Sheila waved at the aliens that had taken off under her orders, hoping they could see her.  "COme back."  Then ran to Xil.  "WHere to from here?"

A stun shaken Xil tried to gather his thoughts as quickly as he could. It took a moment before he could brain in gear.

"Well that went more or less as planned." he said aloud but to no one in particular. Focusing and prioritising his actions "Three, get what weapons you can off the troopers. Split them up, half your speeder half on the other. Lets move a few of the walking to the other speeder to free up some room on yours. For the moment we will head back to the Alien hideout. We'll organise a better rendezvous location on the way" he looks around as he doesn't see Rann "Where's Six, we have to be out of here in the next couple of minutes max. I'm sure we've drawn attention."

He moves off and starts re-directing some of the returning decoys to the imp speeder as he also gathers weapons. On the comm he says "Six get over here we need to get loaded up and out of here asap."

In reply to Exilim Nallis (msg # 112):

"We should take the bodies with us, wihtout bodies, it's just shots fired, with bodies, it's obvious we have the speeder."  She headed back to her speeder and as the runners came back (hopefully they did) "Let's get their weapons, then I want you guys to pick up the troopers and stick them in their speeder.  We can't leave them here.  Then come back to this speeder.  THe speeders  are going different places."  Then she picked up the weapons the troopers had and put them in her speeder.  Once the others are crowded in, she'll get back in, ready to head to the coordinates that Cor had given her.

(OOC, my understanding is the troopers are by my speeder, so I need to go back there to search them anyhow.  And my undestanding of Cor's plan has the refugees going one way and the imperial speeder going back to te original warehouse..
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OOC: Weapons/gear collected

Each trooper had:

Stormtrooper armour x 1 set
Grappling hook and line
E-11 blaster rifle
Utility belt
Frag grenade x 2


If you take the time to search the speeder you will find:
E-11 Blaster rifle x 4
Light repeater x 2
E-Web blaster (with tripod)
Frag grenades x 20
Stun grenades x 28
Thermal Detonators x 6
Grenade launcher x 4
Electrobinoculars x 3
Power pack x 50
Detonite blocks x 5
Breaching changes x 4
Timers x 4
Remote Detonators x 2
Medkit x 4
Medpac x 10



Now I need a clear account of who is going in which speeder, where the gear is going and what location each speeder is going to.  There are conflicting reports from the various people involved

Xil, Rann is standing in the middle of the road so he's hard to miss!  He was trying to be stealthy but when you're in the middle of the road with no cover it's very hard to do!

And yes Sheila, your runners come back when instructed
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Sheila will amend her orders to the nonhumans  "Bring back any medical equipment in the speeder, we'll need it."  If allowed, all the equipment off the stormtroopers besides the actual armor will come to her speeder.
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Sorting through the information coming through his comm and what he had in front of him Xil remembered why he loved the solitude that one could get as a sniper at times. Sure, things could get interesting, but there was always those moments one could spend with ones own thoughts.

Bringing himself back to the present "Good idea on the trooper bodies Three, they'll go onto the imp speeder for now. Take what medical supplies you can find and the blaster rifles in case you need them. Everything else stays on the troopers. Then get all the refugees onto your speeder and head to the location Eleven gave you. It will be a little tight but it will be safer for you all."

Spotting Rann "Let's move Six, I need these bodies put into the imp speeder now and then we have to get a move on." he says as he starts to move one of the troopers.

As soon as the troopers bodies are on the speeder Xil will head off with Rann to meet up with Troop leader.

Xil, Rann loaded up the two dead stormtroopers in the armoured speeder and headed off in the direction of the warehouse.  They estimated it would take about ten to fifteen minutes to get there.  They'd need a plan to deal with this 'Troop Leader' and the remaining stormtrooper before they arrived.

Sheila meanwhile had not only not managed to get rid of any passengers, she'd further cramped her speeder by loading up a heap of medical supplies, two extra rifles and more grenades.  Fortunately the destination Cor had set was less than fifteen minutes away.  Given she had left the city limits, she could probably go a bit faster.



OOC:  Giving Xil and Rann a quick chance to discuss what they plan to do at the warehouse when they get there.  Remember all you'll know is a rough layout described by Sheila (since she's not with you, she can't help).

On the bright side, Xil and Rann have time to discuss plans, the other Talons accessible by comm, an armoured speeder and an arsenal of weaponry to use!

