Rage...
The party spends the week
on the station. Pep flies to another nearby station in system, also owned by the Wylds,
to have work done on the ship. Meanwhile, Janus spends time with his mother and tries
to help her realize that his father betrayed the both of them. Camara spends most of
the week alone, on the last night she spends some "quality" time with her father
playing Sabaac and getting drunk. Gentle sells his thorns, making decent buck. And
Amanda and Baaca get to know each other with cards and drink.
As the party trickles into the docking bay, Taren approaches Pep and asks him
for a favor. Since they will be returning to the Outer Rim, and are going the long
way to avoid Imperials, Taren asks if he could stop at an Old Repbulic refueling
station on the border of the Outer Rim. He has a friend there that is laying low,
but he hasn't heard from her in some time. He would like them to stop there and
check up on her and give her a data crystal and a locked box. Pep agrees.
The rest of the party arrives to find that the ship they've been flying in was
not a freighter, as the outside hull suggested, but was in actuality, a Jedi Cruiser
with the hull of a freighter placed over top of it. Pep has removed the over lying
hull to reveal his old ship underneath.
The party takes off and heads for the Outer Rim. Pep charts a course that takes
them past the station. Just before they arrive at the station, Janus has a dark
vision of blood, anger, rage, and death. When the ship pulls out of hyperspace at
the station, Janus immediately feels traces of darkside from the station. The party
also notices that a bunch of ships are floating dead in space, but unharmed, as if
someone jettisoned them from the station.
They manage to make contact with the survivors inside, and learn through the computers
that some kind of virus has made all of the aliens inside go insane. One of the
survivors is Blayze Darkfrost, the person Taren asked Pep to give the packages to.
Bacca scans the nine survivors and finds that the three near humans are infected,
it's just acting very slowly.
Camara informs Blayze of the situation and is asked if she is sure. After a nod
from Baaca, Camara confirms. A moment of silence is followed up by three quick shots
from a slug thrower. Blayze tells Camara that the near humans are no longer an issue,
as Baaca watches the three vital signs go flat. The party quickly figures a way to
tractor in a ship and gets the survivors onboard.
Once they are swept clean, and sterilized, the survivors are let aboard the party's ship
so that Bacca, the medical officer, can check them out. Pep gives Blayze the package
from Taren. Here the party learns that she is Taren's wife, furthermore, she has a
baby with her named Devon, who is their almost one year old son. Camara goes into
near shock, having no idea that she had a step-mother, let alone a brother.
With the survivors checked out and bandaged up, they go back to the other ship
along with Baaca and Amanda. Both ships are going to the Tynofel system, which has
the closest civilized planet. The party's ship gets there first and has about a
nine hour wait for the other ship, since it's hpyerdrive is vastly inferior.
As they wait in the Tynofel system, Janus suddenly feels a dark presence in the
force, it feels very familiar to him, and he recognizes it as Lumiya. He quickly
throws up a block in the force hoping to hide himself from her, and he informs Pep
of what's going on. Pep quickly moves the ship into the traffic going to and from the only planet
in the system, in a hope to remain unnoticed.
Meanwhile, aboard the other ship, Amanda decides to upgrade the ships engine
and hyperdrive....while in hyperspace. Baaca joins in and in a few hours they manage
to make both faster, though Baaca seems curious as to why Amanda would shove a burrito
into a hyperdrive. Amanda searches the ship and finds that whoever owned it before had
several crates of Spice hidden on it. She takes some and sprinkles it onto the burrito
and into the hyperdrive, getting blown back by the resulting short-circuit and arcs
of electricity. They rocket through hyperspace for a few more moments and then are
catapulted out. Unfortunetly they do not slow down when they exit.
The rest of the party gathers in the cockpit of their ship and tensely awaits
the arrival of Amanda and Baaca in the other ship while hoping that Lumiya doesn't
find them. They detect a ship ripping out of hyperspace, surprised to find that
it's the one they are waiting for, and it is not slowing down. It's heading directly
towards the traffic.
Back on the other ship, Bacca fights the stick and manages to pull up the ship
in the nick of time to miss crashing into the planet's traffic. Amanda who is in
the engine room, puts out the resulting fires from the hyperdrive shorting out.
The party quickly locks a tractor beam onto the out of control ship and ionizes it.
The ship comes to a halt. Blayze rushes up to the cockpit to find Baaca looking very relieved.
On the party's ship, they get an incoming comm from the
ship they had figured to be Lumiya's.....