The player characters have answered a distress call from the Vebos Research Station around the gas giant Mari. Suddenly, they see three fighters coming straight for them:
REFEREE: What do you do?
SCOTT: The engines canna take it, Cap’n!
MICHAELA: Stop it.
SCOTT: Sorry.
MICHAELA: You just wanted to play the engineer because your name’s Scott.
SCOTT: Guilty as charged.
REFEREE: Focus! The fighters are coming straight for you! Roll Position!
FRED: Right.
FRED rolls a 4 and adds that to his character’s Vehicles score to get 7. The REFEREE rolls a 1, 3, and 4 for the three fighters.
REFEREE: You got a 7, the fighters got 5, 4, and 2. You have Position.
FRED: Huh.
DAPHNE: Not very good, are they? Can I smoke ’em yet?
REFEREE: Not yet. Michaela? Your orders?
MICHAELA: Captain Olivia, if you please.
REFEREE: “Olivia”, then? Your orders?
MICHAELA: I’m going to be a Magnificent Bastardo!
FRED: Bastarda.
MICHAELA: What?
REFEREE: Fine. Roll it. 2 Disadvantage.
MICHAELA rolls four dice, keeps the two worst which is still a 6, which with her Vehicles skill makes 8.
MICHAELA: Yes! I mean, uh, most satisfactory.
REFEREE: The fighters can’t act this turn. At all.
SCOTT: I’m overcharging the weapons.
REFEREE: That’s +1D to your Guns score … if you hit.
FRED: Attack vector.
FRED rolls snake eyes, which only gives him a 5 on his Vehicles throw.
REFEREE: Whoops! You really messed up your attack vector. No Advantage for you.
FRED: Oh.
DAPHNE: All up to me then!
DAPHNE rolls a 5 … but with her Combat that makes 8!
DAPHNE: Yes!
MICHAELA: A hit! A palpable hit!
FRED: Palpable? Ew.
REFEREE: Roll damage.
On six dice DAPHNE rolls a 21, which overwhelms one fighter’s 14/17 armor. The GM rolls 5 on the Critical Hit table: Knocked Out.
REFEREE: The fighter’s lights go off and it drifts along its former attack vector.
DAPHNE gets a high five.
REFEREE: That’s everyone, right?
MICHAELA, SCOTT, FRED, and DAPHNE nod.
REFEREE: Right! On to round two!
MICHAELA: Status report, Mr. Cruz!
FRED: Same as last round?
REFEREE: Roll for Position.
And so it goes …