Sheila drives the speeder toward where they've been told to.  So far it's very crowded hot and uncomfortable in the speeder, but there is at least part of a plan now.  She drives the speed limit, trying to fit in to the traffic around her.
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Xil does as he's been asked over the comm, keeping the speeder to the speed limits and not driving recklessly. Turning to Rann "Start checking around the speeder for anything that could be a tracking device."

"When we get to the Troop leader we'll need to act quickly. We'll stage a kidnapping of Troop leader and stun the remaining trooper, can't make it appear as though he went willingly. Plus we need to get Eights body onto the speeder. We won't have a lot of time."

As he tries to come up with other options he also searches around for anything that could be a tracking device.

putting down the Molotov Rann Got out his  SDS surveillance kit “you know I can only find it if it is switched on if not it will be harder to find and started scanning the speeder
Rann rolled $$ on a search check to find if there is a homing beacon on-board

Rann's scanner picks up three signals coming from within two metres, indicating there are multiple tracking sources on the speeder.  However, his searching fails to find any of them.

Rann is still searching without success when the warehouse comes into sight ahead.
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Seeing no reason not to go straight in, Xil pulls the speeder in through the open perimeter gates and parks in front of the main doors which are also open.


OOC:  Three days and no post from either Xil or Rann.

As they pull up to the main doors Xil says to Rann "We'll have to find those trackers when we're moving again. I'll head in stun the remaining trooper and get their leader to help me get Eight's body. Stand by the main door as back up. Lets go."

Xil heads out with his blaster rifle still set to kill, he would only change it to stun if the situation was as it should be. He tries to recall the layout as best he can.

He waits for confirmation from the Troop leader before entering the building.

Arin replied through the comlink and then braced himself for anything and everything. His armored hand reached inside the helmet he had picked up, grabbed the comlink module inside it and tugged it out. As far as he knew, the comlink was the one thing in the armor that was tracked, so tracing the armor any further should have become impossible by him doing that.

He felt taking a leap of faith and despite the effort, he wasn't exactly certain if he liked it or not.

Xil quickly spoke on the comm before moving into the warehouse.

He enters the warehouse, rifle raised to his shoulder but keeps his finger off the trigger. Yelling about the need to get intel from the remaining imperials, he surveys the area around him as he moves.

Spotting Arin and the remaining trooper he will head in their direction still being vocal. Once happy things are as they should be, he will set his rifle to stun and shoot the remaining trooper.

Looking up "Nice to meet you Troop leader, I'm Alpha. Proper introductions later, right now we have to move. Help me get my fallen man into the speeder and then we have a rendezvous to make with what I gather will be very little time."

If it is not obvious where Aryan's body is he will get Arin to take him to it and they will then head back to the speeder.

"Good to meet you Alpha. If needed, we can quickly drag the unconscious stormtrooper in to the tunnel below and blow this warehouse to cover our tracks, but it might lead to the Imperials sending in a team to investigate. They'll probably do that anyway, but everything depends on whether you want this place destroyed with all the potential evidence or not."

Arin led Alpha to the body of the dead Gungan. "I'm sorry about him - I came aware of him only when he was already dead. At least he went down fighting."

Looking around the warehouse Xil quickly considers what Arin had said "Good idea on the tunnel. I also like the idea of a bang as we leave, lets put a timer on it and hopefully it will provide some distraction once we have moved some distance away. We need to find and turn off at least three trackers on the speeder while we are at it or we are in big trouble. Lets get a move on."

Chats on the comm.

Xil heads back to the trooper and will with Arin's help move him to the tunnel. Once done there he will get Aryan's body onto the speeder. Setting the explosives will be left to last.

Arin helped Xil to lower the unconscious trooper in to the tunnel and dragged him far enough to make it least probable, he'd be hurt by the blast. The explosives were left for Xil to handle. "I'm a fighter pilot, not an engineer or ordnance specialist", he said,"but we need to hurry, otherwise we're going to have Imperial visitors in a form or another and that will not be pleasant."

"Well explosives are not my specialty either, and as you say, Imperial visitors are not what we want. If needed we leave without setting them. Our pick up and extraction takes priority."

When they meet back up with Rann "Troop leader, Bravo. Bravo, Troop leader" he trusts Rann to go with the name for the present.

When Aryan's body is placed in an out of the way location on the speeder Xil says to Rann "Think you can set up a timed explosion? if not we leave now."

