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SPEAKER_09 1:22

May the force be with you.

SPEAKER_07 1:28

The war between the Republic and the Separatist rages on. With no end in sight, both sides look to desperate measures to end the conflict. In the heat of battle, Jedi Padawan Malia, trained in the lost art of battle meditation, has gone missing. Dalen Galt, with the help of Gruul's tracking device, have followed the Dark Jedi Dorath to the Ashenworld planet of Corophon V. You're listening to chapter 8 of the Book of Dalen Galt. The Book of Dalen Galt stars Rob Hunter as Dalen Galt, Richard Capasil as Kanari, Justin Chapman as Credo, Peyton Castle as Gruul, and myself Zack Sam as the Galaxy Master. Payden.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

Question of the day shit.

SPEAKER_07 2:15

For those at home, we batch record, and Peyton is never ready with the second question of the day. I got this.

SPEAKER_08 2:20

I got this. Third. It's not gonna work. Um, okay. So, question of the day. Which would you rather have? Because I've been playing Zelda recently. Would you rather have the master sword or a lightsaber? Lightsaber. Lightsaber.

SPEAKER_04 2:34

Lightsaber.

SPEAKER_08 2:37

Is there something about the master sword? I don't know. Listen, I'm super cool, though.

SPEAKER_04 2:41

It's cool as shit.

SPEAKER_07 2:41

It's got a great design. I actually own the master sword. I would still pick a lightsword.

SPEAKER_08 2:45

It's magic and it goes here. So are master swords or so are lightsabers.

SPEAKER_06 2:49

Owning a lightsaber. Wait, wait, can we stop? I'm so sorry to interrupt you. He thinks it's the sword going hi up. You watch me see Lynx walking around with Navi bitching in one ear, and the sword going, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08 3:04

Dude, he loses mind in 40 minutes. That's why he doesn't talk. That's fantastic. It's broadcast.

SPEAKER_04 3:09

I didn't know what the fuck I was gonna say. I had something.

SPEAKER_07 3:12

So last time we played, you guys tracked a ship all the way to Corfin 5. Um, you had some personal moments on the ship. We rejected the dark side a little bit. We uh we did some healing, and that was that was pretty much it. Yeah. So you guys have landed on Corfin 5. It sounds like you guys are splitting up a little bit. Um, you have found a mansion in the center of the plains at a small lake. What do you guys want to do? Time to party.

SPEAKER_06 3:40

Dalen. You ready? Perhaps as I'll ever be.

SPEAKER_04 3:46

Let's go at it then.

SPEAKER_06 3:48

Alright. We will make our way towards the front of the building. You two circle behind, find a way in, gather what information you can.

SPEAKER_08 4:00

And end any conversations that start, and I whip around my gun to get it, like, hold it between my hands.

SPEAKER_06 4:05

Yes, and Credo, I I know that it is your life's profession to track people. If we don't make it out of this, I promise you if you find Malia, the order will reward you. Oh. The better.

SPEAKER_09 4:20

We will both see to it. Because this might this might start to cost extra than I originally said, because we're doing a lot of stuff here.

SPEAKER_04 4:28

Okay, don't get all ballsy, okay?

SPEAKER_09 4:31

But yes, let's go to the back.

SPEAKER_07 4:33

Agreed. Ready? I suppose. So you're gonna travel across these plains and you will come across some large goat-like creatures that mostly leave you alone. Unless they are you unless you get too close to them. You guys you I mean, you guys approach, nothing seems to happen. So you said it's on a lake. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 4:54

Right. Um, is it like a like it has a moat around it or like it is not of a moat.

SPEAKER_07 4:59

Like it just backs up to a lake.

SPEAKER_04 5:01

Oh, it's like okay.

SPEAKER_07 5:02

Like a cottage on a lake. But it's a mansion.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

Gotcha. So perception checks? I kind of want to do a perception check to see if there's any like access points that we wouldn't know. Maybe a tactics check for that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 5:19

Sure. 19. There seems to be a very large front door situated between two pillars. Um, off to the side, there seems to be some sort of door that leads down towards a cellar. And then on the lake side, there is kind of a large garden area that has two white doors that lead inside to the mansion.

SPEAKER_08 5:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

Are we still together at this point?

SPEAKER_07 5:40

I think you've split up.

SPEAKER_04 5:41

Okay. Are there any visible guards out protecting?

SPEAKER_07 5:46

You do not see a single soul.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

Okay. I don't see anyone.

SPEAKER_06 5:53

It's very off-putting. We know they're here. The tracker confirmed it. The ship is right next to the building, right?

unknown 6:01

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 6:02

Let's hope that they're in there. For all we know, he has another ship. We need to find out. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_06 6:10

Oh, may the force look after us both.

SPEAKER_07 6:13

What are you two up to?

SPEAKER_08 6:14

So when we scout the perimeter, we see the same access points, right? Yes. So I'm gonna turn to you and I go, well, nothing says like sneaking around, like going through the cellar.

SPEAKER_09 6:26

The cellar, you say? Plus, that's where all the goodies are kept. He might be on to something. Let's start there.

SPEAKER_08 6:34

Agreed. Um, so can we stealth check as we approach the cellar? Yes. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:40

We left the two greediest people alone together. I just realized this.

SPEAKER_06 6:44

We don't want to know. It's the equivalent of a la la la.

unknown 6:48

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 6:49

Stealth. Don't ask them what they found.

SPEAKER_09 6:51

Should we see that? Maybe that's a two. I got a ten on my stealth. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 6:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 6:58

So you guys approach the cellar door and find a steel padlock on it.

SPEAKER_09 7:02

Hmm. Do you got something for this? Is this a padlock? Like a normal padlock? Like a normal padlock. Could I cut that with a vibro blade? Yes. I'm gonna cut it off. Make a strength check.

unknown 7:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 7:15

Mm-hmm. I have zero strength. Oh, that's a one.

SPEAKER_04 7:22

What's your favorite finger?

SPEAKER_08 7:28

Oh, Goodle's not ready to watch whatever happens here. You're right. We're spending great.

SPEAKER_07 7:33

You you swing your vibro blade, and instead of hitting lock, you just miss and hit slice right into the wooden cellar door.

