Collan, Nightshade, Nill, Nim, Trax: Raid on Horuz

[GM Craig]

A blaster shot pings off the strut just over Keshani's head. An instant later the same thing happens to Collan.

Niil sees a break, and makes a sprint forward two struts, reaching the last strut before the barricade. His movement appears to have attracted some attention.

Nim types a command on her wristcomp, and Buzz flies through the blaster fire to cover in front of her. There is a small "thrumm" sound as he activates the shield, and it shimmers into existence between Nim, Keshani and the troopers. Nim is still counting shots, and stays under cover.

Nigthshade does a forward roll and comes up in a thrust. it is a difficult attack - the target is a fairly narrow opening in the barrier, but Nightshade manages to score a strike on the surprised trooper, running him completely through. Nightshade gives a twist to the blade and withdraws it, using the momentum of his roll to turn and make a back-handed thrust at another trooper. The first trooper slides down, leaving a red streak on the transparisteel. The second trooper is disrupted, and wounded, but still in the fight. Nigthshade has taken two of the grenades out of the volley, but it was a costly attack. A third trooper fires at Nightshade before he can duck down again, at point blank range. From his vantage point, Niil can see Nightshade stiffen as his swords fall from nerveless fingers. A moment later, he collapses.

Another trooper tries to hit Niil, but the shot hits the strut.

Nim sees an opening, but 18 shots have not been fired yet, so she stays put.

A trooper takes another shot at Collan, and nearly hits. Collan has to duck back behind the strut to avoid the shot.

Ch'lana, seeing Nightshade go down, breaks into a run, and heads for the barrier.

There is another lull in the firing, but there still haven't been 18 shots, so Nim stays put.

Then Trax breaks from where he had been covering them, and runs into the open corridor behind the group. As he reaches the corridor, he immediately comes under a hail of fire. But Trax is light on his feet, and doges and deflects all of it.

Nim is only up to 14 shots, so she stays put.

A lull in the firing happens and Collan breaks from cover, reaching the next strut up. The angle is getting less helpful, and the struts do not offer as much cover this close to the troopers.

A trooper fires at Ch'lana, but the Jedi easily blocks it.

Three more troopers fire on Trax, but the hunter continues to evade their shots.

Nim reaches a count of 18, but Keshani is not ready. Nim prompts her, and the two women prepare to run.

Another trooper fires on Trax, but he avoids this one as well.

Then Nim and Keshani break from cover. Buzz tries to keep up with them, but they quickly outdistance him.

Then, all of you hear firing from the barricade, several shots in unison. Only these do not sound like blaster shots - the have more of a "phoomp" sound.

From their vantage point, Nil and Collan see small rockets streak out. One strikes between Collan and Ch'lana, one between Niil and Ch'lana, and one farther bacl near Keshani and Nim.

The rockets detonate with a cacophonous explosion, throwing shrapnel everywhere. Collan tries to drop to the deck to try and avoid the blast, but is too slow, and shrapnel peppers his left side. Nill manages to drop in time, and narrowly avoids any shrapnel, though pieces of it pass within a few millimetres of his head.

Ch'lana is caught in both blasts, and shrapnel rips through the Jedi. Ch'lana wavers for a moment before his sabre shuts down and he collapses on the deck.

The third blast catches Nim and Keshani, but the young girl manages to crouch down, and she is partially protected by Nim. Unfortunately, Nim took the brunt of the blast, and cries out as shrapnel peppers her body.

[Actions?]

Name	Notes	Target	Status
Nim Naja	1/2 cover	-	woundedd
Buzz	open	-	-
Stormtrooper #23	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #13	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #15	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #25	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #32	open	Trax	-
Collan Rostiern	1/4 cover	-	wounded
Stormtrooper #19	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #24	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #20	full cover	grenade	-
Stormtrooper #6	full cover	Keshani	-
Niil Spaar	1/4 cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #10	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #5	full cover	Collan	-
Stormtrooper #2	full cover	Ch'lana	-
Stormtrooper #31	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #18	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #12	cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #3	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #11	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #26	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #28	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #30	open	Trax	-
Keshani	1/2 cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #7	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #4	full cover	Collan	-
Trax	open	-	-
Stormtrooper #21	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #17	full cover	-	wounded
Stormtrooper #29	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #1	full cover	Nightshade	-
Stormtrooper #14	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #8	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #22	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #27	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #9	full cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #16	full cover	-	killed
Nightshade	open	-	mortal
Ch'lana	open	-	mortal
Gunner #1	open	-	mortal
Gunner #2	open	-	incapacitated

[Niil Spaar]

Niil paled as he watched Nightshade and Ch'lana go down, and it was all he could do to restrain himself from letting his anger have its free reign.  "Ch'lana and Nightshade are down.  Collan, we've got to take these bastards out now.  Head for the barrier and pop grenades through the firing slits."

