STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Trials

The shields cannot be deployed in the corridor. They are too large and would block the progress of your slaves.

You bring your lightsaber crashing through another hatch door, swiftly cutting down two pirates on a 20 and a 3. Unstoppable, Xavier! These pirates fall all too easily to your skills with a lightsaber.

Trax rattles off a series of shots at the Taskmaster, his Carnival of Carnage bonuses allowing him to put out a higher amount of damage than usual. 15 damage to the Taskmaster as the bolts force him to cower in his cover!

The pirates try to concentrate their fire, but the pirates are doing well with their cover. Only three pirates are brought down.

The first grenadier, by now lacking confidence in his ability to use these things, chucks his last one past the pirates' cover. It turns out to be a plasma grenade, and he rolls well; a 19. The grenade detonates, consuming five pirates in the superheated explosion and setting a section of the corridor aflame with burning chemicals. But now he is out of grenades; he joins the other slaves with his blaster.

The other grenadier holds off, firing his blaster instead. No results.

The concussion rifle of the heavy discharges, smashing aside a hatch-door but not killing any pirates, having hit in the area that the grenadier incinerated.

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THE SLAVE REBELLION

Level B

Crew Quarters- Corridor B

Pirates x14: 0/87 (cover: 2)

Pirate Taskmaster B: 23/87 (cover: 2)

Xavier: 9/32/89

Trax: 21/89

Slaves x25: 0/88

Grenadier x1: 0/88

Heavies x2: 0/88

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Slaves moving in! Another heavy is added to your forces.

Xavier snaps an attack on a Pirate

Defend for Defense.

He wants the Heavies to concentrate on taking out the cover of the pirates with the other slaves shooting afterwards

Sorry for the delay!

The pirates score three kills, while you are struck for four points of damage. For the most part, damage you accumulate in this part of the battle is a result of bolts striking everything about you, showering you in sparks or disorienting you briefly.

The Taskmaster changes tac once more and decides to shut down the threat of your grenadier before he can toss any grenades. He does so with a 17, putting a shot through his forehead.

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THE SLAVE REBELLION

Level B

Crew Quarters- Corridor B

Pirates x19: 0/90 (cover: 2)

Pirate Taskmaster B: 23/90 (cover: 2)

Xavier: 9/36/89

Trax: 21/89

Slaves x22: 0/88

Heavies x2: 0/88

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Again, more pirates show-up just in time for your men to act against them.

As ordered, the heavies lay down some kinetic bursts to tear through the pirates' cover and render them defenseless. The first only manages to gouge a hole in the wall, but the second effectively exposes four pirates as a door is shorn clear off by his shot! Those four are shot down almost immediately, as are three other unlucky pirates.

Trax deals his damage to the Taskmaster. He won't last much longer if Trax keeps this up.

A 20 means your lightsaber snaps straight through a door and a pirate simultaneously.

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THE SLAVE REBELLION

Level B

Crew Quarters- Corridor B

Pirates x11: 0/90 (cover: 2)

Pirate Taskmaster B: 28/90 (cover: 2)

Xavier: 8/36/91

Trax: 21/92

Slaves x22: 0/91

Heavies x2: 0/95

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I have figured the Heavies' frames wrong; it should take them four frames to fire. They will not fire next action, to make up for this mistake.

Xavier will use Twirl again attacking two pirates in dance of deadly dance of blades.

Defend for defense.

He orders everyone to concentrate fire again.

The Taskmaster concentrates on organizing his men, bringing in a greater number of pirates this turn while those already present continue their struggle against your slaves.

Three slaves are shot down, but you keep clear with your Defend this time. In turn, the pirates lose six of their numbers to concentrated slave fire. The heavies do not fire, as I stated, as they recharge their concussion rifles.

The Taskmaster miraculously evades death for one more turn as Trax rolls poorly, his shots shaking the pirate officer up but not finishing him just yet.

As you advance down the corridor, you sweep your lightsaber through a hatch on the right, cutting down two pirates with such ease.

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THE SLAVE REBELLION

Level B

Crew Quarters- Corridor B

Pirates x13: 0/93 (cover: 2)

Pirate Taskmaster B: 28/93 (cover: 2)

Xavier: 6/36/95

Trax: 21/95

Slaves x28: 0/94

Heavies x2: 0/95

Grenadier x1: 0/94

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Reinforcements arrive with a single grenadier! It should not be much longer now before you are able to break through the crew quarters and continue your seizing of The Trade.

Xavier will snap an attack against a Pirate.

Defend for Defense

He wants the Heavies to fire again destroying cover with the grenadier doing so as well as well.

Followed by shooting from the pirates

As the Taskmaster brings in further reinforcements, the pirates fire. Deflecting bolts aside, you advance down the corridor with your Defend. Five slaves are not so lucky as the five out of eight pirates roll killing shots.

