NOTE: The ship we are on is a Nebulon-B Escort Frigate.
FLASHBACK: When we were still on Coruscant. I received a message on the vid-screen in my room saying:
GHotH in the MAC hine (this last letter was also backwards). Interpreting this as "Ghost in the Machine."
This message was accompanied by a memory I had about a ship, a Trade Federation Battleship, that appears out of hyperspace, rotates left and then leaves in a hyperspace jump in a random direction. There is no Trade Federation currently, it was wiped out years ago. The memory also mentioned two Imperial Star Destroyers that were found floating without crew. One looked like it had been in a battle and nothing worked inside and no trace of blood or bodies. The other was still in working condition, didn't look like it had been in a battle at all, but the crew was still gone, no blood or bodies. I remembered about a fourth ship as well, where the crew had been brutally destroyed by melee weapons. I don't remember what kind of ship this was, but Fra'll had a similar memory and he does know what kind of ship it was.
After the security officers escorted Torin to the brig, Fra'll and I searched his quarters. We discovered another data disc under his bunk and a safe behind his desk. Normally, the desk is attached to the ship wall and is not removable. However, the safe had three locks on it. One was a dial tumbler lock, the second was an electronic pad with sixteen random numbers on it and finally had a biometric scanner for either eyes or hand prints. I thought maybe there was a clue on the data disc we recovered and entered it into the datapad that I had confiscated from Torin before the sent him to the brig. I entered the data disc and all that was waiting was a prompt with a blinking square/rectangle. We tried hacking into it once, but failed. We did notice that the safe was pretty large and extended all the way to the neighboring room. I didn't look to see whose room it was. I used my comlink to call the Captain and told her that she needed to see what we had found in Torin's quarters. We heard her coming before we saw her enter the room. She asked, "What?"
I asked, "Are safes standard in private quarters on ships like this?"
She replied, "No, why?"
I answered, "'Cause I found one in Torin's room."
She said,"Where?"
I pointed out what only she could have missed because she wasn't looking for it and the desk was in the way. We headed back towards the bridge and passed the neighboring room. I asked whose room it was and the Captain said it was the Chief Engineers. She said she knew him for years. On our way back, there was an explosion, the ship swayed and the ship's intercom system reported a hull breach. We ran to the bridge and saw on a vid-screen that it was one of our shuttles and Torin Dol floating over to the shuttle. Attached to the shuttle by a cord was a Yuuzhan Vong. The Captain issued orders to have a roll-call of everyone left on the ship. Everyone was accounted for except the Chief Engineer. Fra'll and I went to his quarters and found the back side of the safe open and empty, a broken data disc and a mask and gloves that made the wearer appear to be human. We went back to the bridge, hiding the mask and gloves, and asked for an audience with the Captain privately. We stepped into the briefing room, I showed her the mask and gloves and told her I found them in the Chief Engineer's room, she threw some chairs around and lost her control on the force which she used to fling the table in the room towards the door.
An alarm sounded saying to prepare for a hyperspace jump. We ran out of the room, the Captain tossing the table aside, and I said to the crew to lock down the area with the hull breach. They informed us that there was still crew in the area. A countdown started with only ten seconds to hyperspace jump. I tried to reach the room to evacuate the crew. I didn't make it in time. I asked the Captain how many we lost and she said five Gamorian soldiers. During our hyperspace jump, another alarm sounded saying we had intruders where the hull was breached. On a vid-screen, I saw the five dead Gamorian soldiers crawl back threw the hull breach from outside. We battled them and the beings that re-animated their bodies said they wanted to go home, to Iego. The Captain decided to force them off her ship and we dropped all but one. The last one told his fallen comrades that they were not wanted here and that they should leave. The fallen stood back up and all five departed the ship. They did damage the blast doors, so we had to drop further behind to stay protected by the ship. When we returned to the bridge. We were out of hyperspace and somewhere in Hutt Space near Nar Shaddaa.
We picked up the our escaped shuttle with the Kel Dor Navigation Officer, Torin Dol, and the Yuuzhan Vong Chief Engineer floating in space.
