For the brief few minutes the yacht on which Jasyn, Matt, Dash and Jebbua traveled through hyperspace, Jasyn Lancaster couldn't keep his eyes from the navboard.

This was just too easy, no WAY did the Empire just let them go...

...but then, they did.

It was only the blinking of the proximity indicator which jolted Jasyn to reality; as Matt Stanza reached for the hyperspace lever and pulled them into realspace, Jasyn looked over to him.

"So did that just really happen, and where precisely are we?"

Matt returned a somewhat amused glance in Jasyn's direction. "Yes, that happened, and we are still in uncharted space. I'm thinking now would be a good time to discuss where we're going next to continue the search for Galen, since we've just been strongly advised not to return to K'eel Doba, and anywhere nearby."

Jasyn nodded, then frowned, turning so that he could now see Dash and Jebbua as well. "Indeed, that is the question...

...but I still can't help but think that Jharmeen person has something to do with Galen's disappearance. I just don't think Aaron would get his facts crossed like that, and he did say that Galen and her sister were not always on good terms. So, assuming that this Lady Jharmeen is really Galen's sister...

...maybe she just doesn't want Galen to be found..."

"...which is all the more reason we have to find her," Matt added.

Again Jasyn nodded, leaning back in his seat a bit and pursing his lips, his look entirely thoughtful. "And what if this Jharmeen really isn't Galen's sister?"

"Then we should proceed with the next most logical place Galen would have gone."

"Coruscant?" Jasyn muttered almost to himself. "Like that is going to happen, Galen didn't even think she could get in there without alot of risk...

...and besides I clearly remember Galen crashing the Eagle. So, unless she bought herself another ship, that leaves her stranded somewhere..."

Jasyn trailed for a pregnant moment trying to come up with other possibilities. Then, a memory surfacing, he suddenly turned directly to Dash, his brow eyes intense. "Hey, maybe you had something in suggesting Kamino back when we were on Sullust. Galen's daughter was there before she was taken to Coruscant by our reports, and was sent there by the Sith according to Aaron. And Galen went there looking for her daughter, that I am certain of.

He paused a moment, quirking a brow. "I think it just might be worth a visit, if only to retrace the trail Galen left before she so mysteriously disappeared...

...and possibly for more than even that..."

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Matt - The strong silent type. Yet somehow knowing just what to say at exactly the right moment.

Jasyn - Head strong and short tempered. But willing to stick his neck out on the line for his friends. No matter what the consequences.

Jebbua - The teacher of Light. Without his, albeit breif, guidence I would probably be joining up with the Empire or who ever else would lace my pockets.

And Finally I looked inward. Dash Kelderon - What a jumbled mess of facts and partial memories you are! You can't even follow your own instructions. You could have had your friends killed! What good are you to the mission??? Things will have to change!

"Hunh? Sorry, I was thinking of how we should proceed. I heard Kamino?!? I think that is a good place to look next. Although I don't remember my last welcome there being very friendly! Of course missing people are usually kept in hard to reach places. And Kamino is one of those places. Let's go"

I turned to Jebbua who was sitting quietly, too quietly! I gave him a little shake. "Jebbua? You listening?"

No response.

"I think that blow to the head you gave him really frazzeled his brain. I better take him to a cot or something. He may not be back in action for some time."

I escorted Jebbua to a room located mid-ship.

"Rest here old friend. I'll take care of things for now. No more screw ups!"

I threw a thermo-blanket over his torso and made my way back to Matt and Jasyn.

It's funny the things you notice. And funnier still the times that you notice them. I realized, as I was walking back to the cockpit, that the interior of this ship was really quite exquisit for a little yacht. And really quite spacious! But alas, these are the types of distraction I need to avoid. If I am to better serve our cause! And that cause is to retreive Galen. Where ever she is...

"Kamino it is. Set a course. Engage."

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Where i am? I thought.

I slowly crept to the door and heard a voice say something about Kamino, but what for? I went to a chair and sat down. Why was i here?
Galen. thats right we were looking for galen and my head sure hurts. then i remebered Jasyn Hinting me with a glass bottle. I hadn't really help at all since i had came. I had to do something. I closed my eyes trying to concentrate on Galen. I have met her a couple of times and knew what she looked like and since we were going to Kamino. I reached out trying to find Galen on Kamino. not finding anything since i couldn't concentrate i gave up and just that there thinking.

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--always wise to memorize coordinates that are impossible to find--

--he turned, arching an eyebrow at Jebbua even as the yacht glided back into hyperspace, destination Kamino.

"What's he doing?" he queried, nodding towards Jebbua but looking at Dash. "And while we're in transit, how are we going to approach the Kaminoans, or should we try the stealth tactic again? After all, the last time I was on Kamino they were pretty unwelcoming, and I don't exactly want to find myself in another holding cell there..."

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"He appears to be doing some searching. For Galen I assume."

