Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: A scoundrel's story

"Sithspit Torrin, we just got sparked again!"

"Shut up, Jonn, and concentrate on hitting them!"

Torrin Rimsek and Jonn Forusk were on their final run between Nar Shadaa and Nal Hutta ferrying spices for the local Hutt, Vogga. Of course, with Goto's fighters hunting down all of Vogga's freighters, the once profitable trade now became a deadly race for survival.

"Where the hell did they come from anyway?" said Jonn, "They seemed to appear out of nowhere."

"I heard Goto's yacht has a cloaking device, so no one can track it. Talk about paranoid, huh? I mean the big slug just sits out in the open all day."

"Speaking of which, how long until we get planet-side?" asked Jonn, "all I can see is fighters."

"We should be entering the atmosphere right about…now," answered Torrin. They both felt a jolt as their modified freighter the Parjir (Mando'a for "to win"), entered the pollutant laid atmosphere of Nar Shadaa. "They seem to be breaking off. Hang on, we're coming to a landing in the refugee sector," The Parjir landed with a gut-wrenching thud. "That didn't sound good. We lose anything?"

"Yeah. About half of our port engine is gone, and they blasted a hole in the main cargo hold. I haven't yet looked in there."

"Wait," asked Torrin, "Gone?" He walked over to the engine room to inspect the damage. "How are we going to repair half an engine?"

"I don't know. Maybe we should get a new one. That'd save us a lot of time."

"Yeah, I guess. But we should get a pair. Mismatched engines don't work too well together," While Torrin was inspecting the engines, Jonn was looking through the cargo hold.

"We didn't lose anything major, thankfully, since the spice was locked in the smuggling hold, but we did lose most of our spare parts," said Jonn dejectedly.

"Sithspit, well, looks like we should go see Tien. We should probably see about getting our transponder codes changed, so we don't have to deal with Goto, huh? Oh, and since we're getting new engines, we should see about getting the hyperdrive fixed." said Torrin.

"We should get out laser turrets optimized, or get some new ones, because I wasn't doing any major damage to those fighters." said Jonn.

"Alright. And we should probably see about getting Vogga his spice fairly quickly. He won't want to be kept waiting. Let's go see him right after we see a Sullustan about a turret. "