My Scum and Villainy Star Wars game is still going quite well! This time the crew of the Invincible 2 started off with a busted hyperdrive and a rescued detective in need of delivery back to her beat. They sought out the Mechanic’s junkyard owner friend, an ewok named Lub with a modified cargo ship full of junk from an old battle between the First Order and the Corporate Sector Authority. There, the immediately ran into representatives of the Czerka Corporation and Kuat Drive Yards, two factions they had pissed off during ship creation. Add in some pirates attempting to shake down Lub for protection money and you get a firefight!
The Muscle tried to save the Mechanic and ended up taking their first trauma and the Mechanic took a level 3 harm while the party Scoundrel took down the pirates with an assist from the Pilot on the ship’s main gun. After fixing up the damage they did to the station and dealing with Lub for the replacement parts, they jumped to the Kandala Nexus, a sprawling mess of a station built from a thousand different cultures that all have an interest in the nearby trade route intersection.
Once there the Scoundrel slipped off with the Muscle to hit up a contact when the party found that the detective that hired them was nowhere to be found. Back at the ship, an off-duty cop showed up looking for the crew’s passenger, and the crew got suspicious. The Scoundrel discovered that the detective who hired them was apparently arrested for murdering his partner, who was safe and alive back on their ship, and the crew found themselves in the midst of a dirty cop conspiracy. The Scoundrel and Muscle found the arrested detective being worked over in the back of a cop bar while the Mechanic and Stitch snuck their passenger off the ship in an old stormtrooper suit and the Speaker and Pilot deceived the cops who came to search the ship.
After the detective was rescued and the passenger and her escort got attacked by a plainclothes cop the crew is now on the run from crooked cops and an all-seeing surveillance system as they have to find a way to get to the Commissioner and hope they’re not in on the conspiracy.
Other highlights included:
-the Stitch trying to perform last rites for a dead ex-stormtrooper from last session and being told by the ex-Imperial Pilot that they don’t have those and that they were just gonna loot the body and space him.
-the Speaker attempting to contact an old pirate buddy to smooth things over during the firefight on Lub’s and making a new enemy.
-the Pilot blowing a hole in Lub’s ship and then getting confronted by a big gammorean with a rocket launcher
-the Mechanic using their pet porg to poop in some pirate eyes and then to bite that plainclothes cop that got the drop on them
-the Muscle taking the Soft trauma and refusing to stand up for themselves against anti-droid cops
-the Speaker politely lying through her teeth to the cops while they tore through the ship looking for their passenger
-rolling a random name for the dirty cop searching the ship and coming up with Zizzy Noscondra