Enter Moff Kilroy Harlen

*An old acquaintance of both Blaine Hansom and Bota Zi reaches out to Blaine requesting help. For an unbelievable amount of credits, she wants to hire them as her crew on a mission through an asteroid belt. Accepting, the group is betrayed - their friend, Armandra Rettich is secretly in league with the Empire.*

*Sent to a prison planet and stripped of their gear, the two are sent to work in the mines of Omiracelor. Fighting other prisoners, the two are unexpectedly and eventually rescued by Armandra. Explaining that she needed to turn them over to get the trust of the Empire and access to this location, she picks them up and brings them into orbit and immediately into the docking bay of a Star Destroyer.*

*Onboard the ship, Armanda betrays them again to the Moff, who is onboard thee ship and overseeing the workers' progress on the prison planet below. Armandra quickly explains she was using them again to get close to the Moff so she can kill him and end his evil plans - and they find that his current plan is to use the minerals mined on Omiracelor to power a destructive gun he's building on the underside of his Star Destroyer which can destroy another capital ship with single blast.*

*Escaping onto the ship, the group narrowly sabotages the Moff's plans and manages to escape into a nearby asteroid belt.*

## **Recap**

### An Old Friend and Old Enemy

After spending additional time on Yavin 4, Blaine receives another message - this one's from an old acquaintance named Armandra Rettich.

*"So I've heard you're working with the bounty hunter, Bota Zi. This will work out well for all of us as I need both of your talents" - Armandra*

Offering a mouth-watering 150,000 credits each to pilot and man the guns of a ship and navigate it through an asteroid belt, around an Imperial patrol, and onto planet to meet a contact, the two decide that the deal is too good to turn down. Accepting, they meet her on a neutral planet, Thune, and get accustomed to her vessel - a Corellian Medium Freighter with an expanded hull to carry additional cargo - named the *Doublecross*.

### The *Doublecross* and the double cross

Moving the Doublecross through the asteroid belt between Thune and Kinooine, the group encounters Mining Guild TIEs patrolling the area. The yellow TIEs begin to swarm the ship, and only a combination of Blaine's piloting, Bota's gunning, and the thick hulls of the durable Corellian Medium Freighter.

In total, the group swirled through the asteroid belt around two squadrons of Mining Guild TIEs - in total, full 25 ships attacked them. Armanda offers a bonus for the number of ships Bota shoots down but in reality, he didn't need any additional motivation.

As they approached the end, another squadron descends on them. Fortunately, there's an old ore processing ship in front of them as well - Blaine then flies right through its hangar and circles the interior until they blast through the weak processing exhaust area. In the explosion, a number of TIEs explode as well.

Seemingly in the clear, the group lands the battered ship on their destination, Kinooine next to the vessel they were expecting to meet. Exiting their ship, the group waits for their contact to the same. Instead, they see stormtrooper after stormtrooper disembark. Turning to go back on the ship, the two see Armandra with a blaster in her hand and an icy stare.

Reluctantly, Blaine and Bota surrender.

### The Omiracelorian Mines

Losing their weapons, gear, and credits, Blaine and Bota are immediately transferred to a prison ship and escorted into a enclosed slave labor camp. The planet itself was brutal; harsh winds, arid atmosphere, extreme heat, and sand and sand-covered hills as far as the eye could see through the camp's prison gates.

The majority of the other prisoners keep their distance but the duo strike up a friendship with Eigref, a Khoan. Typical for his species, Eigref was short, and of a stocky stature, with rows of spikes across his bright yellow skin. Showing them the ropes, the two settle into camp and plan their escape.

For the next few days, they fall into a pattern - being escorted into the mines on the planet at dawn and led back to the camp at dusk to sleep. This may have been the end, but one day in the mines, a prisoner was pulling out minerals with his hand, and what looked like wiggling eel popped out from the rock surface, followed by another one. With the guards rushing over to inspect the disturbance, all at once a large worm exploded through the rock and devoured a stormtrooper guard. At this point, Blaine and Bota decided to run.

Escaping across the desert, the two make their way to a small outpost sighted up north. Entering a small structure amongst the dunes, they find a little comfort there. Inside is an old Imperial science center, with sand strewn across the floor. Searching the outpost, they find a skeleton of one of the researchers holding a datapad and an intact satellite terminal. Using the datapad to make the terminal active, they broadcast a weak rescue frequency out, hoping they hadn't just called Imperial reinforcements back to them.

