Kennex Oressian

Kennex Oressian is a human smuggler from Corellia that was brought into the line of work under his uncle. He flies a heavily modified YT-2400 known as the "Aludraan" named after his deceased uncle. He employs a small crew of spacers that help him in his plans. He was last seen somewhere on Tatooine discussing something with a rodian named Keivawa.

Appearance
"'Please not the face, anything but face! You can't chisel a jaw more perfect!' - Kennex Oressian" He looks rugged with a scraggly beard, typical Corellian with redish/brown hair, but it has been grown out and is left untrimmed. He is usually seen wearing many different types of jackets and shirts. Has to wear his goggles otherwise his vision is impaired and he cannot see what he is doing.

Early Life
Kennex was born into a Corellian family that embodied that old phrase, “Corellians have rocket fuel for blood” They were brash and bold and each Oressian was known for their temper. His family was wealthy and they owned their own freighter business. He was given a comfortable and safe childhood and therefore was given a great education. That education allowed him to gain entry into the Imperial Academy on Carida. He was given the chance to hone his piloting skills and soon graduated. He was stationed on Corellia in the imperial base on Dregans’s Pike. A few weeks later his the commander, Tomax, told him they had a new prisoner on the base. Commander Tomax and Kennex never got along, Kennex was strong willed and brash and Tomax hated his insubordination. Commander Tomax WANTED him to see this. When he arrived he found his uncle Aludraan, a smuggler by choice and a good one at that. When Kennex arrived he couldn’t believe his eyes, he blinked turned to his superior and back to his uncle who said “Ah! Ol’val selba, good to see you. It’s been a while. You have grown into a fine young man.” Kennex obviously stunned took a breath and said, “Hello Uncle, I assume you are the criminal I was told about?” Aludraan smiled, “Criminal? No, I prefer scoundrel. However, I suppose I did get myself into something here…” Commander Tomax cut off his uncle, “Enough! You are related to this scum boy,” he slams the butt of his blaster into Aludraan. “Chumani” Aludraan grunts as he picks himself up off the ground. “We have him scheduled to be sent to the kessel spice mines.” Tomax smiles a menacing grin before turning to Kennex “We’ll have you go along with him.” Kennex turns red and holds back what he was going to say, “As you wish, sir” he salutes Tomax and grabs his uncles by his binders. He whispers into his ear, “I’ll help you get out of this, on the ship…” he wrings the binders and says, “You are a criminal and no uncle of mine. Therefore, you deserve your sentence!" When they arrive on board the shuttle he realizes there are only two other officers and Kennex, and his uncle. While one of them is busy on a datapad Kennex sets his blaster to stun and hits the one closest to him, his uncle slams the other officer into the wall of the shuttle and chokes him out with his binders. Kennex walks over and releases Aludraan from the binders. They both walk to the pilot and throw him out of his chair and lock him in the cargo hold. He takes them to Tatooine where they ditch the shuttle and the officers and head to Mos Eisley. While in Eisly, they change clothes and Aludraan contacts some of his "business associates". While they were traveling Aludraan decided to teach Kennex a few tricks and he taught him Olys Corellisis, or old corellian. After a few months of running from the empire they were finally caught after one of Aludraan’s clients sold him out to Commander Tomax. While they were in the middle of closing a deal Tomax ambushed them and was able to get binders on both Kennex and Aludraan. He walked them out to the sand dunes and had them kneel by each other. He began pacing methodically infront of them. “I always saw something in you Oressian, you know that?” he turned to face Kennex. “I saw something that I knew needed to be dealt with” he began to pace again. “When I found out your uncle was the infamous "Turhaya" and he was caught, I had to bring him in, I had to test you…” Aludraan leaned to Kennex while Tomax was talking. “Selba, ofax ets burrin tehn. I fear I will not make it out of this this time, but yke hyon fhars oblivyn cnous oblivyn. You will make it out of this, you will do great things in the galaxy, you have your mother eyes, and your fathers…” Before his sentence was spoken Tomax was behind him, Kennex looked Tomax in the eyes as Tomax pulled the trigger of his blaster. Aludraan fell into the sand and blood pooled around him he uttered one more word before passing, “Lofahchu.” Kennex blinked tears out of his eyes and threw himself into the sand writhing in sorrow. Tomax chuckled and said “Take him to Kessel, seeing as how his scum uncle didn’t serve his sentence, we’ll let him." He puts his hand on Kennex's chin and raises it to look him in the eyes. "To the Kessel Spice Mines with you... boy"

