Episode Six

The party searches the tie fighter and finds that it has been suitably picked over, but was not shot down. The rescued Mandalorian, Cadmus, collects the armour and bones of his fallen comrade and leads the party back to his base camp several miles deeper into the jungle. The party meets the band of 5 Mandalorians camped at a damaged Gozanti Cruiser. J2W1 raises the ire of the chieftain Argus and is shot with a carbine. The two parties share a meal of a nexu that Naix brought, and then discuss what it would take for the Mandalorians to join his cause. Argus says if Naix is worthy to be followed then his team will be able to defeat the rancor that damaged the Mandalorian ship. That night, J2W1 tries to murder Argus in his sleep, but is unsuccessful. As Argus rushes the droid, Jasper and Conrad shoot J2W1 hoping to subdue him. However the damage is severe, and as Argus will not let them approach to stabilize him, J2W1 is permanently deactivated. The Mandalorians demand the party leave their camp, and along the way Jasper’s tracking fob picks up on the direction of the “deserter” bounty (7 miles passed the Mandalorian camp).

The party travels through the night with Jub-Jub dragging J2W1’s body. By the following afternoon they reach the refugee camp, where they smell burning metal, and spy the strange Sith vessel. The two Sith are at the refugee camp where they’ve killed all the guards and taken everyone else hostage, including Gage and Thalia. One of the Sith demands the holocron from a refugee, but he doesn’t know what the Sith means. Conrad enters the camp alone and speaks in the sith language. The Sith refer to him as “Grey One” and Conrad says he has acquired the holocron for them. He enters the Nightjar and as he gives one of the Sith the holocron it transforms red, revealing that it is a sith artefact, not a jedi one. The Sith takes the holocron, gives Conrad a communicator so that he can be reached if they need him again, and then they depart the planet on their ship. Senator Amadeus Amidala thanks Conrad for saving his people and he promises that once he returns to Coruscant he will be a willing ally to the party in the Senate. Conrad asks Gage if she can use the communicator to track the Sith, and she concurs. Conrad breaks down in the cockpit and tells the party that he hates that he had to help the Sith to save the people, but that he knows the information that was on the holocron.