z Chapter 2 Citizens on Ren-Var

Mara and Luke were able to land without any problem, the citizens of Ren-Var were mostly castaways and criminals, it was like an ice Tatooine. The reason any Sith cult would attack could only be one, they wanted to use this planet as a base of operations.

Luke and Mara exited their shuttle, they had landed just beyond the citadel of Ren-Var. There were three ways in. The main gate on the ice wall, climbing up the mountains and sneaking down, or traveling through the ice cave. Mara and Luke had landed very close to the caves, so quite simply it was the path they would take. Walking toward it Luke immediately sensed the dark side. Once they entered they found out why. Dead bodies of men, women, and children. Scorch marks from lightsabers indented in their chests, heads, legs, arms and… you get the picture. It was a grisly site.

" This is where it happened…" Luke trailed off." Kyle was right."

Mara said nothing and they kept on walking. On exit they entered a city, old buildings stood made of rock, and covered in ice, others were made only of ice. Civilians crowded the plowed snow streets, all looked very… freaked, when they saw the lightsabers clipped on the two married Jedi's belts. They had no knowledge that Sith and Jedi were different. They interviewed the few that would speak t o them, none were any help, they described a hooded man with mechanical legs leading a small army of more hooded men. Kyle had told them as much.

Finally when they were getting discouraged a man walked up to them.

" You's two Jedis?" He asked with bad grammar.

" Yes." Luke answered slowly.

" And yous are lookin' fo' some 'information abou' those hooded men, what come in here and kill us, righ'? The man asked.

Again Luke said slowly." Yes."

" Good, good, follow me I gots some 'information tha' yous two migh' find useful." He said. They really had no choice so they followed him into a stone building that appeared to be a cantina or a restaurant, for there were men in uniforms walking around and delivering drinks to people. They sat down at a table close to the heater.

" Now what can you tell us?" Mara asked.

" Well, dis man, he waz a Zabrak, with some red an' black tatoo's on his face. I know of him to. He comes all da way back froms da battle of Naboo. I was friends wit' captain Panaka, of de Queen Amidala's security force. After da battle was won we goes down all da way to da last level of da palace. In there is da bottom of those big pits. And in one of 'em we find dis, dis chopped in half tattooed Zabrak. He stills alive, so wes take him to a hospital and he gets mechanical legs. He never says nothin' of thank you to us and leaves. And now I see him again here, killin the civilians, and leading an army." The man said.

" Could this Panaka, give us more information?" Luke asked.

" Yeah, I hears Panaka knows where'd he gone to. He thoughts he was suspicius so he tracked him. You can get his lo'cation froms him." The man said. After a while of talking Luke and Mara left for Naboo.

Later

Luke and Mara had landed on Naboo hours ago and they were having no luck in finding Panaka. They had checked the palace security guard records and they said the man retired. They had found his address and went there, it appeared he had moved out long ago. The trail had gone cold. That is until they got a valuable lead from a governor of the planet. He said he might be living in the small palace of the lake country. Amidala had stayed there before and she had left it to him in a will.

It took an hour to travel there and when they reached it there was parked speeder bike. He was here. They entered the small mansion, more suited as a small palace. A graying haired black man greeted them.

" Are you Panaka?" Luke asked in slight frustration as they had been looking all day.

" Yes, and what can I do for two Jedi?" Panaka asked.

" We have evidence that you know of a Sith lord responsible for the attack on Ren-Var." Mara said.

" Old Jak told you about this?" Panaka asked with a slightly amused expression on his face.

" If you are referring to the man on Ren-Var that told us you have this information then yes." Luke said.

" Alright, what do you need to know?" Panaka asked.

" We want to know where he was headed when he left Naboo." Mara stated.

" Well, he only told me this but he was headed for the planet Hoth. Do you know where that is?" Panaka asked.

" Yes, I'm quite familiar with it." Luke said