The man falls back with a cry, and the Astrolabe nearly tumbles to the ground.
An electropole user jumps in front of you, Gundy. He stabs his pole towards you, which you cut cleanly in half, but your anger has blinded your senses as you fall for his feint. As you chop he launches a flying kcik to your face that sends you sprawling back towards the south wall. You trip and fall backwards, and your sabre is gone, fallen near the man who just kicked you. One his compatriots stabs down on it with his pole.
Your sabre fliues back to your hand. It is burnt and sparkling. It might be fixable, you do not know, but not now.
Two pole users advance towards you, smiling. You prepare to face them when you instinctively dodge an incoming laser shot. And when you let your instincts flow you feel your right arm raise up and stretch to your side before you become conscious of the movement, breaking your instinct.
The lightsabre flies from its mounting into your hand, where it snaps on with an efficient hiss.
There is a burning smell as the dust in the innards is vaporised- this sabre has not been used in a long time.
But the blue blade shines strong, and your manoeuvre so surprise the pole-man next to you that you cut through him and his weapon in an instant.
Now in the corner you feel much safer. The pole men cannot get the angles at you they want and far less people can fire at you! You are a little pinned, though.
A woman sheaths her weapon and goes back to helping move the Astrolabe.
Xeth looks in Marcus' direction. "They are shielded, so my sonic blaster does nothing. For now all we can do is defend the Astrolabe or flee! And I guess we're not fleeing by any chance..."
(EDITED) He gets his comlink out and calls the police line. "Moran! Somebody! Answer! We need help at Ascar's place! We're outnumbered and outgunned!"
Xeth, whilst those guys have you surrounded like that you can neither use your blaster nor simply cut several down. You need a plan; try and kill anyone without one and you will be shot to pieces.
Like Gundy's earlier, your comm is not working. You are being jammed.
And Fire, this is nothing 'only' about your lightsabre! They are more dangerous than any weapon in this room!
You're damn fast, Xeth. You catch a guy at the right time and slash his pole in two and push him away. This gives you some brief space to manoeuvre... as the rapid fire from one of the hover cars swings towards you...
They are carrying the Astrolabe towards the reception door. They are struggling to secure that exit just as you are!
I jump up from behind the desk I was sitting behind, I make a summersault over the desk while I do this I make a circulair move with my sabre, trying to hit and deflect whatever I can, once I am on the ground I start running towards the window as fast as I possibly can when I am about 3 ft away from the window and 6ft from the hovercraft that as I think, I use a force jump to jump on top of the hovercraft
once I am on it, I immediatly duck and slash a horizontal blow towards the first guy I see, after he is down or has evaded the slash I use a force push towards the guy who is on the blaster cannon thingy
The observer on the next car is holding an electrorod towards you, Marcus. That jump may need some thought! BTW, the hovercar you are on is starting to slowly fall.
Xeth, you are performing a brilliantly acrobatic display, avoiding death at very turn, but they still have you pinned down! You just can't get to help the others!
(Shame Lance isn't here as well as they could have difficulty trying to pin down TWO killer maniacs that are posting... it is assumed, though, that Julie, Lance and Mah are similarly tied down by the Miramar's tactics)
Fire, as you are no longer guarding the doorway, the four people carrying the Astrolabe make it through there. If the lift gets back up and they get past Xeth they have got it out of there.