STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Learner

Ciira will need things explained, as will Palpatine, but that can get sorted and Jarko starts to guide you toward the warehouse.

"I was once like you," Jarko says, again flatly. He looks ahead as he says this. "Flesh and blood. Young and full of life. I was a bounty hunter and a mercenary, seeking to support myself and my wife. I... don't remember much of it. The accident took most of my memory... we were attacked by someone I took in for a bounty. Roch saved my life but only to make me his tool and his experiment I do not wish my fate upon anyone and he knew this. When he revealed his plan to you, it was revealed to me as well."

He looks at you, the cybernetic eye glowing fiercely.

"Look at me, girl. I am a menace to society. I cannot feel but for what the sensors tell me. I am trapped in this body of metal without warmth. That is what the virus will do to its victims."

Rianna shudders a bit under the glow of his cybernetic eye.

"But did you not even suspect that he was up to something that was wrong? I was suspicious of him from the moment I first met him," she says.

"I followed Roch because I owed him my life. He accepted me for what I was. Can you look upon me and say that you do not fear my appearance? I can see in spectrums beyond normalcy. I can see you shudder. Your anger and fear are visible to me."

The pupil of the cybernetic eye dialates and glows white.

"I don't think it's simply your appearance..." Rianna says quietly to herself. She pauses for a moment before asking the other thing that's on her mind. "There had been another Jedi with us...my Master. Roch said he had tested the virus on her. Do you...know what happened to her?"

"You will see," Jarko says, unnervingly.

The warehouse that Jarko guides you to is near the center of Beseedad's surface portion. It is rather impressive for a warehouse, a rectangular building with multiple stories. The lower levels possess massive doors, some of which are open, revealing battle droids marching around and loading cannisters into three-legged, lightly-armed walkers. Above, there are vaunted glass windows of reflective glass, frosted by the cold climate. Loading crane-arms hang about the outside to shift heavy loads.

"Roch's private warehouse," Jarko says. "Where he stores his secrets, brought from his lab..."

The lab was where you were earlier.

Rianna does not like the sound of his reply to her question about Myraline.

"What other secrets would he have here?" she asks as they arrive at the warehouse. "We've already found out the hard way about the cloaking."

"The cloaking technology is still in testing on Dall," Jarko explains. "We will not face it here. But his robotic slaves... there are many, and many kinds. The girl and the politician... they should not venture here. You are skilled. You will survive."

"I may be skilled, but...I am still just a Padawan," Rianna replies, her nervousness returning.

"Ciira? Will you stay back and guard the Senator?"

Ciira nods, though she seems unsure of herself.

Jarko is not dissuaded.

"Padawan or not, I have fought you. I can analyze your every move. I know what you are capable of. Nothing so fierce as me lies beyond these blast doors."

"It's the numbers that worry me more. But there isn't any other choice. I suppose I'm ready."

"I will clear the way. Just watch those cannisters."

Ciira parts with "May the Force be with you," and she makes off towards the landing pads with Senator Palpatine in tow.

Jarko is going to take the direct approach, stomping toward the warehouse with his various weapons charged and ready.

"If any of the canisters got destroyed, that would be a disaster..."

And, as always, Rianna prefers a more sneaky approach. Let Jarko cause some chaos and then slip in after him, hopefully relatively unnoticed.

Jarko is going to draw attention to himself so that he can take the brunt of the battle.

Outside there are ten battle droids. When they see you approaching, they set down their cannisters and draw their blasters... by which time you are right on top of them.

Jarko uses his injector system to increase his Speed to 10.

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Outside- West Entrance

Jarko: 0/0

Rianna: 10(4)/0/1

Battle droids x10: 0/3

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Haha, that's faster than Rianna 😛

He'll probably taken out half the droids before she even attacks, but Rianna will snap attacks at 3 droids and use Defend for defense.

Without the injector system, Jarko has a Speed of 4...

Jarko manages to blast down four droids right away with his rapid-fire lasers. 9, 7, 5 for you... two dead, one damaged! Jarko, of course, finishes them off in his next volley.

