Dox and Oddball ROAE Intro - Lego Hotwirer

Moc-pages was a Lego fan website, in which fans could share their creations. Addtitonally, fan groups could be created. One such group was the Rise of an Empire (ROAE) role-playing, story-sharing group. I was able to participate in this group when moc-pages was still available. This post below was posted in the ROAE group on October 3, 2016:

(updated for clarity)

Dox and Oddball ROAE Intro

Our story begins with two smugglers, regardless of whether or not they actually wanted to live that way. Oddball, who actually survived the battle of Coruscant, and Dox, who is generally the smart one, make up our heroes. Dox was an Elite ARF Trooper of a subdivision of Commander Gree's battalion. Oddball, needless to say, was a pilot, with all of the associated quirks. Together, these two made a great team, albeit a spontaneously effective one.

It all started when the Republic retired the Clones on an ample supply of credits, and became the Empire. Although, like some others, Oddball and Dox wanted a vehicle or base to themselves instead - no credits needed.

But when Oddball asked for a base, the clone trooper retire officials were out.

"Do you have an AT-TE?" Asked Oddball.

"No."

"AT-RTs?"

"No." The man sounded like he hated his Job.

"Gunships?"

"No."

"Shuttles?"

"No."

"PROTOTYPES!?" It was the last thing Oddball could think of.

"No."

"...What about about Imperial Prototypes? You don't need those anymore, do you?" Dox quietly said. It was the first time he had spoken up in a while. 

"No... I mean...Yes." Replied the Attendant at the desk, as if he was saying a new word. "Follow me." he said in the same tone as before. The attendant then showed them to a Hangar with a Lambda-Class Shuttle parked in it.

"What a Piece of Junk!" Oddball exclaimed.

"It'll work," stated Dox. "we'll take it."

The attendant told them to help themselves to anything else in the dusty storage hangar. After saying this, the attendant left.

The clones quickly situated themselves and packed every crate in the hangar on board, which was easy because there was only two. Oddball then powered up the ship and set off into space with this less-armored, more-maneuverable shuttle. The reason why, of course, was that this shuttle was originally only a prototype. But, it now became these two troopers' home.

"It needs modifications." Oddball casually stated.

The modifications, which were added soon afterward,turned out to make the shuttle have a sleek republic-style look to it.

In fact, Oddball often boasted that his ship made a Kessel run in less than 23 parsecs. He didn't really know what that meant, but he liked saying it. He was simply proud of the way their new ship looked.

The new Life of a Retired Vet

Dox and Oddball were originally merchantmen, selling pure-mud milkshakes. Strangely enough, no one was interested in them, except the few people and aliens who didn't know what a mud-milkshake was, although every once in a while a Stormtrooper would stop and stare quite strangely at the milkshakes.

Due to their unsuccessful business, they transitioned face-first into smuggling. But this got them in even worse condition, not to mention their white shuttle was always confused in imperial traffic, which got them led to Banquets and Balls held ceremoniously for them instead of the people who the balls were actually meant for. Additionally, Oddball wasn't incredibly secret about being a smuggler; He was publicly proud of it.

The Chase

They eventually learned the ropes of the job, but before then, they participated in a chase, athough they were not the ones chasing. They were being chased by Imperial security. In the confusion, Oddball was separated from Dox, and was now running for his life.

Over the fence, around the building corner, then around a similar building corner.

"Wait a minute," said Oddball as he jumped over a fence that he had seen just a few seconds ago."I'm going in circles, and so is the Empire's troops."

"I'll just climb up the building and watch them go in circles. It'll be fun." He thought as he climbed.

Unfortunately for him, that didn't work. The Empire sent every squad member to do a very familiar search pattern, one used during clone training.

So they haven't changed the regs completely. The fools. Clone troopers always did it better, anyway, thought Oddball.

He then suddenly realized that the old tactic still worked, because there were two Storm-Troopers coming up to the top of the building were he was.

"Aw Man! I'm trapped..." said Oddball as a prisoner transport shuttle hovered above him...

"I surrender-"

Wait, Never mind. That was actually HIS shuttle hovering above him.

"Come on," said Dox as he was leaning out the back."get in." 

Oddball Jumped over the gap of far-away ground into the open hatch.

"How did you get past the-" Oddball began, but Dox cut him off.

"There was a rebel attack going on at the landing zone," said Dox, "The guards stationed at our shuttle left to help," he explained, "So, I just hopped in with our prize, and took off."

"We -I mean- I, should be more careful next time." Oddball soberly stated.
"You got that right," said Dox sardonically. "You also need to get us to Gorell to give these crates to this Commander Sawtooth guy."
"Sato," Oddball corrected him.
"-right," Dox continued, "Oh, and By the way, I got the crates, so you have to cook." 

"...Fair enough."

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