Trips between planets were usually uneventful, resulting often in the general boredom of the crew. This sometimes resulted in strange behaviour, but this was a new one.

Carth watched as Karalina Jade stared intently at Zaalbar. She'd been doing it for quite some time, and he couldn't quite figure out why. For the first while, he hadn't bothered to ask about it, but it was starting to get a bit creepy.

Approaching her, he tapped her on the shoulder. "Um, Karalina, are you all right?"

She blinked and looked up. "Oh, you. I'm fine, I'm just trying to figure out how they texture mapped his fur."

"How what?"

"Texture mapping! I'm trying to texture map my modeling project, and it's not being friendly."

"I... don't think I understand."

She stared blankly at him for a moment, then something seemed to snap. "Oh! That's right. This is a different savegame."

It was Carth's turn to stare at her blankly. "Different savegame?"

"Yes. I explained this to you in a different game, when I was Leiraya Moran. I'm the end user, I just like to drop in every once in a while."

Huh. The name seemed familiar, and he felt like he should know what she was talking about. "Okay... so what's this about texture mapping?"

Karaline sighed patiently. "You, my friend, are a Maya binary file. As am I, actually. Come to think of it, when I get the hang of it, I don't think I'm going to bother taking over the PC anymore. I'll just model myself and saunter in, or something. Assuming the program doesn't eat me."

"Eat you?"

"Yep. Maya's already eaten two of my projects- Darth NURBS and a chicken." She rested her chin in her hand, sighing ruefully. "Darth NURBS looked darn hot, too."

Carth scratched his head. "What's a chicken?"

"Oh- never mind." Karalina shook her head and resumed her staring. "I'm working on modeling the Evil Lightsaber-Wielding Sith Lord Ewok of d00m, and he needs to be furry."

"I didn't know Ewoks could be Sith Lords."

She looked back at him with an annoyed expression on her face. "You know, you sound exactly like all the guys in the labs. 'Oh, but Ewoks are chaotic good and can't be Sith!' I get enough of that in real life, thanks. Just work with me, all right?"

Silence hung between them for a few moments before Carth spoke. "Can we go back to the part where you're not Karalina?"

"Oh, for pity's sake." She stood up and poked his bright orange jacket firmly. "I'm the gamer on the other end of this machine, I just like messing with code. It means I can do fun stuff like this."

The area around them flickered briefly, and suddenly they were standing in the middle of the Dantooine Jedi Enclave's courtyard. "Hey, how did we get here?"

"Warp codes. Aren't they fun?"

"I think I'm confused." He looked around, trying to make sense out of his surroundings. It was almost exactly how he had left it weeks before, with the exception of a new statue that seemed to have appeared in a corner of the courtyard. "Hey, when did that get here?"

"What?" She turned around, and her jaw dropped. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Kidding about what? It's just a really strange looking statue." He looked at it more closely. "With no arms."

"And only one leg." Karalina smacked herself in the forehead. "I can't believe this."

"How can you tell there's only one leg? You can't even really see her legs under that skirt."

"Because that was supposed to be Darth NURBS!"

Carth peered at it once more. "She doesn't look like a Sith. Where's her lightsaber?"

"I didn't get the chance to model it before the program ate it. What good was a lightsaber before I got a chance to add arms?"

"You have a point."

The two of them simply stared at the statue for a while, watching as people would walk by and admire the new installation. They heard snippets of comments, ranging from, "What a lovely new addition to the Enclave, I hear it was brought straight from Coruscant," to "What an eyesore! Some people have no taste in decoration, and I think the Jedi are among them."

"Well," Karalina said absently, "That locates one project gone awry."

"What's next on your list, the chicken?"

She nodded. "Yep, the chicken."

"Any ideas where it could be?"

"None whatsoever."

"Well, at least you know it's around somewhere."

She sighed. "Yeah, somewhere. This is a big game, you know."

"I guess so. But we'll keep our eyes peeled."

"Oh, there won't be any missing it. It will be big and yellow."

And so they left the statue of Darth NURBS standing at the Enclave, returning to the Ebon Hawk to continue the search for the Star Maps and the missing chicken.