Log:Jedi Order: Mission to Geonosis

Mission to Geonosis

OOC Date: January 3 & 6, 2022
Location: Geonosis
Participants: Rey Skywalker, Chani Tahn, Ewan Eroh, Jax Greystorm, Qutha Buvu Pah, Vega Kae, Yuun

The Geonosis facility that the Jedi group was given the coordinates of sits on the edge of an old acidic sea. The Jedi ships fly a recon from afar and can see that its built in to the side of a rocky surface, much like most buildings on this bug-lived world.

The ships set down at a designated spot in a mountain clearing where they meet their contact. A Ugnaut wearing Chitin armor and holding a Geonosian rifle. He's flanked on either sides by two more Ugnauts who look younger, but are equally armored in what is clearly the scavenged armor of local inhabitans... morbid!

The contact greeted the Jedi with gruff kindness. There was a bit of chatting outside the ships before a short speeder trip ended with them near the far side of the mountain range that the facility was built apart of. Once everyone unloaded from the speeders, they were ushered in to a hive-like nest of old cavern tunnels that lead in to the mountains...

This is where the Jedi travelers are now. Being lead by the trio of armored Ugnauts carrying sonic weapons. In the dark, they trudge forward through old hives that are no longer in used, as the Ugnaut leader "Garresh' explained. Flashlights on their rifles lead the way deeper in to the dark as they give a bit of a 'tour' of the old nested tunnels.

"They're long gone from here. They mined out all the food they could get from this place. It's why they built a factory here now... use the old infrastructure laid in place by former residents..." Gar says as he plods on ahead, stepping over a ridge in the cavern before them.

Rey looks back over her shoulder at everyone, wearing a hood and her goggles, she had passed out glow-sticks of various colors for everyone to turn on to help illuminate their trek through the dark tunnels... "How close are we, Gar?" Rey asks, her own blue glowstick being held up as she ducks under a gnarly looking old nest entrance, her eyes going up to look up the hole in the ceiling, before she looks ahead to the three Ugnauts.

Gar snorts and rubs his furry face with the back of a hand. "Not much further. We're coming up on their exhaust ports now."

Ominous.

Vega had asked Jax and Qutha if they minded her tagging along as it were and thankfully they didn't mind. So Vega had quietly went about things that she was told. She was in the procession with her black hood up over her hair. Her grey eyes were searching over things. Her glowstick lights up things in a violet light in front of her but she's not sure if that's going to do a lot in the end. She listens to Rey speak on what is going on and the reply from Gar. Oh boy.

Ewan was dressed in attire that spoke a different story than his usual Jedi robes would. A small black vest covered a light blue, long-sleeved shirt, over a pair of black pants and boots. A rich, cerulean bloodstripe adorns the pants, and an empty holster hangs loosely at his side. He remained towards the rearguard of the group, prepared in case anything attacks them from behind.

Goggles of his own on, these to be able to see in the darkness beyond the illuminations glowsticks imparted, Qutha walks and listens while Rey and Gar speak. Caverns and darkness. Always caverns and darkness. Always.

"Why can't potential threats to the peace and safety of the galaxy ever nest in an open field?" muttering to himself, most of it under his breath as he walks, eyes closing and removing the goggles for the length of time it takes for him to inhale deep, holding it and clearing his mind.

The Mantra he's heard Bizz make coming back to him, 'I'm one with the Force and the Force is with me.' Lips moving silently and gaze opening up again to blink rapidly, surprised. "Huh." so that's what it looks like when you can see past errant pools of light.

Back on Genosis, Yuun takes a moment before he starts to follow the others, he allows himself to center before he starts off with the rest of the group. Yuun moves ahead of his Padawan who was taking rear guard, a position that Yuun would normally take, he was curious about the dress but then again Yuun dresses in a mix Jedi and Modern fashion. His lightsaber which has gone through the wringer but still is in good condition hangs clipped to his belt.

Holding one of the glowsticks as they move through the old hive, he looks above and along the sides as they move, his senses are open to the surroundings, using the glow stick that was given to him by Rey, helps illuminate the area to the best of it's ability, "I really need to learn that ability." he says then shakes his head, and he aadjust his eyes again so that he's able to see a bit better in the dark along with the glow sticks.

Jax had flown seperate from the rest of the team in Saber Leader. The Jedi fighter had been brought in for it's sensors and to be the escort to Ewan's ship. Though Jax had met up with the rest of the jedi on the ground. The jedi fighter was not left alone. Jax had brought with him his R2 unit. The surley trouble making R2 was not the nice and helpful BB unit Jax often worked with these day. If somebody came for the fighter they would have to pry it for Exine cold dead fingers. The little R2 would probably crash the ship himself.

As they made their way with the ugnauts Jax soaked in the sights and sounds. Listening to the planet as much to their guides.

Deep in the tunnels, Jax accepts the glow rods and tucked them away where he could use them if needed. He closes his eyes briefly inhaling and exhales. His vision intune with the force it acting more his eyes than his own in this tunnel. He stands next to Qutha, "If I met a villian that was all rainbows, sun shine, and open fields. I would be truly scared. The force will be with us."

It's pure coincidence that she's wound up with a yellow chemical light to illuminate the space around her with a pale, weak glow, but it's fitting nonetheless. The light helps cast back the smothering darkness that would otherwise limit her visibility between the few points along the way where a venting chamber leads to the sky, and a chain of various colors play shadows from the sentients holding them along the walls of the created corridor that leads towards the center of the hive. They're large enough to pass through without much difficulty, and Chani finds herself suppressing her imagination lest it run away with the images of the chitinous plates adorned by the Ugnauts and tries to craft an image of what formed these tunnels.

Chani focuses on her breathing and staying in the moment rather than in her head. She surveys the area around them, attempting to maintain a state of alertness that will help in the event something unexpected happens. She's stretched out the bubble of her perception, too, in the hopes that the Force will also communicate with her should a more insidious situation arise for them.

"These tunnels are used as air flow in to the factory now." Gar says over his shoulder. "You can likely feel the winds on your backs. They pull the air in to their machines to keep them cool, and to push the exhaust out the pipes that lead up. The plumes you saw on the way in." He grunts as his two coherts move alongside him, all three of them using their Chitin gloves to manipulate those rifles that were made specifically for Geonosian 'hands'.

"We're almost there." Gar adds as the group rounds another corner.

It's then that the tunnel opens up to a massive chamber with spires of rock reaching up from the ground toward the shadowy ceiling above.

"There." Gar says, turning his flashlight adorned rifle toward the north where there are pipes stretching up out of a duracrete wall. "We're going in through one of those." He says as the three Ugnauts start to walk ahead through the dark chamber... "Don't worry, we're going in through a deactivated pipe!" He calls back over his shoulder as he chuckles at Rey's expression of worry.

