Chapter 12
Next he turned on his communication channel to Slave-1.
"You sold Jabba's cargo, which means you stole Jabba's cargo" threatened Boba Fett. "I have been sent to bring you to Jabba."
"This is all just a big misunderstanding. You must be talking about the spice I just sold on Coruscant. But I didn't steal that. I bought it from a trader named Han Solo. Didn't he give the money back to this Jabba guy?" asked Ohnaka innocently. "Besides who cares about a few crates of spice when there are Force-Sensitives to be found?"
"What?" Fett was curious now.
"Yeah, that's why I'm here. I got a lead on a group of runaway Force-Sensitives who are hiding on the planet below. The Captain of the Star Destroyer is going to pay me 1000 credits apiece to find them" Ohnaka continued. "It's probably not as much as you're used to getting paid, but I'll offer you a deal. If you'll clear up this misunderstanding with Jabba, then I'll give you my info on where they were last seen on the planet. Then you can find them and collect the bounty money from the Empire instead of me."
Fett is silent for a tense moment while he considers the low amount of money and the opportunity to capture "Jedi-Wannabes".
"Alright, send me your information" Fett said impatiently.
"It's on it's way over now" replied Ohnaka.
Slave-1 descends quickly to the planet. Ohnaka checks back in with Captain Tarkin to let him know that Fett is already on the job, and will return to him shortly. Ohnaka is given permission to leave the sector and loses no time in doing so. He has impressed even himself with his cunning and newfound riches.
Meanwhile Captain Tarkin waits in orbit and works on his application for a big promotion to oversee the construction of the Emperor's new battle station called the Death Star. It should be a cushy job, and he's heard that the upper ranks often have very quick advancement there.
Fett searched long and hard for the "Jedi-Wannabes", but never found more than a few of their belongings that they had left behind, including a very unique piece of jewelry with a blue crystal in it. Fett recognized it as the type of crystal that Jedi used to power their lightsabers. When he returned to orbit, he reported to Tarkin again. Of course he couldn't admit the truth, so he lied and said that he had found a group of a dozen force-sensitives, but had been forced to disintegrate them. He handed over their personal belongings including the crystal jewelry as proof.
Captain Tarkin is convinced enough to pay him his bounty, but warns him that he will send down a squad to search the planet as well just to be sure. And if they find any force-sensitives still alive there, then he will find Boba Fett and make him pay double in addition to revoking his bounty hunter license. Boba agrees and heads back on the long journey to Tatooine to tell Jabba about Han Solo losing his cargo.
