FROM THE MEMORY BANKS OF IG-88 SHEILD GENERATOR FOR THE WAYFARER 22.7.1ABA_

[An astromech droid beeps at Taryn, who nods and picks up a fusion cutter and wipes away the feathers from her face and continues working on the small metal box in front of her]

I figured if I matched the radiation level to set a trigger reinforced by the electric current inherent in the lightening there could be a sort of Force Light Switch effect…no idea if it’ll actually work though…

[Taryn is interrupted by a few quick low beeps from the astromech droid; she scowls at it for a second]

Well of course it’s a bit crazy but I don’t see you coming up with any plans to stop the Emperor, unless you were going to roll in and talk him down with nothing but your shiny astromechanical charm? Or maybe you and Vader could have a circuit to circuit?

[A low tone from the astromech droid]

I didn’t think so. Anyway, what else am I supposed to do? I’ll protect my sedge in any way I can. They’ve finally got a home…I’ve finally got a home. I’ll be damned if he’s going to take this one from us too. I can’t throw star ships or duel with a saber like most of my friends can, so I’ll stick to where I’m better acquainted.

[The droid blares for a second and Taryn sets down the cutters, picks up one of the boxes and starts checking the wires and hooks it to crude looking target assassin droid dummy. Lights of all kinds start flashing at random on the dummy; Taryn watches for a moment and yanks a yellow wire from the small box. The lights all synchronize, flash three times, then go dark. Taryn nods and unhooks the box from the dummy.]

[A few more bleeps from the astromech droid]

Of course Talia isn’t force sensitive, but she doesn’t need to be. She affects the world in a very real, very physical, very precise way…generally with a large gun. She gets us to work beyond what we would normally think ourselves unable to do. I don’t know how she does it, but one word from her and things don’t seem quite so impossible.

[There are a few sparks while Taryn welds the sides of the box together, forming a rough casing. After a few moments checking the power calibrator against the information on her data pad she welds the top of the casing and sets it carefully on the floor next to a dozen or so like it.]

[the droid tones at her for a moment]

Meena manages her own way. She doesn’t fight so flashy as the rest do, but observes and in her patience is able to find and use the cracks she finds in the Empires walls against them. She’ll sneak in and fight from the heart of things.

Jolee takes a more direct approach with the force, quick to action and her very will of it succeeding causing it to be so. Both she and Luke work in a fluid motion together, using the flow and ebb of the battle to their advantage, near perfect in their ability to move as one. Even if Luke is a blind fool where his dad is concerned...

[Taryn looks for a moment at the target dummy thoughtfully before picking up a hydrospanner and removing the left hand of it. The astromech barks a few sharp tones at her]

Settle down, I’m just using it for a base…don’t know if this’ll work or not but every little bit right? And of course Zac is murder with a saber…doesn’t do the number on hordes of troopers like Jolee can, but when he fixes on a target it doesn’t have much longer for this ‘verse. He’ll defend those he takes as friend or family. As much as he helped me during his long sleep, I’m glad for his waking companionship. Even if it scared me to begin with…I’m glad he stuck around instead of leaving…I don’t know if I’dve stayed if he went…

[sing-song like tones from the droid cause Taryn to light purple against her normal blue skin]

I do not!

[a disbelieving tone and her cheeks flush a deep plum]

…shutup. What would you know? It’s not like I only like him for throwing Tarkin out a window…it started a bit there but its not li-

[the droid chitters, then seems to scold a bit]

Oh like he’d ever know. As strong as he is in the force and as fantastic he is at observing people’s behavior, opening their eyes to new ideas, and seeing things distant and future, he’s as clueless about things as any of us non force-ers in some things. He’s changed in the time I’ve known him, taken more responsibility to himself in the rebellion, and even if this ends today he’ll have so much he feels he needs to get done he’ll never even know…

[more sing-song chirps as the droid turns and moves to the doorway to the rest of the ship]

…take another move and I’ll strip you for parts with my mind.

[the droid stops]

I thought so.

[as the droid moves back to the Omwati it picks up the shield generator near the doorway and brings it to her, beeping questioningly]

I’ve honestly no idea. But I’ve gotta try, hope for the best and all that. I can’t throw lightening, but I can try to make it work for me…

[she looks at the pile of detonators in front of her, the droid letting out a long low whistle]

Well, here’s hoping that either this works, or failing all else, one of those do…. I cannot move the world around me as my companions can, but I can use my enemy’s affectations on it to my gain.

