Collan and Niil: Rescue on Chabosh

[Collan]

Collan pulled a mirror from his bug-out bag and crawled under a window. He slowly raised the mirror, hoping to get a look at the situation outside the crashed shuttle. The Imperial response was a little too fast for his taste; he figured this group had backup...but where?

ooc: I guess this would be a sneak roll?

[GM Craig]

You peek through the viewport using the mirror. You see a AT-ST walker standing over the shuttle, about thirty meters away. Beneath it, a squad (7) of Imperial Regulars are fanning out and approaching the shuttle.

[Collan]

Collan backed away from the window.

“Sit rep. There’s at least one AT-ST and a squad of Imperial regulars moving in. Who’s armed?”

[ooc: how long do we have till the regulars reaxh the shuttle? This feels a little too Rogue One?]

[Niil Spaar]

Niil muttered, "I've got a heavy blaster pistol and an Imperial blaster rifle."  He looked at Collan.  "Neither of which are going to matter much with that scout walker out there, unless we can coax it to point-blank range and get under its guns.  I don't think this is a fight we can win.  We might need to stall for time.  Does anyone have a communicator?"

[Collan]

Collan pointed to a medic, “Check the LT’s body for comm. get the datapad and his weapon too.”

He paused, “I’m thinking distraction time, everyone. We can’t win this battle. If you don’t have something to do right now, look for anotger exit or a place we can make one. Niil...I’m thinking we need a smoke screen. You,” he pointed to the other medic,” check aft. See if that vector is clear. I’ve got a couple ideas for distractions but we need a clear exit vector.”

To Niil, Collan said, “We need to get a lot of smoke and dust up. Some good explosions would do that. Downsize: it tells them we’re here. My next best idea uses the Force...remember the sandstorm? I can do that again. Downsize: dear old dad will almostly assuredly sense it. It’ll be the Inquisition down on us hard eventually. And that’s one I don’t think we can escape from.”

Ooc: Darren, it’s up to Niil to mention full cells. Or maybe we can make a fuel-air bomb...

[Niil Spaar]

Niil shook his head as he checked his weapons.  "They probably already know we're here.  Let's resort to using the Force as a last option and go for conventional first.  Starting a fire is good; lots of combust . . . hey!  Does this shuttle have any fuel left?  If we plan it right, we can create a lot of smoke to cover our escape, then when the cells ignite . . . whoomp."  To the others he, muttered, "Pass me a comm if you find one . . . I'm gonna see if there's any fuel left."

[GM Craig]

From the inside of the shuttle, it is hard to tell, but it looks like the entire engineering section and the drive core broke away while the shuttle was going down. There might be some emergency power cells in the forward section where you are, but there's no fuel as far as you can tell.

Neither of you are techies, so you'd be kind of guessing and hunting to find anything you might be able to jury-rig into an improvised explosive.

[GM Craig]

You've recovered a datapad from the LT. He had a helmet comlink, but it's been fried.

The atmosphere it pretty dirty already - smoke from your crash is obscuring vision a little. If you had a suitable distraction, you could maybe slip some of your people away. Not a stretcher though.

The only things you could rig for explosives that come readily to hand are blaster packs.

[Collan]

[ooc: what kind of cover is nearby?]

[GM Craig]

There's quite a trench from the crash. The terrain father out appears to be rocky and scrubby, but no large cover within view.

The walker is standing on the edge of the impact trench your ship made. You might be able to destabilize the ground under it. It has gyros to keep it upright, but those have limits.

There are also view hatches the drivers use to see out of that are open. If you could land a shot or explosive through those, you may be able to remove the walker as an issue, but it would be a difficult shot / throw.

[Collan]

“Niil...I’m not seeing much choice at this point. Trina can’t walk under her own power and we can’t sneak away carrying her. If nothing else, I can use my powers now and go into hibernation once we get somewhere safe.”

“Patch me up a little...it’ll make it less taxing to focus on what I need to do.”

[Niil Spaar]

Niil nodded wordlessly, his mind already working on a plan that . . . if it worked! . . . would greatly reduce the odds against them.  As he suspected, the shuttle didn't have a drive section left, so no fuel.  And there wasn't anything volatile enough on board to bring that scout walker down in one burst.  Still, the scout walkers have one vulnerability to small-arms fire.  A very small vulnerability . . .

Getting the medpack open, he said softly, "Everyone, hunker down and away from the windows. I want one of you to soak some gauze in alcohol, and wrap it tight around a glass bottle filled with the same stuff.  Sing out if any of you see any movement.  We might be able to get out of this mess." 

Setting his weapons down within grabbing distance, he started to tend to Collan's wounds.  "Better tell me quick what you have planned," he whispered, "'cause this wreck's the only real cover we've got.  If we try to leg it we're gonna get fried, and I'm not leaving anyone behind.  If I have a few seconds and the right firing position, I might be able to get a shot through the viewport and take out one of them.  Maybe both, I don't know."

[Collan]

“Basically, I’m going to remove the dirt from under one of it legs. I’m going to have to reach deep to do it. Otherwise, there’s no way we get everyone out of here.”

“Remember the sand in the arena on Ossus? How it shifted and trapped those monsters? That was me.”

[Niil Spaar]

Niil chuckled.  "Do tell.  Yeah , that trench that opened up out of nowhere was a bit of a giveaway.  Tell you what . . . once I'm done here, let me try get into position for a shot at the pilot first.  When you hear me say, "Go for it", tip that walker over."

[Collan]

[ooc: so that’s the plan? If we can block their view, that woeks. Otherwise, Collan will do conc on tk with a fp]