Briefing:

• A few months pass after Senate Building Battle
• Correllian Free Trade League & the New Republic sign "mutal defense treaty" and tensions ease.
• Brian's cover blown and thus relocated (with bodyguard bods) to another plush location on Corusant.
• Alini Sarason re-assigned, Milton briefed on Sarason's history.
• Orders to attend a briefing at New Republic Defense HQ.
• Carlos Castillo reassigned and travels to Mon Calamar to rendevous with McJimmy and the Pride of Sullust.
• Old friends and enemies meet in a briefing room at NR Defense HQ.
• McJimmy gives Mattlock 10K Elmonits. =8-O (never try to placate the devil PhilM..he'll just want more...
• The Briefing
• The New Combat Driod Menace and unseen hand of the Sith Lords.
• Mission to find where the new Droids are being constructed (1000+ used in Senate attack).
• Team buys supplies, Mattlock buys a large, silk pillow. Carlos goes Drug Happy!
• First port of call, the planet Geonosis and their Clone war era underground robot factories.
• Captain of the Sullust offers Mattlock the honour of taking the starship out of Spacedock.
• Mattlock's piloting is on the button.

The Geonosis System:

• Bright white star, 4 blasted inhospitable planets, Geonosis 3rd from Sun.
• Team leave on the Aardvark to give illusion of being Traders, Sullust remains on System fringe.
• Mattlock's piloting remains solid and ship enters orbit over Geonosis.
• Sensor scans and the plan of attack.
• Aardvark lands 500 metres from largest Genosian Hive (Stalagasin), Large Driod factory complex below it.
• Radioactive, dust blasted plateau.
• The motion tracker, the blips and the bleeps.
• Hive outskirts, the door and the crim tech.
• Insectiod living quarters...empty.
• A small, winding tunnel.
• McJimmy puts his Laser welder/Cutter to some good use.
• The larger cavern, a neigbourhood hub...empty
• The large closed blast door...unpowered.
• Milton uses the force, the blast door rises...enough.
• The hewn corridor leading to a transit system.
• The power comes on.
• Gravitic Transports and the Genosian language.
• Mattlock itchy finger...Starfighter departs!
• The rest of the team head to the Hive Transport Hub
• Mattlock arrives at Hive Central ...but it's empty 8-(
• Team regroup, more translation and Manufactoring Zone
• Team head to the Hive Manufacturing Zone

Manufacturing Zone:

• Team arrives at Manu Zone transit station...empty..but footprints..humaniod
• A large underground cavern, 2 kms in length, buildings in distance..and was that a moving vehicle?
• McJimmy picks up a objects on his scanner...
• Incoming laser fire ..McJimmy feels the pain...
• The 5 Mark 1 Combat Droids...the team gel together like oil and water
• Milton&Carlos charge, Mattlock advances at a more leisurely rate, Brian jumps and cowers inside a transist pod, while McJimmy, Bodok & Maximillian provides "covering" fire...
• Mean Jedi Action and the Driods are toast (severed head) Cool.
• Carlos spies another 50 driods standing to attention 200m from current fight.
• Sphincters start spasming...people prepare to bug out.
• But wait... there not moving
• The team advances cautiosly, beyond the Driods are a series of large lift tubes.
• Lift tube opens, a grav sled containing another 10 droid and 3 humaniods (humans & weequays mostly) exit lift.

The driods on the grav sled get up, and step off and line up with the others...then there deactivate again...the humaniods re-enter the lift and depart downwards.

Watching team ponder the ifs...they check the lifts, 100 levels (all in Genosian).. no indication of which level the humaniods are on....hmmm... finally a plan is formed and the wreckage from the previous battle is cleared up to avoid suspicion.

An ambush is set up and the team await the humaniods to return.

Humaniods return...7 of them.....from their closer vantage points, the team watch with interest as one of the humans use a electronic device to activate and deactivate another 10 more droids.

3 of the humaniods depart back down on a grav sled while the remainder head towards the transist station area...this will lead them straight through the ambush area too.

Milton attempts to use the force to mind xxrapexx probe one of the humaniods to learn the exact level the humaniods are coming from...he fails...

Probed humaniod stops, his associates notice and stop walking into the ambush area and question him on the delay.

