Bespin Escape

[UlicHorn]

OCC: Hey, Im using mulitiple characters so feel free. Since we already accomplished the first goal of saving Ulic then the only other thing to do is really get off Bespin, so any added ideas are great. So if anyone wants to take up the torch and run go right ahead. Oh and congrats guys we just broke 100 posts in this Scenario.

[Krytos]

OOC: Woo! 100

I think I'll add an evil Imperial officer now

 

IC: After the laughter settled down, the group collected themselves and tracked back to the corridor. Once they entered it, the dark corridor didn't seem so scary now, and they walked to the far end without any mishaps.

There, the group spent several painstakingly long minutes searching for an exit. Sib was the one to find a small vent, high up on a wall. Without the lights it was difficult to find, though the crude welding to keep it shut was an obvious give away.

The group gathered around the vent and began thinking of ways to get through.

 

***

 

"Lieutenant Varn. We've brought in the heavy equipment like you ordered." This was the crackly voice a Stormtrooper whom Micale Varn didn't care to know his name. He had sent him off to get in contact with the orbiting Imperial fleet in order to bring down heavier weaponry to deal with what is believed to be a Rancor.

Frankly, Varn didn't care for the excuses the squad leader had given him. On the unlikely chance there was a Rancor on Bespin city, a squad of Stormtrooper could deal with it accordingly. They would undoubtedly loose a few men - though with a few grenades and thermal detonators the Rancor wouldn't be a problem.

Nevertheless, the squad had retreated and sending them in now would mean the entire squad would be meeting the creature at point blank and would undoubtedly get wiped out.

Varn didn't mind loosing a few troopers, though an entire squad would look bad for him - something he didn't need.

Varn's thoughts were rudely interrupted by the white figure in front of him restlessly moving.

"Very well. Equip your soldiers accordingly and begin unsealing the door. Use the flechete cannons first to hold the creature back, and once your men our out of harms way - deploy the missile launchers.

"I'm not sure how much it takes to kill a Rancor, though I believe four of your men with portable missile launchers should deal with the creature rather easily."

 

The Stormtrooper moved off and began gearing up his squad. Troopers strapped on additional armour over arms, legs and in some instances completely changed their armour for the heavier duty armour given to those who deserve it. Four of the troopers moved away from the pack and found firing positions for their missile launchers, while and addition six moved to the door with their flechete cannons. The remained used their E-11 blasters.

With a flash of light, the lead Stormtrooper began unweilding the door.

 

***

 

A bright shower of sparks sailed down the door at the far end of the corridor. In an instant, Karn and the others had seen what was happening and now began acting. Afton's quick hands brought out her blaster, which removed the problem of the welded vent door, while the rest boosted Sib up, who helped the rest in the vent shaft.

 

Squeezing down the shaft, Karn called to whoever was at the front of the group. "Watch out for booby traps - who ever set up the Rancor trick might have booby trapped this vent."

No sooner had he said that, did the doors in the corridor fly open . . .

[UlicHorn]

Sib tucked herself tightly and launched herself further into the vent followed closely by Afton and Ulic. Karn jumped up grabbing the ledge and yanking himself in the moment the door blew open. A squad of stormtroopers rushed into the corrider and almost completely passed the vent, but one stopped. "Sir?" he said pointing upwards at the open vent.

"Very good solider, now move." the squad commander barked. The vent went further undetected long enough for the group to move...

[Krytos]

IC (Lieutenant Varn):

 

With two troopers at his side with glow rods, Lieutenant Varn viewed his surroundings. His first responce was to laugh as there was obviously no Rancor or any other creature in the corridor. It was merely blackened by the lack of light and the scarring of weapon fire.

His humourous mood was broken by a Stormtrooper calling to him and pointing to an opened vent. Varn moved off towards the vent, with the two troopers following fast behind him.

