Where is everyone??? I had better go out and look for them. And while I do that, I had better purchase some supplies. I went off on my way.

I wandered around the area for hours, no sign of anyone I knew.
He wouldn't just leave me would he??? After all I've done for him!!!

Man, all the leaks in the news have been patched up. He thought.

maybe some one on Sullest could help him. It had been a while since had been there and who knows? Maybe jebbua was back too.

He set a course for Sullest and pulled back the hyperspace lever and wacthed as the stars became starlines.

Lot's of interesting trinkets, a few credits, a blaster or two. All of which I stored on the SHIMMERING SCIMITAR.

Malf had wandered off again in search of food. That big Hairy beast is always hungry! One of these days I'll repay him for eating my Snarfblat friend BITEY.

I just have a few more items to pick up or steal, then I can get off of this overgrown outcropping of volcanic rock.

Now. Where do I begin? he thought.

But no, something made him kill all of them in cold blood. Even the young boy. Xam could still hear the boy's screams when his slash failed to make a clean kill. True, the boy had betrayed him to the gang of thugs. But did he deserve to be killed too, to die a slow painful death?

Xam put all the images of what happened in the alley aside and followed a man into the Blue Asteroid

"Before you leave let me ask you a question." He said. "Do you know any information about whats going on Corusant? or any other blockade planets, if there are any?"

"do you need a lift? You know i could use a co-pilot while i'm searching for some news and when were down I could drop you off anywhere you would like and all free of charge. Since you will be helping me. So do you agree?" Ruhatt asked.

Finally he caught something of interest. A man was offering another younger person a free ride off Sullust.

Unlocked, perfect!

I jumped into the ship, and searched for useful items. Then I noticed a few power cells. I appropriated those right out of the holding unit under the cockpit. You just never know whan a power cell will be useful. There was really nothing else of interest in the ship, so I went back to the first ship with the locked door.

Xam's hand flicked to his pocket, wallet still there. There were not many people at the port, 2 technicians, an old beggar and a.....*disturbance in the force* Jawa. The Jawa seemed to be having trouble with the door of his ship.

Xam contempalted on being a good guy and helping the poor Jawa out, when he suddenly caught sight of small foot prints on the side of his Y-wing. Jawa prints. Disturbance in the force, something stolen.....

MY SHIP! Ruhatt thought.

"Hey thats my ship!" He yelled. He ran over to the Jawa blaster out on holding it level at the jawa.

"Slowly back away from the ship and put your hands were I can see the." He said.Man, I should have been an officer. He thought.

Xam took out his 2 DL-62 blasters and aimed them at the Jawa.

The gentelman from the cantina was also pointing his blaster at the Jawa.

I piloted my small A-wing into the designated landing bay. After a short cool down I jumped out of my ship and locked the cockpit. I walked into the mean streets of Sullust. Over by docking bay 44 I saw a disturbance. Time to spring into action!

"Looks like that Jawa is trying to open that door!" I shouted as I ran to the scene.

The shot did nothing more than rip a tear into the Jawa's robe. And from that tear, out spilled the stolen power cells.

"You can put away your weapons. This little one isn't going anywhere but to the local authorities. Besides JAWA's don't have a sense of right and wrong. They just do whatever thier little hearts desire at the moment. And OBVIOUSLY this little guy thought he needed to open the door of that ship."

I showed Capt OBVIOUS the power cells that spilled from the Jawa's robe when it tore.

"thanks for your help".

"You're force sensative? My friend is force sensative, he said he had a vision about his sister in danger, I think he said she looks young so i'd say about your age. Anyways he went off and I haven't seen him since i've been looking for him and..." Ruhatt stopped speaking and noticed that the two men were staring at him.

A cantina.....desert.....smuggler and a wookie...."10000!? I can buy my own ship with that!!!!".....A boy about 18 or 19....blond hair.....smuggler..."who's gonna fly it kid, you?!".....bargaining.....Alderann system...."Kenobi"....that name...so familiar...

....."Ok then, i will give 2000 now and 6000 when i get there." I replied pushing the memory aside.

Security officer: "Yeah, he's been brought here five times in the last three days. Just give him to me."

