so this is going to be against Darth Vader's uh discipline. That is gonna be against three reds and two purples. Uh you can add a I'll say you can add two blues. You are putting on a fake voice and you are doing it through a radio.

SPEAKER_07

And I can already add a blue deception.

SPEAKER_08

It feels like Anakin might just be anybody's fool.

SPEAKER_07

Two red and two purple. What do we have for Destiny?

SPEAKER_04

Uh no, it's three red and two purple.

SPEAKER_07

Three red and two purple. Oh, what do we have for Destiny?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, you got three.

SPEAKER_07

I'm gonna flip one and get another yellow. I'm sure this'll be fine. It's all fine. Ooh, one failure, three advantage. He doesn't have normal things. Maybe it's just like, oh, are you blue too? We flew together before. Maybe he thinks we're someone else entirely.

SPEAKER_05

And he says, Where are these fucking Mandalorians?

SPEAKER_04

You feel very familiar to me. Oh, it's alright. If you perform poorly, I wouldn't hold it against you. It's uh I'm difficult to keep up with.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, you I I didn't want to say anything. It was pretty embarrassing last time, but you you certainly know your way around a tie, Lord Vader.

SPEAKER_04

And you see, like, kind of lazily drifting in front of you a black Jedi interceptor. Did you think I'd be caught dead in one of those things?

SPEAKER_07

Well, if you were in one of those things, you're probably you know what I'm not gonna uh that's for us to be doing is being caught dead in these, right? We have less. We have less. I'm gonna die in this thing.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, well, uh, I'm gonna call you Black Three. Uh Black Three, who's your superior officer? Because I wasn't told about the extra security precautions.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, did Chris get the names of either of those guys that we talked to? I mean, do we have a destiny point in order to do that?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you have some destiny points if you want to have done that. Let's do it.

SPEAKER_07

Sure, what was the name of one of the guys that uh was like, okay, you're good.

SPEAKER_02

What was his name, Chris? Uh his name was Dave Falone, the biggest villain of them all.

SPEAKER_07

I guess I could well, we already flipped a destiny point. Oh yeah, we um we uh we uh cleared a it was uh Officer Falone. Officer Falone. Oh god, my voice, my voice. Officer Falone.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, you are right. I thought I uh heard something garbled on the other end of the day.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, no, sorry, sorry, black leader. This uh my radio's just a little uh it's a little crackly, but it was Officer Faloni.

SPEAKER_08

That sorry sounded suspiciously Canadian when I heard that.

SPEAKER_07

Sorry Is that Illyria?

SPEAKER_04

Well no, uh this Darth Vader also has a Canadian accent.

SPEAKER_07

That's true. Oh my god. Oh my goodness. The Empire is all Canadians. Darth Vader uh also loves uh going out boot in a boot.

SPEAKER_04

Can you uh can you check your systems for me?

SPEAKER_07

Uh of course, of course, Black Leader for anything in particular.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, uh handling feels a little bit off. Are you getting that?

SPEAKER_07

I think you might be right. Is it right? Is it feeling a little bit off?

SPEAKER_04

It might be for him a guy who uses the force to fly.

SPEAKER_07

Oh You know you know, sir, I I think you're right. It might be the gravitational pull of the station throwing things off.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, I've uh must say that I've rarely flown through anything so big.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, I wonder if we would respond to that. That's what she said, Lord Black Leader.

SPEAKER_04

Uh sorry, who said this?

SPEAKER_07

Never mind. Yeah, never mind. She's like, I my the the handling on my on my tie is a little off. I make jokes when I'm nervous. Do I make you uncomfortable, Black Three?

SPEAKER_02

Oh no. I was expecting that, actually.

SPEAKER_05

Why is he talking so much with an underling?

SPEAKER_07

No, no. I feel like he probably misses being able to talk to people casually. I feel like he misses doing bong rips. No, you don't want to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_05

Imagine the bong rips you could do in the fucking Vader helmet.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, imagine the bong rips in this little enclosed space and you just hotbox this whole thing. Oh no, Black Leader. I've I've also just never flown through anything this big. It makes you feel a lot of awe, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_04

So Black Three, uh, where where did we uh fly together again? I don't think.

SPEAKER_07

Can I roll perception on him? I is like, is he completely on to me right now? Um It kinda feels like it. It kinda feels like he might be.

SPEAKER_04

Perception uh against his cool.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, that'll be against three reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. You know what? Actually, I am actually better than him at this. Three reds and a purple? Ever so slightly, because I can add a blue. Oh, one success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_04

So you don't get the sense that um he's on to you.

SPEAKER_07

Crap, what was a battle? What was a battle? I can I uh can I roll? I mean, we we were in the Imperial Knights. Was there uh any notable incidents where he would have been flying that I would know of? I feel like we would just we could just know that.

SPEAKER_04

That would be probably a retroactive perception.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, what would that be as a retroactive perception?

SPEAKER_04

Uh probably a three purple.

SPEAKER_07

A three purple, okay. Whoa, that's embarrassing.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no.

SPEAKER_07

I just got a s I got a the roll before against three red and a purple, I got a success and advantage. This one against just three little purple, I got a failure and five advantage. Is it a trick question? Is he trying to trick me?

SPEAKER_04

It's not a trick question, um, but I think you probably would know that you don't have a good answer for this.

SPEAKER_07

I just oh, y you you caught me, uh black leader. You know, I I've never actually flown with you before, but I am a really big fan. I've uh, you know, oh I I I've I've watched some of the old hollows of you flying.

SPEAKER_04

I understand now, yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, you know, you're actually the reason why we wanted to see the simulator, didn't they? They did uh did you not know did they not tell you about that?

SPEAKER_04

You've been my virtual wingman. That's kind of embarrassing, actually.

SPEAKER_07

It is really embarrassing. I am embarrassed. I am sorry, that's really cringe, isn't it? When we're done here, Lord Vay uh our black leader, could I get an autograph? No, no, don't answer that. That's stupid. Sorry, forget I said anything.

SPEAKER_04

Hey Black Three, I'm still feeling a little bit of uh pull on my controls here. Why don't we uh go for a quick run here? Let's just do some diagnostics.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, buddy, let's go! Sure!

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Uh so he peels off.

SPEAKER_07

Uh Roar War's sticking with the Emperor at least.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, Roarwar staying behind. He wants you to follow him. Basically, just doing kind of a stunt track through the Death Star superstructure.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Just to sort of uh kind of possibly out of boredom, but also because he is uh having some problems flying.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Maybe he'll just crash into the superstructure and save us a whole lot of problems.

SPEAKER_08

Could we could we subtly make that happen?

SPEAKER_07

I mean, I already am kind of subtly making something happen for him just by suppressing his force.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. So, um you are not going to be able to keep up.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

But to see how well, to see how badly you fall behind, uh, that is gonna be again a piloting against his piloting.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Uh so that is gonna be a piloting against four reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_08

Is this because he tried spinning?

SPEAKER_07

Oh god, I should try spinning. That's such a good trick.

SPEAKER_08

That's a great trick.

SPEAKER_07

God, this is this feels like a stupid one to flip a Dacity Point for when it's like, no, you absolutely will not be able to keep up. You know what? No, no, I'm not gonna flip one. I'll just I'll just let it ride. Ooh. One failure, three threat. God, he's good at piloting. I'm not that good. Yeah, I'm gonna do that.

