Tahiri tossed around in her bunk unable to get some sleep. As many hours as she puts in she would have though going to sleep would be the least of her worries. If anything they were always worried about the lack of sleep would allow them to miss some critical piece of information. She didn't know why she couldn't sleep, maybe she was more worried about Rat then she would admit even to herself? Maybe she was worried about Little Brother? Maybe she was worried about the growing chaotic situation of the economical/political and social changes on the galactic scale? Or maybe I am just going nuts?

Deciding that sleep was no longer possible, she got out of bed and hit the refresher. If I can't sleep might as well get some work done, she thought as she threw on her body armor. Bangor, the little lucky so and so, had no trouble sleeping so she just left some food out for him to eat when he woke up.

Picking up her data pads and some printouts she headed out to find Face and show him what she believes what might happen. Her contact, still not identified, had supplied her with some interesting bits of information that didn't add up the way they should. The first place she checked was the right place, as she knew since he was technically off duty. Face was in the galley with Mrs. Solo drink caf. She walked up to him, came to attention and waited for him to notice her.

"Princess, notice the military precision Tahiri has developed while being here," Face said as he set down his cup. "Which means she has a new idea to drive me insane."

"No sir," Tahiri said laying down her pile and sat down next to him, "but I have something I want to show you."

"Wait," Face said holding up his hand, "do you want to get some food first?"

"Not right now sir maybe later …"

"Oh no," he said putting his head in his hands, "its worst then I thought."

"I leave you maniacs alone," Leia said with a bright smile, grabbing her cup she walked out in to the passageway.

"Well Peacekeeper if you willing to skip a meal this must be important. Show me what you got."

"Yes sir, its something the spy said to me on Tatooine that got me thinking, he hinted at the fact that the Yuuzhan Vong had been receiving dreams or visions about my alter-ego playing a big part soon. And not just the higher ups, a lot of them had been having these dreams if the rumors were true. We also know that they went through a lot of trouble getting the qahsa to me in the first place and setting up different places and time for me to met them."

"Ok I am with you so far."

"Sir, they thought I was shamed, the only one that should have met me was a warrior that had only one mission and that was too kill me. To even seek me out was extreme to begin with."

"Why? I mean, even if they thought you were shamed why would they automatically kill you?"

"In the old days, they wouldn't have, they would have just taken me kicking and screaming to my place in the fields where I can work to pay for my life. This group, given the fact that they killed every single Shamed One they could find, tells me that the correct response should be an amphistaff in the head. Also in qahsa, the Warmaster said that they knew that I would, not be frighten off that would be wrong, but extra weary of meeting with them due to the purges." Tahiri could see that Face was still not following her, "ok try it like this, would you go to a spice head for financial and heath advice?"

"Uh, no," Tahiri could see it in his eyes that he was starting to get the picture.

"Correct sir, and the Yuuzhan Vong would never follow a Shamed One into battle unless the gods decreed it."

"How do you know it is a military objective?" Face said leaning forward.

"Sir, after spending all the resources to contact me, resources they can't spare if our information is correct, they didn't just do it to invite me over for a High Day drink. These Yuuzhan Vong are desperate to please the gods and get back in their good graces by following the old doctrine. And that means sacrificing infidels and plenty of blood shedding in the gods names."

"Ok, lets say you are right and they wanted you to lead them against …whom?"

"I am getting to that sir, next question is why is Admiral Kre'fey building his ghost fleet?"

"To attack the Yuuzhan Vong?"

"But why? We know from the information that Rat and Little Brother that he has access to the remaining supply of 'Alpha Red' at the Shadow Fleet, so why not build missiles and use them to deliver the disease?"

"Missiles aren't as reliable as piloted ships and his supply is not infinite," Face said reasonably, Tahiri had anticipated this argument.

"True sir, but what if he want to save it for something better, something … bigger?"

"Sekot?" Face said sitting back and staring at her, "that makes sense since they want to exterminate all Yuuzhan Vong."

"A whole peaceful, unprotected planet out there, somewhere, full of Yuuzhan Vong just waiting for someone to come by and go 'pop'." Tahiri said clapping her hands together, "and there is strong evidence that Sekot, the mind, is from the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy, if not from the original Yuuzhan'tar."

"So the Shadow Fleet is for Sekot," Face said nodding.

"No sir, the Shadow Fleet is for the excuse needed to attack Sekot."

"Uh? Ok you lost me, why would they need a fleet to make up a excuse to attack a planet that no one, even you, knows where it is at?"