Updated OOC:  Ch'lana's too far away, so I'll head for the barricade and try to start popping grenades through the firing slits.  Dodge, dodge, dodge.

[Keshani]

It was almost surreal as first she heard a deafening explosion followed by shrapnel flying everywhere.

She was stunned and could only stare for a few seconds. Every time she thought she'd seen it all....

The sound of Nim beside her brought her out of her daze and she stared over at the woman to see shrapnel peppering her body.

But they were still weren't at the barrier yet.

"Frell," she cursed under her breath.

"Can you still move?" she asked.

[GM Craig]

[OOC: Sorry, forgot the updated map. I added it to the post.]

[Trax]

It was hard not to notice the sound of rockets being fired and the explosions that followed.  But the former hunter would still have left dealing with the barricade to the others, had it not been for hearing Nim's cry of pain. Please be okay, he thought, hoping her injuries were at least relatively minor.  He was angry with himself for leaving her and Keshani, but despite that he knew allowing these troopers to round the bend would have been even worse.  Still, he had to get back to dealing with the troops and the barricade as quickly as possible.  He had to get back to Nim as quickly as possible.

The man's eyes narrowed as he raised his pistols.

[OOC: Force point time.  12 shots, 1 for every trooper.

Shots remaining after this round, RB: 12, LB: 13]

[Nim Naja]

Nim let out a string of curses as the girls piled up at the strut and could see Ch'lana splayed out on the deck. "Yes," she replied, her hands checking her own shrapnel, "but stay. Finish the explosive while we wait for Buzz."

OOC: First Aid, wait for Buzz to catch up.

[Collan]

Collan looked at Niil and smiled. It wasn't mirthful but instead held a sort of peace. In the last few moments, Collan had realized several things:

1)He was ready to die in serving where the Force had directed him
2)He was okay with that
3)He would do whatever he could to save his friends
4)He accepted that he was no Jedi but that he would die as one.

Collan closed his eyes half-way and embraced the power of the Force as he has just a few moments before. He let the power of the Good Side flow through him, accepting its strength and releasing himself into it. He needed Ch'lana's saber because they needed to get at those troopers to keep them from killing his friends. He knew that he would be the target and no longer cared about that. His friends could go on and rescue the prisoners, but Collan was content to let the Force direct him in handling the danger.

[FP. Try to call the saber to me and use it to take out as many troopers on the other side of the barriers as I can unless the Force directs me some other way. He'll take out the rocketeers first if he can.]

[Keshani]

Keshani just nodded and fished the unfinished makeshift explosives out of her bag and went to work.

<Actions: work on explosives>

[Niil Spaar]

As Niil rushed forward, a sudden inspiration struck him.  It was beyond crazy and would probably get him killed, but the survival of his friends was everything.  If the troopers at the checkpoint weren't taken out, there was the grim possibility that they'd all die in this miserable corridor.  And unless Galen had any better luck than they were having, the senators would also die, taking away the best hope the galaxy had for rebellion.  That wasn't acceptable.

In an eerily calm voice, he said, "Collan, don't get too close to the wall just yet."  Niil drew his heavy blaster pistol, and let the Force flow through him.


OOC:  I'm going to use a FP to try to get to the wall, stick my blaster through one of the firing slots and take 2 shots at the power generator.  If I don't have a clear shot at the power generator, then I'll try and shoot one of those grenades/missiles the troopers are using.

[Collan]

Collan intoned, "I will do my best..."

[ooc: delay action till Niil does whatevs..."

[GM Craig]

Nim pulls out a medpack, gripping it in her right hand and ripping it open with her teeth, gritting against the pain in her left side. A quick scan reveals no serious shrapnel. A bandage spray and analgesics quickly seal the wound and control the pain.