The Lieutenant reached the vent after a slow stroll down the extents of the corridor. When he reached the spot under the vent, Varn realised that it was more than stray blaster fire - the vent cover had been blastered, judging from the angle, it was from right where he was standing, though a lower angle.

"Blast," Varn muttered. "I need two search parties assembled now. They are to search this vent shaft - both directions."

Varn turned excpecting to see the Stormtroopers around him already moving off, though they stayed put waiting for his final order.

"NOW!" Varn yelled allowing his anger to feed through his words.

The troopers broke apart into search groups and began following the vent shaft.

Varn exited the dark corridor and moved to a communication post. I wont be the one to take the fall for this mistake.

[Jess]

Afton did not see much went she climbed into the vent, but what she did know was that the Imps had seen there escape. She kept moving down the vent behind Sib and infront of Ulic, her droid at her side, or rather her head.

 

"What are we going to do know Karn?" she whispered quietly, as not to attract attention to them. She was not sure of the contents of this city and she diffinetally did not know her way around. She had only arrived here two days before and had not had a chance to memorise the cities structure and all the ways of escpae that she usually like to know.

 

"Look we have to get out of the firing line so that we can think of an escpae plan. I for one don't like having people following me everywhere, aspecially in a group like ours. Besides some of us need medical help," she said looking at the ackward way in how Sib moved.

 

"What do you say Karn?"

[Krytos]

Sweat beading on Karn's forehead, dripped off his face as he leaned ackwardly on his right arm. I think everyone here needs some medical attention Karn thought to himself.

 

"Ah . . . pass me up your droid Afton. I've got no idea where we are."

 

The little droid moved up to Karn, and got to work quickly bringing up information on the shaft they were in. As they continued to crawl along, Karn studied the informatino being given to him.

 

"Alright, if we continue down here for 20 metres, we'll be able to enter a large maintenance shaft. From there, all we have to do to get to the surface is . . ."

Karn's voice was cut off as the vent creeked and buckled under them. The four beings, and one droid, fell towards the floor. With a loud thud, the group hit the floor - and with a cry, it was obvious Sib was in emense pain.

"Ok, that wasn't part of the plan." Karn muttered. Standing, Karn looked around the room they were in. It was a small, square room with practically nothing in it except two pipes with adjustable valves on them. There were two ways into the room, one infront and one behind. The one infront was down a short corridor, the door had light streaking from under the door. Daylight.

"Afton, tend to Ulic and Sib - I'm going to check this out."

 

But Karn didn't need to say anything, Afton was already tending to Sib. Karn quickly moved over to the door. Using the door's controls, he opened the door only a little more - opening the gap under the door to a couple of inches.

Dropping to all four, though leaning heavily on his left, Karn peared under the door. Ouside was a landing platform, it was apparent now, that the platform was on the side of the cloud city - and was littered with Imperial transports and soldiers. In the short time he watched, a fresh transport landed and unloaded all of it's cargo and took off again, the cargo were deadly Stormtroopers already headed in the opposite direction to Karn to a main exit.

Jumping to his feet, Karn ran back to the group.

"I swear to Palpatine's face, we are having the worse luck of our lifes today!"

Karn only recieved a confused glance from Sib. "Ok, maybe I need to be a little more to the point? Ok, there's a regiment of stormtroopers and their transports on the other side of this door on a landing platform - I think it's wise to go the other way."

 

OOC: Could someone bring up the idea of stealing one of the tranports? I would have, though it kinda contridicts what I was talking about

So there;s question two: do we want to try and steal a transport here? Or somewhere saver?

[UlicHorn]

OCC: No Idea, but depending on what we choose, I can play it out

[Krytos]

IC: (Lieutenant Varn)

 

Anger boiled up in Varn. Lost! How could my legion of Stormtroopers loose those scum!

"Sir, we have troopers positioned at each end of the vent shaft. We now have a third and forth squad moving down the vents searching. Though we're yet to find them."

"I gathered that Corporal.

