The Last Command 5 - Coup D'état

*Our heroes spend 2 weeks aboard the Scylla craftily trying to overthrow the ship. Tek and Bota aren't very effective but Katira and her Zeltron wiles climbs up the ranks of the ship and works with Tek's slicing capabilities to gain control. Droo tries to make friends with a fellow prisoner and Bota considers changing careers to be a terrorist. Onward and upward as our heroes fly to infiltrate an even larger Imperial capital ship.*

## **Previously**

*Having assured the security of the planet Ibis for the time being, General Bota Zi is given a mission: infiltrate Grand Admiral Thrawn’s 9th fleet and obtain vital intelligence for the New Republic. Bota agrees in exchange for future consideration to be given to the people of Ibis, and the group gathers to board the Imperial Raider-Class Corvette Scylla during a crew changeover. After a rough docking and a near arrest at the boarding ramp, the team has managed to infiltrate some 90 personnel onboard and now seeks to best position themselves for success at an upcoming rendezvous with the 9th fleet flagship Charybdis.*

## **Recap**

### **Appraising the Situation**

Having spent 2 weeks aboard the Imperial Raider Scylla, each member of the team has made their first impressions throughout the ship. Katira has been her usual charming self, making excellent headway with Vice Captain Lyss, Gunner Captain Blinto, and the gunnery crew. She has been invited on numerous occasions to dine in the wardroom onboard, and enjoys a stellar reputation. Tek and Bota have not been quite as lucky. Under immediate suspicion after their time boarding, they have had several different events of concern leaving them in dire straits.

Keeping distance from her less popular companions, Katira asks if Tek can manage to slice into the crew personnel files in order to determine the makeup of the ship and who may be most likely influenced to assist the team.

> "*That’s actually a good mission for Tek, because he can do it from his room.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*That way you don’t have to show your face. Don’t show your ugly, large helmet head.*"
> ― Tek imitating Katira
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> "*We’ve essentially been conscripted by the Empire now.*"
> ― Bota
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Successfully hiding his access to the mainframe, Tek finds files indicating that 7 persons onboard are already suspect of being New Republic agents - surprisingly **not** including Tek and Bota - 10 others that have charges of insubordination, and 60 that are very unlikely to support the New Republic.

Applying these numbers to their known information and pulling all data he can access, Tek finds:

* 256 persons onboard:
	+ 90 clone troopers
	+ 60 Imperial loyalists
	+ 17 potential rebels
	+ one prisoner in addition to Droo

> "*Is it a princess with cinnamon bun curls?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*It is definitely not…*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Ah man, I’m not going to save them then.*"
> ― Tek
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With information in hand, Katira approaches the best possible targets one at a time and feels out their status before attempting to convince them to betray the Empire and aid the group in overtaking the *Scylla*. Of note, Sensor Officer Girk, Gunner Leader Blinto, and Third Pilot Gorfa all agree to join the team.

### **Prisoner "Interrogation"**

Still hiding in his room, Tek looks into the lone prisoner on the ship. A Feeorin identified as Lsa Nym, there does not appear to be any other information available. Hoping that she is someone of use, Tek arranges a guard rotation to station clones at the door so that she can be talked to privately by Katira.

Katira asks who she is and why she is being held prisoner but is only told that she is here as bait for her father. A brief back and forth takes place, with Lsa spitting venom at the perceived Imperial. After embarrassing herself guessing at who Lsa’s father - simply referred to as “Nym” - may be, Katira initiates a prisoner transfer to move Lsa to the same cell as Droo.

> "*You’ve never heard of Nym?*"
> ― Lsa Nym
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> "*I’ve heard of his secrets.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Have I heard of Nym? I don’t even know what species you are!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*She’s a rat.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Typical Imperial.*"
> ― Lsa Nym
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Droo manages to establish a small connection with Lsa once she is transferred over. Not asking directly what she was imprisoned for, she instead attempts to feel out how the Feeorin may respond to escape. Finding that she is a bit more extreme in her hatred of the Empire than the group is ready for, they opt to keep her locked up for the time being.

### **All Good Things Must Come to an End**

With the groundwork completed, the team huddles up to make plans for the coup de grace in their overtaking of the *Scylla*. They agree on the premise that convincing Vice Captain Lyss to aid in their cause would provide the most legitimacy for later action, and establish a contingency plan in the event that he refuses to agree that calls for Bota and Tek to lead an insurrection while Lsa Nym is released from prison to wreak havoc.

Having grown accustomed to handing out orders after spending so much time in the good favor of the officers aboard the *Scylla*, Katira pushes a plan to quarantine the loyalists in the hangar bay of the ship and depressurize the airlock if they attempt to escape.

> "*You’re really letting this power get to your head Katira. You’re like the godfather. “First we move them here. Then they **die**.”*"
> ― Tek
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Having spent so much time at odds, Tek and Katira work together to forge a notice to initiate the plan. They fail miserably. The message is immediately followed by an announcement by the captain to all hands. Based on the unordered message, the entire ship is being placed on communication lockdown and all senior personnel are to report to the officers conference room.

