Battle on Gilead

Moving into the Ithor System the first thing we all noticed is that there was no blockade. No ships, nothing. Immediately though I could feel space closing in on me. I was extremely unsettled and disoriented. It was fast apparent that other felt the way I did; only the other force users. Goodspeed guided us down to the planet and into the city of Cowdong while those of us affected avoided looking out the view ports.



As we flew in it became obvious Cowdong had been in a battle. Buildings were destroyed and rubble lined the street. We docked and rented a speeder; our cargo was to be delievered to the Republic Embassy. The Wookie Jedi and Dish rode up in the cab with Goodspeed who was driving. I rode in the back with the cargo. We had a quite drive through the streets. Too quiet. When we reached the embassy, we noticed that it had taken the most damage. Conversing with our furry friend back aboard the Pequod, the decision was made to abort the delievery. We turned the speeder around and then all Void broke loose.



Three speeders loaded with "law enforcement" shot out of nowhere in pursuit of our speeder. Goodspeed began cutting through alleys and around rubble, trying to shake them. Opening the cargo door I used the force to create an illusion over our speeder.



Meanwhile, our wookie moved the Pequod to another docking bay, but was followed by three airships. As we got closer to the new docking bay, the airships began careening around the bay. I crawled ontop of the speeder as we raced through the streets and began looking for the airships. Seeing them I noticed I could see the pilots through their windshields. I had never done it before, or even contemplated it, but I reached throught the Force and grabbed one of the pilots by the throat. No enough to kill, but enough to distract. His airship banked suddnely to the right as he lost control, just as Goodspeed drove into the docking bay at full speed and right up the cargo ramp and into the hold of the Pequod. Immediately the Pequod hit full throttle and we headed into space.



Once in orbit we saw the blockade. Hundreds of ships, just waiting. They must have been cloaked in a force illusion; I have heard that these Sith are force users. An illusion of that scale though... they must be powerful indeed. We were hailed by their command ship. A commanding woman dominated the screen, and demanded that we surrender. Goodspeed tried to stall verbally. Behind the woman I noticed several other humans, all operating different stations. A quick conference with the Wookie identified one of those humans as operating some sort of "ion" weapon, presumably at us. Trying to minimize attention I reached out through the Force again and quietly began choking that human. It was a good plan. A plan that might have worked if the Wookie Jedi hadn't screamed "Noooo!" and lunged at me. Flash and our wookie intercepted her. She was completely unmindful of our situation but could only focus on attacking me.



I continued to choke the human on the Sith ship. My victim pounded on his console, alerting the others to his plight. The navcomputer dinged that it was ready just as the Sith crew, distracted by my victim, turned away from us. Goodspeed gave the order and we jumped to lightspeed.



Our wookie immediately tried to take command. "Wroow rawr rooo Rawr" he said, which I, now able to speak his language, understood to mean "everybody out of the cockpit except me and Goodspeed." People began leaving but I held my ground. If he and Goodspeed wanted to plot against me, they would have to do it in the crew quarters. "Out," he growled at me imperialously. I held my ground. Turning to Goodspeed he said "I don't care if he is the owner, you're the captain, and here you are in charge. Now do as I say and order him out!" Goodspeed looked at me uncomfortably yet remained still. Grumbling the wookie gave up and pulled us out of hyperspace. Running a new course through the navcomputer we leaped back into hyperspace, this time directly toward Gilead. The title of first mate has aparently given him delusions of grandeur. Sighing in disgust with the situation, I left the cockpit and walked into an argument.



Dish and Mokawa (the Wookie Jedi) were in an argument concerning my use of the Force. Not wanting to cause undue stress for Dish, I humbly explained my position, and graciously agreed not to use the Force to choke people around her. Rudely she stalked off muttering to herself. A sour disposition must be a wookie trait.

Sometime later we landed on Gilead and met with the Jedi Order (Gileadean Interp.). We were deep in negotiations when we became aware that another ship had landed on the outskirts of Memorial City. We headed out (us and the Jedi (offworld and locals)). What we found was the ship that gave us trouble about the radon. And a fight.

It was an extremely brutal fight. Most of the Jedi died before the worm-headed leader was brought down. In the final moments the enemy ship tried to take off. The Wookie and I (our wookie, not that Mokawa character) used a magnetic grapple gun to gain access to the departing ship. Running into the cockpitI captured the pilot, holding him face down on the floor by putting my glaive on the back of his neck. Turns out my effort was for not; the wookie came in and stepped on the glaive, beheading my captive. Regardless, victory was ours- as well as a new ship.