The man walked towards the command center without haste, without fear; he knew his news was not favorable but not life threatening bad. After all the two worms who failed had already paid the price, he just had to let Nor Hur know that the Wraiths may have discovered their plans. He knew that Nor Hur would not be pleased but there was nothing they could do now, except modified their attack plans.

He had known Nor Hur since joining the Peace Brigade back before Coruscant, back before Duros when the Peace Brigade was first starting. Nom Anor had gathered some of the worst scum of the galaxy to help tear down the so-called New Republic from with in, to help blaze the trail for the rest of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. The man had just escaped from the so-called Empire that Pellaeon had constructed, a pale and shallow creature that was nothing like the Empire he had been born to serve. Therefore, when he heard about a chance to get revenge against not only the damn rebels but also the Empire, he joined in a heartbeat. What he found when he got there was a joke of galactic proportions, he wonder how these Peace Brigade creatures ever hope to complete their missions and why Nom Anor had even bothered to use them. Of course, he knew one reason, disposable shock troops. Why waste valuable troops with jobs that anyone could do? Nevertheless, many times these so-called shock troops could not complete even the simplest task.

He had been lucky that he fell in with Nor Hur early in his career; Nor Hur was like him in many important ways. He wanted to use the Peace Brigade to unhinge the enemy's fortress but he knew they would only cause more trouble then they were worth. Therefore, he took the best of the Peace Brigade and used them for the more delicate jobs. Unlike many of Nom Anor's projects, which failed disastrously, Nor Hur had a track recorded of successes all over the galaxy. Moreover, unlike Nom Anor, Nor Hur never got the recognition he deserved for destabilizing many areas of the galaxy. Which in hindsight, after the defeat at Coruscant, a blessing in disguised?

After the surrender of the Yuuzhan Vong at Coruscant, a few of the Domains ignored the dishonorable recall and firmed up their control in Hutt Space. By ones and twos, battle groups and fleets, even a few world ships had shown up, all declaring their renewed belief in the gods and their holy obligation to wipe out, not only the infidels, but also the traitors living on the anti-god Zonama Sekot. A ruling council of the highest ranked Warrior, Priest, Shaper and Indent has labored long and hard to bring some kind of order to the crumbling foundation of their society. They took many needed steps such as all infidels in their service must be fitted with slave seeds, no exceptions. He had one implanted in his skull but it did not interfere with his tactical abilities or his movements so it didn't bother him too much, after all sacrifices are for the glory of the gods. In addition, for those agents working under deep cover in the Galactic Alliance, Imperial and many of the other inferior governments, they were under conditioning that would kill them if they step out of line or failed in their mission. The two nothings that had died on Borleais were such examples of how well the conditioning had worked.

Another step they took was to kill all the Shamed Ones found in the new Yuuzhan Vong territory, they were all heretics and their role in the downfall at Coruscant was well known. Infidels captured over the short four years of war and some raids they still conduct on GA worlds replaced their lost.

The Purges didn't stop with the Shamed Ones; any heretics found had a chance to renounce their sins and go through the purifying process if they survived then they given a second chance. The man idly wonders just how many actually survived the purifying, not many that he has seen. However, it did not matter really, the Heretics had been blight on the galaxy since they arrived, and all forms of heresies needed to eradicate if the gods were to favor the Yuuzhan Vong again. Even as an infidel, he knew the Truth and even though he will die, once the infidels are gone, he believes in the Truth as deeply as the Yuuzhan Vong did.

He stopped outside the portal to the command center, bowing submissively to the guards standing in front of the door. He hates this part most, acting as if these mere foot soldiers were not only his equal but also his superiors. However, he did understand some battles that had to be ignoring to achieve the higher goal. Like the teaching of the Yuuzhan Vong, sacrifices are for the glory of all. He would endure the humiliation, as he had endured the slave seed, the Embrace of Pain, The Pit of Truth; all was worth it as he help plot the destruction against those who tried to destroy him. When he walks before Pellaeon, Talon Karrad and that witch Shada D'ukal and let them see the instrument of their destruction … all this will pale in the glow of victory on that day, the year he spend in BACTA will wash away , the injustice of the years behind bars. To see that day he would suffer all insults from anyone and anything.

