ANH 'verse. Tatooine. A Mission Complete?

[astrotechmech]

He was back on the ship. He must have been. This was not merely something that need a tune-up. It was a victim, and it had all the battle damage to prove it!

"What the heck did you guys do to this thing?!? I can barely tell one part from another!"

His on-board equipment had been fixed from his earlier "scuffle" by now--for which he was glad because this thing need all the help it could get!

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[astrotechmech]

Random strains to remember the tech specs he saw briefly. "I don't recall."

It's coming. Come on, just a few more minutes . . . please?

[random_xtras]

Hot Shot communicates with the droid and then accelerates. "She's heading for the canyons. If the Sand People find her it won't be pretty."

[astrotechmech]

Random speeds up along with them, wanting to get there faster now there is another factor affecting her survival. "Something tells me I don't want to ask."

[random_xtras]

"Let's just say they're not very happy with us being on Tatooin."

Up ahead something flickers in the heat haze. The droid beeps excitedly.

[astrotechmech]

"That's what I was afraid of."

Random perks up at the flicker and the droid's beeping, almost accelerating before he can stop himself. He sets his scanners on the flicker, trying to discern what it was even as he gives in to the temptation and pulls on up ahead.

[random_xtras]

Even as he does the wind rises up with an audio receiver piercing shriek, trying to flip them over or blast them away with sand that blots out all other sights and sounds.

//Straight ahead! Get into the canyons!// calls Hot Shot, the transmission broken up by static.

[astrotechmech]

"Ah!" Random shifts power to his thrusters around to better compensate the wind and continues to make for the canyons.

//Already ahead of you//