They didn’t have much information. They had been running blind for the most part. More like rushing headlong blind, and he and Oln had paid the price on that score.
He helped Oln to sit down again, now that they would be resting here for a while.
Luka listened to the questions Ms. Aragone asked the droids. He was starting to see her line of thinking, which, if they could pull it off, would be quite the coup.
“And exactly how many intruders are on this ship right now, and where are they located?”
Snipe just holds his hands up showing that he is unarmed as well "Shh!! Do you want to get us all scrapped?!" he says in a hushed tone at the human. He offers a hand to help him out, the hand with the mesh tape dispenser ready to tie him up if needed. "Come on out of there.. We aren't going to harm you if you are quiet and don't attack us.. Why are you hiding in here with a raspy respirator anyway?"
Even though I don't really need to I am going to roll deception to conceal my Mesh tape dispenser.
The droid responded as best it could to Mara's questions. "[Answering statements]No, every place is watched. There is always Corridor 1A, but again, being watched."
"The autoturrets will only kill the intruders. We are monitoring them quiet closely."
"Of course I am in communication with the bridge at this time. They are receiving a constant holofeed. How else do you think they know where you intruding meatbags are to spring their traps? Correction: I wasn't suppose to mention that. Request deletion from your memory banks."
It took his bruised psyche a few moments to process exactly what the droid had just said, and he worked through the slip back to its logical conclusion. A sensation of numbness and helplessness struck him for a moment. Then he felt something rush through him like a red tide.
Luka’s features twisted into a mask of pure rage, his eyes hectically bright in his too-pale face, the cuts and bruises livid. He leaned forward, fists clenched at his sides.
“We’re coming for you!” he bellowed, into the droid’s photoreceptors, back to whoever was on the other end.
He was shaking. Luka tore off words savagely.
“You brought this on yourselves! You did! You attacked our home and our families! You don’t get to terrorize innocent people! You don’t get to sit back and do this with no reprisals! You are going down!”
Ears twitching, Kat listened to Luka and Mara, still standing guard in-case any other surprises unfolded.
At the mention of springing traps, Katjur felt his insides spin. If they had just gone forward as he had originally wanted, without the mucking about and over analyzing , Oln wouldn't be poisoned and Luka wouldn't have almost got himself blowed to bits.
Taking a measure step forward, Kat placed his hand on Luka's shoulder, reigning in the man.
"Soon. Soon." The words were a deadly purr, the Trianii's eyes glinting with a feral menace behind them. His tolerance for this was growing thin, had been since he had first been wounded.
The man accepts Snipes hand and clambers out of the cylinder , and dusts himself off. He removes the respirator and breaths a gulp of, relatively, fresh air. The 3 droids trained their guns on him, ready to fulfill their new primary directive of defending the party.
"Well, storage cylinders aren't well known for being ventilated, hence the respirator." he holds up what appears to be a small tank of air attached rather crudely to the respirator. "As to why I was in there, it was mostly to avoid whoever had been blowing holes in my ship, and scrapping my droids. . . And reprogramming them from the looks of it!" There was a hint of actually incredulity in his voice, and he stared rather accusingly at all three of them.
"Your ship?" now Ossek's turn to be incredulous, "Are you saying you're the captain?" If so this was an incredible stroke of luck, they could end this fiasco right here and now.