Raita Aftermath: Lair of the Clones

Sparky discovers untapped power while rescuing Katira

*Remember that time when Sparky killed everyone?*

## **Previously**

*After exploring the nearly deserted Raita space station, the group discovers that they are within the lair of the evil that was once the being known as Lord Sithspawn. As Tek bravely runs away, the rest of the team comes face to face with the body absorbing mass, escaping barely with the help of Jedi Master Dask Ra’tava. Thinking they are out of the woods Katira hopes to capitalize on the missing bodies by snagging a new ship, only to discover the clone masters private ship. The mysterious pilot of the ship then assaults the team, who manage to fight him off just enough to escape as Katira finds herself captured. Will Katira’s avarice be the source of her demise? Is Sithspawn finished? Will Bota find a buyer for his new collection of artisan lamps?!*

## **Recap**

### **Raita's End**

Off in the distance, the Raita space station explodes into a fiery ball. There is a shockwave that rocks the *Red Shift* and its passengers: Bota Zi, Tek Krodak, Droo Vos, Lamp Lady, Dask Ra'tava, the kid, and 4-LOM. In the distance a ship exits into hyperspace: the *Skulldugger*, and with it, Katira

> "*The End.*"
> ― David
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> "*I hope you guys enjoyed the mission. Four character points each. Also, Katira is dead.*"
> ― Jordan
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From his bag, Dask pulls out the severed head of Lord Sithspawn. “You’re going to cooperate now, right?” Dask asks, holding the head aloft.

With a sigh (or whatever counts as one for a head), the bodiless head of Sithspawn replies. “If I must.”

### **Welcome Back**

> "*Well… I guess we have to save Katira now…*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Okay. For some reason Genos and Bota can’t make it. I don’t know if it’s because they don’t value Katira very much, or…*"
> ― Jordan
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*Jinxed Starhawk* comes to a smooth landing on the planet Atarba. As the ramp descends from the bottom of the ship, Blaine, Talcoborro, Tek, and Jawa Jimmy emerge, followed closely by the astromech Sparky. The landing pad is at the entrance to a long deserted starfighter factory, and though there are no signs of activity, the group knows that this is exactly where they want to be: the last secure storehouse of Lord Sithspawn.

As Blaine tells Tal to stay back and watch the ship, the Jawa and his astromech wander ahead in search of parts. Jimmy and Sparky toss scraps of waste around in hopes of discovering hidden treasure, and Tek sends out a scout droid only to have its repulsers malfunction as it crashes into a puddle and emerge covered in mud. Eventually a bored Sparky moves ahead and states that it detects two life forms just ahead.

Rushing toward the life signatures, Sparky lets out a squeal as the hand of a giant beast knocks him across the room. Unable to keep himself from protecting the droid, Tek fires two shots at the beast that emerges without pausing to aim, missing both times. Blaine then calmly walks forward and knocks the creature out before Jimmy fires a few stun shots of his own for good measure.

Tek moves ahead, seeing a dimly lit room that appears to hold a chair in the center. Pausing to look over the creature -a Vizik- before they proceed, the Zabrak notes that the creature has marks on its body that indicate it was being held against its will. He shouts into the dark room ahead.

> "*Hey, come out. We know you were torturing this poor creature. If you give up yourself now, we won’t shoot and ask questions later.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Katira, you hear that. You’re in the chair.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*I don’t know what creature you’re talking about, but I’m not surprised you were about to shoot me, Tek.*"
> ― Katira
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The group finds Katira restrained in the chair and alone in the middle of the dark room. A noticeable scar on her face, she states that she fared *quite* poorly in the interrogation. The only upside being that she managed to learn a little about her captor. Always referring to himself in the third person as “M-1”, he looked identical to Bota Zi with the exceptions of a scarred face that held both eyes and the fact that all of his hair was snow white.

> "*Welcome back to the team, Katira. I’m sorry that your selfish motives have gotten you tortured.*"
> ― Tek
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### **A Legend is Born**

With their primary goal accomplished, the group turns to investigating the storehouse. Tek accesses a nearby computer terminal, succeeding in completely downloading all material as Jimmy takes a look around for anything of value. Jimmy opens a few crates and discovers several vials of crystalized bacta that look highly valuable, though the Imperial markings on them mean he will need to be careful who he sells them to. Rubbing her sore wrists, Katira manages to find a crate that has all of her equipment and begins to equip herself.

With nothing else of value immediately noticeable, Jimmy decides to reboot and repair his astromech with a little help from Tek. Sparky comes online and immediately begins to warn that there are multiple life forms approaching. Soon the group can hear several voices coming from further down the hall, the single word “Montross?” repeating. Tek attempts to close and lock the doors separating the team from whatever is speaking, but is only partially successful. Katira then steps forward and impersonates her interrogator, seemingly stopping the voices from continuing to approach.

As Blaine receives a call from Tal stating that a ship is approaching from orbit, he rushes off to make sure the *Jinxed Starhawk* is ready. Meanwhile, Tek manages to pull up schematics of the location, revealing that they are standing in what appears to be a recently decommissioned TIE Interceptor factory. With potential starfighters now flying through everyone’s imagination, the (potentially) undermanned team throws caution to the wind.

Jimmy rambles a few directions to his astromech, and Sparky rolls toward one of the doors that Tek failed to bring to a full close. The droid extends a heavy grasper arm forward, then pulls it back, dragging a body belonging to the voices in the hallway. Sparky then uses his arc welder to electrocute the man, and everyone watches as the body spasms before slumping unresponsively on the ground. With a threat now present, Katira again impersonates M-1 and tells the voices that the interrogation is still ongoing, so leave M-1 alone. Though the voices cease, the shuffling of feet on the other side of the door indicates that they aren’t quite ready to leave.

