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Acting quickly, Aryan hurls the pinned stormtrooper at the injured stormtrooper, causing him to stagger and throwing off his aim.  The Gungan then grabs his slung rifle, takes aim at the uninjured stormtrooper and fires a single shot catching him in the chest piece.

The ablative armour stops some of the blaster force, but not all of it and the trooper staggers backwards.  It's not enough to stop him and now Aryan finds himself looking down the barrels of two troopers with blaster rifles.  The third is hanging back slightly, waiting for an opening.

In the background Aryan can hear the fight at the front gate suddenly go quiet.  All he could hear was the mad panic of the aliens refugees scrambling for the trap door.  Whatever was happening at the main gate was clearly over.  Who had won was anyone's guess.


OOC:  Aryan now faces three stormtroopers.  All injured but not injured enough.  Two have rifles, the third is staying behind his comrades for now.


Aryan: 26/38VP 12/12WP

Trooper 1: Lightly Wounded (Unarmed).
Trooper 2: Severely Wounded
Trooper 3: Severely Wounded

Sheila will pull up close to the shed and then get out and approach the door.  "Is Raana in there yet?  We need to contact your person with your speeder, I have a place to go, I can drive some people there."

<INSIDE>

The three stormtroopers open up on Aryan and the Gungan fights purely on instinct, ducking, dodging and firing without much conscious thought.  A bolt catches a stormtrooper in the throat, another takes a wounded trooper in the chest plate.  A third shot is deflected by another trooper's armour.

Time seems to move so slow for the Gungan.  Only twenty seconds or so had past but they had stretched out for him.  Already he had dropped two of the stormtroopers and hit the third, though his armour had deflected the shot.  Aryan himself had not escaped totally unscathed.  A burn across his thigh reminded him of a near miss and how lucky he had been so far.

Luck however was not with everyone.  Behind him, Aryan heard the voices of panic and confusion of the fleeing refugees turn to screams of pain and terror.  Whilst he couldn't see what was happening it was clear that stormtroopers were firing at the civilians.  Either Crado and his team had fled, been pushed back or were dead.


<OUTSIDE>

When Sheila spoke the Sullustan girl poked her head out tentatively.  Sheila guessed she wasn't more than 14.

"You. . .you the human who help?" she asked fearfully.  She cringed as if she expected Sheila to beat her then pointed inside.

"People coming through.  Auntie Raana say old, young and sick go first."

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OOC:  Aryan is facing a single stormie, though all hell has broken loose in the warehouse behind him.  You can't see through all the curtains but it sounds like stormtroopers are shooting at civilians.

Sheila, if you look inside the warehouse you'll see three young aliens inside, none older than mid teen.  They're helping elderly aliens up the ladder.  Raana is nowhere to be seen.

The kids all look scared stiff of you.


Aryan: 11/38VP 12/12WP
Trooper 3: Severely Wounded

"get them in the speeder.". Then she will give the girl instructions as to where to go if she has to hoof it as she opens the back of the speeder and starts loading.

Any adults that come through, she will give them instructions for the warehouse with admonishment to be careful getting there.
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Aryan, grim faced lines up onthe final stormtrooper and fires.

Aryan and the last stormtrooper traded fire as they moved, ducked and took what cover they could.  Finally a lucky shot from Aryan deflected off the trooper's chest plate and up into his skull.  The final stormtrooper fell with a sigh.

The Gungan took a moment to catch his breath before moving as quickly and quietly as he could.  Reaching the dividing curtain his worst fears were realised.  The bodies of over a dozen aliens littered the floor.  Two stormtroopers stood shooting at anyone who moved.  Two aliens dived for the trap door.  One managed to fall down the hole, the other took a blaster in the back.  The stormtrooper then casually pulled a grenade and tossed it down the hole.

To one side, Aryan noticed a small group of aliens were still alive.  Raana was shielding five other aliens behind a table, looking desperately around for an escape route.  It would only take moments before the stormtroopers spotted them and turned their cover into toothpicks.


OOC: No sign of Crado and his team.  At least a dozen dead aliens (there were 31 to start with).  Six (including Raana) are cowering behind a table.  There are two stormtroopers as best you can tell (and they're not exactly masters of stealth)


Aryan: 6/38VP 12/12WP

Already wounded, the gungan looks at teh group and already knows he has to spring into action.  Raana and the children had no hope without his aide.

Setting his blaster on multifire, the gungan takes aim and fires.

Aryan fires from the hip, letting off a pair of bolts.  One catches one of the troopers in the chest, staggering but not killing him.  Both soldiers turn and fire scoring hits on the hapless Gungan and sending him flying backwards, his chest a smoking hole.


