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We start in the midst of battle - the good guys versus the turrets.

Grarwarr continues his downward spiral towards the bunker at the bottom of the cavern on the AoD. He is joined shortly by Joruss. He makes it just in time to absorb a nasty shot from the lower turret.

Meanwhile-1, Mater Dee and Boppa make their various ways to the pillars with turrets. Both heroes have lightsabers, and mean to use the Universal Cutting Tool (UCT) setting.

Meanwhile-2, Bar Bar looks up to see a suited figure with a large staff-like weapon coming down the wall at him - it unwisely tries to use fear to cause Bar Bar to lose confidence in his abilities. With a snear (or the Gungan equivalent - more like a squint) Bar Bar embraces the darkside and shrugs off the attempt. Beaker, seeing the foolish force user, starts plugging away with his sniper rifle.

Realizing that fear is not going to cut it, the new force using opponent opts for the time honored tradition of physical violence, and promptly whacks Bar Bar with a large stick. Bar Bar responds with his own time honored attack of pulling the foes helmets off, but in this case the foe resists. Beaker, not believing in some "all powerful force controlling his destiny", promptly shoots a large hole in both the foes suit and person.

At the bottom of the cavern, Grarwarr flies onto a rage at his inability too breakdown a simple door, and is promptly stunned by the lone inhabitant of the bunker who unwisely opens the door. By this time, Joruss has landed, and a short fight ensues. The gunman gets in a grenade blast before Joruss ends his pointless existence (another multi-page backstory gone to waste).

Boppa and Mater Dee have now made slag of their respective turrets, and Boppa pushes off for the bottom of the cavern to help Grarwarr, while Mater Dee collects up parts from the destroyed speeder and turret (git-r-done Mater).

Bar Bar gives up on the helmet removal, and pushes off towards the bottom of the cavern and starts throwing boomers. Beaker keeps plugging away as the foe moves back and up towards one of the pillars to try and hide and repair a leaky suit. Neither task goes especially well, as Beaker and Bar Bar both keep shooting and throwing boomers.

Meanwhile-3, the group at the bottom of the cavern revive Grarwarr, who takes over computer operations from Joruss. And a good thing to as Joruss was about to use the UCT setting on his lightsaber on the computer after it teased him for his lack of appropriate skill ranks.

Up at the top of the cavern, the remaining foe decides that leaving is the best possible idea, and disappears up a previously unknown tunnel. Beaker, Joruss, Bar Bar, and Boppa take exception to a foe leaving the battle still breathing and go off in pursuit. Not seeing anything in the escape tunnel, Joruss moves to the end, and cuts a large hole in the hatch. Bar Bar moves through the hole and is promptly smacked by the stick wielding foe. Force illusions are exchanged between Boppa, and the foe, but both have little or no effect (except for Beaker who could have sworn he saw a black Star Destroyer - if only for about six seconds). Regardless, Beaker and Joruss make their way out of the tunnel, engage the foe in battle, and are soon victorious.

While the group at the top of the cavern take out their aggresive tendencies on the remaining foe, Grarwarr has found some interesting details in the computer system of the bunker.

In no particular order:

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The crystal was removed about 20 years ago. This corresponds with the rise of Blakhole as leader of the imperial secret service, and comes a little before the bombardment of the planet Camaas.

The Singularity - Blackholes personal star Destroyer - is scheduled to arrive in 6 hours.

A shuttle for the Singularity is stashed in the asteroid belt, and can be remotely operated from this bunker.

Authentication codes to get the shuttle onto the singularity are stored in the computer in the bunker.

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The group decides to collect everyone and meet back at their ship in the docking bay to discuss their options. Should they take the shuttle and infiltrate the Singularity? Should they try and blow it up either remotely or as part of a suicide attack? Should they run? What should they do about the impending bombardment of the planet? What should they have for lunch? Does this black armor make me look fat?