On it.

~Nyja~

My comlink buzzes in my pocket as we're flying back from Lheshyr Dia (where we dropped off the medical supplies) to the capital, Sachako. The trip was uneventful; we ended up flying our speeder with the huge trailer nonstop to the city and then crashing in a cheap motel, too exhausted to actually deliver the goods before morning. The hospital administrator was a scatterbrained new transplant from the Core, who apparently tried to bring a shipment past Togoria without coordinating protection- big mistake, which led to our short-notice run.

Anyway, the comlink. I pull it out, noting the ID code from the Fortune's Smile's comm set. Must be Chesa. I pick up. "Hello, love," I begin, "how'd you sl-"

"Mom! I thought you oughtta know, I just spotted a Jedi or some such thing!"

Now why would that be so urgent as to warrant an interruption? "That's great, Chesa..." I reply, a little uncertainly.

"The thing is, though, she looked a lot like someone I heard about from Padawan Tanthi. Her name's Kari or Kiara or something, she's this weirdly dark blue Twi'lek who, like, dropped off the map after her Master died. Nobody knows what she's been up to, and I think I just saw her, and you know how Knight 'Soka always says a fallen Jedi is one step from a..."

"Sith," I finish for her. This is slightly troubling news, though it's possible the Twi'lek has just been doing missions on her own time. Neither Ahsoka nor Tanthi Bi'farran, Chesa's best friend within the Jedi, are anywhere near omniscient. "Well, thanks for telling me, sweetie. Your father and I will be back in two or three hours, and then we're off to Corellia- the galley needs restocking, and Corellia is one of the best places in the galaxy for all sorts of food."

"Okay, Mom." She still sounds worried. "D'you think we should try to figure out where what's-her-name Twi'lek went?"

"You tell me. I don't remember anyone informing me that this girl is dangerous, or any such thing, but suit yourself. Just don't leave the terminal."

"Alright. Love you, bye."

"Bye." I cut the link. 

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More later; I'm supposed to be working on a history paper! Force be with you! 

Finally! I just read up so who is all on/headed to Naboo?  This is getting kind of confusing.

Bio:  Gilnean was born just before episode 2, was captured by a sith dude (I forgot his name) when he was 3 or 4 months old to be trained at a sith hideout (not known by Sideous).  Jedi foun out about the hideout when he was 14, they radied it and a jedi girl his age kind of took him in and they disappeared from the jedi temple a few months after that, he became some sort of bounty hunter and she became a courscaunt police captain.  Once they were on Hoth spectating Podraces while looking for a criminal and he was leaning against a cliff of ice when the criminal that they were looking for collapsed the cliff on him and she saw, but dove to push him away a second too late so somehow they both got frozen in time, in the ice, (but they were still alive, like Captain America).  His girlfriends name is Anna Lair (pronounced lare, long a.) but she wont be mentioned often.

His ship is a Sekotan personal starship, from the planet Zonoma Sekot.   

Also, if we need a plot revival, I think that this is just before the Yuuzhan Vong war.  

He got his ship free, with pre-arrangements with an acquaintance from the process of the ship building.  

Now, all units forward! Charge! For the Republic!!

~Trey~

When we finally get back to the Fortune's Smile, our daughter has worked a minor miracle.

Chesa accosts us with chatter and a datapad the moment the docking ramp touches the ground. "I figured I should at least keep tabs on that Kora person, y'know, make sure she wasn't going anywhere suspicious like into Hutt space, and I found out from the public-access shipping manifests that her ship's called the Daisjo Sol-Cha, which I think means something dirty in Twi'leki-"

"Yes, it does," Nyja cuts in. She is very strict with Chesa about coarse language. "I don't want to hear you saying that around the ship, ever. Got it?"

Chesa nods and continues, "So that's what her ship is named, and it's listed as just a passenger model, no cargo. But it's the kind of ship that could be carrying just about anything small and you'd never know. Hutt make, not Kuati like a regular Jedi ship. I didn't get an ID number, but I cross-referenced commercial flight plan lists for a bunch of different principal spaceports, and it took some digging but I think she's either going to Bespin, Naboo, or Dantooine." This is all expelled in a single breath. I gape.

"You...you narrowed it to three destinations without an ID number, or any identification at all save the name and the general appearance?!"

"Uh, yeah. I mean, not many beings name their ship a Twi'leki swearword, and I kinda sorta tapped the control tower's voice communications right as she was leaving so I got her exit vector..."

"Wait...tapped communications? You do realize that's illegal, right?!"

She shrugs innocently. "If they'd noticed, they woulda got our transponder codes and arrested me already. Info like that leaks all the time, so I guess they just can't keep track of who knows stuff and who doesn't."

I shake my head. Amazing, that girl is. "Alright, so now we know the three most likely places for this rogue Jedi or whatever she is to be going. Do you have any idea what we should do with the knowledge?"

Here Chesa is somewhat at a loss. She hesitates for a couple seconds before answering, "I was thinking, maybe we should visit one of those places after Corellia, snoop around a little bit. See if we can figure out where she went next, or if she's still on planet."

"You mean we should follow her?" Nyja sounds incredulous. "Following a ship you have an ID for when you have nothing better to do is one thing, but you know we need to take runs often to keep ourselves afloat. We can't devote too much time and fuel to this, especially if it ends up being a wild bantha chase."

"Tell you what," I interject. "We'll go to Corellia, restock, then try to find a shipping run to one of those planets. And see what we can turn up on the Holonet in the meantime."

This mollifies both Nyja and Chesa, at least for the moment. We finally ascend the ramp, in a tenuous but comfortable accord.

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I promise, there shall be plot next post!! 

Unfortunately, Darth Caelum does already have an apprentice. But she's working undercover. I don't see why he couldn't have two.

Um, that was random, but okay. I don't have the time to post now, but I may have time later, and TOP!!