Without a word or even a glance, the guards opened the portal and allowed him access into the antechamber, once inside he was lead to the main command room by a young female warrior, barely out of childhood if her size and tattoos were correct. In the main control room, he found Nor Hur in conference with several priest/seers, the portals between the will of the gods and the Yuuzhan Vong, a few of his fellow warriors and a Slayer. The Slayers were a priest/warrior sec that was considers more of an abomination then a true Yuuzhan Vong. However, they were gifts from the gods to assist the Warriors to eradicate the Jedi, who many now believe to be agents of the anti-god, which have foiled many of the gods' true wishes and rumored to be use by the anti-god to drive Shimrra insane.

When he entered no one noticed him or greeted him, he was an infidel after all. He just assumed the proper position and wait for his commander to acknowledge his existence. For Nor Hur he would wait a lifetime, Nor Hur was a warrior who had one goal to destroy all the infidels. Unlike the trice cursed Nom Anor, who always was trying to raise through the ranks and always looked out for number one, Nor Hur always kept his eyes on the grander picture, keeping his missions simple and on target, and kept his mind on who he truly serves, not his leaders, his Domain, or anyone but the gods themselves. That is why he now commands the vast intelligent network and Nom Anor is dead.

"Is the Abomination there?" Nor Hur barked out at last.

"Unknown, they got sloppy and died," he replied simply in Yuuzhan Vong, unlike many of the other infidels he learned the gods' tongue.

"Explain."

"They were arrested after a night of drinking, they performed sins against the gods' wishes, and they were arrested and waiting trail when they died."

"Does the Abomination know of them?" The Slayer asked, the man did not know his name or if any of them had names, they are just Slayers.

"Yes, my contact in the commander's office reported to me before I was summoned. With the news I just passed on, he also informed me that the Wraith sent a team that included Sara Sandblaster to the morgue to exam the bodies."

"That is the name that those two had suspected to be the Abomination?"

"Yes."

"Nor Hur, I wish to go to Borleais and do battle with the Abomination, that must be her or else why would they kill our operatives?"

"How did they die?" Nor Hur asked after a lengthy pause.

"They failed to communicate at the precise moment."

"Interesting," Nor Hur said the man remained in proper position; one knee down, head bowed, arms crossed against his chest. Even though he could not see the commander's face, he knew it was twisted in concentration. "Now that they have proof of our spies among them, their next step would be to run down any leads to find out how they slipped in their mist so easily. It could take several weeks to exhaust the entire false and misleading trap we have out there."

"I shall hunt them down until I have found the …"

"No, there is an easier way to hunt, Slayer." Nor Hur said cutting him off, "our missions complement each other here. I propose that we go to Borleais and wait for them to return. I will send 28 of my best warriors …"
"I need no help I am a Slayer!"

"They are not there to support you," Nor Hur said smoothly and quickly, "they will kill the lesser beings while you dispatch the Abomination."

"Why go to Borleais then? If you are correct they will have to slit up to hunt down the source of our worms?" One of the other warriors asked.

"No, as I said our mission travel on the same road. As with a Herat, if you attack one the rest will not be so easy prey. However, if you let them all get home, where they feel is safe, you can wipe out an entire pack without losing a single warrior."

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Face watched the reaction of the new Wraiths after Tahiri finished her briefing on her self. Most of the new people looked disturbed by the news, which Face could understand; it was hard to understand a Human/Yuuzhan Vong Jedi. It would take a few mission and a few days for them to be entirely comfortable around her again. Ratnena, on the other hand seemed, to have no problems adjusting to Tahiri, she sat through the whole briefing eating one of her sweet sticks, looking bored and interrupting with some snide comments from time to time. Face knew that his instincts where right about those two, they had the makings of a great team. Moreover, they haven't tried killing each other yet or anyone else.

"We know that this is going to take some getting use to, but we ask you to trust us on this one fact. We would not have let her joined if we didn't trust her with our lives." Face saw several of the older members, such as Demolitions and Doc, nodded their heads while some like Road Kill still looked concerned. "We have worked with her in the past on a mission which is still classified but I can tell you this much. If Tahiri hadn't been there it is very likely we would have all been killed or worst."