The Escape from Kessel
Galraan Karta was a fighter, he was angry at the loss of his brothers, sister, and his adopted father. They had taken on a contract for a imperial politician that had angered some of the galaxies criminal elements and they had planned to collect. The plan worked perfectly, they had gotten close the target, they dispatched his guards and cut off any chance for escape, all that was left was to incapacitate him and take him off planet for the boatload of credits that would be theirs. They didn't plan for him to be force sensitive however and that was their downfall. He alone survived the encounter, only to be chained and sent to Kessel to rot for the remainder of his days.

While being processed by the Imperial authorities Galraan identified himself by his true name, Raan Uiviek, given him by his family who had been dead for over a decade by his adopted family. He embraced the cold and blind existence of the spice mines of Kessel. Though he fought with the guards and other prisoners and earned himself the harsh treatments it entailed and often he would be sent to the deepest parts of the mines for his brawls or would simply volunteer. He felt the most freedom in these moments toiling away in the darkness. There was never any light in the mines for it would ruin the photosensitive spice. Noise was the strongest sense a person could have in the mines, save the guards who sported infrared goggles while the workers stumbled in the dark. It was during one of these lower level excursions that he noticed something strange. Now and then he'd feel a vibration in the earth. He'd try counting the minutes until the next vibration would come and they were by no means regular. Sometimes it would take fifteen minutes for the feeling to return again, other times even longer. When the shift was done and they returned to the common area he wondered what could have been the source of this strange new thing...

"New prisoner intake today, wonder how long they'll last." Galraan thought to himself, but he was also curious as some of these prisoners were also more recently smugglers of the very spice that he had been mining. As it turned out they didn't last long, some of the other minors didn't take too kindly to the newcomers and how they had tried to make some fat credits off of their misery. But the thought of these smugglers made him wonder, some of them had managed the trip dozens of times before being caught. For the first time he had a low glimmer of hope. "I only need to make One trip, then I'm gone from here for good." He saw an opportunity in these smugglers, they had information of the surface that he would need and he intended to get it. There were always more prisoners coming in and it was never too long before another smuggler would be caught up in the empire's web and tossed into the darkness with the rest of them. Whenever a new source of information came his way Galraan would at first look out for them, trading information about life in the mines for what they could offer about how to smuggle the spice off world. He did this long enough to finally find out what the source of those vibrations really were, they had been excavations by illegal miners with their whole own operation going on. If he could gain access to these other mines, then he could find a way to the surface and possibly to a ship. But the ship by itself is a problem. He'd never piloted a ship before and he would have no way of learning the necessary skills in the confines of the prison colony. He needed a pilot.

He'd seen others try to escape, he never took part in the attempts himself, it was often that the bodies would be found in the mines later after the would-be escapees ran out of power in their thermal suits, or oxygen for their masks. There had been more rash attempts to head up to the surface as well but these always ended with them being gunned down by the guards. He needed someone reliable, someone who wholly depended on him as he would be on them when this was put into action. His first thought was perhaps one of the smugglers, but he felt them to be bad luck for an endeavour like this. He needed someone that wasn't going to betray him to the guards or try to space him the moment they did escape.

Some time passed before, finally, a real candidate emerged from the trash that the galaxy had to offer. This latest intake of prisoners were from Correlia and one youth among them had promise. He had been a pilot for his family's freighter business before receiving the harsh ire of the Black Sun.

