Episode 3 : As The Wheel Turns

Episode 3 : As The Wheel Turns : The FIFT, free from Teemo's clutches, make their way to The Wheel, with a few stops along the way to shoot some things, before arriving at The Wheel, and getting more jobs to shoot some things.

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## Episode 3.1 - May 26th, 2015:

In search of some new credit making opportunities, the group
decided to head OTA’S advice and make for the space station THE WHEEL.  They also agreed to make a delivery for OTA,
dropping a crate with unknown contents off on the planet of FORMOS.

The start of the trip to FORMOS was not without hazard, as a
damaged ship forced the KRYAT FANG out of hyperspace, while requesting for
aid.  Despite suspicions that it could be
a trap, the party decided to investigate, and soon had their fears confirmed
when they were in a fight for their lives against what appeared to be pirates.

After barely managing to get everyone back aboard the ship
before the pirates overcame them, a combination of JOHN’s expert piloting and
VARLOV’s speedy astrogation allowed the group to break away from the pirate
ship and continue their journey to FORMOS…

## Episode 3.2 - June 30th, 2015:

Arriving in FORMOS, the party made their way through the
streets of the ramshackle spaceport, engaging with some of the locals as they
headed towards the local cantina.  After
a run-in with a Tritonite missionary and a local water seller, the group
happened upon the sorry tale of J9-B8.

Having been set upon by a group of thugs, and with his
friend R4-W9 subsequently being droid-napped, J9-B8 was damaged beyond repair, but
managed to share his story with the group before he fully deactivated, setting
them on the trail of BANDIN DOBAH, a local Aqualish smuggler kingpin.

Following completion of the delivery for OTA, and
discovering that BANDIN had both an Imperial and Hutt bounty on his head, and
after meeting a Bothan searching for her bounty hunter brother, the group
followed a local Toydarian in the hopes of learning more about BANDIN.  A fight with some local thugs at a warehouse ensued
and victorious, the group is now left to pick up the pieces and decide on their
next move…

## Episode 3.3 - July 23rd, 2015:

After the dust cleared on the fight, the group set to
investigating BANDIN’S warehouse, looking for clues to help determine their
next step.  Dragging the captured thug
into the warehouse, they gleaned little information from him before deciding to
let him go.

While the interrogation led to a dead end, further
exploration of the warehouse uncovered the deactivated R4-W9 tucked away in a
corner.  GENKO managed to remove the
restraining bolt from the astromech, and soon the droid was learning the fate
of his friend J9-B8.  The R4 unit told
the group all that he knew, including the likely location of BANDIN’s hideout,
located in a nearby asteroid field.

After wrapping up business in FORMOS, the party, with R4-W9
in tow, headed out to the asteroid, hoping to put an end to BANDIN and
collecting the bounty on his head.  Their
arrival was not without incident however, as both a sentry droid and another small
spacecraft attacked the KRAYT FANG shortly after arrival.  After handling them fairly easily, the ship
now drifts towards the asteroid and a confrontation with the Aqualish smuggler…

## Episode 3.4 - Aug 6th, 2015:

The hunt for BANDIN DOBAH had led the group to an
asteroid.  After dealing with the outer
security, the crew proceeded into the heart of the rock.  After discovering a broken down starfighter,
pitted due to the corrosive gunk lining the walls of the tunnels, and a small
flock of mynocks, quickly dispatched by some lucky shooting, the final
confrontation was at hand.

A tense battle with BANDIN’S crew ensued, with the tide turning
when GODON NETAKKA, the missing Rodian bounty hunter who had thrown in with
BANDIN to save his own skin, turned on him, leading to the smuggler’s capture.

The party decided to turn in the bounty to THAKBA BESADII
DIORI, a Hutt kingpin on SLEHEYRON.  The
decision was fruitful for the group, but didn’t go so well for BANDIN, who was
killed in gladiatorial combat during a party thrown by THAKBA.

With many credits in hand, the crew plotted a course for THE
WHEEL, eager to explore the opportunities that an Empire-less spaceport could
hold…

## Episode 3.5 - Aug 6th, 2015:

Arriving at an aptly named THE WHEEL, the crew makes contact
with OTA to learn of his contact at the station.  After paying the exorbitant registration and
docking fees, the crew meets their contact, a flamboyant and loud Twi’Lek named
ROJ’TEK.  After negotiating terms with
the Twi’Lek, in exchange for his role of finding work for the group, the crew
receives their first job, for BARGOS THE HUTT, with GENKO staying behind to
deal with personal matters.

After travelling to KLATOOINE to meet with BARGOS, the crew
are tasked to journey to GAVOS to inspect a new mine recently acquired by
BARGOS, and to collect the first year’s profits of 100k credits.  The party is also witness to an awkward
situation as a group of gamorreans storm BARGOS’S chamber and proceed to brawl
with his guards before unleashing a verbal tirade directed at the hutt.

Unsure of what that was all about, the crew agrees to take
the job and makes their way to GAVOS, where things may not be exactly as they
seem…

## Episode 3.6 - Aug 6th, 2015:

The crew arrived at the mine on GAVOS, a very inhospitable
planet with the mine only standing because of the protection of a storm barrier,
to initially find the place seemingly deserted, except for a few droids. Soon
after, they started to find the bodies.

While investigating the mine, warnings over the loud
speakers that the storm barrier was failing urged the group forward, eager to
collect the credits and get out before it failed, while also hoping to find out
what had happened to all the miners.

The picture of what happened seemed to become clear as the
group found a large number of the mine’s droids grouped at the entrance to the
mine proper, where they told a story of pirates storming the mine, pursuing the
remaining miners underground.

Hoping to both save the remaining miners, and earn more
favor with BARGOS, the group ventured down into the mine…

## Episode 3.7 - Aug 6th, 2015:

Travelling into the heart of the mine, in total darkness,
with the warnings continuing to blast over the loudspeakers about the failing
storm barrier, the crew arrived only to be immediately fired upon by the
remaining miners.

After cooler heads prevailed, the group learned the real
story of what had happened at the mine, with the mine’s droids turning on their
human masters as part of THE NEW DROIDS’ RIGHTS MOVEMENT, led by EV-8D3.

Realizing that they had walked into a trap, the crew rushed
out of the mine, right into a battle with the droids.  What the droids lacked in combat skills was
quickly made up for in the debilitating screams coming over the loudspeakers
from their leader, and eventually the group was left almost for dead as the
droid leadership made their escape, and the storm barrier about to fall…

## Episode 3.8 - Aug 6th, 2015:

After barely managing to fight off the last of the droids,
and after EV-8D3 made his escape, the party figured out why the storm barrier
was falling, as another droid was using a cloud car to systematically destroy
the barrier generators surrounding the mine.

Rushing out in the KRYAT FANG, at a vector intending to
intercept the cloud car, the crew engaged the droid and managed to stop him
just before he made it to the last barrier, breaking their newly purchased gun
upgrades in the process.

With the immediate threat passed, the crew returned to the
mine in order to retrieve the credits for BARGOS, but with the damage to the
mine and the droids, they had to negotiate with the remaining miners to ensure that
the mine could continue to operate.

Returning to BARGOS, the crew paid him his profits, getting
a cut for themselves, and made their way back to THE WHEEL…

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