Imperial Dealings

Lord Invictus · Imperial Dealings

"Captain Jen Krasiri, here," said the smuggler into his mike, connected to the control tower of a Coruscant landing pad. "I am requesting permission to land, over."

"What is your meaning to come to an Imperial landing pad?" asked an Imperial officer.

"The sarlaac needs to feed," said Jen.

"You're here to see um... permission granted, Sir," stuttered a nearly speechless officer as the YT-1210, the Black Aster, landed on the pad.

When the smuggler, dressed in a combonation of Mandalorian, custom, and stormtrooper armour stepped out of the ship a fat Imperial admiral came and shook his hand.

"Where yeh been old chap?" chuckled the officer.

"Vulpter, Tatooine and um.... Onderon," he muttered under his breath.

"You went to Onderon?" gasped the Admiral. "What were you thinking with the Rebel... nevermind. Troopers, carry those crates out now and bring them over here. We'll be spending the night at this place. It's a hotel as well if you hadn't noticed. Actually quite nice. How long has it been since you visited?"

"Half a year at most," said Jen, his voice a little unnexcited. "Though I think you should know that on Onderon I found-"

"Please, wait... wait until we're before the council of colonels and admirals of Onderon... this is important," said the Admiral. "Now, go to your room and perhaps watch some holonet news. I hear they;re having a story on tonight about a secret discovery about the CIS in the Clone Wars."

"How fascinating," he said, actually interested in the show instead of in the really fascinating thing, sitting right in his pocket....

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"Captain," greeted an Imperial officer, opening a large door to reveil several giant and extravagent tiles leading up to a huge table full of Admirals and a Colonel. "The Admirals await you."

"Greetings!" yelled the fat Admiral, whose name was apparantly Rerek Tarkrus. "We've come to discuss what happened on Onderon. Please show us what you found."

Krasiri put his hand in his pocket and searched around. He had found and taken many things on Onderon; spices, guns, gold;, but this was worth the most. He finally tapped the hard marble surface of it and pulled it out. It dropped onto the table heavily and the room's mood changed in a second.

"What in the force's name is it?" shouted an admiral. "Should I be afraid?"

"No you shouldn't.... um.... er.... yes, you should," mumbled the Colonel. "It's a holocron.... a Sith holocron. Why, I haven't seen anything like this since I studied Imperial history! Well, go and activate it!"

A short Sith put his hand over the device and closed his eyes. He let out a large scream and flew against the door, dead. The holocron, as strange as it may be, looked proud of the kill. Three other Sith tried to open the strange device but all failed. Jen Krasiri approached the device semi-counsciously and placed his hand over it.

"What are you doing?" asked the Admiral.

"Aarghaah!" yelled Jen as his hand burned from touching the holocron which finally opened up.

"To open this you are strong with the force," hissed a hologram coming from the device. "As a reward you have another puzzle.... another journey I should say. At the end of the trail is ultimate power: the knowledge of Bane. With that knowledge one can rule the galaxy, for good or evil. We've been guarding Bane's second holocron for almost eight hundred years. It's almost impossible to get and the forts around it cannot be sieged. What's that-?"

The Sith pulled out his lightsaber and deflected enormous blaster bolts back at invisable foes before falling to the ground. An apparantly friend of his picked up the holocron, shifting the scene slightly, as he fought off foes. He killed some and crouched down beside the Sith who mouthed a few last words:

"The next clue... Taanab," he grunted as the other Sith ran and the hologram shut off.

"No need to say anything," laughed Jen. "I'll go and get it."

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The Black Aster slowly rose into the sky and then zoomed past the other ships exiting Coruscant and flew into space. Jen Krasiri activated auto-pilot as he went to the lounge of his ship. A custom protocall droid got up from its seat and approached him.

"Sir, I've cleaned the Aster and I've prepared it for flight," said the droid. "And the Q-9 droid-"

"His name is Entye ," said Jen. "You should know that, Kando."

"Why do you call him debt anyway?" asked Kando, the protocall droid.

"Remember how I won that gamble on Onderon?" asked Jen.

"Oh yeah," said Kando. "Well, considering how annoying it is I'd assume you'd lost the gamble."

"Yeah well, he works," said Jen.

"So where are we off to next?" asked Kando.

"I need to stop on Hesperidium," said Jen who got "the evil-eye look" from Kando. "I'm not going to see Palpatine! I've just got some unfinished bussinues there and look! We're almost there. Get yourself comfortable, this'll take a while."