At first the youth didn't look like much, he clearly had been used to a much easier life than that of the harshness of the mines. Unlike when Galraan was pumping the smugglers he encountered for information he never intervened on behalf of those who he considered a candidate for his escape. He was looking for a partner, not some one that he would need to baby sit. If they could survive this as he had, then they might pull it off. His name was Kennex Oressian and it would be his guile that saves him.

Kennex Oressian was a talker and a pilot, before ending up on Kessel he had been a freighter pilot working along with his three brothers in their parents' family owned freighter business. That is until Black sun took an interest, seeing the business as a useful distribution cell for their illegal activities. It wasn't long before Kennex's parents were forced to do as they were told. Angered by Black Sun's actions against his family and livelihood Kennex confronted the Black Sun's enforcer, but this time his big mouth sent him to the coldest hell he had ever been in, as yet another pawn of Black Sun to hold over his parents to insure their loyalty and silence.

As time went on he learned his way through the perilous and violent society of the guards and convicts and how to survive the harshness of the mines themselves. Compared to his old life everything felt controlled, even when he was in his bunk he was forced to sleep by the sleep generating fields used to ensure the workers had some rest before being sent to their dark work again. The first trial he was faced with was by a gang of miners who thought him to be a smuggler, this gang was known for making smuggler's lives all the shorter for making credits off of the miner's miseries. Kennex was able to convince the gang that he was never a smuggler, but just another unfortunate to end up in the mines. He learned about a Raan Uiviek and how he used to try to protect the smugglers from the wrath of the gang, but stopped some time ago without saying why. None of the smugglers he used to protect currently lived, thanks to the gang, and he knew the only way he'd be able to find that out is if he could talk it out of the quiet man that had lived in the mines long enough to be discussed in hushed conversations.

Galraan watched as the young man grew into his own formidable force in the mines, he didn't lash out at the guards and was able to keep the peace with many of the convicts that would bitterly fight those that bothered them. He had also managed to move to different shifts by working little deals with the foreman's assistants and guards. It was Kennex who manipulated the guards into attaching him to one of Galraan's, known to the other prisoners and personnel as Raan Uiviek due to this being his first family's name, shift in the deep bowels of the mines to find out why he no longer protected the smugglers from the gangs when he had before. Kennex had a feeling that this was significant, and he aimed to discover why.

Raan Uiviek walking behind one of the miners in the darkness, turned off the heater in his thermal suit. He would be cold, but he also would be difficult for the guards to see with their infrared goggles. Waiting until they crossed into a low lake before he broke from the line of workers he hid in the water. He could feel the lake's strange probing creatures that were attracted to the movement in the water. He heard the surprise from the workers in the line but waited for them to carry on. They wouldn't be able to tell one of them were missing in the darkness and would just push on till they found the rest of the group. He knew one of the guards was at the rear of the line, along with his target Kennex Oressian. He waited for them to pass before slowly making his way following the sloshing steps of the guard and Kennex. As he smoothed his way through he picked up a rock and tossed it near the area of the guard, its splash intended to grab the guards attention while Raan came up behind him hitting him in the back of the head and pushing him under the water straddling the guard until he stopped moving. He took the infrared goggles off the guard, put them on and quickly began to move the guard's head back up to the surface and carry him out of the water. Upon reaching the edge of the water he began to resuscitate the guard telling him to wake up. Finally the guard breathed again shocked and afraid in the darkness, "What happened! Where are my goggles?" He managed to say between gasps. "If you don't have them then I don't know" lied Raan, "A rock fell from the ceiling and held you under the water till I found you, are you alright now?" The guard gasped for air some more and still freighted replied, "Yes I think I'm ok enough to walk but how will we find our way?" Raan hauled the guard to his feet and started him on his way, "We can't see but we should be able to make our way still to the rest of the group. They can't be too far ahead."