The slaves take shots before the heavies do, but the grenadier tosses his grenade in just as they fire. It goes sailing past you and detonates, frosting the corridor in a thick layer of ice with cryokinetic technology. Four pirates are frozen solid. The remaining nine are shot down by the slaves, their final volley finishing them off.

Trax orders the heavies to hold their fire, then finishes off the Taskmaster with a series of blasts. The first few bolts catch the Taskmaster's cover, leaving it as molten slag. The pirate officer stumbles out into the hallway and is hit in the chest multiple times, dropping to the floor.

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THE SLAVE REBELLION

Level B

Crew Quarters- Corridor B

Xavier: 10/36/97

Trax: 21/98

Slaves x23: 0/97

Heavies x2: 0/99

Grenadier x1: 0/97

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Finally results to the corridor battle: 23 slaves, 1 grenadier, and 2 heavies left standing; 43 slaves and 7 grenadiers waiting to join you.

Xavier stands guard at the entrance as the rest of the slaves gather inside.

Once they are ready they ill perform the trick Trax was talking about. With bulldozing in and getting the shields set up.

IS there anyway to tell how the other two groups did?

They are still coming through, at this point, as are your forces.

There is one last set of stairs before you can strike at the bridge. You have no doubts that they will be guarded.

Xavier hold his position lightsaber on guard as he waits for the last bit of his forces to gather.

When they are all here he wants to give them one last speech.

"Men look what you have done already. There is still one obstacle left in our path. The bridge which will be heavily guarded. Yet as you have already seen we can take what they dish out. We can win. NOw let us show them that."

The final results of all three brute assaults through the crew quarters, which have been left empty and quiet as a tomb now that the pirates have been wiped out in that area.

Xavier / Trax: 68 slaves, 8 grenadiers, 2 heavies

Prassk: 55 slaves, 8 grenadiers, 2 heavies

Hoondan: 79 slaves, 10 grenadiers, 2 heavies

"To the bridge!" Trax shouts, rallying the slaves. They give a victorious cry as they finish filing out of the crew quarters, ready to tackle the stairs.

Xavier leads the men to the stairs. He looks to see if another one of those Laser doors are at it.

This final set of stairs is no different from the others.

Trax reminds you to disable the laser wall trap at the base of the stairs which you easily do the same way as before, interrupting the frame with a lightsaber gash.

Pirate resistance here is light.

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THE SLAVE REBELLION

Level B

Top of the Stairs

Pirates x25: 0/112

Turrets x4: 0/112 (armor: 4)

Bottom of the Stairs

Xavier: 10/36/107

Trax: 21/109

Prassk: 26/109

Hoondan: 0/109

Slaves x202: 0/109

Heavies x6: 0/110

Grenadiers x28: 0/109

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Xavier instructs 4 of his heavies to target two turrets. Two for each one. Xavier will use Master Saber throw to attack the remaining two turrets.

Everyone else needs to open fire on the pirates.

Dodge for Defense.

Lacking cover this time around, the pirates are simply unable to fight back. With an eight-to-one ratio of slaves to pirates, the pirates are each hit several times by blaster fire and concussion rifles.

Your lightsabers whisks up one side of the corridor, penetrating the armored turrets easily and destroying them. The heavies attacking the turrets have difficulty with the armor and only destroy one turret, damaging the other.

Before it can fire, Hoondan finishes it off with a single shot.

The stairs are yours.

Xavier knows that with this little resistance that they must be focusing their numbers at the top of the stairs. Still Xavier wonders that if that was their plan then why send 25 to slaughter.

It is time to press on though. Xavier enters first planning on using his Jedi abilities to get a quick assessment of what the top looks like.

You find it more likely that the pirates have all pulled back to the bridge, seeing as you have carved a swath of death through the first three levels of their ship. This was the last line of defense, or what was left of it after it was minimized for a full defensive action of the bridge.

The top of the stairs leads to a section that leads to three enormous blast doors. One straight ahead, one to the right, one to the left, all heading into the same room: the bridge.

Trax will remind you of the tactics you had decided on: he will override the security door on one, you will cut another through with your lightsaber, and the third had not yet been decided.

Could our heavies blast through it, or could the grenadiers use a freeze grenade to freeze the door then blast it?

Freezing the door us unlikely.

The heavies think they could blast through it, though it will take longer than Trax's method or your lightsaber.

Then Xavier wants the rest of the slaves to get into a defensive position then have the heavies begin blasting.

After a little while Xavier and Trax will join in. When the doors about ready to go down Xavier will have everyone wait so they can bust them down at the same time.

He will then orders the grenadiers to throw some smoke grenades into the area. Then they will bull rush in. Hoondan leading into the left door. Xavier and Prassk up the middle, and Trax leading the right.