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2.21.4787 Republic Reckoning

The party decided to track down At!tck, who had the droid controller, to wrest control of the Sith battle droids from the Sith. Only reliable way to deactivate ALL the remaining droids. Quindo tried to sense the bug's location and was unsuccessful. Bro'jen shifted his senses into the radio band and located an AM beacon which we supposed to be the droid controller. Col. D'han showed up, everyone else hid around a corner, while Quindo argued that joining forces, or at least obtaining D'han's cooperation in gathering survivors and securing an evacuation site, would be the best course of action. Igashu was most adamant about wanting to let D'han go screw. The rest wanted to avoid a possible conflict. So Quindo approached him alone. The brief encounter was strained and largely unproductive, but civil. D'han moved off to secure an evacuation site, and promised retribution at some unspecified later date.

An attack droid appeared, following D'han's retreat. Quindo and Elbram decide to hold off the driod while Igashu and Bro'jen went to find At!tck. Igashu located a light tank and got it running, but was attacked by another droid. Trying to shake it off the tank, get drove PAST Q and E on a collision course with the first droid, and got hammered by a missile launcher and heavy machine gun. The tank crashed, injuring Igashu and damaging the droid that was clinging to it, but missed the first droid.

Quindo crossed the remaining distance, dodging machine gun fire and managed to chop the thing into itty-bitty pieces. Elbram tried to finish off the droid damaged by the crash, but it got away.

Bro'jen pulled Igashu from the wreck and stabilized him. Everyone able to poured healing energies into Igashu while Quindo located a truck. Dabai returned alone. (He'd been on perimeter sweep with some Hutt troops we'd gathered). He told us that 1) The Hutts were pulling out to the south. 2) The Rebel Slaves were pulling out to the North, probably with the Sith. Also, an incoming freighter had been shot down and another had escaped the system. The general consensus was that the escaping freighter was Sith, possibly Garek Brynn.

Igashu asked the question "Did we ever remember to tell the Hutts that Altair was following in his freighter? Oh shit!" Q - "There's no way that could have been Altair, he'd still be days behind us!"

Bro'jen sensed for his teacher and located him wounded and unconscious about 200 km West. We contacted To'iir, who had escaped to the East with Nakael and some refugees. She insists that she's capable of handling Nakael alone, and her ship is North through the mountains, past the rebel slaves.

We get the truck running and head West, driving in shifts, to pick up Altair.

2.22.4787 Republic Reckoning

We get there, stabilize him as much as possible, immobilize him to a board and set out to rendezvous with To'iir's ship. Altair's injuries are extensive. His right arm and shoulder are crushed, ribs broken, punctured lung, possible concussion, and minor internal bleeding.

2.25.4787 Republic Reckoning

Two days north, the truck breaks down. We decide to make for the mountains and then wait for To'iir to pick us up. Altair keeps getting worse. The heat is getting to him despite our best efforts to keep him hydrated and cool. Quindo makes the diagnosis. It becomes obvious that his liver is damaged and he's going into toxic septicemia.

Biologist wanking: If you aren't aware, damage to the liver WILL result in damage to all the other organs primarily the kidneys since they'll be overworked trying to excrete all of the crap that the liver isn't detoxifying. The liver won't be able to heal because it's stewing in toxic juices causing more liver cells to die and releasing more toxic shock proteins. It's a vicious cycle. Then the kidneys fail, and death is imminent. The only solution is dialysis and a series of liver enzymes until the liver can repair itself. Of course, we don't have those things... but the Force may serve. One can detoxify poisons in the body, we may be able to detoxify them in him. Nobody has the ability to do it, but Bro'jen attempts and succeeds! It's only a temporary solution, but To'iir should arrive within a day with the ship, and her med bay should be better than field medicine.

2.26.4787 Republic Reckoning

When she does arrive, her takeoff had been detected by the Hutts who scrambled fighters. We get on quick and Bro'jen and Quindo lug Altair straight to the Med Bay while Elbram takes comms. Dabai and Igahsu man the guns. Nakael is in the cockpit with To'iir, so far being a model prisoner.

Altair gets pumped full of liver enzymes, binders, and fluids, his injuries are re-bandaged and set, and he's given a strong dose anti-septic drugs (probably heat-shock proteins. They cushion proteins against damage from high heat and reactive species... which should prevent further damage to Altair's delicate internal organs, giving him a chance to heal.)

The fighters approach while To'iir is making for a hyperspace launch vector. Elbram bluffs, claiming that we're chasing Sith as per Col. D'han's orders. The pilots buy it and check in. They come back and say that our status has been revoked and we're to report back to the Command Ship immediately. Come around to heading ... XYZ. Elbram stalls "What were those coordinates again?" "X by Y and Z." Elbram - "You're breaking up. Let me speak to Col. D'han." "Wait a minute! You're just stalling! Open fire!"

Missile lock.... and we jump to hyperspace. We've managed to save ONE Hutt slave, from To'iir's rebellion. A female human named Arden Chistor.