Raan and the guard made good progress and managed to link up with group before they disappeared down one of the chutes to the lower levels. From there the guard struggled forward to the front of the group to talk with the other guard there. This is when Raan made his move working back toward the rear of the line looking through the goggles for the man he wanted to talk to quietly. When he found Kennex at the rear he said to him in his best imitation of one of the guard's voice "Come with me, you'll work over here." Kennex followed after him until Raan felt they were far enough away.

After getting far enough away from the main group Raan turned sharply on his heel braced himself for the blind Kennex to walk straight into him unaware that Raan had stopped. Kennex bumbled right into Raan losing his balance, At the same time Raan shoved Kennex to the ground face down and held him there. "We're all alone and if you call out it'll be the last thing you ever do." said Raan. Kennex surprised by the sudden violence said, "Alright! Alright! Calm down! We can work this out whatever it is." Raan continued his hold on the youth saying, "You used to work on a easier shift, you've done no offence to the guards or other inmates and yet you end up on one of the more unpleasant shifts, why is that?" Kennex struggled under the hold a little before answering, "I wanted to talk with one of the other prisoners ok! That's all, he did something odd and I wanted ask him about it." This piqued Raan's interest, so Kennex had been taking a interest in me while I was doing the same... He may work out after all. "What prisoner and what is it that you want to ask him?" Kennex struggled defiantly and spat his next response into the dirt I front of him, "Listen pal that's his and I's business and no one else's. You got what you wanted for your part of the deal, I'm not giving you a damn thing more." With that Raan let go of Kennex and stood up, "As it happens, I've had a few questions for you too." Kennex stood up quickly putting his arms in front of him defensibly should some unseen blow come his way, "You're not the guard..." Kennex started to say when Raan cut him off "No I am Raan Uiviek, and you wanted to ask me something. You have given me a few answers, I'll do the same." Kennex somewhat annoyed came right out with it, "Why did you protect the smugglers from the gangs, only to withdraw your protection later?". Karta didn't waste any time with his answer but spoke with a direct and firm voice, one that was his own and not a imitation of the guards. "They had information that I needed, I figured if they could manage to make the spice runs multiple times then they might have the information I would need in order to escape..." Kennex interrupted Raan, "Escape? How could anyone escape from here? You can't even see! Why did you stop protecting them then if they were helping you?" Raan continued, "As I was saying, I protected them for information. When I had all I could get from them I didn't have a reason to protect them anymore." Kennex considered this, "Why are you allowing me to know this, you've kept it pretty close to your chest thus far." Raan chuckled an agreeing laugh, "Yes I have, haven't I?" his tone changed to seriousness again "And for good reason, we're not at the centre of the most trustworthy people of the Galaxy, I'm sure you've noticed some of the people here actually deserve it. So I've been waiting for someone I can trust, you didn't talk about the little you knew of me when you had a chance, so I want to give you the opportunity of escaping with me. But we'll both have to pull our weight on this or else we are both dead or worse, stuck here until we Are dead." Kennex mulled this over for a moment before replying, "What do you need me to do?" Raan flashed a smile that couldn't be seen in the darkness, "I need you to fly us out of here, and to use those people skills of yours to talk our way through any unforeseen complications."

Back in the common area Raan gave in detail all he had discovered and how they might escape. About the illicit mining operations going on by other parties and how they must necessarily have access to vessels to off load their ill gotten gains. Raan's plan was to tunnel into one of these other mining shafts and find their way to the smuggler's transport and get off planet. "The articles needed to make our escape are as follows, two sets of infrared goggles, at least one functioning acoustic disruptor pack, and preferably a few blasters in case we have to fight our way through the miners on the other side. If we are fortunate we gain entry undetected, make our way to their holdings, passing off as one of their own. In the tunnels this should be manageable as they have to operate under the same no light conditions as we do in order to make collecting the spice worthwhile." Kennex thought about the plan, it was crazy. Certainly a do or die scenario. As he saw it though he was never getting out of here else wise. "This is my best chance" Kennex thought to himself." Looking at Raan he said, "We'll never get what we need by bribing the guards, they won't be fool enough to give demolitions and weapons." Raan nodded agreement, "Luckily we don't have bribe anyone. We'll take what we need from the guards..."