Rey looks back at the others, then ahead. "How did you get caught up in this?" Rey asks the Ugnaut, her attention mostly on them, their escorts.

"I lost a bet. Ended up here working on a repair convoy that sold the ship I was working on to these Nesters... They put me to use as a garbage supervisor. I found that to be beneath me... things went south from there....

He goes on explaining more as they approach the piping coming out of the factory built in to the side of the mountain....

Wind rushes through the large cavernous room, rushing over the Jedi and rolling toward large fans that spin loudly up ahead, covered over by massive fencing. Vega is quiet and trying to find some sort of light in this darkness, because her chem light is not doing a good job, but it is trying! She gives a look towards the back of the group, seeing if everyone is doing okay and then back to the front. She listens to Gar speak and there's a bit of a frown at his story. She feels the wind rush through the cavern and there is a bit of uneasiness as she can't see entirely. She didn't want to walk into a wall.

"Nobody ever wants garbage detail," Ewan offers softly, before his icy eyes narrow a bit. A quick glance is given towards Chani, and then Yuun, as if to tip them off that he saw something ahead. In the darkness, the hand that held his glowstick vanishes for a brief moment behind him. It returns after only a moment, as the blue glowstick light once again bathes his form. His feet drew closer together as he moves, and he seems to draw himself ever so slightly lower to the floor at the knees. How very catlike.

"I think an opponent that was sunshine and rainbows would at least be an enjoyable, potential, end. But then I'd be able to see them." one corner of his mouth hooking up, but trying to keep his eyes peeled. From too little to see to comparatively too much; it's a lot to take in, seeing as most species in the galaxy do.

"Back home we called it compost prep." a little rustic humor, perhaps? But he's trying to keep his eyes out, one hand close to his stunsaber hilt.

Yuun didn't see anything at all in the dark and shadows, his orange glowstick illuminating the area he's travelling in. Yuun smirks about the loss of a bet, he loss a bet a few times on Coruscant and well those jobs weren't that great either. "Still thank you for showing us this place." he says as he looks up towards the others. Another glance goes to teh rear where Ewan is, and he sees the nod, he turns back around and he nods to Vega who is looking around as well.

As they make there way through the tunnels and finally the large open chamber. He looks up into the darkness for a moment, "We have movent up there in the black. I think I see the flutter of wings." He says queitly to Qutha, "Pass it up the line." Then he keeps his eyes on the above area and his hand standing near his saber if there's a need.

It takes Gar speaking it for Chani to realize it for the first time. There's a breeze forcing her bound up tail of hair to tickle against the nape of her neck and it tugs at the material of her robe around around her wrists. More notable is the caress of the air flow against the bare skin of her hands. She avoids looking back, knowing the source of the flow is ahead of them and that the corners they've turned will prevent her from seeing farther back the way they came anyway. The cavernous chamber they find themselves on the cusp of is boggling in its size and her perspective of it is pinholed by her position at the back of the group at first, where she's forced to take note of it through the end of the corridor that they've traveled through.

Gar motions with his light and Chani follows it to spot the pipes that he's talking about where they emerge from a wall that's constructed rather than natural. Stepping into the chamber as a whole, Chani's chin tilts upwards to try to get a better measure of the massive room they've found themselves in. She's not quite sure if its a trick of the shadows or that there's just enough ambient light that her vision is struggling to make sense of the edges around where that light exists, but the longer she looks, the more she's certain she's not imagining what she's seeing. "There are things flying in here, near the top of the pipes. Can your Nesters fly?" The question is directed towards Gar.

Chani's dropping gaze means she meets eyes with Ewan for a brief moment, suggesting she's not the only one who has seen motion far above them in the cavern.

When the call-out from the others reaches her that something is above them in the dark, Rey looks up, her hood dipping back a bit on her head, caught by some of the braided hair on the crown of her head. She reaches a hand up to push her goggles up to her forehead then as her eyes are exposed now, she peering in to the dark...

"Lets keep going, keep as quiet as possible." Rey says back to the others behind her, her eyes taking in the sight of everyone quickly.

Gar, however, looks up, and with his two comrades they shine their lights straight up in to the darkness above.

It's there, the ceiling moving with winged creatures. Fluttering and moving around on the cavern above. They can be seen biting, and licking the stone high up there where they crawl...

"Vakkars." Gar says. "They are not supposed to be here..." He looks back to Rey and the Jedi. "They feed on fumes from... hardware not produced here. I've never seen them here before."

He looks up again then. "They're mostly harmless, so long as we don't disturb them..."

....

Vega's not really sure where the best footing is and given that it's dark and she's wearing black she is just a tad surprised when she bumps into another...that other being Chani. "Sorry." she whispers to her, not wanting to blow their cover, but she's afraid it might be too much as she reaches out to the other side to steady herself.

Chani should have paid more attention to where she was going and less attention to the shadows looming above them and trying to discern whether or not Gar knows what they are. In the midst of looking back up towards the ceiling, Chani has yet to realize that some of the Jedi are bunching up while they wait to enter the deactivated and abandoned pipeline that will take them to their destination. It's this carelessness, born partially out of Chani's inexperience and partially out of her lack of discipline, that leads her to half-tripping into Vega. She doesn't at all realize that the other Initiate also stumbled into her, but it doesn't matter. The collision momentum is enough to make her weave off to the side, sucking a quick breath in.

Attempting to right herself by scrambling her feet underneath her doesn't do anything at all. There's a deeper, more guttural grunt that rises out of her when she impacts a stalagmite jutting up and out of the ground. A natural formation, and perhaps one less old than the others, made out of the material of the ground surrounding all of them, Chani experiences another layer of surprise when contact with it forces part of its side to crumble. The rapidly shifting material sends spiderweb cracks up and around its jutting form, and the inertia of her hitting against it is all it needs to continue tipping over as its base erodes. Chani braces for the impact before it happens, wincing and turning her chin away as if that somehow might stop it from impacting against the ground.

A fine layer of dust and whatever other sediment is on the cavern floor rushes up in a quick cloud around the stalagmite, and its form smacking against the ground releases an acoustic, echoing thump of noise that sounds far, far louder than she thought it would.

As the stalagmite comes crumbling down across the cavern floor, it causes a swell of vibrations that roll up toward the ceiling. More rocks begin to fall, causing the feeding Vakkars to begin to swirl around in crazed fright! Their buzzing wings start to echo through the chamber and the horde starts to descend toward the rocks on the ground that they lost from their feeding frenzy!

Gar looks back, with a angry expression at the Jedi who caused the noise, then up at the frenzy that is coming down toward them now! "Run!" He shouts. "Run for that pipe!" He shines his light on the pipe up ahead, a fairly easy to get inside of entrance carved in to the side of it with some kind of a torch tool!

The Vakkars descend all around the Jedi, screeching and crying out inside the cavern!

And as luck would have it, they start to bite and claw at all the Jedi who did NOT make the noises!

