[center]~| 15:12 GST - 15:31 |~
~| Aboard the Kaggath, Engineering deck 02 |~[/center]

It appeared to be an ordinary day for Lani as she was tasked with maintenance on the tractor beam. The thing hadn’t been checked since two  weeks before the initial foray onto Coruscant and was long overdue for basic maintenance. The Corporal who was initially assigned was lax in their duties and was punished accordingly. [i] Now looks like I have to clean up the mess that wretch has left me...[/i] Petty Officer thought to herself as she checked on the terminal to assess the damage. [i] Well looks like this will take a day to fully get back to optimal efficiency[/i]  she thought to herself begrudgingly as she loathed lengthy maintenance work but it needed to be done to not invoke the wrath of her superiors. Within a few moments the tractor beam was down and with that she went to work oblivious to what she had potentially enabled.

It so happened that the air ducts above that particular location were not empty. In fact, the vent just above and behind Petty Officer Lana’s head held the small countenance of the small droid known to some as Navi. After visiting the prison complex without the pleasure of being truly reunited with its master, he had left the area, hoping to find a way for Xid to depart this place. Analysis of the Ship systems indicated it was not a healthy place for his master.

It had taken Navi hours of searching to find anything useful. The ship systems were too secure to easily sabotage. He had searched the vessel for many hours, hoping to find a way past the security, all without success. It might have been chance that led him here, to a smaller control room on the engineering deck. He looked out through the vent, focusing one of his lenses upon the large monitor before the human technician working there. 

“Tractor beam control” was the text on top. That immediately drew his interest. If his master was to get out somehow, disabling that system would change the odds of a successful escape from 1:324522 to 1:4823. He began the calculations for how he was to subdue the human and seize control of the system. That was the logical choice.

As some of his processors calculated that, he kept reading the text on the monitor. “Initiate full maintenance cycle? Yes / no” he read. Had he had a mouth, he would have smiled. That was just what his master needed. He prepared to force the vent open, subdue the human with a carefully aimed liquid cable shot and activate the maintenance cycle when the human pressed the button to activate it.

Navi stopped his action just as he was about to slam his legs into the vent, his small mind realizing it was no longer necessary. A plan began forming in his mind. He quickly recorded what the monitor stated as a simple holo, then chirped once before realizing that was a bad idea. The system would be down for maintenance for the next 30 hours. More than enough to get his master out. That was the most important thing.

Before the human below could realize where the noise came from, he scurried off down the air duct, seeking one or more of the escape pod corridors. The odds of getting to those safely were 261.03% better than the odds of securing a vessel in the ship’s hangar. He would have to map a safe route from the prison as well. He had much work to do and only 30 hours to do it in.