Star Wars: Fortune Hunter Quest #26

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>>45380347
[2/3]

You sigh, then stop Vikker. “Alright, talk.”

“That girl is going to get us killed,” says Vikker. “I mean, you-know-what is one thing. But come on, you can’t expect her to just hide it.” He holds up a finger, coming up with a idea. “I say we dump her somewhere isolated. Maybe like Lothal or Jakku or something. Then we go about, find that Fleet, we go back to treasure hunting. In fact, forget all this business with Admiral Reike and the Empire. We just go back to doing what we did.”

“Vik, you were the one that got me back working for the Empire again.”

He grunts. “And I have regretted that every day since. I need to stop looking at the easy credits. Look, I’m not forcing you to do this. Hell, I owe you my life, Rhys. You saved me.” He pats you on the chest. “Let me save you for once. I’ll let you think about it, alright?”

You nod, continuing to walk with him back to the ship. “Alright.”

>>45380358
[3/3]

Cutting Misri out? Admittedly, you’ve only known her for at most several months in this venture. Not to mention that she’s been shirking her responsibility lately. What would Kuvasz think though? Hell, what would the droids think? Not that they really have a say in the matter, but they all love her. You can’t have all of your droids deserting on you.

The two of you go down the lift into the hangar where all the big shuttles are kept. Reike’s personal Lambda, Sentinel Landers, and finally your own Lion’s Share. It’s places like this that make you feel at home, really. The black reflective floors, the illumination, the feeling of… you’re not sure what the feeling is but it’s there. Lev meets you at the boarding ramp. “Sir.”

“Lev.” You’re about to pass him up. Vikker does, leaving you behind. You need to check on Misri, see if she’s fixed up anything.

“Sir.” He catches your sleeve, stopping you. He holds up a holopad, which blinks with an incoming message. And not just any holopad. Eudora’s holopad. She’s calling you. “She is calling you.”

> Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.
> Leave her hanging, you’re not talking with rebels.
> Other

>>45380374
>> Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.

we aren't booting Misri. She's learned her lesson in Not Getting Everyone She Knows Killed.

>>45380374
>Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.

>>45380374
>Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.

>>45380374
> Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.
May as well pick up another side quest.

>>45380374
>Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.

> Pick it up in your quarters. You might as well hear her out.

You take the holopad out of his hands. “Thanks.” You hurry up the ramp, then head down the hall into your quarters. You shut the door and lock it. Can’t have anybody disturbing you. You sit down at your desk, then take the call.

And out of it comes the image of Eudora. Out of her orange flightsuit now and wearing a simple grey woolie pullie with black pants. She brushes a bit of her red hair back, her arms folded as she looks at you. “Rhys.”

“Didn’t you say this was for me to call you?” you ask.

“It was,” she says. “But circumstances have changed a bit. We know you’re close to finding the Katana Fleet.” Well, she’s not wrong about that. But it’s less close and more you’ve found a way to find it now. Admiral Reike hasn’t called for you to report on it yet though.

Then again… “You’re taking an awful risk contacting me like this.”

“We’re using old Separatist channels,” she says. “Haven’t been used in years, Empire probably doesn’t even know they exist. If you’re wondering how we know you’re close, a little lizard and his walking carpet of a friend told us.” … Kublai and MadClaw. You need to throw those freeloaders off. Damn it. “Don’t blame them, we paid them to steal a carrier, instead they get us the intel of the year.”

[1/2]

>>45380850
[2/2]

“Right,” you say. “So. You want me to sell out the Empire then for it so the Rebels can claim all those ships for themselves? Then what, you go around terrorizing more worlds?” You scoff, leaning back in your seat. “I’m not an idiot, and you’re not a hero, Eudora.”

“You presume too much,” she says sternly. “Me and mine want to discuss details with you. But we request that you come alone. You can bring one of your astromechs, but that’s it. I want to talk to you in person about this. There’s too much to discuss over a secret comm channel and if I talk too long, I risk compromising the Fleet’s location.”

“… and if it’s a trap?” you ask.

She shakes her head. “It’s not a trap. I am trusting you to not bring the entire Empire on top of the Fleet, and in return, I’m going to make sure the boys and girls here who have friends that you shot down, don’t immediately blast you on sight. Will you come or not?”

> “Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”
> “No. I’m not working with rebels.”
> Other

>>45380867
>> “No. I’m not working with rebels.”

What? No.

Fuck that.

Also, we need to get Kublai and Madclaw off of the ship now, they blew their free ride.

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>>45380867
>and in return, I’m going to make sure the boys and girls here who have friends that you shot down, don’t immediately blast you on sight.

>tfw you say shit like this and expect it to sound like a positive thing

>>45380867
>“Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”
The least he can do is hear them out. Still, the time of reckoning is coming. Rebels are rebels, but the Empire has been filled with nothing but cunts out to kill us and exploit us. Rhys may have been in flight school and have a soft spot for the military that brought him up, but he's not the loyalist Lotte is.

>>45380867
>> “Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”

I'm intrigued. Besides, this might be the chance for Rhys to see what the Rebels are like when they aren't trying to kill him.

>>45381016
Exactly. This is a rare glimpse into the Rebel war engine.

>>45380867
> “No. I’m not working with rebels.”

Let's face it, when we tried playing two sides with Zann, one of them got fed up of our shit and decided we needed to die. The Empire aren't going to react kindly to us pissing about talking to other people, especially after Reike got the inquisitors off of us.

>>45380956
Seriously, right? What is it with the women in poker life being terrible sales people?
>>45380867
> Other
"No, we will meet at a time and place of my choosing. We can discuss terms then."

>>45380978
>but the Empire has been filled with nothing but cunts out to kill us and exploit us

Lotte, the guy at the academy who had us thrown out, and fucking shitty inquisitors and Co.

Everyone else has been pretty okay, the Officer on Manaan or whatever, the Stormtrooper bros, Reike has even been up front with us.

>>45381073
That's because Zann was a prick trying to play both sides of the conflict and wanted the Katana Fleet to strongarm everyone. Rhys is already marked for death/capture by the Inquisition, and he's never really parleyed with the Rebels before.

>>45381097
Reike makes everyone's stomach churn. He's only playing it straight because Rhys is his best chance at the ultimate promotion if he can secure the Katana Fleet.

>>45380867
>> “Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”

>>45380867
> “Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”

I think we're nearing the end of our rope with the imperials. We owe that admiral.. Reiker something or other but I'm worried that as soon as we hand over the fleet they're coming after us.

Alternatively, we could get the co-ordinates to the Rebels, and send Misri off to them so she can embrace her Jediness, and we can fuck off and find the fleet.

>>45381133
Even the inquisitors don't much care for us, they only care about Misri, because she's the one using the force. Once we get rid of her and give them the Katana fleet, we'll just be rich insignificant scum.

>>45381200
Rhys barely trusts the Rebellion to do anything other than die when he shoots at them, why would he ever think they wouldn't take advantage of Misri?

>>45381200
>Dropping Misri
Let's not start this, not now at least.

>>45380867
>“Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”

So we're taking the coordinates and then transmitting them to the Empire, right?

>>45381133
>He's only playing it straight because Rhys is his best chance at the ultimate promotion if he can secure the Katana Fleet.

Yes, and?

He an honestly bad man, but he's honest, and he won't just fuck us over just because, and he won't throw hissy fits because we did something he didn't like.

He sees us as a useful asset and he treats us like one, maybe he will try to dispose of us, but that;s a maybe, and he's more likely to want to keep one of the best pilots in the galaxy around after this job because we're really fucking good.

Reike isn't some mustache twirling villain, he's a cunning and intelligent (albeit evil) man. He's not going to "You found teh fleet, NOW DIE MUAHAHAHAAH" us.

>>45381224
Because it's a kinder fate than just dumping her on Jakku as Vikker suggested, and let's face it she's going to get caught by inquisitors pretty quickly if she's not with the Rebels.

>>45381262
I'd argue that leaving her with the Rebellion would get her killed even quicker. And there's a solid chance that if she's just abandoned to the Rebellion that she and Rhys would end up fighting each other.

