Gossip and Thinking Hats

[Niil Spaar]

"Not really.  There wasn't even an Imperial presence on the planet until the invasion and the Lendt Massacre.  It all goes back to when Palpatine first came into power.  Karvis actually supported him because they believed in what he was saying about a new order.  That was before he started dropping his veil of rancor crap.  Time passed, and the Karvis reps in the senate started getting more vocal about opposing  Palpatine's deplorable edicts.  I think what really did it was when the Karvis reps got ticked off with one of the more recent Imperial military expenditures, and threatened to tax all Imperial ships using the Karvis Three docking facilities."

Niil winced.  "Yeahhh, that didn't go over too well.  The Empire sent in a strike force two weeks later, captured the space stations orbiting Karvis Three, and pretty well took away most of the planet's defenses with that strike.  The rest is history.  The fighter battle was over pretty quickly, and the Imps shut down the system, seizing any ships that saw what happened and destroying others that tried to escape."  His eyes narrowed.  "That's when the ground campaign started, supported by TIE bombers.  And the obliteration of Lendt."

[Collan]

"Yeah," Collan recalled in clear and sobering detail his interview with Palpatine, "The Emperor would not take any challwnge to his power. The second that was declared Karvis was going to be 'taught a lesson.'"

"I doubt there was an ulterior motive then. It could be in analying this we being Demaia's vision to fruition. There's really not enough data yet."

[Niil Spaar]

"Hard to say regarding all of that, yes.  But we're just looking at the initial invasion of Karvis, and the underground transport through the Blade Sea.  We did go on a lot of missions for the resistance between those times, though.  Maybe there's something of significance in there . . . maybe not.  That's the fun of analysis."

Niil thought back.  "It should be interesting to see what happens with the power dynamics within the Imperials on Karvis now.  Remember Plarn province?  That's where the Imperial government is.  What was the name of that oily bastard governor?  Fiytha?  Well, there's no love lost between him and Moff Karn, from what Senator Vess mentioned.  Karn never even wanted the Imps on Karvis, but Fiytha did some string-pulling to force Karn to place his command on Karvis. Hell, if it wasn't for Fiytha, the Empire might not have decided to occupy Karvis after the attack."


OOC:  Beyond that, I can't recall OOC anything that might stick out as certain oddities and/or patterns to show why Karvis is so important. 

[Collan]

Collan rubbed his chin.

"And that nano poison...the one that got me attached to you guys from the Senator's cell. Why test that on Karvis? It gets out of control and a major agricultural producer for a sector gets taken down. That had to have been set up quickly."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil shook his head, mystified. "You got me there.  Unless it was targeted for a certain species.  With the Emperor, it's damned hard to guess as to what lengths he's willing to go to."


OOC:  That's the mission I was wracking my brains over trying to remember!  Did you have it archived somewhere?  I don't recall seeing it on this site.

[Collan]

[ooc: not unless Craig has them. That was two computers ago and the irc logs died when the harddrive literally blew up]

"Yeah...but the Resistance was barely two months old then. Why do that test on a planet you just bombed into submission? And on a barely organized Resistance? We were contained...for the most part. I think maybe you're right; we should fill Kota in. He might see patterns we don't since he was outside Karvis."

[Niil Spaar]

"Yeah . . . we'll probably have to put it all into point form or something along those lines, 'cause there's a drek-load of info on all our encounters and missions.  We can expand on anything he has questions about."  Pulling out his datapad, he offered it to Collan.  "Do you want to start with how you ended up on Karvis, or me first?"


OOC:  So I'm thinking just a summary of everything that happened on Karvis right from our arrival (maybe even events that led us to Karvis) until our departure with Ch'lana.  I know the "insert memory cube" methods robs us from a lot of RP and interest, but RP'ing a Karvis report could take a loooooong time.   

[Collan]

Collan said, "You can first and then I'll jump in on Lendt. I was on the the run alone those first few weeks."