SPEAKER_05

You should compliment him after tell him Say that's a wizard annie.

SPEAKER_07

That's so wizard annie. Oh no, no, no, that's so wizard annie! No, that's so wizard black leader!

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so you fall behind really badly, to the point where it's like he's getting far enough away that the comm starts to get a little crackly. And um you just hear him saying, sure you can made it through basic training. But as as he's leading you away.

SPEAKER_07

Oh god, he's gonna exit the field. He's- Oh, is he gonna catch on? Is he gonna catch on to me?

SPEAKER_04

No, he doesn't he do well, you got three threats, so he does exit your suppression field. You do fall behind that much, but he is now significantly further away from the shuttle.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no, so that means the emperor is out of my field too.

SPEAKER_05

It also means the emperor is open to attack.

SPEAKER_04

On your side channel, uh, a grunt comes through in Shriwook.

SPEAKER_07

I'm coming back, Roar War.

SPEAKER_04

Well no, he's asking, should I take the shot now?

SPEAKER_07

Well, because we were still gonna try to take down, like, get the shuttle. Also, should we Yeah, should you guys?

SPEAKER_05

Should we send off the code to You know what?

SPEAKER_07

Anakin because he is really far away. Maybe this would be the time. Roar War takes the shot, you guys initiate the the takeover, just make it pop off.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, do you want to initiate the uh the takeover before Roar War takes the shot?

SPEAKER_07

Or should we do it first? Maybe do it first so Roar War can get the jump on him. Yeah. Okay, do it Roarwall. Do it rollwall, we got this.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so Roar War is gonna fire and you guys are are you gonna do it at the same time? Is it gonna be like a haunt and grito thing?

SPEAKER_07

Oh, like for them uh them doing the thing, yeah. No one will even know what happened. There's so much confusion.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so let's uh check his gunnery then. So he gets two advantages. He fires, he misses.

SPEAKER_07

Maybe it just does looks like oh he's like trying to defend the shuttle. It doesn't work.

SPEAKER_04

The Emperor's shuttle, in response, juke's out of the way. Now the pilot of the Emperor's shuttle will have to do some fancy flying because is Breaker uh gonna initiate the the takeover?

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so he's gonna uh ask for Illyria's help here.

SPEAKER_05

What do you need?

SPEAKER_04

Uh so this is gonna be because you're gonna need to activate a couple of things at the same time. So this is going to be a give you a Destiny Point Red, purple, black computers.

SPEAKER_05

One failure, two advantage.

unknown

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, so you're a little out of sync. Uh so there's gonna be no extra penalties applied, but uh you got two advantage, so they're not gonna have any extra advantages on this. So it's a very slow, gradual process, but breaker inputs his codes, starts to kick in, the broadcast signal goes out, flip the switch to takeover, and start steering all of the construction vehicles towards the planet. So this is going to be the pilot of the shuttle. Three success two advantages. The shuttle easily dodges out of the way of the slowly moving Death Star superstructure. And the two TIE fighters that are actually escorting the Emperor, they start turning around to fire on Roar War.

SPEAKER_07

No, can I sit back and try to defend Roar War?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, you could, but it would mean Vader would follow.

SPEAKER_07

Maybe it's better for me to just trust in War War and try to keep Vader away.

SPEAKER_06

Oh god, but Roar War!

SPEAKER_04

Well, let's see if uh Roar War is a better pilot than these guys are gunners. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_07

Let's see.

SPEAKER_05

It's war, baby. He knows what he was getting into.

SPEAKER_04

More like War Roar.

SPEAKER_07

Uh I'm having like preemptive anguish because I know what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, two success and a triumph.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, he's got it. He's got it.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. And Anakin says, Hey, uh, you know this was fun, but I think we should head back. I kinda got a bad feeling.

SPEAKER_07

You sure? You sure, you sure? I uh got you know, I'm I'm really sort of starting to get the feel for this. I feel like maybe I just gotta loosen up these controls a little bit more. Can you show me some tricks, sir? I hear about spinning. You ever done some spinning?

SPEAKER_04

Give me a charm.

SPEAKER_07

Oh man, my charm's not so good. What's it gonna be?

SPEAKER_04

Three reds and a purple.

SPEAKER_07

Two green and a blue. Could I okay, could I add an extra blue because he is vain and enjoys being flattered?

SPEAKER_04

Sure.

SPEAKER_07

And this is about f this is about pile thing. What do we have for destiny?

SPEAKER_04

You have two.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I'm not gonna flip it. I don't think it's worth it. I'm probably gonna fail this regardless.

SPEAKER_02

My god.

SPEAKER_07

Four failure and a despair.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Oh my god. The like the microphone glitched there for a second.

SPEAKER_01

No, it didn't, that was just me.

SPEAKER_04

So Vader rounds a corner in his Starfighter, and the Shirak is revealed to him and says, What's a light cruiser doing out here? It's not supposed to be there. And then what's a signal? Picking up a strange signal. This is a this is an override signal.

SPEAKER_01

Oh my god! How about that? Oh no, the Emperor!

SPEAKER_04

Alright, Black Three, follow me.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, oh god! Yeah, follow behind him.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, okay. We'll follow behind him, see if I can get an opening. Maybe I can blast him.

SPEAKER_04

Right, we're gonna uh take out the Calm dish there. Stop him from broadcasting whatever they're broadcasting.

SPEAKER_07

Good, good, good, good, good. Okay, I'm gonna shoot at Anakin. Oh no, we can't do oh nope, nope, nope, nope. Oh, okay, my agility's okay! I don't have any ranks in Gunnery, but okay. Okay, what's it gonna be from Gunnery?

SPEAKER_04

This is a combat Jackie is piloting, so he his adversary would come into play. He's got adversary four. Okay Uh your ship is your ships are the same silhouette, so that's gonna be two reds and two purple gunnery. Um does he have I no, you guys are not shielded. Why would you be shielded?

SPEAKER_07

Why would we be shielded? Why ever would we be? Oh, you know what? I am gonna flip a destiny point here to get a uh a yellow on that.

SPEAKER_05

She's right behind him, so she should be in his suppression. He should be in her suppression field.

SPEAKER_07

I have quick strike! Does this count as quick strike? Yeah, it would count as quick strike. Yeah. Okay, I got how many ranks of quick strike? Is it just the one? Let me see. Just the one. For a success, two advantage, baby. I blast that boy!

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Blast him right up right up the ass. What would the crit be on these guns? Could I crit him? I don't think two advantage will be enough with a tie.

SPEAKER_04

Uh, crit three.

SPEAKER_07

Ah. Maybe he thinks that someone else is shooting at him. He doesn't register that as me. I can get a second shot.

SPEAKER_08

Somebody's shooting at all of us.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, someone shot at all of us.

SPEAKER_05

Just start saying, ah, I took some damage.

SPEAKER_07

Whoops. Oh no! They're on my tail, Black Leader!

SPEAKER_04

Help me, Black Leader!

SPEAKER_07

Help me, Black Leader, you're my only hope!

SPEAKER_04

Tie guns do six, so that's ten. The armor is two. Uh so you do eight. These things have ten hull, so you you mess them up pretty bad.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Can't can't I yell just like, Black Leader, they're firing on us! Wasn't me. You didn't see shit!

SPEAKER_06

Oh, Anakin caught me red handed.

SPEAKER_04

So he starts trailing smoke.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You hit him, he dodges, he's onto you. He cuts the comms channel. He's onto you.

