Piracy Against Tyranny

*After what feels like ages, Bota and Blaine are back at their base on Yavin 4 - recovering from their ordeal against Kilroy Harlen on their imprisonment. Interrupting their downtime is a message from a very important admiral in the New Republic, who tempts them into stealing supplies and weapons from the Empire as part of a larger, concerted effort to hit their bases all throughout the galaxy at once.*

*Heading to Abara 3, the duo encounters scout troopers on a forest planet guarding a small base. Stealing a number of vehicles and supplies, they escape through a forest maze and canyon before circling back and stealing even more supplies - including a large Corellian frigate that Bota claims as his own.*

## **Recap**

### Sticky Fingers of the Rebellion

After recuperating on their Yavin 4 base, a small shuttle appears and out comes out an automated holoprojector with the visage of a certain Mon Calamari admiral.

Admiral Ackbar's image is requesting their help in a coordinated effort to strike against the Empire, the Rebels are contacting trusted allies to attack multiple low-security and resource-rich Imperial Depots across the galaxy. Ideally, this will provide a distraction as the rebels relocate and move to their newest base.

Their mission, should they choose to accept it, would be to raid the depot on Abara 3. They would pay a fair reward on any supplies stolen from the Empire and will also compensate the duo by 7,500 credits each if they are able to neutralize the base itself.

Ready to strike back against the Empire after their recent ordeal against Moff Kilroy Harlen, the two accept, while Shira agrees to join only if she can stay on the ship the entire time.

### Abara 3, 2, 1...

Exiting hyperspace in the *Jinxed Starhawk* above the temperate and forested outpost world of Abara 3 the three land a considerable distance from the Imperial Outpost, knowing they's set off any proximity alarms if they got any closer. Trekking by foot, Blaine and Bota locate the supply depot while Shira stays back.

Surveying the base, the two find 3 large bunkers, 5 communication towers, and track 15 troops posted around the area. They also discover multiple wats of entering the base - an unguarded sewer pipe, a large power cable left with little supervision, and the large front door. Not confident enough to barge into the front door and take the base by storm and unwilling to get any dirtier than their trip through the jungle, the two decide to sabatage the main generator.

Unfortunately, they are caught almost immediately after disrupting the power flow. With alarms blaring, the two steal two Imperial Speeder bikes in the yard and flee into a nearby canyon, where the sewer grate was spotted. Hot on their tail are a small group of six Imperial Scout troopers - firing their speeders' blasters at the fleeing duo.

Twisting and turning through the canyon, Bota initially struggles on his speeder as he's used to his own swoop. Hit a few times, Blaine and Bota decide to do a trick maneuver. Blaine and Bota both speed up and aim for the canyon wall. At the last moment Bota uses his rocket pack to blast off and let his speeder crash, while Blaine uses his expert skill to climb up the side of the canyon wall. The result is 4 of the 6 troopers crash and the other two have to regroup. Bota lands on the back of Blaine's speeder and they chase the remaining two through the forest and neutralize the threat.

### Plan B

With the immediate threat taken care of, Blaine and Bota still have a mission to accomplish... and now that the Imperials are aware of their presence, they'll be scanning for their ship and if they don't act quick, they won't accomplish their mission.

Heading back to the base, they see that it is now on red alert. Troopers are scrambling to stations and in the distance - in the landing bay area - an AT-ST has begun to move around. Blasting a few troopers with their speeder bike's undercarriage laser, they cause havoc until Bota jumps off and uses his jetpack to take shots at troopers as he flies. Avoiding the AT-ST, Bota lands near a Corellian Medium Freighter. Jumping inside, he begins the power up sequence, hoping the AT-STs aren't alerted.

Blaine manages to provide a diversion. Unable to steal the weapons cache or deal more damage to the base, Blaine decides to indiscriminately blast everything on his way through the base - troopers, crates, towers, and generators are all hit by weaponry. In a blaze of smoke, fire, and confusion, Blaine navigates past the now-several AT-STs that are powered up and chasing him and exits the base, back to the *Jinxed Starhawk*.

### **Parting Shots**

By some stroke of luck, Bota enables the large freighter and blasts off - taking parting shots at the Imperial Outpost in his way. Meeting with the *Jinxed Starhawk*, the two ships run into some TIEs that have been scrambled from the base - in two separate ships, only Blaine can attack with Shira managing the guns - their pursuers but they both jump to hyperspace.

While they weren't able to steal the weapons and supplies the Rebels wanted, the duo are able to hurt the Empire and Bota recovers a new ship - a YZ-775 Corellian Medium Freighter.

The ship is incredibly well-stocked with numerous items in the cargo bay including speeders and a BD-1500 housekeeping droid, which Bota puts to work cleaning up Yavin 4.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Bota Zi

### **NPCs**

* Admiral Ackbar
* Shira Currenboe
* BD-1500 House-keeping droid

## **Locations Visited**

* Yavin 4
* Abara 3

## **Special Edition Notes**

* In the original mission, this is just titled "Steal stuff from the Empire" and my notes make it clear it's a 'simple fun game' - probably after the epic mission against Harlen, we needed something lighter
* There's no way Admiral Ackbar would take a chance and visit Yavin 4 himself, so I changed it to a holomessage from him instead of him 'waddling' in wearing 'a white suit and many honorable medals'
* I changed this to be a concerted effort against the Empire rather than the Rebels just reaching out to two specific agents
* I wrote that they walked 150 kilometers, which according to Google, would take around 22 hours
* I write that there are multiple entry points: a sewer grate, the front door to the main bunker, or re-route power from the generator. I don't remember going through a sewer grate and I think going through the main door would probably have killed our characters, so I choose the re-routing power option as what we'd most likely have done
* There's a picture I drew in 1997-1998 which shows Blaine and Bota racing through a canyon. I think it may have been inspired or from this mission. I've posted it above
* The ship was unidentified in my notes (only listed as *Corellian Medium Freighter*) but its stats are almost the same as the YZ-775 including the amount of weapons and the size is only off by 2 meters. This, of course, was created before the YZ-775 was and I remember it being too powerful so I made it that we needed a crew to use it, which led to Bota leasing it to the rebels and then, eventually, receiving it back from them in a nearly-destroyed state
* I don't know where Bota got the housekeeping droid as I only remember a joke about it and I see a drawing of it after this mission and before the next in my notes. I've shoehorned it into this ship's contents as there were a lot of items on the ship for some reason
* I've made the housekeeping droid a BD-1500 unit as it wouldn't have been as fancy as a BD-3000, but was humanoid in appearance and didn't do a good job at what we told it to do - maybe it wasn't a housekeeping droid after all