"Alright, I trust you will not mistreat him."

a memory.....what is my name?....."BEN"!!!....."Kenobi"?.....Ben..home in desert.....dry desert....tatooine...."Kenobi"

Then turning to the arivval of Capt. Obivious said.

"I'm Ruhatt Luthan. and now if you'll excuse us we are leaving."

Not only was the Y-wing in good condition, it had 2 extra laser blasters added on the sides and the ion gun on the back was fully automated and controled by the targeting computer. Wow!!!

"Ok luthan meet you in orbit."

"Now where are we going to go, I can tell you one thing, Corsacant ain't going to be easy getting into, becasue of the blockade. Any suggestion, cause i'm all open for them." Ruhatt said.

He sat back in his chair and waited for Xam to reply.

a memory.....blockade of ships.....Trade federation....Palace under seige.....a girl about 19 years old.....Royalty....."Kenobi"....rescue mission.....

Ruhatt wished he knew where they were. If anthing happened to them he would kill himself, afterall he did still owe Jebbua one life debt still.

Xam was disapointed that he was missionless again.

"Or, as Ken said that he would not mind some action, is there anywhere we could go to....maybe help some innocents in trouble, or any mission at all."

Ruhatt punched in the cordinates and waited a few minutes and then pulled back the hyperspace lever.

(((OOC:Follow Ruhatt, Xam and Ken to Searching For Facts in this same forum. Thank you.)))

I decided that I would follow that little JAWA around for a while. You know, to keep him out of trouble. So I waited for his release from the Partol station.

The officer strolled out of the office with the little JAWA in tow.

I pointed to Dash's ship, the SHIMMERING SCIMITAR, and began walking in the general direction of the ship.

We arrived there eventually, and I rushed in to hide my latest gift for Dash. I had fashioned a new Lightsaber for him, from the best of my recollection it was a perfect replica. At least it looked like one.

Mostly. And, whether it would work or not, well...?

I went to the kitchenette to prepare a meal for myself and new found friend.

I entered the ship and my nose was assaulted with rich aroma's of spice and cooking oils. Looks like I'm gonna eat today afterall.

Thank you.))

Ruhatt pulled back the hyperspace levers and saw Sullest appear in front of him.

This planet sure is getting old. He thought as he put his ship down in the docking bays. He stepped out and waited for his friends to arrive.

"Probably at one of the cantinas. Thats where most people hang out at." Ruhatt said.

It was interesting how almost all the Sullustians were around his size though.

Sullust. Tzakang used his stolen identification to gain permit to land in the space port. Still sporting the weapons he had on Tatooine, this time though, he would not blend in with the crowds.

Releasing his modified ooglith cloaker, the cloaker covered his entire body. Now fully covered with the cloaker, Tzakang is invisible to the eye and Jedi are unable to detect him through the force.

Using his enhanced strength, Tzakang climbed to the roof of a nearby 5 storey building and surveyed his surroundings. Perfect. Most of the buildings were low enough for him to jump from without injury.

Ruhatt stopped in front of the Blue Asteroid and looked at Ken.

Pulling the lever to enter hyperspace, Lanlif mind drifted off into the inherited curiosity. Spira wasn't a place to find your destiny, it was a world where you rested days upon days. It was becoming far to confusing to stick around that posing Jedi, but Lanlif hadn't had real company since Tesk died.

"Hey, you two know where that crystal is--I might need on my trip to Sullust." Lanlif said from the pilot seat, looking over his shoulder at the two droids who stood in the main quarters.

A confused beep came from his R2 unit, with C3-K6 preparing to translate it. "I think he is saying that it is gone from your bag."

Lanlif's eyebrow furrowed over his yellow eyes, as his mind wandered again. Investigating the past and searching for something that could tell where it had gone off too, he came to only conclusion. Lumbia must have taken it out of bag during their hyperspace travel from Obroa-Skai to Spira.

I guess he'll need it. Probably was going to give it to him in the first place.

The Squib though, his lips curving into a rodent-like smile. Leaning back in his seat, he placed his feet up on the navboard. Falling asleep for a much needed rest, he would awake when the alarm would come on when they needed to evacuate from hyperspace when arriving in the Sullust system.

"Ruhatt, you go on in. Something is not quite right."

Xam reached out through the force to see if he could sense any attackers.....nope....nothing.

Xam did not have time to be pisssed off. He needed to find the source of the disturbance he felt earlier.