Ewan's icy eyes rise with everyone else, and he could see it all laying out in front of them. A small exhale of air is expelled, before he jumps into action. "Fumes, eh," Ewan says, before he motions for the others to run, as instructed. He would follow them, but not before he begins to focus on the air around them. His free hand rises as a focal point in the air, as heat is slowly sapped away. Some twenty some feet around Ewan, the temperature drops sharply, though slowly. The rapidly condensing air causes small bits of ice to form, riming the rocks around him. Then, he's reacting to the sudden attacks, dodging away from a bite that he had plenty of time to avoid. "Come on," he whispers, before kicking to his feet to follow the others beyond, "Nobody wants to hurt you." The words were more for his sake, than theirs, but he didnt wish for a bloodbath.

Opening his mouth to speak, then pausing at the notion of the creatures ahead and above, Qutha looks to Jax with a 'easily done' sort of expression and a shrug as he shuffles a bit, kicking a rock right after being noted to be quiet. Hissing through his teeth as he steps on a bit of stone that cracks under his weight.

Smooth.

The thud of the stalagmite is mixed with his own sounds and the winged creatures descend upon the lot of them. It's all flashbacks, night on Zelos II - even within the perimeter walls there were the flying creatures that struck invisible from the darkness of the world's evening hours. The zelosian manages to fight back his horror, stumbling and tripping over more stone and low thrusting stalagmites; reaching out to the force for guidance and finding his feet moving of their own accord with emerald colored eyes big as dinner plates and his skin deathly pale by the time he stutter steps into the pipe.

Yuun feels the stirring above and noticing Qutha looking up and all the dust that's been kicked up. He looks forward taking in the distance they have to cover, "Move now!" he calls backing up Rey. He feels fighting here isn't needed, already they loss the element of surprise, hopefully they can regain that element. As a few Vakkars fly in towards him, Yuun's training take over as well as the Force helping guiding his movements as he dodges around and back flipping away and keeping from getting scratched and bitten.

Jax goes to give the order to run when he hears it comng down the line. It's about that time the bugs swarms him and takes off as order running with the others. Once he makes it past the vakkars. He reaches up to brush the vakkars off him. "I dunno know Quatha... YOu can find bugs in fields. THe little ones that leave rashes." He looks to their Ugnaught guide. "Do we need to monitor anyone for allergic reactions? Do these cause welps and itching?"

One of the Ugnauts shouts back to Jax. "Like you wouldn't believe!"

The group rushes to the open pipe entrance, where the 3 Ugnauts wave everyone inside before joining them. "Crockety Vakkars!" Gar curses as he hefts his sonic rifle to point upward once inside the Pipe! "WE gotta get mo--" He cuts his words off as he looks back out of the pipe entrance they rushed in through.

Ewan's wise decision has a cooling mist forming around him as the cave's warm air battles with the Force to dominate the atmosphere of the cave! A cold wall envelopes Ewan's presence as he causes the Vakkars to cease their attack. Screeches fill the caves as the bugs rush away back up toward the ceiling where the heat is more as they are accustomed. They shout and cry out from up there, their wings fluttering wildly. They are not happy about that chill!

The pipe entrance is cleared, and Gar huffs out a exhale. "You wizards are something else." He says before his little legs start to walk onward toward the dark pipe up ahead. "Lets go." He says.

Rey, gripping her Wookiee combat bow, nods to everyone, showing a smile toward Ewan. "Quick thinking." She says to him before moving onward after the Ugnauts.

....

The Pipe is traversed through, the loud noises of the fans become quieter as the factory hum up ahead takes over.

Eventually the team comes upon grated vents in the floors of the pipe that let light from below in. There is movement down there and Gar points. He looks back to the Jedi. "This is new." He tells them. "These speeder trucks they have... they weren't here last month... This is different. This place is a production line for droid motivators. Not... whatever the blasted creatures have loaded up in those trucks."

He motions onward in to the dark, the beams of light coming up from the grated floor shining across the Ugnauts and Rey as she stares down toward the masses of Geonosians that are loading the trucks up with large crates filled with strange spherical metal objects...

Jax frowns, "Great." It was gong to take a lot of meditating to ignore the itching the next few days. He comes to join the others as he watches the Geonosians and the droids below. He raises his eyebrow as he looks at the others, his voice low, "The Droids just told the Geonosians to load the shield generators." He looks to Vega and Rey. "Either of you ever seen a shield generator looking like that?"

Moving into the dark through the pipes Yuun comes to a stop as they look at the speeder trucks and the spheres being loaded into the trucks. Lowering his head a little, trying to see what he can glean from the below conversations and as he hears what is being said, Yuun looks to the spheres in the trucks and shakes his head, he is about to speak up when Jax speaks. "It seems they're working for the Hutts, they said the shields belong to them and are very expensive." he says keeping his tone low but letting those close enough to him to hear him.

"Oops..." Vega whispers out as she gets moving again. She'd have to apologize to others later. Right now they just needed to stay clear of being eaten by bugs. Her gaze goes to the ground and below them she can hear something, "They're loading something to go Y'toub below us." she tells the others. She gets a look at the shield generator that Jax points out and there's a quick visual diagnostic before she makes a face, "I've never seen anything like that before." she tells him. "But the size of the flux matrix that I can see would generate more power than a cap ship shield even produces." she offers to Jax and the others.

"Sorry." Chani murmurs it to the rest of the group the first moment that she has the chance to. It doesn't come until after they're deeper into the pipe, past the intense noise of the fans, but the apology is offered. She takes up the rear once more, hyperattentive to her surroundings so she doesn't accidentally trigger some other horrible situation because she trips over something or breaks something else. Her attention is pushed towards the mission rather than chastising herself, however, because there's still the mission to accomplish. Eventually, the din of the fans bleeds away to be replaced by the noise of the factory. It masks their footsteps and any other noise they might make, but she takes care all the same. Especially around the grated vents.

Crouching into a kneeling position, Chani's head turns to expose her ear to the vents. Her face contorts into an expression of concentration and straining, expressing how she's attempting to sift through the random noises to separate what's background and what belongs to the voices below. She catches something, at least, and it has her lifting her head and glancing towards Jax out of the group before everyone else. Her attention shifts onto Rey, though, and she approaches the Paragon to speak to her so that the echoing around them doesn't prevent her from sharing what information that she's learned. Vega even announces it first. "Y'toub system. That's Hutt Space, isn't it? Where Nal Hutta is."

Rey hadn't been paying too much attention to what was being loaded on the trucks because Gar was talking her ear off in hushed tones as they walked toward the front of the pack. The other two Ugnauts leading now up ahead with their lights turned off to maintain some secrecy up here in the dark...

But the conversations catch Rey's ears and she stops walking, to look back to the others. She listens to them, then looks down toward the trucks... Her eyes focus on the droids commanding the Geonosians on what to do, how to do it, and where to take it.

