STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Respite

If we linger so that Xeth can take care of the droids, what happens?

I'll wait for that response.

If Xeth delays in his pick-up, reinforcements will arrive and his landing will not be safe. That means lengthening the engagement or losing the ship.

So then Xeth needs to do his pick-up now. And I'm guessing he can't play evasive while doing his landing or open fire while doing his landing. Is it safe to land right now?

Not with Rocket Droids still shooting at your ship. You could risk the damage but you are easier to hit when stationary.

Can Vera-Kin use Lifting to redirect the rockets?

Unless you engage them directly, that would need Bodyguard.

What about whatever they were rigging before Xeth got here? Would blowing the pillbox take care of things?

Xeth isn't going to let Vera go fight on when he's trying to leave.

Blowing the pillbox at this proximity will take out the Nexu's Grin with it.

You could go without me, maybe? Vera-Kin can meet up with you somehow somewhere.

(I mean, I can't die...)

I'll give this a day for a decision to be reached.

It's been more than a day but Vera-Kin is going to take this on herself and move to attack the rocket droids, or at least draw their attention. If she can cut one down before they expect her to, she will do so!

"Go, Xeth!" Vera-Kin shouts into her comlink before racing toward the rocket droids. "We can't lose the ship or the others! Take them and go!"

She then pirouettes into the air and slashes through the midsection of a damaged rocket droid, racing toward the pillbox.

That will do.

The rocket droids are not expecting the green fury to set upon them as they raise their rocket launchers toward the Nexu's Grin. One of them falls in a few pieces as Vera-Kin spins through. She has their attention...

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Xeth- Navir has clambered aboard, straining as he lugs Barker in after him. No sign of Vera inside your ship though!

Oh, there she is, on the ground and moving back toward the pillbox...

Vera-Kin is going to race on toward the pillbox, away from the droids! She counts on her evasive capabilities and the Force to aid her in deflecting any more rockets or lasers that come at her. She is not in the condition to fight much longer but she has no way out but for the pillbox.

She will go inside when she gets there.

Xeth will curse but he is not going to waste time ruining Vera-Kin's distraction. With Navir and Barker aboard, Xeth pulls away, firing off his cannons in the direction of incoming soldiers in a last ditch effort to drive them off. He does not expect it to solve everything. It might help Vera-Kin.

"Everyone okay?" Xeth asks into the intercom, wanting to know Navir's status.

Navir reports that he is okay; Barker is wounded.

"Don't get too far out of range," Navir warns. "We won't be able to detonate the pillbox."

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Vera-Kin- you barrel into the pillbox as more soldiers arrive. Lasers explode around you and a rocket collides with the entryway of the bunker. It is crumbling badly from so many hits.

Your danger sense is going crazy.

I think there were stairs to the upper level? Vera-Kin runs up them! She puts away her lightsaber and focuses on sprinting.

"Vera just ran into," Xeth tells Navir. "We can't blow it yet!"

You dash up the stairs! You can hear explosions behind you.

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"What?!" Navir says. "I thought she was right behind me!"

Vera-Kin will move into that upper bunker room with a view of the coast!

She calls up Xeth on her comlink if he's still in range.

"Blow this thing on my mark!" she shouts.