Reeb is able to get a taxi "cab" that will meet group at the alley. Reeb is also able to get the surveillance vid. The vid shows the alley leading to a commerce district. There is no sign of an Imperial presence. The district is in the Lantor district which is 5 blocks from the docking area.
The district is the home of the "entertainment" hub of the Muunlist city. There is a cafe down the block famous for its drinks, there is a tavern with a bith band, there is a museum of xenohistory, there is a senatorial office belonging to Bail Anitlies. The Cab will be there is 5 minutes.
Reeb passes this information on to the group.
"I guess a cab is as good a way to go as any."
Viera is simply keen to move - standing still feels the most vulnerable position to be in.
"Do we have a plan? Are we still splitting up? Should we all get in the cab?"
Despite all of the discussion, Viera's not sure they've actually agreed to anything.
Thi'Wik points to the map Reeb pulls up. "Observation. Thi'Wik would not look out of place in the xeno-museum. Sensitive data, unlike priceless painting, is not one of a kind. Duplication of data and multiple smaller groups increase likelihood of survival and transportation of data. Conclusion. Data should be duplicated, one group go to senator's office then to ship. Other two groups to ship, one via foot and other via taxi."
Caz shrugs and hands the disk over to Reeb for copying. "Tavern sounds nice. I could use a drink."
Task frowns and looks at Cade, pointing at the office on Reeb's datapad. "Is that the senator's office? I thought you were trying to get off-world. Why were you going for a ship instead of trying to get there?"
Reeb copies the data, keeping a copy for himself as well, then hands them back to the rest of the party.
"I'm for the cab and the ship. Who is with me?"
"I'll stick with Cade - however that works out." There is a steel in her voice that suggests she's not looking to debate the point.
Cade looks at Taska and says I don't know if that Senator is the one who gave me the codes for the bank. Since the office is there why not try it, the vid we have and the disk of information should be enough to get someone's attention. Why don't we try going there!
Cade touches Viera in thankful manner and then says Let's go... Cade turns towards the hatch and starts climbing out. He knows there is a cab, waiting.
Taska nods at Viera. "I'm with you two."
[ooc]We already made copies of the disk, right?[/b]
Helrun takes in the erratic energies of the group he looks at Thi'Wik.
"You stick with me, no sense us out of place types show up anywhere we would be out of place."
Helrun intends to go directly to the ship either by taxi or on foot.
Thi'Wik nods, feeling better about moving around without being in a big giant group.
He follows Thek along the street. He nods in the direction of the museum. "Friend Thek, we should sight see on our way, like most visitor's do. The museum?" Now that he's relaxing, the formality drops from his speech as he remembers how the aliens talk.
Seeing it is only him going on the cab ride, Reeb gets the ship information from Cade and rides to the docks.
"I will monitor the ship and imperial activity. Contact me if you need anything."
With that he steps into the cab and shoots away towards the docks.
As Reeb enters the cab, Cade jumps in as well. He is followed by Taska and Viera.
Thi'Wik, Helrun, and Caz all follow along to the museum.
In the cab the driver droid looks and says Please state the destination.
Cade raises his voice Senators office first and the space dock for my friend here. The droid looks and then says Roger please place your credits in the slot.
Cade goes to put his money in when the droid looks up and says. Fugitive,Fugitive !!! A bunch of alarms go off in the cab..
Thi'Wik, Helrun, and Caz hear the alarm as they get a block away. They can see a patrol droid starting to approach the general area.
Cade yells Now what !!!
Thi'Wik gawks like a rube. "Astonishment! Criminals! Hurry friends, we may be shot by criminals if we do not leave!!" The small alien does what any good innocent bystander would do, move away from danger.
"Guess that drink will have to wait..." Caz grimaces and starts sprinting towards the noise, blaster in hand.
Reeb quickly shakes off his surprise at this turn of events and looks for an access port he can slice into to take over the cab's controls.
Computer Use:
Reeb tries his hand at stopping the alarm, but the cab driver program locks down. The alarm gets louder and doors get locked. The droid looks over says Imperial Assistance is requested at this time, please do not fear. Thank you for patience.
"Droids!"
Despite the frustration in her voice, you can sense she's excited by the current predicament.
"Reeb, can you work your magic, or will we have to either blast our way out or perhaps...drive our way out?"
