Act 01: Field Ops: Hostage 01-01-01-01 DS 0001- 12:00

Kaiya has taken over the tactical operations room off the bridge and the field ops unit is circling the central holographic display table. The mining town floats above in glowing blue. "We have 2 hours before we are allowed to start operations. At that time we have 12 hours to rescue the hostage before she is executed. The town has 25 buildings and the princess could be in any one of them. Our resources include stealth suits, the Aegis shuttle, Delta Blu to pilot the shuttle, and us. Any input on how we can find and rescue this hostage with a minimum of risk?"

Mechanics: As you arrive please post ideas on how to attack the mining town and find the princess. You know the opposing forces will be 16 heavily armed and trained soldiers. One advantage is they are 16 soldiers who have never together before.

Stev strides into the room and says "I think I have a plan they won't see coming." and he places a sleeping Mouse Droid and some heat exchangers and blaster gas canisters onto the main table. Gently, of course, to avoid any marks or damage to the table.

"My apologies for my tardiness, but it turns out that the crew thinks so little of these Mouse Droids that they are not even on the ship's cargo list. I support Sasha's idea, but with a little twist on the situation. Our ship comes with thermal detectors, which the Security team will likely depend upon to get the upper hand on our positions. I propose that we use their technological dependency against them. We can equip ourselves with stealth suits to disguise our heat signatures, and then we can release an equal number of Mouse Droids strapped with these components that will cause them to give off heat signatures that are large enough to be mistaken for humanoid creatures. Then, while the Security is chasing the droids, we can easily sneak around and find the princess. Those who cannot fit into stealth suits can either guard the ship or provide a distraction to cover our movements further. Additionally, we could also try to outfit some of the Mouse Droids with comlinks, so they can be both bait and spies. We would route their comlinks to a different channel than our own, of course, and I am sure someone aboard the shuttle would be more than happy to monitor communications and alert us to any interesting information the Mouse Droids pass along.
In short, we use their resources against them, further distract them with our big guns, and use the confusion to look around, save the princess, and get out without a scratch. What does everyone think?"

Mechanics: We'd make a Mechanics check to properly outfit the Mouse Droids with the heat signatures, and then that would probably go against whatever skill they use to operate the scanners. We'd probably get some hefty boosts too, since we are using what is normally their boost as ours. Then, the smaller and stealthier of us would do a Stealth check with the aid of our stealth suits against what would most likely be a disadvantaged Perception of the enemy, which would be further disadvantaged as the larger crewmembers could set up a bunker and start a ruckus with their firearms. Whoever is in the shuttle (probably Delta Blu, I don't think he's allowed to help us directly) could give us information from the comlinks' Perception checks, and his own Vigilance or Perception would allow him to listen for hostile voices or the princess and alert the team to the place where the Mouse Droid heard it.

Stev smiles and says "Then I guess my only job now is to write an apology to droid operations for tinkering with their Mouse Droids. I'm sure they'll forgive us...eventually..."

Kaiya pulls icons of the field op members onto the holo. She begins to drag members into teams.

Gammer, Stev, Kl'aal will get stealth suited and begin to hump it on foot to the south of the town. Keep comm silence and just scout until we arrive in the Aegis.
Boom, Thane, Analia will prepare the decoys and make the first Aegis drop north of the town to drop them off. The decoys will make their way to the town using encoded comms and trying to be obvious sneaky. Thane will then begin to try to negotiate for the princess release from the Aegis.
Sasha, Qesya, and myself will stealth suit up and will hump it to be ready to come in loud from the East.

We start negotiate to trace the comm location. Draw them toward the decoys north. Attack to the East large and loud. Then hope the south team can sneak in and find the princess.
Any questions or suggestions.

Field Operations Crew Members present: Commander Kaiya Admetrum, Boom (Demo Expert), Gammer (Scout), NR Sergeant Stev (Scout), Kl'aal (defel scout), Corporal Sasha (Scout), Sergeant Analia (Field Security), Ambassador Thane (Diplomat), Qesya (Large Alien Centaur like Warrior)

The three of us will wait until the distractions start. When they do, we'll go for a stealth check to approach from Merimen's side. Until then, we'll keep watching to figure out the patrol pattern of the mobile guards.

Mechanics: We'll keep the Perception going, but focus on the three big guys. Since I'm looking for a specific target, will my hunting goggles give a bonus die?
Then, when the distractions start, we'll go for Stealth checks against Merimen. If it's a group check, we'll be rolling 2A, 3P, and 4B (2 from Kl'aal's stalker ranks, 2 from both of us assisting).