Xam and the man entered the alley. Xam remembered what his parents used to tell him about controlling his temper. Vape that.

Tzakang allowed the ooglith masquer to receed.....revealing his true facial features.

"Yikes" Up came my lightsaber to block the blow. The big man charged, his weapon a blur. Shifting in the force, Xam was able to counter every stroke.

Suddenly Xam noticed an opening, and took advantage of it. The lightsaber flashed in a horizontal arc across the attacker's chest.

But it did not work. For some reason the big man had armour under his clothes that could resist a lightsaber blade.

Tzakang was losing this fight. As a last resort, Tzakang used his Amphistaff and let lose a jet of acid. Then Tzakang activated his cloaker and vanished from sight.

He made his way back to the spaceport, got into his ship and took off. His mind was still reeling from his defeat at the hands of that Jedi as he entered hyperspace.

Xam cried out in pain. Luckly there was a puddle of murky water nearby. Xam plunged his arm into the water to help neutralise the acid.

The pain was increadible, Xam could not stop himself from shouting out again.

He reached for his comlink. "Ruhatt, where are you.....ow....I need help....argh....lock on to my signal!"

"I'll be right there." Ruhatt said to Xam.

Ruhatt got a lock on him and went to the alley where he was. He knelt down beside him.

Heading into the hangar bay I observed and inspected every ship. Finding if by looks their ship would hold a weak enough computer to be placed into submission by my new equipted "hacking" gear.

Finally coming to what I had searched for, I rolled under the ship. Pulling out a det. pack and placing one of them on. Running out from under the ship, I pulled the switch for the detonation. Hurrying back under before any disturbance was sent to anyone that could be possibly inside or around the scene, I continued with the procedures of hacking in.

Placing the "Li'xus" virus system into their progam, I watched as the data came onto my datapad screen. Downloading all the information, I watched as the clearance name of the ship came on.

Shimmering Scimitar

Finally setting foot in the hangar bay after entering the Sullustian atomsphere, he prepared for the entrance into the closest city for work. Activating his droids with a knock of their head from their resting places, he exited.

Walking out o fhte hangar bay and into the city near, he taking interest to every site he saw. Buildings after buildings, and people after people, it was no different than Tatooine other than it's terrian and the aroma. Yet, the difference would have to be in the bucks. The cold hard credits that came out of this place had rumored to be of great measure, mattering what it was for.

And a Squib pilot with his measure of ability, you couldn't resist.

"You two stay close," Captian Berayen began, his mind drifting with his eyes, inspecting his surrondings. It was interesting world, whether the people and buildings seemed the same. Nothing like this was seen on any other planet, but none the less he would have to focus.

Finding himself accidently bumping into a man kneeling before a fallen one, Lanlif fell to his seat. Suprised by the sudden collision, Lanlif reached to his belt for his blaster. Pointing the Bryar Pistol at the face of the man, he growled.

Slowly wafting to wakefulness, Jasyn Lancaster knew that he simply did not want to open his eyes for the throbbing sensation in his head.

Yep, buddy. You've done it again...

...went and got plastered, didn't you? So where was it this time, and where are you now...? Better find out, pal. It's never a good thing when you don't know where you are...

Slowly, Jasyn cracked an eye open to survey his surroundings. In front of him was some sort of chair...

...something like that...

...it was sorta blurry. Jasyn peered out of that one eye for the longest time, trying to still the images in front of him.

Moving...

why the kriffing hell was everything moving??? Waaaayyyy too much to drink...

...hell, you can't even REMEMBER it...

As Jasyn finally started to force the other eye open, his oversensitive ears became increasingly alert of a few rustles about him. Carefully, he turned his head ever so slightly to the left to catch a flash of red hair.

Red hair...? Matt...?

Shifting his head again to the front, Jasyn now squinted, trying for the life of him to bring everything into focus.

Sheesh, pal, maybe you hit the Walknfall this time...

After a moment or so, the chair in front of him finally swam into somewhat better focus...

...and the black and white blob in front of that started to look alot like hyperspace lines...

Hyperspace...?

Jasyn frowned. Where were they going? Hmmm...

Lessee, don't quite remember that, but he and Matt had been following Galen somewhere...

