The Last Ambush

Late in the evening your holo-messenger lights up as a new message arrives. After several weeks of hearing nothing from your unknown contact another detailed plan for an ambush is spelled out in front of you. Just as before there are map locations marked, the resource team's expected route through the city, and their time of arrival. This time the synthesized voice speaks quickly and in a hushed tone. "This will be an unusual team from what I can gather. Their objective is unknown." The speaker sounds as though they are trying to keep quiet while recording the message.

The plan is the same as the last two times; meet at Ishala's clinic to gear up, go over the ambush details, and then head out to the site. The Resource Team is scheduled to land just before sunrise to the south of town and you're to hit them as they make their way through an old abandoned residential section.

It's early in the morning as you walk the narrow streets of Falu to meet with the others. It's been several weeks since the last ambush and while the buzz concerning the Falu Four has died down the reward for your capture is still in place - a fact that is driven home as you walk past several of the posted notices. Arriving at the clinic a short time later you take a quick peek about your surroundings, just to be safe (from what, you're not even sure), and walk on in.

The clinic has an unassuming storefront, with a simple sign reading "Galactic Family Medical" above the door in Aurebesh. It sits amongst a row of similar businesses, all of which sit quietly waiting for their owners to arrive. Familiar with the procedure, each of you enter the back of the clinic and meet in the supply room. You're surrounded by shelves of medical supplies in sterile wrappings.

Leaving Galactic Family Medical you head off towards the ambush site. The sky to the east is showing just a hint of red as Csillag, the main star of this system, is just a few short hours from rising. The walk is actually quite peaceful; a few people pass, early risers heading off to work most likely.

By the time you reach the older part of the city the streets are empty, not surprising as the apartments in this area have long been abandoned. What is surprising, however, are the voices that you hear just around the corner at the ambush site. Two men complain about having to work so early in the morning.

"Nothing ever goes on around here. We must have really pissed off the captain to pull this shift."

"We'll live. It's not the worse patrol duty I've been sent on."

Peeking around the corner you see two of Falu's finest, members of the Falu Security Force, sitting on a stoop. One is lighting up a cigarette, while the other is staring into the sky.

As Xin walks by, the officer smoking the cigarette quickly throws it the ground and clambers to his feet. His partner, watching the display, lets out a small chuckle before slowly pushing himself up from the stairs and approaching Xin. "Morning, Ma'am he greets her warmly. "Are you lost? We don't see a lot of folks around these parts so early in the morning."