*FADE TO BLACK*


OOC: And the Gungan's luck abandons him.  Both troopers hit and Aryan is now dead!

Aryan: -15/12WP  DEAD

FROM THE GRAVE

DAMN!!

The girl gasps and runs back inside the warehouse in fright.  A few moments later an elderly Sullustan woman appears.

"Sheila, is that you?  Thank the stones!"

Sheila quickly recognised the woman as Sien, the Sullustan who'd run the infirmary and had assisted Sheila when she had treated the sick.  Sien quickly explained.

"It's so terrible.  Crado and his friends couldn't hold them.  They, they killed them all.  Some escaped into the tunnel, not many.  Raana insisted the wounded go first.  Those caught upstairs. . .the stormtroopers. . .opened fire on them"  she broke off as tears came to her eyes, the thought of so many innocents gunned down before her.

She shook off her tears.  "We have more wounded down there.  The stormtroopers dropped a grenade down the hole.  Killed two, injured several.  We're getting them up as fast as we can."

A scream came from the tunnel.  It was loud enough for Sheila and Sien to hear outside the shed.  A girl came running up to Sien.

"Stormtroopers in the tunnel!  They're coming but we haven't got Riel and Vortel up yet.  The others are trying to get them up.  What do we do?"

Sien looked to Sheila helplessly.  "Riel was badly injured by the grenade and Vortel you'll remember has the injured pelvis.  They wont be able to get them out in a hurry."

"Get as many into the speeder as possible, I'm going to try to collapse the tunnel between us and them.  I don't know if it will work."  She gives the woman the padd with the map to the new place on it.  "Tell those who don't fit how to get here, I'll be back."

Sheila will head into the tunnel, gun ready.

Sheila moves into the shed, past the surprised aliens and down the ladder into the tunnel.  The aliens point further down the tunnel.  Moving about ten metres, Sheila can see the gleaming white of stormtrooper armour another forty metres or so down the tunnel.  They bring their rifles up when they see Sheila watching them.


OOC:  You can make out two stormtroopers about forty metres down the tunnel.  There could be more further back but you can't be sure.
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In reply to Master Servious (msg # 173):

Sheila aims as soon as she sees the troopers, at the ceiling just in front of them, firing repeatedly.

Sheila begins firing her blaster pistol, trying to concentrate her fire on the roof just in front of the stormtroopers.  The bolts fail to cause much damage to the sturdy roof, especially when she couldn't tightly group her shots at such range.

The shooting did have an alternate effect though.  The stormtroopers who hadn't made a move to this point suddenly opened fire on Sheila and their rifles, much more accurate at range flew perilously close to the slicer.  The two troopers advanced as they fired.


OOC:  At just over 40 metres you were taking a -6 penalty to your attacks, only an expert marksman could group their shots at such range.

Well the troopers are now advancing.  And to make things worse, blaster rifles take no penalties at all at 40 metres!

So much for that.

Start shooting at the troopers.

(ROll aa 13 and a 3,

back up. quickly.
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Sheila fired a few ineffectual shots and began to retreat.  The stormtroopers gave chase, blasters firing.

About twenty metres back, Sheila got to a point she could retreat no more.  The aliens were only just behind her and would be in the field of fire if she went any further.  She also noticed the last part of the tunnel was too narrow for two stormtroopers to advance abreast, which cut down the amount of bolts that would fly at her.  She crammed herself into a niche as best she could and started firing.

The next minute was a blur of fire and panic.  Bolts flew in both directions.  Sheila cursed as she hit the troopers several times.  They were hard to miss, but their armour shrugged off or lessened the impact of her little pistol shots.  However after three sustained hits, one went down, the other rapidly pursuing.  Sheila kept firing, the stormtrooper getting closer and closer.  Finally, when she felt he must envelop her, a bolt finally brought the trooper low, less than five metres from her position.

Sheila quickly checked herself and found she wasn't badly hurt.  She had some burns that she should tend when time allowed but nothing that would slow her down in the short term.  The stormtrooper near her she noticed wasn't so lucky.  He wasn't dead yet, but the white of his armour was growing red at the waist where his blood was rapidly pouring out, meaning she'd severed some major vein or artery.

Behind her an alien ran up to her.  "You. . .you stopped them." The alien was quite young and likely grown up on stories about indestructable stormtroopers, the scourge of the wicked.  "We only have one more stretcher to get up.  We'll be ready in a minute or so."