"Ah, send out more search parties - and get my company together. We're heading back to the launch pad my regiment is landing on."

It wasn't actually his regiment, rather the regiment that he belonged to - though Varn prefered to call it his own, preparing for the future.

 

OOC: Just incase you guys forgot about this RPG

Oh, and Varn's heading straight towards us

[UlicHorn]

Ulic peered around the corner. "Looks like we're in trouble. Any ideas? All we can do is run, and we porbably wont get to far..."

[Krytos]

IC: (Lieutenant Varn)

 

Varn, at the lead of his company, headed along a narrow access coridor. Varn was late to his post at the secondary landing site, Varn didn't like being late - it made him look bad. As such, he decided to take a quicker route whilst the rest of his unit searched for the medlers who had held him up.

It didn't take long for the Imperial company to reach a locked door. Another infurating moment in Varn's day.

"By the Emperor himself! What else will go wrong today?"

Varn clenched his fists hard. Taping his foot he thought hard, they could blast the door open, or even cut through the lock. Though with a direct link to an Imperial landing pad, it would be foolish to leave it open to rebel attack. No, he would need to unlock this door.

"Arghh! Second and third squad - break off and find the control room to this door. And do it fast!"

The two squads ran down the coridor back towards where they had emerged. Three minutes later, the door hatch clicked, and door unlocked. Varn pulled out his commlink and contacted the two squads that he had dispatched, "Hold your positions and the control rooms. They are vital to taking full control of this instilation."

Putting the commlink away, he singled the remaining squad to follow him.

 

Slowly, the group moved down the coridor. A head, four figures moved to covered positions within the access room. Varn's instincts took over, as he grabbed the Stormtrooper to his left and threw him in the way as a voley of laser fire spewed down the hall. The troopers armour protected him from the first few blasts, though after over twenty hits it was obvious he was dead.

"Take cover and return fire!"

Looks like I found our annouance after all Varn thought as he removed his side arm.

 

****

 

IC: Karn Macen

 

Hearing Ulic's warning, Karn turned to look down the coridor. A loud click rang out from the door, it was unlocked. Oh, Sith spit

"Take cover!"

No sooner had Karn spoken, did the door open wide to allow a squad of Stormtroopers in. By then, all four had found cover at the edges of the room and began opening fire, killing one of the stormtroopers.

"I think our choice has been made for us. How are we going to get out of this? Being attacked from the front, and and army waiting for us out the back!"

[UlicHorn]

Ulic drew his blaster. "Well if any of you believe in that 'force' then I suggest you pray, but the rest of us need to get out of her now. Someone give me a second blaster and anything that will explode."

[Krytos]

Silently, Karn prayed to the force for help, as he pulled out one of the two grenades he had on the Storm Trooper armour. He quickly tossed it to Ulic, and squeezed the trigger on his E-11 blaster scarring the wall though not hitting any of the Stormtroopers.

"Ahhh!!!" Karn yelled out. "We'll need a miracle to get out of this one!"

As soon as he'd finised his bantar, an energy bolt colided half a metre from his face sending Karn diving for cover.

 

IC (Varn):

 

The Stormtroopers under Varn's command skillfully used the small corners of the corridor as cover, while laying down effecient supression fire pinning the rebels.

In the distance, behind the rebels and through the door way behind them, a garrison of Stormtroopers were being unloaded.

Any minute, one of those troopers could see this little battle and come to intervine. He could not have this, it was bad enough that he let them escape and run him around. Now it would seem as if an entire legion of Stormtroopers would be needed to stop four rebels. I can't let this happen, I need to get rid of them. This is my command!

No sooner had Varn thought this, did an massive explosion ring out in the distance. Varn needn't be near the explosion to know that it was military explosives, rather it was some more rebels. Perfect!

"All forces on landing platform 11b are to move and assist at the sight of the explosion imediately."

A smile broadened across Varn's face. Now they're mine.