Thi'Wik mutters under his breath as Caz takes off, and tries to look as if he's shocked some strange human pulled his blaster. "Query? Gang war?" He asks Thek as he moves on. "Παρατήρηση. Οι άνθρωποι είναι ηλίθιος πρωτεύοντα ... ολόκληρος σκοπός δεν είναι να είναι μαζί, αν κάτι πάει στραβά, να αυξήσει την πιθανότητα κάποιος φθάνει το πλοίο ..." He mutters under his breath in his native language.
"Observation. Humans are idiot primates... entire purpose is to not be together if something go wrong, increase likelyhood of someone reaching ship..."
Taska curses and pulls her blaster on the droid. "Move the cab or there won't be anything for the Imperials to question when they get here."
"Put that thing away! Rather than gawk from the here let's keep moving towards the ship."
"You would be amazed at the human capacity to ignore other person's troubles."
Reeb attempts to open the doors of the cab, overriding the droids control on the vehicle.
Computer Use:
"Come on you karking-stupid thing!! Open!"
Several things happens at once. Reeb is able to open the door to the cab, and at about that time there is noise coming from the front of the alley. A squad car of humans dressed in imperial security pull up. It appears to be only two of them. The alley is wedged between two large buildings on each side. The access tube leading to the tunnels is behind the cab it about 15 meters. The alley has two openings the front has the squad speeder and the two ISF humans in front. The back leads down to busy avenue that has crowd on it.
Helrun,Caz, and Thi'Wik came from the backside of the alley, they are currently outside of the cab on the driver's side. Reeb is able to get the passenger side open as he does Cade steps out. The ISF officer (1) recognizes Cade and then pull his blaster. The ISF officer (2) then says Halt or be fired on
Thi'Wik pretends to panic. "Aeeeiii! Gang shootout! Told Thek was stupid short cut!" Then he runs behind the cab and tries to keep the cab between him and the imperials.
Taska lunges for Cade to pull him down behind the cab, settling alongside him under the meager cover afforded by the vehicle. "Down!"
The ISF sensing stress decide to fire the Cab.
ISF 1 intiative
ISF 2 Intiative
Init
Initiative.
Helrun points toward the access area beyond the two men ....
"That's our ride."
Helrun thinks if he can use his net to tangle one of the men he can go over the car, down the alley and get away from this mess.
Seeing the objective just beyond the officers Helrun is tempted to go through that area, but instead he decides to move away from the cab, the officers and the imperials....
"Time to get out of here."
Caz runs to cover behind the cab, switches his blaster to stun and fires at the imperials.
Helrun moves away from the commotion seeing an opportunity to breakfree from the group, he moves out the alley. Caz runs up to cab and lays down supressive fire on the imperials. A imperial officer is hit, but mangages clip on of them. The ISF officer takes knee, behind the door of his speeder.
Reeb frantically tries to gain control of the droid and the cab using his datapad
Computer Use:
The blaster fire from Caz drops one of the ISF (1). Reeb tries to gain control of the droid and the cab. As he frantically tries the cab and droid shuts down on him. The ISF 2 officer goes to take shot at the group when a the ISF speeder explodes and throwing the officers away from it.
A group composed of a wookie,kel dor and nautolan approach carrying weapons.
Cade are you in there? nautolan yells out.
Cade gets ups and answers
Glad to hear your voice old friend, took you long enough
Thi'Wik slips the rather lethal little blaster he designed and built. "Suggestion. Talk Later, leave now."
Helrun peaks around the corner as he hears friendly discussion.
"Some people blaster first questions later."
Reeb exits the dead cab and joins the others on the street.
The wookie walks over to the unconscious ISF officers. He pulls out his blaster and shot them in cold blood. The Kel Dor says basic, Cade we have been looking for you. Do you have the bank statement for the good senators?
Cade gets ups as fast as possible and stands. Chua you did not have to kill the ISF. Now they will be all over us, now I did get the records Goa. By the way these guys here helped me out. They have no love for the Imps. In fact they were helping me to get the record to the Senate office.
Chu yells in wookie The Imps killed my family so they deserve to die. Cade I am glad you hunt was well. Let's go
Goa looks at the group and says Well you coming with us?
Caz's face hardens as the wookie brutally murders the unconscious men. "No, thank you. Looks like you have things under control here." He maintains a ready stance and backs slowly towards the street.
Viera is in two minds - and it probably shows on her face.
Anyone who is so clearly a rebel may have news of the remaining Jedi. Fighting that obvious logic is the fact that these people thought nothing of killing Imps in cold blood. Were they rebels or just terrorists?
Of course, when logic failed to convince her 100%, that's when her natural 'gut feel' kicked in. Going with them was reckless. And that's why she immediately stood at Cade's side.
"Lead on..."