The Heroes of Cularin left the decimated Almas to take care of itself and sped to Genarius, the gas giant home of many cloud cities. Toransa, not seeing any point in a side trip to Genarius, arranged separate transportation directly to Cularin.
As the Heroes' ship dipped into the clouds, they noted that several of the huge jellyfish-creatures were dead from blaster wounds. Sirena managed to partially heal the one wounded one they found.
Upon landing, the Heroes noticed wreckage and debris from a recent battle. Had the Empire already attacked? When they left the ship, they found themselves mobbed by desperate civilians demanding news and help. The Heroes tried to be reassuring, but they totally weren't. Mashin in particular seemed to be consumed by a desire for revenge and carnage, which really wasn't what the people wanted to hear.
Swiftly taken to a meeting of the mayors of the various cloud cities, as well as the overall governor of Genarius, they were told that an Imperial scout ship buzzed the city, and was attacked by high-spirited, civic-minded city security forces, joined by patriotic unlicensed import-export operators. The Imperial scout destroyed practically all its opponents, but wound up crashing into the city. Now the forces that had just attacked Almas were coming to Genarius, and were already demanding complete surrender of the planet. The Cularin System Navy was forming its fleet at Cularin -- Genarius was on its own.
Mainly just to see what would happen, Watlow pointed out that the Imperial forces completely outmatched the Genarius local defenses, and that their best bet would be to surrender with a big show of complete abjection, and then hope that the Imperials didn't land a big occupation force. That way, they could continue on with their lives reasonably close to the way they'd always done. All but one of the mayors categorically rejected that argument -- they wanted to fight.
The Heroes began to plan their course of action, when who should show up but Darce Lightdawn! Working for Kreidcon now, he brought the Heroes equipment, which, when installed on a couple ships, would draw static charges from the clouds and direct them at the Imperial ships, hopefully disabling them. Taking everything Darce said at face value, the Heroes started planning how to get hold of a suitable ship and what tactics they could use to get into position. Leaving the Heroes to their certain deaths, Darce took off.
The Heroes got hold of a suitable ship from the council of mayors and were approaching it to install the lightning generator, when the one mayor who was in favor of accommodation stopped them. Flanked by his goons, he tried to reason with the Heroes. Watlow began whispering to Mashin that he should give in to his anger and let the true power of the Force be unleashed. Watlow should have been watching Sirena, however, because it was she who started the fight.
The goons (who included a few Imperial Security Bureau agents) went down easily and permanently, but the quisling mayor was still alive. All Watlow's persuasion couldn't get Mashin to do what obviously needed done, however, and with that unsatisfactory note, the game ended for the day.