SPEAKER_01

Dang! He didn't buy it.

SPEAKER_04

And he dodges down. So these lights. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

SPEAKER_07

Wait, hang on one sec. Wait, hold up. I ooh, I don't know if this would work though, because the damage was to his vehicle but not to him. Because I have disorient and I can activate that with two advantages. Would could that count on Anakin?

SPEAKER_04

Uh I mean if his ship was hit, he was probably pretty disoriented.

SPEAKER_07

I'm I'm gonna spend my cause I didn't really use those to advantage, unless you had something cooking, but I might just want to use them here. I only have one rank in disorient, so I can use those to disorient him for one round.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, that'll give him uh a black.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. I might need that.

SPEAKER_04

Uh, what's your gunnery?

SPEAKER_07

My gunnery? Yeah. Um, well, I don't got no rank, so three gr four green.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. So we'll see if he can dodge you. Uh five success, two threats, and a triumph. Woo! So he takes his ship, he flies it in between uh these light cruisers. The front of them isn't just like a solid triangle, it's like a fork prong. And in the middle of that prong is the entrance to the hangar bay. He flies in there to evade you and to land his ship. He gets two threats, so his ship, Revenge of the Sith style, comes skidding around on the floor of the hangar bay.

SPEAKER_07

Wait, is this an R-ship?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, he leaps out of the cockpit, lightsaber out. Those of you on the bridge can see him. It's like uh the Mandalorian, except instead of Luke Skywalker coming in, it's uh a completely healthy, fully uninjured Darth Vader, and he is pissed.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no! Oh no! TV. Just mentum.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, the Death Star is still moving, uh, but up in the bridge on your sensors, you can see that like Imperial ships are starting to come towards your position. Uh through the comms, you can hear Roar War is still uh playing cat and mouse with the Emperor's shuttle.

SPEAKER_07

I mean, if Anakin is on the ship, that's a you guys problem for now. Can I try to regroup with Roar War to take down the Emperor's shuttle?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, did you post uh Frank to repel any borders?

SPEAKER_07

I think we would have. That's what he that's what he was brought on for.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, I'm gonna I'm gonna do I'm gonna see who uh who gets the first shot, Frank or Darth Vader.

SPEAKER_07

Oh Frank! Oh Frank go! Maybe we can repair him if he gets caught up if he gets chopped.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, these droids don't have great uh vigilance, actually.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no, Frank!

SPEAKER_04

Uh yeah, Anakin definitely can go first.

SPEAKER_06

Oh Frank!

SPEAKER_07

Frank!

SPEAKER_04

Well Frank's got two adversary.

SPEAKER_07

How many does Anakin have?

SPEAKER_04

He's got four, but that doesn't uh doesn't really come into play right now. Okay. Don't worry. Uh one success and six advantages. So Frank is fucking dead. Uh you see on the security cameras, one of the first things he does, Anakin comes down, lightsaber, igniting in the air, slashing right through Frank, bisecting him as he lands.

unknown

No!

SPEAKER_07

Maybe we can get his parts and we can fix them later.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know, it went right through his head.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, anything's possible when you believe and you love a droid!

SPEAKER_08

Power of friendship.

SPEAKER_04

Uh, so Kala, you can turn back uh towards uh where there's a chase going on. The ties are going after Roar War. Roar War's going after the Emperor's shuttle. Uh, let's see if these ties can get 'em. Ooh, blank.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, nice. So they don't get Roar War?

SPEAKER_04

They don't get 'em. Let's see if Roar War gets uh the Emperor. One advantage. So he's able to keep the Emperor's Shuttle uh from escaping, sort of corralling it with blast from the Tide. War War's gone, the Tide Pilots have gone, the Emperor is gonna go.

SPEAKER_07

Oh can I at least get close enough that he would be back in the suppression field?

SPEAKER_04

Um give me a piloting.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

Uh kind of piloting. Give you a destiny point. You're gonna have to really uh push your ship there. So we'll call it a red, two purple and a black piloting.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. You know what? I still let's see. Ooh, one advantage.

SPEAKER_04

This this role is gonna be unobstructed. Any other role he makes after this, when you're in range, will be obstructed.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Cause when it's committed, because for like a control commit, when an opponent targets the user with a force power after the opponent generates force, reduce it, blah blah blah ba-da-bada. So would that only count if it's a power that is specifically going to impact me? I'm guessing this probably would though.

SPEAKER_04

Uh so oh shit. What? Pelpaty's got a force rating of eight. Uh, he got eight darks and one light.

SPEAKER_07

I gotta put my head through a window. I'm gonna put my head through my windshield.

SPEAKER_04

So, seemingly, for no reason whatsoever, Roar War's tie just goes spinning off and crashes into some of the superstructure.

SPEAKER_07

No! Crap!

SPEAKER_02

Boy, we're losing some good ones today. Hey, where's that chaos I ordered?

SPEAKER_07

If Maul doesn't show up, to at least, I'm gonna McFlip and lose it, dude. If Maul and Bo Katan do not show up to insert some chaos, I'm gonna McFlip and lose it!

SPEAKER_04

So, uh, on the security monitors, you can see Darth Vader uh cutting through doors as you guys are locking them, making his way up to the bridge. Uh, Sabe is on the comms telling uh all of her crew to just leave wherever they are and try and get to the bridge. Try and get behind as many doors as they can, or to try and get away from the bridge, because that's where Vader is going.

SPEAKER_07

Or if you load everyone on the bridge and then open all the other airlocks. Yay!

SPEAKER_05

If only this was the Enterprise and then we could just undock the front of it.

SPEAKER_07

Goodbye!

SPEAKER_08

See ya. See a loser! Is there any kind of life support we can shut off to certain areas?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, that'd probably be a computer's.

SPEAKER_05

Hey everybody uh don't suffocate. Hold your breath!

SPEAKER_08

Well, like certain areas of the ship you can cut off, not the whole thing.

SPEAKER_05

Like the hall. Yeah. We've closed doors.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so this is gonna be you're gonna have to be quick. You're probably not familiar with these particular systems. You did hack them once, but Imperial Imperial stuff, well, I mean it's Republic stuff basically, so you probably won't get any blacks for that. Uh so it'll be a two purple and a black. Just one black for the speed at which you'll have to do it.

SPEAKER_05

Five success.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, yeah. So what do you want to shut down and where?

SPEAKER_05

The the air in the the the hallways.

SPEAKER_08

Do you have gravity in the hallways too?

SPEAKER_07

Oh! Do you okay, do you want to turn off the air or do you want to like try to open an emergency airlock or something to try to blast him out?

SPEAKER_05

Yes. Okay, so you can depressurize that bitch.

SPEAKER_04

You can track him through the halls until he comes to a room that has an emergency airlock. You can open it. Now this is gonna be a a vigilance. See if he could respond. How many successes did you get? Five?

SPEAKER_05

Five. Okay.

SPEAKER_04

That's a lot. Uh two success, three threats, and a triumph.

SPEAKER_06

No!

SPEAKER_04

So he can respond. The triumph is gonna be able to upgrade his role, but the threats he's gonna have blacks. And this is gonna be probably an athletics on his part.

SPEAKER_05

See, halfway through the hatch, can I close him? Chopping him in half!

