Shimmerstone Engagements

Well, it has turned into a rather eventful day.
 
Once we arrived in Shimmerstone, we engaged with the bandits that were present, and captured them all in rather short order. They seem very disorganized, and poorly trained. After securing the prisoners and making sure none of them would die, we decided to load up into the truck now, and use the fact that they were expecting a truck to return to get into their base at the mine. We got into their makeshift base without incident. They had one security droid on patrol, which let the truck in without a word.
 
Once inside, we got to a fairly well-hidden area, and Amur sent his little tracker droid, 'Nell', to go scout out the base. 'Base' is being polite, because all they had done was put up a shoddy fence around the mine's outbuildings, and set the nearly brain-dead droid out to guard. We got into position to sweep the first building stealthily, and then Gridtok charged in... Well, he's a Guardian, so I should've expected him to just charge in. The bandits continued to be disorganized, and came out of the other buildings in ones and twos, which made them far easier to pick off than it could've been. We managed to round them all up with minimal injuries, which Amur quickly patched up. Sadly, I managed to kill one of the bandits with a TK push that I guess was a bit too hard. I'll have to apologize to Master Alize when we get back.
 
While we were rounding up all of their equipment and making sure none of our other prisoners died, a comm call on the bandit leader's comm came in. Since Amur was still disguised as a bandit, he took the call. Sadly, the disguise didn't help much, because we had basically zero corroborating information to back it up. The bandit's leader was a mid-rank imperial soldier, who first tried to bribe Amur, and then resorted to threatening him to clear the area before three days passed, as he had sent an IM99 Persuader Tank to destroy the town and hold the mine more effectively.
 
Trying to figure out how to deal with such a machine in short order caused Asha to trust us with a secret. She took us a few miles away from the mine, wher she had a crashed, but still somewhat operable starship, which looks to have been stolen from what was probably her master, and was definitely previously owned by a Sith. Thing needs about a dozen purification rituals, on top of a heap of repairs. We've started fixing what we can, while Niwadi took off at full speed on her bike to go grab a couple of her clansfolk to help get this thing airborne once again. Once she gets back, we'll see if we can get thing up in the air again, and get at least one weapon system operational, so we can go stop that tank droid.