>>45381253
>He's not going to "You found teh fleet, NOW DIE MUAHAHAHAAH" us.
I guaran-fucking-tee you he will. Even someone as amazing as Rhys is still a freelancer, and freelancers - no matter how capable - are a liability.

>>45381262
It's not going to happen, sorry mate

>>45381302
Yeah, cause Vader just killed Boba the moment they got to cloud city right?

>>45381302
>I guaran-fucking-tee you he will.
Nuh uh.

>>45380867
>> “No. I’m not working with rebels.”

>>45380867
> “No. I’m not working with rebels."

>>45381302
For what purpose? If the Empire gets the fleet, they have all the cards. You cut off loose ends if they have something valuable that you can't risk getting out, and a whole bunch of then-useless nav logs isn't worth shit to anyone.

>>45381322
"Secure Han Solo and Leia" vs. "Secure the Katana Fleet"
One of these will win the Empire the war outright.

>>45380867
>>“Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”

>>45380867
>no

>>45381302
>For what pvrpose?

What's Rhys going to do? Tattle that the Empire now has the Katana fleet?

Because that'll be such big and well-hidden news, oh boy! If he tells people that they'll be able to do literally nothing with it!

>>45381377
Watch, the Katana fleet's random hyperspace jumps have rendered the "fleet" into just two or three remaining ships.

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> “Fine. Transmit me the coordinates.”

“Alright, I’ll humor you, Eudora. But if this is a trap, I will bring Admiral Reike and his fleet down on top of you. Transmit me the coordinates.”

“Relax. Unlike the Empire, we’re willing to negotiate with everybody. I’ll see you soon.” Her hologram disappears, and in place of it comes hyperspace coordinates. You download it and take up the holopad.

Hm.

Grab your helmet and your life support pack and pull them on. “Sir.” Lev calls you over his commlink. “Admiral Reike is requesting a report on the tracker. What should I tell him?”

“Is it done?” you ask as you head into the cargo bay.

“Almost, the navcomputer we have designed for it is currently calculating all destinations along the route of travel that the logs we recovered have, it will take time,” he says.

“Then tell him that,” you say as you drop down to your R-22. “And tell him that I will be indisposed in the meantime. I’m going out for a short ride.” You open up the cockpit and slip yourself on in. Now you need an astromech droid too.

But who to slot in?

> R5-Z3. Reliable, always.
> R3-M18. If it turns out to be a trap, he’ll make an excellent distraction.
> R2-L20. Uh. He’s efficient?
> Nah, forget it. You’ll go alone.

>>45381488
>R5-Z3. Reliable, always.

>>45381488
>> R5-Z3. Reliable, always

>>45381488
> R3-M18. If it turns out to be a trap, he’ll make an excellent distraction.

Everything always goes wrong for us, at least he'll go out fighting.

>>45381488
>> R5-Z3. Reliable, always.
best astromech

>>45381488
>R5-Z3

>>45381488
>> R3-M18. If it turns out to be a trap, he’ll make an excellent distraction.


We're fucked.

>>45381488
> R5-Z3. Reliable, always.

>inb4 the rebels try to capture and interrogate us

And don't shake their hands or hug them, tracking device avoidance 101.

> R5-Z3. Reliable, always.

R5-Z3 gets himself comfortable inside of the astromech slot. “Sir, I’m honored that you would have me as a regular inside of this slot.”

“Well, if this were an X-Wing, R5, you’d be a great bodyblocker on account of that thick head of yours,” you say.

“And your cockpit makes an excellent shield in case a Starfighter strafes our flank, sir.” You smirk as your Starfighter is craned to the back of the cargo bay, to the hangar. “I am calculating the coordinates now, and also implement the sensor jammer so that the Empire cannot follow us unless you mean them to.”

“Good, good.” You double check systems as you’re dropped out of your hangar, and out of the hangar of the Redeemer and into space. You take a good look at the fleet orbiting Alpheridies. Dozens of cruisers, mixed in with several Imperial Star Destroyers. And who knows how many TIE Fighters as well. You pull your mask and take a deep breath. Now or never you guess. “Alright, R5, take me in.”

With a loud bang, you get to traveling.

-

-

The jump was only a short distance away. What made it difficult was that it wasn’t on any known hyperspace lanes or charted space. A lot of farmboys like to think themselves geniuses when they say they’d just go “around” blockades or “go as the convor flies”. In reality, hyperspace travel through even charted space was difficult. You had to make sure you didn’t fly into a star or into a planet’s surface, you had to get the right trajectory so you actually came near the place in the first place. And then there’s Purrgil who occasionally wander into hyperspace lanes.

Makes your skin crawl just thinking about it really, people who oversimplify things.

You come out of hyperspace is a very distant part of space. No nearby stars, no celestial bodies to take account of. Just stars, blackness, and the rings of the galaxy above you. “R5, you see anything?”

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>>45382198
[2/3]

“Straight ahead, sir,” he says. “I am detecting several large signatures, capital ship size.”

Your sublights take you directly ahead, and out of the blackness comes the increasingly growing specks of a fleet. Yep, this is the place. It was a huge cobbled together mess this fleet. Some Mon Calamari transports, old Separatist Munificents and even a Providence and a Recusant, Corellian corvettes and gunships of all types, and even a stolen Neb-B here and there. But in the center of it all was the massive familiar shape of an old Lucrehulk battleship. You recognize that battleship, it’s all across Imperial Navy registers as being part of the legendary Separatist holdout fleet.

The Separatist 5th Sector Fleet.

> 5th Sector Fleet <
> The Separatist holdout fleet, now aligned with the Rebel Alliance <

Certainly larger than Reike’s, but definitely not up to the tech. “Sir, incoming fighters.” You unlock weapons quickly. And flying past you now are two X-Wings. They immediately curve around and fly on either side of your flank. “Their weapons are unpowered and their comms are declaring a truce signal, they appear to only want to escort you in.”

[2/3]

>>45382211
[3/3]

“Fine,” you say. You look at the pilot on your right, and he looks back at you. He gives you a very obscene gesture with his fingers at you, and you return the favor back.

They escort you into the hangar of the old Lucrehulk. Tractor beam projectors are quick to lock you in, and bring you to a landing. Old Vulture droids are patrolling around, backed up by rusting B1s and B2s along with regular organic soldiers of all species. You pop the cockpit, then step out. R5 hops out as well.

And coming to meet you now is Eudora. “See?” she says with a slight smile. “Not a trap.”

“No, I see your logic, you’re planning on ambushing me when I’m out of my fighter because you know I’ll win if you put me in a fighter,” you explain. You smirk back at her. “Good try though, I will admit.”

She rolls her eyes. “I see you haven’t changed much since Flight School. But, regardless, welcome aboard the Usury.”

> “How about you show me around first? I like to scope out the competition.”
> “So we going to talk business or what?”
> “How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”
> Other

>>45382253
>“How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”

>>45382253
>> “How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”

>>45382253
Wonder if we can buy any of those B1s?

>>45382253
>“How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”

>>45382287
We already have a pair of B1s piloting the Lion's Share, though.

>>45382287
Worth a shot. a quick safe reprogram would be Critical though.

>>45382304
What do we have to repel boarders anon? and what about all of the other weapons Batteries, Shit we could install more AA guns for the bastards to shoot.

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>>45382342
>Attempting to board the fastest fatass in the galaxy

>>45382253
> “So we going to talk business or what?”

>>45382253
>> “How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”


I like Eudora for now but in a bystander's point of view i feel that the rebels give me a irrie feeling.

>>45382253
> “How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”

Don't forget the leer and wink that goes with this, if I recall correctly this little rebel tops Rhys' list of galaxies best badonk-a-donks.

>>45382394
Considering Rhys is the guy who has singlehandedly routed entire Rebel fleets in the past, it's not surprising they're not keen on him.

>>45382417
not just that, but its violent uprisings. The empire is bad we know this but the rebels are pairing up with people who started the clone wars which caused the empire to form in the first place.

>Rebels all think we let Eudora go because she batted her eyelashes at us
>Every person around us probably knew someone that we killed, or knew someone that knew someone who was killed by us
>We're probably dead if we don't agree right here to join the Rebels
>Even if we do join they all hate us

Why was this a good idea, again?

