STARLIGHT Crystal Ball (Episode 2)

Being caught of guard by the use of a nickname, something no one before Lin'drala had ever done she replied to her request:"Of course Master. I will take him back immediatly. Can I humbly suggest that you check over the bodies of the Imperials? They may have something worth keeping on them that we can use. You never know." Picking up Marinez, Barracudas reaches out to the force to speed up her travelling time and leaves off. 

Axo walks over to the spot where Welaho died and takes his damaged computer. He watches the jedi taking Welaho's body away with sadness in his eyes, and the looks at his datapad thinking "We will finish what you started friend. Your work will never be forgotten. Rest in peace.". Axo returns to the door console and continues working on it without interrupts now, as it is safe from the imperial attacks.

Axo hacks the console after some time of many failed attempts. The cave door opens by rising up, revealing the trains inside that leads to the depths of the Ilum. On the one train spot, the train is missing, the dread agent probably took one of the trains to reach the Ilum core. There are more dead imperial troopers inside, not as many as outside. They look as killed by a lightsaber.

Arriving at the ship with Marinez on her shoulder. Barracudas moved to the med bay and laid him down on one of the beds. Knowing she had to return as soon as possible she removed his helmet and his chest plate to check for any serious injury. Finding only small wounds she took some antiseptic to prevent infections and cleaned them as good as she was able to and started her travel back to Master Lin'Drala and Axo.

Axo looks at Lin'drala: "It's not well done, I was not fast enough, I did not open the door fast enough. If I had we could have enter inside and be protected, the tank could not breach through the door. Welaho would still be alive, and Marinez would be with us to the end of this mission." Axo sighs and looks down sadly in the ground, feeling broken.

Affection Gained +10
Axo accepts Lin'drala's charisma, counter is not required

"I am not a Jedi, I am not trained to handle situations like this. I am a medic and when people die on me, every time its like it happens first time. But I see what you are saying, I am sorry I lost myself in a moment. Is there anything I can do to take care of your leg?" Axo offers his medic aid to restore Lin'dralas hp fully.

15+20=35vs15 success
Lin'drala 6hp+1hp=7hp (full)

Inside the cave the trains lead to the core of the planet Ilum, to the Gree Artifact, and to where the Dread Agent probably went. The crew can now use trains to reach the heart of Ilum or abandon the mission.

Upon entering the cave Barracudas sees Lin'drala's wound getting taken care of and smirks. "I see that everything is going wonderful here. Moving on from that. I have placed Marinez on the medbay Axo and cleansed his wounds as best as I possibly could in the small amount of time I had, so please check on him immediatly when you return to the ship." Moving to both her Master and Axo, Barracudas looks around in the area and sees the trains. "So this is the way where going to travel to the core? Looks promising. By the way Axo great work with the door. But now it's time to continue with what we started. Let's make sure Marinez and Welaho's sacrifices weren't for nothing."

Axo nods at Barracudas and finishes patching Lin'drala's leg. He enters one of the small trains waiting for others to join him before he starts it. "The core of the planet will not be as cold as it is here, I hope we have everything there to gather the radiation of the Gree Artifact."

Barracudas enters the train and sits down. "I hope it too. I can't wait to get of this planet. It's almost as bad as Hoth."

The train moves the crew towards the depths of the planet Ilum. Surprisingly, the planet is cold even this far towards its heart. After few minutes the train arrives and door opens, for crew to exit outside. It is more peaceful here, there are no winds or snowing, but its still cold. Ceiling is decorated with hanging ice spikes, and they hang there giving impression that they can fall any moment. The crew is now near the core of the planet, and the cave hall is leading them towards constructions in the distance. But there is unusual presence of something nearby (awareness 10 DC for Force Users). The crew can search for it, or continue their path towards the constructions in the distance.

Baracudaz attempts to find the nearby prescense through the force.

Both of the jedi could sense an unusual concentration of crystals near the cave wall. It's properties are unknown, but one of them can be harvested for a lightsaber. Crew can proceed ignoring the crystals, try to determinate properties of the crystal, or try to gather them which at same time determinants properties of the crystal.

Crew Options:

1. [Archeology 5] (Determinate Properties of the Crystal) - this option is repeatable once per crew member
2. [Archeology 15] (Gather the Crystal) - this option can be used once, on fail the crystal is destroyed
3. (Proceed without Crystal)