As that piece of the puzzle fell into place, finally Jasyn saw a flash of blue skin out of the corner of his other eye.

Blue skin...? Kelderon...??? How did HE get here...? Jasyn sure as hell remembered slugging him and leaving him behind.

Suddenly very alert and finally realizing that the viewport didn't look anything like that of a lamby, Jasyn finally realized that something was entirely wrong with this situation. Sitting bolt upright, he recognized that young girl that had been with Kelderon, his Jedi Master pal...

...and in the pilot and copilot's seat of whatever-the-hell ship they were on...

Someone with blonde hair, and someone with dark brown? Who the kriffing hell...?! And where...?

Suddenly shooting to his feet, uncaring as to whether everyone else was quite awake yet or not, Jasyn exploded. "How the HELL did we get here, and where the kriffing hell is Galen?"

I jumped to my feet. Seaching for yet another confiscated Lightsaber.What the hell happened to this one???

I took up a quick defensive posture. And surveyed the situation. Everyone was picking themselves up off of the floor, waking from what seemed to be quite a restless sleep. Jebbua, Alexis, Matt, two unknown persons, and.... Jasyn. I relaxed my defensive posture, a little. I still wasn't sure about Jasyn.

I walked over to Alexis and Jebbua, helping them slowly to thier feet. "What has happened? Does anyone know where we are? Last I remember we were headed after Galen. But Jasyn was in a different ship. And Matt? Where did you come from?"

My head throbbed, the same throbbing that had occured once before when I lost my memory. I had a funny feeling that we had reached our destination. But I couldn't remember where that was! So many blank spaces in my mind. My brain must look like swiss cheese.

"And who are those two? I looked in Shayla and Erik's direction.

Before anyone could answer I walked to the navboard. "Sullust. Just to inform everyone, we are headed to Sullust! Why the hell would we be going to Sullust with strangers?"

Too many question not enough answers.

I stared blankly at Jasyn. Why does he hate me so? subconsiously I touched my eye where Jasyn had hit me. It was all but completely healed. How long had we been gone?

I decided to keep my distance from Jasyn. For now...

I waited for some input from the others. Maybe it was just Jasyn and I that didn't know what was going on?!?

Jasyn trailed, his scowl darking to a frown. He hadn't any idea what was going on, but he sure as hell was going to find out. If Galen had crashed somewhere, and they'd helped her out...

...then why the hell wasn't she with them now? It made sense that if she was injured they'd take her to the Hornett for medical attention.

But Sullust? Wasn't there an EE base there or something like that??? Why there was exactly, he didn't know...

Finally Jasyn snapped from his thoughts to look at Dash again. "Look, my mind is as scrambled as yours, but I've got a funny feeling that I don't like her--" he said a bit darkly, pointing at Shayla, who was beginning to stir, "--and I've got a bad feeling we need to find Galen. Check the back of the ship maybe she's more injured than I remember and we--"

Jasyn suddenly stopped mid-sentence as he noticed Shayla Stargazer jolt to alertness in the pilot's seat, and cast the most unfathomable look in Dash's direction...

why did he have a feeling this wasn't gonna be good...?

...and slammed against a wall of Force-essence filled with pheremones.

Pheremones? Huh...?

That little mystery was enough to jolt Shayla to wakefulness. Her greeny-blue eyes snapped open to reveal the lines of hyperspace...

...hyperspace? Since when had they been going somewhere? Hadn't she and Erik been on some planet...?

...and to reveal a blue-skinned pheremone-oozing Ch'iss standing nearby at her navboard.

Shayla leveled a unreadable greeny-blue gaze in his direction, keenly aware that a heck of alot of images in her mind weren't fitting together entirely.

How had they gotten here? How had HE gotten here?

She was also keenly aware that they weren't alone, and that all the force-presences she felt weren't completely new to her...

...she'd felt them somewhere before. Somewhere recently...

...but WHERE?

All the while, her eyes never left Dash, and she shoved any chemistry to the side as her Force-senses throbbed ominously. Nevermind that someone was at the controls of her ship...

...and Erik's...

...but this strangeness had her on edge. Finally she diverted the smallest bit of attention to assess that they were all heading for Sullust, and would arrive in a few standard minutes. Then she turned back to Dash, the unfathomable look returning. The holes in her mind were almost too much to bear...