 

IC (Karn):

 

As the echo died from the explosion in the distance, the Stormtroopers behind him and his friends dissappeared in the direction of the explosion.

"Hey Ulic, looks like our prays have been answered!"

Now all they needed to do was retreat onto the landing pad, steal a ship and take off

[UlicHorn]

Ulic, filled with adrenilne, quickly picked up Sib who gave a surprised yelp but caught the plan. Ulic ran as quickly as he could with Karn and Afton following towards the landing pad. With any luck he'd find his ship and they'd be able to escape.

[Krytos]

IC (Karn):

 

The landing pad only had Imperial landing craft, no civilian ship. Oh well, this'll have to do Karn thought as he ran up the loading ramp of an Imperial shuttle firing a bolt of energy from his E-11 into the pilot in the shuttle. Close behind, Afton was also inside the ship and dealing with the shuttle's co-pilot.

As Ulic lumbered up the ramp with Sib, Karn was starting the shuttle up.

"Ok, this shuttle will only get us so far. The Empire will be able to trace it and probably take us out before we reach my frigate. So, Ulic, we're going to need to find your freighter."

With that, the shuttle's ramp and door closed as it took off, in the distance Stormtroopers were firing non-stop at the shuttle as they ran out onto the landing pad.

 

IC (Varn):

 

A smile crept across Varn's face as the stollen Imperial shuttle took off. Fools. No matter where they go now, I'll be able to follow.

"Corporal, load up the squad into that Sentinal Landing craft, and prepare for dust off."

Soon they will be mine

[UlicHorn]

Ulic took Sib to a trooper chair where she could sit down and headed for the cockpit. "Ok, either we find my ship or this is gonna be a real short trip. Get this thing to landing pad 326, I'm pretty sure my ships still there. If we can get to it, we can get outta here." He strapped himself in in back next to Sib and checked her wounds will Karn got the ship up.

[Krytos]

IC: (Karn)

 

The shuttle arced through the sky, giving Karn a better bearing on where they were, close to the edge of the city on the Sout East side. Bringing the navigation computer online, Karn scanned for landing pad 326 and there escape. Once the location was locked in, he throttled up the shuttle and began bringing other systems online. Weapons, life support to full, sensors . . . no shields! Karn almost lost his breath when he noticed there were no shields on the shuttle, from the outside it was obvious it wasn't strong, so he'd assumed there would be shields to protect it.

If they were attacked, they'd stand no chance.

 

IC: (Varn)

 

The Sentinal class Landing Craft lifted off and began to chase the small command shuttle the rebels had stolen.

"Pilot, once the shuttle has landed - destroy it." Varn said in an almost too sober voice.

"Yes sir," The crackly voice of the pilot rang over his helmets speaker system.

 

IC: (Karn)

 

Karn piloted the ship low, just above the city sky line, in order to avoid any TIE Fighters that might have been called out, or any Stormtroopers with rocket launchers.

The city was earily quiet now, the streets were empty of civillians, security units and Stormtroopers. Any fighting was now well and truelly over - except for Ulic, Sib, Afton and Karn's fight.

Circling around a large tower, Karn's HUD lit up with a nav beacon painting the landing platform 200 metres away.

"We're almost there gang!"

Karn quickly pushed the throttle to full, just as the ships sensors flicked to life. The sensors were showing that a friendly Sentinal was targeting them. It didn't have line of sight yet, though it would soon. Hopefully they'd be clear of the shuttle by then.

"Ah, Sithspit. We've got trouble. When I tell you, we're going to have to jump out of the ship."

Karn recieved some troubled looks from his passengers, especially Sib. But they didn't have a choice.

Karn brought the shuttle in short of the landing pad, and slowed to a crawl when he was 5 metres from the ground. The sudden shock of inertia sent his passengers flailing inside the shuttle. Continuing his decent, Karn yelled out to his friends, "Time to bail out!"

Still a little over two metres off the ground, the group abandoned their shuttle plumiting to the hard duracrete bellow.