Milton tries again and barely suceeds...level 86...the probee is now very suspicious and orders the band of cutthroats to unholster their weapons...

Our team opens fires...2 humaniod dudes go down immediately, another shoots up into the air via use of a grav belt...grav belts...hmmmm...they might be useful...why didn't we think of that...

Brian Bivilion engages his Absoption shield belt...the others look on in awe...shields!...we can buy shields!....PhilM begins furious scribbling on his character sheet.

Fly-boy dude is shot down by MLA man Val Bodok, the shot almost severs the dude's leg and he crashes to the ground in a bloodly plup.

The remaining dude is engaged by McJimmy personal combat droid, Maxmillian. The droid gains the upper hand quite easily and McJimmy order the droid to "restrain him". Unfortunately the droid's reasoning is not quite up to stratch and he translates this request to "raze him"....one BBQed bad dude....

The fallen bad dudes are stripped on any usable equipment, 4 grav belts and a droid on/off box...the team plan some more and then decide to destroy all the stationary droids on this level...Milton and McJimmy engage lightsaber frenzy and decapitate 60 odd inactive Mark 1 combat droids.

The team then grab a Grav Sled and bundle into one of the lifts and head down to level 86...

Duel of the Fules:

The long trip D-O-W-N

The transparent lift with impressive views on the Droid Factory

All assembly lines in-operative or destroyed from up here and no sign of lifes either. The team continues D-O-W-N.

Party near level 86 and spot activity below. Matt stops the lift and everyone takes a good, long, hard, looksie....(Sukh pencilling in new RoF film title 'The Long Hard Looksie')

One assembly is working on Level 86...groups of humaniods are busy in three different area. One area contains the assembly system (6-8 bods) trundling out Mark 1 Droids. Area 2 contains workshop and repair bays where another 6-8 humaniods are busy assembling (repairing) 2 Mark 2 combat droid (bigger, more chunky). Area 3 looks like a command centre where 5 humaniods stand over three insectiod Geonosisan who are seated and working at the control consoles. One of humaniods gives one of the Geonosisans a kick....mucho cowering in terror...hmmmm...

The team plan an attack...three different areas, about 200 metres apart, connected by many 5 metre wide walkways...with a gap of about 200 metres up or down to levels 85 or 87....hmmm...slowly, the attack plan formulates...

• Val Bodok will be deposited on level 85 and then left to sneak to a central hub section that has clear views of everything below, there the Weequay to snipe down on any muther-fecking thing that moves on level 86 with an MLA rifle..200-300 metres = short range.
• Carlos & Matt to stealthily grav belt straight down from level 85 to land within the Command Nodule, take out the humaniod guards and free the 3 Geonosisians captives.
• Milton and Brian to disembark on level 86 and drive the Grav Sled around to the command nodule and join up with Carlos and Matt and the freed Genosians. Once everyone on board, to drive back around and to the lift tube area.
• McJimmy and his Guard Droid to hold the other walkway to block the other humaniods in the other 2 areas, plus any mark 1 combat droids, mark 2 combat droids and any other feckers who wants to have a go too! ..*cough*..from access back to the lift tube area.

Everyone gets into position, the Bounty Hunter Val Bodok stalks his way across to his "eagle's nest" in the central hub up on level 85...Thumbs ups signs are given all around and the attack plan is initiated.

Milton, McJimmy and Brian deposited on the Grav Sled, open the lift door on level 86 and ease the grav vehicle onto the correct 5m wide walkway leading to the command nub.

The silent journey of the grav sled remains undetected for some time and the trio manage to traverse around 100m of the walkway without incident.

Then, one of the humanoids in the command area notices something (or thinks he does) on the walkway...Milton attempts to use the force to make the dude 'overlook' the vehicle cruising serenely on the open walkway....he fails...

Guns are raises, radio chatter fills the airwaves and the grand melee begins!

Matt and Carlos swoop down above the 5 humaniod dudes in the control area, 2 blaster shots boom out and 2 of the protagonists fall to the floor. The others three split their fire between the airborne assailants and the approaching grav sled.