SPEAKER_09 7:41

Just slices right in. Oh.

SPEAKER_04 7:43

This works too.

SPEAKER_08 7:45

I thought I would carve a hole.

SPEAKER_09 7:46

This is it just slipped a little bit. No judgment here. Do you want to try? You want to try it?

SPEAKER_08 7:52

Uh yeah. I'm gonna have to see your blade though. Here, here.

SPEAKER_09 7:54

I gotta I gotta walk over here for a second.

SPEAKER_07 7:57

I am not a strong person. Are you proficient with vibr blades? No. Okay, so you're gonna take a minus five.

SPEAKER_08 8:03

Oh boy. Wait, hold on. Let me see what my strength is. Let me add it to that. Okay, so it's only a plus one. That's not that bad. So it's just a minus four. Okay, so that's eight.

unknown 8:13

Jesus Christ.

SPEAKER_07 8:14

So you also just you hit the pad lock. Not like the locking part of it, just the pad part of it.

SPEAKER_08 8:21

And after failing, I'm gonna look over at my companion and go, well, that's a bit closer.

SPEAKER_09 8:26

Let me try again.

SPEAKER_08 8:27

One more time.

SPEAKER_07 8:28

I was kind of hoping, like, well, we can't get through and just go to a different store.

SPEAKER_08 8:31

Yeah, that's what I was ready for.

SPEAKER_09 8:33

Okay. That is uh a 10, exactly.

SPEAKER_06 8:36

This is the whole encounter, guys. Buckle in. Because you're gonna listen to two grown men slap a lock around.

SPEAKER_07 8:42

So, yeah, you're gonna hit the lock and it is finally gonna snap. Okay. Not like where it's intended to break. You just beat the shit out of it until it's not a lock anymore.

SPEAKER_09 8:54

We have gained access.

SPEAKER_06 8:56

How sneaky are we? He turns to the guy watching him and says, We've gained access. Amazing.

SPEAKER_09 9:05

After you?

SPEAKER_08 9:10

Why thank you? And I'm just I'm gonna like open the door just a little bit.

SPEAKER_07 9:14

So you open it and you are hit with like a musty smell. It's it seems to be very humid down there and it's dark. Oh, I'm I'm gonna pull my glow stick.

unknown 9:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 9:25

And as it illuminates, like, what do I see like within the little uh you're it's gonna be a stone staircase that heads down and then it's gonna turn right and you can't see past the turn. And I go, away we go, and I'm gonna continue to lead us downward. You head down into the cellar, and then you find, as you're kind of looking along, wooden shelving units that seem to contain casks on them. And then there also seems to be stores of wheat and barley and rice. Casks of what? Do you want to pop one open?

SPEAKER_08 9:56

I would love to.

SPEAKER_07 9:57

Okay. So tell me how you're gonna open this cask.

SPEAKER_08 10:01

It's got like a cork?

SPEAKER_07 10:02

Yeah. No, a class is just so you pop a cork and red wine just starts to blow out of it.

SPEAKER_06 10:07

And I'm gonna I'm gonna try to force it back in now.

SPEAKER_07 10:09

Yeah, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_06 10:10

You guys know how sound works, right? Just as a stealthy group of people punching locks and corks. Okay. I just as a person who was as a character who was deaf, I want to make sure you're not. Because it's insane.

SPEAKER_08 10:28

It'll get better. It'll get better. I'm gonna stick my finger in the wine and take a taste and go, it's wine.

SPEAKER_09 10:34

It's wine, eh? Is it any good though? It is exquisite.

SPEAKER_08 10:39

It's fantastic, actually.

SPEAKER_09 10:41

Well, maybe we should take some with us.

SPEAKER_08 10:43

Yeah, I'm gonna see if I have anything. That's what we're worried about. Next time we fight a dark Jedi, it's you guys fighting.

SPEAKER_07 10:50

Dipshit.

SPEAKER_08 10:51

Is there anything around we can put the wine in?

SPEAKER_07 10:54

No. The casks are not particularly big though. They're maybe you know a foot and a half tall.

SPEAKER_08 11:01

Could I carry one under one of my arms? Yes. Sick, I'm totally doing that as I sneak around now. I would like to strap one to my back. Oh, smart. Wait, could it fit in a satchel? It cannot fit in a satchel. Okay, that's fine. I'll carry it.

SPEAKER_09 11:15

If that's possible.

SPEAKER_08 11:17

Do you have straps?

SPEAKER_09 11:18

No. So no. No, I don't I can't then.

SPEAKER_08 11:22

If you're willing to hold the stick, I'll hold the cask for you. And so now I am carrying two casks under one under each arm, and I'm falling behind him.

SPEAKER_07 11:30

And we'll go back to the Jedi. Yeah, we are at the approaching the door, right? Yes. And you hear like a clanging sound coming off to the side.

SPEAKER_06 11:39

I swallow hard nervously. I'm sure they'll be okay. I have no room for it in my mind right now. The battle before us.

SPEAKER_07 11:49

And you hear a soft voice.

SPEAKER_06 11:51

Oh, we have gained access. Strike only when you know you can win. We need to walk out of this alive. We do.

SPEAKER_04 12:01

And I'm gonna. What? Is it just like a normal door? Yeah. Oh, okay. Shit. Very low-tech. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 12:14

Yeah. So, yeah. Walk in. You walk inside and you seem to be before a like a grand foyer. In front of you, there is a double wide staircase that leads up. It's got red carpeting, um, white handrail? White handrail. Um, the floor seems to be a dark mahogany. On either side of the staircase seems to be hallways that continue on. Twer to your left, there is an open room that seems to have almost like a small library. It has a lot of bookshelves, a single desk. Towards your right, there is a kitchenette.

SPEAKER_06 12:48

Have we spotted anyone yet?

SPEAKER_07 12:50

No.

SPEAKER_06 12:51

I look to the library to the kitchen. This seems so mundane, not what I was expecting. I may have been wrong. Are we really just intruding on a senator?

