Transit to Atrivis

[GM Craig]

The transport takes off, and in short order you are in hyperspace. It's a little over 4 days in transit, so you have some time to sort out a few things, and make some plans.

[Trax]

It wasn't long after the transition to hyperspace when Trax was sitting in the common room, his mood well soured since their surprise, to him anyway, guest was announced and had boarded.  Maris' presence was not only unwelcome in a personal sense, but it also posed a significant threat to Nim's safety.

"Let's just get this over with." He grumbled to himself before standing and walking over to a panel. He hit the comm to send a general broadcast throughout the ship.

"Time to start talking plans and tactics. In the common room." He said before hitting the panel again to turn the comm off and going back to his seat.

[GM Craig]

A few moments later, Maris appears in the doorway. She glances around, and takes a seat a short distance from Trax on the opposite side of the table.

"Before she gets there, I want you to know I tried to talk her out of the whole 'me' business. She thinks I can help out, and I can. But you know better than her what we're going to come up against sooner or later. I don't want anyone taking the fall for me, so if anything like that happens, I'm going to make as much noise as I can and get their attention on me. You - your job is to get Nim someplace safe, salvage the operation or cut your losses, and get clear. That work for you?"

[Trax]

Trax was a little stunned. It was a very selfless statement.

"I can work with that." he replied with a small nod. The man's tone was significantly less irritated than it was over the comm.  In fact, his tone carried with it some of his surprise and even some measure of respect for the Jedi at having even made the offer.

[GM Craig]

"Right. She promised no 'thrilling heroics' but you know how impulsive she can be."

[Trax]

Trax couldn't help the small smile that crept across his face.

"Yeah, I know.

When things go sideways it'll be a fight to make her live up to that promise."

[Nim Naja]

Nim walked in and stopped abruptly, definitely not expecting the pair to be alone together. Her eyes flicked from one to the other suspiciously before sitting down. Now what would they have been talking about...

"Whatsup?"

[Trax]

Trax looked at Nim as the woman stood in the door way. Thanks to her training he was able to read what she was thinking. His gaze followed her as she took a seat and he looked directly at her.

We were talking about you.

"Setting the whole 'we're a team' aside for now, we need to plan for what happens when the Empire catches up with us. Nim, you and I are likely to draw pretty standard attention, you said the public contracts had been rescinded but they'll have their own squads they'll use and they're likely to be pretty standard, a number of well trained troopers."

Trax turned to Maris.

"You on the other hand, I'm not sure. Obviously they've been sending hunters specifically trained to deal with Jedi, and they may very well continue to do that. But I'm guessing they've sent more than just hunters after you in the past?

But let's start with the hunters anyway, their primary weapon is unlikely to be a blaster unless it's a repeater.  But they're very unwieldy in close quarters so even that's fairly unlikely.

Which means explosive type weapons, which is fairly limited if the goal is live capture, sonic weapons, flame projectors, anything that your saber can't deflect.  So what have they used against you?"

[GM Craig]

She shakes her head. "Repeaters yeah, set for burst fire. They'll use plasma flamethrowers, scatter blasters, scatterguns, grenades, and cluster bombs. I can block or catch blaster bolts pretty easily, but area effect weapons are a lot harder to counter. My only real option then is escape and evade. They will even be effective against me when I cloak. They'll try to set traps as much as possible - stun nets, mines, bombs - to knock me off guard before them come in. They know the more they can hurt me in advance, the less effective I am. The last few years before I went to ground, they were coming with teams specially trained and equipped, to keep the pressure up. Avoiding 5 cluster bombs is tough. Avoiding 20 from 4 directions is a whole other level of hard. All it takes is one to get through and tag me and I'm vulnerable for a few seconds until i can bring my defences back up."

[PM sent to Nim.]

[Nim Naja]

"I don't think it'll just be standard squads. Well, maybe for me, I'm a tech, which I'm fairly sure means live capture only. You though, they know you well now. Between the carnage you wrought on the mountaintop and the likely recorded escapades on the station I'm going to guess dead or alive. More than just standard troopers and probably internally hired indy and imperial hunters with a much more sizable bounty than you previously had."

"Also, flechettes. Extremely difficult to deflect with a saber due to how many can be launched at once. Nasty little things especially fired overhead."

She looked a bit apologetic to Maris. "Never used one, but it was a favorite for droid troops in the Clone Wars for close combat. Boring-as-kark military history class I tried skipping out on was good for something at least."


Ooc: Craig beat me to it

[Trax]

"How big have the teams they sent been?"

[GM Craig]

Maris frowns. "Biggest I've seen was ten. After that, they started sending inquisitors. Those are tough in a different way."

[Trax]

The wheels in Trax's head were spinning.

Ten...could take a few out before they realized she isn't alone...then it gets tricky.   But a few might be enough.

"The traps they set up, they try to force you where they want you to go...I wonder if we can equip Buzz with some tools to safely set them off ahead of you...any thoughts on how they do end up finding you?"

[GM Craig]

"Not so much force me a certain way as they learn the ways I take and set traps on them. They can find me so many ways... DNA sniffers, spies, probe droids, pheromone tracers. I can't stay cloaked all the time, and even cloaked I leave traces.  Inquisitors can sense me even if they don't know exactly where I am. I try to be unpredictable, but I need to eat and drink, which means interacting with folk at some point even if it is just to steal from them. I can be a ghost, but I'm a ghost that leaves footprints. I can sense danger, but not when I'm cloaked. Cloaking is a great defence ability, but it also makes me vulnerable because it takes intense concentration."

She pauses here, and holds up a hand. "Look, keep in mind that I have beaten every team sent against me but two. There's not many tricks they can use against me that I haven't already seen."

[Trax]

"And I'm not discounting that fact, I'd be an idiot if I did.  But we," Trax indicated Nim and himself.

"Need to be just as prepared as you seeing as we'll likely be in the line of fire as well." He paused, wondering if his choice of wording was enough that Maris understood he was sticking to their arrangement of his job was to make sure Nim was safe, while Nim would hear it as his intentions were to actually help the jedi.  The only problem there was Nim's ability to read people.

"We'll get back to the how they found you in a bit, what's an inquisitor?"