Satunda, 28 Melona, 12731

Rentats

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora

Satunda, 28 Melona, 12731

 
Today's nonsense includes cyberware-equipped Reavers -- which may be remote piloted? or might be physically enhanced beyond what the virus provides? Or might have been Palpatine's effort to create biddable synthetic combat Mentats.

 
The opposing vessel, with its light-bending "cloaking field" option, is a mining ship common to the Mining Guild members. Primary control is in the aftmost section. It has four engine exhausts behind that aft area, and four more of equal or larger size attached to the foremost reinforced section.

 
While the Kolenes aboard the Starrise Falcon work diligently to take this craft in tow and bring it to a safer-for-everyone station in the ship graveyard, the quartet of Davish, Danar, Hicks, and I go aboard the ship to start disposing of the unconscious Reavers.

 
The large chamber one step forward is full of (1) conveyer belt systems for loading hypergravitic rift missiles into the ore compartments to work as gatling guns; (2) temporarily unconscious cybernetic-added Reavers. As is so often the case, my solution involves the multitool for permanent equipment disabling.

 
The Reavers are starting to get up.

One of them was a Nightsister.

And she's not entirely lost to the virus, not yet.

 
Well. Hell.

 
The Force has sent us here to rescue soon-to-be-ex Nightsister Reaver Queen Neva Shadowscar, who wants to quit all of the above and survive the kill switch connected to the virus injector and go live happily ever after with her true love, Danar's baby brother.

 
She says we could hypothetically rescue the 43 Reaver 5.0s that she controls.

A count that does not include the five unconscious-then-decapitated Reavers we've taken out already.

And does not include her.

So that's 49. Military admirals do not stop at 49. Where's number fifty?

Neva says she is only aware of 49.

That means there's a backup Reaver Controller somewhere on this ship, held in reserve.

 
We've got to go to Engineering.

 
And Neva says the other controller is aware now -- and killing the rest of the Reavers!

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