Bodok upon high begins to pick off targets using his excellent sniping ability...several rounds go by before the Dr Obilvion driven grav sled reaches the central hub area to turn onto the walkway leading to the command centre. MacJimmy and his droid jumps off the serenely moving vehicle and step up a "defensive position" on the central hub that leads to both of the other areas contains the rest of the bad dudes...lots of bad dudes...and driods...and more droids...and still more droids of a bigger and chunkier variety and ....

*Sukh putting hand on PhilM's shoulder*

'McJimmy, you remember the last time you set up a unpregnable defensive position just before a big battle?'

The incoming fire directed at the Grav Sled is becoming increasing hot and Jedi Scraggs steps to the fore and ignites his light saber to start deflecting the ever more accurate blaster fire.

'Keep driving' he informed Dr Oblivion at the steering controls, before turning to face his adversaries...

CLANG!

A low slung metal beam coming in the other direction meets the young Jedi's forehead in a splendid embrace...Jedi Milton Scraggs collapsed like a sack of potatoes onto the floor of the ever slowing Grav Sled.

Meanwhile back at the stonewall of General Stonewall McJimmy and Droid Associates things are hotting up also...several groups of humaniods are tanking along walkways heading in his direction...undeterred the brave, impeteous and striking orange Mon Calamari engineer signals to Maximillian to open fire with his droid weaponry before raises his own rifle and adding his booming beat to the deafening cacophony on level 86.

Milton Scraggs regains consciousness and assesses the situation...incoming fire, a stationary Grav Sled and Dr Oblivion cowering behind the driving control console. Situation normal. The young Jedi leaps to his feet and risks igniting his cursed light saber yet again. Blaster bolts ricochet in all directions as Milton advances towards the humaniods firing at him from the command area.

Val Bodok up on high, reloads the mag of his smoking MLA rifle and looks down at the unmanned Heavy Blaster cannon that he recently shot the owner of ...the body of the slain humanoid lies as before...ontop of the mound of all the other humanoids fools who tried to use the cannon to fire into the command area since the beginning the fight...a sigh escapes the dour Weequay as yet another humanoid dude moves across to the blaster cannon and attempts to grabs the firing grips.

Mattlock Starfighter watches with interest as the lastest operator of the blaster cannon situated on the assembly nub is shot from above and falls screaming to his death in the chasm below. The Correllian pilot raises his head above the pockmarked remains of a console he's be using as cover up til now to draw a bead on the last humanoid guard left in the command area.

BOOOOM!

Starfighter watches the body fall to the floor before flipping on his comlink and speaking into the mic...

'Starfighter to Commander Castillo...Imperial troops have entered the base ...imperial troops have en...crrrrrrrrrrrr'

'Cut the chatter Starfighter!' thunders back Carlos Castillo busy dodging fire as he zig-zags across the gap towards the Assembly area utilising the power of his Grav Belt.

'But I've always wanted to say that!..' mutters Starfighter, 'anyway, the command area is secured sah!'

'Good, now get them three genosians onto that Grav Sled and get the hell outta there' orders Castillo as he re-lands next to the unmanned Blaster cannon.

'Carlos' cuts in McJimmy...'I think we got serious problems'. The Mon Calamari engineer then ignores the cries of explanation crackling out of his earphone and looks across the walkway and at a chunky Mark 2 Combat droid lumbering towards his position firing it's twin heavy blaster cannons.

'Hold until relived MacJimmy..thats an order' barks Castillo as he flips the blaster cannon to full auto and starts onloading on any humaniod dude who raises his head.

McJimmy the Finn now lying prone assess his option as blaster bolts rain down all around him. The Mark 2 combat bot rapidly approaches and following on it's metal heels by another quartet of heavy armoured humanoid dudes...through the corner of his eye, the Mon Calamari engineer sees another MK2 Droid heading towards the lift area along a distant walkway...followed by a rolling object... what the hell could that be? Undeterred with the overwhelming force approaching from all directions...McJimmy the Brave stays were he is and continues firing...

Back at the Grav Sled, Mattlock had cajoled, threatened and bundled the remaining two Geonosisans onto the vehicle. The third insectiod having flown away when an opportunity presented itself. Pushing aside the still whimpering form of Dr Oblivion, the Correllian Pilot grabs the driving joystick control and turns the Grav Sled 180 degrees and prepares to travel back along the walkway to the central hub area....unfortunately this route is now blocked by the the presence of another Grav Sled on the walkway..one that contains 10 inactive Mark 1 droids...the humanoid driver press a few button on a control box...make that 10 active Mark 1 droids...Milton moves to the front of the Grav Sled and engages parry ability.

