--- title: "Half a Hashbrown" date: 2021-08-09 --- {% prologue %} It is a dark time for the galaxy. The city of Coruscant, once the glittering pearl of the Republic, now languishes under the shadow of the Galactic Empire. A bustling black market flourishes in the underworld, controlled by the notorious crime syndicate Black Sun Hired to infiltrate a Black Sun outpost and retrieve vital data on a bounty hunter who betrayed the Pyke Syndicate, a small group of enterprising individuals works rapidly to access the heavily encrypted Black Sun network as things take a turn for the worse... {% endprologue %} {% summary %} * Starts in the middle of a heist on Coruscant, alarms going off, the crew escapes * Finds a speeder, jump in * Mack Skyblade jumps at the helm, they are being chased * While being chased, Sarn Turbo shoots a sign, slowing down chasers * They blow a stop sign, attracting police droids to purse * Mack does a barrel roll, losing one of the police droids, yells "Mack Skyblade Baby!" * One police droid is able to find him from the yelling * Mack, using his perception is able to find a shortcut, heads towards it, but clips the speeder * Speeder softly crash lands. * They receive a call on the communicator, telling them to come to Chopper's Chop Shop in L42 * RX-78 diagnosis the speeder, the hyper radiator is leaking. Sarn offers to pee in it, but realizes he peed when they did a barrel roll * Sarn looks in the glove box, finds a card for the taxi cab company. * They call, and are put on with the dispatcher, they say they need another cab, but it will be some time * Mack realizes he knows the area, but also that it's a bad neighborhood. He also notices Dex's Diner and becomes excited, announces he's going to get a big breakfast * They walk by a greaser Ithorian standing outside the diner. * RX is fascinated with all the trinkets on the walls. * Mack starts yelling for service, really wants the big breakfast * A female Besalisk named Gizlora comes out from the kitchen. * Sarn orders the moons over Endor, Mack the big breakfast * Giz Lora calls Mack "the cute one" and pinches his cheek, she goes back to the kitchen * After some time, they see the cab pull up, but haven't eaten yet, Mack calls for Gizlora * Gizlora says all she has done is the cigarettes and half a hashbrown she gives it to them. * Mack asks what they owe, she says "For you, it's on the house" and goes in to give him a smooch, Mack kisses her right back. * She finds a biscuit in her pocket and gives it to her. * On the way out, they give the cigarette to the Ithorian outside * They enter the cab, it's a johnny cab and RX-78 remembers it's in L42 * Sarn checks the glove box, it shocks him, the johnnycab warns him. Sarn kicks the glove box and is shocked, it disables his toe. * Cab drops them off in front of the Chop shop, it's 2 AM * They knock, no answer, knock hard, Chopper wakes up, excited to see Mack, gives him a big hug, and a little tickle. * They finally enter the chop shop {% endsummary %}