Star Wars: Dreams of Destiny

Chapter 2 (cont'd)

Session III
(2) Selona 10 - (3) Selona 11, 44 BBY

The Valiant comes out of hyperspace and into range of SOTOR-21, a remote surveillance station on the edge of a handful of volatile Outer Rim systems that are outside of Republic space. An automated navigation beacon is the only thing responding to hails. The Valiant docks with SOTOR-21, and Jedi Masters Dooku and Leonidus request that the Padawans stay behind. Unfortunately, the station's artificial intelligence is in full defensive mode and traps the Jedi in ray shields. Thus it falls on an unlikely group of younglings to save the day...

IRIS, the station AI, sets her various labor droids on the intruders, including server droids, utility droids and hovering repair droids. The group rushes to stop the self-destruct. After some nasty radiation dosages, electric burns and some shocks from some mechanic droids, the countdown is halted.

Now that they had the station safe, the party worked its way to the main computer, where Jaden interfaces with IRIS. It turns out the computer personality was a brainchild of his father, Booster Reece. Befriending IRIS, Jaden frees the Jedi, determines that Booster burned a valuable data disk before leaving and that Booster set the station's reactor on a self-destruct cycle once it had been boarded to keep the surveillance platform and top-secret Republic infor from falling into the wrong hands. As this was all discovered, a group of ships comes out of hyperspace into on the station.

The self-destruct is reset, giving the group enough time to board the Valiant, but not before Jaden downloaded some of IRIS's core program to preserve the AI, the only legacy of his father he had left. A running space battle unfolds, with the Capital Venture, the Dynamo (a Trandoshan freighter), and a pair of Arakyd Vipers. The group is lead by a Devaronian who was a bit shaky in his leadership after some cunning negotiation (empowered by the force) by T'aan. If he had been more decisive, they could have had the Valiant. As it happened, the Vipers were destroyed and the ship made it into hyperspace on the trail of Booster's last trajectory, determined by a combination of force intuition on Neomah's part and the last vectors given by IRIS's scanners. On to Sri-luur...

T'aan Devos 1716 Jedi 1
Neomah 1716 Jedi 1
Jaden Reece 1716 Scoundrel 1
Ashton Wiesel 1716 Scoundrel 1