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She leaned further over the dashboard the closer we got to the barricade, where three guards in green toted guns that should have been too heavy.  Their faces remained hard as we approached. "Let me do the talking," I told her. "They're going to let us in, right?" she asked, the hope draining from her face. "They have to, but I know how these guys are.  I'll make sure we get in as soon as possible." She nodded.  "I trust you." We stopped shy of the doors, and a guard took a spot at each side of the car.  I put the windows down and they scanned our eyes, and when the beep produced was satisfactory, the third guard approached my side. "Yo

“This isn’t the first time I’ve been stranded.”    “This isn’t the first I’ve been stranded here,” Saerith countered. Krae nodded in reply. “Lucky for us too. You’ve been pretty helpful in navigating this place.”    The praise was lost on her. It had been three days since they were attacked. Three days since she’d watch the Specter plummet into the lower regions of Nar Shadda. For three days the outside world had been a distant thing. The emptiness in her chest seemed to fade out the worlds sensations.    “We are not stranded.”      Tivari’s eyes

    “What are you doing here?”     Saerith jumped, and the welding torch in her hand slipped. She quickly yanked the tool back away from the hull, and was thankful when a brief inspection revealed she hadn’t damaged the ship.  She flicked the torch off and tossed it to the ground. Frustration at the nearly costly interruption writ plain on her face, she turned and faced Tivari.     “I’m working. What are you doing here?”     Tivari met the question with silence, her face unreadable, and Saerith took refuge in her frustration. Folding her arms across her chest, glaring openly. She wouldn’t be int

Existence came into focus with all the sharp, high resolution quality of synthetic ocular receptors. “Ugh.” There was little else to be said for it. The dossier included a description of Dantooine, but it really didn’t do the planet justice. #11 clawed his way free of the little drop pod that had transported him to the surface and wandered in a quick circle around the edge of the crater it had made upon impact. “Ugh!” It might as well have been a nightmare. As far as his exceptional eyes could see in every direction it was a barren landscape. A wild place devoid of technology or anything resembling civili

    "I'm looking for someone." she said to no one.    A dark room in a forgotten place. The light and warmth of people had once made it a home in an age long passed. Now it was her temporary shelter. A barrier to the elements, and nothing more. No light and no warmth because these things were certain death, and she was looking for someone.    So, she huddled in the corner with her back to the wall; eyes fixed on the only window in that small one room shack. Visible only as a slightly brighter square amid the darkness.    "In stories, they say the night didn't used to be so dark. That as the sun left the sky; the night called upon its ow

“You’re looking a little spacey.”    Startled, Saerith jerked and lost her grip on the hydrowrench she’d been holding. It hit the durasteel floor with a resounding clang and she lunged to grab it. As she’d been straddling the seat of her Grayback speeder, this worked out as expected.     Whatever you do, don’t tip the speeder over     She wasn’t the best at remaining upright even with both legs engaged, so her lunge quickly turned into a one legged, arm’s pinwheeling circus. The not unfamiliar situation in which she found herself; a pending up close and personal engagement with the groun

    The long stretch of lights that made up the entirety of hyperspace snapped back into their singular shimmering expanse of stars as the Specter finished it’s jump. The small green sphere that was their destination was almost invisible as the local star passed behind it.      ‘thankfully I don’t have to rely on just what I can see.’      “DL-8642, Jungle Moon” Flashed across the monitor, and a trajectory plot to the small transport hub in orbit followed shortly. Saerith leaned over and switched on the intercom     “This is the place. Head on up.”    Not waiting for a reply, she closed th