Raan Uiveik sat down at the table Kennex was sitting at and started eating his food rigorously until his tray was empty, then he took his fork, leaned across the table and scrapped up a helping of Kennex's food. "Hey! That was my ground up nerf!" shouted Kennex indigently. Raan chewing the other man's food obnoxiously said with it still in his mouth, "It's mine now so shut it before I help myself to more, chakaar." In a rage Kennex upturned the table shouting at Uiviek "You stuck up son of a bantha, I said I was eating that!" The pair, enraged now, lunged toward one another giving real blows to each other's sides while they struggled on the floor trying to batter one another. It wasn't long before the guards came into the mess hall blasters set to stun and took care of the two brawlers.

They awoke in separate holding cells, it wasn't a long wait before the guards came in and hauled them off to the storage area where the thermal labour suits were kept. "If you have strength to brawl then you can keep working!" Said one of the guards. "He started it!" Said Kennex stabbing a finder at Raan. Chidingly the guard replied, "I could care less who started it laserbrain! Get on your suits and move!" They shifted into their suits and moved off. They were transported to one of the older shafts that would lead deeper into the mines, where Raan had first encountered the strange vibrations.

Two guards two prisoners, routine punishment, sometimes the guards would pit the two offenders against each other for sport when they were bored and these two looked well on their way to being so. Raan and Kennex marched between the guards in single file. They needed to get to the chute that would give them their chance to deal with the guards while they were separated. Sure enough they came to a stop ahead of the chute, it was now or never. The first guard plummeted forward down the sliding rail used for descent and instead of waiting for the guard to get clear down below Kennex grabbed the rail and skidded on after him hoping to catch the guard with his feat. The other guard saw this and gave a surprised shout of "Hey!" and started after Kennex shoving Raan out of the way, but Raan expected this and when the guard was in front of him he grabbed the guard from behind wrapping his arms around his neck and head tight, then violently jerked him to the left driving the guard's head into toward the wall. The guard now dazed and in pain struggled against Raan's hold of him but Raan just squeezed his hold tighter until he moved no more. He waited a few more moments with his hold before releasing the dead man and fumbled for his goggles, finding them the put them on and then began retrieving the items required, blaster and one acoustic disruptor pack.

The air whooshed passed Kennex's face as he plummeted down the rail in total darkness after his target. Finally the moment came when he was about to reach the landing and he stretched out his legs preparing to strike the guard. A few more moments and... *Thwack* the guard howled in pain on the ground while Kennex getting up felt a rock with his hand, grasped it, and got to his feet. He found the guard laying on his stomach by his cries of pain grabbed for his face and removed his goggles, then started smashing at the back of his head with the rock. Kennex felt the spray of the man's blood strike his face but he kept striking till he stopped screaming. When it was finished he grabbed at the dust like sediment of crushed rock on the ground to try and wipe the blood off his hands and face before feeling around for the man's goggles. Finding them he put them on and retrieving the rest of his gear.

Kennex heard the noise of someone coming down the chute and got ready in case it was the other guard, though it was Raan who landed with a huff then looked around and saw the body on the ground then turned to his comrade, "Good work" he said, "I have the disruptor so let's get going." Raan took the lead down the tunnel and they moved off.

