Mirta sat silently listening only to the hum of the engines and the various click and chirps of the assorted consoles belonging to the cruiser in which she and Merys now traveled, she had been rather quiet the whole trip, in fact less talkative than usual as of late. There was a reason as Merys had previously guessed of Mirta's recent laconic behavior, but it was not something she even remotely wish to discuss especially not to someone with whom she only possessed a working relationship with.

Merys was hardly adverse to her passengers lack of conversation, she herself was used to silence when traveling so it was hardly new.

Mirta was in deep contemplation of what would come next, she held no leads on a cure for the Nano-kller in her homeworlds atmosphere. That was her end goal find a cure, and go home. It always sounded so simple when she just said it, but life hardly worked out so simply.
She thought of all the ways the virus could be used to hurt people, hundreds, thousands, but no known way to remedy it, to fix the damage caused by it. It all seemed so self-destructive, the same could probably be said for many things in life but now, when one was the victim of such foolishness they see things in a more enlightened perspective, as if one did not truly realize just how unnecessary certain things in life were until they became a problem for them.

Mirta thought of all the previous conflicts she had been involved in, how everything though difficult and perilous ultimately seemed surmountable, something she could accomplish.
She remembered how she first met her grandfather, it wasn't a happy teary loving family reunion, she sought him out at the behest of her mother, Boba Fett's own daughter, Ailyn Vel. Vel hated her father, she was not fully aware of the circumstances in which he left her and her mother, Mirtas grandmother Sintas, she always believed Fett had abandoned his family though in truth he had been exiled for charges of murder and forced to leave his family, Ailyn had also been erroneously lead to believe her mother Sintas was dead. She held strong feelings of disdain towards Fett and all the misconception and fallacies only made it worse. She wanted him dead. Ailyn and Mirta planned on killing Fett together, and Mirta honestly though they could, she knew Fett's reputation, she studied what he'd done, his various accomplishments, and in-spite of all she learned she thought they could be the ones to end Fett once and for all.
She was never quite sure why she was so sure of all the people in the universe they had the best chance, maybe because they were his blood, and Fett, as Mirta had learned in recent years, cared very much for family.
But even in comparison to what she faced now, an almost intangible problem a conflict that she couldn't feel or physically see, the thought the prospect of hunting and ending the legendary Boba Fett actually seemed doable at one point.

All of her conflicts, missions, and what not had something a clue, a hint, a target, something that she could follow to locate her objective, but now she saw no clues, she held no answers, everything was unknown, and it grated at her, and the increasing days and years that it went unresolved only made it worse.

Mirta finally decided to break the silence and walked over the her traveling companion
"So where EXACTLY are we going and who all will be meeting us?"
"Where, is just a waystation in the Iego system, it's outer rim and noone really cares enough to ask why a bunch of Mando have gathered, now WHO, not too sure I know it won't be everyone, but I think it will be enough to convey whatever you need to say to everyone else."

"I see." an almost awkward silence say for a moment "You were right."

"About?" Slightly raising an eyebrow.

"I haven't seen my husband in some time, and it seems to be bothering me more and more as of late, I don't have much left in the way of family."

Merys tried hard to avoid eye contact "OH lord are we actually doing this right now?"

"Do you have any family?"

"Not really, unmarried, only child, parents died a while back."

"I see, both of my parents are gone, all I've got besides Ghes is my maternal grandparents."

"Fett is your mother's father?"

"Yeah, he and grandmother divorced years ago, then she got frozen in corbinite and now looks like she could be my older sister."

"...I...I got nothin."

"Yeah imagine how awkward that was, 'Hi, I'm your granddaughter, your 34 and I'm 19, this totally isn't weird' and given my usual family drama, that was actually one of my more normal days."

The atmosphere became silent again, Mirta felt weird sharing bit's of family drama to a practical stranger, but she honestly had nothing better to do at the moment.

"So what exactly is your plan? Everyone who's loyalty to you is wavering probably won't show, not all of them anyway. Those who are attending this little get together most likely won't have too much problem following whatever instructions you have."

"Are you afraid that those who don't like me anymore will become a problem?"

"I'm sure you've heard of the problem back home? There are people who don't think Fett should stay Mand'alore, not if he can't return to the planet he's supposed to be running, people lose faith in your ability to perform the job your grandfather, the Mand'alore, assigned you and they may begin to see things by the other parties perspective. "

"So...if enough of them are upset with my 'performance', they may take it out on my grandfather? Well pardon my language but that's a dick move."

Merys let out a small chuckle "That it is, but I'm just pointing out a possibility."

"Back to your question, I simply plan to send everyone who can back home, as you and Velku have made clear, our people haven't fully recovered from the conflicts that have plagued the whole galaxy, and honestly someone needs to put a lid on the issue they have with my grandfather, last thing we need is the people getting divided and just causing more civil violence like they did back in the Clone Wars." Merys shot a confused expression her way "What? I read history."

"So you called a whole meeting just to shout 'Go home'?"

"I plan on doing more than that obviously but that's the major thing I think needs to be done, those who aren't personally working with Grandfather need to maintain some semblance of peace on Mandalore."