>>45382586
Because /tg/ can't keep their dicks in their pants for more than two seconds, causing them to act several kinds of retarded.

>>45382642
Parley with the Rebels had nothing to do with Eudora, even if she's the one who put in a good word for us.

>>45382586
Because a good old friend asked us. Though I think we shouldn't forget about what happen with Lotte.

>>45382693
You know the story about the male lover who was so bad, he turned her lover into a lesbian? That's what's about to happen to Lotte: her attempts to win Rhys back to the Empire fucked up so badly, she turned him into a Rebel.

>>45382734
True, however that is not i was getting at, I feel that Eudora and Lotte are both idealistic on what their side is doing is right. In which both are about to use Rhys since he is good at what he does.

>>45382734
Rebels a shit, super high-tech next-gen personally designed TIE model a best

deploying from a Star Destroyer owned by a commander of our choosing a better

>>45382793
All while Rhys doesn't want anything to do with anything. All he wants is to make that paper. The aurodium treasure ship was supposed to be his retirement job, but Lotte's theft forced him to stay in the game.

Guys
Just remember to check our droid once this 'meeting' is over.
We dont want them to hack our trusted droid like Lotte did to Lev

>>45382865
Lev wasn't "hacked", he was a double agent from the start, even was hinted at a few times, you dumbasses just never went on a warpath to stop him.

We actually had to "hack" him to make him a "good" guy.

Come on, anon.

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>>45382793
that's a bingo

lets not forget that while the empire has a faction who would like nothing better than to lightsaber our little blind friend to death, the rebels do't have that hangup.

> “How about we catch up first. Not every guy has a Rebel pilot for a friend.”

“Before we talk though, Eudora. How about you and me catch up?” you ask. “I mean, I don’t suppose you have time for a bit of fooling around with an old friend, now don’t you?”

She tilts her head, giving you a very coy look. “Oh, -suddenly- you want something to do with the Rebel Alliance now that I’m involved.” You shrug. “Fine, we can head up to my quarters, have a quick drink before we talk with Admiral Attun Palalin.” She motions you to follow her. R5 starts following you too, but you turn around and stop him.

“Stay with the ship, R5,” you say. “Just in case.” He tips himself forward in a nod, then rolls back to the ship.

“Smart,” she says. “Any usable scrap or ship we can find usually gets stolen.” Well, at least she admits it. You take a quick glance at her swaying rear before turn your eye back to her face. “However, not everything is as it seems. I’ll explain everything later.” You nod, shoving your hands in your pockets. You take one look left to see a row of X-Wings sitting and being attended to by pilots in orange flightsuits. They all look over at you, and glare at you when you pass by.

“… who are they?” you ask.

She looks over at them, then back at you. “That’s my crew. Menace Squadron.” She leans over to you. “Two of ours were shot down over Tython so we’ll try and keep some distance, alright?” You nod. Fair enough. You look back at them, and they all continue to glare at you. A human male with messy blonde hair, a Neimoidian female, a human girl who couldn’t be more than fifteen, a Polis Massan (that isn’t actually glaring at you), a Rutian Twi’lek guy, and a very strong looking Ithorian, all of them come together to fight the Empire.

> Menace Squadron <
> Eudora’s Squadron of misfit pilots <

[1/3]

>>45382924
But it is the Empire faction that likes us that is keeping them at bay.

>>45382956
[2/3]

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-

You hold Eudora’s old TIE Pilot helmet as you stand in her room. She pours a glass of Corellian rum for you and herself, then sits down at your desk. “So, kept your helmet?” you ask.

“Yep.” She kicks back in her seat as you look around you’re her room. For the Commander of a Squadron, this was rather… grim. Grime and rust was getting at the corners and the cracks between ceiling and wall. The bed appeared to be more frame than bed. And her chest of drawers at the foot of that bed was filled with dirty clothes and a pile of an orange jumpsuit. Not to mention the desk where lots of files and holobooks were placed. All in all, it was more like a janitor’s closet than an Officer’s Room. “We have to spare room for what supplies we can get, means I don’t get my own office.” She shrugs, smirking. “I like it in here anyway, it’s cozy.”

“Sure it-“ You kick your foot against her bed, then gently place her helmet next to the pillow on her bed where you found it. You sit down on the chair in front of her desk. “Sure it is.” You take your glass and take a sip. “So this is where you’ve been the past six or seven years since I was expelled?”

“I only defected a year ago,” she says. “Racked up a good killcount of pirates and rebels before then, then I defected.” You nod, taking another sip. She holds out the bottle for you, and immediately you take it from her. “I don’t expect you to understand why I defected, I know you’re a stubborn guy, too full of yourself to think about why others might do things contrary to what you might think is smart.”

“I’m not that full of myself,” you say. “I just wonder what the Rebels have to offer compared to the Empire. Restoring an old corrupt Republic? Bringing back freedom? What kind of nonsense is that?”

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“You just proved my point,” she says quickly. She brushes back her red hair again, then sighs deeply. “Look, things are worse here. The X-Wings are the most advanced thing here. We’re having to back it up with Clone Wars surplus that we shove old leaky hyperdrives into and then attach drop tanks to. The Vultures are too degraded and are only useful in dogfights for ramming things. The pilots we get are farmboys who took too many trips around the Swoop ring, the Admiral bless his heart he’s nice but he thinks we’re still fighting the Clone Wars, and going without food for a day or two is a regular occurrence.”

“Then why stay?” you ask. “Even if you think the Empire is wrong, no pilot can suffer this. Why?”

“Unlike the Empire, I’m a person to them,” she says back. She shrugs, taking a deep chug of her entire glass. “Still, wouldn’t expect you to understand that. Again, full of yourself.”

You sigh. “So, what, you think this stuff is enough to fight the Empire then?”

“It’s a start.” She holds out her glass, and you pour more rum into it for her. “Thanks.”

“So. Is this the part where you want to offer me a spot in your little Fleet?” You knew this was coming. She’ll offer you a job, she’ll bring you into their fold, she’ll offer all kinds of-“

“No.” … what. “This is the part where I ask you, as a friend, to help us with this one thing.” She leans on her desk, looking at you very sternly. “We can’t offer you much in terms of credits. We sure as hell can’t let you leave with any of our droids or ships. We just want one thing and one thing only.”

> “I thought I was here to catch up, not to talk business.”
> “Start pouring, I’m going to get buzzed to hear this.”
> “Fine, what is this ‘one thing’?”
> Other

>>45382991
>> “I thought I was here to catch up, not to talk business.”

>>45382991
>“Start pouring, I’m going to get buzzed to hear this.”

>>45382991
>“Start pouring, I’m going to get buzzed to hear this.”

>>45382991
>> “Start pouring, I’m going to get buzzed to hear this.”

>>45382991
>> “Start pouring, I’m going to get buzzed to hear this.”

>>45382991
>"This is starting to sound similar to what Lotte asked of us. Is this how got Fil into this thing before he died?"

I feel we should make this point.

>>45383033
>>45383045
>>45383052
>>45383056

Literally the dumbest thing when you are somewhere on business. We're going to go up to the Admiral drunk and get our shit fucked up.

>>45382991
>>45383033
>>45383045
>>45383052
>>45383056
We're are due to meet Reike, being drunk won't help.

>>45383068
Supporting this.

>>45382991
> “Start pouring, I’m going to get buzzed to hear this.”

>>45382991
>>45383068
this

>>45383068
Pinning another defector's death on Eudora? Harsh.

>>45383033
>>45383045
>>45383052
>>45383056
>>45383108
Why? We are at a enemy base and you guys want to get shit faced?

>>45382991
> “Fine, what is this ‘one thing’?”
What the fuck are you people doing? Getting hammered over business is stupid, let alone eating or drinking anything on a ship where the crew wants us dead.

>>45383128
She said it herself, that she convinced Fil to defect and she wasn't good enough to cover him.

>>45382991
Changing >>45383045
>“Fine, what is this ‘one thing’?”

>>45382991
>> “Fine, what is this ‘one thing’?”
>>45383068
This.

We'll hear her out but she playing he friend card is kind of what Lotte did.

>>45383190
The difference is Eudora didn't openly backstab Rhys like Lotte did.

