Chapter 4: Measured Success

Star Wars: Revised System
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Stories
Prelude 1: A Treaty on the Brink 2: Amity in Peril 3: Fish in a Barrel 4: Measured Success 5: Empire of the Hand 6: Icy Reception 7: Galactic Chess 8: Heart of the Ascendancy 9: A Familiar Foe 10: Csaplarian Streets 11: Ascendancy in Turmoil
Characters
Akea Oahu - CS Allanar Onsai - CS Renora Cordalis - CS Greer Lachlan - CS Brance Maddox - CS

Suggested Music: Star Wars Episode V Soundtrack - Luke's Rescue

5 Elona, 25 ABY - Leviathan - Rapsis System, Anthos Sector, Outer-Rim Territories

((You can proceed to dock the Leviathan with the escape pod. Feel free to exchange posts between yourselves as much as needed, and I will chime in with Renora when appropriate. This will be a shorter chapter, as the characters regroup and determine what to do next, and what to do with the sith and her apparent accomplice.))

((Quick overview, there are 8 beings aboard the escape pod: Renora, the Chiss warrior, Allanar, a NR Naval trooper, and 4 other deck officers. Aboard the Leviathan are Akea and a gunner))

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Akea guided the Leviathan into a position whereupon the escape pod could easily dock with the larger freighter. Before things got busier, Akea issued one more command to the gunner.

"Keep an eye on any ships that get too near ours, especially if they're Imperial. Don't fire unless fired upon, but maintain status reports."

Akea turned as he spoke, beginning to move toward the bridge's blast doors. They opened with a familiar hiss, and the serpentine Jedi Master strode on through, making his way through the ship's corridors to its docking hangar, where the escape pod had recently connected. Akea assisted the passengers with their boarding, one-by-one, briefly surveying each, finding none to be seriously injured until he turned his attention to the remaining three - Allanar, Renora, and the Chiss. Akea, stern as he could seem, could not spare a fleeting moment of sentiment.

"Allanar, it is a relief to see you well. It appears our intruder has not fared as fortunately."

Renora and Allanar remained standing over the Chiss prisoner, still strapped into her seat. Akea turned briefly back to the naval trooper and four deck officers, welcoming them aboard.

"There is ample passenger space just to the rear of the bridge - I have stocked the storage units in this room with provisions that should be satisfactory to any palate. I will tend to our other evacuees, and I will inform everyone aboard ship of our status as it changes. You should expect to rendezvous with the New Republic line shortly." Indeed, Akea had loaded the Leviathan's passenger quarters with generic New Republic rations designed to provide nourishment to a wide variety of organisms. Letting the others go about the business for the time being, Akea, leaning forward, advanced his upper torso somewhat into the escape pod's doorway, looking to the Chiss. He could tell she was visibly injured - moreso, he could sense that this disturbed Renora, perhaps more than would be outwardly logical if no prior relationship between them existed. Still, with friends and enemies unclear, prolonging pain and anxiety would do no good. Akea turned to Renora, speaking in a slower, comforting tone, a far cry from his businesslike, practiced Coruscanti speech patterns. Oahu's informal speech took on an ambient quality, his Dur Sabon accent showing through in the form of elongated vowels and slightly slurred hard consonants.

"Relax, Renora. The Leviathan is equipped to handle medical emergencies for small numbers of people; we will see to it that our passenger's condition is stabilized."

With a mutual nod between Allanar and Akea, the pair of Jedi gingerly lifted the Chiss from her restraints. Akea, though he did not fully understand Renora's worry, was conscious of it. The Dur Sabon watched Renora sympathetically as they moved the Chiss onto the Leviathan, so as to validate her concerns and assure her that the prisoner would be treated fairly and carefully, though he did so silently.

Once everyone was safely aboard the Levianthan, Akea spoke up again.

"Let's get her to the medical bay - Once she's taken care of, we'll move to reunite with the fleet line. The Chiss woman must remain with us, however - The New Republic ships here are not adequately equipped to take a Force-user into their custody."

Suspecting that there may be more to the scenario than meets the eye, Akea tried to sense any intuition Allanar would attempt to convey with his thoughts.

Sense + Telepathy: 10 (wild die) 9 8 3 4 10 7 6 - 7 successes ((I'm assuming this is sufficient to detect Allanar's suspicion of Renora)).

As the trio moved to the Leviathan's infirmary, Akea, increasingly conscious of the possibility that inside collaboration had occurred, reached into the Force and probed Renora's thoughts.

Sense + Telepathy: 9 (wild die) 8 2 4 3 7 4 - 3 successes

Dan 02:49, 4 November 2009 (EST)