THE OUTER RIM HACKER
Thanks to my beta reader DarthGladiator45.
Summary: Luke Skywalker wants to show his friend Biggs a new trick: He learned how to hack into the ships' transmissions.
He hacked into a transmission sent by the alliance about an imperial secret and deadly weapon…that must be destroyed…
Disclaimer: George Lucas is the rightful owner of STAR WARS and all characters portrait on this fan fiction.
Luke Skywalker and Biggs Darklighter were hiding from the sand storm at Biggs' home. Luke passed his hands over the shelves and read the holo games labels feeling the slickness of the plastic cases.
"Wow! I didn't know you got this one!" Luke picked up the data disk and his eyes went wide open. "This must have cost you a fortune!"
Biggs shrugged, "That was nothing, really. I won in a race on Beggars Canyon, you know, the one you didn't go."
"Really?" Luke frowned. "That darn evaporator cost me a TIE fighter game. Come on Biggs, let's play."
Biggs placed the data disk inside the holo-game player.
"This is so cool, we can invite others through the holonet to play with us," Biggs explained.
"How do you do that?" Luke asked while observing Biggs download the game onto the holonet.
"Do you know the rules of the game?" Biggs asked.
"Sure, we have to destroy the X-Wings and Y-Wings, right"
"Right." Biggs picked up the helmets while handing one to Luke. "And these will make action sequences seem realistic." Luke placed the helmet over his head.
"This is so cool! I wonder if this is what the stars looks like!" Luke was overwhelmed with the feel of a hyperspace. As he had never been inside a ship before and the game made it look so real!
"What do you want to be? A TIE fighter pilot or you prefer being something else?" Biggs asked.
"X-Wing!" Luke punched the digital pad and chose his vessel.
"Are you ready?" Biggs asked.
"Are we playing with the other people out there?"
"Not until we get online." Biggs replied. "Just a minute and we will be."
The young men were "piloting" their ships.
Luke and Biggs played the simulation game, twisting, turning, shooting until Luke finally brought down Darklighter's TIE.
"That was not fair!" Darklighter turned off the game.
Luke laughed. "Sorry, I guess you are dead now."
Biggs started laughing. "Yeah, sure; but I will beat you next time."
"Hey, Biggs, do you want to go to Anchorhead when the sand storm stops? They opened up a new fast food restaurant; I heard they got the best bantha burger of the Outer Rim."
"I'm kind of hungry too, but my mother left me some of those in the fridge. We can play another game, what do you think?"
"Sure, whatever." Luke browsed through the shelf. Biggs left the room.
The computer started to beep incessantly. Luke looked at thescreen, there was a timer going off.
"Hey Biggs, what is this beeping sound?"
Biggs replied from the kitchen. "It is a reminder I have to take my vitamins, just turn it off."
Luke laughed. "A reminder to take vitamins? That's very funny."
Luke shook his head, still smiling. Biggs had a way of amusing him. Biggs felt like an older brother that Luke never had. It amazed Luke that despite Biggs being a member of one of the richest families of Tatooine, he would still hang around him, a lowly farm boy.
He was happy when he was with Biggs, unlike Dack; Biggs care about him. Although Dack was a good friend, but often felt he was being used for his repairing abilities, he also would tease him and call him "Wormie" and the only time he visited was when his speeder was broken. Biggs would come to him and invite him to go places, Luke felt embarrassed several times because he had no money to pay for a lot of the activities. Biggs would say that he has plenty of credits and he needed to spend. Not only that Uncle Owen was very stringent with the amount of allowance Luke would be given.
Luke remembered a kind remark Biggs had said, "You are my friend, Luke. There is no amount of credits in the whole galaxy worth more than our friendship…"
Luke sat in front of the screen, turned off the timer and started to browse the holo-net.
He typed in a search for his father: Anakin Skywalker.
He looked at the screen:
Anakin Skywalker fought bravely in the Clone Wars, but considered Missing in Action while on a mission to Mustafar. He is presumed dead. General Obi-Wan Kenobi later recorded on the extinct Jedi archives which were confiscated by the Empire that Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker was killed in battle against Darth Vader…
Luke felt a lump going through his throat. Biggs entered the room holding a plate with bantha burgers.
"What are you doing?" Biggs mumbled, as he was eating a burger and talking at the same time.
"Oh, nothing; I was just browsing…" Luke replied nonchalantly.
"Hey, Luke, find something for us to watch."
"I don't feel like watching holo-movies, I have a better idea."
Luke's blue eyes brightened.
"We can tap into the ships communications that are one hundred parsecs away."
Biggs' eyes widened. "Are you crazy? Are you going to jam their signals?"
"No, Biggs. We are just going to listen to their conversations."
"You are crazy, Luke. Whoever you are tapping in might know you are doing that!"
Luke smirked. "Take it easy, they won't."
Luke happily tapped into the keyboard and searched for coordinates.
"Where did you learn this, anyways?" Biggs asked while observing his friend searching the holonet.
"My friend Dack taught me."
Luke continued to search, suddenly a different sound called both boys attention.
"rgrslta lei ll orh.l.. oowijh;lllln"
Luke frowned. "Wow! I think I got something, Biggs."
"Can you understand that?" Biggs asked. "I think it is Bothan"
"No, but I can get the signal they are transmitting…"
The holo screen started to send an image…
An enormous sphere…
"Hey, Biggs…do you got a translator?"
"Yeah, how come we didn't think of that?"
Biggs activated the translator device…
"Here, Luke…It will pick up hundreds of languages of the galaxy, but I still think it is Bothan."
The computerized voice echoed as the image of the sphere was floating in front of the youths' eyes.
Luke activated the recording panel.
"These are the readings of the battle station. Be ready for the next transmission."
Luke eyed the translation device and smiled at Biggs' pride to have recognized the language. The device blinked "B o t h a n"
A woman's voice answered, "You may send the transmission."
Luke observed the translation device. It did not blink.
"She speaks our language." Luke commented.
The holo image started to float around, "Luke, this supposed to be a battle station, look at the size of that thing." Biggs voice was shaken.
"A precise shot into its core is what is needed to destroy this battle station." The sphere suddenly dissipated.
Luke immediately cut the connection, and then he turned to Biggs with a concerned look, "I have a bad feeling about this."
Tbc…