Once they had all met outside the hotel, Vodo had taken charge and laid out his plan. They were first to make their way to an old abandoned warehouse, which had a turbolift that could discreetly take them down to the lower levels, from there, they could make their way to the Jedi Temple ruins and set up the cameras, which would take footage over two days. From that footage they could derive a number of things, such as Imperial Army positions, passing pedestrians, and workers (who worked on the nearby building projects that Azak had once worked for).
The upper walkways leading from the hotel were unusually sparse of people tonight. Probably the cold air he told himself.
The state of the weather WAS unusual though. Back during the days of the Old Republic, terraforming had become widely available, and weather control systems were developed as a product of that. One such WCS had been built on Coruscant, allowing the people to control the current state of their planet's weather. Which, by standard, was almost always warm in the day and cool in the evening.
Vodo looked up at the cloud-filled night sky. He wondered how long it had been since rain had fallen on this city-world. Probably centuries.
They reached the building without incident. From his studies, Vodo knew that the building had once been a Grand Army of the Republic munitions dumpsite. During the Clone Wars, which Vodo still remembered vividly, Coruscant had hundreds of military garrisons throughout the planet to protect from Seperatist attacks. The warehouse had served as a supply base for several nearby garrisons. When the Empire was formed, the munitions had been moved elsewhere, closer to the Imperial palace, where they still remained.
The building had gone up for lease, but had never been renovated. It had fallen into a serious state of disrepair. Vodo noted, with a glint of amusement, that the sign over the main door still reas "FOR LEASE BY THE GAR"
He had also deigned not to enter through the main door, which might attract attention, seeing as the main entrance was located right on the busy street. Instead, he looked down at his holoprojector, which showed a diagram of the building. It indicated that there was a small service door to the side.
Without breaking stride (or hobble) Vodo turned left off the street and headed down a dark alleyway, indicating to the others that they should follow. Once they had reached the side entrance, Vodo turned to Leia, "We need a camera on this door, as well as the alley." He said, pointing to appropriate spots to mount the surveilance devices. Azak and Fraktusk hurriedly began to set up the cams.
Vodo tried the door, but found it was locked. Leia took notice and raised her blaster, firing a single shot at the lock, effectively ending it's long service to this old building.
Vodo stepped inside just as the Gungan and Wookie finished. The building was dark, but that had been expected. Aside from a few dim glowlamps, it was pitch black inside.
An old droid moved around the dusty area, rolling on ancient treads to the nearest glowlamp. With jerky, old robotic arms, it extracted the burnt-out lamp, depositing it into a small bin on it's left arm. Reaching down to that same bin, it picked up an equally worthless lamp and placed it in the socket. The level of ambience was the same as before. The droid to no notice of this and moved on to the next glowlamp, repeating the process.
Other than the droid, Vodo sensed no other being inside the building, save a few rodents who were picking their way over discarded, worthless blaster power packs, and empty storage bins.
Vodo moved across the spacious storage area, to the old turbolift. The doors were half open, and inside was nothing but dust, and a few worthless blaster carbines, discarded ages ago. The others joined him at the lift as he pressed a few keys on the pad next to the door, hoping to open the doors all the way.
Nothing.
Vodo waited some more, but with no results. Finally he turned to Azak, "Can you fix it? This is the only lift in the building." He said, waiting for the Wookie to reply.