"What happened were you locked in a food factory and the Vong had to eat an escape tunnel?" Ratnena asked, looking and sounding perfectly innocent.

"Yuuzhan Vong!" Several of the Wraiths yelled out before Tahiri could, she looked around the room sheepishly and started blushing. Face could feel the some, but not all, the tension leak out of the room as they all laugh at the Wraiths new comedy team.

"Anyways," Face said trying hard to sound official, "we still have a problem to deal with, who is trying to kill Peacekeeper and why were those two sent here."

"I have an idea if I may?" Piggy said from his end of the table, when Face gave him the go-ahead he turned to look at Tahiri. "We all have noticed that during your time here that there was one threat we could use that was guaranteed to get a reaction out of you and I was hoping you would elaborate as to why Zonama Sekot was such a terrible alternative to you."

"Yea I thought that it was like paradise to you Jedi." Lucky asked.

"Well it is supposed to be, all the Jedi and Yuuzhan Vong have felt to various degrees a kinship almost to Sekot. There is just something over powering about Zonama Sekot that attracts you there and makes everything seem like …" Tahiri stopped, her face one of concentration, "it is really hard to describe. Jacen Solo wanted to stay but he felt if he did, he would never leave, as did the rest of the Jedi. Many of them said it was the hardest thing to do was to leave Zonama Sekot when it was ready to return to the Unknown Region."

"Sound like a drug addiction," Angel said softly.

"But you didn't like it?" Ratnena said no cheer on her features as she watched her friend struggle with the question.

"No, for me it was almost too overpowering. I always felt as if I …" again, she paused, "it was like I knew if I stayed I would fulfilled a prophecy that I have been avoiding."

"What prophecy?" Boom-boom asked watching her closely. Tahiri explained the prophecy that Anakin Solo had of her while on Yavin 4, before his rescue of the Old Tahiri Veila. She also went on to explain why most if not all the Masters believed that she had passed that prophecy and what visions were. "But you felt if you stayed on Zonama Sekot you would turn into that Yuuzhan Vong?"

"As crazy as it sound, yea. Since I have left, I no longer have any misgivings about not being there. It is like the weight of the galaxy left me when I left Zonama Sekot, it might be because I am more sensitive to the Force around Sekot given my duel nature." She stopped and made a face, "or it could be from the way the other Yuuzhan Vong treated me."

"I thought that the Yuuzhan Vong treated you as if you were their savior?" Circuitry Girl asked getting up to get a cup of caf. "From what we learned you figure prominently in their new religion."

"Yea wasn't there a whole movement based on your shaping on Yavin 4?" Road Kill said while reading something from her data pad.

"No," she said in a firm voice, but Face could hear a trace of the pain she still felt about the lost of Anakin Solo, "Anakin Solo's actions were what the Shamed Ones worshiped. I was very much a secondary player. Anakin started the Heretic movement that Nom Anor later used to thwart the Yuuzhan Vong power structure. Moreover, that was the second part of the problem on Sekot. The Yuuzhan Vong there don't hate me but they rather not have me around or breathing for that matter."

"They see you as the ultimate abomination." Face could tell by Piggy's tone that she had answered the question the way he thought she would.

"Yes," Tahiri said with relief in her voice, happy no doubt, that finally someone understood what she has been trying to explain.

"I don't get it." Numbers said from her end of the table confusion radiating from her head tails.

"The Yuuzhan Vong Dogma is very structured, strict and not to be questioned." Kell explained to her, "When the shapers re-made Tahiri they were committing the worst sin against the gods they could."

"Basically, the Yuuzhan Vong believes that all that is known is locked away in the Cortexes that were handed down from the gods to the first Yuuzhan Vong. The protocols have not changed in the past thousands of years; to experiment was to question the protocols, to question the gods themselves." Tahiri stopped and looked at each member around the table before moving on, "some say that my shaping is what sealed their doom."

"Wait a minute," Angel said shaking her head, "I heard that the Yuuzhan Vong accepted that they were wrong about their gods, that Zonama Sekot was the true path."

