2.0 - Lure of the Lost

The one-armed stormtrooper draws a full length vibrosword and closes the distance to Dagger with menace in his eyes. His speed of response and command reinforces the last remaining trooper facing off against Dagger (we'll call him Huey). Huey draws his vibroknife and takes several swipes at the swirling Dagger -- braving the lightsaber. He manages to score some hits, wounding the rapidly moving Twi'lek heavily. After his initial success, the shock of a successful counter-attack puts Dagger off of his game slightly.

The three troopers near the entrance, heed their command and hunker down behind cover, carbines at the ready and eyes sharpened while the two troopers inside the Kirtan Strider debate whether or not to go looking for trouble. They draw their vibroknives and Mal is able to hear them prevaricating.

Urik gets himself into position for a Flying Squirrel Leap.

Dagger dances backwards from the trooper's vibroknife -- but not without taking a few cuts. He is off-balance from the attacks, but uses the Kirtan Strider to provide some space for recovery, working around the ramp's support pylon to take the trooper from the side. The short, blue lightsaber passes easily through the trooper's armor and he falls to the ground. Spotting the oncoming One-arm, Dagger rushes up into the Kirtan Strider. As he does so, he's a bit careless about his lightsaber and it passes along part of the wall causing some conduits and circuits to spark and fuss.

Urik leaps valiantly onto the one-armed stormtrooper who appears to see the inbound attack out of the corner of his eye. Moving with surprising speed, One-arm catches Urik's foot in his free hand and pushes as he ducks down to absorb some of the impact. Urik's momentum is used against him as One-arm pushes against him. This sends Urik sprawling and he hits the ground, rolling up against the pillar (located 'up-right' diagonally from the gun in the picture above). Urik takes 4 strain (post soak) and his lightsaber skitters out of its place on his hip several feet away.

Csillag takes careful aim at One-arm’s back, and fires off several rounds but she winds up narrowly misses him as he dodges unexpectedly as Urik jumps down upon him. Seeing the inbound blaster bolts streak buy and hit various parts of the ship before him, One-arm spares a glance backwards to the entrance.

Meanwhile, inside the Kirtan Strider Mal hears the sound of someone tromping up the passenger ramp. With some careful shimmying of his make-shift shiv, he’s able to jimmy the lock on the low-tech locker door which fronts his cramped closet.

Heyop closes in on the three troopers guarding the entrance, and gets close enough to eliminate the advantage their cover gives them. Lightsaber flashing, he quickly disarms and disables one of the three troopers guarding the entrance. Another backs away from his saber as it dances onwards and escapes -- harmed, but not down.

Kaveri leans out from behind cover -- lines up the remaining troopers and quickly fires off a set of shots that drop the wounded trooper confronting Heyop and his colleague -- who takes a collection of hits around his shoulder. Kaveri’s quick shooting is inspiring to the group (and the next character action benefits from a boost).

The battlefield, such as it is, is reduced to Urik moaning against a stone pillar, Heyop standing before three fallen stormtroopers, Csillag and Kaveri in cover and the one-armed trooper halfway between the entrance and the ship.

Inside the ship, the two troopers quiet down. Since they are not visible -- their specific actions remain unknown. The one-armed stormtrooper, however, swings his vibroblade a few times, walks over to Urik and swipes at him, cutting through Urik’s clothing and slashing him cruelly. This opens Urik up to another attack and the stormtrooper stabs down, landing another hit on your prone colleague.