"Let's go have a look then,"

Izzy keeps his blaster near to hand, the saboteur is probably gone but he is not in the mood for any more nasty surprises. As they walk towards the damaged area Izzy frowns and turns to Rion.

"Hey just a thought. We may want to check the droid maintenance bay. A reprogrammed droid would make a fine saboteur, and it would fit with some of the evidence as well as a very convenient location. What do you think?"

"TeeNine can try his best. Estimated probability at repairing the hyperdrive between 50 and 75%" The little droid beeps back to Rion in response.

"The drive core is this way," the Marine corporal acknowledges, gesturing for you to follow. "The main terminal should still be online, so once you log on we can perform a diagnostic and see about getting the hyperdrive back online."

Izzy follows the marine and TeeNine warily, but keeps his Renegade in hand. His eyes keep drifting up to the droid deck, half expecting to see a machine staring back at him.

"Sabotage is your area right?" He whispers to Rion. "I might just take a quick look around upstairs..."

"Ok, let's give this a shot!"

"Okay, T9, let's do this...the faster, the better!"

While he works, I keep an eye out for any additional sabotage--a thorough saboteur might have left another surprise for anyone trying to fix the hyperdrive.

TeeNine rolls up to the main hyperdrive console, which like all the computers in the room sits there dead and functionless. Plugging in, he activates the startup sequence for the computer, and after a few moments a security screen appears asking for the password. "Tango Hotel X-Ray One One Three Eight," the marine corporal prompts, and TeeNine enters the code. There is a pause as it computes. A message flashes up - 'Login successful' - and then above you you hear a low rumble. "What the..." the corporal begins.

Engine room people (TeeNine, Rion, Izzy) need to take a Hard Coordination or Athletics check, with Setback as they don't know what's coming (DDDS).

Coordination vs unknown rumbling: 4eA+3eD+1eS 0 successes, 1 threat

Coordination: 3eD+1eS+2eA+1eP 0 successes, 3 threat

TeeNine jerks and wobbles as the unexpected rumbling knocks him off balance.

The three individuals in the engine room look up towards the rumbling. "What the..." the corporal begins, before a klaxon begins to blare in the room. The low rumble grows to a thundering roar, and through the open door behind you a wall of water comes smashing through. You are each of you picked up, carried, and slammed against the wall. Iquizzil gets off relatively lightly, catching on to a handrail on the wall as the tide of lukewarm water carries him along. He strains to keep his lungs filled with air, as the tide rushes around him. Rion too is caught by the tide, but rather than catching a handrail he is instead slammed against one of the room's support columns, knocking the air out of his lungs and leaving him straining for survival. TeeNine at least is able to magnetise himself to the floor, but the water rushes into his servos. He feels the stiffness creeping through the outer layers of his hull even as his inner systems remain untouched.

Even as the inhabitants of the hyperdrive core feel themselves beginning to succumb to the loss of oxygen, they feel the current die down. A few moments more, struggling with the encroaching darkness, and they feel able to strike out for the top of the room. The high ceiling of the hyperdrive room is their salvation: the tide of water - wherever it came from - has been stemmed before it can fill the room, and one by one you surface, save for TeeNine who is settled at the bottom of the room, his internal comlink able to transmit at least within the room. As you come up, you see the technician clinging on to a light fitting, while the armoured marines are struggling up, the air supplies within their helmets sustaining them even as they attempt to get out of the flood. One of them makes it up to you. "What's going on?" he panickedly shouts to the technician.

"We must have activated a trap," he responds. "I think this must be from the water purification plant, but if that's the case the whole engineering section is flooded, as well as anything not sealed off."

Izzy takes one strain, Rion and TeeNine each take two. Rion also has the 'Discouraging Wound' crit, so I'm flipping a Destiny Point for that.

Izzy struggles to catch his breath and clear his head. Another trap, this whole area must be rigged. He makes an attempt to move towards the direction of the exit, pulling himself along any handholds he can find.

"TeeNine, Rion, you both ok? I'm no expert but I'm guessing this means the hyperdrive is not gonna be fixed now?"

Turning to the technician Izzy's frustration begins to boil over.

"How the hell are so many traps set up and nobody noticed! Who's been here? Any new droids? Any visitors? Any new engineering staff?... other than me," he adds as a concerned afterthought.