 

IC: (Varn)

"Luetenant, the shuttle's crew has abandoned ship."

"What! Open fire, now!"

At 500 metres, the landing craft opened fire with its forward mounted lasers. The green bolts ripped into the weak shuttle and began tearing it apart. Before their work was done, a pair of missile roared to life from the landing craft and hit the shuttle obliterating anything that use to be there.

"Good, bring us down on the landing pad."

"Yes, sir."

The landing craft then slowly accelerated towards the landing bay. Ready to deploy its cargo of Stormtroopers.

"This debacle ends now," Varn thought aloud

[UlicHorn]

"They're gonna be on us in a minute, run! Fast!" Ulic shouted over the explosion. He ran Sib over his shoulder once again. His head was pounding from the fall but he ran anyway. He could see the ship up ahead it was sitting on the landing pad on the other side of the walkway. In the open, he thought, why did I land in the open?. They were really gonna have to make this escape count. They made it to the ship and Ulic opened the ramp, he moved to the cockpit faster than Sib had ever seen him do it, just as the Imperial Craft was turning around.

[Krytos]

IC: (Karn)

 

The explosion slamed Karn into the duracrete surface, temporarily stunning him.

"They're gonna be on us in a minute, run! Fast!" Ulic shouted.

Looking over his shoulder, and through the dark smoke that billowed from the detroyed shuttle, the Imperial landing craft slowly accelerated towards the landing pad.

Pushing past the pain, Karn raised himself onto his feet and began to run. He was the furthest back in the group, with Afton pushing ahead of everyone.

The roar of the landing craft's engines grew louder as it flew over head, and began to land. It didn't matter now, he was only ten metres from Ulic's ship - and Ulic was already there with Sib opening his YT-2400.

We're going to make it! We're going to make it!

 

IC: (Varn)

"No! Land this crate now, and stop them!" Varn yelled at the pilot, who had already begun landing.

Varn's jaw was clenched tight as he watched the rebels reach their transport - even if the transport landed and deployed the Stormtroopers, they didn't have enough firepower to stop the ship - though the landing craft did. A flood of thoughts washed through Varn's head as he decided that the shame of letting the rebels go was greater than stopping them with addition force.

"Pilot, once the soldiers are on the ground you are to engage the enemy transport and call in fighter support."

After a small pause, the pilot replied. "Yes sir, weapons are online and ready."

With that, Varn headed back to the troop compartment with the sole thought This isn't over yet.

 

EDIT: Oops YT-2400

Edited January 6, 2005 by Krytos

[UlicHorn]

"This isn't over yet." Ulic sayed priming the ship for a quick departure. The Engine room of the Corellian frieghter lit up and hummed then quickly died. "Oh wonderful!" Ulic cursed a few Corellian words and slammed his fist down on the console in front of him and it hummed back to life. YT-2400's were supposed to be very sturdy and reliable, unless you take them apart and tamper with the hyperdrive, then the customization really kicks out. "This is gonna be rough, someone get in the gunnery turret!" he shouted as the ship lifted off. Sib limped slowly in. "Sib, take over and try to keep it steady!" Ulic shouted over his shoulder as he was already heading into the back near the engines. He turned on his comlink and opened an access hatch, climbed halfway in, hydro-spaner in hand, and began to work quickly. A blast from a cannon hit the ship and Ulic dropped the hydro-spaner. The ship lurched and did spun. "I said keep us steady!" Ulic shouted into the comlink.

 

"You said try!" Sib quipped back as she piloted the ship. TIEs were begining to crawl all over Bespins's atmosphere and Sib had to use some tricky manuvers, against Ulic's wishes. "What are you doing up there?" he asked. "Trying to keep us alive!" She snapped and followed with a series of curses and such in Ryl, which Ulic seemed to understand most of.

[Krytos]

IC: (Karn)

 

Standing out of the way, Karn's stomach lurched as the ship hummed to life and died again. Though Ulic was on top of it, with a quick thump the ship came back to life, and he then continued by running off to do further repairs to his ship.

