Ziost - Crown of the Sith Empire

Char is lying low in his small warehouse turned loft, his fingers tapping the sides of the datapad as he awaits for info to come in.

"The thing, whatever it was, was supposed to be coming in soon, right Lo?"

L0-R3 nods in affirmation.

"Affirmative. No additional announcements or news has been released, and no word through our sources about another uprising event. Unless you count a party at Lord Bellious' home I suppose."

Char chuckles a little. "I don't know if she's forgiven me yet-"

And then something seems to ripple in Char's soul.

The Emperor's Call-Average Cool Check with a setback-no upgrades from NoT: 4eA+2eD+1eS 1 success, 1 threat


"Sithspit Lo, what the kriff was that?"

"What was what Master Char?"

Char starts gathering his things. "Something just happened. And I have no idea what?"

[Any reports of strange things happening? Any armed people in the streets?]

He gets a look around and he can see people getting out of their vehicles or stumbling out of the buildings and stores and begin senseless slaughter, their eyes glowing red as the city sustains blasts from above!

Orbital bombardment it looks like.

"Orbital bombardment? What's hitting us?" Char lights up his access into the Imperial mainframe.

"There has to be some kind of planetary defenses, right?"

There also had to be others out there...others who would be looking for safety, or trying to resist. Others who would be prime recruiting tools.

"Ok, a way to stop the incoming assault first...then we work on how to get through those streets..."

Char was well out of the way at the moment in his hideout...so far. If no one found reason to go digging.

Yeah, that's really not that comforting a thought

[Trying to hack the activate any planetary defenses possible]

OOC: Planetary defenses would be in control of the military and not accessible over the open Holonet, he can probably activate building security or something and create a safe haven for the moment, well as safe as one can be during a mind controlled zombie apocalypse.

"Well, it was a longshot, but small steps."

Char tries to activate the local security grid. "And small steps add up to a click. After here Lo, we need to get as many online as possible in the neighborhood. The Eagle needs a roost after all."

OOC: Activating defenses, moving to other places in the region to try to create a "safeish" zone in the name of the Eagle

OOC: Skullduggery or Streetwise to get the word out, add two setback for chaos.

"Right, lets head out Lo!"

Combined Skullduggery-Unknown Difficulty-2 setback: 1eP+2eA+2eS 1 failure, 4 advantage


Things are immediately too hectic.

"Bodyguard mode activated L0-R3 rumbles.

The safehouse is attracting people, scared and angry people who are wondering what the hell is going on… this kind of nonsense is not supposed to happen on civilized Core worlds.

OOC: Not sure what you want the advantage for.

Difficulty + Destiny: 1eC+1eD 2 failures

"Kriff it Lo! This the moment!" Char is indignant as L0-R3 shoves him back into the safety of the safehouse.

"You can't help them if you get trampled in the street! But even more, even if you did run out there, how useful are you as a slicer if you get caught in front of a volley of blaster fire!"

"I-!" Char stops, unused to his droid giving him this much of a response.

"Or, are you better at using that unusual ability you have to get your support from the people of the city?"

"My slicing?"

"No, you're not special at that. Your talking" Lo shakes his head. "There are more of those meatbags there. Go make sure that they don't murder us."

Char pauses for a beat. "You're right." He moves out to the main room where people are coming in and clears his voice before clicking on his Public Address System. His voice expands and fills the safehouse. "Alright, welcome. The local defenses are back online, but that isn't going to do a ton of good under an full planned attack. We need people to keep watch and report if anything happens. If anyone has contacts, or feeds on what is happening the city we need to share. Not everyone is gonna reach this spot, and it looks like the entire kriffing planet went crazy at the same time."

(OOC: Spending Advantage to make the safehouse a secure and thriving location for civilians.

Hoping to use Charm or Leadership to calm down or organize people)

OOC: Hard check for Charm or Leadership.

Hard Charm-Advantage from gear: 4eP+3eD 1 failure, 2 advantage



People are still hushed and scared, and no one seems to be eager to follow his lead. though no one seems to be getting upset. Char sighs, and steps back.

"I have to get the stuff around the city working." Char retreats back to his workspace and sets up his gear. "Come on, what's happening around the city? I need to send stuff to people to help them figure things out."

[Attempting to scour the net for news, where violence is going on, and trying to devise safe routes and getting them out to the people]

[More explicily, would like to capture the work travesties, and the most blantant encounters of Malgus vs. normal civilains]

News is scattered most people were in thrall to the Emperor so it's mostly footage of senseless carnage hard to distinguish who was on what side, of course he could try doctoring the footage if he liked.

"Ohhoho, that's what they're going to do!"Char cries. "Oh, that's smart. But they need someting viral to undo it. Oh, they are going to put something out as their story."

"I need something better. I need a better show, something that is going to stick on the Holonet. Come on, there has to be something!"

[Looking for a way to put together footage to justify the Eagle stance}

OOC: Deception or Skullduggery at Average to mock something together.

"Lo! Come over here! I need some help getting this kriff together!"

"Does it bother you that a droid has better taste about what will engage humans that you?"

"Shaddup!"


Pullinf together the data for the storm!-Deception Average-Assist from L0-r3-free advantage from gear: 1eP+2eA+2eD 1 success, 1 advantage


"..."

"Does me shutting up generate better data?"

"Shaddup! Yes! And thank you!"