SPEAKER_07

Oh, he will get chopped in half! Hooray! Could you imagine if this is where Anakin ended up getting uh chopped up? And then also uh he got lit on fire a little bit, so he gotta have his full character arc after all.

SPEAKER_05

No, I just think we should take him to the virgins in the forest and take away his dark side.

SPEAKER_07

Ugh, that'd be funny. Okay, what if his dark side uh monster is too powerful though and it escapes and kills everyone else in the base? It would be very funny to neuter Anakin.

SPEAKER_04

So he got four success, one advantage on his lightsaber roll, his athletics roll, so he is able to grab his uh take his lightsaber, jam it into the floor. So it like he doesn't get sucked out, and he's able to reach out with the force, press the button, and close the door.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, come on.

SPEAKER_04

And then you see him like exhaling his his held breath as he continues just trying to slice through doors to get up to the bridge.

SPEAKER_08

Keep going, keep going, more computers.

SPEAKER_04

Kala, you have now reached uh the Emperor Chase. Roar War is dead.

SPEAKER_06

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_04

Uh the shuttle and the two ties are banking out of the superstructure and going back towards where the Star Destroyer is. The battle station is slowly still being towed towards the surface, uh, to such a degree that now somebody on the light cruiser needs to keep it moving, or else it's the Death Star is gonna crash into you.

SPEAKER_07

Gosh can I try to get can I try to shoot at the Emperor's shuttle? I guess like I gotta commit. I gotta commit to this.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, your similar silhouettes would be a two-purple gunnery once you're in range.

SPEAKER_07

That feels too easy. I know it's just gunnery, but like, oh, three success, baby. Three success.

SPEAKER_04

So these things are a lot tougher. So you can blast at it. The armor gets it a little bit, it's got shields, pretty high hull threshold, 25, as opposed to a tie which has uh six.

SPEAKER_07

Was Roar War able to get oh no, he wasn't able to sh to shoot it before uh he got splatted. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

But now that you've kind of uh exposed yourself, the other two ties are swinging around, they're gonna blast at you.

SPEAKER_07

Great. Great, great and awesome. Okay. Can I roll to evade them?

SPEAKER_04

If you want to evade. Because you didn't use a maneuver to aim or anything, so you can do evasive maneuvers.

SPEAKER_07

Oh yeah, that's true. Oh man, I'm not using my maneuvers. I'm not using my I'm not using my uh bump shit up.

SPEAKER_04

They get two success. So, two success. Atai's gun does six. Atai has six hull threshold, it has two armor. Am I dead? Uh, you have no hull threshold left if you cross over that, like you're at six. It's the same as your health.

SPEAKER_05

Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

Run away, run away.

SPEAKER_07

What if I did a reverse Anakin thing and I go and crash inside their Star Destroyer? Except I'm not Darth Vader, so that would not go nearly as well for me. I mean, boo boy. But no, because if if Anakin's like cutting his way up to the hull, then it's like maybe it'd be safer for me to try to get back to our ship for now.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Yes. So he can peel off, try and outrun the tides.

SPEAKER_07

But then then Palpatine's out of the field again. I gotta stay close to Palpatine. Oh no! Hang on! Oh god, we might have to. Maybe if I get close enough to suppress him a little bit, maybe I can focus on suppressing Anakin, one problem at a time. Yeah, I'll try to get back to our ship.

SPEAKER_05

Can we start driving to where they are?

SPEAKER_04

So here's the thing. It's not a bad idea. TIE f TIE fighters do not have life support. Which means that in order to fly this, uh, you would have to be wearing a Thai pilot suit.

SPEAKER_07

Does that mean like if I blast it off, I would t technically survive?

SPEAKER_04

If you you if you ejected.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. But not die right away.

SPEAKER_04

And you could launch yourself in any direction.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god. Could I launch myself to land on the outside of the Emperor's shuttle? Those ties can't shoot me, they'd be shooting their boss! That is such a bad idea. I'm gonna do it. Okay, so this will be- Honestly, that might be safer than going back to the ship with Anakin.

SPEAKER_04

Alright, so if you want to inject yourself towards uh the Emperor's shuttle, that will be a Sorry, I just was like, oh my god, I would still have my lightsaber too.

SPEAKER_07

I could cut into the Emperor's shuttle with my dildo saber. Yeah. This is stupid. If I die, this is probably an okay way to do it.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, let's do it. So this is aiming. Um probably a gunnery to launch yourself.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

It'll be against the piloting of the shuttle pilot, so that will be against two reds and two purples.

SPEAKER_07

Ooh, two red, two purple. Oh no. I that the I there's so much emotion going on here. Literally every single one of my dice came up blank. I got four failures and two threat. I go sailing off into space. You can't fucking launch yourself something?

SPEAKER_06

I don't think I can. I don't think I can re-roll anything for Gunnery. Oh no. Oh no! Wait, okay, hang on.

SPEAKER_08

Probably got uh couple of rounds of oxygen. If you land right on Bo Katan's ship as it comes in.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, splat on the hull like a bug, that's how I end up dying.

SPEAKER_04

If it helps, the Death Star is very slowly moving towards you, so it's like you might not get splatted.

SPEAKER_07

Maybe I could clue get onto that the the out the frame of the Death Star and try to get back to our ship. Probably not. It's the size of a moon. But you know.

SPEAKER_04

Or rib on two. And uh Vader is continuing to make his way through the ship up towards the bridge.

SPEAKER_07

Is there an escape pod in the bridge? Could you guys launch at the last second?

SPEAKER_04

A red lightsaber starts cutting through the door to the bridge. Um now got a 50-50 chance. Regroup or uh MSK putt or I'm gonna roll a D-100. Uh, evens it's the Mandalorians, odds it's them all. 51 Yay our boy! So as the red lightsaber is cutting through, uh, you get uh another alert on your ship systems, a proximity alert, as a flotilla of various uh criminal ships enters Geonosis orbit. I hope this works out good. Uh you can see that there are ships belonging to Black Sun, the Huts, the Pikes, uh gangs across the galaxy under Maul's command. Uh leading the ship is leading the charge is the jewel of Nal Hutta, and it is making a B-line uh for the light cruiser that you guys are in.

SPEAKER_07

God damn it. Could I could I be uh land on one of these ships and crawl into it?

SPEAKER_04

I think I think you're still floating at the moment. As these ships approach, the doors open, and you see uh Darth Vader there. He says, Well, well, well! I probably should have expected this.

SPEAKER_07

We meet it again. Hey girly pop.

SPEAKER_04

The blue one.

SPEAKER_05

The blue one! Oh, that's rude. It's okay, I have very low presence.

SPEAKER_02

It's uh good to see you.

SPEAKER_04

I know, you mapel croissant, you say it every time, every council meeting. You introduce yourself the same way. Well, that is because I'm not sure if everybody knows who I am. The whole galaxy knows who you are, Chris. Especially after that little uh traitorous maneuver you and your friends pulled.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, when when Anakin says that, there's Chris kinda twirl his little ponytail, just like, do you really think the entire galaxy knows who I am?

SPEAKER_02

Do you know uh do you know uh everybody know in the galaxy knows who you are as well? Yeah. Alright, now that we know.

SPEAKER_08

Using my uh dedicating some uh one of my uh first points to my strength with a six. Just in case. Just in case.

SPEAKER_04

And Anakin, he he notices you uh going further beyond, and he grins. And he says, Alright, come on! Uh come on what?

SPEAKER_07

On me!

