During the trip Vlad talk to Neesa. "Hello, sorry if I gave the wrong impression when we first met, just did not like the smell of the Hutt and smoke. Name is Vlad, Vlad Storm. So can you tell me about yourself and the firefight that happened?" Vlad will talk in a calm manner.
Neesa is a little surprised to see Vlad approach her during the trip to Gavos. She considers for a moment. "I suppose would say that I am a bit of a rogue. I consider myself more of a collector and entrepreneur. But as it often happens here in the Outer Rim things do not always go as expected."
"As for the encounter with Visquod, he is a previous accomplice in some missions. But he blames me for losing payment on a job for Bargos the Hutt. In truth, it was his own fault but he refuses to accept the blame. Our encounters have grown a bit more , aggressive, shall we say, each subsequent time."
"And what is your story, beyond being a bodyguard for the rotund Rodian you work for," Neesa asks.
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Kitazza wrote:“If we do run into him again, I hope the others are willing to finish things,” he growls to his smuggler friend looking in Harrison’s direction. "I don’t want to keep leaving problems alive who do us wrong, they tend to multiply,” he growls out, his translator squeaking out a response in common.
"We'll finish him," Pash says. "Count on it!"
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After his encounter with Vanda, Harrison takes a few moments to get his bearings and figure out what happened.
Hearing the droid's remark, Harrison begins to laugh louder, he then puts on his trusty fedora and straightens himself up, as he turns to the droid and says "It may well be, but I think she'll come around to keeping me all night next time."
Gigi stops and turns to face the human. She pauses, apparently trying to understand the situation further. "There will be blood."
Harrison heads for the refresher, he is startled by the strange sound and stops in his tracks looking around and down the corridors. Whether or not the sound stops, he will make his way to the cockpit, to see if an on duty crew member may know what the sound was.
As he approaches the cockpit, Harrison hears the sound of an electro-torch crackling away. He sees a figure hunched over an open panel, sparks popping all around. The creature turns at Harrison's approach, removing the welding mask that covered its reptilian head. The forked tongue flicked out at him, testing the air. Harrison saw that its upper torso was similar to a humanoid but lower body resembled a snake. The scales ranged from light brown to a darkish green.
The creature returned to its work without saying anything. Harrison stood there a moment then asked about the noise. The reptilian alien stopped a few moments later then turned once more. "You mussst be Harrrrisssson. Thissss one will be with you assss sssssooon asssss thissss one hasss completed thisssss repair." Harrison waits several minutes as the alien finishes his repair and methodically closes up the access panel. It then puts all of its tools into its toolbox, carefully organizing them. Closing the toolbox, he places it onto the command chair. Finally, the reptile turns to address Harrison once more.
"Thissss one isss known assss Sssssasssssasssssstraaassssss Kassssatraaasssasss," the alien says, extending a four-fingered hand in the archaeologist's direction. "The crew callsss me Essssskay. Unfortunately vocal chords of mosssst lifeformssss have sssome difficulty with Sluissssssi namessss."
Harrison reiterates his original question. Eskay listens for a moment. "There are many noisssessss currently active." He then begins to list the various noises starting with the sub-light engines, the air refreshers, the signal lights on the command panel operating the auto-nav system, etc, etc. Harrison stops Eskay and specifies the sound he means when it drones out again.
"Thisss sssound could be many thingssss. Thissss one will sssample the sssound and begin analyssssisss for yourssself. Thisss one'sss full report sssshould be complete in about one ssstandard hour."
Harrison responds, "I don't need to know everything that the sound could be. Don't you know what is making that sound now?"
Eskay blinks his reptilian eyes at Harrison a few times. "Thissss sssound is the ssssnoring of the being, dessssignated Dorn, a member of the raccce known as Herglic, alternately known as Koodan. They are a sssspecccciessss native to the planet Giju."
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During the trip to Gavos, the team takes various opportunities to wander the ship, Vlad and Zavi particularly, and note important locations. The ship is a YT-1300. They are cheap, relatively plentiful and highly customizable. This ship appears to have some of the cargo area converted to quarters. Apparently Vanda or the ship's previous owner has done extra passenger transport. The ship has slightly upgraded gun turrets. The best defensive places are likely the ship's holds as the hallways are typically narrow and offer little cover. The most vulnerable location are the gun turrets themselves, but a cargo ship like this could be breached almost anywhere except in the rear engine area.
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Taking a deep breath, Kitazza is glad he got a rebreather mask. “Out of the pan, into the fire,” he mumbles. Silently he wonders how the others. Once they land they will have to seek shelter from the atmosphere.
"So it would appear," Venlana answers.
"That's the way it always goes out here on the rim, I am afraid," Neesa answers.
Venlana will continue. "It appears the original mining crews set up a system of storm barrier generators to help protect the facilities from Gavos' harsh environment, a double-redundant set of eight generators encircles the mine at a hundred kilometer radius. Each seems to generate a semi-permeable storm barrier. Interesting, it is essentially a giant windbreak made of energy. The atmosphere is still caustic but the mining facility appears to be rather untouched from the high winds."
