Well, we board the Argent Lady, a Ghtroc Industries Cargo Empress Super Freighter, bound for the Sullust system - a journey that should take 4 days. With us are:
- Captain Zal (Human)
- Baba Labat (Sulustan co-pilot)
- Uncle G (protocol droid)
- Zudia (female engineer with cybernetic right arm)
We get a very cold reception, as they feel they don't need any assistance. Looking at their crew, they should really re-consider. They convince us to stow our weapons in the weapons locker when we board, but at least the locker is in our common area.
Their cargo consists of 100 R5 units, some spare parts, barrels of Baridum (barium? Damn it Jim, I'm a marauder, not a chemist) which I'm told is used in blasting by miners, and some CAVW PX-10 units which are large mole miners, approximately 5m x 2m in size. Oh, and there are 2 escape pods, and out of curiosity we check to see how many people they are designed for, and it appears each is large enough for approx 6 people. Hey, it's not like the first time I've used an escape pod, only to have to bump someone out of the queue to get myself in!
Things start out really uneventfully. A couple days in, Capt and Zudia say they've been told to check out the R5 units to replace some motivators they've been told might be bad. They spend all day taking them apart and replacing some parts, while the rhodian practices his hide-in-plain-sight technique, trying to find out what they are really doing. Turns out, they were doing exactly what they said they would - replacing some metal bits with other metal bits.
That night, all hell breaks loose. R5 units come streaming out of the cargo hold, claiming that we are now prisoners of the Droid Abolitionist Movement. The Captain and crew appear to be part of the mutiny, as they are the ones who "liberated" the droids' programming. It also appears our weapons were ejected before we took off since the locker is now empty! The wookie and I attempt to subdue the droids, but we are quickly knocked unconscious by their stunners. We awaken a short while later, after having been shoved in an escape pod.
The escape pod has a pea-shooter, which we put to good use in an escape. This time, we no longer hold our punches! By the time we finish smashing 'droids, it turns out the crew is dead, and we have dropped out of hyperspace. The problem is that we are not in deep space, but near a planet! An imperial inspection patrol hails us and boards us. After a very short negotiation, Rawr gets bored and starts smashing skulls. Turns out six soldiers with blasters are no match for the four of us, as we quickly defeat them. We rig their ship to blow, and take off to our original destination, leaving behind an epic explosion in our wake.
We intend to deliver our cargo as promised, and who knows, maybe we can get enough for this ship to make up for the, um, damaged property.
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