Thoughts of my last visit to Kamino rushed to the front of my memories. It was there, where my dormant Force abilities were awoken, out of sheer desparation.

"Well, we don't seem to have much luck with the stealth aspect of our missions. When we are successfull in this regard we always seem to give ourselves up anyway. So let's try the direct approach this time. Besides, we need to get indoors somehow..." I trailed off as one thought poped into my mind.

"Maybe we can use stealth... Follow me for a second here. They must have a source for water inside the cities right? We need to sneak in using this water way. We'll need some oxygen tanks, some thermal suits, and a couple of underwater lazer cutters. But I think it will work."

"I am open to other suggestions though. I'm not to thrilled about meeing the oversized minnows that most likely roam the planets watery surface."

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...and there's the matter of landing this ship without attracting attention. Galen used to do this thing where she used the planet as a shield...

...something like that...

...maybe we could do that, if we had a good pilot flying here. And, remember if we always have to include the possibility of finding Galen, which means if we do this, we'll need some extra equipment..."

Jasyn trailed, frowning. "One problem. Stealthing like that will make us look like we're up to something right at the get-go. If we're found swimming through the waterways, it could get ugly...

...and really, we're only trying to establish what Galen's trail was from Kamino. So maybe the direct approach would be best. Or perhaps we could approach Kamino as a customer, and just do some snooping about while we "wait" for our services to be rendered. What do you think?"

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I gave it another thought quickly before I reconfirmed things with the group.

"Yep. Sounds like a good plan to me."

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Jasyn paused for a moment then, eyeing Jebbua. "I think your buddy there needs all the rest he can get, so we'll just let him sleep."

"But--before we all get settled in for some z's, I think now might be a good time to check out this little yacht's hand-weapon storage. The EE costumer we pawned it from always stocks his ships up before he sells them to us, so there's gotta be at least a few good blasters at our disposal...

...just in case, of course..."

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"Ruhatt, whats up, who needs to speak to me." I said.

So he told me what was going on and what happened and then i talked to alexis and i was about to give Dash the comm when it went dead.

"Stupid Power cell." I muttered.

I went back up to Jasyn and the others and looked to Dash.

"Hey Dash Can i talk to you for a momment. Alone." i said as i motoined to the back room.

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...pressing matters you have will be cleared up in that time frame, cause as soon as we hit Kamino there will be no time for it."

For a moment then, Jasyn let a brown-eyed gaze rest somewhere between Jebbua and Dash, the look somewhat vague. Then, without so much as another word or even an eyeblink, Jasyn stood and skulked to the back of the ship, leaving the two Jedi in the cabin with Matt.

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Mentally I told Jasyn, I know you have your doubts about JEBBUA, but he is a good man, and will aid us in our quest. I will see to it! Goodnight, rest well.

I dimmed the lights in the ship to begin the night cycle.

"Now what is it you need to tell me Jebbua?"

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"If my Power cell was working you'd be talking to her now, but... it doesn't. So i just thought i let you know."

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Tzakang examinined his two hand mounted blasters. He concluded that they were unsuitable to be used in night hunting. The beams from the blasters would reveal his position at night.

He needed a projectile weapon in which the projectile was near invisible and fired too fast for any jedi to dodge. In his stolen ship, Tzakang set a course for Kamino and entered hyperspace.

He intended to go there to accuire a Saberdart launcher. Tzakang could trade in the ship and one of his blasters for one. He could hardly wait.........

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It kept running over and over through my head, as I sat in utter disbelief. Moments passed by. Jebbua politely sat there and let me take it all in.

The statement finally hit home.

Perhaps a little too loudly I said, "Pregnant?"

Jebbua smiled at me, as I again had to take a moment to let the implications of this statement sink in. "Alexis is going to have my baby?"

I flew out of my seat and hugged Jebbua. One could almost see the excitement in my voice, "This is great! I'm going to be a father!!!"

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Did he even realize the impact something like this can have on a man? He himself was going to be an uncle in 13 months. Was he not excited about that???

"You know, sometimes I just can't figure you out? You give me the most wonderful news of my life and then you just brush it under the rug. I know your mind may be preoccupied with finding Galen and Darra. But... you could spend a moment focusing on your friend here. Frankly I'm a little dissapointed in you."

I got up and walked to the back of the ship. Hopeing that JAsyn and Matt might still be awake, so I could tell them the good news.

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Kamino basically was a water planet with a huge floating city. Navigating through a storm, Tzakang landed his ship. Donning his ooglith masquer, Tzakang entered the massive floating city and made his way to the commercial sector.

He had left his stolen ship unlocked in hopes that someone else would steal it away. Using stolen ships was not very good. Different ships had different operating systems. Tzakang thought it was time to get a ship he could call his own.

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I"m sorry Dash. I didn't mean to be rude. I am happy for her, I don't... I Trailled off as alarms went off in the ship.

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"What the kriffing hell is going on?" Jasyn queried, taking a seat in the copilot's chair.