Chani approaches her, and Rey just stares down through the grates as she listens. A moment later she looks up to her and nods. "Right..." Rey says quietly.

Her eyes dart over to the others.

"that's the planetary shield generators." Rey quickly loud-whispers. She lets that sink in for a moment.

"If we seize them, we could take them to Chandrila... It would change the War..." Rey's eyes scan the faces of everyone, looking for them for guidance here.

Ewan was one of the last to leave the bugs behind, and when at last he caught up with the others, he was checking for any severe damage. "Everyone alright?" He whispers, before looking towards Yuun. The number of things that weren't supposed to be here were growing by the minute. An uneasy look is given between Yuun and Rey at the thought, but he says nothing.

Then, in a moment, they're discussing the murmuring below and Ewan steps forward to look down. Rey's explanation comes a moment later and Ewan can barely keep himself from saying, in a whisper, "And make another enemy." But, then he's staring at Rey with a sheepish, almost concerned look as though he may have just said something offensive. "I mean, uh," he stammers, "What if we grabbed the tech, without taking all the hardware? Avoid adding war fronts to the campaign..." He tries to recover.

Head tipping from one side, to the other, then back again, Qutha looks down at the goings on; brows knit and the comments by the others are mulled over. "I'm afraid I have little experience with the Hutts outside of old holo-reports and some scientific studies. I don't think the closest I've been to them is Naboo and that world is on the Republic side of the Hutt Space border." hunkering and looking down to frown at the upturned lights before he speaks.

"Stealing these, whether it's from the Hutts or some Rimward backwater, like back home, is wrong." Green eyes up to look at the others, lips a hard line. "It's not about making another enemy, it's wrong. The Hutts, by all I've read about and heard, are terrible. Horrible beings steeped in the Dark. But stealing from the beings here, or the ones legitimately purchasing from them, just because we perceive them as evil or dislike them makes us no better. The Hutts may be shielding their own world, maybe the smuggler moon of theirs. Maybe it saves lives if these Sith, or the First Order, come with their planet killer ships. But if we steal the shields meant for them, or steal the technology so that it can't be replicated, then we're the killers, just as much as the ones who came to destroy them."

Qutha stands, arms folding across his chest, "Chandrilla could possibly purchase shields like these, maybe they look elsewhere. But I will not steal because we dislike who is purchasing these generators. Or because we simply disagree with them. We're not at war with the Hutts. We're not at war with anyone. All of our teachings have said that the Jedi preserve piece. These shields protect people. We are not chess players or warlords. We defend people who can't defend themselves. Serving the Republic seemed to be a phrase that was used in fashions that eroded what it was to be Jedi. Complacency because of a means to erect or bypass all of the red tape, then passive retaliation to being bound by red tape. Politics. The Republic is a political entity, as is the First Order. But we seek to maintain Balance. Not the Republic's Agenda." firming up further and further as he speaks.

"I'm willing let others know what we saw, but from there it is up to the Republic. You all may go steal from others, but I will not."

From down below, the first Speeder Truck engine comes online. It rumbles to life and vibrates the pipe that the Jedi are safely hidden within.

The second truck has the last large metal sphere being loaded on to it....

Up ahead, Gar stops when he realizes Rey isn't listening to him anymore. He turns back to look. "Jedai!" He loud whispers back at them. His two companions also stop and look back to see what the hold up is. "The computer room is just around the corner! What are you doing?!" The Ugnaut leader adds.

The last sphere is dropped in to place on the truck bed and the ties are being cinched around it...

Jax nods his head, "Qutha is right. We need to keep moving. We'll kill people if we take these. This is not the jedi way. We are not thieves. Lets follow our guides. We're on a mission. We must find our answers and what data we can to help the republic and not get caught."

Vega's eyes go to the things being loaded and there's a frown, "If I could get my hands on plans for them we could build our own for Chandrila and other places." she states. "But out fellows are right. We cannot take them." she adds to the consensus of others going with the 'no stealing' of things. "I'm sorry, but we must keep moving." she whispers.

"I'm not sure I agree completely with Qutha's reasoning, but he's right. At the very heart of the matter is the fact that we would be stealing, and no matter what our own personal biases, we all know that's wrong. The Republic had the chance to gain access to this shield technology and the indecision of the Senate and certain members within it have led us to where we are now. We, as Jedi, may not belong to the Republic, but I am from a world that is a member of the New Republic. Naboo signed the charter. I am a representative of the Republic. I also believe that, as a Jedi, I am responsible for acting the right way no matter what. As much as I believe we could save lives by having these generators, I also know that I would not be acting entirely out of altruism."

Chani pans her gaze around to those gathered around. "It would be greed, plain and simple. A greedy need to protect my family and my friends, and taking the chance of someone else to protect theirs, even if we do not agree with their methods. I won't give into that temptation and I don't think any of us should." She rises from her crouched position and moves on, heading to where Gar is waiting for them so that they may move around the corner.

Yuun looks to Rey, though before responding he looks back at those behind him. Upon hearing Rey and looking at the trucks being loaded, Yuun thinks on this, and even he shakes hsi head, "I would like to but I agree, this isn't the way. Jax and Qutha are right. If the computers have the information on the tech, we can copy things down to our datapad, as well as finding a way to take them out and provide that to the New Republic as well as have them build for Chandrila, so yea, we got work to do, let's finish this." he states.

Rey softly nods as she listens to everyone make that decision. She tears her eyes away from the trucks below as they start to rumble off toward the exit of the factory floor below. Once they are away from the grated flooring of the pipe, she exhales quietly.

"My grandfather released those lasers upon the galaxy. What horrors they've created since... These Geonosians supposedly helped create that technology. Now they have a way to stop it... I feel obligated to make sure that power of protection is given to everyone who wants it..."

She moves on though with the others, Gar and the three Ugnauts all shake their heads. "This way. Lets keep moving now. We're not far from the computer core!" Gar says with a huff of amusement.

Once the pipe gets dark again, the Ugnauts flip their flashlights back on, bathing the way forward in some nice white light...

The trucks with the shield generators zoom off in to the Geonosian badlands, kicking up dust in their wake!

The Jedi, and their escorts, proceed on down the huge pipe in the dark. Gar calling out to them. "We're almost there. Don't worry! With us as your guides, no harm will befall you!"

-- Screen Wipes from right to left...

A vent on the pipe is kicked several times before it breaks loose and falls down toward the ground below with a thud!

Then silence...

After a second or so, Gar peaks his head out of the pipe, then waves to the Jedi beside him. "There's the hallway. Look. You just gotta go down to the first junction. Take a /right/ then there are two double doors that lead in to the computer center. There are droids in there, and they're gonna sound the alarms if you don't take them out quickly! Got it? Once you have dealt with the droids... do your file searching. Get what you need and get back here. I'll drop the rope to you and you can climb back up!"