Kennex thought about how much easier it was to move around with the aid of the goggles. He also saw Raan periodically stop and run his hands along the walls as if looking for something. Raan spoke up, "I left a long gash in the wall over time where I first heard the sound of the other miners' equipment, it should be right about... Here" he reached into the collection pouch designed for the spice and pulled out the acoustic disruptor charge. Fiddling with the settings he attached it to the wall, armed it, and then they moved back to a safe distance. With an almost teeth shattering boom the wall crumbled, but not with the few inches it normally did to find the spice within, this time a visible opening crumbled before the two escapees to an adjacent tunnel. Raan, shouting with elation said "I knew it! I knew I had heard something on the other side!" The excitement of the moment was almost too much to contain as they could almost taste the freedom that this act of defiance had given them. Finally Raan took a few deep breaths and slipped silently into the new tunnel with Kennex following. It was lower than what they had come to be used to, but for a group that was trying not to be noticed it really only made sense. Kennex took a look over at Raan before saying "We should probably move quickly up the tunnel, the further we are away from this hole the better we will be able to bluff our way passed any search teams that might have heard the blast." Raan nodded agreement, "Let's get moving.". They set off at a brisk jog down the tunnel hoping that they didn't run into anyone too soon, but if they did the blasters they took from the guards would ensure they wouldn't give up without a fight.

They got far enough to run out of breath before they decided to slow down, if someone had suspected something they'd have come out to look by now. They kept moving at a walking pace unwilling to stop for rest. "The longer this is the better our chance in a way" Said Raan, "But I hope we reach the end soon." Kennex grunted an agreement, "I'm getting sick of tunnels as well. Feels like I've spent years in them but I know that's not true." Suddenly they heard footsteps in the distance, then even more surely they saw on their goggles the heat signatures growing larger as they approached each other. Raan said "If you can't talk our way past them, we kill them. So be ready." Kennex's mind raced with different things he might be able to say, dismissing most of them as too crazy with the lack of information he had at his command about this new foe. Do they have call signs? Do they even speak basic? Are they all one species or many? His mind continued to race right up until they were within true eye shot of each other when the simplest thought hit him and he went with it...

They were getting closer and closer, Raan subtly fingered the settings of the blaster he took from the guards, making sure for the tenth time that the safety was off and the weapon was primed. He really hoped this kid has some quick words to get passed these miners, a confrontation now felt too soon to allow their escape to succeed. Raan followed behind Kennex ready to follow his lead on whatever he planned to do. The two miners were coming closer, closer, and then they were there on the other side of what could be called the track that they were all walking. Kennex wasn't saying anything, "Did he freeze up? Is he going to botch it all?" The sudden worry as they came ever closer consumed Raan and it was all he could do to keep his mouth shut and not make his hand on his blaster too obvious. To his surprise and dismay Kennex said nothing to the miners as they passed each other and he felt for sure they were cooked but both groups just kept walking in their own directions. Nothing had happened. after about ten minutes Raan stepped up closer to Kennex and asked in a hush but harsh tone, "What the hell was that? Why didn't they stop us!" Kennex shrugged then said, "Well I remembered what you said about them, it's an illegal operation right? So they have to keep under the radar, which also means keeping noise to a minimum. So instead of talking to them it felt the most natural thing was to just keep quiet and walking." Raan looked at his comrade in astonishment, it made sense, but he still felt a bit incredulous about the idea. After a while longer they finally found an access point to the illegal mining facility which was a lift to a higher level. They took the lift nervously knowing that wherever they were now, it was unknown territory. As they proceeded higher they noticed lights, real lights. it was a grateful sight until they realised that the thermal suits of the prison might not match that of this outfit. Still it was do or die and they would face whatever came their way next.