"A couple things sir, first this conspiracy on our side wasn't set up over night, there was a lot of pre-planning going on. Probably before Ebaq 9, when most people who wasn't at Borleias thought the Yuuzhan Vong were unstoppable but our ship yards were finally starting to supply ships in great numbers." She said getting up to get a mug of hot chocolate.

"That would be the best time to set it up alright, get a few senators who would fight to the death and use any means necessary to make sure if we can't have it neither could they."

"Yes, they set up some dummy accounts, start transferring key personal and credits. But then we won the war but the Yuuzhan Vong were still around and now have new world to live on and not have to clean up their messes. I never knew before I joined the Wraiths and did undercover work how much resentment was out there towards the government for allowing the Yuuzhan Vong to basically get off scoot free."

"So more senators and military personal get steamed about this and are approached …"

"And so on and so on," she paused to take a sip, " now these senators want pay back for all their work and putting their necks on the line. Many of their planets are still wreaked or they are being hounded to help rebuild those same planets and the Yuuzhan Vong are living high on the nerf on Sekot, they want some revenge. But still Kre'fey can't go after Sekot without a lot of out cry from senators who are either on the Yuuzhan Vong pay role or the ones who aren't even involved. Not without a very good reason. His bubble has survived so far because we are the only ones who are even remotely aware of it that is not involved. If the wrong people start looking too hard at what he has done the entire bubble could burst."

"So you think that Kre'fey will use the Shadow Fleet in a stage attack?"

"Yes sir, but it won't be staged. I think he is waiting for the same thing that the Warmaster is waiting for, the perfect target."

"Not Denon, they could strike there anytime," Face quietly thought for a moment and then by watching him, and through the Force, saw that he had the answer. "Ossus!"

"Yes sir," she said nodding and took another sip, "Master Sarkin told me that in less then two months the next class of Jedi, including Valin and Savanna, will be graduating. Master Skywalker wants the galaxy to see them, not as warriors like so many of us are, but as true protectors of the peace. He is bowing to pressure, albeit it didn't take much, to have many senators and even the Chief of State there, as well as Grand Admiral Pellaeon, to witness the ceremony."

"Nice target."

"Yes sir that is what I think also."

"One problem although, where do the Yuuzhan Vong get the ships to launch this attack for Admiral Kre'fey to beat back? What they got wouldn't scare a Jawa?"

"Yes sir, if our information is correct," When he gave her a dubious look she plowed on, "sir, according to all our information why would he need a fleet as big as that even in reserve? They wouldn't, the information from the front shows that level of attacks are even slowly dropping off."

"So they have some one doctoring all the reports from the front?"

"No sir, just a few here and there. When Lt. Jillian first arrived, I remember Lt. Hall complained to her about the sloppy work of certain battle groups. I pulled her away from Lt. Deloni, after this idea hit me …"

"You were able to get those two to stop locking lips long enough to talk, I'm impresses."

"With the Force sir, anything is possible," Tahiri said with a mischief smile, "my next trick won't be that impressive, just stopping a supernova."

"Ok," Face said laughing, "no sense in doing two impossible acts in a row. So what did Road Kill have to say?"

"I asked her what about the reports she didn't like. She said the number of torpedoes vs. the number of ships destroyed were off. Given the size of some of the ships they are reporting as destroyed, are being destroyed at a lesser rate then they should be. In other words sir, if you took the same numbers of skips in place of capital ships the numbers are correct. I asked her if this was deliberate or a honest mistake, she told me that she couldn't tell by the data."

"So, some commanders are lying on reports that doesn't mean they are part of the conspiracy or that there is a large fleet out there waiting to drop in one day."

"What if they are reporting bigger kills to make the Yuuzhan Vong seem weaker?"

"Tahiri, again so what? How does this transform a nothing in to a bigger nothing," Face said leaning forward and picking his words with care. "To be honest, even we never found any ship yards around Hutt space."

"That is because it is here," she said pulling out the pad and showing him a system. "This is the third system that we never got to because of our detour to Tatooine."

"Why there," Face asked slowly and taking the pad.

"One, the system that Sweet Sunset visited wasn't supposed to have any habitable planets and yet there was one. Two, all the droids, the computer on the ships, say that the system we went to was devoid of life. Yet it was, how is everyone so wrong." She pulled out another pad, brought up the information on it and handed to Face."

"Well, well late but not so great Fusty," Face said with a whistle.