Matt didn't answer for a moment, but took care of getting them safely out of hyperspace. Even as starlines returned to stars, the group found themselves before a planet. Matt established orbit, and scanned the planet. "Well," he finally spoke up, answering Jasyn. "Judging from the climate and so forth I'd say we've reached Kamino."

He paused a moment, frowning as he continued "...but we've reached Kamino earlier than expected."

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I looked at Matt and Jasyn with a puzzled expression, "I know this little yacht is suped up, but 4 hours? That's got to be like .8 past lightspeed. Even the FALCON could only make .5! And that was one of the fastest ship that I have ever heard of."

I took a makeshift station at the control panel, and began running some ship diagnostics. "I'm gonna run some quick tests to see what may of happened."

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Pausing for a moment then, his look darkened. "Something about this is all wrong...

...and I don't need to be a Jedi to figure that one out. Furthermore, I don't think that the ship has anything to do with our early arrival," he added, looking to Dash. "I just know there is no way we are at the coordinates I gave Matt for Kamino, not unless we've come across some strange space anamoly.

But let's not jump to any conclusions yet."

Again he paused a moment, his look thoughtful. Then he looked once more to Dash, who was still at the navboard. "What I want to know is if we simply arrived at our destination early...

...or if our destination isn't at the coordinates I gave..."

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"Well," he started out, "We are at the correct coordinates, which means we simply had any early arrival. I'm not quite sure how we got here early..."

He paused frowning a bit, "But then it really doesn't matter at this point in time. What matters is getting to the business of retracing Galen's steps and figuring out just where she is. So let's get to it."

He paused a moment, and Jasyn simply nodded. And with nothing more than that Matt turned to the navboard, dropped out of orbit, and sailed into Kaminoan skies...

...where, of course, it was raining.

"Land near the largest stilt city," Jasyn interjected, "That's what I did the last time I came here, and that's where I bumped into Galen."

Matt nodded at that. "I'm on it. And while I'm at it...

...you might want to figure out the reason we're gonna tell these cloners we're here," he continued as he piloted downward. "And as far as snooping around goes," he finished with, sparing a moment to look towards Dash and Jebbua, "This is the place to start, since Jas knows Galen was here at least in some point of the recent past..."

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He reached the commercial sector and went to the first weapons store he saw. Maybe it was the menacing look he gave the store manager or something else, because the manager was extremely polite to him. Tzakang bought a Saberdart launcher, 2 cartriges of regular darts and 1 cartridge of poison filled ones. Those came cheaper than expected.

Now all tzakang needed was some force user to test the darts on. The Saberdarts are fired at supersonic speed. Not even a trained Jedi can avoid one in time. Tzakang decided to load up the cheaper, regular darts into the launcher.

Now to hunt. Tzakang activated his cloaker. Now invisible to the naked eye, and Tzakang stalked off into the city.

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...again. Scowling a bit at the thought he shifted a bit where he stood waiting for the Kaminoan greeter, water dripping from his clothes.

How he hated being wet. And how he hated negotiating. That had never been his forte...

...but then, at least Matt was here to help in that regard. Though Terrin had always been the best...

Jasyn jerked himself from these thoughts as he finally realized that the Greeter had arrived.

"Welcome to Kamino," she said smoothly, directing her large eyes to reguard those standing there. "How might we be of service to you?"

Jasyn shot a brief look in Matt's direction. Then he turned back to the Kaminoan, pulling from his memory the little item of business he and Matt had come up with while landing. "We are here on business for Eagle Enterprises. It has come to our attention that perhaps we may gain more efficiency in ship-building and matenience with clones. We would like to...

...observe your work here for a few days, so that we may come to a decision regaurding this."

Here he paused, leaning in closer to the Kaminoan, wishing like hell that he was tall enough to be right on eye level with her. "You will be very well paid for keeping us as a guest, let alone how you may be paid if in fact we decide to...

...order a batch of clones."

The very idea of talking about any sort of human being, clone or no, as a "batch" almost made Jasyn sick.

The Kaminoan meanwhile cocked her head slightly, seeming to consider. Then, "I believe something can be arranged, Mr...

"...Lancaster, Jasyn Lancaster. And we'd like to get cleaned up and a bit rested before we attend to any business, if you don't mind," he filled in.

The Greeter nodded at this and turned to lead them onward. "This way please."

And with no further ado the Greeter lead them to a well furnished apartment where they could get cleaned up and rested before viewing the handiwork of this cloning world up close and personal...

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"Before we," I pointed to Jebbua and myself, "get started. I think we should all take the tour of the facilities with one of those greeters. That way Jebbua and I will have some idea of where we are going."

My thoughts turned to the possible dangers of snooping around the Kaminoan city, and realized that the consequences of failure might result in my unborn child never knowing its father. There thoughts were very disturbing. But it kind of made me realize how Galen must feel every day without her daughter. And also reminded me the importance of our mission!
Alexis...

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