>>45382991
> “Fine, what is this ‘one thing’?”

Yeah, everyone here wants to murder us, even 'our friend' isn't exactly hiding her dislike for us. Let's get this chat over with.

But let's face it, the 'friend' card got Fil killed, and is what fucked us over trusting Lotte.

>>45382991
>The Vultures are too degraded
Wow their mechanic must be shit.

I mean can you imagine Misri getting her hand on these guys.

>>45383238
>Yet

>>45383278
Misri would defect simply because there's so much shit to fix.

>>45383322
Not really, she's too busy playing Jedi and has been shirking he duties fixing shit for us.

> “Fine, what is this ‘one thing’?”

“What is this one thing?” you ask as you place your glass on her desk. “And let me warn you, Lotte pulled the friend thing with me. I don’t suppose you did the same thing with Pil, right?”

She narrows her eyes, giving you a slight glare. “Harsh.” She sighs, taking another drink of rum quickly. “Let me explain. The Katana Fleet is one of the largest collection of free ships out there. If the Empire were to get their hands on it, the subjugation of the Outer Rim would be complete. They could post ships at every hyperspace lane, at every corner and nook we could conceivably hide in. We’d run ourselves into the ground trying to run away, not to mention that if they modernize all of those ships, they could be ready to liberate dozens of worlds that rebel. You know last year, the Empire ‘liberated’ five rebel controlled planets with the Base Delta Zero initiative.”

You shake your head. “Yeah, I don’t really care. What separates you from them?”

“I’m going to be completely honest with you. We don’t have the manpower to crew these ships. We don’t have the money to fix them, and they will need fixing. And we don’t have the logistic chains to maintain all of those ships at once.” Then why hunt for the Katana Fleet? Wait. She can’t be serious. “We found ourselves an old astromech that can decode the Fleet’s security systems. You’re well aware that they’re all running slave circuitry coded to the flagship, right?”

You nod. “Right.”

“We’ve coded a self-destruct program.” A very heavy air comes in between you and her now. “We are going to blow up the Katana Fleet.”

…

“You’re nuts,” you say.

[1/3]

>>45383550
[2/3]

“We can’t use those ships, even if we wanted to,” she says. “We don’t have the droids, we don’t have the men. You know the specs for the Katana-class Dreadnaughts demand 2,200 crew members right? That’s at least 440,000 crewmembers at least,” she says. “We don’t have that kind of manpower. We’re -losing- manpower every day. Chandrillan militia can’t support us anymore since the Empire started putting checkpoints on the major hyperspace lanes. The Ryloth Resistance can’t send us anymore weapons or men either.” She leans over to you, nearly getting in your face. “And this Fleet is the –last- Separatist holdout in the galaxy. I’ve confirmed it with folks on the inside. There are no more like this Fleet. No more Gizor Dellsos or Corporate Alliance mooks to help us. The cells are too scattered, we’re too few. That Fleet, if the Empire gets its hands on us, will destroy us.”

“Yeah. Nice little rant there,” you say. “But… what do you want me to do?”

“I ask that you level the playing field for us, and give us a way to find the Katana Fleet,” she says. “Kublai told us you were working on a tracker of some kind. We want one too, or at least the coordinates to one of the potential destinations. You do this, we can pay you, we’re square and we won’t bother you again.”

[2/3]

>>45383570
[2/3]

“So what do you want to pay me then?” You cross your arms, squinting at her.

She sighs, resting her hand in her hands. “Five thousand, ten thousand when the job is done.”

“… that’s it?” you ask. “Fifteen K?”

“It’s all we can spare,” she says. “We need everything here. Even as old as the droids are, they still have an important role for us, and they’re absolutely irreplaceable now that the Empire is cracking down on the old foundries and the sale of Sep droids.”

“This is a joke.” You shake your head, laughing a bit. “The Empire is paying me a hell of a lot more than that, plus giving me a bonus when I complete it. You have to offer more.”

“We can’t,” she says. “I’m begging you, just please help us.” She knows this is way too little. She has to be holding out on you, surely.

> “No, I’m out of here.”
> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”
> “Fine, I can take that. All in advance though.”
> Other

>>45383586
>> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”

Something, anything, people with bounties, a map to some treasure, fucking anything because 15K is spitting in our faces.

>>45383586
>Other

"Come on, don't jerk me around on this. I need you to be honest- all cards on the table. That's the only way I'll help you. I am done being jerked around by others to help people I care about kill each other."

>>45383586
> “No, I’m out of here.”

Even Zann gave us a better offer, and he's a nutcase. And even if she is holding out on us a bit, it's not going to even reach 50,000 creds anyway.

>>45383586
> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”

>>45383586
>Other
Find me a mint condition V-Wing still in the package and we might have a deal

>>45383586
>> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”
It doesn't have to be credits don't you have anything you can give me? treasure maps? some new ship design? Be honest with me.

>>45383586
>“No, I’m out of here.”

>>45383586
>> “No, I’m out of here.”

I'm not making a bigger enemy for less money.

>>45383622
>>45383654
>>45383671
I feel what we are asking, she might end up selling her body to us by the way she sounds so desperate.

But honestly I just have a hard time believing her on her claims.

>Come on, surely you can offer more

>>45383698
No sex in the fucking GALAXY beats what the Empire will give us for Katana Fleet.

>>45383586
>“No, I’m out of here.”

>>45383586
> "I'll take it into consideration."
It's not a good idea to openly refuse something like this when our ship's tractored and we're surrounding by blood hungry rebels.

>>45383698
Even if she did, it wouldn't be worth it.

Wait, so before they could spare 50,000 credits to liberate a cruiser from a station, but now they can only spare 15k to ensure their survival?

Schteel, I call bullshit!

>>45383742
The money's already gone through.

>>45383586
>“Come on, surely you can offer more.”

>>45383586
>>45383742
This. Call her out on her bullshit.

The dinky room, the broken rusty ships. Hell they had enough credits to pay Kublai and Madclaw.

>>45383742
They spent money on one thing and now they can't spend it on another. Not a hard question to answer.

>>45383756
What about the bounty on our head?

I feel there are some discrepancies.

>>45383778
Obviously they are utter shit at money management, no wonder their rebellion is going nowhere.

>>45383586
> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”

>>45383586
>

“What is this one thing?” you ask as you place your glass on her desk. “And let me warn you, Lotte pulled the friend thing with me. I don’t suppose you did the same thing with Pil, right?”

She said that was Harsh but we are right aren't we?

>>45383586
>“No, I’m out of here.”

>>45383586
>"Come on, surely you can offer more.”

>>45383586
> “No, I’m out of here.”

>>45383586
>You offered Madclaw and Kublai more then 50,000 on one ship, you guys put a bounty on my head for just as much. So call me skeptical.


> “Come on, surely you can offer more

>>45383586
>“Come on, surely you can offer more.”
Give me the bounty YOU put on MY head.

>>45383586
> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”

"Call me what you will, but i'm not a chump. 15,00 credits is a good starting point for negotiations, but I gotta tell you any deal that doesn't allow me to retire someplace quiet and out of the way where your damn war won't find me is going to be a non-starter. "

If we give her coordinates, they'll turn out to be the right ones, and we'll be left with no Katana Fleet to show for it. That means no pay and no TIE prototype at best.
At worst Reike will figure out we sold the Fleet's location to the Rebels because they're not trying to kill us anymore.

I honestly don't believe her.

They had B-Wings, all the fights we had with the Rebels had advance aircraft, not one Clone Wars surplus.

OIt feels like Lotte in which she says she is fine with her small outpost but we get pulled over when she became a commander of star destroyer.

>Giant payout to win the war (for the Empire)
>Small payout to even the war
Like it or not, the Rebels can't match Imperial coffers, but it's still something to consider.

>Plunging the galaxy into a new era of darkness and terror because "fuck you, pay me"

>>45383586
>I want you, out of this conflict, if you need somewhere to go then you can stay on my ship, ,that is my price the tracker, for you out of the game.

>>45383989
It's actually a terrible starting place for negotiations because it's so low. It's like a single trip to Alderaan.

It's almost insulting considering they offered Kublai 50,000 for a single ship, and the bounty on us is also higher.

