Realisation (RP)

- Voss and Sera -

No one is paying much attention to the Mulberry, the clones have left a marker on it showing it was checked, but was cold and dead. Stored, locked, and empty of fuel.

Given a little time you will surely be able remedy both those situations, there are refueling hoses not too far away, or there may be enough fuel in the lines to, at least, get you 'away'.

What do you do?

- Brenya -

As you move closer, you can see that the Mulberry does not have a 'turret', only a front-mounted, fixed gun. But it sure is a bigger gun than would be common on a trading vessel?

It will not be ideal, but your skills, and your Jedi reflexes, could still allow you to treat the whole ship as a slow and clumsy turret: cut thrust and coast while spinning the craft around its long axis, line up the gun with your target, fire, and then spin back and reengage thrust... this is a maneuver that would be hard-too-impossible to pull off without knowing where the enemy will be before they get there, and will require close cooperation with whomsoever is piloting the ship; so, if you can pull it off, it may be quite effective ... if the contents/occupants of the ship can withstand being tossed about. It might not work a second time, so getting and installing a proper turret may be on your short-list.

It turns out fuel is not free. Maybe the Jedi order had arrangements for refueling —especially during wartime— and maybe you have had to negotiate with backwater spaceports, or maybe the station attendants are just too busy keeping their heads down to stop you, but you can get the hoses and drag them over to the ship.

- Everyone -

Findal draws out his lightsaber, but holds it in his hand, quiet and unlit. "I will cover you." He agrees, moving to crouch behind a wall of crates positioned between the clones in the hangar and the out-of-the-way mothballed Mulberry.

As suspected, the ship is locked, you can't be sure if it is the previous owner's locks or some installed be the authorities after confiscation, but you will need to get them open before you can gain control of the ship.

What do you do?

- Voss et al. -

The ship is now open and you can slip inside and deal with the engine startup sequence. Brenya has just started pumping fuel into the tanks as you do this.

What do you do?

- Sera -

You can't be sure of the details, they feel 'deliberately muddy and confused', but you are pretty sure the previous owner left many booby-traps and secrets on this ship. There appear to be layers of systems, some fake ones to deceive inspectors, some deeper ones that could only be activated through complex routines and under specific conditions.

Some of these layered systems are designed to disable the ship completely —possibly terminally?— if activated wrongly. Maybe it is best to leave probing at them for when you have the time to do so safely?

You can be pretty sure that one of the 'superficial systems' is both designed to look like a legit power-up and to actually get the ship moving in a 'normal appearing' manner. It might be enough for your current purposes, but you know there is also more to it than just that.

The open loading ramp is bound to be noticed before too long.

• Do you go for the 'simple power-up' sequence, the one that you think will get you away but will cost you later? Or do you take your time and try to ferret out what hidden sequences it contains and if there are any tricks that could benefit you on your way out of here?

What do you do?

- Everyone -

... and, lo and behold, there is Brenya approaching the open ramp. She has disconnected the hose, so that is one less thing to worry about, but this was before the ship had time to take more than a little sip of fuel. You won't get far on this and will need to make a plan for more fuel very soon.

The reason for this becomes apparent quite quickly: "Hey! You! What are you doing there? Show us your identification!" The familiar voice of a clone calls.

What do you all do?

Brenya is unarmed, and their call for identification suggest the clones don't have descriptions of what you look like.

• Does Brenya look like a Jedi? Gungans are pretty rare in the wide galaxy, so the clones might be confused for a little while.

Findal moves to the ramp, trying to remain hidden and keeping his lightsaber out of view. He is ready to defend if it comes to it.

Tai'ar, who does not have a any weapons —you don't think she is a Jedi, but she definitely knows her way around the Jedi and you may have seen her at the temple— follows Sera, ready to help, but apologizing that she "does not know much about these things".

Taryn and Voss: What are you doing. Those starting up the ship will need time, if the clones can be delayed long enough, you may not need to fight... at least, not until the engines come on, which will give the jig away.

What do you do?

- Brenya -

"Ugh. What is that thing?" One of the clones comments, lowering a blaster that he was too slow and surprised to get to use, and not sounding overly concerned.

"I suppose we better go after it." They can see that the ship is not powered, so they are not concerned about an escape, and, once you are inside you will be cornered.

Everyone can hear their slow and bored footsteps approaching. You know their training, and they won't come close enough to get brained by a hydrospanner, but, if you can lure them into the cargo hold, the range of their blasters will be less of an advantage.

What do you do?