Fiction Activity

Competition
[CNS-PLA Antiquity] Week 1: Okay, Who Packed This?
Textual submission

Hilgrif odd mission

Hilgrif reread his orders on the small ship holopad. He was to take out a small pirate scout camp with the equipment provided, and he also had to leave all his equipment on the ship, as instructed in the orders. He was informed he would be picked up in a few hours.

Hilgrif watched the small four-person ship as it departed, then turned his gaze to the old, grey box of supplies. Hilgrif was shocked to see what was in the old box. He mostly saw all junk. The only good thing in the box was a new, still-loaded B2-HA arm and ration bars of jogan flavor. Hilgrif hoped he would not need the ration bars on this trip. Hilgrif just left all the other junk - including a non-functional lightsaber hilt, a plush porg, a glow rod, a glitchy holoprojector that looked to be loaded with questionable images, and five meters of power cable - in the box. Taking the the arm out of the box, Hilgrif did a quick retrofit to make it shoot its rockets without the rest of the droid. It had lost its lock on feature, but could still shoot in a somewhat straight line. Hilgrif then took the improvised rocket launcher and the rations and headed to the pirate camp.

As the small camp came into the view of the Dark Jedi Knight, it looked as though it had three people in camp. Two were sitting around the camp stove, and the other was doing some scrapping on some droid parts. Hilgrif did a quick scan of the camp to see if anything looked explosive and saw an ammo storage location near the pirate scrapping the droid. He shot the rocket at it and used the Force to guide the rocket into the target. Hilgrif watched to see if anyone was still alive. Seeing no movement, he reached out with the Force to see if he could sense any life. Sensing nothing, Hilgrif walked into the camp and began looking for anything that might still be of use.

Hilgrif found a few holo devices and a complete set of parts to make a B2 super droid. Hilgrif decided he would build and convert this B2 super battle droid to the Hive. He found a slightly damaged hoversled and fixed it with some other parts he found in the now destroyed camp. Hilgrif then loaded the sled with droid parts and the holo devices and went back to the ship pick-up location. While waiting there for the ship, he used his Force sense to keep a lookout.

After the ship landed, Hilgrif picked up a com device and contacted the Hive.

“Find out who gave me this stupid mission and beware any mission from this person, as he seems to risk our lives for his entertainment,” Hilgrif said in slightly angry voice. Then, in a more peaceful tone, added, “Also - prepare my workshop. I found a new member of the hive.”

He then sat down and waited for the ship to leave.