I'd almost say they've calculated this, shown us the shittiest bit of their fleet, without any new shiny a-wings or b-wings, to make us 'feel' for them.

>>45384072
For the tracker it is a start, besides saying this will test her resolve.

>>45384071
Again, we are not some jedi or old republic loyalist. We are a scrounger and a pilot who just want to fly ships.

We couldn't care less.

>>45384084
That is what I'm saying. They show us the shit show but hie the goods.

They may have piss poor money management, as german said but everything we encountered and seen points to the contrary

>>45384084
Hence one of the suggestions to ask for the bounty they put on Rhys's head. Rhys claims his own bounty, the Katana Fleet is blown up, Rhys is square with the Rebels because now the Empire doesn't get to fuck them raw with no lube.

>>45384139
Do you think admiral Reike is stupid?

>>45384072
Gauge her reaction to this, it would be a good measure of how serious these rebels are about their lack of resources. If she accepts they are playing us if she refuses then they truly need every scrap they have.

>>45384177
Considering he's an imperial officer....yes, I think so.

>>45383884
This. Either they're better off then they say they are, or they weren't gonna pay them the 50k. Both possibilities paint them as shady fucks.

>>45384189
Well, looks like you're a good candidate for admiralty, then.

>>45384189
He served in the Clone Wars, he has a good eye for talent, is important to the emperor, and is suspicious of us about the Jedi.

>>45384139
Even then, that's what 65,000 credits? Far less then what we've been promised by the Empire. It also means the Empire don't want to murder us, and the Rebels will be too btfo to seek revenge against us. Plus once the Rebels are dealt with the Empire can go and crush Zann.

I mean Rhys is petty and greedy. There isn't really a real benefit to helping the Rebels.

>>45384188
a genius plan

>>45384225
Apart from not watching his only real friends in the galaxy die?

>>45384188
It's kind of stupid to say "hey, what about you give me nothing?", because then she'd just say yes and that's that.

We have no reason to be here.

>>45384225
I wouldn't say petty, greedy sure but he can be talked to. It's just that the same sob story is what Lotte did to us and we are a bit more guarded about that.

Not to mention there's being greedy and being duped. We seen what the rebels have and are capable of. 15k is a bullshit amount.

>>45384259
What real friends? Vicker, R5, Misri and Kuvasz are his only real friends. And the Empire isn't just going to kill every non-human for shits and giggles, the only one in any real danger is Misri, and she wouldn't be if she had listened to us.

Lotte fucked him over, he wouldn't even be talking to Eudora if she hadn't survived us shooting her down, and the Furies aren't going to be effected by this either way since they lost their chance to build a new Mandalorian empire, and are now a non-entity.

If they could give us our bounty that would be pretty good. No more having to dodge bounty hunters would be something I'd like

>>45384360
Yes, the Empire does not have any bounty hunters and never employs them.

>>45384396
well as long as we do this discreetly, we won't be on ANY bounty lists

I wonder how Rotta is coming along with turning that ore into credits...

>>45384414
Again do you think the Admiral Reike will fall for that? For an Admiral of the Empire he has been competent and will most likely question where we went or hasn't sent spy probes

>>45384072
This, plus the 15k. We are pretty much persona non grata once we do this.

> “Come on, surely you can offer more.”

“You paid Kublai and his furball friend 50k. You’ve had a bounty on me for that kind of money too for much longer than that. You’re playing me, Eudora.”

She shrugs. “The simple answer to that is that we don’t have the money anymore. And the bounty on your head we got rid of on my suggestion. We used that money to buy supplies to get us through to the next cycle. As for the 50k on Kublai, we paid his due when he informed us of what was going on in your ship.”

“He didn’t tell you everything, did he?” you ask.

“Only the Katana Fleet stuff,” she says. “But I know for a fact that the blind mechanic in your cargo bay certainly isn’t blind.” You roll your eyes. “The 15k is all we can spare.”

“Don’t give me that.” You place your hand on her desk, leaning closer to her. “I know for a fact, that you have more money than that. Hell, look at the size of this fleet, you think that comes cheap?”

“Everybody here is a volunteer, we’re not paid,” she says. “That Corellian rum you’re drinking isn’t even mine, I stole that from Jacko’s drawer.” Oh. Well, she’s got the right idea at least, or at least Jacko does.

“Okay, here’s an idea then,” you say. “You abandon this game then.” She tilts her head, confused. “You leave the Rebels, I give you the Fleet a copy of the tracker. If you need some place to go, I’d be happy to-“

She slams her glass on the desk, shutting you up. “I. Am not. Abandoning this Fleet.”

…

[1/2]

>>45384466
[2/2]

“Then what the hell are we talking about?” You laugh even more. “Hehehe, you’ve got nothing, Eudora. Nothing!” You stand up, your chair almost tipping over. You point in her face as she glares up at you. “I’ve got a pretty profit to make with the Empire, they can give me far more than you can ever offer me and then some. If you can’t match that, I’m sorry, but that’s how the galaxy works. I’m not in this for your little crusade.” She stares silently up at you. “If you’re smart, Eudora, you’ll give this stuff up.”

She slowly stands up, looking you directly in the eye. “Fourty.”

You blink. “What?”

“Fourty thousand. That is the absolute most I can promise you in advance,” she growls. Fourty thousand is chump change though. “Otherwise, you can go.”

> “I’ll go then.”
> Take the thirty K.
> Other

>>45384480
> “I’ll go then.”

>>45384480
>>45380347
>"I'll go then."

>>45384480
Typo on the options. It is 40k she is offering.

>>45384480
>“I’ll go then.”

Should just go bang Jennis while the galaxy is restored to order.

We a strong opportunist who don't need no Rebel scum.

>>45384480
>> “I’ll go then.”

Remember guys, we still need to melt down the Bullshitium, and the admiral promised to do that for us.

>>45384480
>Oh? and where did this come from?


from 15k to 40k what changed?

>>45384533
>Other

This, I'd like to know before making a decision

>>45384480
>Take the forty K.
Some deep part of me doesn't want the galaxy to burn all for the sake of a paycheck.

>>45384480
>>45384533
This.

I still feel like their bullshitting us.

>>45384480
>Take the forty k

Our friend doesn't die this way and the empire isn't really hurt

>>45384480
>Take the thirty K.

>>45384533
This

>>45384480
> Other
Deal.

>>45384480
>> Other: Bounties. The Rebellion is full of people the Empire will pay a lot of credits for. You transfer them to me, I give you the data, Katana Fleet is pieces, and I get to earn money while staying in the Empire's good graces.

>>45384480
>> “I’ll go then.”

>>45384480
>>45384533
this

>>45384579
Holy fuck that is an impossibly cruel thing to ask of a friend, even if we are mildly villainous.

See at the end of the day, I just want to know what hurts lottie the most.

>>45384480
> Take the 40 K.

Anyone having trouble with captcha?

>>45384620
Is it? She wants us to give up a LOT for... next to nothing and a target painted on our heads for the Galactic Fucking Empire. A few "heroes" for the destruction of Katana Fleet is more than worth it.

>>45384533
This is Eudora and the Rebels basically on hands and knees, head conked on the floor, BEGGING Rhys not to turn over the Katana Fleet to the Empire (assuming it's found intact).

>>45384579
Money is one thing, but manpower is something entirely different.

>>45384652
Consorting with Rebels is probably as bad as it gets.

>>45384659
Well it is creative thinking. Hell there must be more then a few scumbags that the rebellion knows of, but just can't get rid of because they don't have the resources or inclination to waste resources

>>45384679
What about Fili's Busters?

>>45384480
>> “I’ll go then.”

>>45384663
But that is a big risk to us, and we kind of sort of owe Admiral Reike, at least he's been on the level with us for the most part.

I want to help Eudora, I really do but ultimately this is not our call, but our crew. We can't just give them chump change in exchange for the fortuen we work ourselves to death for

>>45384679
I don't care who they'd give us, so long as the bounties are good and we can cash out before Katana Fleet is history.
It seems fair. They're low on cash and tech, but have plenty of manpower.

>>45384480
>>45384533
This.

I want to help Eudora and believe her but again a sob story from Lotte.

