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Prime Helix
« on: February 18, 2019, 08:35:18 pm »
It is the height of the Clone Wars.  Senator Valles Santhe
and Jedi Knight Kol Temga - accompanied by Padawan
Ahsoka Tano, clones Blaze and Mojang, and the enigmatic
Tyro - have just completed a diplomatic mission in the
Cholganna system, the details of which are not important to
our story.  The vessel is just preparing for the return voyage
to Coruscant when a priority message is received from
 the Jedi Temple...

You are aboard the Marauder-class corvette Resilience, whose navigator is just finalizing the calculations for the hyperspace leap back home when the urgent communication comes in.

The diminutive form of Master Yoda appears as a flickering blue hologram.  A smile passes across his lips, but his eyes look severe.

“Sorry I am to interrupt your return trip, but dire the circumstances are.  The prime genetic sample on Kamino, by bounty hunters it has been stolen.  Pursued them, Master Obi-wan did, but escaped they have.  A tracker on their ship, he was able to place.  To the Cholganna system, tracked them we have.  The nearest forces, you are.  To lose the prime sample, a catastrophe for the war it would be.  But for it to fall into the Separatist hands, much worse yet.  Recover it, you must.  Fail, you must not - on this, the entire war may well depend.”

The Resilience carries in its hangar bay two Aethersprite interceptors, two Y-Wing BTL-S1 bombers, and two V-19 Torrent starfighters, as well as one Nu-class attack shuttle.  There are sufficient R2-series astromech droids for the Aethersprites and Y-wings (the V-19s lack a socket), but there are no fighter pilots aboard besides yourselves.  There are also no troops aboard, but the vessel is fully manned by a ‘normal’ crew.

Spoiler: Resilience (hover to show)



« Last Edit: February 19, 2019, 12:36:45 am by timcrall »

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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2019, 09:50:57 pm »
Spoiler: Tyro (hover to show)

Spoiler: , Lady Vallas Santhe (hover to show)


Spoiler: Kol Temga (hover to show)


Spoiler: Ahsoka Tano (hover to show)


Spoiler: Sergeant Mojang (hover to show)



Spoiler: Lt. CP-3441 "Blaze" (hover to show)
« Last Edit: February 18, 2019, 10:37:50 pm by StevenO »
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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2019, 10:01:36 pm »
Kol Temga bows to the hologram. "It will be done, Master Yoda.  We will not fail you.  Do you have any other information that we could use?"

Once the transmission has ended, Kol issues orders to the bridge crew to conduct sensor sweeps of the area and use whatever information Master Yoda has to locate the bounty hunters and the prime genetic sample.
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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2019, 11:05:54 pm »
Spoiler: Encounter durations (hover to show)

Tyro will move to the System Operator position.  Once there he'll active Fool's Luck giving him a +5 competence bonus on all skills for the duration of this encounter and use the ship's Sensors to locate the hostile ship as far out as possible.  If we can see him before he sees us that should give us an advantage.

Spoiler: Tyro's checks (hover to show)
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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2019, 12:02:02 am »
The computer is friendly, and I'll define a fairly length version of "encounter".

Your sensor scan locates two colossal space transports headed towards the nearby planet Cholganna, about to enter the asteroid shower that is currently passing by the planet.  One is a YV-666 and the other is a Firespray-31. Both have deflector shields active.

You are in B5.  The two unknown freighters are in V6 and W6.



As a note, let's please just pretend that space is two-dimensional.  I have no idea how to manage an encounter with true 3D.
« Last Edit: February 19, 2019, 12:05:19 am by timcrall »

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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2019, 12:12:02 am »
"We will not fail you, Master," Ahsoka says. 

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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2019, 12:14:28 am »
Mojang listens to the Jedi Master's instructions.  "Sir, yes Sir," he says, before heading immediately down to the hangar bay.

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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2019, 12:44:03 am »
Note that the Resilience has, in addition to its normal turbolaser and tractor beam batteries, a pilot-operated point-defense double medium laser cannon.

At this point let's all please roll Initiative.  You have a -8 modifier while aboard the capital ship.  Blaze, if you are occupying the 'pilot' position you may opt to roll Pilot instead.  You can all choose to occupy one (or more) starship crew roles aboard the Resilience or head to the hangar bay and select a ship, at your choice.

You're welcome to join the roll 20 game I'm using to manage assets and do my rolling here: https://app.roll20.net/join/4266166/z6N4xA (but you don't need to).  You're also welcome to submit a picture to use for your character (I've already grabbed ones of the net for each of you, though, so if you don't have one I will use those)
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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2019, 01:38:36 am »
"Orders, general? Shall I bring Resilience closer or leave it to second lieutenant Tyke and take the shuttle for a spin?" Blaze asks, hope springing from the second half of the question. This lumbering beast anyone can bring forward, but with the attack shuttle, he could show the others how it is done.

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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2019, 03:28:47 am »
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Does ship´s dexterity count to the Pilot check? I guess so, but think it´s better to ask, I´m not that used to vehicles

It does, but the ship's size penalty does as well.  So the Resilience has a net modifier of -8 (-10 size + 2 dex)

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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2019, 03:54:39 am »
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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2019, 06:53:55 am »
Spoiler: 'Lady Valles Santhe Initiative' (hover to show)

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« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2019, 07:24:53 am »
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« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2019, 08:17:36 am »
Kol Temga turns to Blaze.  "Let Tyke have the controls.  This is probably going to require some close contact.  Tyke!  Take over and bring the Resilience as close as you can!  I want those freighters tractored the moment we have range!  Ahsoka, Blaze, with me.  Let's see how those bounty hunters fly

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Re: Prime Helix
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2019, 08:58:11 am »
"Yes, sir!" replies Blaze, and swiftly falls in step behind the two jedi.
"I could do with a co-pilot. Any volunteers? There will be a blaster cannon involved. " he asks on comm.