In the back, Trax seems to be building to something, but for now he's a target. The troopers have changed tactics. The ones to the south have knelt down and spread to the sides of the corridor, while the others remain standing. The troopers are firing by squads. Three of the troopers on the right fire, bracketing Trax. But somehow, Trax avoids the shot, though to Keshani and Nim, he either has amazing luck, or is moving with supernatural speed.

Collan switches his weapon to her left hand, takes a breath, half closes his eyes, and extends his right hand towards Ch'lana. Nothing happens for a moment, but the metal cylinder of Ch'lana's lightsabre twitches, then rolls an inch or two. Then, with surprising swiftness, it leaps through the air directly into Collan's waiting hand.

[OOC: Collan can take a pip in Alter (he does not get a full D), and has learned the Telekinesis power.]

Three more trooper fire at Trax in unison, but he manages to be out of the way when their shots bracket him.

Then Niil explodes into movement. He sprints over the open space before the barricade, taking a position between both repeaters. As he arrives at the barricade, a trooper directly in front of him fires point blank. Somehow, Niil twists, and the shot only his empty air. Another trooper with a clear shot also fires, but again, Nill someone manages to not be there when the shot fires.

Two more troopers fire at Niil, but they have bad angles and the shots miss.

Niil levels his blaster pistol at the trooper directly in front of him and fires. The shot narrowly misses the trooper and pings off the reinforced casing of the power generator that had been feeding the repeaters. Immediately three troopers nearby throw themselves forward to try and protect the generator.

While all this is going on, Keshani pulls out her tools and the salvaged power core and gets to work finishing her bomb. It is as lot less distracting now that the troopers are not shooting at her, and in a few moments she completes the connections, and her makeshift control panel goes live. The device is live, but not armed, and the timer interface is ready to be set.

Two troopers, unable to get a clear shot at Niil, switch targets to the new guy with the sabre, Collan. Their shots go wide as Collan ducks and weaves around them.

Three more troopers fire in unison at Trax, and again the bounty hunter manages to already be moving out of the way before the shots get there.

Another trooper takes a point blank shot at Niil but can't get a good angle and only sprays his boots with metal sparks from the deck plate. Simultaneously, another trooper fires at Collan, but again he manages to be gone when the shot gets there. Another trooper tries for Niil, but can't line up a clean shot.

By this time Trax has walked calmly out into the middle of the intersection. He calmly raises his blasters, one pointing north and the other pointing south. He glances to the right and fires both guns. One of the shots catches the trooper in the helmet, and he falls back to the desk, not moving. The second blaster hits the trooper in the abdomen, and he doubles over and collapses on the deck, also not moving.

Trax glances to his left, and adjust the aim of both guns before firing again. The second shots catch one trooper in the thigh, which doubles him over for a moment, but he is otherwise still in the fight. The other shot hits the trooper in the throat. His arms fly to his throat as he drops to his knees with a gurgling sound as blood sprays from between his fingers, and collapses to the deck.

Niil fires at the trooper again, but again misses the obvious target in front of him. In fact, he had been aiming between the trooper's helmet and shoulder at the power generator. He hits it a second time in exactly the same spot. Military grade power generators are heavily protected, but they are protected from incidental damage, not two direct hits from a heavy blaster pistol at point blank range in exactly the same spot. The first shot blow apart the protective casing and put a divot in the reactor housing. The second shot punches a whole completely through, breaching the reactor itself, and destroying the integrity of the containment field.

Military-grade power generators also put out a lot of power over a sustained period. You will never find one of these in a residence for example, because of the damage they can do if they should breach...

Hot plasma starts spraying out of the hole. The last thing Niil sees before turning away and ducking is a trooper reaching for the reactor controls.

"COVER!" yells Niil.

There is a sudden, blinding, but momentary flash that burns after-images on everyone vision, and and a "crump" that is more felt than heard. Plasma sprays out of the gun ports in the barricade, and you can all hear the screaming of troopers as they are incinerated.

The next shot hits the trooper in the chest, and he falls to the deck hard, leg twitching. The other shot pings off the trooper's shoulder armour, scoring the surface but not doing any damage.

Trax keeps firing, and by now the barrels of both pistols are glowing a dull red. The next shot blows straight through the helmet of the trooper, and he was dead before his body even hit the deck. His off-hand shot grazes a trooper in the torso, enough so that he feels it, but it will not slow him down for long.

The next two shots drops one trooper and stuns another. And with his final two shots, he stuns the last two troopers.

