Captain Sivren
"Well.." Devon hesitated, glanced at Zyra, then tried again.
"For the moment we're secure up here, but that wont last forever. Sooner or later, someone's gonna notice somethin' aint right here on the Skyhook an' investigate... an' then we're screwed. We need to be leavin', an' quickly.
When it comes to gettin' outta here, I can see three problems: Blockade, Medical an' head-count.
Head count: if we stick to the container, then we can get ourselves an' a bunch of prisoners out, especially if we leave that walker behind... but my medic, Eight, do't like that. He's tellin' me that even with the treatment we can give here on the Skyhook, some of our wounded may die if we dont get them outta here fast. Includin' the Admiral. Thats our medical problem, we're on a time limit here. Eight wants to fly them out on that shuttle we captured. An' if we're usin' the shuttle an' the container, then we can take a hell of a lotta people with us, if we want.
That brings us to the blockade - anythin' we launch that gets detected will be investigated by the Imps. Our container is stealthed, an' got in undetected, so we're runnin' no extra risks there... but that shuttle is a different matter.
Now here's where it gets interestin': when the Skyhook was taken, we managed to capture most of the crew, rather than kill them. Now we're tryin' to decide what to do with them. Given the files we've found an' what Six learned from interrogatin' the base commander... current favourite options seem to be either killin' them or dump them down in the jungle an' let the local wildlife sort them out.
Anyhow, one of the officers was in the brig... a junior lieutenant called Arcas Endeel. We interrogated him. Says he was locked up because he protested the treatment of the prisoners. We've managed to dig supportin' evidence outta files belongin' both to him an' the base commander. When you look at his age compared to his rank, Five an' Six reckon you're lookin' at a guy who's pissed off someone high up, and they've blocked his promotion. Probably repeatedly."
Devon paused to gulp from his mug of caf. Decent hot caf. The supplies they had down there in the jungle just didn't cut it. Or sometimes they DID cut things, depending what had managed to crawl into your lunch before you ate it. That had been a bad day to go to the toilet...
"The bit I like is that Endeel wants to cut a deal. His duties included shuttle pilot whenever they did supply runs. He knows the clearance codes to get that shuttle past the Star Destroyers. The comms officers know him. They won't suspect anythin'.
In return, he wants safe passage for himself an' four others - technicians an' crew who he says feel the same way he did about the prisoners treatment.
If this guy is on the level, its just removed one problem for us - we'll be able to get the shuttle out easily. We could put our injured an' high value people on it, an' extract everyone else via the container."