"We got this, Redd," Carsan Zan said, trading an impact drill for her flight helmet, "easy in, easy out. Just one package to pick up."
Carsa's astromech droid, R3-DM, bleeped a string of what she could only assume to be obscenities. Ever since she'd hacked together the dome and central processing unit of an old, memory-wiped Imperial astromech with the body of her trusty droid (damaged in the battle to destroy the Death Star II), she'd had to put up with a little more attitude.
"Hey," she said, "nothing could go worse than that Ord Mantell job."
The droid beeped the mechanical equivalent of a harrumph and trundled down the flight deck corridor of Zappa Station to the hangar, where Carsa's fighter waited, powered on, and ready to go.
Carsa mentally rehearsed her objectives one more time; thanks to a disgruntled Imperial protocol droid coopted into serving as a maintenance tech at an Imperial remnant station, she had plenty of intel to go on:
Land on Shiva IV. Locate signal relay station. Eliminate scout troopers--locals have done most of this work already. Capture or kill science chief Trelan Prossad. Do not allow Prossad's research into the mineral riches of Shiva IV reach mainframe databases of any Imperial remnant.
Only a few troopers between Carsa and her prize. What could possibly go wrong?
25xp after LTC bonus