"The visitors, it must be one of them," says the lone marine. "I can't see anyone else doing this. The crew have served together for years, we're loyal to one-another. Give me a moment, and I'll check in with command," he activates his comlink in his helmet, going quiet for a moment that you use to help the remaining marines above the water. Two aren't moving, one of whom had obviously taken off his helmet for a moment and never gotten a chance to retrieve it. Your situation seems pretty bleak - but not as much as for that of the group in the crew quarters, who have full communications and full knowledge of what is going on.

"Can you confirm, captain?" Callom asks.

"Indeed," Kozik responds. "With the engineering section flooded we've lost primary power. As of now we are drifting in space without direction. In thirty-two minutes we will be caught by the gravitational pull of the nearby planet, in a rapidly decaying orbit. We are going down."

"Captain," comms Izzy "Are you giving the call to abandon ship?" He asks, assisting a marine with his breathing apparatus, while considering the irony of a battleship outside that needs to do nothing but watch, as the Rendili Star expires in front of it.

"Specialist Vrixxi, are you in the engineering section? How many of you are there?" Kozik asks. "We're not abandoning ship yet. I've got Lieutenant Dornik working on a solution. In the meantime, you sit tight while your companions head to the passenger deck and make sure everyone there is secure."

"Yeah, we're here captain. There's about half a dozen of us. Me, Rion, think TeeNine's still running somewhere under the water. There's also a technician and a couple of marines." Izzy pauses to catch his breath. "Captain, I'm gonna see what TeeNine can do down there, his mag-lock and lack of a requirement for breathing means he's the only one here who can help right now. I'm not sure if 'secure' is an option here, 'floating' seems to be the priority. Keep me posted on anything we can do, Captain."

Izzy then tries to contact the astromech.

"Hey TeeNine, can you get to an interface? See if you can run a diagnostics, find out if you can vent some of this water into an airlock for the time being?"

TeeNine accesses the computer, and locates multiple airlocks in the engineering section. He could vent them, but doing so would require deactivating the safety locks intended to prevent free flows of air from the corridor to the external hull at each point. Any crew caught in the area without space suits would likely be killed; yet not activating the airlocks would prevent any repairs being made at all. He informs you of these details.

Sorry to co-opt the character, but as it's a half-second process to locate and transmit the information to the HUDs, comm-sets and other assorted devices of the team I thought I could slightly auto-pilot that.

Izzy groans, already the choice becoming clear in his head. How to save as many lives as possible was the task. Opening comms to Kozik.

"Captain? It's Vrixxi. Ok TeeNine can vent some of this flood through the airlocks, only it will endanger all local unprotected personnel. If you still have ship wide communications we could give the crew a five minute warning to evacuate the high risk areas and find void suits where available? I just can't see another solution that will allow us to get the Hyperdrive operational before the Sith begin an attack, or worse.

I await your orders Captain..."

"Most sections of the ship are still secure, but many are without comms due to the flooding, or else we don't have contact with any personnel there. We have secure storage rooms that are still dry thanks to their being magnetically sealed at all times, but many will be hard to get to. I'll contact what crew I can, but you'll need to reach one of them soon. I'll have Dornik send you a route to one, but he's still working on an overall solution so you'll have to wait a few moments. Any problems with that?"

Mechanics: 3eP+3eD 2 successes, 1 Triumph

TeeNine's servos kick into high gear as he scans his datacores for relevant information.

You realise that while the main power generator is flooded, the auxiliary generator can be opened to the void of space if needed. Now is such a time, and as the generator room is commonly unstaffed you could eject the water into the void and get it running again, at least allowing you some basic control while you work on a more advanced plan. Such an action would be simple from your terminal, as like all computers on the ship it is networked, and you still have the clearance codes for all of engineering.

"Do it TeeNine, it our only hope,"

TeeNine Emfour, through his jack into the computer terminal, enters the clearance codes to access the auxiliary generator and ejects the water into the cold void of space.

With the room cleared, TeeNine is able to close the blast doors and access the internal systems remotely. "If you've got access," the technician comments. "Power up the maneuvering thrusters and direct the ship out of freefall and into an orbit."

Waiting for Revanchist7 to respond, then I shall move on.

"Powering up thrusters! Operating at 83% efficiency. Estimated orbit in 45 seconds."