SPEAKER_04

He uh runs towards you, Starzan, lightsaber out. Alright, so this would be probably issue.

SPEAKER_05

Can I cut the gravity?

SPEAKER_07

In the bridge? Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Would that be bad?

SPEAKER_07

Uh I mean it would impair everyone equally, I guess.

SPEAKER_05

I feel like it would impair him the least, though.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, do you want Darth Vader to be able to fly? Does he have the power?

SPEAKER_05

Never mind.

SPEAKER_04

Can we cut out the oxygen?

SPEAKER_08

Who doesn't need to breathe?

SPEAKER_07

Look, Gallyria's already blue.

SPEAKER_08

I'm sure she doesn't breathe, and that's why. Of course I have Panthers with me as well.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no, Panthar! The cat will die. The cat cannot die.

SPEAKER_08

The cat will not die, Eden. It's the it's the first rule of uh screenwriting, right? Don't kill the cat.

SPEAKER_07

Don't kill the cat! The writer of Stopper My Mom Will Shoot says you're not allowed to.

SPEAKER_04

So he attacks you Starzan. Uh five success, one advantage.

SPEAKER_08

It's not a crit, that's okay.

SPEAKER_04

Uh so Anakin's lightsaber does have one crit. Mmm. What did I- Why did I open my mouth? So, uh, you take 15 points of wound.

SPEAKER_08

But I soak. Oh, you don't so or do you not soak?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, lightsaber's uh cut through that shit. Oh. And he's got vicious two, so he's gonna add 20 to his uh crit, which I'm assuming you can endure. He gets 21, 41, uh bowled over, knocked prone. You're probably not. Are you enduring that? I'm enduring that. So that's his turn. He'll he'll get another one at the end of the round, but. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_08

Let's return fire. Uh oh, uh I have some uh some wackiness I'm gonna try here. Let me take a look at this here again. I'm gonna use precise aim. I only have one in that, so that reduces his melee and range defense by one.

SPEAKER_04

So he has he has one.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Uh let's see. Oh, I only got how many maneuver? I only got one maneuver per round, right?

SPEAKER_04

Uh you can take strain and have two if you want.

SPEAKER_08

Uh I'll do that, and then I'll uh commit uh force point two marked for death.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. So that's one committed for your uh brawn, one committed for your marked for death, one committed for your uh endure.

SPEAKER_08

That's right. Okay, so don't get any force. Well, I don't get any force in my lightsaber attacks anyways.

SPEAKER_04

You're using precise aim to get rid of his uh defense. Uh so that is he's got adversary four. That is gonna be against two purples and two reds.

SPEAKER_07

Cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_08

Two success, two advantages. That's four advantages in total.

SPEAKER_07

Ooh, is that enough to crit him?

SPEAKER_08

That should be enough to crit.

SPEAKER_07

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Oh mighty 100.

SPEAKER_04

46! He is still an Imperial Knight, so he does have Quartosis armor.

SPEAKER_01

Alright.

SPEAKER_04

And what was your crit? Uh, 46. Headringer. So he's gonna increase the difficulty of all intellect and cunning checks by one. No, fuck off.

SPEAKER_07

Man.

SPEAKER_04

So you can strike him, your blows kinda bounce off his armor a little bit, but uh you do you do manage to get him in the head, bonk him. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Panth star.

SPEAKER_04

You're gonna sick Panthstar on him?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, come on, buddy. Oh, Panther's gonna die. Oh no. Come on, Meat Shield, you can do it.

SPEAKER_04

Uh so Panthers gets failure with advantage. So he can add a black, he can just kind of distract Vader. Okay. So the next person to attack him is gonna get a blue. Which would either be Chris or Illyria.

SPEAKER_02

Illyria, how's your healing doing? I'm gonna try and shoot him in the head with my uh what what's that? What are the blasters called again? One second. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Because that's the one where you can uh add the force on as well, right?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, uh, I believe it is.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so you can uh suffer strain up to your force rating to add advantage. Okay. So two, so two, I guess. Yeah. So uh he's got one range defense, he's got two ranks of adversary, you are probably at short range in this bridge. So that is gonna be one red, three purple, and a black. How many destiny points? Uh you got two at the moment.

SPEAKER_02

Uh oh right, I'm also a little bit more than a little bit. And you can add a blue from Panthstar. Okay. So, okay. Save the day. I got three thread, I got a triumph, I got two light side and two dark side. So if I can spend the two light side with the two.

SPEAKER_07

Because is that with your free advantage as well?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, no. So, uh, it would be uh the hardwood does, right?

SPEAKER_07

You got two free advantage, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Well it's for strain, but technically. Free-ish.

SPEAKER_07

Free-ish.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. So yeah. I I take away two threat. So I have one threat, uh, triumph. That's it.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, threat and triumph. Uh, so you don't hit him. Is there anything you want that triumph to do? Some sort of exhaust that that hits him. I was about to say, can we open up some fucking windows? Do you want like a change to the battlefield? Yeah. That sets him off balance?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so there is a sudden shudder as uh the light cruiser starts to tilt as it's caught in the tractor beam of the jewel of Nal Hutta. Ganis the Hutt's flagship.

SPEAKER_07

Are you gonna have to start inception running on the walls?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it starts slowly rotating and things start sliding towards the walls.

SPEAKER_08

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Maybe that means that we're gonna have to use athletics to try and get within range of each other to fight. Maybe someone has to swing on a vine to attack each other now.

SPEAKER_07

Two bad Starzan went at the top of the round.

SPEAKER_04

You can see as the uh jewel of Nalhutta ha has been its tractor meme, as you get into range, it starts launching these like docking tethers as well, so that uh potentially uh some uh mercenaries are gonna start coming over to try and board too.

SPEAKER_05

Starzan got wounded. Starzan got can I heal him?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Uh would it be better to uh because I'm not near him, so it'll have to be like the forcey.

SPEAKER_04

Well, you could uh get into range, but then you'd be in range of Vader as well. Yeah. Yeah, just he slides out of range.

SPEAKER_05

Ooh. One dark side, one light side. Guess I'll use a destiny.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Uh you would have to use a maneuver to actually lay hands on him. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05

What? No, I've got range.

SPEAKER_04

Well, you would need to spend spend your well, yeah, because you would need to spend that light to use the power at all.

SPEAKER_05

Ugh. Yeah, okay, I'll get over. Well, he's fine.

SPEAKER_04

He'll hit me first.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, just go for the Star Zank.

SPEAKER_08

Give him a little bit of a little bit of a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_05

Slide over and slap him.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you can slide over and slap him, put hands on him, starts healing as Anakin is slicing into him. It's like uh X-Men 3 Wolverine as he's being torn apart by Jean Grey and keeps healing over it.

SPEAKER_08

Uh Gene Grey's in this episode too. Wow. He's everywhere.

SPEAKER_07

Oh my. What if Illyria just like clings onto Starzan's back and just is like a constant healing force? I love it. Just keep open healing into him.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Look, we recognize that Starzan is the best hope against Anakin.

SPEAKER_04

So you're not technically part of the initiative order, but Kala, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_07

Oh my god, am I am I floating close enough to any of those ships that are coming in that I could grab onto one of them?

