1.0 - Acquisition: The Hyperdrive Specialist

The cargo bay closes after Lin as he jumps up into the FTY and heads to the cockpit. Thanks to his piloting, and the slightly better speed profile of the speederbike he as about 90 seconds on the rest of the crew. He's about halfway through the preflight checks when Mala manages to get the rent-a-wreck in close proximity to the FTY.

The ramp comes down just as the distinctive roar of TIE fighters screams across the sky. Looking up -- they pass quickly overhead. It's unclear if you've been traced to the FTY or not.

Mala aims for the ramp, takes a deep breath, and tries to get everyone into the cargo bay of the ship

Mala is able to -- though just barely -- stop the speeder right before the passenger ramp.Acaatha, Akhrirar and Fuzil all manage to pop out and drag/carry the mark up the ramp as the cargo elevator comes down, with a stolen speederbike parked haphazardly upon it. Mala -- who feels a real connection to the speeder now -- appears loathe to get rid of it or abandon it, so she strives to move it onto the cargo elevator with Lin's stolen bike.

With the rest of the crew pounding up the passenger ramp -- and Lin carefully (sic) closing it behind them as they hop on, Mala nervously pilots the rent-a-wreck towards the cargo ramp. Though she tries valiantly, and feels somewhat encouraged by her efforts, she nonetheless manages to park by feeling rather than expertise. That is, she feels the speeder bump into Lin's stolen bike. Both speeders look a little bit worse for the wear -- yet more work for Fuzil to do when he has the time, the credits and the parts to get them back in working order....

With a clang and the whirr of interlocking components, the cargo elevator raises shut and latches into place, the FTY is now ready to head for orbit.

Mala makes certain your unconscious hyperdrive engineer remains that way and carefully straps him into the examination table in the sick bay. As a result of her examination, she determines that he's simply suffered a great deal of strain and was probably close to exhaustion when Lin knocked him to the ground with his speeder bike. The latter was likely the icing on the cake -- since it also gave the mark a reasonably sized contusion on the head. But as bumps on the head go, it doesn't look remotely threatening upon examination.Fuzil plops into a seat behind Lin and turns to the navicomp and begins punching buttons in a furious effort to plot a hyperdrive jump. Looking over the computer he hums to himself as his fingers fly over the controls coaxing the navicomputer into life. Given some of his time and attention, he's able to identify a few (safe!) short cuts in computing the route. The navicomputer helpfully beeps at him indicating that it will be done calculating his proposed path in about four minutes.Akhrirar hops down into the dorsal turret, deciding not to climb up and work against gravity after his long work out. He straps into the gunnery chair and begins to flip on the various controls to get the targeting computers online and the cannons warmed up. With a flick of a switch over on his right he links the ventral cannon to his computer in order to control both in any upcoming firefight.Acaatha finds a safe place for now -- mindful that she may be needed to perform emergency maintenance or otherwise help Fuzil keep the FTY in-flight while you all attempt to escape Eriadu.

Lin... well, he's in his element. Seeing, hearing or hoping that everyone is strapped in, he lifts the FTY off the ground, points it gently upwards over the rim of the docking bay and aggressively pushes the throttle forward. The FTY responds and immediately blasts out of the docking bay like a gundark on the hunt. Although Eriadu is a populous planet with plenty of ship transit, the behavior of the YT-2400 blasting out like that is deeply suspicious to the authorities and the commlink near Lin blinks repeatedly as they are hailed by starport or traffic control... or both.