Order 66
Prologue
As I landed, I was feeling a great sense of pride. The last bounty I caught got me a good deal of credits, in which any case made my family rich, course, I was already rich from Jang'buir's fortune, but I gave it all to Boba when Jang'buir died. Oh and there was the incident when Ace got arrested and Skirata screwed a bunch of credits out of my no good double crossing employer.*
I turned on the security, locked the flight controls and left the ship. As I entered my apartment, my "new" droid, HK-47, was teaching my children about the mandalorian wars, I don't think they saw me, although I did hear HK ask, "Query: Well my little meatbag friends, do you want to hear about your meatbag ancestors?" Thank the Force, I love that droid. I skulked into the kitchen, to find my Lovely clawdite wife, in human form, cooking dinner. I walked over and kissed her, "I'm back."
"Glad to hear it," she smiled at me, "How was it this time?"
"Eh, it was just the usual stuff; We put up a flag on a CIS outpost near Cato Neomodia." I shrugged. It was just another day in the war, another black ops mission to ensure the outer rim sieges went perfectly and we could get on to more important wars, ones we actually had a stake in. She asked, "What about Ace and Skirata?"
"Ace was his normal self and he's fine. Skirata survived the mission but not me when I'm through with him after the stunt he pulled." I shook my head. There is no word in Mando'a for hero. That's because putting our lives on the line to protect our families, our homes, and our honor is just another day at the office for us. I would expect Skirata to understand that more than everyone else, but he somehow did stupid things only people who wanted to be heroes would do. Yet it wasn't because he wanted to be one that was sure, it was because he knew it was the right thing to do, and if I know anything, doing the right thing comes too naturally to Skirata. Tawny laughed, "He saved you're life again didn't he?"
"Well he's paying me back again," I rolled my eyes, "The point is I'm here with you and the kids and there's no other place I'd rather be."
"Might want to rethink that, ner vod," I turned around to see Skirata and Ace in the doorway. Skirata said matter of fact, "We have to go now!"
"Why? We just got back?" Then I heard the explosions. Low flying ships shooting overhead. "What the hell's going on?"
"The seppies are coming down fast, whole planet's under siege. Dammit! Now their fleet is overhead clashing with ours and need to get in orbit ASAP! We have a top priority mission."
"Well? Spit it out?" Skirata just shook his head, "Sorry, it's very important, top secret. I'm sorry Tawny, I know you'd keep it to yourself but I have strict orders not to tell anyone except Ace and Sev here."
I cursed, "Osik. Alright Tawny get the kids to a safe place, C'mon, Ace let's figure out what in the Force's name is going on."
So I followed them back to the LAAT/i they had come in and we flew away. "Well, Skirata what is this top secret mission?"
"The chancellor has been kidnapped by that di'kut Grevious, and we've been ordered to get him back…"
Notes:
*See Aliit Ori'shya Tal'din
Buir- father; Jang'buir- Papa Jango (that sounds like a pizza joint get you bounty hunter pizza here, 5 credits)
Mando'a- Mandalorian language.
Di'kut- moron, idiot