Star Wars Saga Dawn of Defiance

Game Master JASON RODARTE

I need to hear what the others want to do and if they are skilled in mechanics

No mechanics skill here. I'll do what the group wants, I guess. Don't really know what else I'd do.

Prefer to fix the ship up first.

On vacation to Alaska for a couple weeks. Bot me as needed!

Fix the ship. I am trained in Mechanics and I have an ok bonus.

Okay so we now have at least 4 folks trained in mechanics out of the five needed to do the work without knowing if all 5 must be trained in mechanics.

What about the Master Jedi does he happened to be trained in mechanics?

They are jedi with skills in other areas. Who has the highest bonus to mechanics,

That does not mean that the Jedi cannot help.

Waylon,did you take any counselor talents that can help with skills?

No skills here that might help. :(

Is there an aid action?

You are the GM should you not know this??

I could say the same about players not knowing this. If there isn't then you are going to need the 5 people to do what is needed.

Same as most d20 games: Hit a 10 on this skill check, give your ally a +2.

That is what I thought, but having various gaming systems in one's head does not always help. They have to have the requisite skill.

Multiple systems, and system bleed over. :)

I know that feeling at times.

The consensus is to repair?

I believe yes, repair and if possible, upgrade.

I guess. Did I miss something saying that we have time (no longer on a timetable to rescue Donovaan) and a place to do it?

No you did not miss that -- no discussion on having the extra time we need nor any discussion on where we are going to do these repairs/upgrades.

The closet I heard was somewhere on the planet that we left behind, but no discussion how we would get by the ship guarding it that we decided was not something we could beat while currently damaged and unupgraded.

So yeah, those two questions are, as far as I know, still solidly on the table as a pair of large pink elephants ;-)

The consensus seems to be to repair and upgrade, but the discussion of where or if taking more time is something that the group has yet to discuss.

Alaska is awesome!

We are in the outer rim correct? But where?

Our last voyage was from Outer Rim, to Mid Rim, to Expansion Space.

My understanding is that location in hyperspace travel does mean much, the roll is what determines how long a location takes to arrive at.

Well on my galatic map we are at about M-26 which is fairly close to where we had come from which if I remember correctly was Polis Massa or at least very near there.

Which is in the Outer Rim along the Hydian Way very near the end of that space route. I mean if that helps any.

Well great, let's do... whatever we can to get our ship fixed and upgraded.

Sorry I have not been on, but RL mugged me the last couple of days.

When I have a chance, I'll check the Galactic Starchart from the Star Wars Atlas and see what Planet nearby might work. I/C I assume I'll need to make a Galactic Lore check to see what nearby systems planets would work best yes?

Or you can mention it in this discussion and thread and the one with the best chance makes the roll assisted by any others with the skill.

Or you can mention it in this discussion and thread and the one with the best chance makes the roll assisted by any others with the skill.

That might be useful.

Have we lost our Mando?

I’m here, I’m just a brand new character that walked into…this, and is useless for repairing a starship or navigating. Nothing to do besides wait. I’m still not clear enough on what happened earlier in the campaign to try and offer alternative solutions. This whole thing seems like a dead end to me.

@ Chalkou, what is it that you need info wise ?

A quick summary, a total breakdown, or a detailed analysis ?

Well on my galatic map we are at about M-26 which is fairly close to where we had come from which if I remember correctly was Polis Massa or at least very near there.

Which is in the Outer Rim along the Hydian Way very near the end of that space route. I mean if that helps any.

Looks like the

Terminus - Busy spaceport with travelers from both Hydian Way and Corellian trade routes including pilots from Wild Space and the Unkonwn Regions.

Rutan - No significant information about any spaceport is included on the Wookiepedia entry. Part of the Galactic Empire but not as heavily involved in the day to day affairs of the Empire as Mustafar is. (Senali Moon orbiting it is pretty large as well).

Mustafar - Empire Controlled.

I'll make that roll now.

The website is giving me intermittent access.

I am sorry, work has slammed me and affected my posting this week. I have a big deadline for next week and all my time is being thrown into that. Please bot me as needed while I take care of this.

That is okay, we are still waiting to see how long it takes to get to your next destination.

So besides repairs, we are also going with weapon systems upgrades?

I think so.

I think we should see what we can find here and then pick what works best. But upgrading weapons seems like a good idea.

As well as shields if possible

Terminus

Terminus blurb on Reddit

I will be on vaction over the holiday weekend. It sounds like my internet access will be pretty bad. Please bot as needed.

The holiday weekend might be a good place to stop until Monday.

@Prox, given our finances, the best bet for getting you the starfighter that you clearly want so badly is probably to steal one from one of our enemies, if we can get lucky.

Otherwise, we could get you something like a used Z-95 in a level or two.

Wow thanks but we still need some way to attach it to the main ship I would think or it really is not going to work all that well as it would be rather difficult when we make hyperspace jumps and so on.

Or maybe we can get our hands on an old Eta-2 Actis-Class Light Interceptor as it has pretty good fire power while perhaps being one of smallest starfighters as it is only Huge. So perhaps it could fit in a bay or attached to the exterior as it would be I think 2 sizes smaller than your ship.

Thoughts?

Even used the Eta-2 Actis is pretty pricey! We could get a used Z-95 and install a Class 8 hyperdrive (really slow) or do an outside mod and throw in a Class 3 hyperdrive (somewhat better) at a lower price. If you wanna wait for the Eta-2 Actis though, we could do that in a few levels down the road, if we don't manage to find something in the meantime.

Also, if we can only get a fighter that doesn't have hyperdrive, we can get you a hyperdrive ring, and you can detach from it when we go into combat. It's slightly more trouble, and it means you can't land without leaving the ring behind, but at least you could have full hyper capability on a fighter craft, and it's not THAT expensive to replace if it gets lost/destroyed/left behind.

Of note, the sale price for systems that you remove (instead of upgrading) is ¼ value. So if I had bought a medium laser cannon whole cloth and used that to replace the light laser cannon and sold the old cannon, it would've cost 20kcr for the medium laser cannon, and I would've only gotten back 1,875cr for selling the light laser cannon to a junk dealer or reseller.

Okay I think you are missing my point, I do not really need a starfighter with a hyperdrive, except for in an emergency situation, where we have to bug out fast and do not have time to dock or come aboard.

That being said what if we get a "Vulture" Droid Starfighter and convert it into a humanoid piloted starfighter its Huge and I cannot think the conversion would be too expensive. Aka just grab a cockpit unit from some other disabled ship and plug it in and make it play. Be an interesting twist.

I will list the other Huge Starfighters, in my next post, just in case any of those become a viable ship (aka the GM lets us find a derelict in space or on a planet) in our journeys.

Or maybe we can hodge-podge a ship together from other ships, kind of like Artee is a mix of several R2 type droids.

It's been a while since I looked at the construction rules, but I'm pretty sure that refitting a fighter designed to be run by a droid brain to house an entire cockpit would require a pretty major redesign.

Perhaps and perhaps not, I mean you get a Tie-Fighter Cockpit which is pretty dang small and put in place of the Droid Cockpit and you are pretty much done. They even have examples of this kind of retrofit.

That being said here are all the ships that are of Huge Size that could be viable starting points for us to either fix-up or retro-fit heck some of those with prices are better than some of those without prices which just means you cannot buy them legally but you can either find them or get them via a junkyard -- I mean really some of them are not even worth putting on the black market compared to other starfighters you can simply buy.