Chapter 12: Search of Kashyyyk
Vader had his fleet orbiting the planet Kashyyyk now, forming a blockade in case Traya should try and escape. He strode on the bridge and came behind Admiral Piett.
" Piett." He growled. The admiral jumped and turned around.
" Yes milord?" He asked.
" Ready my shuttle, and the troop transports."
" Shouldn't we scan the planet first? Look for a possible base?"
" You will do that when the troops and I are entering the atmosphere of the planet. I want those ships ready within the hour!"
" Yes lord Vader."
" If they are not somebody will pay, do I make myself perfectly clear?"
" Yes."
" Then ready the ships. I want to be on Kashyyyk within two hours. And excuses are not recommended."
" Of course not milord."
" Get them ready."
XxX
Vader was now aboard his Lambda class shuttle with Leia and Yoda sitting next to him in the cockpit, and several troop transports flying behind, in front of, or beside him. He broke Kashyyyk's atmosphere and dived down to the ground. The troops and him had agreed to make a base where they landed.
Soon after that Vader's ship touched the green ground and the ramp was lowered. He Yoda and Leia debarked the ship into the fresh Kashyyyk air. The troops did the same and began setting up mobile tent like building, control consoles and auto turrets as a base of operations. The general, a dark trooper equip with a standard DC-10 shot gun, a jump pack, and a DC-15 standard blaster rifle approached him.
" Lord Vader. We have set up radar. There is a wookie village nearby."
" I thought they fled to the mountains."
" Got braver then." The trooper shrugged. " But we think they are alerted to our presence."
" What makes you think that?"
" Because they are sending one hundred troops our way."
" Very good. Do not attack them."
" What?"
" Those are my orders general, do not attack them. They may be a valuable source of information."
" Lord Vader." Yoda said from behind him. Vader whirled around and the general went back to inspect the radar.
" Yes master Yoda?" Vader asked.
" An incoming transmission you have, from the Executer."
" Could you patch it in?"
" No need, told them to call you on your personal comm. I did."
" Thank you master. While I'm waiting for the call though, there is a small band of wookies headed here."
" Good, of use they may be. Questions we can ask them. Understand them I can."
" Good, I'm not sure how close they are though."
Before Yoda could reply though, Vader's comm. chimed and Vader accepted the call. A small holo image of Admiral Piett flickered to life.
" Lord Vader we have finished a full scan of the planet."
" And?"
" We have found nothing. Several hundred wookie villages is all. It is possible Traya's base has a cloaking device, though I'm not sure how, she would need workers to operate it."
" Yes, very curious."
" And Lord Vader."
" Yes?"
" Our feed of the planet shows a wookie group headed your way."
" I am aware."
" They'll be there within five minutes."
" Very good."
" Alright, Piett out."
The image faded away and Vader inserted the comm. back into a pouch on his belt.
XxX
Indeed the band of wookies did come. As Vader said the storm troopers did nothing. The wookies were not happy to see them, in fact (Yoda translated) they were going to take Vader to their leader, he wanted to see them.
Vader agreed and did not put up a fight. The general and his troops were very surprised but Vader told them he would be back. Vader convinced the wookies to take Yoda as well and Leia came to. Soon they were headed to the village.
XxX
The village was nothing special. It was on the ground though, unlike most would be. The wookies had fled to the mountains long ago, when Vader last came. The place was just a huge cluster of tightly knitted wooden huts, there was a huge one in the middle however. Two wookies led Vader and Yoda and Leia to the door there, the rest flooded into the huts. It seemed the leader had sent his whole army.
The inside of the hut was nothing special. Looked exactly like the outside. Wooden walls and a thatched ceiling. On the floor were several animal skins, used as rugs and in the very middle was what appeared to be a pile of animal skin covered cushions. Sitting on top of it was a very large wookie. The fur on his head was tied into thick braids and kept with wood carved holders. He wore nothing accept a royal colored pair of shorts and an animal skin harness for a huge bow caster. Behind him were seven other wookies, the biggest and gruffest Vader had ever seen. Their fur on their heads was tied in a similar style to the huge sitting wookie's. Though it was braded cornrow style on their heads to keep if from falling in their eyes. Each was armed with an alarming sized bow caster as well as a huge club that looked as if it could crush a bantha's skull into powder.
The sitting wookie roared.
" Bow we must." Yoda muttered. He Vader and Leia kneeled. The wookie roared again and they rose.
" Sit we must."
Vader, Yoda, and Leia sat. The wookie screeched at them.
" Mm, his name is Tharg, son second son of Tarrful, Chewbacca's brother. Asks he does, why you came Vader." Yoda translated.
" Because I'm looking for my enemy." Vader said to Tharg. He roared again.
" Who your enemy is, he asks." Yoda said.
" Darth Traya." Vader said.
At that name every wookie in the room roared in rage. Tharg growled in their direction.
" Hated Traya they did." Yoda said. " She trained Darth Revan, and Revan, terrible things he did. He asks how she can be alive."
" She was resurrected." Vader explained. " With the help of a woman named Xen, they are on this planet somewhere."
Tharg roared in a tone that sounded like realization.
" He say on the south pole, many ships came down from the sky and into a pit of fire they fell."
" Pit of fire?" Vader asked.
" A volcano." Leia suggested.
" Kashyyyk has no volcanoes." Vader said.
" All the more reason to investigate that is." Yoda said. Tharg roared.
" He says, if clear the ships out and kill Traya you can, forgiven your crimes to them will be."
" I will."
