Mission 1: The Noblestar

During your 4th round droids climb the non-functional turbolift and investigate. You hear the clang of scurrying feet and it faster than any droid you have experienced. By the fifth round turn a team of 4 droids enters the area from the east doorway. They look like service droids but have crystal spikes along their limbs and move faster, much faster. They are loping on for limbs instead of 2 as they race down the hall and into your troopers kill zone. The power armored troopers heavy repeater makes quick work of the first two. A Crydroid takes a vent access from the turbolift to the hallway. Vents can only fit one at a time.

BifZik begins the process of engaging the hyperdrive.

Difficulty 1D to mechanically lockout a door. Vents must be wielded or blocked in some way.

Lodor seals the door and moves south back toward the hyperdrive.

Crystdroids are pouring out of vents in 2 spots and the clonetroopers are blasting one after another. Losing ground they call other troopers to move forward and support them.

Lodor makes it to the intersection and sees the troopers firing on the screaming droids.

Time to Hyperdrive programmed 4 rounds. Time to Hyperdrive Jump 18 rounds.

Ranna responds,"We have autoturrents that have detected us now but will be ready when you need us."

You feel the vibration of turret fire nearby and the shake of explosions on the outer hull.

The next 40 seconds BifZik sets up the jump and locks it in.

Theta sees they cannot hold all of the halls and has his troops re-position to protect one path out. The worker droids are replaced by spider like security droids. They begin to fire back at the troopers and race forward on floor, walls, and ceilings at the troopers. Their power armor is dented and scarred with crystdroid attacks and the front-line troopers are is desperate hand to hand battle vs a half dozen droids attacking from all angles. They are slowly giving ground and BifZik begins to run from the hyperdrive controls.

"Everything is ready. 113 seconds to jump." Bifzik states as he runs.

Outside the Sphere the delta fliers are racing across the surface trying the keep ahead of the turrets. "We need to destroy the turrets in this sector if we are going to be able to pick up our passengers without being dusted." Ranna states.

They are coming from three vents. They are just a massive hoard of droids. The turrets are on the outside of the hull. BifZik could do his thing and try to shut them down. This would mean he stops resisting any attempt to shut down the hyperdrive.

That was a physical/mechanical destruction. If you want to turn around you could go back and do it at the hyperdrive. You have 11 rounds to get out. The trip down the tunnels is 80m away. You are 70m away from the airlock and can move 10m per round without strain. What would you like to do?

Locking down an Imperial Computer System and deactivating turrets is an impossible action for all but the most skilled slicers. Bif'Zik tries but Lodor just ends up seeing his datapad lock down by the security counter programs. He can not us his datapad until a high level programmer debugs the entire system. The screen shows the Imperial symbol with a warning.

"You have enter a government computer system please cease and desists all activities. Government authorities will arrive shortly."

You are 70m away from the airlock and 100 seconds (10 rounds) from jump. Spyderdroids are starting to leak past the quickly becoming overwhelmed troopers.