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[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

Putting away his lightsaber, Nathan turned and looked at the crew.

"Padawan Nathan Miodrass Asillion, Jedi." He said, not prepared to waist any time. "Give me a sitrep."

[Nebesnogo Sveta]

"We are not here to hurt you guy's." the mudry said as he lowered his light saber but kept out a wary eye.

"But we would like to know what is going on here."

((Check: 9 = 5 Force Level + 4 Vision -- to keep an eye out on people who would try something.))

[Mercury]

The men and women present seemed confused, but not about to battle it out with Jedi. The members of the crew that the jedi had recognised earlier quickly rushed to their saviours to make sure they were close.

"We were taken by these guys, then another group broke in. They're interrogating the captain in the crew quarters. You have to rescue him!" one of the crew explained

"Hey now, is that any way to treat your generous hosts?" a near-human in the other group complained.

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

Looking to the other group Nathan stared at them for a moment.

"Where I'm from hosts don't invite guests at gunpoint."

Turning back to the crew he laid a reassuring hand on the shoulder of the crew member who had explained.

"We get him out safely, crewman. Don't worry." Nathan moved his head closer to the crewman.

"Do you know anything about the whereabouts of the data package?" He whispered to him.

[Mercury]

The man remained silent on the topic of the data package. It did not seem as if he entirely trusted Nathan - that made sense, since the guy did not know Nathan at all. With all that had happened, he was bound to be suspicious. Maybe if they rescued his companions and took him to safety he'd be more talkative.

[Nebesnogo Sveta]

"Nathan lets first get the captain out of there before they do something really bad to him." he said to his cyborg companion.

"You said the crew quarters?" Nebesnogo said turning to the crew member. "Are you sure about that?" he did not sound completely convinced as he remebered that there was no movement in the crew quarters form the camera report.

((Check: 9 = 5 Force Level + 4 Intuition -- to catch if the person was lying.))

((OOC: I think intuition is the best thing for detecting lies as vision does not seem logical to me.))

[Mercury]

"That's where they said they were going..." Nebesnogo could feel that the crew member at least believed what he was saying. Of course what they told them and what was actually happening might not be the same thing. "You best hurry..."

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

Nathan waved over Nebesnogo.

"Something's not right. Non of this makes sense. I'll go look for the captain, can you stay here and try to find out what's going on? I'll radio in if I need backup."

If Nebesnogo agreed Nathan would go look for the captain, while trying to remain hidden.

((Check: 11 = 5 Force Level + 4 Fitness + 2 Stealth -- looking for the captain while staying hidden))

[Mercury]

((OOC: Does Nebesnogo agree?))

[Nebesnogo Sveta]

"You go do that don't get you self hurt." he responded seeing he did not want to leave these people alone.

((OOC: oops missed posting yesterday))

[Mercury]

Though Nebesnogo was pretty small, his lightsaber was more than enough to keep the group under control. Everyone seemed to be waiting for the situation to change to their advantage before acting, which no doubt suited the little Jedi just fine as Nathan and himself were the only ones likely to change things around here.

Nathan meanwhile moved around the base, first finding his way to the crew quarters. There were traces of blood here, though the amount was small, suggesting a scuffle rather than a murder. Moving along towards the Maintenance Room where the security station had indicated there was activity, Nathan sneaked up to the door opening.

From here he could see the captain of the ship tied to a chair, covered in blood and unconscious. With him were three men armed with rifles and wearing armour - they looked similar to the men who had held the low lives at gunpoint back in the bar area.

One of the armoured men took his radio:

"Did you find it?" he radioed over to his mates in the bar area, seemingly still under the impression that all was well there and that his buddies were now cutting open the Union crew to check their stumach contents.

Nebesnogo too heard the message from the radio of one of the mercenaries they had cut down earlier. No doubt they expected an answer, or they'd get really suspicious really fast...

