STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION - Desecration

Haha. The ships are kind of old and battered and so the scanners don't work so well, but your second plan works a bit better. Galder's low Observation means he doesn't contribute to much there, but Taiza and Rianna point out a couple of speeders.

"Let's give them something to think about," Galder says as he heads off to one of the many turrets this bucket of bolts has. "Rura, be ready to fry a few of them. Not all of them, though. We want them to head back to the landing site."

"Sure thing," Rura says, taking another turret. Rianna stays up in the cockpit with Taiza, watching for anything else.

Galder's first shot destroys the front half of a speeder, causing it to spin out of control. Rura aims carefully, his shot just skimming past the side of another. The two of you fire a bit more, but it seems to have had the desired effect; the speeders except for the destroyed one take off to the ruins and the landing site immediately.

"Head back to the landing site," Galder says into the comms. "I want to watch."

When he is confident that enough of the pirates have returned to the landing site... he'll trigger the trap from the remote he had it all rigged to.

"Why bother watching?" Rianna comments. But Taiza flies back over it just the same.

The four of you watch as the speeders arrive at the landing site; several attempt to enter ships but find themselves unable to do so. It seems that someone decided to call in all of the patrols because soon there are about a dozen speeders parked haphazardly and arguments are breaking out over what may have happened. Someone attempts to cut through the hull of a ship with a vibroblade but it is obviously useless.

It is at this point that you set off the trap, and Taiza flies the ship up out of the way as the entire area is engulfed with explosions and bits of flying shrapnel. The odd feeling you've had since landing has intensified, and you recognize it now - the sense of death. But what you've felt the entire time was the feeling of more deaths than you could ever hope to count, ancient deaths that had warped the very planet. That is what must have driven Dusan mad; that and whatever the holocron had held.

Galder feels that coldness wash over him and clutches at his chest as the death count of this dead world only increases at his hand, as the ships warp into hyperspace and turn into bizarrely twisted explosions that consume the remainder of Dusan's goons.

"Do you feel that?" Galder asks Rianna.

"Of course I do," Rianna replies, gasping slightly and without any of her usual annoyance. "Let's leave here, now. I've never..."

"Felt something like that?" Galder says. "Me neither. Unless there's anything else we need here... let's scram back to your ship, Taiza. Then we can be gone from here."

"Oh, I've felt mass death before. But not quite like that, no..." Rianna replies.

"Getting out of here sounds good," Taiza says. "This place gives me the creeps, and I don't have any of your weird powers."

The trip back to where Taiza's ship had landed takes much shorter than the amount of time it originally took you to get to the ruins from there.

Galder would be upset if it didn't.

"We're blowing that up as we leave," Galder says, throwing a thumb back at the crappy ship they are leaving behind for Taiza's ride. "Absolutely no need to leave anyone a way off of this rock."

"You think there's still anyone still here?" Rura comments. Taiza seems to agree with your idea; Rianna is completely indifferent.

"No idea," Galder says. "But they don't deserve an escape if there is."

Well, with that, everyone makes their way down into the ravine where Taiza's ship is crashparked. Going down is, of course, easier than going up, and you manage it without anyone falling.

Once inside, Taiza begins to power up and Rura takes a turret. Since the ship is halfway wedged under a large rock, getting out isn't so easy, and it takes a few minutes of Taiza slowly easing the Fortune's Dancer out a bit at a time, everyone wincing at the screeching noises made by rock against the side of the ship.

Galder will, of course, cringe whenever screechy metal noises are made as they irritate him unless he's causing them.

"Maybe we should have cleared some of the rocks," Galder says.

"What, do you have superhuman strength?" Taiza comments.

"Those would have been too much for us to move with the Force," Rianna adds. "Unfortunately."

"Yeah, yeah..." Galder says. "Something to work on, I suppose. I meant carving them off with lightsabers a chunk at a time..."

Rianna just shrugs.

A few moments later the ship is hovering in the air, not far from the piece of junk you 'borrowed' to get back over here. Does Galder want to help explode it, or just leave it to Rura?

Galder will help! Kill kill kill. Put a few bolts in the fuel tank... direction.

Explodey explodey.

Then Galder also takes a turret, and Taiza flies the ship up a bit so that it won't get hit by any debris. A few seconds of shooting, and there's soon nothing left but a twisted burning hull. Boom.

Galder gives a whoop as the ship goes up.

"Alright, now we can leave," Galder laughs. "Go go go."