STARLIGHT Crystal Ball (Episode 2)

Welaho suits himself for snow and puts on snow glasses that cover half upper his face. He puts on jacket and white fur and hood, boots that reach his knees and scarft to cover his mouth and shield his neck from the cold temperature outside. He only has a pistol for weapons, but he carries his small computer with him as well. He shows the way to the crew towards the cave, but himself looks surprised: "I don't understand where is everyone. This looks like imperial outputs, like they took it over, like they conquered our territory, this place was supposed to be secret, how could they discover it. But then again, there is no trace of imperial force, even the imperial watchtower they built seems to be empty." Suddenly a sound of gunfire echoes in the distance, coming from the direction of the cave. Welaho runs front to check it out, leaving Lin'drala and others behind him "I heard something, look its over there!" Welaho points towards the event in front of the cave. There is a mysterious humanoid, fully masked in black red uniform, killing imperial troopers with lightsaber spike (red crystal color), very skillfully. They don't seem to be able to hit him with their weapons. And he even disarms them and kills them with their own weapons. As Welaho curiously speeds up he trips himself from something in the snow, a body of an imperial trooper, and falls down in snow on his face. To a conclusion, it appears that this man dressed in black with lightsaber spike has killed all the imperial force in front of the cave, and now the bodies are claimed by snow on Ilum. The dark figure, after slaying the last visible imperial soldier, glances towards Welaho and his group, and to not be followed, he uses a console in a wall cave to close cave door. From the ceiling, big metal door move towards the floor, closing the cave with the dark figure inside, not allowing Lin'drala and her crew to enter. The cave door are now locked.

Crew Options:

1. [Help Welaho to stand up]
2. Stop running ahead you will get yourself killed Welaho.
3. Who was that killing the imperial troopers.
4. [Lore] Was that a Dread Agent!?
5. (Free RP)

Marinez was last to come out the ship since he was busy cleaning up the turret and reloading his cells on his assault cannon. As Marinez came out all he saw was the huge metal door. "What happen here? Looks like someone hump the bunk"

Axo narrows his eyes at Barracudas: "Dread Agent? What did you read about them in archives? It's first time I hear something about them. If one person could do this to entire empire outpost ... that seems like leaving true horror behind. I saw he used some weapon similar to sith, well it was glowing like red lightsaber. Is that a sith? And if it is, why would they go against empire, shouldn't they work together?" Axo is confused and curiosuly asks questions, while looking between Barracudas and Lin'drala.

Welaho stands up from snow and cleans himself: "I know I am grateful what you have done but if we are not fast enough we can lose everything, this is not about me here only." Welaho leads the group to the cave door and attempts to open it on the console, but his password is no longer recognized. From behind them an imperial tank is coming. "It looks like we have to hack this door to open them. But the empire has sent reinforces to see what happened with their outpost, they will think we did this to their people. While someone hacks the door, others need to cover him or her."
Tank (DC10, HP10, DPS5)
Door Slicing 15DC (5 times once per turn)

Lin'drala's Option:
1. (Select Crew member to open the door)

"Aye aye Jedi Master!" Axo moves at the console and starts hacking fast with finger work on the keyobard, but out of fear glances from time to time over his shoulder at the approaching tank behind him.

3+5=8vs15 failure (Door Hacking Progress 0/5)

Tank moves into the range of the attack and aims at Axo, obviously the empire does not want him to open the cave door. The inside of the pipe begins to glow as it is about to attack. The tank is slow and needs time to charge his 10dps attacks, thus has small number of turns. It was unwise to leave the canon missiles back on the ship, one of them could have take the tank down in one shot. Welaho does not have anything to fight the tank off.

Turns: Axo > Lin'drala > Tank > Barracudas > Marinez > Tank

Force Speed 18+7=25vs15 success (two actions granted)
Force Leap 4+7=11vs 15 failure (7hp-1hp=6hp)
Strength 1 = auto failure (6hp-1hp=5hp)

As Lin'drala lands on the tank, she hits wrong spot in front of the hatch. Imperial Trooper inside opens the hatch and with it hits Lin'drala in head, pushing her towards the edge of the tank's surface. When Lin'drala attempts to dive her lightsaber into the hull of the tank, imperial trooper exits and melee-hits her with his gun in chest, knocking her down of the tank into the snow. When the imperial trooper secures the tank, he joins other troopers inside through the hatch and closes it behind him. Now when the tank is fully charged, it fires a rocket that flies towards Axo.

Turns: Axo > Lin'drala > Tank > Barracudas > Marinez > Tank

Marinez takes good perfect aiming on the rocket to save Axo life

As Marinez opens fire at the flying rockets, he perfectly hits the rocked in weak spot, making it explode in the air near the tank. The explosion pressure shake the nearby tank and fire catches him a bit. But that was only a scratch. The tank begins to prepare a new rocket, but for now, Marinez was able to save Axo's life.

Turns: Axo > Lin'drala > Tank > Barracudas > Marinez > Tank

Seeing her Master getting wounded caused for Barracudas to jump after her to assist in destroying the tank.

As the young padawan land on the surface of the tank, the imperial soldiers were already ready for the jedi. "It's another one, blasted jedi jumping like frogs on us." One of the Imperial Soldier angers inside and other starts using the console in the tank: "Leave her to me I will get this one off." He rotates the gun pipe of the tank around, and hits Barracudas, sending her flying off the tank on the opposite side of Lin, into the snow. Both Jedi were knocked off the tank, and now the tank moves between them. The tank again aims at the Axo and fires.

Turns: Axo > Lin'drala > Tank > Barracudas > Marinez > Tank

Axo watching the battle behind him from time to time over his shoulder as he is hacking, saw that big scary tank is coming and shoots at him. He decides to break Lin'drala's order and gets off the console to survive the attack, trying to use the field to his advantage. He lies down to a nearby rock in snow, taking cover, hoping for the best.

11+6=17vs15 success
(Door Hacking Progress 0/5)

The rocket hits and explodes in small area. Axo is currently safe behind his cover, but he was not able to open the cave door, and did not make a single progress, he has chosen to disobey direct order and save his own head. The cave door have strong shields, and the tank could not harm them at all, nor the console.

Turns: Axo > Lin'drala > Tank > Barracudas > Marinez > Tank