SPEAKER_04

So you launched yourself at Palpatine's shuttle.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

You missed.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna say, yeah, you're slowly floating. You could grab at like the docking tethers, like as the jewel of Malhutta is coming coming by. You could probably either grab like a docking tether or find a piece of debris, potentially. Or this is this is gonna be grim, but um you could use Roar Wars Corpse's oxygen tank. Oh Roar as a maneuvering pack.

SPEAKER_07

It is grim, but he's not using it no more. Dig I give me a little blast.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, this would be a piloting. Uh, give me a two-purple piloting.

SPEAKER_07

God, okay. And this would be to take me, like, blast me over to the jewel of Nelhana.

SPEAKER_04

Either to wherever you want to end up going.

SPEAKER_07

God, how okay, if I how many rounds would I have left of oxygen?

SPEAKER_04

Um, I think if you start blasting right now, you could get to the ship at the end of the next round.

SPEAKER_07

But it's like, if if, let's say I use the oxygen to try to blast myself back to Palpatine Shuttle.

SPEAKER_04

Uh a Palpatine's shuttle is trying to get out of the Death Star debris range as it's being pulled towards the planet.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. I've we maybe we'll just have to hope for the best with that, yeah. No, I'll I'll use it to try to blast back to uh back to the jewel of Malhada, back to us.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

And what would that be for piloting?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, that would probably be a two purple and a black. God, I'm so scared. A red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, God.

SPEAKER_04

Thank you, God.

SPEAKER_07

Thank you, God, I got one success and one despair.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, motherfuckuu.

SPEAKER_07

Can I can I get right in the hangar bay and I take off my helmet and people immediately recognize me as just like, hey, that's the one who owes us money.

SPEAKER_04

Well, so are you going to the jewel of Nalhata or are you going to uh your light cruiser? Because they're pretty close to each other.

SPEAKER_07

They're pretty close. Ooh, God, I don't know because it's like, is our light cruiser gonna get blowed up real quick? Would it be better to go to the Jewel of Nalhata? Seem like it's gonna end blown up. Unless it's like I'm trying to go to our light cruiser, and since I got that despair, it's like, whoops, wrong ship.

SPEAKER_04

So you you end up in the jewel of Nalhada, is what you're saying?

SPEAKER_07

I feel like that would be the worst like the fact that I succeeded but got a despair is like, yes, you got to a ship. I feel like getting to the jewel of Nalhata would be a much better or much worse option for me, so probably that's where I end up. That's where I gotta go. That's the one I can blast myself to.

SPEAKER_04

So you can blast yourself over to the Jewel of Nalhata. Uh whether or not you want to go there, you can end up there as all of this fighting is going on on your ship. And you land in the hangar bay, you're slowly floating, and then you just drop. Uh why don't you roll me athletic or coordination? God.

SPEAKER_07

One purple. I'm gonna look like a damn fool. One purple. Well, you know what? My coordination's okay. One purple. Two success, one advantage. I don't look like a fool.

SPEAKER_04

Well, that was for fall damage, so you only take five points of wound.

SPEAKER_07

Cool.

SPEAKER_04

So you drop as you pass through the magnetic field, and uh you are wearing uh Imperial Pilot gear holding onto the corpse of another Imperial Pilot that with a lot of fur sticking out.

SPEAKER_07

Ken, are there are there people in there?

SPEAKER_04

Uh yeah, you see, like, through your helmet, um, a pair of metal legs sauntering up to you.

SPEAKER_07

I'll rip off my helmet just like Maul, you bitch! Is that where's my motherfucking money? Where's my twenty dollars?

SPEAKER_04

Who do is this him? It it is Maul, and you see like a d a Jared Leto-looking dude in a black cloak with like a circular scar on his face behind him. And he says, Should I kill this creature, Master?

SPEAKER_07

Who's this guy? Do I know this guy?

SPEAKER_04

Uh yes, uh, you weren't there. This is my apprentice, Xanatos.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, this loser.

SPEAKER_04

He is not a loser. Not yet. He has not yet failed me. Oh, I know someone who's failing us, like, it seems you are in a tight spot.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. It would have been nice if you turned up earlier or held up your part of our entire agreement that you'd help us with the Empire, but no, you're here, you're here hassling us. And the Empire's out there, the shuttle, get away, get away.

SPEAKER_04

I do not control Ganus. We have a mutually beneficial arrangement. He wanted the cruiser.

SPEAKER_02

Holy shit, that was a guttural a guttural angry sound.

SPEAKER_04

But as you can see, I was about to step into a vessel of my own.

SPEAKER_07

You going after the Empire?

SPEAKER_04

Yes, I was going to murder him.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, good. Please go. Don't let me stop you then. You go, go, go have fun.

SPEAKER_04

Why don't you come with me? His abilities are formidable. I could use something that sucks.

SPEAKER_07

Thank you, buddy. Um, how big is his sh is it just like is it a fighter? Would it just be like I'm in am I in the back seat? In the passenger seat. Sockin.

SPEAKER_04

Um, it's not a fighter. It's it doesn't look too dissimilar from a tie. It's got like sort of like a bald cockpit in the back with two sort of bent wings and a long sort of dragster nose. Okay. If uh if Kala had seen the Phantom Menace, um, she would recognize it as the Scimitar. Uh somehow he got his old ship back.

SPEAKER_07

Man, it's a shame I didn't see the Phantom Menace. Great movie. I'll just like, you know what? Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm I'm with ya, I'm sucking. Let's go.

SPEAKER_04

So you and Maul and uh Xanatos can board Maul's ship and blast off into the debris field. Now it's the end of the round, Anakin gets his uh end of round turn. Starzan, uh, you're tanking, so he's gonna oblige you.

SPEAKER_07

Hate that. Oh, if you insist upon tanking.

SPEAKER_04

Let's see how this goes. Four success, four advantages. So you take uh 14 points of wound, you're now at uh 25, so you are knocked out. Um, so that crit that you were enduring, I think that you're that happens now. So you got four success, two advantages. His lightsaber has a crit of one, so he can activate that with one. He can add 30 for the other three advantages. He has two vicious on his weapon, so that adds 50. Um, you already have one that adds 60. Oh no. So Vader has an ability called I Have You Now. Uh, rather than using an advantage to add 10 to a crit, he can add 20.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, okay. Is is uh Cleft and Twain one of those uh crit blenders? Uh is a good thing I got that heal.

SPEAKER_04

Well, how about this? We'll split the difference. Because it says you can uh spend an advantage to add 20. Uh I don't know if that means it stacks. I'll say it doesn't stack.

SPEAKER_07

That's good. So how much is it gonna add onto whatever the crit is?

SPEAKER_04

So he spends one to activate, spends one to add 20, the other two to add 20, so that's add 40. Uh Vicious bumps it to 60, and Starzan's existing injury bumps it to plus 70.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, please let him woof, please let him woof.

SPEAKER_04

24.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, thank God! Thank God! 94?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, at the brink. You suffer a strain every time you do an action. That is as as well I'm not gonna do any action. Yeah, as high uh as as high critical injuries go, that one's probably the best one to get.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Thank God the universe loves you, Starzan.

SPEAKER_05

I can also heal strain when I heal people.

SPEAKER_04

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Can I heal Starzan?

SPEAKER_04

Uh well, it's back to the top of the round. Darth Vader gets to go again.

SPEAKER_08

How about them uh boarding parties?

SPEAKER_01

What are they doing? What they doing.

SPEAKER_08

Elyria, you're you're the closest?