"Yes sir, every single one of our charts are brought to you by Fusty and company. I don't know which side he really was on; I am starting to think he was just playing both sides for his own greed. He passed on information that both hurt and helped the Yuuzhan Vong and the GA. There also have been recon patrols flying around the Mid Rim and Outer Rim and especially near Hutt Space for the past year and all three systems were never even looked at. The Shadow Fleet was understandable, why have the wrong people see what you are hiding? But the other two were probable results of Fusty's manipulation of the star charts, listing them as dead systems. He might have dropped a word to someone in the Vong-free movement about a shipyard at one of them. Admiral Kre'fey would want to keep that information under wraps."

"Why?"

"Sir, he knows as well as I do that sooner or later the Yuuzhan Vong will want to go after three targets. The Jedi, Zonama Sekot, and me. When it comes to me they were more then willing to help out where they could." Tahiri hoped that she was able to keep the bitterness out of her voice; it is hard not to take something like that personally. "Zonama Sekot is like their conquest of Coruscant, the Yuuzhan Vong and GA both know that is a long term goal that will take many years to complete. The Jedi, however, was a more immediate goal. But they still need ships and Admiral Kre'fey needed his excuse to launch against Sekot. So one of the admiral's pet commanders find this large unknown ship yard and reports it directly to him. Now, he has to keep it quite because if this shipyard is unknown and the Yuuzhan Vong follows normal doctrine, their first strike will be against the Jedi at Ossus. Their first strike has to be at the Jedi, they can't afford to give Master Skywalker and the others any change to rally against them this time. The blow to the galaxy in terms of moral would be huge from that kind of loss. That is why they are letting other area suffer; they are willing to sacrifice other gains to keep this threat a secret. Admiral Kre'fey is willing to play along, he want a perceived weaken Yuuzhan Vong suddenly showing up with more ships then they are reported to have because he can then say that the ships must have come from Sekot, to help their fallen brothers."

"That would take a huge amount of planning, Peacekeeper."

"I don't believe it is all planning on the Admiral's part sir, I think he stumbled across this and is make the best use of it he can."

"Many good Admirals and Generals have been doing that as long as they been around."

"Yes sir. Also sir, we have seen evidence of warriors running around getting food supplies and other needed material but no large movements of priest and shapers. Why would they do this?"

"I think we can worry about that later," Face said seriously. "What do you think will happen when that fleet shows up at Ossus?"

"Sir, Admiral Kre'fey will let the panic build, maybe let some of the defense forces be destroyed and then rush in to save the day. He will use the outcry about the attack, to push for the idea to launch attack against Sekot. After all, where else could such a large fleet come from in such a short amount of time?"

"One last question, how do they find Zonama Sekot?"

"Sir, they hid a bomb on my X-wing? And if I am right about how long this has been going on, they could have easily rigged some kind of tracking device and or a recorder on the Double Trouble and removed it later."

For a long time Face just sat there staring at the bulkhead, not saying a word. Tahiri just sipped her drink waiting for the questions to start up again. She knew how week this theory was but it felt right.

"This is crazy," Face said at last, "but so far crazy has worked against us. You know," he said looking over at her, "there is one big hole in this theory."

"Yes sir, that is why we need to go to that last system and check it out."

"As long as you see that," Face said standing up, "write up a mission outline and a brief. When we get to 'Hawk Base' tomorrow, we'll have a mission planning session."

Face stood at the front of the room listening to Tahiri go thought her theory for the rest of the Wraiths and their guest, Han and Leia Solo. After she helped Elassar transfer Ratnena to the new tank at 'Hawk-Base', and then taking a shower to get all the bacta off of her from Ratnena throwing it at her, she grabbed Little Brother to help in fine tuning her presentation. It was much smoother then the short one she gave him the evening before and graphic and charts did a better job of showing what she had come up with. He has been thinking of offering her Kell position once they 'returned' from the dead and this briefing wasn't doing anything but reinforcing that decision. Early in the training program he and the others had stressed over and over again that it was your work that gets you promoted not your rank. The younger Wraith had already defer a lot of authority to Tahiri, showing her respect and following her orders even if she was the most junior of the group. Even Ratnena, well as much as she was willing to admit in public but that had more to do with their friendship then her thinking Tahiri wouldn't be a good leader. Not bad from a girl that no one trusted a year ago.

He watched the Wraiths has Tahiri spoke from the front of the room, Kell was nodding to what she was saying, Shalla would take notes from time to time, Sparks was paying attention, somewhat, he kept looking over Shalla. Road Kill was interested, Boom-boom looked a bit bored; he still hasn't been able to blow up anything since their last raid when they got the Sweet Sunset. Piggy had that far away look he gets when he is doing calculations, and Runt was sitting very still and listening very closely. Tyria and Doran seemed to be meditating, Han and Leia both had their sabacc faces on but he could detect a quiet pride and growing horror to what their unofficial adopted daughter was laying out.