> "*All the lights go from normal to red lighting, so you know there’s a problem.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Can I hack the ship and turn the lights back to normal?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*So you turn the lights back to normal…*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Stop doing this! They’re gonna figure us out!*"
> ― Bota
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> "*Now I want to send out a message to disregard whatever the captain said.*"
> ― Tek
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With the plan rapidly devolving, Tek and Bota rush to the armory to obtain their weapons in case a fight breaks out onboard the ship. In the confusion of the crew changing stations Katira reaches out to Gunner Captain Blinto, Sensor Officer Girk, and Third Pilot Gorfa and convinces them to waylay Vice Captain Lyss so that she can talk to him before the conference.

With Vice Captain Lyss held outside the conference room, Katira decides to lay out the full story in an effort to bring him to their side. Spending 3cp and relying on the benefit that she has built with him earlier, Katira manages to convince Lyss to betray the Empire and help the group. As a side note, Lyss appears to have a secret crush on Katira.

> "*The things we do for women… eh boys?*"
> ― Vice Captain Lyss
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With a legitimate power structure in place, Tek locks down the conference room with all the loyal Imperials inside. Vice Captain Lyss makes an announcement to the crew that there was an attempted betrayal by Captain Gos-Klau and orders the loyalists to report as previously ordered.

Once the loyalists are locked into escape pods, the Vice Captain states that he can’t keep this up anymore and moves toward an escape pod himself. Realizing that they will need Lyss to continue the masquerade when they meet with the *Charybdis*, Katira manages to persuade/seduce the Vice Captain to finish this out.

> "*He agrees to help, and just asks that you put in a good word for him with the New Republic.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Katira, don’t put in a good word for him.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Also, tell him that he’s fat and ugly while you’re at it.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Wow… while you’re at it, just go kill his family. Goodness.*"
> ― Droo
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## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Bota Zi
* Droo Vos
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **Mentioned**

* Lt. Nera Piven
* Gunner Captain Blinto
* Sensor Officer Girk
* Third Pilot Gorfa
* First Pilot Rettick
* Co-pilot Thurble
* Comms Officer Aryon
* Tractor Beam Officer Plaptot
* Captain Gos-Klau
* Stormtrooper Captain Yev Infleflor

## **Inventory**

* -3cp to turn Vice Captain Lyss (Katira)

## **Notes**

* The mission started with the group rolling for luck onboard the *Scylla*. Each rolling 1D6 and 1D4:
	+ Tek - 1/4: +15 to difficulty on all interactions
	+ Bota - 1/4: +15 to difficulty on all interactions
	+ Katira - 6/2: +10 to interactions with vice captain and gunner captain, +5 to interactions with gunnery crew
* On a combined attempt to forge the notice for personnel to report for a quarantine/lockdown, Tek and Katira failed miserably. Katira rolled 12 on 5D6 (1 on the special) and Tek rolled 2 on 2D6.
* After the successful takeover, Tek is able to search for any records on Lsa Nym: The only daughter of the (presumed deceased) pirate leader Nym - who operated from the planet Lok - she is a known New Republic sympathizer

## **Quotations**

> "*This will be just like last mission: Tek Krodak and a Series of Unfortunate Events.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*So her name is Lsa (loo-sah) Nym. What do you want to say to her?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Say loose-a lips sink ships.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Which is exactly what you want to do.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Maybe we can be friends and I can run a string with a cup on both ends into your cell. I’ll be in the treehouse when you want to talk.*"
> ― Tek recommending talking points with Lsa Nym
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> "*You feel like you know who this person is.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Nym Numb!*"
> ― Bota
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> "*I’m kind of a big deal… in this holding cell.*"
> ― Tek as Lsa Nym
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> "*So Droo you’ve been chilling in your cell for a little bit by yourself.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Is there a kiddy pool in there?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Alright, so I sit up and do a weird elaborate space stutter and suck on a space key and say “I can do that” or whatever Benicio del Toro said when he woke up in "The Last Jedi".*"
> ― Droo
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> "*You close your eyes for a second and use Empathy.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Like a cat?*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Yeh… or you know, it could just be a typical Nautolan thing. I don’t know.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*That’s underwater racist.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*Underwater racist? That’s the worst kind!*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*Hangars are designed for an easy lockdown. It may be best to have them assemble there and depressurize the airlock if they try anything.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*This is how you get your dark side point back.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Look. If it comes down to it, I’m willing to be the one to push the button.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*I don’t even know if we made it to the gun locker yet. I’ve just been running around watching you get proposed to.*"
> ― Bota
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> "*There should be a side mission where all of Katira’s paramours meet each other.*"
> ― Droo
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> "*It’s like a Mrs. Doubtfire mission.*"
> ― Bota
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