SPEAKER_04 13:06

We may well be intruding on the senator. Change doesn't change the fact that Dorath was or is here. At the very least, we know that Ace Vulnero is a companion of Dorath, who is a Dark Jedi.

SPEAKER_06 13:21

That's way too fishy for me to let it sit. Then perhaps we try to find the senator. Could be a point of weakness. Upstairs.

SPEAKER_04 13:32

It could be, but something tells me he might be in possession of that creature.

SPEAKER_06 13:38

It still pulls them farthest from our friends in the cellar. You're right. Which I am presuming they went into.

SPEAKER_04 13:45

I can almost assure you. Well, he would be probably up on the second floor at least. I'm gonna start walking towards the staircase to head up.

SPEAKER_07 13:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

I'm gonna follow suit.

SPEAKER_09 14:00

Back in the cellar. Um, keep your eye open. There might be some good stuff down here.

SPEAKER_08 14:06

Well, I'd say we're already doing pretty good.

SPEAKER_09 14:09

And I mean, not just good stuff, stuff that we're actually looking for.

SPEAKER_08 14:13

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 14:14

Like we gotta keep the job in mind. At least I do. Um, can I can I look like take a uh gather info, I guess? What it would be or perception to see if there's anything of note around. Make a perception.

SPEAKER_08 14:32

Like dark red pools of liquid or whatever.

SPEAKER_07 14:34

I have a 16. You're gonna find a number of like farming tools. You're gonna find like a scythe. Oh, nice. A couple of uh pitchforks, simple stuff like that. You will find a wooden door that's not really locked, but it's got one of those. What do you call them? Bars? Yeah, like a wooden bar.

SPEAKER_09 14:57

I'd like to proceed through there. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 15:00

So you open up that wooden bar, you push the doors in front of you, and it seems to be almost like a stable that has those large goat creatures in different pens.

SPEAKER_09 15:14

Do you think they would keep a student Jedi down here at all?

SPEAKER_08 15:19

Well, I can't imagine they'd have them in a nice cozy room with candles and a comfy bed.

SPEAKER_09 15:24

You wanna check every single one of these?

SPEAKER_08 15:27

I mean, we don't have to be so thorough. We can just, you know, peruse.

SPEAKER_09 15:31

Okay. Let's uh let's do that. Yeah, we'll we'll check those, see if there's anything in there.

SPEAKER_07 15:37

Okay, so you're gonna kind of kick some straw around looking for this Jedi. Um, the goats don't seem too bothered by you. And at the end of the kind of stable area, there is another large wooden door that has a bar on it.

SPEAKER_09 15:52

That looks interesting.

SPEAKER_08 15:53

If not here, then there, right?

SPEAKER_09 15:55

Do you want to go first this time?

SPEAKER_08 15:57

Uh sure. I'll have to trade you for the glow stick, though. I'm gonna hand you your barrel and take the glow stick.

SPEAKER_09 16:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 16:05

And this time I like using the glow stick in one hand, I'm gonna like kind of like open the door and like push it open.

SPEAKER_07 16:11

You lift the door or you lift the bar and you slowly push the door open. It seems to lead back outside. Just to the other side? Yeah. There seems to be kind of a roofed area, a lot of straw on the ground, but it seems like just the area that they would let the goats go out and graze.

SPEAKER_08 16:27

Okay. I'm gonna turn off my glow stick. I'm gonna gather up like an armful of hay in my other arm, and then uh peering outside, seeing if the coast is clear. Is it clear? Appears to be. All right, I'm gonna try to like cover the wine cask with hay just outside the door. Jesus Christ. And then I'm gonna turn to you and go, before we keep going, you want me to hide yours out here if we're on the way out?

SPEAKER_09 16:50

Great, gone. Do it.

SPEAKER_08 16:51

Alright, and so I'm gonna hide his wine cast too. Which they will never see again. Make a stealth check.

SPEAKER_06 16:58

Ooh. I wanted a Nat 20 so that they couldn't find it.

SPEAKER_07 17:02

It is 16. You're pretty confident you'll be able to find it again. Cool. I like that. Jedi. You are heading up the stairs.

SPEAKER_06 17:11

Yeah, making our way up the stairs. Making my way downtown.

SPEAKER_04 17:15

I think I'm gonna start taking a lead on Dalen and start picking up the pace a little bit, seeing as I am anticipating a conflict of some sort.

SPEAKER_07 17:25

So as you get to the top of the stairs, it's gonna be a hallway that goes left and right, and then um it kind of doubles back on itself so that there is a walking path around that entire entryway that's a you know above it, but there is still the hallway that goes left and right.

SPEAKER_06 17:41

Right? Not to the right. Let's go. Okay. I'm going to draw but not ignite my lightsaber.

SPEAKER_07 17:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 17:48

I'm probably gonna follow suit.

SPEAKER_07 17:49

As you head towards the right, you are gonna come across three doors.

SPEAKER_06 17:54

Can I make a perception check for any sort of surveillance technology?

SPEAKER_07 17:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 17:58

That is a really good point. Yeah. Uh 28.

SPEAKER_07 18:02

You don't see any.

SPEAKER_06 18:03

Sick. Um the arrogance of this senator is concerning. No cameras, no security. No droids. There's three doors, are they on the left, right, or alternating?

SPEAKER_07 18:17

There are two on the left and one on the right.

SPEAKER_04 18:19

Could I do like a knowledge tactics check to like see where I would think like the main bedroom or the study or something?

SPEAKER_06 18:30

Kanari, please. Another kind of jet up.

SPEAKER_04 18:32

I don't think that falls under tactics.

SPEAKER_08 18:33

Um an idea. You could try to sense through the force, see like where a force user may be.

SPEAKER_06 18:40

I'm going to use the force to just barely creak open the second door on the left. Okay. Assuming it's not. Yeah. It's farther than the one on the right.

SPEAKER_07 18:46

Yeah. It does not make much of a noise, but it does seem to open up. You can tell that it's not like a lit room, but there seems to be sunlight that's getting into there.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

I uh approach the door and just silently take a peek inside to see what I can find.

SPEAKER_07 19:01

You peek inside and you find a a bed with a blue comforter on it, four pillows. Um, there's two nightstands on either side, a dresser on the far wall.

unknown 19:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 19:12

How nice does the bed look?