By this time his gun barrels are glowing bright red, and smoke is rising from the housings.

At this point, Collan runs forward, stabs Ch'lana's lightsabre through a gun port and slowly starts dragging the blade through the transparisteel, connecting the gun ports in the beginnings of an octagonal hole.

On the other side of the barricade, there are still 5 troopers that are alive, though most are the worse for wear.

Back at the T intersection, only 6 troopers are still in the fight.

[Actions?]

Troopers # 20 and lower are still behind the barricade. Troopers 21 and higher are back fighting Trax.

Nigthshade and Ch'lana continue to bleed out on the deck.

*** Edit*** Buz moved up to just in front of Keshani and Nim.

Name	Notes	Target	Status
Keshani	1/2 cover	-	-
Niil Spaar	1/4 cover	-	-
Nim Naja	1/2 cover	-	-
Stormtrooper #17	full cover	-	wound x2
Buzz	open	-	-
Stormtrooper #18	full cover	-	stun
Collan Rostiern	1/4 cover	-	wounded
Stormtrooper #29	open	Trax	-
Stormtrooper #6	full cover	Niil	stun
Stormtrooper #32	open	Trax	stun
Stormtrooper #10	full cover	Niil	stun
Stormtrooper #22	open	Trax	wounded
Stormtrooper #19	full cover	-	wounded
Trax	open	various	-
Stormtrooper #30	open	Trax	stun
Stormtrooper #26	open	Trax	stun
Stormtrooper #31	open	Trax	stun
Ch'lana	open	-	mortal
Gunner #1	open	-	mortal
Gunner #2	open	-	incapacitated
Nightshade	open	-	mortal
Stormtrooper #1	full cover	-	killed
Stormtrooper #11	full cover	-	killed
Stormtrooper #12	full cover	-	killed
Stormtrooper #13	full cover	-	killed
Stormtrooper #14	full cover	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #15	full cover	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #2	full cover	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #20	full cover	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #21	open	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #23	open	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #24	open	-	killed
Stormtrooper #25	open	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #27	open	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #28	open	-	mortal
Stormtrooper #3	full cover	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #4	full cover	-	mortal
Stormtrooper #5	full cover	-	killed
Stormtrooper #7	full cover	-	incapacitated
Stormtrooper #8	full cover	-	killed
Stormtrooper #9	full cover	-	mortal

[Collan]

"Niil! Help Nightshade! Nim! Keshani! Help Ch'lana!"

Collan kept cutting expected to switch to blasters once a way was opened.

[Trax]

Trax knew immediately what had happened, an explosion of that magnitude had to mean the generator had blown.  Either by accident or on purpose, at least that should deal with the troopers behind the barrier.  And the reinforcements he wanted to keep the shield up for were unlikely to make it that far.  He swung his left pistol to the right and lined up the two remaining troopers on that side.

"Nim, you and Keshani okay?" he asked as he pulled the triggers.

[OOC: Two shots, one at each of the troopers to the north.  Need to slow things down a bit so the barrels can cool off.

Shots remaining after this round, RB: 11, LB: 12]

[Niil Spaar]

Niil was shaking his head in an attempt to clear the ringing from his ears, but he heard Collan well enough.  Dashing over to Collan, he held out his hand for the saber and pointed to where Ch'lana and the shinobi were.  "Take care of Nightshade; you've got the better background as a medic!  Let me deal with the barrier and the last . . ."  Wait.  the concentrate skill that Ch'lana taught him.  And all he had to do was stabilize him for the moment.  " . . . never mind, I'm an idiot.  Keep going, and watch out for those last five troopers."


OOC:  Run over to Nightshade first.  Using Concentrate to boost his First Aid roll, and also spending a CP (if I can) to stabilize Nightshade.

Blaster rifle:  5 shots
LH heavy pistol:  7 shots
RH heavy pistol:  8 shots

[Collan]

Collan saw the five stormtroopers moving to bracket him and started to examine his options quickly. Grenades were too big. But he had some cover which was good but so did they. He had to stop cutting the wall. Niil had to help Nightshade.

He amended his earlier request, "Keshani...we really need your special toy up here."

Collan stopped actively cutting the wall and began to dance around with the lightsaber in hand. He hoped to move like he would attack to give Niil enough time to stabilize Nightshade and join the fight again.

[draw the stormies' attention, full dodge]