[Niil Spaar]

Niil grunted, and shot Collan a look of mock annoyance.  "Sure, make me go first . . ."  He turned the datapad around, sat back, and let his mind go back to when he was first pulled out of the academy by Master Dhoresh.  Yeah, might as well start there and work our way up to Lendt.  He started to list everything in point form, often going back to make corrections and additions as he remembered additional nuggets of information.  It took him considerable time, but he finally got to the point just prior to the Lendt Massacre.  So let's see . . . I've got my time with Master Dhoresh and my arrival on Karvis Three, our mission against the Blade Sea pirate gang, the weapons cache mission, the bio plant . . . I wonder if that one and the asteroid base were linked . . . the munitions depot, that damned bounty hunter Blaine Whitehawk coming after me . . . that should be about it.  Collan joined our team when we went to investigate that asteroid base, right?  So we'll work together from there.

Waving Collan over, he said, "Might as well pull up a seat here; I've gotten to a point just before Lendt, so we're gonna be co-authoring the rest."

[Collan]

Collan sat and started on his portion. The vision of little green Jedi Master. His escape. Travelling to Lendt and the bombardment. How he helped others escape and then how he'd been on the run. Finally, he got where he hooked up woth Pasteur's cell. The nanopoison was his first and only mission before being transferred over to the Specs.

"All right...that's me," He said when done, "Now we coauthor this thing."

[Trax]

OOC: Sorry to interrupt you currently scheduled topic, but I've got point form notes on a couple of missions on page 2 under OOC, General Discussion if it helps any.

[Niil Spaar]

Niil stared at the datapad for awhile, then nodded to himself and started to type.  ?So, you first joined the Specs when we went to check out that asteroid base . . .   What was it that the Empire had there?  A quantum collider?  They were taking the toxins from the reactor and using it to poison life within a preserve near . . . Megyek Ebol?  Yeah, that was the place.  We also snagged a few cannisters of anti-toxin from that base as well.  And that?s when we first met the Lady in Red and her red troopers.  I still wonder if she?s an Inquisitor or one of the Emperor?s Hands. That base was clearly important." 

Niil shook his head.  "Later on I'm gonna have to look up any information I can find about that preserve to see what stands out about it.  Isolation?  Certain species?  Hmmm. I'll make a note of that."  Niil punched a few keys, and stopped.  "What was after that?  I guess when we took out that supply depot and took a memory core dump (ie. Mission # 1).  That was pretty routine, I guess.  Still . . ."  He wrote up the mission as if he was preparing an after-action report, and looked it over once he was finished.  "All right, next one . . . Trax went on a solo mission against a data node facility near Plarn and brought back a prisoner as well as the codes and algorithms needed to crack that memory core dump (ie. Mission # 2), which led to . . ."  Niil sighed.  Yeah, he remembered that mission all too well.  The prisoner break where a trap had been set for Nill, Trax and Jex.  They got most of the prisoners away despite the trap, but in their escape they'd unintentionally rammed a civilian car with a family inside.  The parents had been killed in the crash, which had orphaned their two children.  Although Nill hadn't been driving, he felt as responsible for their deaths as if he'd been behind the wheel.

"The prisoner liberation from the detention facility," he said flatly, and started to type.  Collan probably knew all about that mission, and Niil hoped that he wouldn't be asked to expand much on that one.


OOC:  So Niil will create an after-action report on all the special forces missions listed, as well as any stuff that didn't involve the spec forces missions (ie. independents stuff).

[GM Craig]

[OK. It'll take a few hours to put all that together.]

[Niil Spaar]

It took nearly three hours to finish the rough draft of the report, and almost another two to finalize it with clarifications and additions.  Empty containers of food and drink were strewn across the table, and Niil took a last chug from a mug of kavvy.  He plonked the mug down with a disgusted look, and muttered, "Gahhh.  Cold kavvy.  I'd rather drink Hutt slime."  Niil stifled a yawn, rubbed at his eyes and held up the notepad in his hand.  "Well, that looks to be about it, unless you can think of anything else to add.  We can take this to Rahm now.  It should be easy enough to set this notepad up so that it vocalizes the text if Rahm wants to go over it on his own time."