"Very well."

The two spent the rest of the trip in silence, Mirta said what she needed to, and Merys had nothing to add, only a short few hours later the two reached a large waystation within which several ships had already docked, a few which Mirta could easily identify as Mandalorian.

Mirta looked through the windows, she could see various worlds in the distance but not exactly close "This station isn't orbiting any planet, and its pretty in between, almost like its floating in the middle of nowhere, seems almost random."

" That's the point, there are alot of open areas in space with nothing occupying it, makes sense for a waypoint to be in an empty region. Not as many customers, but within range of several stars, enough to run on solar power."

In mere moments the ship docked in the station and the two exited, upon reaching the lobby area of the station the spotted someone clad in Mando gear whom upon noticing them gave a suggestive wave for them to approach.

"Ah, you two were almost late."

Mirta narrowed her eyes to the almost unusual remark "How exactly can we be late, if we called the meeting in the first place?"

"Well, everyone else is almost here, pretty soon we would just be waiting on you."

"Fair enough, so were is everyone else meeting?"

The unnamed Mando led them to another ship that had docked at the station, this one was much larger than the one they themselves had arrived on, and understandably could house a meeting of this kind.
"Besides the two of you only a few more are coming in, last we checked they weren't to far out so we should be able to start soon." After this he walked back towards the station lobby, likely to await anyone else, Mirta and her companion made her way in to the ship through the opened cargo area, where several Mando were waiting, one who's armor she slightly recognized as the man she spoke to recently Velku Ordov, before long he took notice of her presence and walked over with some haste.
"Well good to see you Gev, Merys."

"Hello Velku" looking around the room "Is this everyone?"

"Oh no, the rest are in the other sections of the ship, simply waiting for everyone else. How are you two I trust you made without difficulty?"

"Noone bothered us, nothing happened, it was a quiet uneventful trip."

"Before we left she bombed a spaceport, and ripped off a Devaronion's horns."

Velku chuckled "Ah, so its Tuesday?"

"Oh Kriff you both!"

Mirta simply sat down nearby and sat silently, her mind wandered towards her Grandfather. Admittedly they met under the least amicable circumstances, but eventually they saw eye to eye, and had since grown quite close, the two had done much together since their meeting, and she honestly had come to love and accept him as her family and blood.
She thought of how in an almost ironic twist Jaina Solo, the daughter of Han Solo the man who was in part responsible for throwing Fett down the throat of a Sarlacc, came seeking training from Fett, to learn how to kill a Jedi no less. Mirta was weary of Jaina, at the time she almost perceived her as a potential threat. But the true irony lay in how close she and Jaina had become, how good of friends they became, though Mirta hadn't spoken to Jaina in years, especially after what Jaina's brother had done to her, despite his promise not to.
She almost wondered if she held Jaina in part responsible for her brother and his actions, if that was why she became so distant though she didn't think it was fair to blame her for such things. However some part thought Jaina or at least any of the other Jedi should have tried to undo the damage inflicted by Jacen, but instead they along with everybody else wrote it off as forgone and ignored it.

Before long her thoughts were interrupted by Velku trying to get her attention.
"Gev, the rest are here!"

Mirta stood up and looked around, a considerable amount of Mando were gathered in the room all with gear of varying decal, she then advanced towards the center of the cargo bay they were in and turned to address everyone present.

"So, I guess everyone knows why I have called you, in short I screwed up, I involved all of you in a matter I which I had no business, I believed that the reward, the end justified the means, and for that it was more than acceptable to utilize your respective skills in the ordeal.
I was wrong and some of our comrades were lost in a Jedi raid, a battle which we had no place belong caught in the middle of. Fact of the matter is your services are better served on our homeworld, there seems to be some civil unrest as a result of the Mand'alores inability to return home, we need to stop this from escalating.
I personally can't return as most of you are aware I need the rest of you that can to go and keep whatever civil disputes are going on back home from turning violant. I need you to tell everyone who isn't here to head home. I can't return home, others are prevented from returning as well, and I plan on fixing that, regardless of any of your skepticism. "

A brief silence followed before one of the Mando walked towards her.
"And why exactly should we continue to follow any of your instructions, you have been running around this whole galaxy looking, and grasping at any solution that may present itself to you, and whatever messes you get caught up in you have drug us into.
You and your grandfather can't even return to our homeworld but you both still maintain positions of influence, why?"

"Well, on the matter of my Grandfather, I think he's earned whatever position he now holds, don't you? I mean, if you really object why don't you go and voice your opinions to him personally. Don't worry, I'll wait."

The unknown Mando cringed and seemed to audibly shudder at the suggestion, even at age 75 nobody actually wanted to get of Boba Fett's bad side.

"Alright, but what about you, some of us have come to think you were only made the commander of the Mandalorian Security Force because 'Granddaddy' said so. So again why should any of us listen to you?"