Gar holds up a rope, and so do his two partners. All three Ugnauts smiling at the same time.

Rey looks to the others before she nods once. "Okay, well. It's now or never..." She peaks out of the pipe, then drops down out of it, falling twenty or so feet to a crouched position on the floor, her eyes going up to where she'd come from, then around the hallway. "It's clear!" Rey says loudly whispering up at everyone else!

She waves them on and starts down the direction Gar had indicated. The intersection is about 50 paces forward...

Vega's all to comfortable in pipes. The white haired woman follows after folks silently and there is a bit of a look around before she drops out of the pipe and lands on the ground. It wasn't superheroing, but she didn't break her ankles either. She moves to get out of the way of the other Jedi so they could get down as well.

Leaning low, Ewan takes a moment to look at their point of landing, before he grips the edge of the pipe and slowly lowers himself down. A point is taken on the ground as he waits for something else to go wrong. I mean, things hadn't exactly gone smoothly, considering the confidence of their guides. But, then, Ewan was rising a bit and taking a defensive position before they moved on.

Yuun watches the trucks as they zoom off then he looks to the others and he nods his head towards the Ugnauts and as Rey drops down, he follows her. He looks to Gar, "Thank you my friend, we will be quick." he says to them. He looks back to where the others are after Vega and Ewan drops down. He makes sure that it's clear below and Yuun drops down, feeling the ground come up to him quickly and with an exertion of the force he slows his decent and lands in a crouch as well. He takes in a deep breath, "Ewan, continue with rear guard." he says to his Padawan, "Be aware of your surroundings and warn us if there is a threat." he says and he moves past his Padawan and moves up to where they are supposed to be going, following in behind Rey.

Jax checked his gear and make sure his gear was secured. He lets the others go first down the pipe. Then when his turn came up, he waited up at the top giving who ever went down before him a chace to exit the pipe before he goes sliding down the pipe. Then he turns to look up athe smiling Uguants then back down at the others. "I hate to say it but back from my smuggling days. I get a bit apperhensive when I hear the words 'Trust me' or 'Get the thing and then I'll drop the rope.'"

The loud clatter of the vent cover falling out of place and smacking into the floor triggers clenched up shoulders and a wince from Chani at the back of the line. It sounds more aggressive than it might otherwise be when the noise echoes in the enclosed space they travel through, and the young woman tilts her head with an ear forward to try to discern if any response comes to the call of their arrival. She tries to breathe slow and tries to relax the tension out of her body. Being tense will make her slower to react. Her lean muscles need to be like whipcords, not steel cabling. Move fast, strike hard, not bludgeon. Their guides produce rope as they explain their plan, as if it needs to be sold to the Jedi rather than operating on trust.

Rey announces the all clear and Chani queues towards the edge, watching the others drop before her until it's her turn at the lip of the vent. "Be careful," she whispers to the Ugnaughts. A meaningless sentiment, perhaps, since the trio have been doing this who knows how long at this point. Between the chitinous armor and the weapons, Chani doubts it was a recent life decision. With that, the young Naboo native leaves Gar and his compatriots alone in the vent. Rather than sit down and try to edge herself out as much as possible towards the ground, Chani simply steps through. Air ruffles the hem of her robe and her bound hair, but the woman lands into an energy-diffusing, deep squat that lengthens the impact.

Just droids, that's how it starts... and the ugnaughts have the rope to escape. Qutha can't help but feel something dubious about them at this venture, but there's little else to do unless they're ordered back, or simply have to go back. Hanging near the rear as well, when Rey gives the all clear he looks up, ducking immediately due to the confined spaces and eventually dropping down to the others with a 'hnnnnnnnnnnnngnh' breath when he lands.

Plant knees are still knees.

Going to need ointment for that. Or more PT.

"Have faith, Jedai!" Gar says to Jax as he watches the others all go down the vent to the corridor floor below. "bringing the Geos down a peg or five hundred is the point of my existence now. It's good to have goals in life after all." His two friends chuckle at what he says.

With everyone down now, Rey looks up to the open pipe then leans down to pick up the vent cover. She leans it against a wall before nodding to everyone. "Okay." She says, starting down the corridor toward the junction.

"Sabers out." Rey says to the others. "If we have to take out droids, we need to do it quickly, and quietly. However you are most confident. Be it with telekinesis, or your saber... lets do this quick, and sharp. Like surgery."

Rey affords a grin to everyone as they reach the junction, orange light shining down on all of them from above, the shadows of a fan blade spinning between the lights and the Jedi in the hallway beneath it.

Rey hangs right from the junction, and the big double metal doors lie just up ahead, yellow lights framing the base and foot of the doors. "Take up position on either sides." Rey whispers to everyone, her saber in her hand now...

To whomever is at the controls on the other side of the door, Rey nods to them to punch them and open the doors up to whatever lies within!

Vega's hand finds her saber as Rey tells them to get their sabers out and the woman does just that. She doesn't ignite it yet given she doesn't want to take someones eye out. She splits off to the left side and gives a quick little murmur of something that might sound like a prayer as she readies herself.

Ewan offers Yuun a nod at his instruction, and he falls in line a few steps behind the others. His senses were focused more on defense and observance, and when the others have come to stop, it only takes a moment to understand why. At her instruction, Ewan's lightsaber is brought to a readied, though inactive position. Until it was neccessary. His eyes take a slow accounting of how many there were with them, and as they await the opening of the door, he tries to peer beyond in his mind to count their numbers…

Yuun looks watches as the others come down, but now now he moves into position. He unclips his lightsaber, though skilled in telekinesis he was going to use his lightsaber. The familiar feeling of the metal in his hand, there are dings here and there and there has been some replacing of parts on his weapon, but it's familar to him. He gives a nod to Ewan, a smile graces his face as he does so. He looks to Rey and nods his head as he moves off to the side himself so that he wasn't in direct line of sight.

Jax hand reaches down to his saber. He takes it into his hand and preparing himself. He draws in a deep breath and exhale as he draws the force around him ready. He exhales and says lighly, "I am one with the force and the force is with me."

The echo of this planet being the starting place of the Clone Wars resonates in Chani's mind. She wonders if the death that occurred here plays a part in the uneasiness she feels, or if it's just the lurking unknown ahead of them that prompts it. At Rey's command, Chani's right hand draws the simple metal cylinder of her lightsaber from the belt hidden beneath her robes and she carries the hilt in hand as they slip down a corridor with light footsteps and alert gazes. It's quiet in a way Chani doesn't expect it to be. The noise of the factory is loud, but that's all she can hear. The drone of machinery. Maybe the facility is just so large that it's possible to traverse areas of it without ever running into workers. She hopes that's the case.

