USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II EPISODE III (RENEGADES)- The Hunters Hunted

Nope- you are happy to let the Jedi deal with Charaeus whilst you suss the Union link.

Crud, Xeth would have liked to hack something up...

Ah well, back to thinking.

Ok, look at it this way.

There seems to be something in error with the scenario that they attacked the Phoenix for tractor parts.

If we assume it is wrong, how many things could be wrong with that scenario? Where are the areas of weakness in it?

Originally posted by Ushgarak
You can start checking the ships that were attacked to further narrow down the possibilites, Densk, that's all useful. But the big thing is still what Xeth is working on- the Cult would never steal useless material, so what is going on there?

Xeth would like to check these while I'm still trying to think of the weak part...

Feel free, assume that your team is a-ok on that area (but for a reason you have not sussed yet, that information is inaccurate, which is why I am trying to focus you on this).

There are only three things contained in my statement above and you can quickly eliminate two of them.

I feel pretty brain-dead, so bear with me. I haven't been feeling too great. 😖

Which statement, before I go off on a wild goose chase?

Things wrong with Phoenix scenario:

1) Parts useless to Cult.
2) Cult attacked intentionally.
3) ...still thinking

Those are all reasons behind what is wrong. That's not what I asked, though. I'll repeat:

"The Cult atacked the Phoenix for Tractor parts."

You think that something is wrong. As I say, there are only three things contained in that statement, and two of them you can quickly be certain are so.

3) It being a passenger ship.

Attacked for tractor parts can be eliminated, can't it? The Cult wouldn't do that.

Exactly! The statement contains three pieces of info

1. Who- the pirates
2. What- the Phoenix
3. Why- the tractor parts

The weak link in that situation is number three- the Why, the motive.

"I knew that!" you might think. But there are great benefits to methoodical, logical investigation of this sort (which I am assuming your characters are learning about, hence this help being given.)

Now, you have cast around for a lot of motives, ranging from weapons testing (but why did they have to do it on this ship? You can't prove it was to fight the Jedi, and why would they bother taking a useless cargo, and in fact if the Union wanted to weapon test against Jedi, why with the Cult? They could do that in all kinds of places) to distraction (really not the Cult's style). All of the evidence points to the Cult doing exactly what they normally do, except a. more so than before and b. to get parts for an army. Any other motive for this attack does not fit.

The odd thing is, the best reason for the 'Why?' to not work is the most obvious one- and as ever, you are probably discounting it as too simple.

Put it this way. If someome had just said to you back home:

"Did you know the Cult attacked the Orion Phoenix for tractor parts?" and you had thought about it and decided "Pfft, that's nonsense!", what would you have done to go and find whether each part of that statement was true or not?

Try to find the Cult's true motive?

You are thinking wayyy to obscure. Like I say, how would you actually go about checking each of the three parts of the above given story?

Check sources? Inquire further info?

Assuming you actually travelled to the Orion Phoenix... as indeed you did... what would the sources be? It's pretty direct.

The evidence, and the Alzarians.

And what is the evidence?

The dead Cultists, damaged ship, lack of tractor parts.

A 'lack' is just that- something that is NOT there, not something that is.

So we rule that out of evidence?

That leaves dead Cultists and a damaged ship and the lists of previous attacks.

Well, an empty space isn't acutally evidence as such, is it?

Well, you seem to have only attempted to prove two out of three now.