Surprisingly, they get a call back from Armandra who is touching down in the sand meters away from them.

### Moff Kilroy Harlen's Sundered Legacy

Armandra quickly explains that she used them to find this location and promises them an escape if they come with her. Putting aside their feelings for her now, the two board her ship and are quickly put to work on her ship. Using the frequency Bota and Blaine used in the compound to overhear Imperial chatter - revealing the location where Moff Kilroy moved his flagship.

Exiting out of hyperspace near Eriadu, the group is now ambushed by Harlen's ship which was lying in wait for them. Towing them in, they are dragged into the Star Destroyer's hangar bay and boarded. Initially attacking the stormtroopers, the three are stunned and thrown in the ship's brig.

Blaine, Bota, and Armandra awake in separate cells and see their captor - Kilroy Harlen himself. Words are exchanged, and Bota is spit on and Armandra is shot in her arm, before he leaves. As the group ponders their fate - loudly and angrily - Armandra pulls out one of her back teeth, which becomes a small scout droid. It hovers into a terminal and downloads data. It then unlocks the cells for the group and disables the monitoring holocams. Armandra explains she's been deep undercover with a group working to liberate Eriadu and now has information that her rebel cell can use against their oppressors.

However, reviewing the data, Armandra realizes that the project he's working on is a massive capital-scale cannon mounted on the underside of a Star Destroyer, which could destroy another ship with a single blast. It also looks like the plans and prototype are on this ship. Not forgiven and not forgotten, Blaine and Bota agree to work with her to destroy the prototype, the plans, and get off the ship.

Sneaking into an armory, the equip themselves with weapons. They are able to easy steal the plans - due to Armandra's tooth fairy - but as they head towards the Star Destroyers lower levels, a failed con from Bota sets off the alarms.

Exiting through an airlock and wearing vacuum suits, the trio 'walk' around several patrolled levels and re-enter the ship near a turbolift to that takes them to the prototype. Turning it on, it begins to build a charge and the group hastily heads to the hangar bay. Soon after they feel an explosion that rocks the ship - and works as an amazing distraction. Boarding Armandra's ship, they take off and take cover in an asteroid field. While a few TIEs follow, the ship is in total disarray and the pursuers offer a weak counter attack.

Riding the rush of such an impressive victory - ruining a super weapon and critically damaging a Star Destroyer while rubbing in Moff Kilroy Harlen's face left the group in hysterics. Exiting the asteroid belt, they celebrated their victory long into after hours at the Mos Eisley cantina.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Bota Zi

### **NPCs**

* Armandra Rettich
* Moff Kilroy Harlen
* Eigref

## **Locations Visited**

* Thune
* Kinooine
* Omiracelor
* Eriadu
* Mos Eisley Cantina

## **Special Edition Notes**

* In the original mission, Armandra is named "Armanda" and seems to constantly betray us yet as a reward I list: "You get a friend for life in Armanda and you owe her two favors!!"
* According the notes, we were supposed to meet Kilroy Harlen on the Kinooine, leading the stormtroopers, but why would he do that?
* Additionally, it's hard to tell if the Moff was supposed to steal the ship and strand us on Kinooine or take us somewhere else. The notes make it looks like we wander all around the planet, but it's supposed to be a prison
* There are notes for "ruins to the north" or "sandworm attacks" so I've just put them all in the experience
* On the prison planet, the NPC in the notes we were to befriend was "Fergie, a Komph" - not sure what that species is, so I changed the name and the species to Khoan
* In the notes it said, 'get captured for a few hours or months' so I'm not sure what it ended up being
* We were supposed to track Kilroy's ship with 'triangulating their escape vector' but the frequency seemed more in line with Star Wars
* We know Kilroy Harlen is the Moff of Eriadu, so it's no surprise he's there. I changed the details a bit
* Harlen's Star Destroyer has no name in my notes
* Armandra is supposed to 'save the day' but there's nothing that describes how that happens. I suppose she would have to - otherwise this young and angry Bota would have probably shot her
* It doesn't say how we exploded the prototype, but we don't really do anything without it being dramatic
* We really did celebrate the completion of this mission in the Mos Eisley cantina afterward