Barqs POV:
"Well, what's the plan now? Just hold out here until somebody comes looking for us?" I asked, looking over at Captain Smith. "For now, yes. We need to make a more permanent shelter." Stull spoke up "Well if we can always build something? I mean we've got the tools, and once Redeye gets better, I'm sure he could help us out a lot." Smith stood up and looked at us and said "It's not like we have much of a choice in the matter. For now, everyone's going to relocate to one of the less damaged barracks rooms here in the cruiser, instead of cramming into the walker again. We'll assign the battle droids to do security, and rotate one trooper for over watch from one central location. In the morning, we'll start on working on the new shelter. Now let's go to chow."
The next morning, I went up and got Greene to bring him to chow. During our morning briefing, Smith laid out our plans to the rest of the group. "Alright, now that we've got a few more here with us, we're going to have to make a more permanent shelter. Any suggestions you guys might have can go a long way." Dogbreath spoke up and said "Well, we could cut down some trees, then build something from scratch, or use the cruiser itself." "Hey Captain? You guys eating chow without me?" We all stopped and turned towards the blast door. Standing in the door was Redeye, holding his arm. "Redeye!?" We all said in shock "Your alive, you son of a bitch!" Hanis jumped up, and hurried over to Redeye. "What happened? All I remember is us coming under attack on the cruiser. Did we make it out? Also I thought we were getting reinforced by the 182nd Attack Battalion, not the 2nd Recon Battalion." When he said that, we all looked at each other, then to Captain Smith. He stammered a little saying "Uhhh…Well I don't know how to say this, but we sustained a little bit of damage when we came under attack and had to erm…land on this system." Redeye laughed and asked "We got shot down didn't we?" "Yeah, and this is Sergeant Palmer of 2nd Recon. He and Trooper Barlax found you and the rest of the engineers in an escape pod, and took care of you until we found them." Smith said, as Hanis helped him over to a chair.
"Well Cap, I heard most of the plan. I assume by what I've heard so far that we're marooned here with no communications with the fleet. Also I assume the two platoons of battle droids outside are on our side?" Redeye Said. "Perceptive as always I see. Think we can pull it off?" Smith asked. Redeye nodded and said "I'm sure we can pull it off with what we have on hand. Though I may not be of much help for a little while." Everyone laughed, then smith said "Alright, Let's get to work. Redeye, come and join Stull, Spade, Barqs, and Palmer up in the bridge, once you feel up to it." He nodded, and we departed the mess hall. About fifteen minutes later, Redeye joined us on the bridge. "Alright now that Redeye's here, we can get started." I said, then smith continued "Right, now redeye here's what we've got on hand. We have a good majority of scrap from the cruiser we can use, as well as trees all over the place that we could use for structural supports. What I was thinking was creating a structure and have it attached to the side hangar door. We can use the side hangar as the main room, which we can further divide if we want to, and use the outside structure as a guard post. What do you think of that?"
Redeye thought a moment before speaking "It could work, but I have a few questions. Has the whole ship been searched for useful equipment or supplies? Also, how do we plan on fortifying the interior of the ship? I assume we won't be using the entire thing as a shelter." I spoke up "As far as searching the ship, we have searched the majority of the bow. The mid ship cargo bay still has supplies as well as the mess storage, the west armory, the rear cargo bay. We haven't searched thru most of the stern of the cruiser, due to when we searched it, the engines where still unstable. My plan was to move all the useable cargo and supplies to the mid ship cargo bay seeing as it is closest to where we've been staying and operating." Stull spoke up and said "Well I can get that West armory cleared out within an hour or so, just need a few crates." Smith looked over to him and said "Go ahead and grab Eddie, and move everything to the East armory." Stull nodded and headed out of the bridge. Spade stood up and said "I'll grab Dogbreath, Barlax, Greene, and Snoops down to the stern and start tossing the ship." Smith gave him the go ahead, and he departed the bridge as well. I looked over to Smith and Palmer and said "Well, Palmer, Vargus, Hanis, and I can go work on getting the supplies into the mid ship cargo bay." Smith nodded and we departed the bridge.