Just then Shayla roused from her seat and stared at me blankly. Again I took up a defensive posture. That was Stupid Dash!!! Stand unarmed by a complete stranger that you know nothing about!!!

"My names is Ruhatt Luthan and this is my friend Xam. He was hurt some how and I came to help him. We have to get him in a bacta or something." Ruhatt said.

He helped Xam to his feet and looked back at the stranger.

Placing the man over his shoulder, he told his protocal droid to lead them to the closest medic center.

Doing so, the small group headed off. Before they entered the household sized medic center Lanlif finally revealed who he was to Ruhatt.

"You can call me Captain Berayen for now.." He said, entering the lounging area hastingly. Quickly heading to the desk, he placed the body in Ruhatt's arms as he informed the robotic counter clerk injured man, who needed immeditate treatement.

It wasn't far after then that a bundle of medic droids rushed out with their one wheel for transportive force. Taking the body and placing him on the table they headed off toward the bacta tank..

...and you're doing it again. I'm going in the back to see if by chance Galen is there. If not, when we do hit Sullust...

...I intend to do whatever it takes to figure out exactly where she is."

With nothing more than that, Jasyn turned and headed for the back of the frieghter, utterly ignoring anything else spoken in his direction.

Just as I was about to erupt... I realized who else was in the ship with me. None other than Jebbua, Alexis's brother.

Jebbua stared at me with a confused look on his face. I gazed back at him awkwardly. Mentally I told him "You knew that Alexis and I were leading into a relationship. Don't go all big brotherish on me right now!"

I looked to Jasyn again who was almost at the back of the ship. "I wouldn't bother looking for Galen here. I've already used my force abilities to do a search for her. She is nowhere near us. I'd say she is at least 100 parsecs or more from our curent position, or else I would have sensed her presence. Now if you will come back here and work with me, maybe we can formulate a plan to find Galen"

...but hadn't she left there, been taken from there...

...or something? And she certainly remembered marrying Erik and having...

Her heart skipped a beat, and for another eternity she sat in a cloud of utter confusion.

Why were there so many gaping holes in her mind? And what were they going to do now...?

Then the only immediate reality dawned on her: this must be her ship, and whether it was or not she was piloting...

...and the hyperspace indicator was getting close to the mark. Shayla snapped to alertness, her piloting affinity taking hold.

"Well, boys," Shayla interrupted quietly but not with just a bit of command, "Looks like I'm your pilot for this trip, and I can tell you I haven't any idea why we're all here together either. But this I know, reversion is immenient, and if you don't want to be thrown to the back of the ship, you'd best strap in."

With that she turned once more to the navboard and began the steps that would take them safely to Sullust, the back of her mind tingling with the pheremones Kelderon was producing...

...but the majority of her mind still on the pieces of incomplete thoughts within it...

"But I'm not arguing with you over this one anymore. There's something much more important at hand, and I've got some ideas of places to start once we reach Sullust's surface. Whether you want to help or not is entirely up to you...

...the fact you are here now suggests that perhaps you care somewhat after all. I'm guessing you must have followed Matt and I after I left you behind."

He paused a moment, his eyes locked with Dash. "But, whether you did or not, don't expect me to trust you entirely...

...not yet."

That said, Jasyn merely took a seat and strapped himself in, completely ready to get off this blasted ship.

Galen. Who the sam hell was Galen? Terrin Danner's wife, wasn't she? And someone's sister...

..someone important, it seemed like...

Dammit, the pieces just aren't fitting...

Shayla bit her lip, hard, her hands almost working in autonomously as her mind shifted to another keyword.

Sister...

Furrowing her brow, Shayla tried for the life of her to remember what this had to do with anything. She had a brother, but not a sister...

...or did she...?

But then, how could she remember that for certain, she didn't even know where she'd left her own son.

At this, her greeny-blue eyes grew impossibly more vague, something deep within her crying out in utter sorrow. She shoved it to the back of her mind...

...just long enough to finish final docking procedures and get somewhere where she could sort these puzzle pieces out. At last she set the Supernova's engines to cooling, and popped the hatch. Behind her, she could hear rustles as others began to move, and for the longest moment she didn't do a thing to stop them. Then suddenly she turned, shooting that vague and confused look in the other's general direction.

