The Draykon Crew

gotta say, Spectre's idea does have some sense to it. I mean, after all, we do need to maintain our crew's reputation as a reliable smuggler of goods, and if we go letting slaves go mid job, it kind of looks bad, and means Juvex I/O will likely come after us for blood, so to speak... I'm sure we'll work this out IC...

and Jemima, you're in charge of developing the group communicator device

I (Dan) agree that Spectre's idea holds a significant amount of merit. But Silas will never go for it. Slavery is in the book. If it's in the book, it is acted on and judged. There is really only black and white to him in these cases. He was always meant to be a confrontational, problematic character, because he sees only justice, not the moral or contractural obligations.

Slaves go or he'll likely walk.

But just think of what kind of plot twists will result if Atia has it out for us...

Dan

Damn. Keep meaning to log out from Fel and log in as Preacher... but it's hard to tell when I'm on my iPhone.

Sorry -- when I said that Spectre's idea had merit, I meant his original 'property destruction' idea. Not the delivery of slaves.

Think about where we are. Honoghr is about as middle-of-the-road as you can get, politically. Not like we're dropping them off on the Sith homeworld. And it wouldn't just be dropping them off, Silas has every intention of speaking to the authorities and setting up political refugee status for them. (and I was considering spinning the story to seem as if we had rescued the slaves, instead of transporting them willingly.)

Like Jemima said, float your ideas in character. However you see fit.

Worst case scenario, Preacher doesn't stay with the crew. Fenrir, if having a moral compass aboard is a bad idea, you need to consider that.

There is an alternative.

Hi everyone. I'm Krystal, or Meony. Whichever you prefer to call me.

Well, it's been a while, but I have an offer I'd like to make.

I've just recently awakened from a year-plus-long coma (essentially me literally being away from JvS for that long) and I actually own a very big cruiser. Well, 200-meters in a round circle. I'd call that big.

My ship's a modified Corona-class unarmed frigate. Yup, it's completely unarmed, but more heavily armored, shielded and faster than the regular ships of its type.

The reason for it being unarmed is because I'm a pacifist. I'm against violence in any form, even self-defense. Which is why I'm pulling a total Supergirl stunt. My only defense for getting away with that is that I do not use my "powers" offensively, or even defensively, except maybe taking a shot on someone's behalf, and bolts don't bounce off me, they just hurt, a lot.

Anyway, as to my alternative suggestion. Well, how about if we stage...a compromise? I think Spectre or one of you guys should bring this up, because coming from a pacifist, this won't make sense. I mean my character! Not me me, because like, I can think non-pacifist-like sometimes...

So, the compromise. Silas wants to free the slaves? Well, that can be arranged. We can take them into my ship, and I can get them to someplace safe, or just leave them on Honoghr. There IS a Jedi stronghold nearby, and the RDMC I'm sure could employ them or something. But how to avoid Atia's wrath? well...the receiving people don't really know your full crew complement, right? And combining with Spectre's idea of making a big boom Michael Bay style, what if you drop off the slaves, only to have the other half of the crew pretending to be random rebel forces or some such burst in, shooting and all that, and grab the slaves right back and get out. So you guys get paid, and you get the slaves back out without being blamed for the attack and rescue.

Or if Silas is adamant, the other idea, and an even more far-fetched one is to use very advanced HRDs with holographic displays in place of the slaves, and we perform more or less the same event, because you don't want the buyers to realize that the slaves aren't slaves at all. Or use holograms.

It's all I can think of at the moment that will give you guys a pay day, and respect Silas' and my moral code at the same time.

OOC Note re. my last post: First line -- "Silas wished Fenrir would stop talking about things he doesn't understand."

To be clear, What I mean is "things Silas doesn't understand..." But because I was writing present-tense, third-person, the phrasing comes off a little oddly. Believe me, I'm not accusing Fenrir of shooting his mouth off about stuff he knows nothing about. Instead, Silas is frustrated with himself for not knowing most of the terms Fenrir is using.

In case it wasn't clear.

Connie would definitely know Ade would not be happy at all about transporting slaves, that being a line that pesky moral compass of his would not allow him to cross ;p All of the options discussed have great story potential, as does the situation itself since it gives everyone a chance to dig more into their characters and how they will play off the rest of the crew. I think hashing it out IC is a good option as well, as in we follow Fenrir's idea about him putting it to a vote by the whole crew. We all probably have an idea of where our character's stand, but seeing how they all will react to learning how their fellow crew members feel could be interesting.

My ship's not pink! It's mostly bright yellow, with a dark golden brown center, like a sunflower. Why do you think my ship's named the Sunflower?

Also, the Sunflower doesn't have a cloaking device, unless you installed something in there while I was comatose.

But yes, other than that, my ship's big enough to carry the Midnight Shadow inside for refit/repair and to get away from heavy fire.

Also, out of curiosity, what is Preacher basing his assumptions on the RDMC/Government of Honoghr being welcoming of refugee slaves IC? I assume it's just Silas going out on a limb more than anything, since even Fenrir is unsure of Honoghr's political state of affair, he just knows there is a med center there, beyond that, they could be the vilest lot of criminals out there as far as he knows... just curious...