"Only a few actually accept that explanation, they are going through a serious cultural shock right now."

"Besides it is easier to blame two dead shapers and one young girl then to accept the blame yourself." Ratnena said from next to Tahiri.

"What the Yuuzhan Vong there think is immaterial right now, except in the fact that if they feel Tahiri is the source of their problems then there is a good chance that the Yuuzhan Vong who sent those two to spy on us would believe it also."

Face was surprise to see Ratnena lean forward and narrow her eyes at Piggy; he could see a storm cloud building on her face. Tahiri jerk back as if she touched a livewire.

"Rat?"

"I don't like where this is leading to sir." She said in a low voice to Piggy.

"Nor do I, Prankster, but it is logical."

"Like hell it is, that won't solve their problems. Anyone with a half a brain can see that, sir."

"Again, I agree if they were rational, which we both agree that they are not."

Face looked down at Ratnena glaring at Piggy and Piggy staring, unflinching, back at her. Everyone else, Tahiri and he included, stared at each other with a look of bewilderment on their faces.

"Ok for those of us who aren't super geniuses," Shalla said breaking the silence, "could you two clue us in on what you are thinking or are we going to have to bring in Junk Pile to translate."

"He is suggesting that they have to kill Tahiri or else the gods will never help them," Ratnena said.

"Whoa," Long shot said looking at Piggy, "sir that is a stretch."

"If my logic is at fault please show me where." Piggy said to Ratnena, expressing as much sympathy as he could. When she slumped, back in her seat Face knew that Piggy was right, no matter how much he wished that he were wrong.

"Piggy, you and Ratnena, I am assuming, think that the Yuuzhan Vong believe that as long as Tahiri is alive they will never succeed in conquering the galaxy."

"Correct Poster Boy, Tahiri is a symbol to some on Zonama Sekot to all that went wrong during the war; the ones in Hutt space are even more orthodox. There are three visible symbols in the downfall of the Yuuzhan Vong, Zonama Sekot, the Jedi and Tahiri. We do not have yet to see any movement against the Jedi, nor against the planet, however do we find two attempts to locate and kill Tahiri within days of each other."

"Or they could choose her because she would be the easiest to kill first."

"Maybe but I must disagree for now, Tahiri is a living example of heresy for all to see. Yavin 4 is where the Shamed Ones began to look to the Jedi and not to their gods for redemption; Yavin 4 is where heresy practiced openly for all to see. Those in power could not cover it up, eject it out into space or dismiss it as unproven rumor. They would have to kill her to at least to prove to others that the gods are looking favorable on them again."

"Sir," Road kill said leaning forward, "I hate to say this but that makes a lot of sense. Prankster?"

"I don't like it."

"I don't like it either Prankster," Face said watching her closely, "but does it make sense?"

"It makes sense," she said, when she looked up her eyes were blazing, "so who do we kill to protect the Vong?"

"First we have to find out if Piggy's theory holds water, to do that we need all the information we can get." Face said thinking fast, he hadn't planned to send out any missions yet but with this new information, they need to get a chokehold on the Peace Brigade as soon as possible. "We need to track down Hill and Starred, find out who they really were and where they came from. No offence to the flight leaders but I am going to assign vet. to each one of you. They can help you all get the information we need."

"First flight, you and Warrior girl will track down High, third flight and Circuitry girl will track down Starred. Explosion Boy, Droid Boy, Charm Boy and Peacekeeper, you will go find an old friend of ours, he maybe able to help us."

"I finished that special project for Peacekeeper; you want to try it out now?" Science boy asked Face thought about it for a half a minute before nodding his head. "Come on I got a surprise for you."

"Oh," she said with a fake smile and getting up from her seat, "I just love surprises."

"And second flight and I are going to Denon, we will be going in uniform and exposed. I want to look in that central computer. Any questions?"

"Uh?" Ratnena said from her seat.

"You and Little Brother are staying behind this time. Any more questions, no get together and come up with a game plan. I want you off planet as soon as possible." Face said getting up and trying hard not to look at Ratnena, he hoped Kell get a chance to talk to her before she does anything stupid.