>>45384480
> “I’ll go then.”

>>45384480
>“I’ll go then.”

>>45384480
>> “I’ll go then.”
This has been a waste of our time.

>>45384480
> Take the forty K. AND ask for a non monetary form of payment- a favor, information, not really picky.

>>45384816
Sounds good. Seconding this.

>>45384816
It's as good as it'll get. Besides, all they're asking for is the tracker. Nothing's stopping us from making a copy and sending one off. They're the ones who will be blowing up the fleet, not Rhys.

>>45384480
>>45384533
>>45384816
This.

>>45384816
>>45384480
>This
This is a good option and consolidates a lot of ideas that have been bouncing around

The rebels are cash poor but that doesn't mean they aren't drawing on a huge network of resources that we could tap into

>>45384917
they literally mentioned that their cells are scattered.

I still call that bullshit but you may be right.

>>45384816
And what are we going to do with that information/favor except to run from the Empire?
What abou the auridium that we still can't turn into cash?
And everything we've seen from Reike paints him as not stupid, and knowing that Rhys is capable and willing to con the Empire If he can.

Giving the Rebels a tracker is only going to screw us over.

>>45384480
> Take the forty K.

>>45384990
Reike will still get his report. Rhys completed his job.

>>45384917
A huge network that can't do shit.
Screwing over Reike for little material gain and an IOU that they don't have to honor is a pretty dumb idea.

>>45385043
>an IOU that [the Rebels] don't have to honor
Like the Empire is any better.

>>45385029
The job was to find the Katana Fleet.
You really think he'll look the other way when the Rebels destroy the Fleet?
The sheer stupidity you want people to swallow is astounding.

>>45385029
I mean technically speaking, we can play this right and get TWO paydays.

The empire's payment and the rebels

>>45385076
They can actually pay us and most of them don't want us dead.

So far the only argument against that I've heard is MUH DICK or MUH REBELS, both of which are fucking stupid.

>>45385083
EXACTLY. Rhys gets paid twice, and neither side (and Zann) gets the war-deciding ghost fleet. The fleet is too much power for one faction to have. The Rebels have the right idea: better no one gets it than the Empire gets it.

>>45385076
What can the Rebels offer us?
Reike is offering us enough money to retre and to fly TIE prototypes.

Why would Rhys accept anything less than that for somethin that will get te Empire after him?

>>45385083
The moment we move against Reike is the moment that he no longer has to put up with us and the Empire is more or less turned against us again. He's the reason we were able to stop being on the run. Trying to be sly for 10% more cash just means that we're running on borrowed time before someone works it out.

Why can't we just play straight with the Empire, get our assets liquidated, and be rich?

>>45385104
Not once in this conversation has Eudora offered ass, so "MUH DICK" isn't involved.

>>45385122
>>45385083
Holy fuck you're right, I can't believe I didn't think of that. if we can get two paydays then what the hell are we doing arguing about?

>>45385145
Because it's never that easy with either side.

Well Rhys doesn't know that so he should play it safe.

>>45385145
Because the moment we find the Katana Fleet for Reike, he'll turn the Inquisition on us, who have been chomping at the bit to get their hands on Rhys and Misri. We have no friends in the Empire (apart from the cute cadet in flight school).

>>45384263
its not nothing anon it is her life and decisions she is with the rebels for a reason.

>>45384480
>take the 40k

>>45385227
Vikker himself said he wants out of the Empire contract. At least we can lay a cushion with the Rebels if this does go through.

>>45385171
Because it requires Reike to be far more stupid than he's acted so far.
It requires him to ignore the fact that in spite of Rhys, and therefore the Empire, being the only ones to physically take the Nav logs of the found dreadnaughts, the Rebels were able to get to the Fleet first and destroy it.

>>45385227
>the moment we find the Katana Fleet for Reike, he'll turn the Inquisition on us
That isn't certain. If we can find the damn fleet I'm sure he could find another use for us down the line that isn't on a chopping block.

>>45384480
> Take the fourty K.

>>45385083
This guy has it right, get paid by both sides. Plus lets be honest Rhys thrives on the chaos in the galaxy; without a war, there is a lot less of a need for a moral grey archaeologist and general scoundrel.
That said we have to be very, VERY careful about how we play this.

>>45385274
No one said anything about the Rebels getting there first. Again, all the Rebels want is a copy of the tracker; they'll deal with everything else.

>>45385274
We just need to plant evidence then. Not much, just enough so that an alternate theory can be trotted out

Man it was a mistake to accept that letter of marque from Lotte. The minute we did that our life went to shit. Never go political.

>>45385272
Vikker wants out but leaving the contract and destroying the thing the Wmpire has been hunting for are two different things. The former, we could go back to a life of small jobs. The latter would have the Empire hunting us down; the whole Empire and not just Lotte's little group.

>>45385305
>That said we have to be very, VERY careful about how we play this.
That fills me with confidence.

>>45385334
Everything Rhys has done was on a leap and a prayer. The only reason he gets away with the shit he does is that he's unnaturally good at what he does.

>>45385315
You think that they won't get there first? They have enough ships in this fleet that they could send a ship to every coordinate hit that the tracker produces at once while we can only go through the list one at a time.
They're going to get there first because they have enough people who have their lives on the line that they'll be more motivated to win the race.

>>45385328
>The former, we could go back to a life of small jobs.
With Rhys's knowledge at this stage? Hell no. Rhys can't just walk away. Either he's Imperial for life, or they chase him down.

> Take the fourty K.
> Other

“Fine. But throw something else in, bounties, maps, information, something to kick the deal.”

She sighs. “I can offer you a favor. One favor from me, and the Fleet. That is all we can do. You can take it or leave it.”

You shrug. “I’ll take a favor I guess.” You sigh, crossing your arms. “But your money better be good.”

“It has to be. We buy our food with it,” she says back. “Come on, I’ll escort you back to your ship.”

-

-

A Neimoidian and several of his droid aides turn to you as you march back to your ship. “Commander Kyriako,” he calls. “I was wondering where you were. I see you have sealed the agreement with Mister Cykgil?” he says.

She nods. She motions her hand to you, then to him. “Rhys. Admiral Attun Palalin, commander of the Fleet.”

He nods to you. “Cykgil.”

> Admiral Attun Palalin <
> Separatist Holdout Fleet Commander <

He smiles, folding his hands behind his back triumphantly. “Well, I presume the negotiations went well then.” Eudora takes his hand, bringing him aside. “What- what is it?” They talk quietly with each other on the side, but then: “You what!?” Eudora tells him to quiet down, hissing at him through whispers. “That is money we need for food, Eudora!”

“We can stand to starve a couple of weeks! We need the Katana Fleet now!” she shouts. “I’ve already transferred the money to him, deal with it!”

“You-“ He wags his finger in Eudora’s face. “Imperial… you better know what you are doing!”

[1/2]

>>45385325
What evidence and alternate hypothesis could there conceivably be that would point away from Rhys?

There's nothing that could work.

>>45385455
[2/2]

“What’s going on here?” asks the blonde guy from Menace Squadron. Eudora quickly explains to him the situation. “Oh. Well. Hell, I mean… if it gets us the Fleet, why not?” The three start bickering and arguing amongst themselves.

You sigh, shaking your head as you return to your ship. “Anybody try to steal anything R5?” as you access the comm network.

“No, sir, they have been polite as can be,” he states. “Though, the Vultures were very rude and called me very mean names.” One of the Vultures screams at R5 as he walks by. “Screw you too.” Ugh, you are getting a headache from this. “Sir, Lev has said that the calculations are complete, and the Katana Fleet’s destination has been calculated. Do you wish to send them here to the Fleet now?”

> Give the destination to the Fleet.
> Give false coordinates to the Fleet, leading them to nowhere.
> Give false coordinates to the Fleet, leading them to nowhere, while transmitting those coordinates to Admiral Reike.
> Other

Rhys is a bastard.


I like him.

>>45385477
>Give the destination to the Fleet.

>>45385477
> Give false coordinates to the Fleet, leading them to nowhere, while transmitting those coordinates to Admiral Reike.