"Any questions," Tahiri said as she has Little Brother shut down the presentation.

"Why don't we go to Denon and check their files," Piggy asked.

"Sir, Prankster went twice and neither time did she or Little Brother find any reference to any of the three systems. On the second trip they were specify looking for those kinds of files."

"How do we know that this isn't another supply depot like we saw at the other system?" Shalla asked.

"If it is then we are no worst off then we are now, ma'am."

"Why didn't the Peace Brigade spies report this shipyard?" Sparks said proving to Face that his mind is not completely on Shalla.

"The only infidels going into that system would be slaves. The Yuuzhan Vong only uses the Peace Brigade for shipping in supplies such as food stuff and slaves. If the numbers are correct then they have enough slaves to grow food yet they don't. So either they are sacrificing them at alarming rate or they are using the slaves for another project."

"Do I get to blow up anything yet?"

"No sir, sorry maybe on the next mission." Tahiri said smiling to Boom-boom, Stacy gave him a look of sympathy.

"I have a question," Face saw Han stand up, Tahiri nodded to him her face blank. "Why would they risk losing not just the Jedi but a lot of important people? Why not just attack the shipyard?"

"Sir, Admiral Kre'fey main objective since the Fall of Coruscant has been the elimination of all Yuuzhan Vong from the galaxy. Yes, he could make a huge dent if he hit the shipyard now but if he waits he can have an excuse to hit Zonama Sekot as well. The admiral understands us and he is using our cultural blind spot to get in a good shot where it would do him the most good."

"That being the need to get back on the gods good side?" Boom-boom asked.

"Yes sir, a target like this is just too good for them to pass up. I bet even the Warmaster knows that we know just how good of a target this is but to please the gods he would take this risk. Like Admiral Kre'fey, the Warmaster has his own goals to reach and at this stage it is the elimination of the Jedi."

"Peacekeeper that is a huge jump in logic," Road Kill said.

"Yes, I agree and all this has to do with a ship yard no one has reported." Tahiri responded easily, and then gave a look over at Han before continuing. "I propose that we stage two missions. One to the shipyard; one X-wing will pop in do a quick scan and get out. The kind of information is not really important at this stage but will be helpful later down the road. Right now just knowing the fleet is there is what we have to know. Little Brother has calculated that if there is a fleet there, they have to move out one week prior to the graduation in order to hit them at the correct time. Mission two will leave at the same time as mission one. Mission Two will travel to the Shadow Fleet and do a detail scan of numbers, types and if there is any activities there. Shadow Fleet will need to move four days earlier then the Yuuzhan Vong fleet and I think they would hang out system until released for action. Remember, Admiral Kre'fey needs panic in order to complete his objectives and having the fleet in system wouldn't give it too him."

"That all depends on Ossus being the target," Kell said.

"The Abomination is correct, she knows her people well," Runt bit out sounding a lot like a Yuuzhan Vong leader, "they are gambling everything on this. They need to make the gods favor them and to shrink from this challenge would make them cowards in the eyes their gods. They must strike at the Jedi and destroy them."

Face and everyone else turned and stared at Runt, who sat tall and glared back. Tyria opened one eye and gave him a smile. "Finally got around to study those Yuuzhan Vong tapes I see."

"Oh yes," Runt said slipping back into his normal mode, "but we don't like this mind. It is a mean mind, not a healthy mind."

"I think that is a plus for Ossus then," Kell said turning back to the front of the room. "Who do you want to go where?"

"I would like to recommend Lt. Hall for mission two with Eyeball. Little Brother can upload what he has on the target to Eyeball that way they have something to compare it too."

"I'll review Prankster's report also," Road Kill said with a nod, "when do you want to head out?"

"This afternoon, we need this information as soon as possible so we can decide what to do next." Tahiri turned to Kell next, ignoring the look on Han's face. "Sir, can you get two X-wings and sensor pods done that soon?"

"Sure, we can. Piggy and Sparks can do the pods while Runt, Boom-boom and I work on the fighters, do you want the ones of the Sweet Sunset?"

"Uh excuse me, …" Han said as Tahiri nodded and moved on.

"Yes, they are in better shape then the ones here and won't take as much time."

"Uh excuse me …"

"Sir, do we have a go?" Tahiri asked Face, before Face could answer Han stood up to make sure she didn't ignore him.

"No you don't have a 'go', you are still under arrest remember?"