SPEAKER_04 19:14

Like is it looks like it's not the master bedroom.

unknown 19:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 19:18

So not worth me investigating further. I come back out and nothing to report. Just looks like a staff bedroom of some sort.

SPEAKER_06 19:28

So I still standing back where we were, there's a door on my left, second door on my left where Kanari is leaving, and a door on my right. I'm gonna turn to the door, other door on my left, the one closer to me. Reach for the knob, but before I open it, I would like to search my feelings. Okay. Full round action to determine whether an action will yield favorable or unfavorable results. I need a DC 15, so I think that's not a natural one. So that would be 21. So it's just res in the immediate 10 minutes if my action of opening the door, or if I guess if any of my actions will yield favorable or unfavorable results.

SPEAKER_07 20:08

They will yield favorable results.

SPEAKER_06 20:11

So as I hover my hand, just kind of barely touching the doorknob, I feel this kind of pressure of comfort and assurance, and I open the door expectantly.

SPEAKER_07 20:25

The one on the left?

SPEAKER_06 20:26

The one on the left.

SPEAKER_07 20:27

Okay, so you open that door and it does appear to be dark inside. As you look in, there are switches that seem to activate lights. If you would like to try one of those.

SPEAKER_04 20:39

I think I've regrouped with him at this point.

SPEAKER_06 20:41

Yeah, I'm just kind of standing there peering into the darkness. I'm gonna flip the closest glitch to me that I can find.

SPEAKER_07 20:47

So you will find in their docking stations six pit droids that just seem to be standing there deactivated.

SPEAKER_04 20:55

Is there a terminal nearby? Yes. Would I have any knowledge of if I were to cut this terminal, it would stop them from being able to activate?

SPEAKER_07 21:05

You're pretty confident in that.

SPEAKER_04 21:07

Okay. Then I'm gonna rush up and just slice the terminal.

SPEAKER_07 21:12

So you slice it. Um the droids don't react or anything. There's no explosion.

SPEAKER_06 21:17

Okay. With that, I'm gonna step out into the hallway really quick to see if I can hear any motion reacting to the sound.

SPEAKER_07 21:26

Make a perception check. Uh 16. You do not hear anything.

SPEAKER_06 21:31

I'm gonna nod back at you into the room without saying anything, whether you're looking or not.

SPEAKER_04 21:35

Yeah, I'm assuming slice and then just look towards the door, basically.

SPEAKER_07 21:40

No, down on the farm.

SPEAKER_08 21:42

So uh as we get out, I'm gonna as we come out, I'm gonna look over at Crito and I go, you know what just hit me? If I were, you know, you know, had a chat had a child for ransom or potentially other nefarious things, um, I would probably not keep him in the base, but somewhere where I could quickly get away. You want to go check the ship?

SPEAKER_09 22:01

That's an excellent idea. I was about to say that.

SPEAKER_06 22:04

Oh, great minds think alike. And then we high five. I'm so glad you can't hear my character because I would be proud of you guys right now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 22:13

Okay, so you guys head over towards the ship. Um, you do find two pit droids working on the ship actively.

SPEAKER_06 22:20

What are pit droids?

SPEAKER_07 22:21

They're the ones from yeah, they're the ones from episode one that work on the pot racer.

SPEAKER_06 22:25

Single eye, kind of a I'm gonna look at the fully remember.

SPEAKER_08 22:29

I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm gonna look over at you and go. You think these guys are tattletails? Of course not. Alright, let's go take a look. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_07 22:40

Okay. So, you guys Walk straight up to the ship. Um, the droids don't seem to even acknowledge your presence.

SPEAKER_08 22:46

All right. Um, and I'm going to step onto the ship. So I'm getting- is it down?

SPEAKER_07 22:53

No. Do you approach the ramp? Or where the ramp would descend?

SPEAKER_08 22:58

Yeah, and I'm just gonna start like evaluating, thinking of like where the where I could hack or something.

SPEAKER_07 23:04

So as you're kind of walking around the ship looking at it, you approach where the ramp would descend, and you find that the tracker has been moved and is on the ramp, like the bottom of it. Oh, it's on the bottom? Is that where it was placed?

SPEAKER_09 23:16

No.

SPEAKER_08 23:17

Would I know that where it was placed? Because I was unconscious. Not when I placed it. So I wouldn't know that it got moved.

SPEAKER_09 23:23

He might.

SPEAKER_08 23:24

Oh, oh, okay. All right.

SPEAKER_09 23:26

So kind of thing, yeah. I'd probably seen.

SPEAKER_08 23:28

So I'm gonna look at it. And because I'm a hacker, would I know if there's some way to hack into it? Like an access port I could jack into. Or do I need a roll for that? You need to roll.

SPEAKER_07 23:40

Maybe computer.

SPEAKER_08 23:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 23:43

Oh man, that's so scary. Yeah. Jesus, that's ominous. They put it back. They want us here.

SPEAKER_08 23:51

Um, it's gonna be a 15.

SPEAKER_07 23:54

You are able to hack into the yacht. Okay. What would you like to do? Uh, can I lower the door? You can. And it's a pretty simple procedure. So you would um the door would just, or the ramp would just kind of descend to let you into it. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 24:09

Um can I see what systems are currently running? Like, is the engine on or anything?

SPEAKER_07 24:14

The engine is not on. It seems like the computer is doing a diagnostics check, but the ship itself is not really doing anything.

SPEAKER_08 24:22

Okay. Can I pause the diagnostics check?

SPEAKER_07 24:25

Yes. Sick.

SPEAKER_08 24:26

Um, do I have access to the pit droids from here?

SPEAKER_07 24:30

You'd have to go back outside. I'm assuming you went inside. Okay, we'll circle back to that.

SPEAKER_08 24:36

Uh since I'm inside, I'm gonna start looking around.

unknown 24:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 24:40

Ooh, not a bad idea. Uh, I'm gonna snatch the tracker off the uh. Yeah. Um, all right. So what am I what am I seeing? Do I gotta do a perception?