With the Jedi stacking up on the door on either side, Chani is the one that ends up near the panel. Her shoulder hovers near the wall, just shy of touching it, and she works herself through a calming breathing exercise. Jittery nerves will fail her in situations like these. What she needs now is to move with purpose and, like the Paragon said, confidence. Settling the disquiet murmurs in her head, Chani tunes into the only feeling that matters. The Force. She relies on it and opens her inner self to it, hoping that by listening, her symbiotic relationship with it will allow a harmonic concert of performing in the moment with nothing able to distract her. In this moment, she is not the young musician from Naboo, but an adept of the mystical energy of their universe. A Jedi.

Casting a glance around to the others to ensure everyone is ready, Chani reaches over and taps the button on the panel, triggering the doors to whisk open!

Sabers out... Qutha's own is a stunsaber, the hilt in hand but preparing himself with breaths for now. Much more confident in his ability with the force than the training blade in his possession. Nothing is said aloud, but there's an uptick at the corner of his mouth. Hugging the wall the Zelosian waits for the next orders, looking at the spacing between he and the Jedi ahead of him; trying to make sure there is ample footage between.

Hearing Jax murmur, his head bows and the mantra is met, silently but with his lips moving.

When the doors spread open, it's up to the Jedi to now rush in!

Rey comes in first from the left, her saber going up to a readied position!

Within the chamber is a long half circle of yellow and red tinted control consoles that glow brightly in a orange hued room. One of the consoles is bathed in a bright spotlight of illumination coming from a giant metal sphere hanging from the ceiling, its wires going up in to a orange hued hole in the ceiling. It has eight giant metal arms that are all tapping away at various consoles in the room around it....

When the Jedi rush in, the Master Control Droid spins around....

The giant sphere's huge orange eye flashing a light across the doorway, across the Jedi. It raises all of its arms and begins to swipe at them!

"Cut off its arms!" Rey shouts to the others as her yellow gold saber ignites with a ghostly growl!

The huge metal eye-ball rapidly looks from Jedi to Jedi, as its arms try to reach out and snap claws at them!

The room begins a bit chaotic now, with the brightly glowing 'eye' shifting frantically around at all the targets!

Vega gives a look to the doors that open and then the droid that tries to snap at them like some big crab. She doesn't get very far in before she whiffs both of the strikes that she tries with her saber. She doesn't get disgruntled though. She just tries to prepare herself for the next go.

Through the doors, Ewan's goal was to clear the arms and get 'behind' the thing. Others would follow, but he needed to give them space. Four broad steps were taken before Ewan drops into a tight, acrobatic roll. As he rises, the ice-colored lightsaber blade comes to life, rising in a vertical slash. A quick flourish at the wrist changes the direction of the follow up, leading into a quick, tightly held horizontal slash that flows back into a reset, defensive stance. The anticipated attack is awaited for a split second, with Ewan striking out to meet it directly. Sparks shower around Ewan's feet as each of the blows sheer metal from the Droid. A broad palm reflects the swinging arm sent his way, and a downward slash is used to resume command of his sphere, hand extended, and saber defensive.

"May the Force be with us." Yuun says to them all, and as the door opens, Yuun nods his head to Chani. Yuun takes a deep breath and is quickly moving in behind Rey and Vega. Seeing as Vega whiffs her attacks, "Focus, Vega. You can do this." he says to her as he moves past her to flank to the right. Seeing his Padawan move and attack, Yuun moves in to attack as well, moving in tandem with Ewan, allowing the Force to guide his strikes as he attacks the droids arms making sure none touch the console to call for help.

Jax rushes forwad with his saber light blade held high and he strikes one of the metal cables that's the arm. The blade digging deep but not severing in two. There's a couple quick slashs that the arm dodges. Jax goes rolling out of the ay of the return attack, "What is this thing made out of? It's like beskar but agile."

Following her fellow Jedi into the fray, Chani almost halts at the sight of the mechanical monstrosity that faces them. With it's glowing eye rapidly snapping around to view them, Chani depresses the activation stud of her lightsaber and the cyan blade casts a pale, ghostly glow against her and the immediate area around her. The droid flails out, hitting Vega and swiping at anyone who gets close enough to attack it. Chani doesn't hesitate to rush in, though, warding off strikes from the droid's arm with quick chops from a single-handed grip of the hilt. She darts in with its attention adjusted somewhere else for a split second, stabbing with the tip of the blade to try to keep maximum distance. An orange-glowing smelted spot of metal marks where her strike lands, though Chani has to quickly dart back and out of range with quick footwork to avoid a retaliating stab aimed at her.

Rey is right there with everyone, mixing it up with the spider-like giant metal arms striking out at them. She sees Vega get hit hard and she calls back. "Qutha! Help Vega!" And a moment after that her saber strikes at the arm lunging for her! It dodges the attack, Rey ducking under its pencing strike! She sweeps again and again, but each one is dodged by the skillfully designed arm, clearly agility was a goal with this 'things' appendages!

TWo of the arms are severed off, however, sparks flying through the air, as the glowing eye sweeps around from Jedi to Jedi. It speaks, though its not speaking in any language anyone here would know. A warbling sound, that is filled with a deep rumbling base, that echoes out in to the hallway.

One of its 6 remaining arms goes for the control console closest to it. Two quick taps has the alarms going off now too!

That's not good!

Yellow lights begin to swirl in the corridor as a buzzing sound starts to reverberate through the facility!

"Keep going, we have to take them out!" Rey shouts again as she steps back to refocus herself on the goal at-hand!

Vega gets hit hard with one of the arms, feeling the claw tear through robe and skin before she smells copper. Which was never good. She gives a defiant shriek before clamping her empty hand down over the wound and trying to make sure she's not going to run into getting someone else hit. Then she gives a grunt as her bloody hand comes from the wound and she lets pain take over, trying to smack the droid back.

Ewan was baiting the control droid, leading him in a wide circle towards a nearby concrete bank. The lightsaber dances in his hand, poking out specifically to guide the counterattacks until a massive arm punches forward, burying itself in the concrete. With enough purchase, Ewan grab on and begins to rise, climbing the long arm towards the glowing eye that became the fixation of his mind's eye. Another arm swings wildly, and Ewan wraps an arm into a nearby cabling to swing wide. Booted feet find purchase again before he begins to rise again. Delicately balanced on a moving arm, Ewan dodges another of the arms with a small leap, a duck, and a roll. Rising back to his feet, Ewan's ice-colored lightsaber is thrust forward, diving directly into the massive, glowing eye of the control droid. It was a gamble, he knew from the start, and although the lightsaber finds home and blinds the droid, a massive arm is thrust forward, carrying Ewan off one of the platformed arms and into a nearby wall. Concrete falls away around Ewan immediately, and a thick, hacking cough sends blood along the arm.

At the feet of the droid, Ewan's cold lightsaber hilt falls freely, clattering to a stop. A moment or so later, Ewan's limps body falls freely with a thud. Blood covered his lips, and he was motionless.

