LogDeniable Asset-Jason-16

Game log for the 2025/04/06 session of Star Wars - Deniable Asset, as taken by Jason

The team splits up, with some of us staying in Tios, and Igli, Mylla, and TL-DR moving to chat with Arvon Dax.

Con slices the local defense mainframe and finds that there's a Tiosian defense industry day only two days from now, which will be attended by all the best people from all over the place. Firms like Kuat will be sending people, as well as the local outfits. The minister has no other public appearances planned. He also discovers that the chasm dwellers tried to bump off the defense minister three months ago, by tunneling under his house and blowing it up. Since that attempt failed, his security has been rethought and augmented. Hektor is also able to identify the route the minister will be taking to the event, and determine that he'll be in one of three cars.

Phex does a little scouting, examining the motorcade route. There's a spot where the lines of fire would limit their ability to maneuver, but it's an urban area, with risk of high collateral damage.

Anax Phez intuits that nothing minor would have brought the team back so quickly. They talk about the threat, and she promises to move heaven and planets to get a New Republic Ambassador to Tios before the coup, to warn them and to take credit for saving them. Our role, of course, will be to thwart the coup. She acknowledges that she is asking for a miracle. The team vents some bitterness over the helplessness of the New Republic, and then return to Eygor.

The team decide to infiltrate the droid barracks and see if they can't program the droids to fight one another. Scans on the way in reveal a grounded transport ship under camo netting, and Com immediately begins jamming their comms. The Asset's guns hammer the transport, destroying its shields before it can even bring them up. The next volley inflicts further damage on the transport's shields, and disables their navicomputer. At this point they begin returning fire, though, and they do seem to be properly equipped with guns. Their initial volleys miss wide, presumably due to panic. Further shots disable the transports' engines and ruin even more of their shields, but their return fire eventually connects, taking out the Deniable Asset's navicomputer. Eventually the Asset's blaster fire breaks the spine of the transport. Con sees a runner and calls him out on the comms, and Mylla takes him under fire. She misses him, but he hits the dirt. Shortly thereafter, secondary explosions start breaking out inside the transport, and the guns fall silent. Mylla takes the runner under fire again, and this time, he gets to briefly experience the particular sensation of being hit by a starship-class blaster cannon.

Once inside, Con, already knowing these systems, slices through them like a brand new deli slicer through yesterday's bologna. The droids will slaughter each other, then investigate the wrecked transport and clear it.

On our way back, Darvon calls again, and tells the team that a New Republic ambassador is going to visit. The Hutts will be moving their timetable forward even more. They'd surely appreciate it if we killed the New Republic ambassador, and appreciate it even more if we framed him or her for the assassination. They'll quadruple our fee. The crew begin to voice some frustration with the way the Hutts keep having to ask us to patch up their failures. Igli lands the ship in Eygor long enough for Con to fix the navicomputer, and some crew members begin scouting the spaceport.

Back on Elnoor, TL-DR gets put in a crate and loaded onto the Ambassador's shuttle. By the time someone lets him out, the shuttle is on its way to the jump point. TL-DR accepts the Ambassador's apology for crating him half-heartedly. The Ambassador explains that he's coming into this very late, and he's going to be doing damage control now, not trying to execute some properly worked-out project. He'll need any help TL-DR can render.

The team is ushered into the Ministry of Defense conference room, and the Minister asks what this highly irregular meeting is about. The Defense Minister does not want to believe. He sees the Hutts as partners in commerce, and having to act against them as potentially disastrous. The Minister seems likely to go interrogate the Minister of the Interior (the Hutt's presumptive puppet) with considerable, er, rigor. That's the last we hear of it... until Darvon asks us for an update, and then a while later, sends us an emergency abort message. Awwwww. So sad. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.