STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Gunrunner

At this distance, you will not be able to catch it.

Does Rand have any sort of tracking device? Or could he damage it somehow to delay? Maybe a Saber Throw...

You would not be able to stop it, even if you inflicted damage.

It would be a Dexterity roll to throw a tracking device onto the ship.

Can Rand get any sort of benefit from his kinetic powers in that throw?

Either way, he will try it. He hurriedly plucks a tracking device from somewhere on his utility belt and hurls it toward the fleeing ship, calling on the Force to guide his hand and improve his aim.

I normally afford a small bonus for putting Push/Pull into a throw. Rand, of course, has the whole Kinetic Tree.

That makes this an easy task for Rand, as he hurls the tiny object at the starship. It starts to go off course in the draft from the thrusters. You guide it right again with the Force and it clicks on to the underside of the ship. Success!

Then the ship jets off, leaving you standing in the field.

Rand stops running once the ship departs from the field, watching it go with irritation and anger. Some small part of him is grateful for the fact that he was able to attach a tracking chip... but he would rather have the pilot under his sword and get the answers he wants for this situation.

"Foghren, this is your Master," Rand says. "We have a suspect, and he has escaped. I'm sending my coordinates..."

All of the Huhk are dead, yes?

You did a number on them, and the figure killed the ones you tried to save.

Foghren will meet up with you then! He is upset that you didn't tell him you were in danger.

"I could have helped!" Foghren says.

"You would not have gotten there in time," Rand says. "And I was a little preoccupied to be calling you, I think. My apologies if you feel it showed a lack of trust. It was not intended as such."

"I understand, Master," Foghren says. "I just don't want you getting yourself killed when I could have intervened. Just remember that I'm around, will you?"

The Lahsbees are actually sending men to the landing site you found; on a world without constantly thrumming technology and few loud noises, that roaring engine was heard well by any nearby village. They arrive on their rickshaws, led by ponies, wielding their halberds and tiny helms.

"What happened here?!" asks one.

"We found the person behind the Huhk attacks," Rand says. "They escaped in a starship."

"Why did you not stop him?!" asks the Lahsbee.

"I made the attempt," Rand says. "Many Huhk lay dead by my sword. He was trying to give them weapons, to inspire them to attack your kind."

"The King will be pleased with your victory!" shouts the Lahsbee. "We should return to tell him of your destruction of the Huhk usurpers!"

A cry of joy goes up among the Lahsbees. Foghren leans in close as they shout, to make sure he is heard.

"I don't like this," Foghren whispers to you.

Secretly, Rand understands the Lahsbees' response, the bloodlust that they have developed toward the Huhk... but Foghren can't know.

"Nor do I," Rand says. "We must talk to the King about this. The bloodlust against the Huhk is too great, here."

Rand will request transportation back into the village.

The Lahsbees will happily give you a cart to ride in! Led by an adorable (but slow) little pony.

An excruciating amount of time later, after you have ridden through town again and are showered with flower petals for slaying the Huhks, you arrive at the King's palace. You are ushered into the throne room amidst tons of joyous shouting over genocide.

"Welcome, heroes!" King Qee shouts, perched atop his throne surrounded by knick-knacks. "I have been brought tidings of your victory! What a glorious day for Lahsbane!"

"It was not so much of a victory as a step in preventing further pain for Lahsbane," Rand says. "The Huhks were being manipulated by someone, and we are not sure who. It is tragic that I had to kill some of them in order to prevent their attack, and further my investigation."

"Tragic?! Pah!" King Qee shouts. "What are a few Huhk compared to the security of my people! You're a hero, Jedi!"

The audience chamber echoes his shout of "Hero!" in their squeaking voices.

"I am not a hero for killing the Huhk," Rand insists. "It is an awful thing that they were manipulated and threatened your people. It is more awful that they had to die for it. You should not celebrate their deaths!"

Rand could not care either way, but the racism of the Lahsbee King is disgusting to him.

King Qee just laughs, a high-pitched squealing laugh, like a furry swine.

"Whatever!" King Qee says. "The Huhk will be punished for this act of treason! You have exposed their treacherous ways! I cannot allow their threat to continue! I will send my warriors to deal with them!"

The court zealously shouts its support, and the Lahsbee warriors in the room clang their halberds on the ground.

"Master, do something," Foghren says. "He's talking genocide."

"You cannot do this thing!" Rand shouts to the King. "The Huhk are not to blame for this. Whoever gave them guns is the real threat to your reign. The Huhk were just pawns in whatever game they were playing here. It is my mission to track him down, and I will do just that."