SPEAKER_07 24:50

So it is a very luxurious ship. This is a you know, a yacht of sorts. It's basically two stories tall. Um the actual cockpit of it is up on the top level, but the rest, like this whole area, is all meant to be very fancy. It's meant to help kit host guests. So you're gonna find like a bar and a lounge. Not anymore, you'd keep a hostage. Is there a bottom? You'd be able to get down to a cargo hold. Cargo hold. I'd like to go down there. So you're gonna head down into the cargo hold. Um, the lights kind of activate as soon as you walk into an area. And as you walk into the cargo hold, you will find on either side three sets of cages. Three sets of cages. As well as a number of crates.

SPEAKER_09 27:16

Is there any indication of what's in those? The cages are all empty. They're all empty. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 27:22

How nice is this floor that I'm on?

SPEAKER_07 27:25

Very. You've never seen a starship this nice.

SPEAKER_08 27:28

Oh, you've damn right. Um, do I see things?

SPEAKER_06 27:33

Yeah. Break some of the circuits and wires.

SPEAKER_08 27:36

What things that aren't bolted down could I feasibly snatch?

SPEAKER_07 27:40

I mean, you could take food, you could take books, you could take drinks. Fine china, jewelry? Yeah, fine china, there would be jewelry.

SPEAKER_08 27:49

All right, I'm gonna start lobbing candlesticks and plates into my uh satchel. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 27:54

Alright, and then I'm gonna continue down to Krita. So you're gonna find you're gonna walk into the cargo hold where the tone seems to have changed, and it's not luxurious down here. It is metal cages, some crates.

SPEAKER_08 28:05

Yeah, this is uh a little unsightly. With your expertise, what do you what do you make of the scene here?

SPEAKER_00 28:13

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SPEAKER_09 30:00

I would suggest looking to see if there was anything in these, but I don't think I think we would hear something if anybody was down here. Unless they run unconscious.

SPEAKER_06 30:12

So you're going down to the cargo bay where there's cages and choosing not to look in them?

SPEAKER_09 30:15

No, I'm going. Oh, okay. I'm saying that I don't hear anything.

SPEAKER_07 30:20

Oh, I can't how so are you you don't the cages are pretty big. You can tell just at a glance that there's nobody in them. How deeply are you gonna investigate the crates?

SPEAKER_09 30:29

Um, deeply as possible. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 30:32

I'll be providing you light. Give me a perception.

SPEAKER_09 30:35

Perception.

unknown 30:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 30:38

Um that is a 24.

SPEAKER_07 30:42

So as you move these crates around, you will find towards the back of the hargle hold a single human male frozen in carbonate.

SPEAKER_09 30:52

Oh. Do you recognize this person over here? You don't. But it's quite a sightly sight, isn't it? You think he's worth much? He must be. If he's frozen and carbonite.

SPEAKER_08 31:14

Your gul's gonna start like analyzing how I could possibly take this dude. Um, you get the whole ship, you get the guy.

SPEAKER_06 31:21

Oh my god. Holy shit. I've also had bad ideas.

SPEAKER_04 31:26

I just been thinking it this whole time. I had to say it.

SPEAKER_06 31:29

Honestly, but I thought it was enemy of my enemy.

SPEAKER_04 31:33

I go unfreeze someone like that from Carbonate.

SPEAKER_06 31:36

Leia did, but I don't know. I'm I feel like in the context of that scene, it seemed like she had like a card or something, and I imagine there was some off-screen.

SPEAKER_07 31:44

She put her code or something in there.

SPEAKER_06 31:46

That's what I mean. I feel like there was probably an off-screen adventure to get the right code, passcode to unlock him. But also it was Lando's base that did it, so she probably had that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 31:55

Would you be able to splice it?

SPEAKER_07 31:57

You could try.

SPEAKER_08 31:58

Oh no, don't listen to me. If it goes wrong, it's my fault. Alright. Well, I think the easiest way to uh take this guy and potentially get some money off him is to at least let him out. Be a little lighter for transportation. You know, I'd rather carry him kicking and screaming than as a giant uh stone uh slab of stone.

unknown 32:15

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_09 32:16

That's all on you. That's all on you. You can try that.

SPEAKER_08 32:19

Uh would it just be like use computer? Yeah.

unknown 32:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_08 32:25

Oh, hell yeah, that's gonna be 25.

SPEAKER_07 32:28

You do not successfully slice up.

SPEAKER_08 32:31

Damn it.

unknown 32:32

Fuck.

SPEAKER_09 32:34

Would you like to check the upper deck?

SPEAKER_08 32:38

Well, we can start looking up there. You don't think there'd be a clue? Maybe a trace of evidence.

SPEAKER_09 32:44

Down here? I feel like we've searched everything that we can, so Alright, well, lead the way.

SPEAKER_07 32:53

Let's proceed to the top.

unknown 32:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 32:55

So you guys head up top. Um, you're gonna find the cockpit. You're gonna find effectively like a private study on the ship. Private study. It has a large, like, Emperor Palpatine-esque chair at a desk, and then there's books on either side. Ah, see hitting the books.

SPEAKER_08 33:13

That's something I'm good at. Uh, I'm gonna start looking for like a flight log. Okay. Ooh. Make a perception. Okay. Damn, you guys are better when we're not around. Yeah, fuck. We go back and forth.

SPEAKER_06 33:27

Like, give us 10 minutes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 33:30

Uh that's gonna be nine. You do not find a flight log. I'm gonna say to you, I'm like, you see a flight book anywhere? I'm trying to find one.

SPEAKER_09 33:39

Uh I'll look around. What am I rolling again? Perception. Perception. Um that is a big number. Um 31. Man, 17 and 12. 29, 20, 29?

SPEAKER_07 33:55

Yeah, yeah, that's it. Okay, you find a flight log, and as you go through it, you're gonna find Castell, Coruscant, Syria, the home planet of Keldor. Uh, you will find Malastare, you'll find Corophon 5, you will find a nondescript point in space. Oh. And you will find um Nalhada.

SPEAKER_09 34:19

Nalhada.

SPEAKER_07 34:20

One last one. Koroban.

