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Now down in the Hyperdrive engine, Hal was staring at the now patched hole in the core.
The intercooler system would have to be replaced and new coolant would need to be pumped in. But there was no time for that now.
"Alrecht. Pipe water intae it an' keep th' patches techt until we gie tae a safe place." He told the astromechs and human techs.
On the comn, he called up to the bridge.
"Engine room tae brig. The hyperdrife needs majur maintenance tae th' coolant systems. Ah woods advise against onie sudden ur successife jumps ur th' drife will melt."
Looking to his Ex-O he gave an order. "Hae th' scannin' sent tae th' baw fur foo sweeps. hae other damage control teams scan fur nonauthorized transmissions ur frequencies."

Mynock Two slid into the pilot's seat of the Delta-class DX-9 Stormtrooper Transport and went through preflight. As he finished preflight he heard his flight lead across the comm line.

Slightly irritated he tapped the comm system. "Damn it lead, I'm alive. They've got me flying a Delta to pull the crew off the Mantell Delight."

"Mynock Squadron hold patrol pattern. Mynock two and Bludgeon you're clear for launch. Pick up our comrades." Control's calm voice flowed across his ears as he watched the Assault Shuttle fly out the mag shielding and plunge down toward the Carrack Cruiser below.

Triggering the Repulsorlifts he vectored the Delta-class through the mag shielding and turned on the Carrack his eyes searching for an open docking port.

Ranlee stalked through the hall with her helmet on and tuned to detect EM radiation, she turned a corner and suddenly the display flashed as she stepped into the crew mess and turned a blinding white color, closing her eyes she switched the hud over to normal scan move.

Blinking away tears from the blast of light she turned to the center of the room and suddenly understood. Sitting on a table in the center of the mess was long box, the carrying case for a scanning crew's gear, and the scanners had emitted enough EM radiation to temporarily blind her sensors, and thus blinding her.

"You find anything?"

"Not so far." One tech answered from the table.

"Well keep looking." Ranlee answered as she turned and stepped back out into the corridor, "I'm going to check the Tractor Beam station."

* * *

The Assault Shuttle grappled onto the port-side docking port on the Mantell Delight and as the hatch opened Lieutenant Lasken waved the evacuees in. "Quick as you can, plenty of room I can take almost two hundred if you don't mind a little crowding. Come on, quick as you can. We've got other transports coming."

"Bludgeon Report?"

Lieutenant Jan Lasken flicked on his comm-link. "We're loading up now. It'll probably take five trips to get the crew off, maybe less with that Stormtrooper Transport helping."

"How long?"

"Ten minutes, maybe a little more." Jan Lasken answered confidently. "We'll get em all before the Sinmara shows its face."

Several parts and equipment were set aside as Diana's group searched through various stored items in a supply room, removing anything that might block scans, and just to be thorough by visually confirming anything as well. " See anything? " Diana asked, her own searching turning up nothing. " Nothing, ma'am. "

In a few moments, her comm came alive. " We found something, ma'am. It looks like... Kriff, nevermind. False alarm. It's not what we're looking for. " The frustration was growing. Several times, a possible find surfaced, only to almost immediately be declared negative after a closer look.

Standing up, Diana walked over to the doorway, looking down the halls to see other people conducting their searches. She slammed an armored fist into the side of the doorway. " Where the kriff is that thing? " She turned back to her group, quickly regaining her composure. " Alright, looks like this room's clear. Let's move on. "

Ranlee walked through dozens of corridors as the search continued. She'd gone through the Tractor Beam Stations and Trench Gun Stations with a couple of others from the Platoon. All that was left was the Liquid and Dry Cargo Storage areas.

"Lieutenant, the guns and tractors are clear. Where should we meet up?"

* * *

Lieutenant Jan Lasken set the shuttle down and watched the last of the crew of the Mantell Delight, overhead a quad set of TIE Fighters, Delight Flight as they'd called themselves in the earlier battle were grappled into the racks, barely fitting amongst the lines of fighters already parked.

"Control the Delight is empty. The crew set a scuttling charge and it'll take out the ship in about two minutes." Across the way Lasken saw the pilot of the Stormtrooper transport that helped evacuate the crew clamber out of his ship. "We can leave now, right?"

((Right area, wrong supposition.))

Private Vala Nell tapped her helmet as a slight whisper appeared upon her display. She turned her head toward it and stopped, there was nothing there. The display said it was five meters below her feet and too the left, but in that direction there was nothing but a metal tank of water large enough to hold some twenty billion liters. "Engineering? Are there any electronics in Water Tank Alpha?"

"Negative. What, have you found something?"

"Maybe, standbye." She walked slowly alongside the tank until she saw the maintenance hatch. Checking the seal to ensure it wasn't filled to the brim she unlocked it and pulled it open. As she leaned into the tank she attached a light to her E-11 Carbine and held it in front of her.

There some five meters below, submerged in the water was a plain steel colored box, about the size of a datapad set, and according to her EM sensors it was transmitting em radiation. "Lieutenant, I think I found something."

* * *

"Captain! multiple contacts emerging from hyperspace! They're here."

Captain Pala frowned as she watched the rear tactical display fill with hostile contacts. "Well then its time to go, Helm maximum power. Lets get as far from them as we can before we jump. Engineering, how far can we jump with the hyperdrive in the shape it is?"