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Outside- West Entrance

Jarko: 0/6

Rianna: 10(4)/0/4

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"Stay close," Jarko says. "I will draw and absorb their fire."

Also... Rianna kept Jeph's lightsaber, is she using it alongside her own?

I figure at this point, Rianna has never tried using two lightsabers at the same time (at the very least Myraline would not approve of her trying to do so), so no.

She'll follow closely behind Jarko, then, seeing if there's anything she can sense.

You sense a great deal of danger ahead, and with good reason...

The warehouse is rectangular, as I mentioned, but its immense size comes from length and height, not width. It is three frames between each area. Except the walkways, which are above you and require Master Jump to reach.

Crates and cannisters fill this section of the warehouse. Firing from one area to another is at -2 to hit because nobody wants the virus-holding cannisters to detonate before they are ready. Neither Jarko nor you want the virus and they don't want to waste their limited supply!

All pirates are infected, with metallic growths covering their bodies. And one of the walkers has been utilized for combat...

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Interior- West Entrance

Jarko: 0/9

Rianna: 10(4)/0/7

Battle droids x10: 0/9

Pirates x5: 0/9

Pirate Commando A: 0/9

Interior- Center

Battle droids x10: 0/9

Pirates x5: 0/9

Pirate Commando B: 0/9

Interior- East Entrance

Battle droids x10: 0/9

Pirates x5: 0/9

Pirate Commando C: 0/9

Interior- North Entrance

Battle droids x10: 0/9

Tripod Walker: 0/10

Interior- Walkways

Pirates x10: 0/9

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Forty battle droids, twenty-five infected pirates, three infected pirate commandos, and a three-legged walker with four cannons. All are armed with carbines.

Good thing Rianna has Master Jump! However we'll worry about that in a bit. And could Jump be used to get on top of the walker once we get there?

Rianna will start out by snapping attacks at three pirates. Defend for defense.

An infected pirate has a skill of 7. 17, 5, 15... CoC lets me re-roll the 5, so you manage to take down all three of those pirates! Describe it if you care to.

Jarko fires his disruptor charge up into the walkways... even a 3 is a near hit. One of the walkways is engulfed in a green sphere of energy and the pirates on it vaporized.

As he does this, Jarko produces a flurry of blasterfire at the droids near him. Three 11's, a 13, and a 16 are outright kills, the droids each taking multiple hits before dropping.

Now for the enemy shots... as the battle droids and pirates need 19's and 20's to inflict any damage at all to Jarko (who is taking all of your damage for you), we will concern ourselves only with the droids in your area and the pirates on the walkway. From the west entrance, a droid rolls a 20 and a pirate rolls a 19, for two damage. From the walkways above, a 19 and a 20 from the pirates, for three damage. Five damage total as direct hits just explode against Jarko's armor. He ignores them.

The Pirate Commandos are more capable shots and wield heavy pistols. One of them rolls a 16, for another point of damage on Jarko. The more powerful shot strikes him in the shoulder and jolts him a bit.

The three-legged walker is trying to get into a position to fire...

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WAREHOUSE BATTLE

Interior- West Entrance

Jarko: 6/12

Rianna: 10(4)/0/10

Battle droids x5: 0/12

Pirates x2: 0/12

Pirate Commando A: 0/12

Interior- Center

Battle droids x10: 0/12

Pirates x5: 0/12

Pirate Commando B: 0/12

Interior- East Entrance

Battle droids x10: 0/12

Pirates x5: 0/12

Pirate Commando C: 0/12

Interior- North Entrance

Battle droids x10: 0/12

Tripod Walker: 0/13

Interior- Walkways

Pirates x6: 0/12

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Pool refresh!

Allowing the pirates to get close, Rianna lashes out with her lightsaber, quickly cutting them down before they can attack with fast but accurate slashes.

Using Defend seems pretty pointless right now, so Rianna will continue her assault, snapping attacks on the remaining pilots and one of the battle droids. Active dodge against the walker.