[Nebesnogo Sveta]

"Nathan there contacting the guy we just took out by radio. Ill try to delay them on the radio but find the guy quickly. Because I don't know if I can keep them going for long."

Nebesnogo moved over to the men they were trying to contact and tried to make the thing sound like it was broken and could only give strange incomprehensible noises.

((Check: 13 = 5 Force Level + 5 Reason + 3 Mechanical Engineer -- to make the thing sound broken an not very sensible to the other side.))

[Mercury]

"Come in! Are you there?"

Not getting an answer on the radio, the men looked around suspiciously, each readying their weapons and scanning around. It would now be harder for Nathan to take them out as they had been spooked.

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

Nathan sent two bursts of static through his radio to signal Nebesnogo he received his message.

His first instinct was to kill the three men in the room for what they did to the captain. Lucky for them Nathan didn't react to that instinct. He needed to find out who they were and who they worked for.

Nathan looked for the frequency they used and set his radio for that frequency.
((Check: 11 = 5 Force Level + 4 Reason + 2 Slicing -- Finding the radio frequency the three men use))

Finding it he used his silent communication to send a message. Observing them from his hiding spot.
((Check: 11 = 5 Force Level + 4 Fitness + 2 Stealth -- Staying hidden while observing the three men))

"I'm afraid your men are no longer capable of answering."

[Mercury]

The three men in the room looked at one another for a moment, then their leader commanded.

"They're here in force, this mission is a bust."

He took up the radio again "All remaining units, execute plan Delta."

Not aware Nathan was hiding next to the door, the first two then moved to exit the room as the leader aimed his gun at the head of the captain, seemingly to execute him.

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

Nathan grabbed his lightsaber and shot out of his hiding spot, using the Force to speed himself up.

((Check: 12 = 5 Force Level + 4 Fitness + 2 Athletics + 1 Force Speed -- Moving towards the captain to save him))

He killed the two soldiers when he rushed past them not even slowing down to deal with them. As he got close to the leader he made a slash with his sabre, cutting off the hand that held the gun. Continuing on Nathan dragged the man along and slammed him against the wall. Pinning him to the wall, Nathan deactivated his lightsaber and held the business end against the man's chest.

Before he would start to question the man he needed to know Nebesnogo's status, so he opened a comm link.

"Nebesnogo, status report."

[Mercury]

Nathan rushed in with brute force, killing two of the soldiers and slicing off the man's hand before ramming him into the wall.

As he called Nebesnogo for a status report, he realised that his target was not as strong as he had anticipated - the force by which he had knocked the man against the wall had knocked him out cold.

Regardless, they now seemed to have the underground facility under control. They still had to find the code, but perhaps the unconscious captain would be able to give it to them. Then all that would remain was evacuation.

[Nebesnogo Sveta]

"Nothing special here they still seem afraid of my lightsaber." He said as he kept watching around for the other shoe to drop.

"So any one of you guys feel like talking now?" he said addressing the crew again.

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

"Rodger that. I've secured the captain and I've captured an enemy. I'm returning to your position ASAP."

Nathan radioed back. He untied the captain from the chair and used the ropes to tie up his unconscious and disarmed captive. Then he put one hand on the captains shoulder, to keep him from launching to his feet. Before lightly tapping the man's cheek with the back of his other hand. Trying to wake the captain up.

"Captain. Captain, sir?"

[Mercury]

Nebesnogo

"You should talk to the captain..." the crew told Nebesnogo. "And we should get out of here..."

They were interrupted: "Listen, Jedies..." one of the men not part of the crew addressed Nebesnogo "Now that you have gotten the captain, captured the enemy and saved these guys..." he motioned to the crew "You will be leaving again yes? We're just innocent entrepreneurs here, caught up in stuff going way over our heads... We don't want no more trouble."

Nathan

Meanwhile, Nathan woke up the captain. After the captain regained consciousness and established that Nathan was - indeed - a Jedi, he seemed most cooperative.

"We should get out of this place... I have the codes... once we are back safe... I will produce them."

