There is a map in Group 0. If it is hard for you to read, say something. I hope it will provide a useful visual aid.

I'm guessing there was nothing in the compartment we were nervously investigating then?

No.  and you knew about it to begin with. And it's actually one of two smuggling compartment. The other one is in the neck of the ship, on the way to the cockpit.

1boost, one free upgrade to piloting check to stay hidden on approach. If that is what you end up doing. Maybe you will just sail out into open space, I don't know. You guys always surprise me.

What is the difficulty / setbacks to come in from the "north" side of the map to the back side of the planet?  We would time the entry so that this patrol is on the far side.  a few hyperspace jumps to get around to the other side.

OOC I'm rather confused as to the direction of the plot :(   Probably my own fault but if someone could confirm where we're going and more importantly, at what stage of the travel we're at, please?

We are trying to land on K1 to start our mission.

Right now we are FAR out of the system doing a passive sensor look as we plan our approach.  We are going to meld two approaches into one:

1. Try to come in stealthy.
2. If detected, say we are merchants.

This way if one fails, we have a backup.

"If you look out the port side windows, you will see Karhexadine 1, our target objectiveÈ

You are "near" the gas giant, as in only a few thousand kilometres away from it. You have not yet entered the asteroid belt.

Ok :-) Just confirming as I wasn't sure if we wanted to try and use the gun-runners.  But that we could maybe use on the way out :-)

new house rule:, If you have taken some ranks in a non career skill, and consequently paid extra experience for them, and then later obtained a new specialization that gives you that skill as a career skill,

You are refunded the experience points you spent as an extra cost.

example. You are an Outlaw Tech who purchased two ranks in Stealth. This required 5 points extra for each rank, for a total of 10. Later you take the Slicer specialization, which provides Stealth as a career skill. You are refunded the 10 points you spent on the two ranks of Stealth that, had you had Stealth as a career skill, you would not have spent.

Roger Roger.

I think there are no objections to this plan.

GM, can you post the summary of 24hrs of observation?

The Alpha Team settles down on their, shutting down all nonessential systems to minimize their signal output. It seems to work fairly well. The fighters fly on without changing course.

After a little while, some albedo fluxuations seems to be coming from the planet. Without active scanning it's hard to tell from this distance, but it seems that something sizable is in orbit around the planet.

It's been an hour, and you are debating what this means, when an alarm sounds in the cockpit. Forim and the flight team are on it at once. It is a proximity alarm; something has just come out of hyperspace.

About half an AU behind the Sunset Shimmer, a ship enters the system. It immediately powers up its sublight engines and shields and begins racing forward at combat speed. You note its class immediately: a Skipray Blastboat.

Pilot and Gunners must roll Vigilance. All else can roll either Cool or Vigilance.

Sitting in the navagation seat, Kraken worked the ships system computer, checking and updating, scanning and surfing.

OOC:
COOL - 'Kraken' rolled 1 success, 1 advantage

Erhm.... guys... can we please move these posts to the IC thread?

I copied the GMs text into my last post, as thats where it seems to fit time wise :)

  Force of habit, I reply in the same thread as the GM when he ask questions.

Oops. silly me.

Well, I suppose the GM can ignore my questions about the ships trajectory, as Caddy announced our location.

My question about hyperspace coordinates and relative power of the two ships still stand!

You can jump to hyperspace after spending one combat round using the "stay on target" action. A ship needs to be going relatively straight to make a jump to lightspeed.

A Skipray blastboat is more heavily armed, but not faster or more agile.

If you have any advantages or triumphs from your initiative roll, you can use them to assist with the first combat round. Such as an Aim action.

I thought of something different to spend the triumph on, if getting out of range is not possible.

The flash of engine power blinds their sensors, and they are unable to get a clear signature reading before we jump to hyperspace.

Am I still in the other turret? Sorry I haven't been around, but I'd like to hop back in if possible.

Sure, NP Zeic.

EVERYONE: In future, you can start any conflict anywhere aboard the ship you want, unless I say otherwise. For instance, if you are sleeping while the ship is in hyperspace and you suddenly come out of hyperspace.

Okay, Forim. Your engine's boost is currently obscuring the ship's engine signature, making it super hard to read.

Question-

22:52, Today: Zeic Plirr rolled 4 successes, 7 advantages using the Star Wars Edge of the Empire with a dice pool of 4A 1D 3B.
Did I do this correctly? I'm assuming that we're at short range because we're right in the engine wash. If I screwed up I'll reroll.

This all assumes that it's even my turn, of course. I rolled pretty high on my vigilance check, if that helps.

I thought we were at medium range? That was the case, and the Skipray had a 2D roll?...

In which case its 2D to hit, but you'll also need something to increase the range of our guns (short I think?). There's also the double upgrade on your roll you didn't account for 2P+2A.
If we are at medium range and you don't have sniper shot, I will gladly take the bonuses ;)