SPEAKER_09 34:23

Koroban. I would like to record the nondescript point in space. Okay. I'd like to write that down in my if I in something that I have. Um well, do you think they're gonna need this anymore?

SPEAKER_08 34:39

Well, who cares if they do? We can just take the book with us.

SPEAKER_09 34:44

Yeah, let's take that. But I was talking about the ship in general.

SPEAKER_08 34:47

That's not a bad idea.

SPEAKER_09 34:49

I mean, we don't have to take it, but we could get rid of it.

SPEAKER_06 34:54

So when we're the plan is for us to be the distraction, and they're still the distraction. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 34:58

Yeah. Oh, I see. You're saying uh a little bit uh make it easy for us to leave, a little harder for them.

SPEAKER_09 35:04

Exactly.

SPEAKER_08 35:05

Let's find that engine.

SPEAKER_06 35:06

Back to the Jedi. That's a great cut. I can only hope that the other two are close or have found Molly already. I know I consider them fools, but they're at least hyper-focused.

SPEAKER_04 35:20

They're I'm I can give them this. Their investigative powers are not a non-zero number.

SPEAKER_06 35:28

Yes, well. We have one more door here in another hallway. I'm gonna use the force to nudge open the door that's across from us now, on the that was on the right.

SPEAKER_07 35:41

You nudge it open, and sunlight seems to pour through.

SPEAKER_04 35:44

I'm gonna head in and take a peek.

SPEAKER_07 35:46

You walk inside, and there is a four-post bed at the center of the room. Um, there is a number of artwork from different cultures that lines the walls. The floor is a nice oaken wood gilded with gold. There is a small desk off to the side. There are a number of chests. There's one, you know, basically at the foot of the bed. There's one next to the desk. Uh, you will also find a long-range like hollow receiver or a communicator. That's really about it.

SPEAKER_04 37:48

Okay. Um, I am gonna call to Dalen with like hand signals. Yep. I'll deal. And uh, for starters, I'm gonna grab that communicator.

SPEAKER_07 37:58

So we have something like this and then um the long range one is like a structure. It's a structure. Oh it's like a three-foot diameter circle. Okay. So not something I could just take. No, it would be attached to the building. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_04 38:15

Would I be able to communicate with them if need be? Okay. Can I do a deeper investigation into the room? Like uh just in general.

SPEAKER_07 38:26

What are you looking for?

SPEAKER_04 38:27

Uh you said there was a chest. I wanna kinda go through that chest, I think.

unknown 38:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:36

Perception? Yep.

SPEAKER_07 38:39

That is a soft pony. So you will find a number of sets of nobles' clothes. You will also find a journal, and you will find a four-sided triangle, probably about that tall. About six inches tall, four inches tall.

SPEAKER_04 38:56

Would anything about this triangle stand out to me?

SPEAKER_07 38:59

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 39:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 39:01

It doesn't feel good in your hands.

SPEAKER_04 39:03

Okay. I want to. You said there was a journal, and then I missed after the journal, and then I heard the the uh the holocron. Holocron. That's what I missed. Cool.

unknown 39:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:16

So I'm gonna take the journal, the holocron, and the strange object.

SPEAKER_06 39:19

Um where's the chest positioned in the room?

SPEAKER_07 39:23

There's two. There's one at the desk and one at the foot of the bed. He was going through the one at the foot of the bed.

SPEAKER_06 39:29

So would his back to be to me?

SPEAKER_07 39:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 39:31

Oh, that sucks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:34

So I'm gonna grab them and turn around to Dalen and uh hand him the Holocron and this strange object. I I know this is a Holocron, but I can't make sense of what this other object is.

SPEAKER_07 39:48

It just The object is the Holocron.

SPEAKER_04 39:49

The object is the Holocron?

SPEAKER_07 39:51

This is a journal and a holocron.

SPEAKER_04 39:52

Oh, I thought it was I thought you said Holocron and then the Okay.

SPEAKER_07 39:56

Um My bad. There were there was an object and then I clarified that it is a Holocron.

SPEAKER_04 40:00

So I can look through the journal while you do your magic with the Holocron.

SPEAKER_06 40:08

I'm gonna take it. Better than me, probably. But first I'm gonna close my eyes and I am going to search my feelings again. Okay. So let's use the force. I'm so glad I already used that because that's the right. Literally, the example of it is like you can see if destroying a Sith artifact will be a bad outcome. Great roll. Um, use the force. That is a 37.

SPEAKER_07 40:36

You will find you find bad omens coming over you, washing over you.

SPEAKER_06 40:43

So I shiver for a second, and my hand just instinctively tilts to the side, the holocron falls, and just a second before it hits the ground, I'm gonna try to grab it with the force.

SPEAKER_07 40:51

Make it use the force check.

SPEAKER_06 40:54

Ooh, very low, but my modifier is high, so 22.

SPEAKER_07 40:57

As you take this blackened pyramid-shaped object into your hand, you are overcome with horror. Your vision blurs, and you see a hooded human man pale of skin with dark tattoos obscuring his face. You take a single dark side point.

SPEAKER_06 41:11

Just visions of darkness. My mind flickers to just acts of torment, except all these quick single-flash frames of people being tortured, people being cut down. Every single one of these victims in in my mind for that split-second montage all have Malia's face as I drop the holocron catching it just before it hits the ground. Slowly lifted up. What evil is this?

SPEAKER_04 41:42

I I don't know. Maybe maybe there's more something about it in this journal. I'm gonna start reading the journal.

SPEAKER_07 41:53

This is the journal of Immunis the Keen.

SPEAKER_04 41:56

Would we know that name?

SPEAKER_07 41:58

No. I'm gonna start flipping through it. It seems to be written in a language that you don't know.

SPEAKER_04 42:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 42:06

I can't make sense of what's in this journal. This artifact is corrupted. There is darkness emanating from it.

SPEAKER_00 42:17

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SPEAKER_04 43:57

This is only making Aegis out to be more of a dark Jedi than we had previously thought.

SPEAKER_06 44:04

I don't want to leave this here. I'm going to close my hand around it again to see if it affects me further.

SPEAKER_07 44:12

Okay. Maybe use the force check.

SPEAKER_06 44:15

35.