The lift took them up to a lighted area that had a few loader droids and repulser skids but looked clear, this luck couldn't hold for long Raan felt. They jogged to the big door looking for it's controls, Kennex finding them hit the activation panel and they waited as the doors opened to a large area that had a few buildings with plasteel windows opening out from the rock. There were about twenty humanoids walking around doing various tasks and they started walking briskly in as if they were supposed to be there heading towards what looked like an access heading higher up. They got about half way when someone noticed them and stared, the pair ignored the staring man and kept moving trying not to quicken their pace to confirm his suspicion that something wasn't quite right about them. They managed to get into the access way and once they rounded the corner they ran up the stairs taking them two at a time in their hurry to get away from that open area. After climbing the stairs they took a turn trying to find some hint of where it was they were heading but finding none. They ducted into a maintenance room to get out of sight. Kennex was first to speak in a whisper, "We need to find out where the hanger is, if we continue aimlessly walking around this place we will be found out and killed." Raan looked to either side before responding, "We need to nab one of em. Make em tell us where the hanger bay is or put a blaster in his back and have him escort us there. I don't see any other way of getting out of here alive."

They didn't have to wait long before some poor slob came down the hall. Rather than risk him calling out in pain during torture they elected to go the route of a charged blaster barrel dug deep into his back to do the convincing for them, they wanted to be taken to the hanger and it was either get there or get dead. So it narrowed it down for the poor slob. Raan dug his blaster a little deeper into the captive's side before saying, "Remember you die first if you take us somewhere we don't want to be." The captive was sweating profusely, "Alright! Alright! I get it!" Do you have to jab me so hard with that damn thing!" Kennex walking along beside them using his body to help try to conceal the blaster in his comrade's hand said, "Shut up and keep moving." Luckily the facility wasn't too massive, it didn't take them much longer to reach the hanger bay. The captive miner asked in a shaky voice "We here, you're not going to kill me... right?" Kennex nodded, "You did as we asked so you're off the hook." The captive let out a relieved sigh, "Oh thank you! I thought for sure you were going to kill me." Raan shook his head, "No you'll live but you're going to have one bad headache for a while." The captive looked shocked for a moment and asked, "Wait what? Why am I..." when he was cut off by the crack of a blaster's pistol grip coming down on his head." Raan looked at his partner and shrugged, it's better for us all this way, he's not dead and he doesn't get a chance to do anything in time.

Kennex looked at the few different vessels from the entrance to the hanger bay, there seemed to be allot of activity around one transport that was being loaded up, presumably with spice. He elected for a corellian YT-2400 sitting in a corner with no apparent activity. The two convicts didn't waste any time trying to be subtle now, they dashed toward the ship. Reaching it, Raan covered Kennex while he worked with the ramp controls. This got the attention of a maintenance crew, they started moving towards them hydrospanners in hand and calling out, "Hey, what're you doing?" in excited voices. Raan brought his blaster to bare and fired of a volley around them to get them to go to ground or run away. They dropped behinds the boxes of spice. Kennex got the controls to cooperate and then the pair rushed up the ramp. Raan turned on his heel at the top to let out another volley of fire down the ramp to discourage any pursuit while Kennex worked on closing the ramp. Once the ramp was secure he shouted to Raan as he sped for the cockpit, "Hop into one of the turrets while I get her fired up. We may need to blast our way out of here too!" Raan complied running for the weapons station down a ladder and climbed into the turret chair. Already a slew of miners and other personnel began to swarm towards their captured ship, Raan powered up the weapons and concentrating on the largest group he fired the duel laser cannons into the crowd. Kennex made it into the pilot's chair, it'd been too long since he felt the a ship's control panel at his fingertips, but now wasn't the time to revel in that feeling. He quickly started punching up the start up sequenced and listened as the ship's engines whined then thrummed to life. He pulled back gently on the controls and glided the ship round to the hanger door. It was closing right before his eyes "Raan!" He shouted in the ship's comm, "Fire on the rock ceiling! We have to trap the doors open with the falling rock!" He oriented the ship so the lower turret could aim at the slowly closing door's ceiling, watching as the brilliant bolts of red laser cannon fire blasted the rock ceiling. The falling chunks of rock fell into the track of the door, checking the door's progress. Kennex aimed the ship for the space remaining and hit the accelerator. Kennex and his comrade Raan shot out of the hanger into space and freedom...