"Wait," she said quietly. "Maybe we can work as a team and put the pieces of this puzzle together? My son is out there somewhere...

...and like you can't remember where Galen is, I can't remember where he is either..."

Falling silent then, Shayla simply waited to see what anyone might respond.

My eyes flashed back to Jasyn "And yes I did follow you and Matt. I just used the Force to follow you. Punching in new co-ordinates as you changed vectors. But
I really have no idea where we ended up. Obviously I found you, but not Galen. Now what is your plan on how to find her? Maybe we really can work together on this one!"

Shayla suddenly stopped midsentence, frowning, as that name sparked yet another skewed memory.

What had happened to Terrin...? Something had...

...but what...?

Jasyn's brown eyes seemed to mirror the same sort of confusion across the way, so Shayla glanced to the side towards her husband. He shook his head minisculely, indicating he hadn't any idea either.

...or better yet maybe some Walknfall or that other stuff he liked...

...couldn't remember that either...

...really badly. But now was not the time for such things, especially considering that every second meant another wasted. And Stargazer was right about one thing: they all seemed to be in the same boat.

Seemed.

He frowned for a moment.

Terrin was probably rolling over in his grave...

...wherever that was...

...at the fact that his wife had suddenly just been lost...

"Allright," Jasyn spoke at last, "You're right." Then, turning to Dash, "And we'll get to what I have in mind very shortly. First, however, we need to get somewhere, so you're just gonna have to trust me on this one and let me take the lead."

I kept pace with Jasyn. I also decided to try and make peace with him as we walked.

"Jasyn, I need to talk to you. I know we don't get along too particularly well. But we will have to trust each others judgement if we are to find Galen. I finally realize why you hit me in the hallway of the Hornet. I wasn't reacting quickly enough at a time where every second counted. I am admitting my mistake. And would like a second chance to prove myself. We would make a good team, you and I, if we could show a little more trust in each others instincts and feelings. One day, Jasyn Lancaster, You will trust me! Let today be the day."

With that I held out my hand to him. "Let us put our rocky past behind us and start anew. Lets find Galen together, as a team."

"i'm going to go home for a little while, but don't worry about me i'll be ok." She said.

"We'll let your actions speak for themselves," he said, his tone almost completely unreadable.

Then without waiting for any response, Jasyn merely turned and headed towards his destination once more. In minutes he finally reached the Eagle Enterprises headquarters that he and several of his friends had once called home; not wasting any time he punched in the code that would open the hidden entrance and stepped inside, making sure the door was closed securely behind him. Then, with no explanation to anyone who might have followed, Jasyn proceeded towards Terrin's office which both he and Terrin had set up so long ago, and accessed the secure comm channel immediately, dialing one particular frequency in. As soon as he was connected, Jasyn spoke across the line, hoping that Aaron would reply promptly.

"Aaron this is Jasyn," he said. "I can't explain what has happened, nostly because I suddenly don't know exactly what has happened. All that is clear is that I am now on Sullust, and Galen is gone; I can't even recall what planet she was headed for any longer. If you could fill me in on where the kriffing hell she was going, please respond immediately, cause I'm almost certain she crashed somewhere, and with the way my mind is full of holes I have a very bad feeling about all of this..."

He had gotten himself in a sort of a bind, something that he'd have to wiggle out of after this gracious and free food ordeal. Lanlif would never pass up anything free, it was just the Squib way. A day without haggling was bad, but a day without haggling, yet free stuff was great he'd always say.

Without anyone else but Ruhatt to talk to since the droids stationed themselves in the medic center, he began with the conversation, which he hoped to be long.

"Well I Actuall went around finding information about the Empire, But i got n othing, so I came back here to wait on a friend. You wouldn't happen to know anything about them? I mean like what they are up to know and other stuff. If you do i'd be more than happy to pay for the information." Ruhatt said.

Sullustians, Dug, Bith, Gran all the exotic skin colors in the rainbow and facial features you could think of. The galaxy hadn't grown any more boring than it was when he was working with Tesk, but it did grow more solemn without him.

Lanlif's shivered suddenly, taking his mind off the past and back on the present. Moving his eyes back over to Ruhatt, he turned his lips up into a smile.

The place was finely built and seemed to be good catch off the back of the hand, but Jamel knew something was up. Something this good couldn't be left behind without any trace of defense.