SPEAKER_07 44:17

You do not take a dark side point. You do feel the dark side reaching out to you, but you are able to resist its grasp.

SPEAKER_06 44:24

I'm gonna head back out into the hallway. I'm gonna follow. There was another chest in there.

SPEAKER_04 44:29

Oh, that's right. Um actually correct that. I'm gonna go through the other chest and see what I can find.

SPEAKER_07 44:35

So as you open the chest, you will find a lot a single lightsaber hilt that seems to have the bottom of it cut off.

SPEAKER_04 44:45

So I'm gonna carefully pick up this lightsaber. And can I is there something I can do with the force with this that isn't necessarily a power? Like I forget all the shit that's doing.

SPEAKER_07 45:02

So there are specific races that can light.

SPEAKER_06 45:11

Sense the force, which is actually a really good thing now that we think he's force sensitive. Um, sense surroundings, telepathy, and then these I think are trying or breath control or place other in force trance, and that's homebrew.

SPEAKER_07 45:23

Kiffar specifically had the ability to like see the memories of an object. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:28

Okay. I am gonna try and use a sense the force on this, I think. Okay. Uh use the force check when we're zooming.

SPEAKER_06 45:35

Yep. It is so you would automatically sense disturbances in the forest um or a location that's strong in the dark side of the forest, but as a full-round action, you can also use this ability to sense active force users out to a range of 100 kilometers. Whoa. Oh so DC 15 use the force check to know how many force users are within range and their approximate distance and direction from you.

SPEAKER_04 45:58

Okay, so I can't use it for that. What was the ones that I didn't have to roll?

SPEAKER_06 46:02

There was one of them that would be You could sense disturbances, but use it for that. Oh no, I do. I'm gonna use it. Okay, I thought you were saying you could. Okay. Yeah, so you would when you use it, you would also automatically actually I think it, if I understand correctly, you automatically distance just sense disturbances in the force. Yes. So I think if something atrocious happened, you would I like if Malia got stabbed right now, you'd probably we'd probably both be like, what would I be able to sense the uh the dark side on this?

SPEAKER_07 46:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 46:27

Okay. So that is all I really needed to know. I am gonna it doesn't make sense for me to just be like, well, well, no, because now we know he knows the at least is in possession of a lightsaber.

SPEAKER_06 46:41

That's what I'm thinking is right now I'm holding the Holocaine, you're holding the lightsaber. It seems like so.

SPEAKER_04 46:46

I'm gonna try to use the force to sense how many force users are. Just hope he's a collector.

SPEAKER_07 46:50

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:51

Uh it's 14 plus 15.

SPEAKER_07 46:53

So there are two within 100 kilometers of you. One of them is approximately 10 feet from you. The other one is approximately 100 feet from you.

SPEAKER_04 47:04

Uh, would Dalen be 10 feet?

SPEAKER_07 47:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 47:07

He's included in that.

SPEAKER_07 47:08

Yeah.

unknown 47:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 47:09

So 100 feet's not that far. Yep, sorry. Yeah, 100 feet's not that far.

SPEAKER_04 47:15

So I'm gonna I'm gonna take the lightsaber. Fuck it. I'm gonna take it. Yeah. Um, so I'm gonna pocket it. I'm on this at the holocron, I can't judge you. Yeah. I'm gonna pocket the lightsaber, and then I'm gonna come out to Dalen and I'm gonna show it to him. And I I sense the dark side in this. It's cut off and it's full of dark energy. I I'm one to believe that this might be Maul's Saber. The demon that was killed on the boo. The very one. He did. Say he was looking for Mol. I question why he has this and why he is looking for him and why he has that hologron. I also upon finding this found out there's at least one other force user within a hundred feet of us. Or Aegis.

SPEAKER_06 48:11

Do you know? Could you tell where? I sense them below us. I'm gonna make for the stairs a bit quicker this time.

SPEAKER_07 48:17

Okay. Down on the farm.

SPEAKER_08 48:19

Alright, so we in the engine room?

SPEAKER_07 48:21

You are in the engine room.

SPEAKER_09 48:22

So we just like have at it or where is the engine exactly? Is it like a big like structure like in front of us? I'm gonna take out my blaster and shoot it. Okay.

SPEAKER_08 48:33

I'm gonna shoot it too.

SPEAKER_06 48:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 48:35

Several times.

SPEAKER_06 48:36

Okay. You never know where it's going. I love you guys. It's fantastic.

SPEAKER_09 48:41

What's your reflex? I reflex. Mine's 27.

SPEAKER_08 48:47

Mine is 23.

SPEAKER_07 48:49

It will cause a small explosion, but it will not do any damage to you. Cool. Uh shall we take our leave?

SPEAKER_08 48:56

I think we should reconvene.

SPEAKER_07 48:59

Hey, let's exit the ship. Okay, you guys exit the ship and you are outside of the mansion. Shall we go through the back door?

SPEAKER_09 49:06

You want to grab our stuff?

SPEAKER_08 49:08

We can now. I was planning on doing it on the way back to the ship ship.

SPEAKER_09 49:11

Oh, yeah. I thought we were leaving. I thought we got everything we had or needed. Can we look through the back door?

SPEAKER_07 49:18

Yes, you can look through the back door. What do I see? You open the back door of the mansion and you will walk into a fine dining room. It is a very long table. There's probably about 30 chairs around all the sides of it.

SPEAKER_09 49:32

Some more silverware.

SPEAKER_08 49:34

My bag is pretty full.

SPEAKER_09 49:35

Okay. I don't want any of this.

SPEAKER_07 49:38

Um, where else can we go from here? You can go left into the kitchens, or you can go straight and it'll lead you towards the front entrance. Hmm. Kitchen? Kitchen? Let's take a look. It's a kitchen. There's nothing interesting in it. It's a very, very nice kitchen. There's a lot of food. Everything's stainless steel.

SPEAKER_09 49:58

Can I take something with me?

SPEAKER_07 50:00

Yep. It's made of nickel. Don't forget ourselves.

SPEAKER_09 50:02

What kind of food they got in there?

