"Heh, yeah that's just Taris. Wait till you see Coruscant." Carth replied while his companion continued to stare in awe at the display around her. She had moved ahead of him and was looking around like a toddler who had just learned to walk.

"It... It's beautiful." Tali replied generously, she had a very calmed but awed tone and she had a wide grin on her face. Quickly she looked over to her companion and she decided now was not the time to stand in awe at the sights, she turned back to him. "Right... sorry. Lets get back to finding your friend. Where should we start looking?"

"Well we should probably try getting to the lower city first," Carth said, moving ahead of Tali into the centre square. "Although we should probably have a look around, try and make a few friends. We're stuck here, and just you and me haven't got enough fire power to take the Sith head on. Try not to draw unnecessary attention."

Tali nodded, "Then let's go. You lead the way."

The two continued into the square, passing by an escape pod that had been embedded into the ground because of the crash. Carth looked visibly disturbed by the sight of the crash, it only took a second for Tali to realise that it was the pod that Carth had crashed in. As they walked past the scorch marks, Carth started to ease up and Tali wanted to know a little about the man who had rescued her.

"So... Carth. You never did tell me how you rescued me?" Tali inquired.

Carth turned around and leaned against a nearby wall, "I guess I didn't. The short version is that I saw your shuttle crash after I crawled out of the pod, I ran up to it and pulled you out of the wreckage before stumbling into that apartment."

"But... there were two Alliance Marines with me. What happened to them?" Tali quickly asked after Carth had finished speaking.

"Marines..?" Carth moved forwards and crossed his arms "I didn't see anyone else before I left, any longer and the Sith would have been on top of us." he shrugged

"Oh..." Tali put her hand up to her faceplate "Those Sith have probably already got them."

"I wouldn't want to get captured by the Sith. They say the force can do terrible things to the mind, they can wipe away your very identity." Carth said putting his hand on Tali's shoulder. "If the Sith get their hands on Bastila, it could mean the end of the war."

"Okay. Lets get moving." She relented and turned around. Carth put his hands down and waited a second before continuing on.

The two continued on their way and eventually made their way to one of the entrances to the lower city, however it was being guarded by a contingent of Sith soldiers.

"Damn it." Carth uttered after seeing the troopers at the door. "They won't let us past under any circumstances."

"Why don't we just dispatch them right now." Tali asked while laying her fingers on her pistol.

"No, that would alert every trooper in the area. We need to find another way down." Carth held his forehead in thought, trying his hardest to see a way past this. "The only other way we could past is if we made them believe we were Sith or working for them."

"So... we try and get some uniforms? Or identification?" Tali asked putting her hands by her sides away from her weapons.

"That's the idea, but where will we find that without 'disposing' of one them." Carth asked himself. "Let's just walk around some more, try to get our bearings."

Tali nodded and the two left and headed back the way they came, they accidentally stumbled into another apartment block whereby they watched a War Droid and a Sith officer break into someone's apartment and attack the tenants. Tali almost drew her weapon on them, but Carth stopped her.

"We can't just let this happen!" Tali whispered to Carth as she gripped her shotgun.

"Wait." Carth said, analysing the situation in his head. "Okay, we can do this. You try to get their attention, I'll throw a grenade in and-" As Carth was talking he failed to notice that Tali had hacked one of the war droid's behaviour cores.

"What are you doing you stupid droid?! Terminate them!" The officer shouted while the droid turned and stared at him.

[TARGET ACQIRED]

[IDENTITY: SITH]

[THREAT LEVEL: MINIMAL]

[WEAPON LOCKS DISENGAGED, FIRING]

"Wha-?" Before the officer could even form a coherent sentence the droid opened fire and poked multiple holes through his body with its rifle. The droid stopped firing once it received no life signs from the corpse. After the target was dead, Tali disengaged her hacking interface and the droid powered down.

Carth could only look on in amazement while the droid turned on it's own officer just because Tali hit a few buttons. "Wow..." Carth muttered while staring in awe at her. Tali noticed and recoiled slightly while she closed down her omni-tool. "Uhh... let's go... go check out that body." Carth blubbered, he must have looked like an idiot with the way he was staring, he couldn't see under her helmet but Carth could have sworn she blushed under there.

The two entered the apartment to find a couple cowering in the corner behind the now disable droid, they were quivering and when they saw Carth and Tali enter they started to whimper. "Please, take whatever you want. Just don't hurt my family!" The husband shouted at Carth as he tried to help.

"No you don't understand! We're here to help." Carth said trying to dissuade the couple who obviously didn't believe him. The way both he and Tali were wearing combat armour obviously didn't look good.

"Just take what you want and get out!" The husband said again and Carth backed off with his hands up to show he wouldn't hurt them.

Carth went over to the body of the officer to check him out, "Tali, watch the door." Tali nodded and stood by the door with her weapon drawn. Carth searched the body until he found what he wanted, a datapad with high level security clearance that could get them down to the lower city. "Hey! I found a datapad with clearance!" Carth said triumphantly

"Wouldn't the soldiers at the checkpoint not recognize us as Sith?" Tali asked while slightly turning from her watch.

"Sith soldiers rarely get involved with internal affairs, it's usually catastrophic for them to speak out against their superiors." Carth said while putting the datapad in his pocket. Just then a Sith soldier turned the corner.

"Sir! Are you done in there?" The soldier shouted at the apartment door. Without receiving a response he turned the corner to see his commander on the floor dead with two people staring at the door. "Oh shi-" Was all the soldier could say before Carth and Tali opened fire on him. The soldier fell to the floor dead, his metal armour hitting the floor with a thud.

The couple looked on in horror, they were definitely dead or worse if the Sith found the bodies in their apartment. The couple relented and got up and left the apartment in a hurry not looking back, they pushed past Tali and Carth aggressively. Once they were out of sight, both Tali and Carth went back into the corridor.

"That went... well." Tali uttered, frowning underneath her mask. She was more upset that the Sith had free reign over everything and nobody was pushing back.

"Come on, let's keep moving." Carth said, pulling the datapad out and taking a look, "Now all we to do is- damn it!"

"What's wrong?" Tali asked moving closer and taking the datapad from him.

"The pad is keyed with the officers DNA and medical status, it knows he's dead and locked itself down to prevent us from using it." Carth said, defeated as he leaned against a nearby wall. "Only a skilled hacker or technician could bypass it..." Carth thought for a moment, thinking back to how Tali hacked that droid remotely. "Do you think you could bypass it?"

"Well... I might be able to, but it would take time and I would need some of your DNA." Tali said turning back to Carth. "Anywhere nearby where I could make the necessary adjustments."

"I have a place in mind."