Prologue: Destiny Calls

Juse can hear the man bawling over the hubbub of other conversations. It seems he very much doesn't want to go back to his transport. He claims to need to catch another ship, due to leave soon.

G'Rehth slips through the crowd like a shadow, the two guards completely unaware of his movement. The trandoshans he noticed earlier, however, are not so unaware, and they seem keenly interested in why this nikto is sneaking about.

The senior guard is trying to calm the obviously agitated spacer down;

"We just have some questions for you, sir, then you can be on your way." he says in a slow, almost bored voice. It seems he sees this kind of thing all the time. Despite the apparent unremarkable situation, he is taking no chances and his hand stays firmly on the handle of his stunner in its holster.

The man, a large, dirty, black-haired human with a large bulbous nose and missing teeth, doesn't look impressed,

"I don't got time for your questions, he says, almost spitting the last word, "I got important business I gotta take care of. Now, get outta my way!"

With that he steps back and pushes a passing chadra-fan down in front of himself to block the guards, then makes off to his left, heading towards the further docking bays.

The guards respond immediately, each obviously knowing the other's move without words. The less experienced man keys his comm requesting backup and explaining where the man is running, while the senior guard draws his stunner, shouting,

"EVERYBODY DOWN! as he aims at the fleeing figure. A blue pulse streaks after the man, but misses and fells an iktotchi onlooker instead.

The chadra-fan pushes Mayron’s hands away irritably and climbs to its feet, then scurries away into the crowd.

[i]A sudden oppressive wave washes over each of you; something awful is about to happen![\i]

An explosion rips through the station from the docking bay where the absconding man's ship was docked. A pressure wave pushes everything away and shrapnel fills the air, then everything starts to get sucked back to the new gaping hole as the atmosphere vents. Emergency particle shields activate holding in the air, and now the noises return; metal creaking and groaning, underscored by cries and moans all around. The lights flicker and die, before coming back on a moment later, and the gravity seems to be varying in power.

As your head clears you look back to the docking bay and see that the explosion has opened a hole more than halfway to the centre-hole of the torus. As you watch metal tears and the hole gets even wider. There is a clear stretch of vacuum between you and the other side of the opening.

The lights go red and people start screaming and panicking, rushing to the nearest docking bays and escape pods. People are pushing and shoving and very soon the only calm beings seem to be the four of you; even the security guards have gone running off!