"Oh that," Face was amazed that Tahiri could look so innocent and completely shock while Han was staring her down. She's spent too much time around us, Face thought with humor.

"Yea, 'that'. Our mission was to find you and bring you back to Denon and face the council not to help you run around the galaxy chasing shadows."

"I been meaning to ask you this, but under what authority are you undertaking this action?" Piggy asked quietly.

"The Jedi Council," Leia said from her side of the table, as cool as a cucumber. She pulled out a data pad and slid it over to Piggy, "it is all there if you wish to review it."

"Captain Solo, I was hoping you could see your way clear and releasing me from arrest long enough to complete this mission. I will return here, I give you my word as a Jedi and a Warrior."

"This says for you to track down and detain the Yuuzhan Vong that escape from Denon and any associates found with said Yuuzhan Vong. There is no word in here about Tahiri or that she has been suspected of being a dark Jedi." Piggy said laying the pad down.

"I just found you Tahiri, you think I am going to let you lose with a X-wing?" Han said and then turn to Piggy, "we suspected it was Tahiri but had no proof."

"Luke wanted the orders to be lose an flexible in case we were wrong," Leia said from her seat.

Face studied both of the closely, there was something they weren't telling them. Suddenly Tahiri let out a laugh and grin at both of them.

"You knew! Fas, here we all were worried about convincing you about the plot we found and you already know."

Face watch both of the Solos and saw that Tahiri was right they have been hunting them the whole time.

"That is why you were at Tatooine, to find us?"

"No, we went there because I had a feeling in the Force that we had to be there," Leia said looking at Tahiri. "We were hoping it was you that had been running around but we had no proof just a lot of suggestions."

"You raids were too good, as was your escape from Denon." Han said grudging sitting back down. "Luke sic Corran on your tail and came up with like 90% that it was you Wraiths running around causing all this trouble."

"So he sent us out to find out one way or another," Leia finished from him.

"Does command know?" Kell asked, that was something Face wanted to know if they did it would make the Wraiths job much harder.

"No!" Han snapped out and looking shocked that Kell would ask, "when you guys hit our yards as well as Yuuzhan Vong targets we knew something was wrong. Since you wasn't contacting anyone you must be hiding from our side as well as the Yuuzhan Vong." Han looked over at the older Wraiths, "I worked with you guys in the past, and so had Luke and Corran. We know you guys won't commit treason for any reason or money so there had to be more to the story."

"When did we go from screw ups to galactic heroes anyways?" Kell said crossing his arms and looking miffed.

"We work so hard a building up our reputation and another one come in and destroys all that work." Runt said with a sigh.

"I blame Wes," Face said.

"True, he is so serious," Piggy said with a huff.

"We knew like the way he chewed his food," Runt said in a lofty voice.

"He was so bossy," Kell said.

"He did have a cute butt," Tyria said with a grin.

"Yub Yub," Face answered back. The older Wraiths and Han laugh, the rest just gave them funny looks. Tahiri on the other hand was staring at Han and Leia with her arms crossed and a smile on her face. "So Luke figured if we were alive then Tahiri had to be alive."

"That is about the size of it. But like I said we had clues but nothing to pin it down with."

"But if it was just me running around that would mean I either went to the Yuuzhan Vong or just went dark. That is why you had the Ysalamiri with you and why you had Meewalh shot me." She said rolling her eyes but her smile never left. "If I didn't know better … I have heard a lot of stories about parents driving children nuts. I could almost swear you really were my parents as crazy as you drive me!"

"Hey we told you before that you were part of the family," Han said giving her a grin, "with all the perks and privileges."

"I was hoping it meant Life Day gifts."

"Have to take the good with the bad Peacekeeper," Face said joining in the laugher going around. "But seriously Han, let Piggy and Shalla show you everything we have. If the problem we know is out there isn't as bad as we think and you are not convince we will all get in the Falcon and let you take us to Denon for trail. And we really do need Peacekeeper to do mission one."

"It is a lot safer for her to go then anyone else going since she can see the Yuuzhan Vong in the Force." Tyria said looking at Leia.

"If she pops in and they are around she will know it before the rest of us can," Stacy said giving them a nod. "She will know it before they have a chance to see her."

Han and Leia exchanged looks and then with a weary sigh Han asked why X-wing.

"If I had something smaller I would use it," Tahiri answered, "they are the smallest ships we have. The point is to sneak in and out, not fight. In fact, for this mission the only information we really need is if they are there. First hint of trouble I am out of there."

Han studied her for a minute or so then let out another sigh, "come on Piggy show me what you got. Looks like we will be here for a few more days."