Back at the blaster cannon, Carlos Castillo is doing a fair job of pinning down another group of humaniod dudes...just as he's getting comfortable, an incoming blaster bolt hits him on the right arm and burns the flak armour clean off his forearm...ouch!...Commander Castillo falls backwards and out of line of the fire.

On high, Val Bodok, Sniper par excellence, watches the Mark 2 Combat Droid and strange rolling object tanking down towards the lift tube area... outflanking McJimmy and the rest of the crew down on level 86...the weequay lines up his MLA rifle on the leading Mark 2. As the chunky combat droid reaches the end of the walkway to step onto the lift tube area, Bodok's scope goes bright yellow...looking up Val watches the fireball expand out from the walkway area as Mr Mark 2 triggers the explosive devices rigged on this walkway by the ever industrious McJimmy the Finn...the ball of flame dissapates revealing the charred legs of the Mark 2..the walkway begins to groan, buckle and list downwards...the strange rolling ball thingy checks it's advance towards the lift area and starts moving back in the other direction.

McJimmy the Finn lies in the eye of a blaster bolt hurricane...sparks, burnt, twisted pieces of metal shower all around him and still the hard as nails engineer maintains his position and continues to return fire...his stubborness pinning down about 6 humanoids and the sole suriving Mark 2 combat droid.

Across the other side of the central hub, a serenely cruising Grav Sled occupied by 3 humans & 2 Geonosisians heads in a leisurely speed towards a platoon of advancing mark 1 combat droids infront of a stationary Grav Sled blocking their path on this walkway. Milton scraggs stands at the head of the Grav Sled parring incoming fire, the Geonosisians lie flat on the floor of the Sled cowering from the blaster torrent, Brian Blivion lies *behind* the prone cowering Geonosisians and moves past the two insectiods in the cowering stakes...whilst at the rear, handling the controls of the legally speeding vehicle, stands Mattlock Starfigter, pilot and bane of many vehicles past and present.

We'll call it a draw:

