Ebon Hawk

The Story of A Ship

Prologue

Year 3,899 B.B.Y

"She's in rough shape," the old man said, as Sylven, walked around the outside of the ship, a Corellian YT-1000. Her experienced eye traveled along the hull, picking up a dent here, a scratch there. In some places looked like the hull was completely replaced by an entire new piece.

"That's an understatement," Sylven replied, as she crouched underneath to look at the belly. She shook her head, "She's seen way more action than I think you say. I may be young, but I know ships. This one won't be flying more than a couple more years by the looks of it. Let's take a look inside." Both the old man; Navik, and Sylven, walked up the landing ramp into the ship's interior. It was dim, but they could still see somewhat.

Sylvan walked to the engine room, at a brisk pace. A sort of stale smell hit her nose.

"Lemme guess, a leaking hyper-drive?" she asked herself. She stepped over the pile of debris that was on the floor; she had no idea what it was, to get a closer look at the engines and the hyper-drive unit.

"Leaking all right, or I should say, had leaked a whole lot in the past," she shook her head sadly as she analyzed it. "Same with the engines. Amazing if this ship can even run anymore. I wonder how old it is?"

As she continued to look at the engines, Navik had come to the engine room.

"Would you like to see the rest of the ship?" he asked her.

She stood up and stretched her back," Sure. After this, I don't know what else is going to surprise me."

They walked through the Main Hold to the cock-pit. Each sat down in the well-worn chairs. Sylven eyed the console before looking up at Navik, "Definitely the engine. Amazing she lasted this long. If I were you, I wouldn't try running this thing at all, unless you repair the engine first. And even then, it would just be safer to fly it in-system rather than take it through hyper-space. I wonder where on Coruscant you got this ship. It feels like it's almost ancient."

Navik remained silent before answering, "Have you ever heard of the Ebon Hawk?"

Sylven looked at him quizzically, "The Ebon Hawk? You mean the same Ebon Hawk that disappeared shortly after the Sith Wars? I've heard of the Ebon Hawk. Everybody has. It was used to destroy the Star Forge. I thought it was decommissioned, by Admiral Carth Onasi himself! Carth Onasi was my grand-father."

"Yes, you are correct in that it was the same ship that was at the Star Forge," Navik answered. "I saw her fly myself, 60 years ago, when I fought in the Republic navy. This is the Ebon Hawk. And I will tell you how I acquired her."

Sylven sat back, ready to listen to another of Navik's stories he liked to tell so much.