STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Learner

The ship is not armed, merely a transport. And not without technical skill, which none of you have.

So we're basically flying blind. Woohoo!

"I think if there was any time where we should listen to the Force, it would be now," Rianna says as they take off.

Not that it's very likely, but can she Sense anything at all?

Just that general feeling of dread that comes to Jedi when terrible things are about to unfold, but you know exactly what that is.

"Ciira, do you feel anything?" Rianna asks.

"No," Ciira says.

Any plans you may want to concoct for the fight to come? It is up to you and Ciira to set things straight, because the other Jedi will not come in time and Roch likely has all droid forces under his control, so the Beseedrans cannot help.

Well, I don't really have much of a plan for actually finding where they've gone, especially since we won't be able to get any help from the Beseedrans (I had been entertaining an idea of going to the starport and seeing if we can find someone to help pilot the ship, at least).

Once we find where they are, though, I was thinking that we should make as quiet and stealthy an entrance as possible. We'll have to fight Jarko, I'm sure, and as Rianna's had bad luck with that so far I'd want to approach that fight with her having as little damage as possible. Finding a way to deactivate the droids would also be nice.

If you want to get at Roch, a confrontation with Jarko seems inevitable. Just keep in mind what you have learned about his fighting style and what he comes equipped with, though he may have more weapon yet and there is no easy way of dealing with any of them.

As for deactivating the droids... for Roch to have enslaved the entire robotic army to his command means that all the droids must follow a single transmitter code, like the battle droids of the Trade Federation. Roch seemed to issue commands via the little remote control box he keeps on his person.

And Palpatine thinks that they have probably gone to Beseedad, as the vast majority of Beseedra's population is there. No point in releasing a lethal virus if there is nobody around to infect.

Beseedad seems as likely a place as any to go, then.

And yeah, his fighting style seems to be along the lines of "hit as hard as possible". Rianna's speediness and skill can surely be used against that. And even through Ciira is weaponless at the moment, she can use the Force to try and keep him distracted so that Rianna can slip in and out for attacks.

We'll have to get that control box, though. Last thing we'd want is an army of droids attacking while trying to deal with Jarko and Roch.

Ciira says she will make her best efforts, though she wishes his weapons were not part of him. She cannot disarm him.

The flight to Beseedad is uneventful. When you arrive, you receive an automated message from the starport asking you to leave due to quarantine... not many come to Beseedra from without, but Roch does not want his experiment getting out before he is ready.

You set down on an uncovered section of an empty street.

Well, we could always...literally disarm him...I guess...😛

And of course he doesn't. But I don't think that's going to stop us.

Can Rianna sense anything more specific now?

System-wise, that means defeating him, at which point he would be dead as it is.

You can vaguely sense fear.

"Do you feel it?" Ciira asks. She shivers, but not from the cold.

Meh, technicalities...

"Somewhat..." Rianna says, somewhat uncomfortable. "Not enough to feel where it is coming from, or anything like that."

"It comes from the city," Ciira says. "I can feel it..."

"Where now, my Jedi protectors?" Palpatine asks.

"It seems that the city is the best place to start...there's something happening there," Rianna replies. Can she sense any direction where it feels stronger?

It is all around you. You are already in the city.

Ahh, okay.

Perhaps the underground place we were earlier when we met with Beseedra's Council? Since a lot of the city is underground anyway.

As good a guess as any! You can make your way to where you descended into the underground portion of Beseedad. There you find battle droids stationed, too many to handle on your own...

Back away! Before we're spotted.

"They've got to be down there. There's no other reason why it would be so heavily guarded. But we can't go down that way, there's too many..." Rianna says.

Are there any other ways down that any of the three of us would know of?

Ciira theorizes that any other route may be guarded.

Most likely. So the choices are either trying to find one that's not so heavily guarded, or creating some sort of distraction to pull the droids away so we can sneak down.