Collan and Niil: Assemble the Militia

[GM Craig]

general Kota smiles, but shakes his head. "The explosion won;t take out the guns, but it will finish the troops assaulting the place."

[Niil Spaar]

"I'm guessing that Gaven's already thought of that.  Okay . . . if we've got a few more seconds, can we bring up a blueprint of these gun platforms?  I'd like to see the different entry points, and where the vital stuff is located."  He hesitated, and added, "Oh yeah . . . I, umm, don't suppose there's a spare blast vest or two on board?  I had mine taken from me on that battle station."

[GM Craig]

Juno says, "We've got files in the Rogue Shadow's databanks. Give me a moment..."

The display shimmers, and you see one of the floating gun platforms appear. A simple design - It's basically a capitol-scale power core and repulsor generator wrapped in armour and topped off with a turbolaster cannon. There's plenty of access - it's designed to be deployed with protection, not on their own. Energy shields only, so you can fly right up to the structure. There's flat walkway around the perimeter of the platform to give access to sensor pods. The main structure is topped with a dome that contains the tracking and activation controls for the cannon, and that dome is pierced in several locations. The platforms have thrusters for station-keeping, but no drive for movement, and generally have to be towed into location.

There's a hatch on the walkway that gives access to the engineering crawlspaces.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil studied the readout for a few moments, then shook his head.  "I can't believe they built the cannon's tracking and activation controls into a dome riddled with all these access doors," he muttered.  "Well, that's a prime place to hit them.  Take the gun crew out of commission or fry the gun controls, and it's a floating piece of shielded metal.  Or use the engineering spaces to go after the power plant.  Or even the sensor pods to blind them."

Looking at Collan, he shrugged.  "I'm thinking of two options here.  One, we try take the gun crew out on the first one we board, but right after they've loaded.  We fire that round at another platform, and get out of there the second we hit the firing stud.  If all goes well, Juno can get us out of there and over to another one before the others open fire on us.  Or two  . . . we just neutralize the gun on the first one without us firing it, and Juno moves us on to the next platform.  Less risky, and it still takes away the platform's weapon."

[Collan]

"I've been working on a few skills too. It's still hard to sense where non-sensitives are but I think I can do it. So...we jump. We open the access panel. If there are unfriendlies, a stun grenade is not out of place."

An idea sparked...

"Hey! Could we slice the sensor pods to make it think they were firing on the base when instead they are shooting each other?"

[GM Craig]

Kota shakes his head. "If the gun started training differently, the crew would be aware. It might throw off their aim a bit, but the gun is fired manually. Besides, they have redundant systems. You'd need to slice a few, and even then the crew could eyeball it."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil nodded with a grin.  "Not meaning to belittle your tech skills, Collan, but I think we'd need a Nim and Buzz team to pull of a stunt like that.  And it looks like we're gonna have to make do with blasters and lightsabers on this one; it doesn't look like we have any grenades handy."

[Collan]

"All right...we're playing a game of catch," Collan said, "We open them up like gutted fish and try to get a shot off to take out a gun, sabotage, and run away to the next platform."

"Juno...can you plot the most efficient flight pattern to take out as many guns as possible before the Star Destroyer gets overhead and obliterates us?"

[GM Craig]

"I'll work something out. You'd best get to the door."

[Last check before go-time. Anything you want to prepare?]

[Collan]

[armor?] Collan went to grab the saberstaff and his modified pistol as well as spare clips. He wished he could enter an Emptiness and give himself extra strength. Later.

"I'm ready."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil swapped the power packs out of his blaster pistols for fresh ones, and stuffed a few extras away for good measure.  As an afterthought, he grabbed his Imperial blaster rifle, safetied it,  and slung it so that it rested along his right front side, barrel end down.  "Ready here.  Let's make for the ventral hatch."

)OOC:  If there's an extra blast vest hanging around, Niil would be extremely grateful.  I'm guessing he had his confiscated back on the Death Star.)

[GM Craig]

[No armour. The Rogue Shadow was not equipped with anything like that, and Galen didn't wear armour, and you didn't have any when you left the station.]

You head back to the boarding ramp and hang on. The ship makes a few dips and jinks as Juno comes in. General Kota joins you there as Niil opens the door. He has to shout over the howling wind and the concussion of nearby turbolasers. "The turbolasers are the threat. You are there to disable the guns, not kill everything on the platform. Stay focused on your objective."

Juno's voice comes over the intercom. "Ten seconds..."

Rahm holds out a hand. You see small discs in his palm. "Take these. They are trackers, so we can follow your progress. We'll be in position to pick you up when you're ready. They might jam comms, so be ready for that."

"Over target!" comes over the intercom.

You glance out, but see only a couple of thousand feet of open air. Then, the edge of a guard rail whizzes by and you are over the platform.

[Actions?]

No sign of any troops from this vantage point. It's a DC 20 in Climbing/Jumping to jump and land on the walkway. DC 10 to land on the dome and slide to the walkway, though there's a risk for injury in that move. Juno can't stay here for long, so there's no time to spend a round preparing.

You could use Telekinesis (with appropriate MAP) to aid the climbing/jumping roll.

It's go time.

[Collan]

[what's the dc for concentration right now...5 ish?]

[GM Craig]

[yeah]

[Niil Spaar]

Niil was amused at Rahm's warning as he readied to jump.  Not our first time in the field, sir, he thought to himself.  His gaze flicked between the dome of the gun platform and the walkway.  And the few thousand feet between him and the ground.  "Once more into the breach, dear friends," he muttered as he leapt for the dome.  There was certainly a risk for injury, but at least the platform would break his fall if his landing was bad.  Hopefully.

OOC:  Niil will use Concentrate to assist in the jump only if it won't require a round to prepare.  Once Niil hits the deck (hopefully in a non-ouch way), he'll be up and ready to assist Collan.