>>45385477
> Give the destination to the Fleet.
>Transmit to Reike at the same time

>>45385477
> Give the destination to the Fleet.

>>45385477
>> Other
First off we need to come up with a foolproof story to fool the admiral.

How fast can you code up a fucking dirty and ugly program that does the same thing you do but doesn't resemble the original, using just a couple of nav data point not including the latest dread we found.

>>45385477

> Give the destination to the Fleet.

>>45385519

THIS

>>45385477
>Other: Transmit the coordinates to both Reike and the Rebels.
Looks like we're sending the actual coordinates instead of just a list of possibles.
People thinking we could get paid twice have filed this up for us entirely.

>>45385477
>Give the destination to the Fleet.
No food for two weeks is not a joke. You don't just burn people like that.

>>45385477
> Give false coordinates to the Fleet, leading them to nowhere, while transmitting those coordinates to Admiral Reike.

>>45385477
>>45385519
This. I want to wipe my hands as much as possible of this.

>>45385477
>>45385519
>Give the destination to the fleet AFTER we construct a foolproof story to fool the admiral

>>45385519
>come to the same set of coordinates without using the critical data that actually leads to said coordinates
Yeah, nah, that's fucking retarded.
And how would this evidence even fall into Reike's hands, anyway?
You think he won't know somethings up if we give it to him?

>>45385556
sounds like a plan. have the empire show up and drop the hammer on them and quietly watch from afar

>>45385611
None of the options said to deliver Reike the coordinates right now. We can worry about delivering the tracker to Reike after we return to his ship. All we're confirming is whether or not the Rebels get the real coordinates or not.

>>45385519

Good, this I second

>>45385611

We've already gotten a fully sim data, nothing says we can't use another extrapolated data point to stand in as an original source.

>>45385477
>Give the destination to the fleet

>>45385477
> Give the destination to the Fleet.

>>45385635
No, because Reike will be wanting to know how the Rebels got the coordinates to show up at the same time as him.

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>selling out to rebels

i could see if it was to perpetuate the ongoing war between the Empire and the Rebels and we profit from the increased amount of work we can get from it, but we're not even doing that

>mfw those loyal stormtroopers that died for us are rolling in their graves as we piss on their sacrifice

>>45385677

Actually...

Why don't we just tell the rebels to warp in just after the imps?

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>>45385477
> Other
step 1) send the coordinates to a dead letter address on the holonet, no fucking way are we going to send anything to the rebels directly, that is almost a stupid as a nuclear scientist sending a envelope marked official secrets directly to the Kremlin.
step 2) verbal tell the rebels the location of the dead letter drop.
step 3) start warming up the old bullshitmaster 5000 because we're a have some splainin' to do

>>45385705
Most likely they have to lot of ships to repel the rebels.

>>45385477
>Give the destination to the fleet AFTER covering our asses with plausible deniability

>>45385705
because then they won't pay us.

>>45385690
Because blowing up the fleet doesn't technically hurt the empire.

>>45385690
In a way, he is. By getting the Rebels to destroy the Katana Fleet, the Empire won't steamroll them with it, and the war will continue as it is. If the Empire got the fleet, the war would be over much sooner.

That aside, Rhys is not a warmonger.

>>45385672
>>45385561
>>45385547
>>45385510
>>45385493
>>45385667
And what are we going to do when Reike gets to the fleet to find it destroyed and everything points to us giving the coordinates to the Rebels?
Did you fucking forget that he saw us make a trip to hyperspace right after we got the last needed nav log, and then the Rebels just happen to find the Katana Fleet first?

>>45385690
We also literally just told Reike that we were going for a ride to who knows where. I don't know how people can be so stupid.

>>45385705
Because the way the voting is going we're just going LOL REBEL.

>>45385746
But making the war last longer will make it seem that Rhys is a Warmonger

>>45385759
>And what are we going to do when Reike gets to the fleet to find it destroyed and everything points to us giving the coordinates to the Rebels?

But that would require thinking more than two seconds ahead! And all Empire officers are blind and inept, clearly. Nothing could go wrong.

>>45385759
Man did you fucking forget imperials, while imperials, will probably dick us over too? Regardless of what we've done and or will do?

>>45385759
This is why we fabricate something to get Reike off our ass first before handing over the coordinates

>>45385768
That's what anon was implying: that Rhys is a war profiteer and is only doing the double deal to artificially extend the war just so he can continue taking jobs from both sides.

>>45385789
>Imperial officers blind and inept.

Well.. I mean..

>>45385802
Bullshit. We're a great asset and doing them a massive favor finding the fleet. Not everyone in the Empire is a mustache twirling, evil laughing idiot like you seem to think.

>>45385705
>Other
The Rebels will figure out we fucked them over if try find that the Empire got there first.
They're essentially starting from the same starting positions right now.
If one gets there before other, or even at the same time, they'll realize Rhys fucked them.
You'd have to be dumber than Lotte to not realize it.

>>45385802
That's what bugs me. Everyone is treating the Imperials like saints, if only because they're the biggest threat in the galaxy.

>>45385789
>>45385812
Reike has shown otherwise that he is neither.

If it was Lotte sure but christ.

>>45385826
Well Misri IS a force sensitive and we have had those two inquisitors on our ass

>>45385826
Do you know what "at-will employment" means?

>>45385862
I'd rather two or three Inquisitors be on our ass than the entire Empire.

>>45385477
>Give the destination to the Fleet

>>45385840
Because Rhys has no real reason to piss them off and Rhys was not stupid enough to cross them if he could.

>>45385837

The rebels just want to transmit a virus right? To self destruct the fleet?

The imps want to salvage the whole thing and that takes way more time than just a single burst transmission.

>>45385873
The Inquisition answer to the Emperor. The Emperor IS the Empire.

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>>45385768
Not so much a warmonger, more of a war profiteer.
Because, you know, those guys are always popular.

>>45385873
>>45385894
Yeah knowingly sheltering a force sensitive is pretty much a death sentence

>>45385921
A good reason to offload her on some backwater planet then.

>>45385932
We're not abandoning Misri. She's acutally safer with Rhys than anyone else.

>>45385889
And Rhys knows theyre still a bunch of shitters, and the strongest shitters too, if you're bowing down to em or not.

>>45385477
> Give the destination to the Fleet.

>>45385892
That's irrelevant to them realizing we sold the Rebels to the Empire, and the Empire realizing we sold te coordinates to the Rebels.

Let's hear the great plan that's going to get us free from the Empire's competent admiral. Since you fucks voted to get us into this mess, you should get us out of it.

>>45385956
But why are we giving them the destination to the fleet? Shouldn't we cover our asses first?

>>45385892
Yep. All they want to do is upload the program that will propagate through - and thusly destroy - the fleet.

>>45385921
> sheltering a force sensitive

hell Rhys is a force sensitive, what we're doing is worse: we are sheltering would be jedi who's still in her larval stage

>>45386004
The force did it.

>>45386004
We've been covering our asses since day one and it rarely ever helps. I'd rather start shit for once.

>>45385994
>Let's hear the great plan that's going to get us free from the Empire's competent admiral. Since you fucks voted to get us into this mess, you should get us out of it.
If only.

>>45386029
Against the fucking Empire. The Rebels can't support us.

>>45386015
>tfw Misri tries to teach Reach the force

Wants him to call her mistress.

>>45386029
Seriously, Rhys has been at the whims of fucking everything.

>>45385994
The one or two people who voted for it are surprisingly quiet.

>>45385994
I'm going to laugh when Reike simply keeps our vessels grounded in his star destroyer until we all arrive at the fleet, to ensure we make good on the deal. That's all it would take to fuck us over.

>>45386048
Who said anything about supporting anyone?

>>45386112
The twenty people voting to assist the Rebels seem to be.

>>45386112
So how are we going to survive? This is different then Lotte.

>>45386029
So instead of actually getting paid, you decide to fuck over our employer for relatively chump change and a favor we need to burn immediately to get away.

>>45386132
Depends on how much of a head start Rhys gets on the good admiral.

>>45386139
To be fair, Rhys's employer is a prick.

In the end you can't buy Rhys with credits. But you can buy him with stupid sexy rebel ass.

why the hell are we even thinking about working after this?

