AN: I had to wonder how/why exactly HK wound up completely ionized on the retrieval mission. That led to this.
Who Watches the Watchers
Subject: Mission 'Forgotten Fear' Debrief Audio/Video Transcript
Proctor: "Abyss Watchers post mission evaluation. Let's begin. State your name and species for the record please."
NE: "Hey could I get some caf in here? Dark, double sweet?" He sighs. "Nisskal Epsken, Slussi, Abyss Watcher Nern-6-Besh. Clearance level 7, headache level 9." Nisskal rubs his temples.
Proctor: "Mr. Epsken, how would you describe yourself?"
NE: "Well, I like to think of myself as...a people person."
A video file starts playing, taken from what looks to be the internal camera of a crashed starship. A heavily armored Epsken ambushes a quartet of Trandoshan mercenaries, coiling around one and grabbing the next nearest to use as an impromptu shield as the other two open fire. The Slussi tosses the body at the other two, knocking them down as the grappled Trandoshan scales starts taking on an unhealthy shade of blue. A pair of blaster bolts silences the pair on the ground, followed shortly by the sounds of bones crunching as the last trandoshan goes limp in his coils. "Eugh." Nisskal says as he drops the trandoshan to the floor. Video ends.
Proctor: "How do you feel about the performance of the rest of your team, Sarrin for example?"
NE: "Sarrin is a professional through and through, calm and cool. Like a Jedi."
The video file is from the same ship, but rents in the superstructre show a planetary background of inhospitable lava flows and igneous formations. An absolutely massive Chistori bellows out a challenge as he punts a droideka out one of the holes before diving for cover as a squad of B3's appear and fire on his position. Seconds later he pops up firing a literal swath of death with a rotary blaster cannon as the B3s and everthing behind them disappear at knee height. Video ends.
Proctor: "And Olvia Neal. She's been noted to play by her own rules."
NE: "She's a Corellians' Corellian. Rules and orders are open to interpretation, and I haven't had an issue with her performance so far." Epsken takes a sip from a cup of steaming caf.
Video file of a Lux-400 Star Yacht idling on a pad as a pair of Nemodians run towards it, blaster fire being heard in distance. A third figure rises, clad in a camouflage optical cloak with a snub-nosed repeating blaster carbine in hand and drops both of the Nemoidians before boarding the yacht herself. Moments later the door from where the Nemoidians were fleeing detonates outward as a rust colored droid stalks out of the inferno. The yacht takes off as the assassin droid peppers the starship with shots as it withdraws. Scores of battledroids start converging on the assassin droid. Video ends.
Proctor: "How about Issa Shir?"
NE: "Great kid. Absolutely surgical in the field."
This video file seems to be from a BX series droid commando as it enters a room to see a female Duros slicing into the a computer system before she looks up and fires what looks to be a microgrenade launcher at the droid. It impacts the droid in the chest and static fills the screen. Seconds later the static clears as the droid turns around and begins firing at other droids. A muttered "Hope this one lasts longer than the last one." in Durese is caught by the droids audio sensors as it guards it's new mistress. Video ends.
Proctor: "Then how do you explain the frankly excessive force used to retrieve one singular droid?"
NE: "...Enthusiasm?"
Video is again from the droid as it shows Epsken and Sarrin physically strong-arming what suspiciously looks like a starship-grade ion cannon out of its mount while Shir is connecting cables to power it. "Did Neal cutoff the droids' escape route?" Epsken asks Sarrin. "If you mean stealing the ship rather than blowing it up, then yes." The Chistori chuckles ruefully. "And the CIS droids, Issa?" "All of them in the area besides Boxy here are currently after the assassin droid and are herding him to the KZ." "Great. Lets get this baby prepped and bag the boss lady an assassin droid!" Five minutes later, HK-47s' memorable indroduction the Abyss Watchers was concluded with a literal baptism of ionization energy. Video Ends.
NE: "Hey, do you guys serve breakfast?"
) doesn't actually mean Kashyyyk is going to be attacked.
