JuggerNOT!

The battle is raging inside the room, but I keep focusing on how to stop the evil before it stops us. I know that destroying the crystals in the previous rooms seemed to help and I can see the blue glow from here, so I know there are more of those crystal hive minds. I talk quickly to Davish and suggest we do a joint attack and take out the two columns closest to the door - he takes the one to the north and me to the south. I run through the door, dive past the mob there, and drop off the stairs to be just below the closest column. I take a quick breath and then squeeze off two shots from my heavy blaster. I have seen how the bad guys are able to play with plasma so back to the tried and true. As my first blaster bolt arrows towards the column, I see a hint of a shield, but it is not able enough to stop the bolts from causing the crystal column to shatter and powder down to the floor. I wait for the blue light to stream out, but nothing happens immediately.
 
Then silence falls and then those bad guy monks rattle of something about I want, I want, I want. Then So'Zen does a really cool trick and picks up the droid on the steps and throws it at the droids ahead of it. It works! And then the biggest droid monsters pull out huge vibro axes. I mean, come on!! This battle was not a cakewalk already and he had to go and make it worse. I am not going to think about it right now and just focus on what I can do which is continue destroying those crystals. I might start working on those skulls next................ I do another double tap on the big crystal, but it only cracks. I am about to line up my next double shot when a shield goes into effect around the crystal. I do a quick check for any shield emitters, but I do not see anything obvious. I take another look at the skulls closest to me. Perhaps........
 
I am about to walk towards the closest set of skulls when I feel a presence above me. I am looking up to see a Bo'marr monk and then I hear a ding on my data pad. It seems that this monk is wanting to help me! I do the obvious thing and ask him to take down the shield. He agrees that the shield is noisy and disruptive to the sanctity of math - whatever that means. He turns around to the base of the blue crystal column and moves one of the bricks. I send a quick image of that to Davish. He pulls out a Vor shield belt emitter, but it has been modified and now it looks like it has the chance to blow up if anyone breathes on it the wrong way. I have a brief thought about asking him to give it to the juggernaut behind the trio of doom, but with that shield around them.............it has a higher chance of blowing us up. So, I ask him to safely dispose of it and he scurries up the stairs to take it to the forge techs in the room we just left. He claims that they did not make it as it was very shoddy. Good to know but does leave the question as to who did it. I leave it to Davish to decide how he wants to handle it on his side.
 
I turn to see what Davish is thinking about doing to see a dark bolt of energy heading straight to Vanya and then So'Zen pushes her aside and steps in front of it. He appears to be a bit shaken, but still on his feet and then he says something stupid again. It must be genetic. I shrug and turn back to the crystal because the shield is down now!! I put two quick shots into the crystal and the second one shatters the crystal, but not to powder as has happened before. Instead, it cracks and one half of it falls like a tree trunk - straight towards me of course. I roll out of the way and see it hit the floor. It still doesn't shatter, and I can see electrical sparks popping between the different pieces. I check to see what Davish is doing, and he is using that force thing he has and removes the block, takes out the shield emitter, and turns it off. If it was possible to turn it off why didn't the monk do that instead?!?! I just shrug and turn back to the pieces of the crystal. I still see energy popping and fizzing and that is weird. If it was residual then it should have dissipated by now. I can understand that happening when electrical components are involved, but this is crystal. Where is the energy coming from?? Does this really help the situation? What is my next move?? I glance wildly around the room and suddenly realize what I am missing - Spook! I do a quick comm check: "Spook?? Are you close? Can you hear me?" Static is my only answer.
 
I see one of the droids take a shot at me. I have this fancy armor so let's see how it works........................so it doesn't really work that well. I guess I should either dodge or use my shield first - ok, lesson learned. I start to shake it off and pay attention to what is going on in the room. I come to just in time to see another monk bringing me a present - one of the Concord. I think very seriously about putting a plasma shot straight into him and then figure that is overkill. He has no weapons except a datapad so I use my blaster as a club and reach over to bop him on the top of the head. He manages to roll enough to dodge it and I realize I am more stunned than I thought. I shake my head a bit and then grab my blaster to hit him again. Then his hand starts glowing with that black light. This is not good and then Vanya is there. I should have shot him earlier. He is distracted now so I step over and pistol whip him into unconsciousness.
 
I take the unconscious guy and tie him up so that we can question him later - by whatever means will work best. Based upon conversations I am hearing from the other end of the room, perhaps So'Zen can get him to talk. So'Zen comes over and decides that it isn't worth waking up this guy as the other Concord member answered his questions. It is suggested that we put the three of them into a pile while we work on the next room and I strongly disagree. We continue to rest and recover and then Vance walks over with his lens and asks me to look through it. He has checked the powder and apparently it looks like water to him. I decide it would be so much better to look at one of the larger chunks to get a more complete sense of what this is and how the lens works. I do so and I see the universe in all of its starry wonder. I take the lens down almost sadly and then suggest we give it to Reece for his input. He first investigates the lens itself and tells us that the writing on it is from the High Republic era. He puts on the lens and when he takes it down, he talks about the wonder of the universe in all of its mathematical superiority. He and Vance discuss how important and good it would be to have both. I get a cold chill as I am not sure we should have control over that much power.
 
We enter the next room carefully and I am not sure what to do. There are schematics of power armor floating inside a flimsy and a strange eye looking out of it. I am not sure if it should be shot or what so I turn and look around the room. I see three more of the blue crystal columns so I quickly shoot one of them as I have been doing to free whatever is stuck inside them. It turns into powder, but instead of the release I see them flowing into the flimsy/eye combo. That is not okay! Reece agrees with me and uses his loaner to shoot the flimsy/eye. It shatters to the ground and there is just the tinkle of crystals hitting the tile. SUDDENLY, Davish and So'Zen are pushed against walls and Reece and I are captured inside a beam and metal comes out of the wall and we are incased in the same armor as the juggernauts!! I am sealed inside a suit of armor and I don't see a way of getting out of here. HELP!!!!!!!!