STAR WARS: RETROSPECTION- Trackdown

The speeder pulls up to the ship as you exit, and one of the Bureau agents climbs out. Con quickly notes that the agent is wearing his sidearm. He pulls out a datapad and doesn't look directly at you.

"State your business," says the agent.

"Hey, yeah, so like I told your colleague we are here to repair a TX-500. First job of my new company." He'll pause for a second then continue "You guys are military? There's no danger for us, is there?"

"Not if you are who you say you are," the agent says in a bored tone, tapping at the datapad. "And don't be silly. The Republic does not have a standing military. I represent the Bureau of Undesirables and Immigration."

Now that you have a closer look, the two men accompanying the Bureau agents look more security detail than military.

"Oh right, I don't really keep up with politics and such." Con will wait for the agent to tap out what he needs to tap out, like one would do waiting for immigration.

"No official repair requests have gone through our local office," the Bureau agent says, ignoring your comment. "At this time, due to the necessity of increased planetary security, the Bureau is handling all such requests. Your lack of permit concerns us; even as a private contractor coming from outside Republic space, you should very well know that this is needed to work within Republic space..."

He does not look up from his datapad at all while talking.

Anybody with law or some kind of check to verify a loophole in this would be nice.

In the mean time could Azarl and Xavier attempt to hack his data pad from the ship while they talk?

I'll wait for a reply on the law or hacking thing.

You're not exactly hooked into a wireless network, here. I will rule that out.

"Yeah, I really thought this permit was in order. I still don't understand how such a mix up can happen. I mean, I guess we can't do the repair while this is being sorted out. It would be stupid, and expensive, to go back and forth again though. I guess I'll contact my mom so she can get the right permit to us? Does that sound alright? We were going to look for a place to stay anyways, couple more days shouldn't be an issue."

I will call that a Persuade attempt (the skill kind, not the Force kind) to convince the Bureau agent to let you dock here while things get sorted out. Is Con the persuasive sort?

Checks to see if Con is good at persuassion perhaps Relle should take care of this attempt!

Azarl clearly isn't a good option here.

Xavier only has one social skill, Intimidation I don't think that will work here either.

Sadly that's one of the social skills Con is not too great in. Relle would be a lot better indeed.

I always forget that I have one really good social skill.

Relle will try to reason with the Bureau agent when Con seems to flag.

"Sir, is there any way we could dock here until things get transmitted over to us? It was a long flight here, we need to refuel the ship and run some diagnostics, just make sure everything's in working order. It's not exactly a new ship. And then we could get a hotel or whatever, stay a few days, hopefully shorter. Put money in the local economy, though I'm sure the mining operation does well enough. What do you say?"

Charisma +4, Persuade +3, Presence +3.

Relle works her charm on the Bureau agent, who looks up from his datapad for the first time since approaching you. She rolls three successes thanks to her subtle influence through the Force.

"Well, it's normally against our policies..." the agent responds.

Azarl waits impatiently in the cockpit, ready to take off and start blasting if Relle and Con can't talk their way through this.

Come on Relle you got this!

"We won't be any trouble," Relle insists, pushing the agent to make an exception. "We'll stay out of your way. We're pretty self-sufficient. We DID fly out here, after all."

She throws in a slight chuckle to disarm him.

Keep on Persuadin'!

Tell him "these are not the dark jedi you're looking for"!!!!