Starfall
The heroes are assigned to accompany the great engineer Walex Blissex, designer of the Victory–class Star Destroyer, to Kwenn space station. Blissex, now a respected member of the Alliance, received a message from his son-in-law, Imperial Governor Denn Wessex, claiming that the engineer’s daughter is near death. Even though it appeared to be a trap, Blissex could not pass up this last chance to reconcile with this daughter.
Whether Lira Wessex, who designed the Imperial-class Star Destroyer based upon her father’s pevious work, is truly dying or not seems inconsequential. Upon reaching Kwenn, Walex and the Rebels were captured and place in the custody of Captain Kolaff, commanding officer of the VSD Subjugator. Trapped within the detention block of the powerful ship, the Rebels had little hop of escape. They could only wait for the eventual return of their captors and the terrible Interrogator droid that was sure to accompany them.
When the Subjugator comes under attack from the Rebel task force Starfall, the ship is badly damaged allowing the Rebels to escape from their cell, retrieving what equipment they can, they rescue Blissex from the interrogator Droid ministering to him. When they reach a turbolift shaft, the power is out and they have to climb the down the dark inside for what seems like an eternity. From above, wreckage occasionally plunges down the shaft, narrowly missing the Rebels. As they get close to a working lift door, a explosion rocks though the ship ripping the ladder from the shaft walls. The Wookiee (carrying an unconscious Blissex) and Brash pilot manage to retain their grip, while the Smuggler and Minor Jedi nearly plunge to their deaths, but manage to grab cables and swing to safety. Meanwhile Captain Kolaff plans a surprise of his own for the Starfall force.
Blissex comes around and tells the Heroes that if they can find a computer terminal, they may be able to find out what’s going on. As the Rebels enter the blaszing Engineering section, a catwalk collapses; nearly plunging the Brash pilot into the inferno below. Upon reaching a workstation, the Wookie and Brash pilot manage to slice into the computer system, and discover Subjugator’s status: badly damaged, the ship is set to self-destruct in three hours, likely taking Starfall group with it! Blissex says he can alter the self-destruct sequence to explode earlier, but needs to get to the engine control core.With this new information the Rebels begin to make their way to the hangar bay. However Kolaff uses the MSE-droids to spy on the heroes and sets up a series of deadly lessons for the heroes.
The first, “Neutralizing a cross-fire position”, catches the Rebels between a group of Stormtroopers, and a tripod-mounted blaster cannon. Caught in a storm of blaster fire, the Minor Jedi trusts to the Force and leaps into the crossfire, dropping the three cannon-firing troopers. The Wookiee picks up the blaster cannon and opens fire at the remaining troopers, but the recoil blows him though the door just opened by the Minor Jedi. With more Stormtroopers following, the Rebels flee though the open blast doors and the Wookie sets the blaster cannon to overload and throws it back through, as the Minor Jedi destroys the door controls.
The next lesson entitled, “Stacking the deck,” caught the Rebels in a stun-grenade blast as they entered a repair facility. Nearly blinded by smoke, the Rebels are easy targets for the ten Stormtroopers in the room behind cover. That is, until the Minor Jedi uses the Force to drop coolant pipes onto the Imperial positions, and the Rebels easily overrun the remaining Stormtroopers and escape, retrieving the Wookiee’s bowcaster, and the Minor jedi’s lightsabre in the process. A visit to a nearby med-bay gives the heroes a welcome reprieve, and a chance to heal their wounds.
When they reach the engine core the Smuggler, wearing an Imperial uniform, orders the technicians working there to evacuate, just as a MSE droid betrays their position. When the heroes blast the MSE droid to smithereens, Blissex starts to work on the core controls: and the Heroes learn that Blissex has never learnt to use computers. The Wookie and Brash Pilot start the sequencing but discover a fail-safe device set by Lira Wessex – one that would result in Subjugator’s immediate destruction if tampered with! Just then, Kolaff springs his latest trap, blocking all the exits with Stormtroopers. With the Minor Jedi deflecting blaster bolts, the Rebels follow Blissex as he plunges into the shaft. Using the energy field to slow their descent, the falling Wookiee manages to clamber onto a gantry below and use the field to slow the remaining Rebels descent or elevate the ones below back up. The Stormroopers, upon realising that the Rebels have escaped, attempt to follow – just as the Wookiee shuts off the field; the Minor Jedi lands on the gantry as a number of Stormtroopers plunge past…
After finding the location of hangar bay H-12, the only bay with a working shuttle remaining, the Heroes begin making their way to the hangar deck. To escape the fires raging throughout the ship, the Heroes enter the droid maintenance shafts where they are nearly swept away by a flood of stampeding mechanoids, where they also encounter the officious protocol droid T-3PO. With the unpleasant droid in tow, the Rebels find themselves facing an automatic defence system – a ceiling-mounted turbolaser, as an MSE droid spots them again. With the Wookiee staring down the turbolaser barrel, the Minor Jedi attempts to parry the blast on his lightsabre as the other Rebels attempt to disable the weapon. The concussion from the blast at such close range hurls the Minor Jedi back along the corridor. After medical treatment, the Minor Jedi recovers somewhat and the group continues on. Finding the remains of a destroyed Y-wing, the Wookie appropriates the blaster cannon from the ship, as they enter an area of the ship without gravity. T-3PO betrays the Rebels to a group of Stormtroopers that use their blasters to move in the Zero-G environment. Copying them, the Rebels do the same, as the Wookiee takes them out with the cannon but the recoil sends him flying backwards. To reverse his direction, he fires behind him – straight into a fuel cell that explodes! The resulting wreckage nearly smashes onto the Rebels, until a shot from the Brash Pilot sends it careening away.
Emerging into the hangar bay above H-12, smoke from a coolant pool conceals a number of Stormtroopers lying in wait. Venting the smoke from the bay, the Rebels also discover four Scout Walkers, fortunately without pilots. After the Heroes summon the lift, the Stormtroopers open fire, as the Wookie and Brash Pilot race to the nearest walker. Blissex and the Smuggler follow suit as the Minor Jedi runs interference. Unfortunately the Minor Jedi is wouded by blaster bolts, leaving the Rebels to face Captain Kolaff in a walker of his own. Kolaff mocks the Rebels as he emerges for the lift in his walker, destroying one walker as the Brash pilot and Wookie leap to safety. After using concussion grenades on the remaining Stormtroopers, the Smuggler and Blissex respond with a volley that destroys Kolaff’s walker, as the countdown continues…
Still piloting the walker, Blissex and the Smuggler make it into the lift as the Brash Pilot trys to heal the Minor Jedi. He proves to beyond help, requiring medical facilities to recover. The Wookiee picks up the Minor Jedi and deals with the shuttle pilots as the Smuggler deals with the Hangar bay guards from the walker. Meanwhile Lira Wessex opens fire at the Brash pilot as he races for the control tower to warn the Starfall group of the Subjugator’s impending destruction. Lira Wessex prepares to hurl a thermal detonator at the Brash Pilot, but a crowd of Droids sweep her away. The Brash pilot manages to avoid the detonation, and warn the Starfalltask force. He is pulled onto the shuttle as explosions rock the ship.
With seconds to spare, the shuttle escapes from the Subjugator as the auto-destruct sequence completes, and the Rebels also receive confirmation that Lira Wessex has escaped as well – and evaded the Rebel fleet in a hyperspace-capable shuttle of her own. The Rebels receive a heroes welcome on return to base, where the Minor Jedi is whisked away to a bacta tank. Afterwards the heroes are promoted to the rank of Captain by General Dodonna himself.
