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 Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:52 pm
"The Senate will reimburse you from your planetary taxes. However, if you want to know the second answer, you'll have to come with me. Of course, if you beam the transmission from your com, which i have left untouched, you can send your resignation immediately, and I can depart. Tick tock senator. May the Force guide you to the choice that best suits you."
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:38 pm
After finally getting away from the now quite drunk gunman at the bar, Tssirk took the small chip the barkeep had slipped him and inserted it into his handheld. It was linked directly with his ship's mainframe, where Zorro was supposed to be doing a little clean up. Sure enough, the little droid sent some feedback on the information. One talon clicked on the blinking characters on the screen, bringing up a map.
His reptilian eyes darted around as he walked outside, slits narrowing in adjustment to the blinding light of the double suns. Now that he had a location, he strode purposefully off in that direction, planning out his varying strategies for different situations and ignoring the jawas that thrust things at him and squibbled for his credits.
Whether he'd meant to be or not, the cocky gunslinger had actually also provided some useful information on who else had come to this planet recently, and one description in particular had interested him. If he planned it right, it might be possible to kill two hawkbats with one stone...
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:41 pm
"Stupid Jedi..," Phoenix mumbled under his breath.
He flipped on his holocomm, and then, turned it off.
"Fine, you win Master Jedi. But I want to know why you have been assigned to me."
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:46 pm
"I will when you are safely secured. That does not include the embassy. A cantina will do fine. Until then, I suggest we get moving." Neb said with a small bit of relief. The senator would stop fighting, so he hoped, and quit trying to be like the late emperor.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:50 pm
"Very well."
Soon, he was ten paces ahead of the irritating Jedi, and they were rounding a corner to a cantina.
Walking in, the brightness of the Tatooinie day turned black, with few lightsi in the dingy cantina.
Phoenix slid into a booth and waited for the Jedi to show up.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:06 pm
As the blue ring shot towards the jedi girl, Cale slid to the side to allow Sidon to pass.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:36 pm
Neb sat down right after the senator.
"Care for second breakfast?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:37 pm
"No Master Jedi. I would care to know, WHY I cannot go anywher,e without you following me."
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:41 pm
Angel soon found herself staring at the business end of a blaster. Keeping a fixed look on Cale's trigger finger, she prepared to dodge the moment she saw him pull it. She managed to avoid getting hit in the head, but her movements caused the shot to graze the shoulder of her armored clothing. " What was planned was for you to be an escort. And you will be compensated. Doing this will only make things hard for you. In case you forgot, the one who hired you to protect me was a senator. You know how politicians can influence trained soldiers to hunt down people. " she said. " Credits, or make the wanted list. Your choice. " and just in case his choice was the latter, she was ready to jump behind the nearby pile of scrap for cover.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:45 pm
Neb resumed a gleeful smile.
"You politicians seem to always want to demand. In the Senate, it may work, but in life... well... you should learn patience. WHY would you WANT to run off, make my job harder, and DIE? It's a simple question. You may not be a coward, but trying to act the hero is not any better. Why risk your life when you can risk others? You senators do it all the time anyway. Just use your com and get some guards to search the embassy. If they clear it, we can go back. If not, then you have no worries to be blown to smithereens. Sure you don't want second breakfast?"
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:54 pm
Phoenix was inches away from lifting Neb into the air and punchin him straight in the kisser. Thankfully he didnt.
"Look, Jedi, i came here to finish a tax transfer. You may not know, but I represent the New Alderaani, a faction created for the survivors and descendants of the Attack on Alderaan. My job is to find refuge for my people, who have no world to call their home, and Tatooine looked like a damn good oppurtunity. Why do you think I accepted such a menial task? There are over one million survivors, and descendants of the Alderaani, and they are worldless. Most planets are allready full, Mon Calamari, Ithor, and the Corellian system, just to name a few. I proposed a colony on Dantooine, but after Admiral Daala's brutal murdering of the people from Eol Sha, no one is keen on returning to the beautiful world. I had to resort to Tatooine, a planet that could house over three times as many people as it does now, despite the fact that you must farm for water, deal with the blistering heat, and survive the vicious sand storms. I have just about had it with you and your "witty" remarks, and I demand an answer. I'm not running to trouble, and I mean to find those terrorists because my people use that Embassy. To some of us, Mos Espa and Mos Eisley's embassies are the closest thing they have to a home. Now I'm sick of waiting for answers, so if you're not going to tell me, then I'll find out myself."
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:56 pm
Cale didn't move an inch."I'll take the wanted poster. they always get my good side." he spun the blaster in his hand and slid it into his holster with practiced skill."Sorry Angel, but a jedi's credits are as worthless as his promises. I know that for a fact. you're all a bunch of backstabbing hutts. You never needed my help. you just wanted to hide who you really were. but as of now, you're gonna need to find some other patsy." he turned around and began to walk away.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:04 pm
" I see. I don't see why you hate Jedi so much, and I guess I can't convince you I'm not like the rest. This is where we part, I guess. " Angel said, and watched as Cale went away, staying behind to await the Dark Lord.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:07 pm
"Ask Lord Nyax." was Cale's only reply as he walked into the midday haze of the Tatooine streets.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:07 pm
"Temper, temper. It's a wonder your constituants voted for you at all. So the embassy gets bombed. Do you think "your people" would want their leader to be blown to smithereens, like their last one? And Tatooine, if you hadn't noticed, will never be able to house enough people to fit all the survivors. The sand isn't soil, so no plants will grow. The water is next to non-existant, and mostly, the cost of even trying to start a favorable civilization is larger than our own galaxy." Neb began to wish that the senator would listen to his reason. However, his trump card had not been played...
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