The party began session 9 huddled in their camouflaged ship,
recovering from their battle with the pyramid droids and the Imperial Special
Forces. The giant beam was still firing through the lens on top of the pyramid,
so they decided to determine where it might be pointing. After some discussion
Tarn, the smuggler, informed them that since the planet was rotating, and all
of the heavenly bodies involved were moving in relation to each other, they
would only be able to determine a series of planes swept through space by the
beam on which the Dyson Sphere could lie. They would need to find the other two
pyramids and see where the beams intersected in order to determine where the
Dyson Sphere was located.
He also warned them that there could be more than one
possible intersection, so they would need to determine a time element in order
to pinpoint which location was valid. He also explained that since the beams
only travel at the speed of light, they would need to make a computer model to
predict the behavior of each of the beams.
Caitlin and Neelo worked up a computer model and set the ship’s computer
crunching the numbers.
The team decided to go back into the pyramid to see if they
could learn more after the withdrawal of the Imperial Special Forces unit. When
they made their way back through the tunnel they found that the pyramid was
empty except for the ruined hulks of the pyramid droids and the corpses of the
Imperial Special Forces unit. IG-13 managed to make his way through the
superheated cylinder and turn off the beam. As he powered down the beam they
noticed that the each of the three knobs controlled one color component of the
beam: red, blue, and green.
Once the room cooled down they began their
investigation of the inside of the cylinder. They found a shallow groove
running in a spiral up the inside of the cylinder, out of phase with the
staircase, The information they learned from their investigation of the
cylinder, combined with Mia’s dreams led them to believe that the cylinder had
been a kind of shell for the creature living inside the Dyson Sphere and that
the beam and pyramid had been added later. To complete their investigation they
climbed to the top of the cylinder and went onto the roof of the pyramid
through the hole cut by ISF. They found Loag corpses on the roof and came to
the conclusion that the ISF had been attacked from behind by the Loag after
making their way through the lens.
After they returned to the ship, the party decided that they
had waited long enough for the Imperials to clear the system before leaving and
headed for orbit. They broke atmosphere in the middle of a pitched space battle
between an Imperial frigate, its Tie escorts, and a couple of squadrons of
X-Wings. They decided they did not want to get involved and began plotting a
hyperspace course. The pilot noticed that none of the X-Wings were equipped
with astromech droids, meaning they must be based in the system. As they made
the jump to light speed, Alamar Upside fired a volley of proton torpedoes at
the frigate.
When the dropped out of hyperspace in the Elrood system they
learned that conditions on the ground had continued to get worse, and that
there were reports that an Imperial frigate had been destroyed responding to a
pirate attack on the Alamar system. They determined that Alamar Upside was in
fact a Rebel base and that Gavin may have been trying to recruit them with his
cryptic message on the station. They decided to head to Elroodeen to see if Paz
Nor had any work for them.
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