Heading slowly through the first chabmer of the ship, he headed into yet another. Catching the aroma of food, he quickly dashed forward, reaching for his stun baton to take guard.

Quickly stabbing out at the first thing he saw, it came out to be just a Jawa and he missed in the first place. Sighing in relief, he took a seat, still not noticing the other inhabitant of the ship.

"Man, wow--didn't expect a Jawa...good thing to. It'll be an easy catch now."

Ruhatt thanked the waitress and took his food.

"what brings you to Sullest?" he asked.

Too many bar fights He thought aloud in a murmur, as he looked down, still waiting for the drinks.

When they came, he sipped some of his and placed it back down. Smiling at just the taste, he took his eyes back over to Ruhatt, where he began with a response to the question he threw at him.

"Well, just looking for a job. Haven't had one since...." Lanlif suddenly paused, his eyes drifting off once again to the numerous people in the catina. "Well, for a long time now."

Ending it with that, he placed the cup to his lips and sipped a bit more. Placing it back down as he reached into his back of questions, searching for the best one to dish out.

He took a bite of his food and was about to ask Captain Berayen another question when a young looking lady walked into the cantina.

"Hello miss and what might a good-looking girl like you be in a place like this?" He asked.

Oh brother. Did he think that would work for him?

"I'm sorry, but can I help you with something?" She asked him.

"Yes, if you don't mind making a few credits or so." He said.

The Nerve. Alexis felt the anger rising inside her and grabbed all the power she could and pushed the guy back with the force. He knocked over a watress droid and all the drinks she was carrying fell onto him. Alexis payed for the mess grabbed her food and headed back home.

As he caught her in his sights he pulled forward, taking her by the arm and quickly pulling her around. Turning her petite body about, he looked up to her. His short frame taken a more militant stance than that which was comfort and would welcome someone.

"Dash, did you feel that. Anger from Alexis. I hope she is ok. I think we need to go after her, but then again I also want to help find Galen too. What should we do?" I asked.

I searched for Alexis in the force and found her with some guy.

Alexis are you ok? I sent her a mental thought.

"And how could you help me?" She asked Sternly.

Just then she heard her brothers voice inside her head.
Yes i'm all right. Just a run in with two guys wanting some fun. She answered her brother.

"If you can think of a way to help me let me know, but for now. If you'll excuse me?" Alexis said as she started to walk back to her house.

I hope that that statement would prove my loyalty to the mission to Jasyn, but who knows. He may never trust me.

Mentally I spoke to Alexis, "My love I must go on with Jasyn and find Galen. It might be best if you stayed here. I promise to return one day. Maybe we can start a little family."

I caught the tail end of Jasyn's transmission. "Would you mind telling me where we are and where we are going from here?"

"Maybe I can carry this back to your house." Lanlif smiled, trying to put on his best gentlemen persona. It had started to stiffen up his shoulders though, and it would be nice he got a massage.

Taking a step next to her, he awaited her move to follow and help her in the way back to where she was heading. He'd have to later come for Ruhatt, since he might be injured from that weird falling antic back in the catina.

His?

Jamel suddenly questioned that thought. It was clear that he had some sort of ownage of the ship, with him wanting Jamel to go and such. Yet a Jawa actually owning a ship was out of this world. It wasn't possible that they even knew how to pilot one, much less own one.

Shaking his head, trying to get the weird ideas out of his mind, the 14 year old boy reached for a drink on the table. Taking a quick sip of it casually, he took a stand. It was suddenly interupted by a lull sound in the background coming behind the boy. Twirling around he stabbed again with his stun baton, where he missed, though directed at a man.

Alexis turned and faced the newcomer.

"I'm sorry, but I don't need your help, but thanks anyway. Now please leave me alone."

During the walk back he felt weird. A taste in his mouth that was too genorous. It was affecting his swagger, everything about him. He just wasn't the curtious type, not atleast to woman. A Squib was never to be a ladies man, they were too curious and well--short.

Lanlif finally straightened himself as he reentered the catina, heading back over to Ruhatt and the mess he created. Kneeling down to him, he began with helping the new friend up to his feet.

"She's a jedi. She didn't even touch me and i went flying backwards. Where did she go? Never mind, it would be unwise to follow her. Lets just go see if Xam is all right." Ruhatt said.

