Captain's Log, NRS Phoenix: Entry 1165

We've had a hell of a little adventure these last couple of days. It all started while we were picking up that gold shipment on Highland. Shanna contracted us to transport it from Highland to Zomeran. Anyway, Wilson and I were waiting around in the local bar while the cargo was loaded. Everyone else was killing time aboard the ship - they didn't want to come out because of the horrid smell of the air. (Can't really say that I blame them...)

Basically, the planet had been enganged in a sort of civil war for generations. They fought back and forth, but never really did anything major to each other.

So, Wilson and I were sitting in the bar and all of a sudden explosions and blasters start going off outside. It turned out that the other side had gotten the Imperials to help them out and had just started the attack. So we look out and find a whole army bearing down on the town - AT-ATs, AT-STs, hovertanks, stormtroopers, everything. Of course we're a couple of miles from the ship with no transportation. Most of the people in the bar were reservists and left when the fighting started. Wilson tried to rally the rest of the people and we headed for the factory hoping to find some transportation. We kind of uh, requisitioned, a speeder and headed for the landing field with about ten people.

When we got to the field, the ship was gone. The Imperials had confiscated it and were transporting it up to the Star Destroyer - or so we had to assume. We went about looking around the field and trying to set up some kind of defense. We found some weapons and distributed them to the other people. A little later, a squad of Imp commandos arrived and began searching the landing field. We managed to defeat them but Wilson got hurt a little. They were wearing some kind of magnetically sealed armor 'cause the blasters just about bounced off them.

When their pickup returned (a Chariot LAV) we took it over and put on the crew's uniforms. Only one of the locals came with us - Lori Ann, she seems to know a bit about computers. The rest decided to try and make it on their own on the planet. We took the LAV back to the garrison and bluffed our way up to the S.D.

When we got on board the S.D. we learned that they had picked up an old life boat a couple of days before. There had been some people in it that had been in cryogenic storage for about 150 years! Hard to believe, huh? We were able to finally locate the Phoenix, but the rest of the crew had been found and were being detained in one of the cell blocks. So we had to go break them out. While we were in the cell block, we also freed the two people who had been frozen aboard the life boat. It turns out that both of them are full Jedi! No kidding! Brittany Andrews is a tall attractive woman, while Xavier Quinn has to be almost twice as big as Wilson, although he seems rather intelligent and gentle.

Eventually we fought our way back to the ship and blasted our way out of the S.D. We escaped to hyperspace toward Zomeran.

Now we're trying to get half of the ship's systems back functioning since the damn Imperials had decided to start taking the ship apart. I've got the transponder and sensors working and I'm writing this while the computer runs a diagnostic check on the system. Wilson and Lori Ann are working on the turret systems; he seems to be having a little trouble with them. Hopefully we won't need them when we hit Zomeran, though. Oh well, the diagnostic is done, back to work...

Major Travis D., Captain NRS Phoenix

By Chris Curtis
Session of 2/8/97