After the Rebel fleet drops out of hyperspace, the Porgatu flies to the flagship where the party gets their reward and has an interesting talk with General Syndulla. They’re commissioned as Rebel agents and given their first mission. They break from the fleet and fly off to Ambria where Kantarra contacts Gwar and arranges for a rendezvous where the party now is on “The Back Room,” a space station orbiting Ambria III. As they wait, Kantarra and Cheebs visit a weapons shop.
2 ABY – 06 Echo – 27 Taungday (Tirhann). Kantarra and Cheebs discover C4-BL3’s remarkable data stores include many subjects of interest. Having concluded their shopping on Tirahnn, they hear about a starship facility on nearby Kirian that specializes in exactly their type of vessel. Traveling there, they meet the owner who offers to give …
2 ABY – 06 Echo – 26 Centaxday (Relatta). The party returns the missing expeditionary team and has a tense negotiation with Nix before hastily getting off-planet. They “purchase” C4-BL3 from Nix, but the droid surprises them by siphoning a large sum from Nix’s accounts just before liftoff. Cheebs and Kantarra go on a much-anticipated …
C4-BL3 & Cheebs extricate themselves from the Thrifty’s clearing and get away clean, thanks to the droideka’s covering fire … and the sudden appearance of Kiarra’s ship overhead. Seeing the Imperial assault ship lift off, they double back for a quick parts raid on the Thrifty. Returning to the Porgatu, they finish hyperdrive repairs and start fixing the hatch & droideka while C4-BL3 deploys his droid listening array to stay on alert.
The party ventures into the huge ghost ship. Cheebs stuns a mouse droid which becomes C4-BL3’s newest friend, but it flees when a frightening new red droid appears. They learn more about the ship’s history and the rivalry between this new droid, “Epsilon,” and the pirate AI, “Omicron.” Accompanying Epsilon to a strange chapel, the group learns the droid is a protector of “The Light,” but in an unfortunate misunderstanding the droid attacks Cheebs. Kantarra finishes the fight in her usual style.
The Porgatu crew gathers intel on their target and other mysterious players in a game they don’t fully understand. The droids find evidence that Nix’s faction is in turn watching the party, and C4-BL3 fries their spying astromech. Eventually they hatch a plan to pose as buyers of the target’s stolen tech – but when they speak to him, they learn of the tech’s sinister nature. In a sudden turn of events, the party agrees to spirit the target offworld – just as a rival faction bursts into the Ugly Bantha with guns blazing.
While Kantarra “delays” the Metatheran thugs, Cheebs & C4-BL3 follow Crag and recover the camtono with a threatening aura. Meeting back up at the Porgatu, they were tailed and noted the Nautolan heading for a nearby docking bay. Launching into orbit, they see a gunship follow. Cheebs lays a trap for their pursuer at a planetoid in the nearby Gizer system. Kantarra reveals a dark bargain struck with Crag. But lying in ambush they are in turn surprised by the early arrival of 4 starfighters which come in from all sides of the planetoid with ECM jamming blaring. The Porgatu opens fire, badly damaging 2 of the craft, but one of the unknown starfighters lands laser blasts on the shuttle, sending it into a spin.
The crew starts to prep for its next job, listening for rumors of the “ghost ship” Gen. Syndulla set them to find. C4-BL3 is dazzled by a chance meeting with a personal hero, an INN reporter, but the others whisk him away before he can give her any data. Kantarra’s contact arrives, and the hand-off and job payment comes off without a hitch. They launch, heading outsystem, acquiring and compiling data to help them in their upcoming search of Ambria’s asteroid belt.
Cheebs hammers out favorable terms with Gok-Tok for purchase of the Porgatu, and he drafts a profit-sharing plan for the crew. After a quick detour to test their new weapons systems – and a strange close call when they drop out of hyperspace in the path of a Star Destroyer – they arrive at Phaseera. Kantarra fills them in on her job there: A type of “hit” which, for the first time, the rest of the crew prepares to help her with.
The party performs all their planned repairs and upgrades themselves at Kirian Shipworks. The party seeks a buyer for their illicit cargo of battledroids but balks, getting a bad vibe from the interested party. Vaha Nacc advises them regarding ship registrations and updates and gives them details on their next Kirian Shipworks mission. Kantarra also lines up a potential job further rimward.
Cruising toward the asteroid belt, the crew builds a makeshift decoy. Entering the belt, their sensors are wiped out, the decoy doesn’t seem to trigger any reaction, and they lose track of it. Groping blindly, the Porgatu suddenly passes through a magnetic field and discovers a blasted Imperial base inside. They are bounced by 3 strange TIE designs, but they use their new weaponry to good effect and blast all three. Suddenly a hulking ghost ship appears and catches them in a tractor beam.
Landing safely at Kirian Shipworks, the party delivers the promised (if belated) shipment. They tell their story to Vaha Nacc, the calculating but hopefully trustworthy Kel Dor proprietor. Working together, Cheebs and Kantarra strike a deal to repair the badly damaged Porgatu – and for ongoing work with Vaha Nacc,.
The Porgatu & its attackers cease fire and are soon joined by an entire fleet of damaged vessels arriving insystem. It’s the “Gamma Group” of the infamous Rebel Alliance! The Rebels – including *their* G-1A, tracking them from Phaseera – are keenly interested in the shipment of Trionex the party recovered from Pirin. The Porgatu arranges a trade for salvaged weaponry, docks with one of the capital ships, and begins repairs. They agree to go along with the Rebels as the fleet jumps outsystem. C4-BL3 upgrades their computer security.
Investigating a hiccup in Gok-Tok’s transshipping operation leads the crew to a strange new world.
The group fails to infiltrate House Hirkaala but makes progress in their investigations – and apprehends one criminal.
2 ABY – 06 Echo – 31 Centaxday (Ktil). Repairs proceed. C4-BL3 restores communications only to be alerted to a mysterious ping on an obscure frequency at a consistent interval of 10 minutes. According to his analysis, the signal is not emanating from the temple but from behind the ship. Despite the encroaching darkness, they …
The Casisto crashes, suffering sudden drive failure. The probe droid finds the battle droids at the crater’s edge but is knocked out. Kantarra returns with R3-M3; the party is reunited. She gives an account of her adventures and of R3-M3’s sabotage of the light cruiser. The group finishes repairs as they watch a Star Destroyer arrive for rescue operations. After the Imperial ships all leave, the party successfully lifts off in their badly damaged shuttle and enters hyperspace for Kirian.
The party continues its exploration of the Dugan’s Hand’s mysterious Force temple, recovering several artifacts and discovering the remains of an ancient Force guardian. Expecting resistance that never comes, they reach the bridge and find the droid Omicron – who expires as soon as they arrive. C4-BL3 finds the ship’s story in its logs. The flabbergasted crew of the Porgatu finds themselves at the controls of this huge alien ship and sets to work getting it fully operational.
2 ABY – 06 Echo – 28 Zheliday (Ktil). The party (less R3-M3) takes stock of their situation, scrounges the battle site and the other wrecked shuttle, and flees the scene. Finding refuge in an eons-old impact crater, the group discusses options and plans to repair the ship. Kantarra has other ideas, however. Having ascertained …