"This is an old Eagle Enterprises base," Jasyn said a bit offhandedly. "Terrin, Matt, and I set it up while Galen was still pregnant with Darra...

...it was supposed to be a safe haven for her, and for the baby..."

Jasyn trailed, his eyes defocusing as more memories surfaced...

...more memories with holes in them.

Why wasn't the Hornett a safe enough haven for Galen and the baby?

Something had happened to Galen here, something terrible...

...but Jasyn couldn't quite put his finger on it...at least, he couldn't put is finger on all of it. His eyes grew even more vague and somewhat darker, but after another moment of this he again snapped totally alert. "As to where we are headed from here, that might depend on what Captain Barnes has to say...

...cause I'm sure as hell hoping he can point us in the right direction..."

"Well where ever we are going, i will stay and help in any way possible. I want to help Galen and I know we can. In fact we must." I said as I looked from Jasyn to Dash.

I suddenly got a great idea. "What about KAMINO? We were there once before looking for Galen's daughter. She could be there now!"

Seeing that the light which indicated an incoming message was flashing on his comm unit, Aaron Barnes turned from the work at his desk to recieve whatever was coming his way, figuring that perhaps this was yet another typical message from a prospective buyer or seller coming his way.

It was anything but however.

Aaron frowned a bit darkly at Jasyn’s words, taken totally aback by the puzzlement in them.

He didn’t know where they where they thought she might be going...? How could he not know something like that? And how the HELL did he get to Sullust...?

Opening a comm channel immediately, Aaron began his reply. “Hey, Jas,” he started, “I can’t imagine how you got to Sullust, but last time we talked you and I were both in agreement that Galen had probably gone to K’eel Doba to get a Sith fighter. Does this help any?” he queried then fell silent, leaving the comm channel open for Jasyn’s reply...

...and completely baffled as to just how things had taken such a peculiar twist.

“K’eel Doba? Sith fighter?” he asked blankly across the comm frequency, totally in the dark about what these things had to do with Galen and her daughter’s kidnapping.

Why the kriffing hell would Galen be interested in anything Sith? And what the Sam hell was a Sith fighter? And K’eel Doba? Never heard of it...

Finally he spoke into the comm again. “Aaron, I don’t have a kriffing clue what you are talking about...”

Then he turned to the others in the room: Jebbua, Dash...

...and Erik and Shayla, who had just joined them in the office. “How about any of you...?”

I pushed the comm button to talk to Aaron. "Captain Barnes, could you elaborate a bit on the planet you mentioned. K'eel Doba? I've never heard of that system before."

...and hesitated, if only briefly. "It's a world inhabited by the Sith, well past the fringes of the Outer Rim," Aaron started, biting his lip a bit as he thought. "But then...

...we talked about this when you were on the Hornett before...

I called out to Matt. "Matt, do you remember what we talked about over dinner on the Hornett? I seem to be drawing a blank."

Maybe we never reached our destination. I couldn't remember!

"Wait, wait," Jasyn then interrupted, furrowing his brow further as he tried to put more puzzle pieces together in his brain.

K'eel Doba...Sith fighters...

KAMINO...???

Now, now, Jasyn buddy, you DO remember Kamino, don't you!

"Not that I remember why Darra was on Kamino," Jasyn then continued, "But I sure remember going there to hopefully look for her, running into Galen there, and her telling me that..."

He paused a moment, biting his lip in thought then finally continuing with, "Aaron, while you're digging up those coordinates for K'eel...

... whatever...

...could you tell me if my memory is correct that we thought Galen's daughter was on Coruscant? And while you are at it...

...could you tell me why the hell someone took her to Kamino?"

"One of the bad Sith took Darra to Kamino to have her cloned and genetically modified. Unfortunately I don't know alot of detail because you and Matt were more involved in such things with Terrin than I was.

"Don't you remember any of this?" he queried.

"Not a lick," came Jasyn's reply. "What about Coruscant?"

"Unless something has changed, that IS the last place Galen said Darra was. She was hoping to go to K'eel Doba to convince her sister Graysith to lend her a Sith fighter...

...or perhaps she was just planning to steal one..."

(((OCC: Continues in Minds Like a Sieve in the same forum, thank you.)))