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Now safely concealed in the Nebula, the Damage control teams, Flight deck crews, maintenance staff, and engineers all had a chance to slow down and take a breather.

In the corridors near the engineering deck, clad in his engineer duds, Hal was taking a break of his own and helping himself to a container of his own, home brewed jet juice.

"Ye did guid wark the-day, Hal. Time fur a reward!" He said as he uncapped the container and swallowed a generous portion.

Chapter 2: Kolto and Coolant

It took a few hours for the reports to finally filter in as to what the Resolve needed to keep going. The good doctor was reporting that his medical supplies were all but exhausted, and engineering was starring at the problem of cooling a hyperdrive without coolant. While the crew was resting, Pala rubbed her eyes as she starred at the data pad. "If we had a dedicated liquid cargo tender we could sneak it to Manaan and requisition some Kolto for the doctor without raising any eyebrows, but we don't... and we're short on coolant."

She'd spent years hunting pirates, now she realized she'd have to become one to keep the ship and its crew alive. "Alright," She tapped the commlink beside the table. "Send Mynock Squadron and the Stormtrooper Platoon to the briefing room."

Captain Pala stood and waved the group to the seats, "At ease, come on." As the group settled into their seats Pala glanced around at them. "Alright, lets get started."

"As you may or may not be aware, the Resolve's hyperdrive suffered damage during the revolt of the majority of the local stormtroopers. This damage has caused us to expend nearly all of our hyperdrive coolant and forced us to utilize a portion of our water supply to cool the hyperdrive during the jump to this system. So we need hyperdrive coolant, and if that wasn't enough I've been informed that the medical bay is running critically low on medical supplies, basically we're out of bacta."

"Your mission will be to 'lurk the zone' find a ship carrying a load of hyperdrive coolant, preferably a modular conveyor, disable and capture the vessel and bring it back to us. Secondary objectives include the seizure of medical supplies. Two Gunboats from Mynock Squadron will make up the inspection and disabling team, and the Stormtroopers will be delivered to the target via a Stormtrooper Transport, that's what the third pilot of Mynock squadron will be flying. I'm afraid that the Assault Shuttle and trained spacetroopers are assisting the damage control team with repairs to our bridge tower so it'll be a direct boarding operation. Any questions?"

"We've moved the Resolve to the edge of the Nebula, close to the Umbara jump zone. Stay close, Umbara may be fairly self sufficient for a technological world, but I'd guarantee that there'll be a couple ships in the jump zone which may have what we're looking for."

"I don't like doing this anymore than you do, but I doubt very much the Imperial Transport System will abide by a requisition from our vessel at this point." Pala smiled slightly. "So get to it, stay close so we can send help if it becomes necessary."

Diana didn't patrol around the halls for long. After she finished looking over her datapad, she only made her way around a few more areas before heading back towards her quarters. Once back in her room, she unholstered her heavy repeater and blaster pistol and let them fall onto the couch, then started to remove everything else.

Taking off her bikini armor and what little she had on under it, she stepped into the shower. After a few minutes of getting herself clean, she put her underwear back on relaxed on her bed, taking advantage of the quiet time while it lasted.

Before too long however, the order came to head to the briefing room. She got up and donned her bikini armor once again, and headed out. She got to the briefing room just a little bit ahead of some of the other stormtroopers, but several others had already arrived. She took an empty seat and waited for the briefing to begin. Once it did, she listened closely.

The idea of raiding ships like pirates was a bit much, but she didn't say anything. She trusted the Captain and the situation was dire enough to warrant whatever means would help the ship's survival.

A short while later, she boarded the transport with the other stormtroopers, ready to go. A few moments after they were all onboard, the transport took off. Then, the transport's comm came alive with Xaver's voice. " We're all ready for action here. " Diana said.

"Good, because we've got some blips."

Looking over at his radar, Xaver identified the flotilla of transports and vessels. There were plenty of them, and they were seemingly undefended. Easy pickings.

Though, on some level, that also made Xaver feel a bit worse. Still, the ship Xaver decided to go for was the lead ship of the five modular conveyors. Switching to his ITS transponders, Xaver flew over. "Attention craft. You are asked to submit to an inspection for carrying illicet items, under Imperial Customs, including boarding and searching. Will you comply?"

While flying out of the edge of the cloud, escorting the shuttle, Xaver did his best to approach the vessel, without sending the fleet into disarray. As soon as he was close enough, he turned on the scanners.

((I think I'll use Indigo for Neutral Ships))

The voice of the lead civilian modular conveyor filled the comms. "This is Woostri Leader to Gunboat Squadron Mu, could you please hurry up... my employer will be quite angry if we're late to deliver this stuff."

All five ships were carrying liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen, useful in industrial processes but not what they were looking for.

The ITS registered container transports were carrying foodstuffs and building materials of various types while the six cargo ferries were carrying distilled water. Six ITS registered Modular Conveyors remained to be scanned.