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[I've beefed up the original post with more description.

The gunnery stations are like sci-fi workstations/desks basically. Beyond the corridor is a room, in this room are two of these stations. The team can see the corners of them but no more, so they can't just shoot the gunners operating them from the opposite end of the corridor.

If it was a floorplan, it would look kind of like a banjo. The corridor is the neck, the room containing the gunnery stations is the body.]

[OOC: So they are sitting ducks in the access corridor. Stepping into the main room they will have technicians on either side. Basically? Then I suggest that they get out of the shooting gallery and pick one side. They can sneak up on it, and if all goes well, they will only be shot at from the far side. ]

[They haven't entered the corridor yet, so are standing in another more standard, wider, higher corridor.

The trick is to get along the 10 metre shooting gallery corridor before the gunners in the room beyond can activate the blast doors or start shooting.

Because of the corridor's defensively-designed cross-section, you can only walk/run single-file.

So the two obvious options are to either charge (single-file) and aim to get combatants into the room before the technicians can respond.

Or, send one stealth operative into the room first to occupy the gunners, allowing the rest to charge in.

Something like that.]

[OOC: Ah so to use your banjo analogy, they are in the tuning portion of the banjo. The neck is the approach, the bottom is where the the technicians are. I get it now.]

Ooc: hmm. I think we have a stealth operative

[So Sirra in first, tangle with the gunners, then enter Winta, Bastian and Preach?]

[Ooc yes - but Winta will get the technicians to concentrate on the outside]

[ooc Sounds like we have a plan]

GM

Sirra pulls the sling taut on her disruptor rifle, freeing her hands for Clip-Point vibrodaggers.

Covered by Winta and Bastian's blaster pistols, she stalks along the 10 metres of the security corridor whilst Preach stands guard in the main corridor, sensing that all hell's about to break loose.

When Sirra's about halfway along a petty officer strolls across the opening at the end. Clad in black uniform and staring at a datapad, he stops, turns and looks with some confusion straight at Sirra.

Sirra is focused on stealth though, light bending around her Force cloak. She is but a blur, a smudge of low quality optics. The officer grumbles and rubs his eyes, moving on and allowing Sirra to continue...

...until finally she steps down into the square room at the end.

The gunnery control stations are active, lit up, with gunners sat at them. One for targeting, one for spotting. The petty officer is the third enemy in the room.

She made it undetected. What will she do next?

So what is the size of the room and approximate distance to its occupants?

[All considered Short Range as per range band rules.

This diagram of an Imperial turbolaser turret might give you some idea of what you're getting into. The security corridor isn't shown but enters internally from the left into the bottom room, labelled 19.]

Sirra moves in right next to the petty officer and tries to take him out in one swift motion from behind, then use his body as a shield to take a weapon and fire at the one t the gunnery controls.

[ooc: that link to the diagram doesn't work for me.]

As soon as Sirra made her move on the petty officer, Winta ran down the corridor after her to give her backup, drawing and igniting her light sabre as she went.

[Weird! Try now, Angr.]

[OOC: I can see it now, thanks. It's not very sharp though - I can't read txt or numbers

this works though]

[Something broken about Wookieepedia's image resizing on that one. But I found a similar diagram on Tumblr and linked it instead.]

Winta

She left Sirra to finish off this level of the tower, drew her pistol (set to stun) and force jumped up, intending to jump upwards quickly from level to level, to identify and stun any other personel in the tower that may have heard the shooting.

Preach

A guardian standing by the wayside didn't do any good. He followed Winta moving as quickly and quietly as possible. He waited to ignite his saber. He could do it easily when he needed it.

GM

The petty officer wears only a hat with his black uniform whereas the gunners' faces are hidden beneath shiny black salet helmets.

Sirra pounches on the petty officer, sinking the blade of her dagger to the hilt in the man's ear. As he croaks and spasms, Sirra uses the handle of the dagger as a lever, steering the officer around to face the gunners.

Panicked, one of the gunners lunges for the alarm button, one goes for his sidearm. The officer's own sidearm is tucked into his holster with a thumb break and belt lanyard too...

Too much faff, too little time, instead Sirra throws her second vibrodagger. The vibrating ultrasonic edge needs only the slightest force to pierce the gunner's padding, flesh and bones, thunking into the ribcage under the armpit. The gunner spills out of his chair in shock.

The other gunner squeezes off a wild shot at Sirra, the red bolt hitting his officer in the hip before Bastian hurtles over the console like a charging Reek, tackling the gunner messily to the ground.

A gust of wind as the Force catapults Winta up the metal companionway to the next level of the tower.

There she sees a computer technician. Grey coveralls, orange tool vest, yellow visor. He's eating lunch whilst running a codepatch on some Imperial-era terminal...

Winta's blaster pistol fires a white stun pulse: The man spits out his crisp-munchy and slumps over the terminal.

Below, Preach is the last member of Smoke Team into the turret's tower. His Force-attuned senses compel him to turn, a reflex. At the opposite end of the corridor appears a TIE pilot, black helmet, red stripes. Special Forces. A grey-uniformed officer and squad of Mountain Troopers back him up. Preach is igniting his lightsaber as the TIE pilot draws and fires an auto-burst from his SE-44C. Five shots in one second.

Preach deflects most of the shots. One rebounds back at the TIE pilot but he dodges and it hits a Mountain Trooper in the chest. Another shot hits Preach in his shoulder, his armour absorbing most of the impact if not all of plasma's heat.

The Mountain Troopers react slower than the TIE pilot but their blaster rifles come to bear.

Preach stands in defence at the end of the corridor, violet blade spinning, humming. In the room behind him, Bastian wrestles with the second gunner. Sirra's body shield goes slack. Winta has a stunned technician to secure on the upper level.

And red strobes on the walls light up as an alarm siren is triggered.

Preach

The sirens beginning the flashing wasn't what the old guardian wanted to see. But they were in it now. He wondered how the troopers would do in the face of a jedi knight. Only one way to find out. He charged. Screaming and using his Saber to the best effect as he is able. It wouldn't do the get cut down before he was able to scare the foes. His goal was to keep them off balance and to kill the more seasoned pilot.

Winta

She bounced her way upwards, level to level to the top to check that there was no-one else above them, before returning back to the technician

[Would Preach leave the security corridor? I ask because someone else might activate the blast doors to seal it both ends.

Returning to the technician, he's out cold, does Winta tie him up?]

Winta


She stilled her light sabre, holstered her pistol and tied up the technician.

"All secured above you," she commented into her com link, "How are we doing?"

[OOC My intention was to get Preach to join the others without being trapped on the wrong side of the door. But... then he got shot at. I suppose he could not charge. It was kinda spur of the moment. ]

[Ghosted for Art in the Blood.]

Sirra

She'd bought the team a few vital seconds, gotten them into the turbolaser turret. Now they must secure it.

They need to seal the blast doors, but if Preach charges off on a counter-attack that will complicate things.

If Bastian needs help, she lends it, otherwise she throws the officer off of her vibroblade and lunges for the big red button: The one that will seal the blast doors.

"Preach, fall back! Sealing blast doors in five-four...."