The Imperials seemed confused about the purpose of last night’s disturbance. Nevertheless, the loss of a platoon of stormtroopers and a the destruction of one AT-ST required a response to the downtrodden citizens of the city of Derylissa. The city curfew was extended to just after work hours and all transport out of the city was shut down.

The PCs worked with the rebel Jan to camouflage their truck. They decided on disguising it as a moving truck that is owned by a known collaborator. The PCs drove their truck to a large sewer entrance and talked their way behind the fence under the noses of stormtroopers nearby. This was done in large part thanks to a small hover vehicle accident caused by Vek-Tor. The sewers ended in a river that runs through the city. They shut off the lights of their truck and gunned it over the river and then exited the Derilyssa through a hole in security.

Kel-Ra meanwhile was guarding their ship. Through encrypted comlinks, they formed a plan to have Kel-Ra pick up the others outside of Derilyssa. Kel-Ra fumbled through bureaucratic hurdles to get their ship off the ground in order to rendezvous with the other PCs without attracting attention from the Imperial Navy. Eventually the Imperials figured out their plan and sent Tie Fighters to intercept the pickup.

Nimble piloted the truck into the hovering ship and immediately moved to the cockpit to take off as soon as possible. Unfortunately two Tie Fighters entered into a dogfight with the PCs preventing a clean getaway. Nimble steered the ship towards the mountains and tried to lose the Ties in a series of narrow canyons. Turning the YT-1300 on its end, she narrowly made it through one last tight squeeze. The Imperial fighters weren’t so lucky and ended their lives on the canyon walls.

During the canyon run, Vek-Tor felt a disturbance in the Force. After the run he convinced the others to investigate. They landed on a mountain side with an over cropping that they used to hide the ship from overhead spies. They hiked towards the disturbance to find a large ziggurat just over a hill crest. They spotted a campsite at the base of the temple and began to cautiously approach it.

Suddenly, some of the equipment surrounding the campsite come to life and begin shooting blasters at the PCs. The equipment turned out to be disguised turrets. The PCs advanced and disposed of the turrets. Vek-Tor used the force to sense creatures inside the ziggurat descending the higher levels towards them. The PCs setup for an ambush despite Vek-Tor informing the group that one of the individuals is a force user.

Nimble approached the doorway to try to parlay but the other individuals ran out of the ziggurat with blaster firing. Some of the enemies were Noghri. The Noghri and a Zabrak used hand to hand combat to attack Nimble while a armored combatant fired towards the others. Mawr and Pinstripe tried to concentrate their fire on the only one with a blaster while Keela and Kel-Ra tried to down Nimble’s attackers. Vek-Tor tried to move to help Nimble but was ambushed by a dark jedi hiding on the second floor of the outside of the ziggurat.

The dark jedi held Vek-Tor in check using Force Grip while two Noghri attacked him. Two more Noghri charged Mawr and Pinstripe. The Zabrak martial artist tripped Nimble and began to use his height advantage to pound away on her. While hand to hand combat dominated the battle field, Pinstripe and Mawr managed to get just enough space to blast the Noghri in their face and then turned their fire towards the armored enemy. Kel-Ra and Keela finished off the last two Noghri and forced the Zabrak to attempt to retreat inside the ziggurat. Concentrated fire by the group brought down the remaining enemies quickly after that.

A quick search of their enemies camp shows the expedition by their foes was at the behest of the Emperor. The journal of the dark sith indicates she considers herself a personal agent for the Emperor and calls herself an Emperor’s Hand. Her mission was to search the Sith temple and find out anything about the ancient Sith Lord Dark Rageus. The Emperor suspects Dooku was holding back on knowledge Dooku gleaned from his discovery of the temple before the Clone Wars.

Entering the ziggurat next, the PCs see scorch marks from the last battle held here more than two years ago. The Separatist forces in this sector made a last stand in the ziggurat. Pieces of droid soldiers litter the first floor. Cautiously the PCs move to the lift and advance up a level. The see a droid assembly line factory. Piles of raw materials stand at one end of the floor. The piles are next to a different set of elevators. Catwalks overhang two conveyor belts of partially built droids.

Then without warning, the assembly starts up again. Six droids come to life and begin to attack the PCs. Blaster turrets from the ceiling drop to fire on them at the same time. These droids prove resistant to the force. Not resistant enough however as Vek-Tor hurls one into another.

As blaster fire from every where rains down on the PCs, Keela moves to the computer bank next to the wall. She manages to successfully shut down the assembly line and cuts out the remote user who activated it. The ceiling turrets concentrate their fire on her for her success. She tries to shut down the turrets but learns she can only do that at a terminal in the catwalk. Undaunted, she sprints up the stairs dodging blasters from the ceiling.

The new droids lay down missile fire on the PCs before charging. Three attack Vek-Tor in such a staggering way that makes it difficult for Vek-Tor to maintain his concentration. The PCs retreat towards the catwalk stairs at the same time trying to spread out. As Vek-Tor hold three at bay, two are taken down by the concentrated fire of Kel-Ra, Nimble, Mawr, and Pinstripe. Vek-Tor takes a beating and uses the Force to restore his health.

Finally Keela hacks the computer system and manages to shut down the ceiling turrets and a few droids. The PCs finish off the rest. Exhausted, they retreat for the evening wondering who was using the computer system against them.