It seemed the Captain was unwilling to reveal the codes here and now and risk them falling into the wrong hands anyway, but if he was able to produce them once they were safe, that would suffice for the mission.

Perhaps it was time for them to take the crew and get out of here...

[Nebesnogo Sveta]

"Lets leave indeed we just need to wait for my comrade and your captain and then we can leave." he said addressing the crew.

"I have no quarrel with you." He responded to the other man. "Your just innocent entrepreneurs in hard times." The little mudry sounded a bit sarcastic. "But don't worry I'm sure times will get better so you can do safe jobs and not be bothered by guys like these."

"These people were victims of these people just like you?" he asked the crew just to be sure. "Cause I can make there base a big crater if you like."

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

Satisfied the captain could walk on his own, Nathan picked up his unconscious prisoner. He led the captain back to Nebesnogo and the crew.

((Check: 12 = 5 Force Level + 5 Strength + 2 Athletics -- Carrying the unconscious prisoner))

Nathan could just hear Nebesnogo's last remark when they arrived.

"We're doing that anyway Nebesnogo. I don't want any evidence we were here. The wreckage needs to be disposed of as well." Nathan said to his fellow jedi. Then he put the prisoner down.

He turned to the lowlives.

"That just leaves you lot as a loose end. Now it would be easy for me to kill you, less risky too. But I'm not going to do that. I may even be able to keep some of you out of prison. It all depends on you of course..."

Nathan spoke with a sweet tone. The natural way he spoke was uncharacteristic for the cyborg, but if it was an act or not was anyone's guess.

[Mercury]

((OOC: I wasn't entirely clear on your plans from the conflicting statements, so I made a best effort. I think its time we bring this story to a close. It its too much against what you wanted to do though, we can do a rollback.))

The lowlives seemed to have very little interest in listening to Nathan after he had stated 'we're doing that anyway'. Those words alone seemed enough to trigger a rush amongst the low-lives, who moved to get out of the base by the first available means, people getting out in all directions, as if hoping that though no doubt the Jedi could stop some of them, they wouldn't be amongst those.

Despite their attempts to flee, Nathan still managed to capture several of them as prisoners, including their leader, for as much as one was able to say given the chaos.

After everyone was out, and the prisoners had been secured, a series of explosions took out the underground base and the ships left behind, much to the enjoyment of Nebesnogo, who get quite a kick out of the way the explosion launched the lids off of several tunnels leading out of the underground base, some flying almost 500 meters up in the sky with a fireball chasing them. BOOM!

With the evidence of their presence destroyed, most of the criminals captured and those who had escaped having correctly read the series of explosions behind them as "keep your mouth shut or we're going to hunt you down", the Jedi were ready to get on to their ship and get out of here.

((OOC: If you still wish to take any actions on this world, please let me know the full extent of them in the following post, otherwise I'll presume we're good to return to the Union, get the codes and go for a debriefing!))

[Mercury]

((OOC: Since you haven't posted any objections, I presume we're good to return to the Union, get the codes and go for a debriefing.))

With the matter settled to their satisfaction, the two Jedi returned home, taking the crew with them and dropping the prisoners off at the nearest security station. They would stand trial and likely spend some time in prison.

A small dose of laxatives helped the captain to produce the data crystal containing the codes, which - after being cleaned up thoroughly - was handed over to the proper authorities.

Finally, the Jedi went in for a debriefing with Jedi Master Screetor and some members of the Jedi Council.

"Two groups... criminals and... others. No doubt mercenaries hired by the Free Confederacy. Those codes would have been mighty useful to them." Master Screetor proposed. "In any case, it seems clear they did not get their hands on it and our two Padawans saved the day. A most agreeable outcome."

And with that, it seemed the mission was over.

((OOC: I think this is the end of the mission. If you write up the details on the story page, I shall grant experience!))

[Nathan Miodrass Asillion]

((OOC: I have created the story page and written a report, it awaits your approval.))