Yuun was able to avoid the attacks from Control Droid, but he sees when Vega is struck down, and a flicker passes through him. He still moves through the arms but when Ewan attacks, climbing up the droid and taking out the eye but when he is flung and slammed by the arms, before the droid could hit Ewan or Vega again, Yuun channels the force through his body.

His electric blue blade comes up in an uppercut motion, but he misses, but Yuun isn't finished. Moving in unison with the droid but keeping himself aware of the Jedi allowing himself to be the droids focus if possible, he twirls his blade in a tight arc in front of himself as he slashes into the droid, he then rolls to the left away from the group trying to keep the droid on him, he moves as if controlled as he strikes rushing forward lunging stabbing his blade into the center of the droid, then quickly pulling his blade back. The dark skinned Jedi's dreads dance about his face, he movess easily on the balls of his feet as he fight.

Jax light saber slashes out at the arms after Ewan blinded it. His mission was to tryi not to let the padwan's injuries bein in vain. He blew it. "Anybody having luck with this. We going to have to pull data quick if we don't want to get caught." His lightsaber wiffing like a blue wiffle bat that can't connect with the side of a moisture farm Water barn.

"Ewan!" There's no time to stop and check on the Jedi who stabs his lightsaber through the droid's eye and is then flung into the wall by the stabbing mechanical arm that retaliates for the man's bold attack to make it blind. While the droid has lost its sight, there comes a frantic quality to its wide, randomized strikes. It flails its arms around, searching for targets the only way it can: by luck. Chani stays close, attuned to the whisper of the Force guiding her actions and movements. Arms stab and whip. Chani ducks in and down towards the left, allowing the protruding arm to move by. A quick upwards sweep of her lightsaber with her right wrist rotating outwards to guide it quickly cleaves the arm off near the first joint closest to the droid's hull. She once again slips back, but rather than jump or try to avoid the wide sweeping limb, Chani decides to turn towards it.

Lightsaber up and over her right shoulder, Chani brings the pale blade in a downward stroke, vertical and straight, towards the middle of the metal limb that might have collided with her had she not cleaved it in twain. The outer piece of the arm goes spiraling and clattering against the floor while the closest piece sparks and is no longer capable of lashing out at any of the gathered Jedi. Chani retreats away from the droid, depressing the activation stud on her lightsaber's hilt so that the blade vanishes and there is no longer a lethal, glowing weapon extended from the hilt. Her first priority is moving away from the droid and straight to Ewan. The trail of blood leading to him doesn't look good.

Kneeling next to the man, Chani calls out over her shoulder. "He doesn't look good! He's not walking out." She has no medical training to say the first part with any certainty, but the second is as obvious as anything can be.

Like the others, Rey sees Ewan's intention. She calls out. "Ewan, Wait! No!" But its too late, he's already made his foolharty choice and essentially sacrificed himself for the group's cause.

She bares witness to his success in causing the eye to burst in to a spray of sparks that spouts out from the giant metal sphere body of the strange Control droid. It continues to talk frantically in that strange language, as it sends Ewan flying.

Rey bares witness to this, then focuses her attention on the remaining arms.

When the last one is cut down, she walks through the sparks toward the doorway where Vega and Ewan are. She stops and looks to Chani. "Help get them out of here." She motions to Yuun. Help her, help them get out of here. Back to the pipe!" Rey shouts before she turns to the others.

"Take a computer. Get your discs out. Find anything about the Sentinels and download it! We have to go!"

Her saber is shut off, as she speeds toward a console and begins to search it, her face illuminated by the same eerie yellow and red lights coming off of the console.

The buzzing alarm is still going off, the yellow lights still whirling in their glass domes upon the walls... reinforcements are assuredly incoming!

Vega feels the blood drain from her already pale face when Ewan goes flying and then that sound of his limp body hitting the ground makes her shake her head. It's like days passing, but everything was going really quickly outside of her bubble. She snaps out of it, fighting back the knot that was forming in her chest as she rushes over to where Ewan is downed, she scoops up the lightsaber that had fallen from his hand while she puts hers up and she trails blood along after her as she does. "I'll help you guys." she tells Chani. Vega was stubborn...or more concerned for the Echani that was injured so badly.

With the droid down, Yuun is quick to deactivate his lightsaber. He skids to a stop and he hears Rey's orders and nods his head, "Alright let's go Chani." he says as he looks to Ewan and holding out his hand and allowing the Force to flow through him, there is some extertion but Yuun has done this before and once he has Ewans body gripped within the force, the Padawans body raises off the ground. Walking out of the control room, Yuun moves Ewans body down the hall. He does glance back to see Chani, but he continues moving to the pipe.

"Hold on Padawan." he says to Ewan, still using the Force, he gathers it through his body and moving in harmony with it, Yuun leaps up the pipe. He braces himself within the pipe and then pulls Ewan up with the Force. Yuun then leaps again landing on teh edge of the pipe and he pulls Ewan up the rest of the way. Once he is up and Ewan is, he would wait for Chani then will proceed with her back to the ship.

His saber put away, Jax was working quickly as he was massively dumping data from one computer onto an datachip. "We'll make sure this wasn't in vain." The alarms sounding loudly as he works. Then he looks over at the one next to him. Then he says "Kriff it." It wasn't very loud but then he just starts removing the data core from the computer next to him. "We'll do a data extraction on this one when we get back to where ever we're going."

"Yes, Master." Fastening her lightsaber to the left side of her belt, Chani quickly moves around to Vega to help her. "Help Ewan," Chani encourages Yuun, "And lead the way." Rey is right. They need to go now. Grunting, Chani encourages Vega to put as much weight into a lean against her as she can and begins helping the Echani woman, rapidly shouldering through the door and panting quickly while supporting the Echani out of the double doors and back towards the room that they'd emerged out of and where the three Ugnaughts are supposed to be waiting for them. Warning lights flicker and the alarm is loud enough that it covers most of the sounds of her exertion.

Bumping her way into the room, she helps move Vega over to beneath the vent and then slowly, carefully ensures the woman is standing on her own. Grabbing in quick gulps of air, Chani steps back and focuses on the Force rather than on her protesting muscles. Nostrils flaring as she breathes rapidly through them, her hand extends and she reaches out with her will. "Hang on." She communes with the smallest of organisms combining her with the Force and they commune with the binding energy around them. Slowly, but steadily, Vega's body is lifted from the floor and towards the opening in the vent. Her arm trembles and the skin of her fingers blanches from the subtle cage they're flexed into.

The Echani is lifted safely into the vent, though, and Chani waits for a combination of assurances from the Ugnaughts and those above that she is safe. Letting Vega go, Chani herself moves to beneath the opening. She crouches slightly, head craned back to look upward, and then leaps with the Force. It's a controlled movement, ensuring she clears the lip of the vent and lands on her feet safely.