Let's just fuck off to the outer rim after all this is done and find someplace quiet to settle down on. We have the money to do itm and the galaxy is a huge place.

>>45386139
Everybody likes a guy who fucks over his employer. It's a real good reason to give them work.

>>45386175
What has he done to be a prick to us?

>>45385477

> Give the destination to the Fleet.

>>45386192
Saved us from Lotte, offered to let us test pilot TIE fighters, and dealed fairly with us until this point.

>>45386192
>>45386212
Oh, and he also saved us from the inquisitors. Can't forget that. That dick, him.

>>45386181
We DONT hav the money, you fuckwit, because what the Rebels paid us isn't enough and we don't have a buyer for the auridium, making it worthless.

The rebel supporters are surprisingly quiet. Hmmm?

So guys how do we clean up their mess?

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>>45386250

>>45386198
Even after all this that points to us fucking over the Empire to be a stupid idea, you still want to do it with no plan and no backup.

>>45386250
At this rate we just let it end.

So anyone wants to shoot or give up Madclaw and Kublai as scapegoats?

We actually shouldn't give the coordinates to the fleet.

Since they only need to do a transmission, we could send them a time delayed decoding one that gets them to the location after the imperials get there.

If the imps grab a dread or two, its no big deal compared to the loss of the rest of the fleet.

>>45386348
Better than nothing, but even that can be verified by fitzing with both of their heads, which the Admiral is more than capable of with left and rightie.

>>45386357
I don't think they'd accept those terms from us.

>>45386250
We were seen leaving the Imperial Fleet right before the coordinates are given to Reike. The Empire arrives at the coordinates to see the Rebels destroy the Katana Fleet.

We have no alternate data trail, no alibi, nothing that could even potentially be a hypothetical alternative to Rhys having fucked over Reike.

>>45386250
Take the money from the empire and run someplace they won't find us. Which is honestly the first thing we should have done once the inquisitors got involved. Seriously, they are scary, scarier then ISB and we do not want to be in imperial territory anymore

Realistically we can't keep playing nice with the empire forever as long as there are force sensitives in our crew. The minute this shit came up we had two options- a. sell Misri out to the inquisitors or b. fuck off to the outer rim or the core and never look back

All we've done so far is just get more and more attention pointed at us since then. The longer we wait the worse chances we have of getting away when it is discovered. And it WILL be discovered.

>>45386427
>Take the money from the empire and run someplace they won't find us.
That's going to be a a problem when we aren't let off the star destroyer.

>>45386357
That's not something that the Rebels are likely to accept. They'll still see it as us fucking them over.
We should have just told Eudora to keep her money. Now we won't get paid again and have the Empire on our ass.

Rhys just pulle a Lotte on Reike; the idiots that thought we could get paid twice got us into this mess and they should be the ones to get us out.

> Give the destination to the Fleet.

“Transmit the coordinates to me,” you say. “I’ll give it to them myself?”

“Sir, is this wise?” asks R5.

“Am I being lectured by a droid?” you say back.

“Fair point, downloading.” Onto your holopad comes the coordinates, along with the set data necessary to build a tracker should the need arrive. Hopefully it doesn’t. You turn around and start walking to the group, which has expanded to the entirety of Menace Squadron, including some other pilots and soldiers as well.

“Here are your coordinates,” you say. “Try not to blow it all in one place.”

Eudora swipes it from you, then looks it over. She takes another glance at you, then continues staring at the holopad. An uncomfortable air has set over the hangar as everybody glares at you. Yeah, you’re taking their food money, that’s… you’d probably be mad too. But hey, if they didn’t want to starve, they shouldn’t have become rebels. Eudora has finished downloading it onto her holopad, then hands yours back to you. “Seems like it’s all in one piece. Admiral.” She looks over at Admiral Palalin. “I suggest we get a move on. And I suggest that Rhys leaves.”

“Of course. Thank you, Cykgil,” says Palalin. “You’ve been a help to us.”

“Yeah,” says the blondie. “A real help.”

Before you can go, Eudora grabs your sleeve, stopping you. Everyone else disperses back to their stations. “Listen, Rhys. Before you go. I’m going to say this. You keep this up, you keep fooling around with the Empire, I guarantee there won’t be a good end for you.”

“Trust me,” you say. “I’m better than that.”

“Yeah, no you aren’t,” she says. “Get out of here.” You nod, then hurry on back to your ship.

You sigh as the cockpit window seals shut and you pull your helmet and mask on. R5 turns his head to you. “Back to Admiral Reike, sir?” You nod. The tractor beams disengage, allowing you to leave the hangar of the Usury, and hyperspace away back to Alpheridies and the Imperial Fleet.

[1/2]

>>45386427
But the Admiral protected us.

and this>>45386402
We have noAlibai and we are not payed till after the fleet. Do you have no reading comprehension?

All i'm hearing is half baked plans and excuses from you people.

>>45386473
[2/2]

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-

You fly into the hangar of the Battlecruiser Redeemer, and land on the deck. Out there to meet you is Admiral Reike. And Lotte. You sigh, pressing open your cockpit window. Admiral Reike walks up to you, quirking his brow. “Rhys. You’ve been gone a little while. Did you go somewhere important?”

You shrug. “You could say that.”

“We were just about to interrogate Lev for the tracker data on the Katana Fleet,” says Reike. “However, since you’re here now, we can get started.”

“Well, we should probably leave now, sir,” you say. He looks at you, confused. “As a matter of urgency.”

“What do you mean?” he asks.

> “The rebels might have a solid lead on the location of the Fleet.”
> “Just a hunch.”
> “Uh, no reason. Let’s just uh… get things under way, okay?”
> Other

>>45386469
>the idiots that thought we could get paid twice got us into this mess and they should be the ones to get us out.
Not very likely.

>>45386500
>“The rebels might have a solid lead on the location of the Fleet.”

>>45386500
>“Just a hunch.”

>>45386500
>I've got a bad feeling about this.

>>45386500
> “The rebels might have a solid lead on the location of the Fleet.”
> "There were other dreadnought wrecks throughout the galaxy. Just so happened that they were following a similar trail."

>>45386500
>> Other
I just met with a information broker of mine. I put out a few feelers for additional information on the fleet back when i started this job.

Information passed to me suggests that
>> “The rebels might have a solid lead on the location of the Fleet.”

>>45386500
>>45386550
this, can you imagine a fleet like that in their hands?

I get pulled away from one thread and you chucklefucks manage to screw us over so hard I can't even laugh at it.

What the hell is wrong with you people?

>>45386550
>>45386546
these are good

>>45386591
No idea.

I got on the ride just after the vote to give the rebels the location.

I actually wanna suggest that we offer to forfeit the payment if the rebels get there first. It'll strengthen our alibi abit and put us more out of suspicion.

>>45386591

Rebeltards got ahold of the thread.

Their shortsightedness has fucked us over, and we probably won't recover.

>>45386591
Most voters think only briefly, ignoring all other voters and prior discussion, and typically go for whatever seems to be the most moral option at the time.

It turns out that's a fantastic recipe for arguments, protagonists that change their minds like revolving doors, and getting said protagonists into a hairball of fuckups.

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>>45386646
>mfw this is how banished quest went down the hole

>>45386591
>tfw Schteel allowed for votes and provided said votes when they were painfully OOC

I stand by this statement, fite me.

>>45386640
>>45386646
To be fair, it sort of gives us a bit of an out when the imps start coming after misri so i guess that the recent entanglement might have made rhys rethink his loyalties abit.

Granted, still think its a poor decision.

>>45386480
To be perfectly honest, the admiral can't hide us forever. Nor would he want to after we hand over the fleet.

The inquisitors are kind of out there on the imperial authority scale, sliding up and down, but ultimately their direct boss is Darth Vader, and nothing and no one can protect us from him apart from maybe the rebels. MAYBE.

>>45386687
>and nothing and no one can protect us from him apart from maybe the rebels. MAYBE.

Or we could have stayed on their good side and not need protecting.

You gigantic tard.

>>45386550
Who is this info broker? What's their name, species, and where do they operate?

>>45386546
And where are these other wrecks?
Why didn't the Empire hear about them?

These are questions Reike will ask.