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

Vera all happy to go as well?

Yes I am.

Then it's time to load up and get going! The Nexu's Grin is powered up and ready to go. Course is laid in to Rekiarius, and you can reach it within hours.

You're not coming back here, so just before we zoom off, is there anything at all you want to do before you go?

Not at all. Alzarius is nice, for a swamp world, but Xeth would rather like to be off.

"To Rekiarius, everyone."

He finishes powering up the ship and detracts the landing gear as the ship slowly rises into the air.

Music- The Ice Planet Hoth

Your ship winks out of hyperpsace around the white form of Rekiarius.

You are in the middle of nowhere here. No ships, no signals, just a lonely planet in space. No-one bothers to come here.

The planet lies next to you, with no sign of life.

"Here we are," Xeth says, squinting into the white glare of the ice-bound planet. "Rekiarius. R3, any complexes on the surface?"

Various beeps and whistles give you, basically, a no.

Actually, due to the heavy snow layers all over the place, accurate sensor readings from orbit are tricky- you would prefer to have sensor probes you could fire down at the surface, but that's heavy duty gear used by major navies.

You'll have to take your ship into the atmosphere.

Xeth adapts the Nexu's Grin's systems for Rekiarius' atmosphere, and begins to take it down into the atmosphere of the ice world.

"Here we go..." Xeth says. "R3, keep me informed of any sensor readings. Power sources, life forms, anything."

Your shield burns for half a minute with re-entry, and soon your ship is buffeted as you enter an ice storm.

There are such storms all over this planet. Three large continents and polar caps at each end- if polar caps sound silly on an ice world, it is worth nothing that there are actually oceans here. In fact, the ice caps are quite broken up, into gigantic glaciers that cover much of the north and south.

So far, no obvious readings at all. And it would be a nightmare to set anything up on tbis world.

Could Xeth's Intuition help him pinpoint this hidden base by any chance? The right continent, for starters?

Intuition is never used by command; you mean Sense.

I am afraid your senses aren't coming up trumps here.

What of Vera-Kin's senses? Hers are more finely attuned than Xeth's.

Her instincts tell her that this is no casual effort. If they'd just put a base down, you'd see it by now. They've put it where no-one will look.

It is obviously not on the surface, then. Damn.

What of the oceans? Or under the ice? Can the scanners go that deep?

You don't want to consider how difficult THAT would have been for them. What with everything else, putting things under the surface would be a nightmare. No, it must be around here somewhere.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
You don't want to consider how difficult THAT would have been for them. What with everything else, putting things under the surface would be a nightmare. No, it must be around here somewhere.

How is the terrain? as in are their alot of plains, Platueas, it's incredibly hilly, etc.

Vast ice plains on the main continents; unstable sheer hills and valleys of ice at the poles.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Vast ice plains on the main continents; unstable sheer hills and valleys of ice at the poles.

Well, if you want something hidden and you need something hidden, you hide it in a enclosed area and not a plain. So could we fly around the poles just to see if there's anything up there?

That sounds reasonable- you can't think of any damn way they could hide it on the plains.

So I guess we'll fly over the northern ice caps with me driving then?