The trio of Ugnauts are still there when the Jedi return. They wave them up, and step back as the two injured are raised through the Force. "So much for ropes..." Gar comments before the three move to help Ewan and Vega. With Yuun and Chani just jumping up in to the pipe, the Ugnauts are agape at the sight of it. "You Jedai are pretty amazing." Gar says in his gruff voice. "Where's the others?" He then asks as he looks down the open pipe again.

"We got trouble!" Gar shouts. His rifle coming up and firing a blast off in to the corridor below. "Battle droids!" He shouts.

And sure enough the clanking of metal feet can be heard as return blaster fire goes toward the pipe opening!

"Qutha. Get file block z9 through z20!" Rey shouts as she finishes her transfer, then moves over to Jax's. "Good. Great. Lets go!" She says, patting him on the shoulder rapidly a few times.

Rey rushes back to her terminal to grab her data disc out of it when it chimes. "Qutha. Lets get going!" She says to him when she arrives at his terminal too. The two watch the download with anxious nervous expressions before it 'dings' and they are on their way!

When they round the corner, the Battle Droids are visible at the far end... their bodies solid black, with red eyes. They raise their blasters and level them at the three Jedi in the corridor.

"Death to intruders!" One of the B6 Battle Droids shouts in a metallic voice!

Rey, looks up, then just JUMPS for the pipe!

Vega accepts the help, but tries to keep her bloody self from wearing Chani down. She was injured, not dead, but sometimes that didn't matter, she could hold up the group and they didn't need that. She grabs the side of the side of the pipe and gets herself up to move after the others that are already up. "Just gotta get everyone out and get back home." she tells herself.

Yuun is looking to Chani as Vega's body come up followed up by Chani, "Thank the Force." he says as he sees her. He looks to Gar, "Thank you, the others are coming. If you're firing down watch your fire because they will be coming up the same way." he says to Gar. "We need to get these two back to the ship." he looks to Chani, "Come on, we can get these two secured on the ship and prep to leave." he says. "The others should be up shortly." he says as he uses the force lift Ewan back up. He looks to his padawan and then he looks to Vega, for a moment before getting a move on.

Taking the lead and keeping Ewan behind him as he leads himself, Ewan towards the ship his lightsaber comes into his hand just in case he has to fight, he hopes they don't have to fight but he will if he has to.

Jax moves to the pipe waiting for Vega, Chani, Ewan, and Yuun to extract themselves. Then making sure Qutha and Rey weren't getting left behind. He looks down at the computer core in his hand. "I Really got to carry a satchel or maybe they will have tote bags at the next faclity. Then getting a couple step run, he enters the pipe and leaps up relying on the force so that he summersalts up to the next level.

"Thank you for your help, Gar." Chani continues to aid Vega back the way they came. "We'll make it," she assures the Echani woman, breath slightly labored. She doesn't care about the blood in the least, keeping Vega close so that she doesn't have to labor too much with her injury in trying to escape the facility while they can. She hopes to the Force and Shiraya that the Vakkers they encountered in the cave prior to entering the abandoned pipeline are going to be calmed down, or things are going to get far more complicated for the Jedi beyond just trying to outrun some battle droids that can't get up into the system that they're in. She hopes they can't, at least. All this runs through her mind, but she maintains her silence and focuses on being the crutch for Vega.

Rey lands in the pipe interior without any show or flare. Just up, and feet apart to settle in on the surface once more. She then steps out of the way for others, before she looks down at the droids who come running up to look up in to the pipe!

"Lets go." Rey says to everyone as they are already doing just-so!

The droids fire several blaster bolts up in to the pipe, causing red flares of light to light up the darkness, and sparks to rain down from the pipe's roof above.

The droids stop firing though, and one can be quietly heard shouting in its metal voice.

"Reactivate Pipe Six-B! Reactivate it now!"

Gar's little legs are carrying him as fast as he can go, with the other two Ugnauts right up ahead of him...

The whole entire pipe that the Jedi and Ugnauts are inside of suddenly shakes...

"I have a bad feeling about this..." Gar says.

Rey looks back over her shoulder, then forward again. "Run faster!" She shouts to everyone!!

Vega's energy is sapped due to blood loss and she's trying to keep up with the rest of the group so they don't lag behind. She does seem to have a problem with her feet for a moment, but rights them, "Thank you, Chani." she tells her fellow Jedi with a dip of her head. "Don't mean to slow us down. Damn feet." she chuckles as she tries to keep positive. Just stay positive everyone!

Yuun is being careful moving at a trot while levitating Ewan, he didn't want to jostle him too much. "Hold on, we're almost there!" he calls out to everyone as they move to the waiting ships. He is doing his best and is focused on what he is doing, though he knows this is bad and he starts looking at his surroundings to make sure that they aren't being flanked. He doesn't know that the droids are calling for the pipe to be reactivated, but he does feel the pipe shaking, "Oh Kriff!" he puts on more speed and trying to keep from jostling Ewan so that he doesn't compound his injuries further.

Jax was running and trying to keep up with everybody. The Froce flwoing through him as he runs trying to get to the exit. "We need to be doing this but faster."

Able-bodied and still serving as Vega's crutch, Chani grunts and her knees threaten to buckle when the other woman tries to pick up the pace and fails. "Step in time with me!" Hoping the synchronized movements will help, Chani urges Vega faster, one arm wrapped around the Echani's back and the other holding the wrist of the arm she's taken around her shoulder. Again, she encourages Vega to lean weight on her to help make herself as light as possible so no undue or overwhelming strain is put on her body and thus causes issue with her injury. Their only hope is to continue to move as quickly as possible to avoid whatever retaliation that has been set in motion by the droids. They don't move as quickly as their compatriots, but they follow along.

Steam. Lots and lots of Steam.

Coming their way. Toxic no less!

The Jedi rush down the pipe as the pipe itself begins to shake and rumble even more! a cloud of dark steam rushing toward them at tremendous speeds!

Rey, at the back, watches the Ugnauts falling behind, and as she picks up her pace, she reaches out with the Force to guide it around the trio of short allies!

They raise up off the ground, their little feet still running for several moments before they realize they're in the air.

"What the?!" Gar calls out, his companions looking around. "We're flying! We're really flying! Hahaha!" The old Ugnaut shouts as he lifts his hands up in the air. He looks back over his shoulder, and sees the cloud of steam coming. "Fly faster, Jedai!"

Each and every Jedi rushes out the hole in the cavern pipe connection! Just as the spout of steam comes shooting out! The Ugnauts go flying and land near a stalagmite! Rey jumps toward them, spinning to look behind them as the steam rushes past and she leans back out of the way!

The Vakkars start squealling, all flying toward the steam that rises up in the air. It is glorious and delicious to them!

Once things settle some, and Rey lowers her eyes from the ceiling of the cave, she looks to the others. "Lets get going... we have to get off world quickly." She says, making for the cave tunnels.