[quote=Schradinger]
Only if you're using them wrong. Preps aren't everything, and there ARE ways to prep modern tech. Such as pulling out a magazine of armor piercing ammo in one post, reloading the gun in the next, and then opening fire in the third. That's a whole magazine of bullets with two preps behind it.
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.....How in the world is that going to make the armor piercing rounds more powerful? Why should they not have had the same destructive force without the benefit of this special reloading. 

I think one has to remember preps are only really needed for very powerful special abilities, you don't need a special ritual to shoot a gun, you just do. Hence the benefit of guns and such in the first place.

Edit: So with Keezheekoni and seemingly now Kholodny gone, I could probably just say they were captured and hence ho the Empire will learn about the omnicron.