On a routine medical delivery the Akbar's Trap crew were assured would be both well-paying and safe, the party found themselves defending a royal fortress shortly after landing their medium freighter. An Imperial star destroyer was turbolasering the area from orbit, but the fortress had good ion cannons and other weapons, as well as shields that went up shortly after the party landed and were still holding up against the energy barrage. So the Empire, following their typical routine sent drop ships full of stormtrooper demolition crews, AT-AT and AT-ST walkers, hovertanks, etc.
The party had to defend the power generators so that the shields would hold in order to prevent the inevitable TIE bomber wave that would follow if it did. Fortunately, the fortress also had a good steelcrete wall and royal guards to fill the gaps; but the party's help was definitely needed. Jaina, Destro, Jon's Jedi, and the Bothan (played by Shawn S.) all fought very fiercely while Pieda set up a triache area under the ship to protect and treat the wounded. Destro got behind enemy lines with his flutterpack and took out at least three officers and two vehicles. Jaina showed prowess with her rifle, and also blew up a light grav tank with a rocket. Jon's Jedi used his lightsaber to keep too many stormtroopers from coming through the gap closest to the power generators, often deflecting their own shots back at them, and taking out as many as three in a round, and causing a bit of hesitation for others.
The Bothan consistantly took out a stormtrooper each round, though he was badly wounded toward the end of the battle. At one point, Pieda lightsabered a stormtrooper in half because he was shooting at patients. Jarn, using a comport Destro installed in a drop ship officer's computer, was able to forge a retreat order that confused about 25 stormtroopers for a round or two. Then, 10 royal Corellian Corvettes arrived and decimated the remaining Imperial ground troops and vehicles, forcing the Star Destroyer to fall back. Destro, from an AT-AT he had captured, gave the surrender order and narrowly avoided becoming a victim of friendly fire.
XP: 3,000
Ship Fund Credits: Net 500,000 (gross 2,000,000 minus 1,500,000 expenses)
Source: Hideouts & Strongholds (West End Games)
Current character levels: 8th-11th or so
Next session: Sat, Aug. 11, 2007 2-8pm
Note: For D&D in the near future, I am going to be running Pathfinder, which will be a new campaign. I'm guessing I'll be ready to start running it in October or so with new characters. I would like come to a stopping place in my current D&D campaign story line before that, so we should probably run 3 hr./3 hr. split Star Wars/D&D sessions (like we used to) for a while. I'm really looking forward to running Pathfinder, because the Paizo people have done excellent work with Dragon and Dungeon magazines and I just want to go along for the ride for once. I'm sure I will have adjustments I will make to the material, though. Ask me about it next time you see me; I will have some early player information and you might want to think about what your new character will be for this exciting new campaign!
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