• Carlos uses the droid remote captured earlier to turn off the incoming platoon of Mark 1 Combat Droids"
• Mattlock manuvers the grav sled into the now stationary droids and pushes them off into the chasm below.
• A group of humaniods and the remaining Mark 2 Combat droid charge McJimmy's position.
• Val Bodok drops a couple of the charging party but also manages to cause a mis-alignment in his MLA barrel.
• Mattlock waits for the grav belting Carlos to reach the grav sled before floating smoothly around towards the lift tube area.
• The Mark 2 Combat Droid bears down on McJimmy and Maximillian.
• The Finn orders his droid to engage the Mark 2 in Hand to Hand combat whilst he remains prone and continues to fire on the approaching humanionds
• A grinding metallic beat echos around the complex as the two droids pummel each other at superhuman speed.
• Mattlock reaches the lift tube area and tells the remaining 2 genosians to get off and into the lift...they however remain cowering in the grav sled
• Mattlock then tells the cowering Brian O Blivion to get up and into the lift..but he too remains cowering behind the two cowering geonosians in the grav sled.
• The Mark 2 droid begins to get the upper hand against McJimmy Industies latest Combat Droid model (should have bought Correllian built Droids remarks the distant Starfighter )
• The remaining humaniods are pinned down by impressive covering fire from Val Bodok's MLA rifle...hitting 'em he isn't...but keeping 'em down he is...
• Maximillian's damage threshold is nearing catastrophic levels, when McJimmy decides to jump to his feet and then engages the Mark2 combat in melee beside his droid protector =8-O
• Everyone stares gob-smacked as McJimmy, Maximillian & Mark 2 Combat Droid enjoy a three way cyber fight!...Cyborg, Droid & Droid three way double dutch action!
• The strange rolling droid has by now carefully negotiated it's way around the non Work & Safety regulation open walkways...and now it bears downs on the fighting trio....
• Bodok up above, takes a few pot shots at the roller ball but they just bounce off it's armour. He communicates this to Carlos & Milton.
• At the lift tube area, Starfighter is still trying to coax the cowering geosisians and O'Blivion to leave the relative safety of the grav sled and move into the dark, unknown and possibly hostile terrority of the lift tube.
• Milton seeing that the roller ball will reach the McJimmy/droid punchup before the fight is over...races across the walkway to aid in the fight...his lightsaber remains off...for some unknown reason?
• A trial of brute strength is developing at the melee on the central hub, the gears in McJimmy's cyber arm begin to squeal as he tries to hold off the pummelling arm of Combat droid Mark 2.
• McJimmy catches the shape of the roller droid rapidly appoaching on his right, he notices that the melee is close to the edge of the hub walkway...he decides to push the Mark 2 Combat droid off into the abyss and bellows to Maxillian to do the same...
• McJimmy, Maximillian & Combat Droid mark 2 leave the central hub walkway and go airborne...but in only one direction... straight down!
• Maxillian loses his grip on the Combat droid and floats away from McJimmy and his machine nemesis.
• McJimmy the Finn desperately gropes for the controls to his grav belt, the Mark 2 Droid sensing this, grabs an armful of Mon Calamari cyber arm and squeezes tight...
• Milton seeing McJimmy's fall, swan dives off his own walkway and speeds down towards the diminishing pair.
• The tension builds...walkways on level 87, 88, 89, 90 begins to whizz pass...barely missing the plummeting trio...
• Maxillian strikes a walkway on level 92 and crashes to a halt...the droid remains in operation...just!
• At the lift tube area, Starfighter is still trying to coax the cowering geosisians to leave the relative safety of the grav sled and move into the dark, unknown terrority of the lift tubes where the brave Dr O'Blivion is now cowering.
• Starfighter picks up a signal from Bodok up above...Roller Droid heading your way..get the feck outta there while you still can...crrrr....Mattlock looks across to the appoaching rolling ball and smoothly draw's GUN from it's holster.
• Meanwhile just past level 96...McJimmy finds he can't free himself from the iron grip of Bastados Model Mark 2 Combat Droid...the red hue on the Droid eye visor turns a deeper, more evil looking shade...and you can just hear it laughing..
• Whooom...a blade of light splits the air between McJimmy and his Droid antagonist...zoom...the droid's arm is severed from it's body and the Mark 2 falls away. Milton grabs hold of McJimmy and the pair land gracefully on a walkway on level 97.
• Meanwhile several levels up above, Geonosisians...get in the lift tubes...this is your last chance....as Starfighter raises Gun and draws a bead on the ever increasing size of rolling roller droid.
• BOOOM!....a chunk of droid armour goes flying away.....Matt then steps into the lift, ignoring the 2 Geonosisian on the sled and presses the up button....the doors begin to close...BOOM...another chunk leaves the Roller droid as it stops and begins to unravel itself into combat mode...
• Starfighter has time to look across at 4 fire-link heavy blaster cannons and a blue shimmering sphere of a active deflector shield as the tube doors mercifully close and the lift being to ascend.

The Queen's Chambers:

• Regroup and assessment of situation...
• Carlos...badly burnt arm...BAD...
• McJimmy...badly mangled cyber arm...BAD...
• Maxmillian..Combat Droid operating at 40% efficiency..NOT SO BAD!...
• Bodok...low on ammo and having a misaligned MLA barrel....VERY BAD!
• Milton...unwilling to ignite his lightsaber and stands in one corner mumbling gibberish...EXTREMELY BAD!
• O'Blivion...curled up in a feotal position and constantly whispering the mantra of..find a happy place...find a happy place...NORMAL
• A rest and recuperation is in order...the boys study the hive layout to find a place to hole up...they then take a transport pod to the Queen's Royal Chambers
• On arrival they find a huge, massive solid as feck looking blast door closing off the entire royal wing ahead...sheet.
• Carlos moves forwards and inspects a few things by the door...what you need here is 10K+ of High Explosives or a genius.
• Carlos opens up his crim kit and has a fiddle...one arm...badly injured...what are the chances?...
• DaveG rolls an obscene open ended Crim Tech roll....the great Stalagasin Hive Blast door protecting the very Queen herself unlocks itself without note.... GIT! DaveG I'm gonna make you pay for this!
• The boys move inside....and find it.....empty.