The group decides to fire a few stun rounds under the door, and manages to knock the remaining soldiers unconscious before they re-open the door. When they do, Sparky rolls right over to the two unconscious bodies and fires up his arc welder. Through the smell of burnt flesh, the droid beeps in what can only be described as sheer ecstasy.

> "*I could get used to this.*"
> ― Sparky on committing murder
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Stepping into the newly open passageway, Katira pulls the helmets from the corpses to reveal what appear to be identical deformed faces. Though Tek has a vague recognition, Katira easily notices that these appear to be failed clones from the same stock as M-1, possibly even clones of M-1 himself.

### **Close Call**

Now knowing that they are not alone in the factory, the trio decides that the best course of action is to send one of Tek’s droids ahead to scout the area. Soon they have video feed of what appears to be the main factory assembly area, where 8 more clones are sleeping peacefully with weapons nearby.

A plan is agreed upon to sneak into the area and steal the clone’s weapons before they wake, with Tek and Katira heading in as Jimmy and Sparky observe. Though Katira manages to grab two of the blasters, Tek only steals one before accidentally waking the clones.

In a matter of seconds, blaster fire is ringing out from all around the assembly area. Though they manage to eliminate three of the clones, Katira is incapacitated on the floor and Tek and Jimmy both find themselves the targets of the unarmed, but very capable, clone brawlers.

> "*I’m so glad you guys saved me so we could all die together.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Why did I take away their blasters?! I can dodge those, but I can’t dodge punches!*"
> ― Tek
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Fighting for their lives, Tek and Jimmy score hits on the clones in rapid succession, but things aren’t looking great as the clones shrug off blaster fire and rush the duo. When things begin to look grim, it’s the droids that come to the rescue as Tek uses his archaic scout droids as targeted missiles and Jimmy removes any restrictions on Sparky.

Though they don’t eliminate the threats completely, the droids manage to knock enough clones to the ground to buy time and space. Tek is able to knock out two more clones, and Sparky plunges his welder into the throat of a third, giving Jimmy the breathing room he needs to get Katira back on her feet. With the battle clearly lost, the two remaining clones turn to flee but are knocked unconscious by shots to the back.

### **At Last! Loot!**

Back on the hunt for some expensive loot, everyone takes to searching. Tek accesses a new computer terminal, but only finds localized controls to the assembly area. Jimmy has a look around, and notes that the facility is in such a state of decay that it would be extremely expensive to bring it back online. Finally, Katira looks into the TIE Interceptors themselves and succeeds in pulling their computer cores when she realizes that they contain some impressive modifications.

Contented with the assembly area, the group ties up the still living clones before locking the Vizik in the berthing area. Heading toward the hangar bay, they manage to eliminate two more clones without issue before continuing on to find another berthing area. After doing some math, they determine that there is anywhere from 6-12 additional clones missing from the area - likely off with M-1 somewhere else.

In the hangar itself, they discover six completed TIE Interceptors and four more in mid-production status. Planning to return and pick them up later, the group happily heads back to the *Jinxed Starhawk*.

## **Featured Characters**

### **Our Heroes**

* Blaine Hansom
* Jawa Jimmy
* Katira Eve
* Tek Krodak

### **NPCs**

* Talcoborro
* M-1 Clones

### **Mentioned**

* Dask Ra'tava
* Lord Sithspawn
* M-1

## **Inventory**

* +full Sithspawn storehouse terminal download (Tek)
* +Advanced TIE Interceptor Computer Core x4 (group)
* +TIE Interceptor x6 (group)

## **Notes**

* Undergoing torture, Katira received a small scar on her face (2 for severity, 1 for location)
* Katira failed miserably while attempting to resist torture, giving up pretty much every bit of information she had (*Willpower*: 8 vs. *Interrogation*: 50)
	+ Katira received -1D to her roll for being in the presence of strong negative emotions, and M-1 received +15 to his efforts since she was completely within his power
* M-1’s clone soldiers appear to have been failed attempts by M-1 to clone himself. Obviously somewhat skilled in combat, they are suspected to have been trained by M-1 as well, and their whitewashed armor indicates that they were mimicking their leader’s style
* Rolling 20 on 1D6, Sparky learned a method for quickly getting himself onto his feet
* Jawa Jimmy spent - and earned back - a force point to save an incapacitated Katira

## **Quotations**

> "*How are we gonna attack - I mean track - Katira now?*"
> ― Jordan as Tek
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> "*It poses a major problem with her not being physically here.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Where is my human shield?*"
> ― Jordan as Tek
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> "*So we defeated this evil Sith lord, but Katira got captured by the bad guy at the end. Because she was trying to steal a ship.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*As she does. In most cases, she’s stealing things.*"
> ― Tek
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> "*So you guys are headed to the safe house now? Or you’re here to rescue Katira? Or no one cares about Katira because…*"
> ― Jawa Jimmy
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> "*We have to figure that out. Is Katira worth rescuing?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*Now that we’ve stopped Sithspawn do we need her anymore?*"
> ― David
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> "*What are you doing here? What happened?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I don’t know. I just woke up.*"
> ― Katira
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> "*What were you doing before you got knocked out?*"
> ― Tek
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> "*I was* trying *to steal a starship!*"
> ― Katira
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> "*Katira has a scar… on her face.*"
> ― Jordan
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> "*NOOOOOOOO!*"
> ― Katira
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