SPEAKER_05

I suppose I am.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. But are but is she also the most intimidating? Maybe maybe something about Chris just really pisses him off.

SPEAKER_07

Why are you throwing Chris on my head?

SPEAKER_04

Well, I feel like maybe what he's doing here is he's because Illyria's behind Starzan heal him. I think maybe he's just running Starzan through seeing if he can get Illyria too.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, wait.

SPEAKER_04

He's getting stabbed right through your chest, that's not fatal anymore.

SPEAKER_07

That's true. That's a good point.

SPEAKER_04

Uh 3 success, 1 advantage. Uh yeah, so you take uh 13 points of wound. Uh I'm still up. He can he can crit with that, just the basic with vicious. So add 20. Uh 92. Oh shit.

SPEAKER_07

Oh. Plus 20. Oh no. I mean, at least this is isn't the one where he was adding 70.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, 112, you're temporarily lame. Hold on a second. I have an important question.

SPEAKER_07

That's not temporary.

SPEAKER_08

I have an important question. Does injura work if she's within short range of Starzan's corpse?

SPEAKER_06

I th You're not dead.

SPEAKER_04

Wow.

SPEAKER_05

Oh.

SPEAKER_04

Where does it say that?

SPEAKER_05

I'm still up.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you're just temporarily lame.

SPEAKER_05

What does that mean? I can't move?

SPEAKER_04

Uh you can't perform more than one maneuver during your turn.

SPEAKER_05

I'm already touching him. I'm already touching him.

SPEAKER_07

I'm already touching him.

SPEAKER_05

Can I use Do I have med packs? Can I like use med pack and use my healing roll? I have one stim pack, oh my god. Or do I just do a healing thing without what do I roll against for just medicine?

SPEAKER_04

So he's exceeded his wound threshold, so that's three. Um a stim pack, no roll, that brings that just brings him back to 20.

SPEAKER_05

Interesting. One failure, one advantage. My advantage is that I slap the stim pack on him.

SPEAKER_07

Well that happened. Yeah. So we don't get knocked out that often. We don't get saved that that too much.

SPEAKER_08

Starzan fucking rises back to his feet like Dracula getting out of his coffin.

SPEAKER_07

Well that happened.

SPEAKER_08

Hey Annie! I didn't hear no bell. Is it Starzan's turn? Can he go?

SPEAKER_04

Starzan or Chris.

SPEAKER_08

Go Starzan. Yeah, you may. Do I keep all of my uh I guess my I can just re-add them anyways. It's a moot point. Do the same combination I did last time. It's like a point that a cow would make. A moo point. That took me a second for my point to catch up to. Well, that's a joke. That's a joke from friends.

SPEAKER_02

Is that a friend's joke? I thought that was a um.

SPEAKER_08

No, I do that all the time. Yeah. It's a moo point. It's a point of catch. Right, you're right, you're right. Four success, two threat.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, but then I get the two, so it evens out. I don't get those threat anymore, so just four success.

SPEAKER_04

Keep bludgeoning at him. He's up to 15 wound.

SPEAKER_08

Hell yeah. Tant star. Yeah, sort of.

SPEAKER_04

Going in for the kill. Interesting. Uh triumph and despair.

SPEAKER_02

Ooh.

SPEAKER_06

TPK. DPK.

SPEAKER_07

Look, there's a despair there.

SPEAKER_04

No success. He's able to jump on Vader and kind of knock him down with that triumph. And he's on him like the bear and the revenant.

SPEAKER_06

Oh no. Oh no! Oh no!

SPEAKER_02

Oh no! He's gonna be fucked.

SPEAKER_04

But uh Vader also, uh, with that despair, he's gonna get a get a free attack on on Panthstar.

SPEAKER_01

No!

SPEAKER_04

Uh five successes, three advantages. Oh no. Oh god. Yeah, so his lightsaber does 10 uh plus five for the successes. Panthstar has uh 14 points of wound.

SPEAKER_07

Does he kill Pantstar?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, so you just see a red lightsaber blade coming up out of Pantstar's back.

SPEAKER_08

No, we can bring him back though.

SPEAKER_04

But he is uh he is he has still got this giant animal on top of him.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. I will use this opportunity that Pant uh from Pantar sacrifice to shoot one in his eyes. Yeah, just walk up to him, blast him in the head. Honestly, yeah, why not? Just point blank from the back.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah. Pant Star's on him. Uh double tap. He did get a triumph on that. He's got this big thing on him. So you can upgrade your role. Yeah, dog. Uh his lightsaber is stuck in Pant Star, so that's not gonna come into play. Good. I'm gonna say it negates his adversary, so we'll just call it I'll give you a destiny point in case something happens, but we'll just call it a uh you're you're doing it at an engaged range, so we'll just call it a uh red and a purple.

SPEAKER_02

And uh uh uh does Pantar add anything?

SPEAKER_04

Uh yeah, Panthestar's wait on top of him lets you upgrade your role.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, okay. Fantastic. How many how many destiny points do we got? Uh you have three. I'm gonna use one to have three yellow versus a red and a purple. What the fuck? Oh shit. Uh oh. Uh uh, okay. Alright, so I got one success, one threat, one triumph, another triumph, another triumph, and a despair.

SPEAKER_07

Oh! Three triumphs though!

SPEAKER_02

And a despair.

SPEAKER_07

Maybe the despair is just that like Pant Star could have been healed, but after you reduced Anakin into a soup like slurry, yeah, Anakin.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna send this picture at it. I'm going to send this picture. Just cuz that's wild.

SPEAKER_04

So Darth Vader has a giant purple green tiger on him, just weighing him down, his lightsaber stuck up in the body, Pant Star's completely dead weight. Uh that's wild. He can't move, he's stuck. Chris? You could just walk up, slowly draw your blaster, line it up, and pull the trigger. And uh there is a red stain where the front of Vader's face used to be.

SPEAKER_02

Before I shoot him, I will say to him, Maybe you shouldn't have been such a whipped bitch.

SPEAKER_08

This is why your wife cheated on ya. This is ironic. His Achilles heal is pussy.

SPEAKER_07

You should be joking right now. Your cat just gone killed.

SPEAKER_08

No, that wasn't that wasn't Starzan.

SPEAKER_02

That wasn't Starzan, that was that was Mike.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, that was Mike. That was all Mike. So Kala, uh, you feel something odd. Oh. You're you're you you're not in the room, but it's like you get like all of a sudden a feeling like, oh, something weird just happened.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, and we started a weird route? A weirder route?

SPEAKER_04

Continually, and uh Maul says, Did you feel that? I felt that. Ugh. Something has changed.

SPEAKER_07

Something weird. I hope it is in our favor. By the way, who's flying the ship? Is Maul actually a pilot? Maul's flying. How's his piloting if he's if he's wanting to uh kill the hell out of the emperor? How how are you planning to go about this, Moll? Are you uh just like guns?

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Does he need a co-pilot? Otherwise, I'm just sitting here and sucking. I guess I can just kick back. I got shot up a bunch on my ship.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, can you uh can you suck?

SPEAKER_07

I I I I haven't used the force for anything else. It's continuing to be committed.

SPEAKER_04

So, Mall's pirates are uh engaging with the Imperial ships beyond uh the battle station. The battle station is continuing to be pulled into the gravity of the planet. The shuttle is just about to clear the edge of the superstructure.

