{"id":4238,"date":"2024-01-24T02:09:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:11:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:11:49","slug":"gurps-star-wars-vanguard-s1e05b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/?p=4238","title":{"rendered":"GURPS Star Wars: Vanguard, S1E05b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Vanguard-banner.jpg?w=600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  \/><\/p>\n<fieldset class=\"PCs\">\n<legend><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Category:PCs_(Vanguard)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insurgent Team Vanguard<\/a><\/legend>\n<ul>\n<li>GM: Ronnke<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Bostco_Buczynski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bostco Buczynski<\/a> (FX Engineer)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Darrrill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darrrill<\/a> (Nosh)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Nim_Zholwa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nim Zholwa<\/a> (Gigermann)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=RK-0336_%22Luck%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RK-0336 &#8220;Luck&#8221;<\/a> (Rigil Kent)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?title=Tina_%22Tiny%22_Crankshaft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tina &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Crankshaft<\/a> (Mel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Live Stream<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MSmjJMOS4WM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/spotifyanchor-web.app.link\/e\/3S9rrHcUDGb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast<\/a><\/fieldset>\n<h3>Episode 5: Rebellion&#8217;s Call, Part 2<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mission Objective: The group is tasked by Saul Gerrera to break into an Imperial communications facility and acquire communication logs to disrupt the Empire (2:59-3:47).<\/li>\n<li>Facility Information: Bosco successfully gathered information about the facility, learning it was built on an old mine with a recent cave-in creating an unexpected breach (4:11-5:31).<\/li>\n<li>Stealth and Infiltration: The team decided on a stealthy approach, with plans to use the mine as an entry point (5:41-5:50, 54:42).<\/li>\n<li>Character Contributions:\n<ul>\n<li>Bosco: Used his social skills to &#8220;turn&#8221; an Imperial officer named Trina, who now serves as an unwitting asset with high-level security access, potentially providing key card copies (9:56-28:56).<\/li>\n<li>Darrrill: Won a device from a smuggler that provides a +1 bonus to security-related roles, aiding in bypassing security (31:50-32:18).<\/li>\n<li>Luck: Conducted physical observation of the facility, estimating 20-30 troopers on site and noting the presence of Moff Panaka (35:50-37:02).<\/li>\n<li>Nim: Utilized Streetwise to find criminal vulnerabilities, learning about local personnel in Hobs&#8217; pocket who could be utilized for a cost (38:45-41:12).<\/li>\n<li>Tina: Researched the facility&#8217;s security systems, gaining a +1 bonus to hacking-related roles, and also repaired her lightsaber and learned &#8220;Force Pull&#8221; (43:52-52:27, 1:06:10-1:09:00).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Disastrous Plan: Despite initial successes in information gathering, a critical failure during the tactics roll indicated a &#8220;disastrous plan&#8221; with a worse-than-expected &#8220;bad&#8221; outcome, suggesting unforeseen complications, possibly related to Trina being a double agent (1:00:00-1:04:13).<\/li>\n<li>Limpet Mines: Saul Gerrera provided limpet mines, intending to render the facility inoperable after the data acquisition (57:28-59:53).<\/li>\n<li>The mission&#8217;s success is now largely dependent on navigating the unforeseen challenges stemming from the critically failed tactical planning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Player Notes:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Full house again.<\/li>\n<li>This recap is <em>insanely<\/em> late. It&#8217;s one of those things I kept meaning to getting around to, but life kept getting in the way.<\/li>\n<li>This recap is also a YT AI summary because I&#8217;m super lazy &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insurgent Team Vanguard GM: Ronnke Bostco Buczynski (FX Engineer) Darrrill (Nosh) Nim Zholwa (Gigermann) RK-0336 &#8220;Luck&#8221; (Rigil Kent) Tina &#8220;Tiny&#8221; Crankshaft (Mel) Live Stream YouTube Podcast Episode 5: Rebellion&#8217;s Call, Part 2 Mission Objective: The group is tasked by Saul Gerrera to break into an Imperial communications facility and acquire communication logs to disrupt the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,67],"tags":[38,36,39,69],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-logs-star-wars-vanguard","category-star-wars-vanguard","tag-campaign","tag-gurps","tag-recap","tag-star-wars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4239,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions\/4239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olympusrpg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}