Mirta smiled almost mischievously,"You want to know why?" after a brief pause she turned slightly to the right before quickly bringing her right fist up and struck the Mando in the left of his helmet causing it to fly off of his head, resulting in various scattered responses.
Still dazed from the initial impact the unnamed Mando didn't notice Mirta rear back her left hand and strike him across his face with a solid punch causing him to keel over onto the floor. Almost immediately after she heard hurried steps behind her coming towards her, she quickly turned to the side in time to see another Mando's fist fly past her face missing only by an inch or two, but now whoever they were they left themselves open as Mirta quickly grabbed the arm with both of her hands, one at the wrist and the other at the elbow, and twisted the person's arm around their back and used the momentum to press them to the ground, and with a quick jerk she dislocated the man's arm before delivering a swift kick to the face before the man had a chance to scream.
Suddenly a pair of arms reached around and grabbed Mirta, Mirta however knew how to counter this as she pulled him forward, slightly lifting him off the ground momentarily, which gave her right arm room to move which she immediately took advantage of as she began repeatedly elbowing him in the gut until his lost him capacity to hold on to her anymore, she spun around and elbowed his head with her right arm and swung her left arm around delivering a heavy punch.
Before she had a chance to look and see if she had any others present would join into the fray she felt a blow strike the right side of her jaw, for a moment she staggered before she turned to face her attacker this time a female Mando, like all of her previous attackers she was covered in armor and could not be seen. She rubbed her lip seeing that some blood had been drawn, she then waited for her opponent to act, after a brief moment the female Mando threw another punch but Mirta blocked it with the backside of her forearm, before bringing the same hand forward to strike her in the face, while she delivered a quick jab to her attackers abdomen with her other arm.
Several others joined into the fight but Mirta had been taught by her Grandfather to defend against greater number in combat, before long several other Mando lay unconscious at her feet, when she looked around and saw noone intended to continue the violent altercation, she walked over to the original Mando who questioned her in the first place and rolled him over seeing her had regained some of his senses.
"That, is why, that is why you should follow my orders, because at the moment I don't see anyone else qualified to give any at all. Now call all your friends tell them what I told the rest of you, AND ALL OF YOU GET YOUR ASSES HOME! "

Mirta then walked over to where Merys and Velku stood see ing rather amused expressions on their faces, before Merys addressed her.
"So, the reason you called a big meeting, wasn't because you figured you needed to say all of this in person, but rather you wanted to literally beat some sense into anyone that questioned you?"

"I figured I just needed to remind everyone who I am."

Velku raised his hand slightly "And if everyone who showed, didn't have a bone with you, what then? You gonna call someone up to beat them up? It seems to me your master plan to get everyone to listen to you rested on someone hear hating you."

"I was confident enough people would show, I figured there were those who disliked me so much they just wouldn't show and then those who had a chip on their shoulder and weren't willing to pass up an opportunity to voice their opinions. I however wasn't expecting so many though" gently rubbing her jaw and left eye both of which were now visibly bruising "But the number did certainly help make my point."

Merys let out a small chuckle "And your point was?"

Velku turned to her "That she doesn't take other people's shit."

The surrounding Mando began to leave the ship they were presently gathered in and made their way through the Station to their respective means of conveyance, leaving only a small group of Mando, several of which removed their helmets. She pondered for a brief moment why this particular group chose to stay as none of them were among those she just fought, before an idea entered her mind.
"Your all related to clones aren't you?"
The group all nodded their heads in response before one came forward to address her
"We all managed to vacate Mandalore when the virus was released on this ship, seeing as how we all couldn't return home now, we have been traveling together."
It almost upset her seeing more people besides her Grandfather and her in the same situation though one the one hand it meant she had aid besides Vestara alone. After a breif pause she turned to Velku and Merys.
"I would like you two to return to Mandalore as well, at the very last I'd like there to be 2 people there with brains."

The two each gave a small chuckle before nodding in acknowledgement and departing as well. Mirta then turned to address the remaining Mando.
"You all dont mind if I tag along with you lot do you? We are technically all related"
One of the Mando stepped forward "Not at all, the ship had room for a couple more."
"Good now do you mind terribly if I bring a...traveling companion? She isn't Mandalorian but she is helping me."
"Do you trust this person?"
"I trust her enough, she helped me with the Qrepth's, so she has endeared herself to me."
"Fair enough."
"Now on that matter would you mind if we go grab her, she is for the moment crippled and I left her all alone in a dingy hotel room."

One of the Mando facepalmed at hearing this "She's crippled..."
"Temporarily, she's post-surgery."
"...And you left her by herself?"
"...Shut up, I'm not perfect. Can we go grab her or not?"
"Yes, lets go."

Mirta let out a sigh of relief, she was pleased to have help, and a proper means of conveyance besides Ship "I think today was productive."

A/N I'M STILL ALIVE! Good lord this chapter took forever to right, between work and taxes I had no time to work on this, I'm honestly not to crazy at how it turned out, The main point was Mirta beats up a bunch of people, and I had to find a way to stretch that out.
But hopefully some people like it.
Also in case noone has already noticed I've been using some chapters for recap on several characters, mainly to help set the scenes, and to help everyone who isn't as familiar with the expanded universe.