We Came, We Saw, We Blew Stuff Up

With the bad guys bugging out, the heroes take to the air in pursuit, leaving Beaker, and Grarwarr in charge of blowing, I mean disarming the bombs.

Bar Bar and Joruss take the turrets, Boppa drives, and Mater Dee navigates and mans the weapons systems. With an "incredible" sensor check, Mater Dee locates the stealth ship that is hidden about 500 meters from the Bothan ship. Not being able to locate the individual bad guys, two missiles are targeted on their ship, hoping to bring them out of hiding. The explosion is impressive, but noone new appears, even after Bar Bar uses the force to make it appear to be more impressive than it is. Well, if two missles were good, four must be better, and this explosion does not need any enhancement. The bad guys will not be leaving the planet in this ship. Unable to locate any individuals, the group returns to the Bothan ship to pickup the bomb disposal unit.

While the rest of the group was off having fun with ranged compbat, Beaker and Grarwarr were calling on all their abilities to disarm the remaining bomb. Things started badly, but a little luck soon left them with two large inert piles of explosives.

With no apparent foes, the group decided to look at the file that Mater Dee downloaded. It's a personal journal from a Bothan that worked at the "recycling" center. In the journal he confesses that the Bothan people - specifically the Bothan Spy Net - helped Black Hole destroy the planet Camass. Under orders from Black Hole, they infiltrated the global defense shield and disabled it in concert with a bombardment by Black Hole. That bombardment killed everyone on the planet, and left the planet an ash covered ruin. And if that wasn't enough, they were blackmailed by Black Hole (because of their actions in the original bombardnment) to engineer the crash of an Ithorian herdship into the site of a temple dedicated to the peaceful study of the force on Camass. The Bothan procedes to name names, give dates and generally layout the evidence that will cause the known universe to turn against Bothans everywhere, along with Black Hole of course. He ends by saying that he knows that the evidence he gives here could damn the Bothan people to generations of pain, suffering and banishment. However, he feels that their actions on Camass have earned them no less of a punishment.

So far the party has not shared this evidence with anyone.

Arriving back at Refuge City, the PCs explained what had happened at the base (minus the Bothan "confession") to the city administrator when the "Bad Feeling" started to come over some of the party. Just a few moments later, the power plant for the city exploded and the lights went out.

Just seconds later, an explosion went off at the opposite side of the dome letting the ash filled air of the planet into the dome, along who knows what and or who else. Using the helmet from the attacker at the Bothan ship, Bar Bar determined that there were four different groups attacking the city, including one at each landing bay.

Fearing for the safety of their ship, the group rushed to its landing bay after being assured by the City admin that since there was no way to eveacuate everyone. They were trusting that the PCs could save them by getting to the heart of the matter. Besides, the citizens were not totally defensless.

Using their comm link to reach the Ugnauts on the ship, they found that so far it was safe, but there were some strange beings in black suits in the landing bay. Gathering at the airlock, the PCs caught a glimpse of someone before rushing into their ship. The mad rush into the ship was accomplished with only a couple of thermal detonators tossed at the party.

Again using the helmet from the Bothan attackers, Bar Bar listened in on the conversations. Now that the party was on the the ship, a landing bay was reported as being secure. As the party lifted off and moved away from the city, Bar Bar reported that the "package" was safe aboard the ship which was met with silence and then a confused response - "package?"