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The turbolaser fire lit up the space as ships tore into each other, brilliant ion lightning lanced across ships, both pirate and hutt. The Ubrikkian Transports fought desperately, their poor defensive turbolaser complement giving the pirates an advantage, but most of the pirate vessels were inexperienced and many of them were armed with weapons profiles that were not ideal for the seizure of enemy ships.

The Ubrikkian Frigate that was the only ship close to being combat ready of the remaining hutt ships, despite this however she’d also become the primary target of the Pirate gang. Within moments the ship was ionized, unfortunately every other pirate attempt to board the vessel had been repelled by counter boarders, now it was the Rapora’s turn.

Revak brought his starfighter alongside the ship and powered it down. After checking his suit’s seals he keyed his comm. “Revak ready.”

“Calra here, I’ve been ready.” Revak glanced up and saw Calra floating past him with her legs outstretched to grasp the hull below. With a sigh he punched open the cockpit hatch and clambered out. The two of them pushed off and landed against the cold hull of the Hutt Frigate. With a slight glance at each other the Rapora set to work. Calra pulled out her Plasma Carbine and checked it as Revak leaned down against the hull. Through the force he grasped the metal of the hull, bent it and shaped it, infusing heat and cold, energy and power. Within moments the metal hull had been twisted from its original shape and a clean hatch had appeared where once there had been none.

Glancing at his work Revak smiled, “Revak to Jenel, we’ll be in within moments. What’s the plan?”

“Head straight to the bridge and take control, eliminate any resistance you face. The Hutts are cowards; expect mercenaries and cronies to stand in your way. The hutts won’t dare face you in combat.”

“Alright, Calra, you have point.” Calra knelt over the hatch and pulled it open, within seconds a blast of air and debris shot forth from the hatch, and just as quickly disappeared. She dropped inside feet first and fell to the floor below. Revak climbed in after her and pulled the hatch shut as he entered. Inside, he flicked off his magnetic boots and dropped to the floor, as the air flowed back in and the pressure equalized the seals and protection that had been over his claws and feet retreated into the armor exposing his bare flesh. Beside him a slight hiss from Calra’s armor told him her armor had done the same. Tapping his helmet Revak called, “Comm check.”

“Check,” Calra answered as she snapped on the helmet mounted light, “Dark in here.”

With a burst of static Jenel’s voice echoed in Revak’s helmet, “We read you Revak.”

“Good, we’re in, proceeding to the bridge.”

“Roger that, good luck.”

Revak smiled coldly behind his mask, “Alright, let’s go.” His helmet mounted light flashed on as he tapped it and Revak drew his plasma pistol. Inside both their helmets a full three dimensional holo-display of the inner layout of the vessel appeared, thanks to whoever had organized this ambush.

Suddenly the door at the end of the hallway burst open and a squad of four weequay bolted into the room. They formed into two lines, side two by side and the first rank knelt to clear the field of fire for the second line.

Revak immediately knew why the other boarding attempts had failed, whoever the captain was he had a crew of professional soldiers for ship security. The four weequay raised their rifles and one of them barked in a guttural voice, “Surrender!”

Calra lifted her rifle and fired. The bolt smashed into one of the Weequay burning his arm clean off and continued on into the next alien in line burning a half meter diameter hole in his chest. The other two weequay opened fire and began falling back as one of them snapped the door shut. The blast door slammed closed.

Revak frowned, “Like a blast door will slow us for long.”

"It totally seems to be the remnants of the Alliance after they disbanded," Freya said. "Aurora's friends mentioned them when we've met with them. Totally nice people, by the way," she sheepishly chuckled.

Link found King Poz, not at a table, but instead downing a drink at the bar and watching intently at a holoscreen showing live Ugmul Blob Racing.
Link slid next to the Ugnaught at the counter and ordered a Lum as he glanced to the King.
"Bo shudda, Lorda Poz."

The Ugnaught glanced over to him.
"Do I know you, Human?"
"No, but this one knows of you, Great King. You have knowledge that this one seeks."
The Ugnaught snorted and took a long pull of his beer.
"What kind of information?" He asked.
"The kind only Ugnaughts would know. About something hidden in the depths of Cloud City long ago by a pirate of great fame and reknown."

Poz gave a grunting chortle at the idea. "Theres no treasure in Cloud City, despite what the Casinos want you to think. If there were, My people would be using Corusca Gem encrusted Hydrospanners!"
"Not treasure. A datalink. One locked and marked with the symbol of a dark sun with a wavy corona."

Poz's eyes narrowed. "What makes you think something like that exists here?"
"Because of this." Link rolled up his sleave, revealing the Tattoo upon his right Forearm.

The Ugnaught's beady eyes widdened.
"This one," Link continued, rolling his sleave back down. "Has been tracking these datalinks down for quite some time. And he has reason to believe that you would know where the one here is."
The Ugnaught king scratched his snout thoughtfully, then his Porcine face turned up into a smirk.
"Sure, Darksun. But I need something from you first before I show you where the datalink is."
"How predictable." Link sighed.
"You want to know where it is or not?"
"Yes."
"Well, recently, a couple of Saber Rakes beat the puss out of some of my people. The Administrator and the Casinos dont want to do anything because they've got money, and we cant lay a paw on them, otherwise they whip out those Lightfoils on us."
"Lightfoils?"
"Second Rate but pretty loking lightsabers."
"Ah. So you want this one to do what about them?"
"Beat 'em up for us."

Link blinked. "Oro? This one is not into the thug for hire practice."
"But you're a proffesional Gladiator right? A good chunk of the Casino saw your scuffle with those clods near the door."

Link shrugged noncommittedly as a droid rolled up to him.
Curious, he watched it aproach.
"Egzzzuze me, zzzir." The Droid said with an electronic lisp. "My Mazzterzz wish to meet you for a duel to regain the honor you took from them. They will be at the following coordinatezzz at Two PM today." The droid handed Link a folded piece of flimsi and then rolled off, its mission accomplished.
Link looked at the formal invite to a dual Incredulously.

"The Force works in mysterious ways...but somehow this seems far too conveniant..."

"Unfourtunetly, they may be hard to find. They suggested the Hapes cluster as a place to look. Any amount of military may be helpful to us. But first we need to meet with the queen and fast." Aurora commented.

"Agreed," Freya said, bringing in the Ballet for a landing. She brought the freighter in, next to the corvette with Chen's volunteers.

Looking to Aurora, she then asked, "Also, we should totally find these other folks that Bastet mentioned," she said. "Like, what was his name? Logan? Luger?" she said, pulling on a fresh set of fatigues and a leather jacket. Were there more time, she'd have donned a more fancier gown to meet with the queen. Alas, the Sith had upped the timetable.

"And, no telling what that uber shady Sith skank has planned," Freya snarled, motioning the others to follow her outside the ship.

With that, Chenahab was exiting the Corvette, with five of his volunteers in tow. < Little one! Are you all right? > he woofed in a concerned tone.

"I am," Freya replied remorsefully. "However, Bear isn't,"

Rusty then chimed in, explaining what happened. "A Sith attacked her, and Sir Bear distracted the Sith, and told us to leave once Master Gorwooken brought the ship about."

(( I'll let elvis take the wookies from here. ))

((Terrific. Now Ive got a pair of dumb mercs following me. stare Meddle in someone else's affairs.))

Kar'en Looked back and glared death at the two Kel Dor until one knocked the other out and dragged him away.
The Dark Jedi hissed in annoyance and wrapped the light around herself with the force, giving herself the illusion of Invisibility.
She hopped the Force Witch hadnt noted the disturbance as she resumed stalking Starsinger's aquaintence.