Scavenger Hunt
When a Rebel base is destroyed on Dankayo, the self-destruct fails to destroy the base computer, endangering thousands of Rebel agents across the sector. The rebel heroes in the stolen Imperial Shuttle Bonderium are dispatched to intercept the Imperial Transport Elusive carrying the databanks. After a brief fight with Elusive, the transport dumps garbage and jumps to hyperspace, destination: unknown.
As the Rebels considered possibilities, a starship appeared and began collection of the garbage – just as another appeared and a battle broke out between the two, the larger newcomer being more heavily armed. After assisting the overmatched ship, the Rebels met the Squibs: galactic garbage collectors and enemies of the Ugors (the victorious other ship). After an invitation to the Squib Momship Thrifty, the Rebels cut a deal with King Ebareebaveebeedee. The Squibs offer details of the Elusive’s destination from their monitoring of hyperspace routes; in return the Heroes are to journey to the Paradise system and retrieve a ‘quest object’.
With the assistance of Spilfer, “Special-ambassador-to-big-guys-who-are-not-Imperials, you bet,” and the gift of L9-G8, an irritating cuisine Rebels made their way to the Paradise system. After the Heroes discover that the system is revered as a holy site by the Ugors and negotiate access through the defensive picket of starships, Spilfer lands the heroes in trouble by his presence. Fortunately L9-G8 (who remained on Bonderium) finally proves his worth and enabled the Heroes to cook for the Ugors – allowing the Rebels and a ‘exorcised’ Spilfer to wander the space garbage dump of Paradise.
With the Bonderium’s weapons disabled by the Ugor Tax Enforcers, the discovery of a ship following them was a cause for concern. After brief fight (once the weapons were working again), the heroes managed to lose their pursuers in the refuse, and they arrived at the object of their quest: a 40,000-ton wreck. After the heroes calmed down, Spilfer indicated that it was an object aboard the wreckage rather than the wreck itself! Managing to slip past the heavy patrols around the wreck, the Rebels managed to dock with the wreckage.
Unexplainably, gravity was present in the wreck as well as atmosphere. Imperial droids attacked the Heroes, led by an interrogator droid – leading the heroes to the conclusion that the wreck was part of an Imperial facility: the wreckage of a part of the Death Star itself! After discovering the private chambers of Darth Vader himself, the Wookiee took one of Vader’s spare helmets as a trophy, while the Minor Jedi acquired Obi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsabre.
After proceeding further into the wreck, the Rebels discovered the gravity well projector that was the object of their quest – and the source of the wreck’s gravity. As the Heroes moved the projector, the crew of the pursuing starship revealed themselves as pirates and attacked the Rebels - and the wreckage previously secured by the projector in Paradise began to drift. While beating off the pirate attack, Bonderium comes under attack from the Ugors, angered by the theft of their ‘Holy of Holies’.
The heroes have to talk L9-G8 through piloting the Bonderium to safety by losing the clumsy Ugor ships in Paradise’s junk. As the Rebels board their shuttle and fight their way past the Ugors, a stray shot ignites a chain reaction. The Bonderium escapes, as the Paradise system becomes a firestorm of destruction.
As the Rebels escape, the Squibs arrive and begin to gleefully loot Paradise, forcing the Ugors into retreat. After rendezvousing with the Squibs aboard Thrifty, a grateful King Ebareebaveebeedee explains that the Elusive is docked at the Imperial Naval yard on Tolarn for repairs. Its’ next destination: the Imperial Intelligence Operations Centre on Coronar. Both are impossible for the Rebels to storm, so Spilfer suggests they use in the gravity well projector in return for Squib salvage rights to the Elusive.
When the Elusive enters hyperspace, the activated gravity well projector drags it out of hyperspace between Tolarn and Coronar. Tension mounts as the minutes pass, as Elusive is late. The reason becomes clear when it drops out of hyperspace: a TIE fighter rack has been added! Overmatched and outgunned, the Rebels have no choice but to overload the gravity well projector, turning it into a black hole that swallows Elusive and the TIEs.
Mission accomplished, the Rebels return to base and the Squibs pledge support to the Rebellion. They also, worryingly, lay claim to the black hole…
