Ghost in the Machine

The party decided to go back to the Herdship. Once there, they found an increased presence of the Rebel fleet, but undaunted decided to land on the herdship. They reported to General Adama on their mission to Illum, and turned over the shapechanger prisoner. The ugnauts asked to stay, and Mater Dee decided they could be trained to help around the ship.

The Ithorians offered to help off-load and thaw (as oppossed to un-thaw - Wade) the Jedi that were frozen in carbonite, but when you started to move them from the cargo bay, it was discovered that the slab containing the deceased zabrak was empty. In panic mode, the crew search the Magellan, and the Rebels sealed off the landing bay, and began a search of the herdship.

Both searches came up empty, however, just as the crew was getting back together the astrogation computer started up on its own doing some kind of search for coordinates.

Panic ensues again, as the party tries to find the invader. Joruss does a physical search of the ship, Mater Dee starts working on getting the engines "offline", and Grarwarr starts isolating the astrogation computer from all other systems on the ship. After removing all the fuel from the engines, unloading all ordinance from the ships weapons, and isolating all systmes from astrogation, it is finally considered "safe" to let the computer complete its search. During the search, Mater Dee gets a feeling, that the search of the computer is somehow directed by the force.

The coordinates that the computer eventualy returns are for a planet - Camaas, one of the core worlds. Camaas was destroyed by a bombardment from space, by an unknown attacker shortly after the Clone Wars. Known as a peaceful world, it had no weapons, on planetary shields. Those shields were sabotaged, and the planet was blasted in oblivion. It is now uninhabitable, except with special breathing apparatus to keep out the ash and pollutants. There is one city, Refuge, were a collection of Camaasi who were off planet at the time of the destruction and Ithorians work to terraform the planet. The only other settlement is a small group of Bothans that are leasing a large crater where they "recycle" dangerous waste for its valuable byproducts.

After looking up the relevant facts on Camaas, the Navigation computer started on its own, but only displayed two things onits screen, the word "Blackhole", and a picture of the Holocron - the real one that was destroyed on Illum.

Well, after receiving word that the world Camaas came up under unusual circumstance, the Herd Master Tatupu came to visit the party. He told of a Herdship that crashed into the planet soon after its destruction. This crash has been kept secret since it happened, and Tatupu has asked you to investigate. Joruss agreed.

Lastly, the party decided to revive one of the people frozen in carbonite to help explain the missing zabrak. The block was hauled into the medical bay on the magellan, and the thawing process commenced with no apparent problems. The human inside the carbonite appeared healthy, and was able to breathe on his own, but also showed no brain activity. Mater Dee found a small metal net that covered the top of his head. It had some kind of small control box attached. Searches of the Magellans systems showed no reference to any similar device, so Mater Dee is proceeding to the medical labs of the herd ship for further research. Accompanying Mater Dee are Joruss, Beaker, Bar Bar, and Boppa. Grarwarr and the ugnauts stayed behind to watch the ship.