Bothawui

[fuzzy_ewok]

A single mischance and horribly bad judgment parsecs away are about to have devistating consequences for the unfortunate Bothans on this distant and remote planet.

 

Over the captial city of Bothawui, the citizens are happy and carefree- the empire and rebels wars distant and not of immediate concern. The petty conflicts are removed from their day to day affairs. Nothing bad could come of them. Really. Truly. Even something as insignifigant as a Nastarine retalitory attack for a dismantled probe droid should have no bearing what so ever on this world's peace.

 

Of course, fate is not always kind. Who would think that a band of rabid, communist Ewoks would try launching their world devistating weapon of destruction against a simple transport. Then when the Taepodong 2 Hyperspace missile shot into the aether of its namesake, randomly flying through the spirals of the galaxy, what would the odds be it would, in following its programing, pull out and smite the first large gravity source it came across with its nuclear fires, chose an inhabited, thriving world like Bothawui?

 

The exact odds are 1:666,666,666.

 

Today, it would be as if God Himself has foresaken the whole world, turning away with studied indifference on this jewel.

 

Today, Bothawui is about to become Hell on Earth.

 

A young female Bothan child is out in a field picking flowers in the wild, lush country outside the capital city. She bends down to pick one and in her tiny, delicate hands, picks off the petals. LBJ in his campaigns against Goldwater, in galaxy far, far away into the distant future, couldn't have asked for a better model.

 

10...

 

The missile pulls from orbit.

 

9....

 

Zooming at the fastest possible sublight speed, it races through defenses, ships, and surpasses even the abilities of the sensors to pick up.

 

8...

 

The poor unfortunates with only seconds left in their short, tragic lives might see a bright streak rapidly falling from the heavens.

 

7...

 

The missile clears the atmosphere, it's deadly payload activating

 

6....

 

The first sense of something hidiously wrong registers on all concerned.

 

5....

 

The Taepodong 2 Missile activates in mid air.

 

4...

 

A blinding flash spreads across the sky, covering the whole hemisphere.

 

3...

 

The little girl looks up, blinded by this brilliant explosion. She unconsciously still picks the petals, watching a brilliant ultraviolet and blue fireball shoot out.

 

2...

 

The capital city is practically atomized from the force of the explosion, which would leave a crator over a three and a half miles deep into the bedrock over the former city. The girl Bothan screams as her face starts to melt off.

 

1...

 

The petals, scattered to the wind, distintigrate.

 

The mushroom cloud drawn by this explosion can be seen from the other end of the system. The whole planet shakes and rumbles as radiation bursts to ooze over the four corners of the globe. Those who would live would face an exponentially rising cancer rate, severe burns, and wallow in grief and despair. The EMP shockwave takes out electronics on the whole planet for an hour, causing chaos and destruction even on the other side of the shattered rock.

 

In the aftermath, hours later, when the smoke has cleared, nothing remains. Miraculously, a few scattered survivors ((Namely: Any PCs in this thread and about say.... 2 dozen others total)) endured the blast, escaping unharmed. Miraculously? On this day?

 

No, it was a cruel jest from an uncaring universe. In the absolute and total destruction, far, far better to have perished than live on in this irradiated and red tinged wasteland. The vast dust thrown into the air has a sickly, crimson tinge, akin to the red banner of China of the Soviet Union. Bothawui would be in for an ice age, destroying those who might survive the initial dose of radiation.

 

One survivor, covered in horrible, glowing scars and not long for this world due to the irradiated wounds, sinks to his knees and lets out a cry, a howl, a soul tearing wail of total despair as everything he knew and loved vanished beyond recall in some tragic, unforeseen event, metted out by an uncaring universe whose chill surpasses even the poetry of Stephen Crane.

 

The nuclear holocaust had struck- not out of intended malice against the Bothans per say- but out of a terrible mischance. Woe unto Bothawui and woe unto those who would live in the wake of such tragedy. Over half a world was annihilated, billions perished, and the ecosystem damaged beyond recall. To those who lived, only their grief, and a sense of wonder and questioning- screaming to God "Why?", inevitably leading to vengence is left to them.

 

((Here's the scoop: Any PCs left, you're alive and unharmed, but need to vacate before radiation poisoning finishes you off. You have the clothes on your back and maybe about a half dozen others surviving in that hemisphere. Everything else- gone in the blast.

 

Have a nice day! ))

[fuzzy_ewok]

Creening out of hyperspace, the Ewoks Communist weapon of destruction, the Taepodong 2 emerges over Bothawui and once more death speeds down towards the already shattered surface of the planet.

 

Before Admidala even know what's happening...

 

Before Yuusuke can react....

 

The missile breaks the atmosphere and hits the ground with a sonic boom, ear splitting velocity and explodes in a blinding flash...

 

The planet blinks....

 

And all is... calm?

 

The missile, pulverized by its impact makes a small crator, destroying a small shack in a field and several farming impliments there in. Its delicate component parts are shattered beyond recognition or repair, leaving only a hulking metal shell of this awesome weapon.

 

A short time later a shuttle makes a bumpy exit from hyperspace and an even bumpier landing. Landing with a loud crash, two small tiny, furry Ewoks, carrying large spears step out, wearing their red hoods and clothes and striding on their paws across to the wreckage, examining it with large, luminous eyes. One of the teddy-bear like creature prods the nuke with his spear, then turns angrily to the others, waving his paws and spear in the air.

 

"Yub yub Huta chata baka!!!"

 

[You idiot! You forgot to load the Uranium PU 36 Space Modulator!]

 

"Huya machuta risu!" retorts the other, waving his spear.

 

[Oh yeah! You told Chairman Willet you were going to load it!]

 

The two argue for some time... long enough to attract a small crowd to witness the two yelling back and forth, long enough for the missile to cool down. Finally, the first swats the other across the nose and the second with a "Club, Club, Commander!" heaves the missile up onto a stretcher, and the two carry it back into its shuttle and take off back for Endor, vanishing into hyperspace.