Prologue
It is a dark time for the galaxy. The city of Coruscant, once the glittering pearl of the Republic, now languishes under the shadow of the Galactic Empire. A bustling black market flourishes in the underworld, controlled by the notorious crime syndicate Black Sun
Hired to infiltrate a Black Sun outpost and retrieve vital data on a bounty hunter who betrayed the Pyke Syndicate, a small group of enterprising individuals works rapidly to access the heavily encrypted Black Sun network as things take a turn for the worse...
Summary
- Starts in the middle of a heist on Coruscant, alarms going off, the crew escapes
- Finds a speeder, jump in
- Mack Skyblade jumps at the helm, they are being chased
- While being chased, Sarn Turbo shoots a sign, slowing down chasers
- They blow a stop sign, attracting police droids to purse
- Mack does a barrel roll, losing one of the police droids, yells "Mack Skyblade Baby!"
- One police droid is able to find him from the yelling
- Mack, using his perception is able to find a shortcut, heads towards it, but clips the speeder
- Speeder softly crash lands.
- They receive a call on the communicator, telling them to come to Chopper's Chop Shop in L42
- RX-78 diagnosis the speeder, the hyper radiator is leaking. Sarn offers to pee in it, but realizes he peed when they did a barrel roll
- Sarn looks in the glove box, finds a card for the taxi cab company.
- They call, and are put on with the dispatcher, they say they need another cab, but it will be some time
- Mack realizes he knows the area, but also that it's a bad neighborhood. He also notices Dex's Diner and becomes excited, announces he's going to get a big breakfast
- They walk by a greaser Ithorian standing outside the diner.
- RX is fascinated with all the trinkets on the walls.
- Mack starts yelling for service, really wants the big breakfast
- A female Besalisk named Gizlora comes out from the kitchen.
- Sarn orders the moons over Endor, Mack the big breakfast
- Giz Lora calls Mack "the cute one" and pinches his cheek, she goes back to the kitchen
- After some time, they see the cab pull up, but haven't eaten yet, Mack calls for Gizlora
- Gizlora says all she has done is the cigarettes and half a hashbrown she gives it to them.
- Mack asks what they owe, she says "For you, it's on the house" and goes in to give him a smooch, Mack kisses her right back.
- She finds a biscuit in her pocket and gives it to her.
- On the way out, they give the cigarette to the Ithorian outside
- They enter the cab, it's a johnny cab and RX-78 remembers it's in L42
- Sarn checks the glove box, it shocks him, the johnnycab warns him. Sarn kicks the glove box and is shocked, it disables his toe.
- Cab drops them off in front of the Chop shop, it's 2 AM
- They knock, no answer, knock hard, Chopper wakes up, excited to see Mack, gives him a big hug, and a little tickle.
- They finally enter the chop shop