SPEAKER_07

God, it can can I can I co-pilot for him just to like really get a little bit more juice on this thing? I don't know if there's really much I can like I already ha the field is up, the field is up and committed. I can't do a lot with that there. And I don't know if his apprentice is any kind of a pilot.

SPEAKER_04

Well, his his ship was designed for like being like flying alone, so I don't think he even has like a co-pilot seat. No gunnery either. Do you wanna pull the trigger?

SPEAKER_07

Oh Mole would probably be mad if I pulled the trigger, but also like Oh no, wait, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

Unless you wanna fly the ship and he can fire.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, what do you what do you say, Mole? Do you wanna do you wanna do the shot?

SPEAKER_04

Yes, I would like to take Palpatine's life.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, I'll I'll take the controls. You got this, buddy.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so you're gonna have to uh steady this out. So this will be a piloting against the piloting of the pilot of the shuttle who's piloting.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_04

Uh that'll be against two reds and two purples.

SPEAKER_07

Two reds and two purples. What do we have for Destiny?

SPEAKER_04

Uh, you have three.

SPEAKER_07

I'll you know what, I'll flip one, and uh you know what, we're getting weird. Let's let's introduce the potential for more weirdness. Let's get them a yellow. Okay. Ugh god, I don't want to fuck this up. Oof, one failure, one advantage. I don't make it worse.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, you can try and lock on, but you feel there's something odd going on where it's like your ship is it it's fighting against you. How uh are is this within my bubble? So, Palpatine rolls within your bubble. Two lights, nine darks.

SPEAKER_07

Is that gonna be something that targets me? Because then that gets reduced by three.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, it's targeting you. You're flying the ship.

SPEAKER_07

That gets reduced by three! Oh wait, is it a piloting thing? Or is it just a power?

SPEAKER_04

It's just the move power.

SPEAKER_07

Just the move power. Okay, well that takes it down by three.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, so he's got six to work with.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Um, he only needs to spend three points to nudge the ship out of the way. You're not gonna make things worse, uh, but he is able to do it.

SPEAKER_07

I mean, I guess if he's if he's wasting his energy moving our ship, then he's not moving the superstructure or moving himself out of the way of it. So there's that. Yeah, way to waste your role, jerk.

SPEAKER_04

Uh Molfires success with two advantages. You can see uh plumes of dark smoke coming out of the back of the shuttle.

SPEAKER_07

Yay. He says, again! Again! Yeah, man, do it again. I mean, I th you probably have to wait for your turn, but like. Can you stay on target? Stay on target. I'll try to stay on target.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, piloting. Uh, two reds, two purples.

SPEAKER_07

You know what? We're just gonna we're gonna let it ride this time. We're gonna let it ride.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah no.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, baby, three success, three threat, and a triumph. Okay. Oh yeah, let's punch forward. Or hold it steady for him at least. We're so steady, babe.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. He gets four success, three advantages.

SPEAKER_07

Oh hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And the shuttle explodes, not in a fireball. Well, yes, a fireball, but also there's like this weird ghostly blue shit that flies out of it.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no. Does that count as Maul, like, is Maul gonna get brainjacked? He was in the shuttle. It was like, you know, wasn't close and with like a lightsaber. That was that's between him and the shuttle. That's between him and the vacuum of space. Well, I mean Look, I got a triumph.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, at the moment it doesn't seem like anything is amiss. He he just kind of sits back and he exhales. He's been holding his breath and he says, Finally, I have had my revenge. This is a tense.

SPEAKER_07

Can I kind of get a weird feeling on like reverse? Let's get away from that ghostly blue cloud.

SPEAKER_04

You're right, we must uh get out of here. And on the shuttle on the cruiser as well, um, Sabe, who's kind of poking her head out now that Invader's dead, is like, can we leave now? Can we can we get out of here?

SPEAKER_02

Uh wee wee, let's go.

SPEAKER_04

So somebody's gonna have to pilot, uh uh to break free of the docking tethers. Maybe somebody should get on the guns to blast the tractor beam in placement on the jewel of Nalhada.

SPEAKER_02

I mean, I'm okay at pilot at piloting unless.

SPEAKER_04

Somebody will need to plot a course because your escape route is now being blocked by the arrival of a small flotilla of Mandalorian fighters.

SPEAKER_07

Oh right! Oh no, we brought too much chaos into this.

SPEAKER_04

So I need a piloting roll, a gunnery roll, and an astrogation.

SPEAKER_02

Um, should I do piloting?

SPEAKER_08

I just want to review. We were so concerned about fighting Anakin and Palpatine, we asked for help, and then we did it without their help, and now the help is a new threat to us.

SPEAKER_07

Look, one of the groups turned up and kinda helped. Kinda helped.

SPEAKER_04

I mean, the Mandalorians were always just gonna try and fuck you over no matter what they do. An important distraction.

SPEAKER_07

You just throw the darksaber out the aerock on the way out.

SPEAKER_04

Fuck those guys.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Launch it at that ship.

SPEAKER_02

Can we yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Put the Mandalorian armor in there too. Yeah. I can't believe that the huts would do this.

SPEAKER_04

Because the chain code is what they're tracking, probably, in the armor. So if you want to just load it into an escape pod and launch it, you can. So, uh, this will probably be for everybody. Uh, gunnery, piloting, and astrogation. Uh give you a destiny point. We'll call it a red, a purple, and a black.

SPEAKER_02

Red, purple, and a black. I will do piloting. Red and a purple.

SPEAKER_08

I don't have great gunnery.

SPEAKER_02

That's okay.

SPEAKER_08

We got two greens.

SPEAKER_02

Just get an advan Just get an advantage to help us out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Just don't make things worse.

SPEAKER_05

Do a good roll.

SPEAKER_02

You have three destiny points.

SPEAKER_07

I'll use destiny. Oh, that's enough for each of you.

SPEAKER_02

How many de uh how many destiny points? Uh, you have two now. Um, fuck it, flipping one.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, we're right at the end. Might as well. Elyria, you gonna flip one too? A failure and a triumph.

SPEAKER_02

Ooh, I got a success advantage in the triumph.

SPEAKER_05

How about we use those triumphs for my success one despair? Illyria!

SPEAKER_04

Uh, so you can't fire the guns, but you can launch the escape pod right at the tractor beam in placement when it's floating up. That's kind of what you were trying to do. Yeah, basically. Uh, Chris, you can escape uh right through the Death Star as it begins falling into Geonosis' atmosphere. Uh your ship escapes completely unscathed. Illyria, you succeed plotting a course. That despair though. Aren't you forgetting somebody?

SPEAKER_01

Look, I'll figure out I'll figure it out, I'll figure it out, I'll get back somehow the way.

SPEAKER_04

So, Illyria, Chris, Starzan on your cruiser can plot a course back to Alishan. Jump into hyperspace as aboard the Scimitar. Maul begins plotting in his own coordinates, taking Kala to Parts Unknown.

SPEAKER_05

Kala's like, I'm right where I want to be.

SPEAKER_07

Oh no, I can't believe this is happening!

SPEAKER_04

And maybe when you reunite, uh, she'll be kinda different next season on Star Wars Empire Wreckers. This week's episode is brought to you by our top patrons, David B. Eric Charles Carazzo, General Porpoise, Handholder Zero One, Jeffrey Zamuto, Joshua Winter, Laser, LKB, Matthew Lynette, Sophia, Suki Nintendo, Thomas Davidson, and Vaginator.