This is where we left off for the night.
FLASHBACK: When we were still on Coruscant. I received a message on the vid-screen in my room saying:
GHotH in the MAC hine (this last letter was also backwards). Interpreting this as "Ghost in the Machine."
This message was accompanied by a memory I had about a ship, a Trade Federation Battleship, that appears out of hyperspace, rotates left and then leaves in a hyperspace jump in a random direction. There is no Trade Federation currently, it was wiped out years ago. The memory also mentioned two Imperial Star Destroyers that were found floating without crew. One looked like it had been in a battle and nothing worked inside and no trace of blood or bodies. The other was still in working condition, didn't look like it had been in a battle at all, but the crew was still gone, no blood or bodies. I remembered about a fourth ship as well, where the crew had been brutally destroyed by melee weapons. I don't remember what kind of ship this was, but Fra'll had a similar memory and he does know what kind of ship it was.
After the security officers escorted Torin to the brig, Fra'll and I searched his quarters. We discovered another data disc under his bunk and a safe behind his desk. Normally, the desk is attached to the ship wall and is not removable. However, the safe had three locks on it. One was a dial tumbler lock, the second was an electronic pad with sixteen random numbers on it and finally had a biometric scanner for either eyes or hand prints. I thought maybe there was a clue on the data disc we recovered and entered it into the datapad that I had confiscated from Torin before the sent him to the brig. I entered the data disc and all that was waiting was a prompt with a blinking square/rectangle. We tried hacking into it once, but failed. We did notice that the safe was pretty large and extended all the way to the neighboring room. I didn't look to see whose room it was. I used my comlink to call the Captain and told her that she needed to see what we had found in Torin's quarters. We heard her coming before we saw her enter the room. She asked, "What?"
I asked, "Are safes standard in private quarters on ships like this?"
She replied, "No, why?"
I answered, "'Cause I found one in Torin's room."
She said,"Where?"
I pointed out what only she could have missed because she wasn't looking for it and the desk was in the way. We headed back towards the bridge and passed the neighboring room. I asked whose room it was and the Captain said it was the Chief Engineers. She said she knew him for years. On our way back, there was an explosion, the ship swayed and the ship's intercom system reported a hull breach. We ran to the bridge and saw on a vid-screen that it was one of our shuttles and Torin Dol floating over to the shuttle. Attached to the shuttle by a cord was a Yuuzhan Vong. The Captain issued orders to have a roll-call of everyone left on the ship. Everyone was accounted for except the Chief Engineer. Fra'll and I went to his quarters and found the back side of the safe open and empty, a broken data disc and a mask and gloves that made the wearer appear to be human. We went back to the bridge, hiding the mask and gloves, and asked for an audience with the Captain privately. We stepped into the briefing room, I showed her the mask and gloves and told her I found them in the Chief Engineer's room, she threw some chairs around and lost her control on the force which she used to fling the table in the room towards the door.
An alarm sounded saying to prepare for a hyperspace jump. We ran out of the room, the Captain tossing the table aside, and I said to the crew to lock down the area with the hull breach. They informed us that there was still crew in the area. A countdown started with only ten seconds to hyperspace jump. I tried to reach the room to evacuate the crew. I didn't make it in time. I asked the Captain how many we lost and she said five Gamorian soldiers. During our hyperspace jump, another alarm sounded saying we had intruders where the hull was breached. On a vid-screen, I saw the five dead Gamorian soldiers crawl back threw the hull breach from outside. We battled them and the beings that re-animated their bodies said they wanted to go home, to Iego. The Captain decided to force them off her ship and we dropped all but one. The last one told his fallen comrades that they were not wanted here and that they should leave. The fallen stood back up and all five departed the ship. They did damage the blast doors, so we had to drop further behind to stay protected by the ship. When we returned to the bridge. We were out of hyperspace and somewhere in Hutt Space near Nar Shaddaa.
We picked up the our escaped shuttle with the Kel Dor Navigation Officer, Torin Dol, and the Yuuzhan Vong Chief Engineer floating in space.
This is where we left off for the night.
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