USH'S STAR WARS GAME- CAMPAIGN II POST EPISODE V RENEGADE INTERLUDE- Payday

Oh bother, sorry, Wentar, I'll have to undo that Reflect tap- Defensive Leap rules it out. Which means your three point reduction on CC is not QUITE a kill, and you take three hits this round!

Xeth also takes a lot of heat, as he takes a hit and Spacehockey rolls well...

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GOLD CONVOY FIGHT, Start of turn 27

Tanker

Convoy 4-man A: 5/2

Convoy 4-man B: 5/3

Convoy 4-man F: 5/2

Convoy 4-man D: 5/1

Convoy 2-man O: 5/0

Convoy 2-man P: 5/1

Pirate 3-man in black: P7 G7/57
(Xeth (G9) 3C(1PR)/35 [ES DW CQ] [CC ES CH BGu] (3F))
(Spacehockey (C9) 3/47 [PA AS DU])

Pirate 2-man CC: 5/0
(Wentar (LS10) 3(1A)/43 [OGu BL RF] [BG FocGu] (6F))

Pirate 2-man DD: 5/2

Pirate 2-man EE: 5/2

Pirate 2-man FF: 5/2

Pirate 2-man HH: 5/3

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Can I have retroactively Defensive Leaped last round, to save Xeth some problems?

This turn, Xeth spends a point on Evade and blasts at Spacehockey, trying to knock him off of the speeder.

Swap CC for DW.

Sadly no- I don't accept retroactive D Leaps unless you didn't know how many attackers you had, as it is a power you are meant to use before the rolls.

No worries.

Just carrying on your fight there, Xeth... you only score one success on the pirate, four four damage, but he and the vehicle firing at you both miss. What was your next plan?

What a junk roll!

Xeth is going to spend a point on Combat Push and tap Close Quarters Gunman into what is hopefully a much better blast at the leader, to send him flying off of the speeder.

A whole lot of 4s. Would have been a great sabre roll!

Two bonuses from the Push gives you six successes for another nine damage... and the kill you want! He tried to grapple you during the fight and your lightsabre was being forced off one side of the car as he landed on top of you- but you manage to bring your gun up to his chest and blast him clean off the vehicle!

By now, Wentar has finished his vehicle... and it suddenly becomes clear that the pirates have lost. The remaining vehicles are fleeing.

Xeth will breath a sigh of relief after the pirate is thrown off of him by the sonic concussion of his weapon. He rolls over onto his front and picks himself up. If anyone else is on the leader's speeder, Xeth lifts his blaster to them.

"Drop your weapons and surrender," Xeth says firmly.

(... can Xeth keep the leader's speeder for personal use? He certainly doesn't need it any more.)

Haha, sure.

Indeed, the remaining pirates- which is not that many- give up.

The locals are happy to be alive, happy to have driven the pirates off, but also clearly sad. Sad at their heavy losses... and especially sad about the tanker.

They have something to show you. They open up one of the 4-men. Empty.

I dub it the Nexu's Claw, and it will be very handy at some point, I'm sure.

"I knew it!" Xeth says. "This was all a decoy. I'm sorry we weren't more successful in saving you all... but at least those pirates won't be coming back.

"Where's the gold shipment? And why didn't you tell us?"

The 4-men were a decoy.

But the entirety of the gold was in the tanker. It was going ok before that blew.

Xeth is not happy to hear that and realizes that, overall, this was a huge loss for them.

"What happened there?" Xeth asks. "What was all that black stuff leaking out of it?"

Xeth will prod some of it, since it went all over the place when the tanker blew.

Wentar literally face-palms upon hearing that.

"Why didn't you tell us the 4-men were decoys?" Wentar asks, clearly displeased.

All they say to that is that you didn't ask.

Xeth will shrug and blame it on miscommunication.

"I apologize for the loss of the tanker," Xeth says. "But hey... next time, there won't be any pirates. And if there are, you know who to call. We'll do it for free if they come back."

Xeth is also going to interrogate the pirates that surrendered, so that Xeth can keep tabs on their group (what remains of it) and figure out where they operate out of.

He'll also contact Kessler and explain what happened.

Wentar's a little frustrated about it, but he wont argue the point. He's more frustrated at how he handled the Juggernaut situation and the general orders he gave the convoy.

In retrospect he feels he could have done better.

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"Hopefully the loss of their leader will throw the pirates into disarray," Wentar says, somberly. "That's at least something..."

"And now we have an attack speeder!" Xeth says, patting the hull of the newly-confiscated pirate leader's speeder.

Wentar smiles and chuckles a little at that. "We'll have to give it a new paint job back home, I'm not too fond of black personally."

Kessler is glad to hear you are alive, and wants you back at the starport. There has been a development.

Meanwhile, one thing for sure. There's nothing you recognise as gold from that tanker.