A quick check finds that Rann is the only one with any training with explosives and so he is set to work rigging the building to blow while Xil and Arin drag the stormtrooper to the hole and manhandle him down.  They drag him a little way up the tunnel so it doesn't appear his survival is deliberate.  Xil then gives the man a sharp crack on the back of the head with his rifle to keep the man unconscious.  They then return to the main area and drag Aryan onto the speeder.

Whilst they wait for Rann to finish his work, Xil runs the scanner over the truck and finds there are now four tracking signals on the truck instead of three.  There are also another four within a few hundred metres.


OOC:  Please note the scanner can only indicate the presence and strength of signals in its radius, it can't pinpoint location.  A search check is needed for that, Xil feel free to do the honours.

The van as you may recall had blocks of detonites and timers so setting up an explosion wont be too much trouble for Rann.  Make a demolitions roll to determine effectiveness and let me know how much of the ordanance you use.  You have 5 blocks of detonite and various grenades to make the place go boom.  There are also volatiles within the building (fuel, etc) that will cause nice secondary explosions.

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Knowing their limited time frame Xil quickly gives out some orders:

"Bravo, get the place rigged to blow, timer set for no more than 10 minutes.

Pointing to the trooper bodies on the speeder "Troop leader, I need you to get those extra trooper bodies back into the warehouse asap"

Xil then starts looking around the speeder for what could be a tracker. He uses  a suspicion based on the increased number of signal once Arin boarded the speeder.

Looking over one of the dead troopers Xil finds a tracker hidden in his helmet. He tries briefly to remove it and then gives up "Troop leader, trackers are in the helmet, leave them behind but if you can salvage the rest of the armour do so."

He turns his attention to the last signal and after a short search finds it hidden underneath one of the seats. Ripping it out he throws it out of the speeder a short distance Should make them think we are still here he thought to himself.

Once Rann and Arin are done Xil gets the speeder moving to the rendezvous location.

Nodding to Rann in greeting, Arin grabbed one dead stormtrooper at a time and dragged them in to the warehouse. He felt bad about letting the sergeant down - after all he had been under his command and Arin took such things seriously. It felt as if he had been the one to pull the trigger himself. He layed the helmet on to the floor by the warehouse entrance, sighed and moved back to the speeder.

Upon returning to the speeder Arin pulled out a tactical datapad from a holster on his belt to check if moving the helmet away had any relevance to the tracking devices location. "Let's see if you were able to remove the trackers."

The tacpad shows all the stormtroopers (including Arin) in the warehouse.  Xil's scanner detects no tracking signals within 20 metres of the speeder.  Arin and Xil now had nothing to do but wait for Rann to finish.

"It would seem the helmets on the armor are bugged with trackers, but as far as I can see, the speeder should be clear now. I wouldn't mind having some sort concealment for my face, so I can not be recognized."

For a moment, Arin disappeared in to the warehouse, returning with a great deal of stormtrooper armor parts. "The refugees have a load of these as well."
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Arin and Xil finish loading the speeder with the armour they'd stripped from the bodies, minus their helmets.  By the time they had done this Rann returned.  Not being skilled at demolition work, he'd used all the detonite to ensure sufficient explosion.  The trio then loaded up and headed out.

The team were more than twenty kilometres away when the five minute timer ran down.  The group thought they could hear a faint rumble in the distance but they were far too far away to see anything.  Arin wondered how long it would take for Imperial command to start demanding sitreps but all he could do was wonder as his comms were gone, hopefully destroyed in the explosion.  He had to hope the Imperials would think him either captured or dead, had he covered his tracks well enough?

Moving as fast as they dared, the speeder weaved through the city towards the rendezvous point Cor had supplied.  It took them nearly twenty minutes to get there, but when they did, the starship wasn't there, but two commercial cargo speeders were.  One Xil and Rann recognised as Sheila's speeder, the other could only be Heigran's.

There was no time to check it out as a transport ship suddenly swooped down and landed gracefully on it's skids.  Almost before it landed, the port and starboard freight elevators came down.

Zyra came over the comm.  "Load the trooper transport onto the port elevator.  Get the other two on the starboard.  I want us airborne in two minutes."

The starboard elevator easily fitted one of the speeders and lifted it into the bay where it was driven to the side and the elevator lowered for the second speeder.  The trooper transport took a little longer as it was a bit big for the elevator, but Mika had prepared with a winch and tackle to raise the front of the speeder enough to get it in.

The moment the speeders were aboard and the hatches shut, the transport immediately lifted and headed for space.  A few minutes later they were in hyperspace.




*THREAD CLOSED - Post in debriefing thread*