"Hey Afton, you take the top turret - I'll take the bottom." With that they moved off to man the ship's guns just as an energy bolt colided with the ship.

 

 

IC: (Varn)

 

Leading the Stormtrooper onslaught, Varn opened fire on the prone freighter. Mere seconds later it hummed to life and began too lift off the ground. Stopping in his tracks, even in defeat, he smiled. Now if the rebels escaped the blame would land on the fighter pilots who were unable to eliminate them. If they suceeded, Varn could say that he forced the rebels into first tacking one of their vessels which they could lock down and then into a space battle to avoid colateral damage.

Varn's smile widened as he realised he wouldn't recieve punishment for this battle, noly praise. His smile was only re-enforced as the landing craft opened fire on the frieghter.

 

IC: (Karn)

 

Grabbing the sides of the ladder leading to the ventral gun, Karn slid down and quickly brought the weapon online. The targeting computer on the gun showed the landing craft firing on them, though finding it hard to hit the nimble craft. It also showed the sky being littered with TIE Fighters and even a few Bombers.

"By the force . . . . Afton, Sib heads up we've got a lot of trouble!"

Lining the first TIE up in his sights he squeezed the trigger sending a hail storm of energy bolts at the fighter. Stunned by the quick reaction of the freighter, the TIE pilot was unable to move out of harms way and exploded in a deadly fireball. The rest of the fighters began evasive manouvres as they drew closer with the freighter firing wildly in an effort to stop them firing back.

"Great, one down - how many more to go?"

[UlicHorn]

Ulic hadn't wished for his droid co-pilot to be there more than right now. He worked as quickly as he could but this was going to take more time than they had. He slammed the hydro-spanner down and hoped it would work. He slammed the compartment shut as he ran back towards the cockpit. The fighters were giving them a beating, a few more hits like this and the shielding would be out in a flash. Another blast nearly tossed him to the floor but he braced against the hull and moved towards the cockpit again. He moved Sib out of the pilot seat and took over. They were close to atmosphere and the ship's guns were blazing as the bombers fired back. They were in open space and a Star Destroyer moved towards them.

 

In a moment they'd be in firing range so they'd have to make this quick.

"Hang on!" Shouted Ulic as he punched in the last navicomputer coordinates. "Punch it!" he said and Sib followed up as the ship lurched forward and the hyperdrive died out again.

[Jess]

The last few hours where like a blur to Afton, but the sudden inormity of the threat brought her back into full action. She swung the gun here and there hitting most of her targets. Okay, she thought, this is great.

 

"Okay people we are lookin up," she said through clenched teeth....

 

OOC: Great to be back....sorry that it took so long.

[UlicHorn]

"No!" Ulic shouted slamming his fist down. This couldn't be happening, he thought, not now. "Ulic," Sib said, "We're going to be in tractor beam range in a minute. You'd better come up with something fast or we're in trouble." Ulic hit the switch again as the hyperdrive whined. "I think we're in trouble."

[UlicHorn]

"Ok, I'm gonna try and run us." he said as he pushed the ships engines farther. "Too bad I don't have anywhere to run too. Anyone got any ideas, I'm open to suggestions." Turbolaser fire was blasting around the ship, so long as the deflector sheilds held they could run...but not for long.

[Krytos]

OOC: Sorry it took a while to respond, I just got back yesterday from my mates beach house

 

Firing almost constantly as the still incoming horde of TIE Fighters, Karn had built up a small kill count of around 6 fighters. Considering the folley following them, it wasn't even close enough.

"Anyone got any ideas, I'm open to suggestions." Ulic called out over comm system.

 

Why hadn't clicked?

"Ulic, fly towards the moon - my frigate is holding in system on the dark side of that moon!" They'll be able to hold of against the fighters long enough for us to dock and make the jump to hyperspace!"