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6th day, 7th month, standard year 24936
We were sent on an escort mission...me and my Master. . I didn't bring this journal with me. But I thought this mission was worth writing about. Definately.
Senators had been kidnapped recently, and we were sent to protect Blix Annon, one of the most important ones. His aide turned out to be a friend of my Master's...Eero Iridian. We had quite a long conversation. and he showed me the safe room. It's an additional safety measure with blast-proof doors. Master told me to enjoy the trip, so I was staring out of the window when suddenly the pilot's instruments started buzzing. There was a ship in our airspace...and they was no airspeed. Then a voice came over the comm. It was a girl, and she was crying...
She said that everyone on board her ship was dead. Attacked by space pirates. Her father had been killed.She said her father was a Senator, Galim Eddawan, and she was his daughter, Joli. And then she said that the oxygen was failing and she couldn't breathe very well.
I was frightened then. I hate the idea of not being able to breathe...to get less and less air in your lungs until there's none left. We had to go get her....but my Master wasn't doing anything.
He said we had to wait for Eero to find information, to see if this was genuine or not. It came as a huge relief when he decided it was. We started approaching the ship. I was terrified we'd be too late. Master was as calm as anything. I'd never noticed before how calm he can be. It was sort of annoying.
Then the dead ship came to life. It had turbolasers. It had looked to small to have that kind of firepower. As the first turbolaser fire started to hit, Master said something to me. He said "A lesson for you, Padawan. Never trust anything." I thought maybe it was a joke, but it wasn't. I felt something over our bond. A feeling that something out of the ordinary was going to happen.
I held on to a chair, and the Senator came in panicking. The next thing I knew, the energy sheild was malfunctioning. And the Senator looked about to have a heart attack, which was worrying. And then there was another worrying thing. The other ship was firing whenever we lowered the shield to fire. That must have taken incredible reflexes...and a computer couldn't do it.
Another blast shook the ship and we all went flying. We'd lost a laser cannon. We were starting to get in serious trouble...
Eero and the Senator went to the safe room. Master asked me suddenly if I'd noticed anything unusual, and I told him about how the ship was firing at us. He nodded. Then the pilot shouted "They're going to get on board!" and we ran down the halls to the docking bay.
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Sorry, stopped writing there because Master had prepared food. He's a pretty good cook. Anyway...
War droids were rolling down the ramp. They shot at us, like war droids generally do. We deflected the blaster bolts, and then they ejected smoke grenades at us. We couldn't see.
I could hear, though. And suddenly I heard the voice of that girl...Joli. She was crying not to shoot, they'd made her stand on the ramp. So I went to get her.
My Master once told me I have a thing about playing the hero. I don't know. He was in one of his annoyed-at-everything moods when he said that. Anyway, Joli wasn't there. It was a recording rod.
When we got back to the safe room, Eero was there, unconcious. The door had been blown open. We raced back to the loading dock in time to see the Senator being pushed inside the craft. The pilot pushing him turned and saw us. Well...saw my Master.
He shot at us and we deflected the shots. He had great aim. And he seemed to be mostly shooting at my Master. When Master hesitated for a split second. -I didn't know why then- the pirate jumped into the ship and got away.
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We went back again to the safe room. The Senator
was gone and Eero wasn't looking good. Neither was the ship. We went to
land at the nearest port, Voltare. Eero was rushed to a med clinic and
Master sat in the cockpit and thought. Of course, I didn't know what he
was thinking about...but I could sense some things...discomfort, anger.
And I didn't know why he was angry.
"We should contact the Jedi Council." I said.
"All in good time." was his answer. Then something
even weirder than that happened...his comlink beeped, it was probably Yoda,
but he ignored it. He said we should mantain comlink silence for now...and
I didn't disagree with him or say anything. Perhaps I should have done.
We went over what had happened. I said that even though the Senator had cliamed to use the best sercurity outfitters, he can't have done because the pirates got in so easily and broke into the safe room using ordinary explosives. And the pirate worked so fast he had to be aware of the ships vulnerablities. We decided to go and find out where the ship had been outfitted for security and see if there was a connection. Then, in an act of something not very clever, I told him I sensed anger in him. His answer was "You are mistaken."
I had to accept that.
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Eero told us that he used Kontag for security. He gave us a holofile with a list of clients and the like. Master told me to look up the histories of other ships belonging to Senators that were attacked. They were all serviced at Kontag. There was obviously some sort of connection.
Master tried to contact Kontag, but after several comlink conversations (and him getting more annoyed after each one) we decided we'd have to visit them ourselves...