[a few more beeps as Taryn picks up the fusion cutter again and starts to take the generator apart]

…you’re right…a little more of a sophisticated wiring for this one…

[Taryn reaches toward the view of the holo-vid before it goes dead]

WANTED--TARYN XEL

TARYN XEL is guilty of numerous and violent crimes against the Empire, the Imperial Military, property, and Imperial citizenry.

TARYN XEL is to be considered armed and dangerous. XEL possesses great skill with technology and explosive devices. Do not enter a location suspected of harboring XEL without a full sensor scan. Droids employed in the apprehension of XEL should not be left unattended. She associates with other dangerous criminals and is a member of the terrorist “Rebel Alliance” A reward of up to 50,000 credits and conditional amnesty for crimes committed during arrest is offered for the apprehension, termination or information leading to the arrest of this felon.

TREASON

INTERFERENCE WITH INTELLIGENCE OPERATION

MURDER

KIDNAPPING

ASSAULT

ASSAULT ON IMPERIAL TROOP

ASSAULT ON IMPERIAL OFFICER

ASSAULT (EXPLOSIVE)

SABOTAGE

DESTRUCTION OF IMPERIAL STARSHIP

DESTRUCTION OF IMPERIAL PROPERTY

DESTRUCTION OF IMPERIAL FACILITY

DESTRUCTION OF IMPERIAL RESEARCH MATERIAL

DESTRUCTION OF IMPERIAL DROID ASSET

SMUGGLING (PROHIBITED SPECIES)

Taryn Xel

In 5 BBA Tarkin altered the course of Taryn’s home world of Omwat. At 13 she was the oldest of a small group of children from different villages taken from their families to be molded for Tarkin’s personal scientists. In classrooms orbiting above the planet they were trained, tested, studied, and cowed into submission. Only a few of them made it through the intense training camps; the children that did not watched as their families and villages were bombed from orbit for their failings, followed by their own execution.

While Taryn was not the Grand Moff’s favorite student, she showed great skill and was transferred to the Maw Instillation. Not knowing if her family was alive, her fear of failure drove her to excel at anything she was assigned. In 3BBA she was put in charge of a crudely carbonite-frozen Miraluka that had been found drifting through space. The life signs where thin and Taryn started her research on the nearly 1,000 year old space oddity and how to safely unthaw him. Tarkin had the Miraluka and herself transferred to the Death Star so that he could closely monitor his new pet project. In the precious little free-time she had Taryn learned what she of his race, managing to teach herself the language but finding no evidence that any of his people remained. She developed a habit of talking to both the carbonite prisoner and herself in the dead language, taking a small solace in the connection it seemed to carry to the man whose family were also most likely dead.

Just over a year ago she received word that all but a few of the Omwati race had been destroyed, those few scattering across the systems to escape Tarkin’s reach. Taryn realized that alive or no, her family was gone and started planning her escape. An opportunity presented itself when a band of rebels boarded and blew up the Death Star, neatly destroying any evidence that either she or the Miraluka ever existed. The past year she has been moving from place to place avoiding the Imperials, gathering the equipment she needed to melt the carbonite, and desperately (though thus far unsuccessfully) looking for any signs of her people.

The Cast

Pel Vandred, young Jedi Knight. Likes: Lying, flirting with princesses. Dislikes: Sith, birthday parties.











Talia Renn, ex- Imperial Officer. Likes: heavy blaster rifles, giving orders. Dislikes: Impetuous young Jedi, training new recruits.

Taryn, Omwati technician. Likes: blowing things up, fixing droids. Dislikes: being an Imperial slave, molting.









Jolee Se'ol, Jedi gunslinger. Likes: co-opting Luke's destiny, swoop bikes. Dislikes: the old Jedi code, taking orders.







Rafe Starkiller, Alderaanian security. Likes: his family, Alderaan. Dislikes: Death Stars, slavers.



















Zach Ouichee, ancient Jedi. Likes: exploring, being alive. Dislikes: Sith, newfangled technology.











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Meena, Jedi ninja. Likes: not being noticed, being a secret crime lord. Dislikes: cameras, being a secret crime lord.