OOC:  Congratulations Sheila, you have just downed two stormtroopers and saved the aliens.  The tunnel is clear for now and the aliens are moving quickly to get the wounded upstairs.  You can also help yourself to a nice blaster rifle or other goodies you saw fit.


Sheila: 4/27VP 10/10WP
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Sheila will quickly rob the dead and soon to be dead stormtroopers, taking their rifles, their belts, grappling hooks and frag grenades, since the group she's with needs more weapons, then she will get back upstairs and make sure as many as possible get in the speeder.


On the way up, she will attempt to contact Aryan, although she suspects that he's either dead or captured.  She's gonna finish the mission before she goes trying to rescue him.  "eight, this is three, report."

Burdened by her newly acquired gear, Sheila made her way back to the ladder leading up.  She saw they were just getting the last of the injured aliens up now.  There had been two but one had clearly caught a blaster shot from one of the stormtroopers intended for Sheila.

Within a minute they had loaded the last of the injured aliens into the speeder, then the rest began cramming in.  It would be a tight squeeze, but Sheila thought they'd get all fifteen in.  Already the injured were moaning in pain from all the people squashing in on them.

Sheila slid into the driver's seat prepared to move out then felt the acid in her stomach rise.  A stormtrooper command speeder suddenly came into view, parking across the exit to the alley only ten to fifteen metres away.  Two stormtroopers had exited the vehicle and were looking down the path at them.

She wished Aryan was with her, but the Gungan was not answering his comm.  It was possible his comm was damaged or he was keeping silent on purpose but something in her gut told her it was something far worse.



OOC:  Sheila, either this is the same command speeder from in front of the warehouse or they've called in reinforcements.  They're blocking the alley (which has one exit) with their speeder.  Currently you've only seen two troopers and neither has made a move towards you, they're just standing there.

On a side note, landspeeder can hover up to a couple of metres above the ground so it's possible you could fly over their speeder (though troopers shooting at your undercarriage could kill your repulsors.  Ramming is a possibility.  However their speeder has light armour, yours does not.  The vehicles are similar in weight.

You now have:

E-11 Blaster Rifle x 2
Frag Grenade x 2
Grappling hook x 2
Stormtrooper utility belt x 2

Please add them to your equipment list.  Items not on your list don't exist!

Sheila hands one of the blasters to a passenger, prepared a frag grenade then guns the repulsors.  With a quick prayer she rams the throttle to full, throws max power to the repulsorlifts in an effort to get over the speeder.  As she closes she hurls a grenade out the window and orders the passenger to shoot.

Things happen in a blur and too quickly to see all.  The passenger fires a few wild shots but they go nowhere near as they're too busy cowering from the sustained stormtrooper fire hitting the speeder.

The speeder flies over the stormtrooper's heads before the hurled grenade explodes.  The trooper's fire slackens to nothing as they hurl themselves behind cover.  Then the speeder clears the command vehicle. scraping it slightly then Sheila is on open road.

Her speeder keeps pulling to the left slightly and she has to divert power to one of the rear left repulsors.  Clearly the troopers had hit a repulsorlift.  It was forcing her to reduce speed to divert power and she had to hold the speeder on course as it kept trying to veer left.

A shout from the back made her look in her rear display.  The stormtrooper vehicle was in pursuit.  She had a headstart but she wasn't sure how long it would last.


OOC:  You bought yourself about a 20 second head start.  The stormtrooper speeder is a few hundred metres back.

Sheila keeps driving, trying to keep the speed up, "Just hang in there."  There's not really anything else she can tell them.

Sheila focused on putting as much speed as possible while holding the speeder on course.  It took a great deal of concentration so she assigned one of her front seat passengers, a young boy to watch the stormtrooper progress.

After about thirty seconds he cried.  "I think you lost them."  Sheila checked her rear mirrors and scanners and she thought for a minute she had too.  Then she noticed them, several blocks back.

She was so focused on the speeder that her speed eased off.  When she realised she applied speed again but the stormtrooper gained no ground, remaining several blocks behind.  She lost sight of it at times, only picking it up again because it was so distinctive (being an armoured stormtrooper carrier).

It looks like they may have dropped back, but she's not going to say anything to the nonhu,ams.  "We have a place to go, I want everyone to stay calm."  She slowed down a little, to under the limit, watching the speeder, no need to get the attention of the regular traffic police, and heads to where Cpr directs her.  Pf cpirse, that begs the question of what to do with them afterward.  She also gives report over the comm.

**THREAD CLOSED - MOVE TO THE DESTRUCTION THREAD**