SPEAKER_07 50:04

Literally, whatever you could. I'd like a sandwich. Like, is there any pre-made sandwiches in there? There are no pre-made sandwiches. There's bread.

SPEAKER_06 50:14

So would you picture a fancy house being like?

SPEAKER_07 50:17

There's goat cheese.

SPEAKER_09 50:20

I would like to.

SPEAKER_08 50:22

I'm never taking you anywhere now. There's a bladder of finger sandwiches just in the fridge waiting.

SPEAKER_07 50:28

You order chicken tenders at restaurants, don't you?

SPEAKER_09 50:31

No. I'll just grab a snack and then I'll I think we should get out of here. There's nothing here. Um, maybe we should uh meet back with our friends.

SPEAKER_07 50:42

Yeah. Uh I guess we're gonna start scouring the house for our friends. So as you head towards the main entrance, you will find that there is a door on the back end of the staircase.

SPEAKER_08 50:51

You want to look in here?

SPEAKER_07 50:53

Oh, uh might as well. You open that door and it is a turbo lift.

SPEAKER_09 50:59

Turbo lift.

SPEAKER_07 51:00

Going down? Maybe. I guess uh in we go.

SPEAKER_09 51:03

Yeah, let's uh should we though? Or should we tell our friends that we should go that we're going down here? It could be dangerous.

SPEAKER_08 51:15

And you're scared?

SPEAKER_09 51:17

No, let's go. Let's go.

SPEAKER_07 51:19

So you take the turbo lift down, and it opens up, and you are in a hallway, and it's made pretty much entirely of steel. Um, the only light comes from three lights set into the ceiling of this hallway. In this hallway, there's a door on the left, a door on the right, and a door at the far end.

SPEAKER_09 51:37

Huh. Which one should we pick?

SPEAKER_08 51:39

Any meeny miny moe, catch a tiger by its toe. If it hollers, wait, what'd you say? A craft hound by its toe.

SPEAKER_06 51:48

If continue, you're fine.

SPEAKER_07 51:50

By its toe. I think you're doing that, you're going, you're going in the right door. The right door it is. So you enter the right door, and it does appear to be an armory of sorts. There is sets of armor on the wall. You find blades of varying lengths and types on another wall. Oh. You have there are different drawers, and you open them up and you find different kinds of crystals in them. Kyber. Some are kyber.

SPEAKER_08 52:23

Oh, uh explosives. You do not find explosives. Damn.

SPEAKER_09 52:29

That's what I really wanted. Uh the swords, the swords are really cool, aren't they?

SPEAKER_08 52:33

I prefer uh blasters myself, but I can respect one.

SPEAKER_07 52:38

They're too heavy. Let's move on. So you've got the door at the end and the door on the left. Left door. The door on the left opens and everything is sterile. The walls, ceiling, and floor are an Arctic white that reflects a nauseating fluorescent. An unfamiliar smell reaches your nose, and you find yourself short of breath. You stand on a landing while the rest of the room sits three steps above you. At the far end of the chamber, you see a single back to tank. Floating inside the tank is the Keldor you fought previously, Dorath. The mask that covered his eyes and mouth are missing. You start to approach, keeping your hands close and ready to draw a weapon when his eyes shoot open.

SPEAKER_08 53:18

Oh, that's where we'll end it. I was gonna say, I'm gonna shut up.

SPEAKER_07 53:24

You have just finished chapter 8 of the Book of Dalen Galt. The Book of Dalen Galt stars Rob Hunter as Dalen Galt, Richard Capasil as Kanari, Justin Chapman as Credo, Peyton Castle as Gruel, and myself Zack Som as the Galaxy Master. We'll be back in just two weeks with chapter 9.

SPEAKER_08 53:51

Broadcasting live from Korosant, the beating heart of the Republic. This is Galactic Voice, your trusted source for news across the galaxy. And I'm Halo Zion, bringing you the latest updates from the Clone Wars and beyond. Our top story tonight: clone forces under the command of General Plo Koon and Commander Kyle Xander have successfully liberated the planet Lauder from separatist occupation. Citizens of Lauder have taken to the streets in celebration after months of brutal droid control. However, reports suggest significant infrastructure damage, raising questions about how quickly the planet can recover. Joining us now is field reporter Vital Pelion, embedded with the 525th Clone Battalion.

SPEAKER_01 54:36

Hello! The scenes here are a mix of jubilation and devastation. While the people are relieved to see the Republic, they're also grappling with the aftermath of the conflict. General Kuhn's strategies have once again proven effective, but the locals are worrying about the long-term rebuilding efforts.

SPEAKER_08 54:53

Thank you, Vito. Let's hope relief efforts arrive swiftly to stabilize Lauder. The Trade Federation, acting under separate disorders, has escalated blockades on the Perlimian trade route. Core systems, including Alderan and Chandrilla, report shortages of essential supplies. Senator Baylor Gana addressed the Senate earlier today.

SPEAKER_09 55:13

We cannot allow innocent civilians to bear the brunt of this war. The Republic must prioritize relief efforts and ensure supply chains remain open.

SPEAKER_08 55:23

Meanwhile, black market activity surges as desperate planets turn to smugglers for aid. Analysts warn this could lead to greater corruption and destabilization. Speaking of Alderon, Lord Nexus continues to make waves throughout the core worlds, forging alliances with other planets in order to quickly build a private army. Queen Organa has reached out to the Jedi Order for mediation. As the war drags on, questions arise about the Jedi's order role as military leaders. Joining us is Professor Lerna Orag, a historian specializing in the Jedi Order. Professor Orag, some argue that the Jedi are compromising their principles by leading Republic forces. What's your take?

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The Jedi have always been peacekeepers, not soldiers. This war places them in a moral quagmire. By fighting, they risk losing sight of their core values. Yet if they abstain, the Republic could falter. It's a no-win situation.

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Fascinating perspective, Professor. Thank you for joining us. As the clone wars rage on, Galactic Voice remains dedicated to bringing you the truth. From the front line to the Senate chambers, keep your comms tuned here for updates on the hour. For now, stay safe, stay vigilant, and may the force be with us all. This is Hollowside signing off. Bringing the galaxy closer, one story at a time.

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