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Backstory 15: Cut Android

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Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

Spinning is totally a good trick, though it doesn’t seem have helped here. I wonder if Star Wars speeders have problems with water as well. Bridges are good for check points and providing a solid path across an unstable medium. In Star Wars though, almost nothing vehicular actually rolls on the ground. Do people actually walk across this bridge? Even without a car-chase scene, this seems like a really long and potentially dangerous path.

Also a good point about a truck catching up to a smaller, faster vehicle in the last comic. If the small vehicle doesn’t know they’re in a chase, that puts a bit of a damper on the ability to not get caught. I’d hang this on Han/Alberto not knowing they were working for a gang that would have their own transportation. I mean, could you imagine Lady Proxima just walking somewhere with that face?

And of course, the GM grabs a character to play who immediately gets killed. It’s just how things worked out last time the roles were reversed like this, right? I bet this is the last time a simple gate is used at this security gate given that it was simply knocked aside. Whoever set this point up will probably end up springing for a proper laser gate next time.

Transcript

Jim: I did a spin to throw Moloch off and took off down another bridge.
[SFX]: brgrgrgrr...
[SFX]: Vrooooom!
Alberto: Hang on!
[SFX]: vrooom!
[SFX]: Brgrgrgrr...
Jim: I threw the speeder into a faster gear and aimed for the security gate.
[SFX]: k-chunk
[SFX]: brgrgrgrr...
[SFX]: vrooom!
Jim: An RA-7 protocol droid tried to stop us.
GM: Can I play the droid?
Jim: Sure.
RA-7 droid: This is a secure area. Stop!
[SFX]: Vrooooom!
[SFX]: crash! {Alberto’s speeder crashes through the gate}
RA-7 droid: Hey!
[SFX]: BRGRG!! {Moloch’s truck slams into the droid as it races through the gate}
[SFX]: decapitate!
[SFX]: clang! {the droid’s head falls to the ground}
RA-7 droid: Ouch.


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