"Hypori huh?" Ahsoka asks, reading the datapad. "I like it," she says in approval.

"We could get a lot from whatever was abandoned down there. Droids, ammunition, supplies, the works," I replied.

"So when do we start?" she asked me.

"Whenever," I say with a shrug. "I'd say it would be best to lead a small team down there in case there's something massive we'd need to pick up and fly out of there, since the possibility of getting a Municent class frigate is very high."

"That's true," she says in agreement. "I'll call up a cell nearby, maybe one of Senator Organa's groups and have them send a corvette for this," she tells me.

"Sounds good," I say happily. "Although... we should probably not take the Knight Hawk on this one right?" I question her.

She nods her head. "No we shouldn't. At least until we've gotten what we need. Mara is good, but she's only eight, and she shouldn't be in such a dangerous mission yet, not for a while."

"Not until she's at least twenty," I say with a determined not.

Ahsoka gives me a skeptical look. "You and I both know she'd protest that, probably going off at fourteen since we started at that age."

"Well, I've grown the 'over-protective dad' syndrome since we adopted her!" I protest lightly.

She reaches forwards and gives me a quick peck on the cheek and a smile. "And that's why I love you for it," she teases.

"Enough to marry me?" I say jokingly.

"Lets not get carried to far," she replies with a frown, while I snicker in amusement. "We still have a war going on you know."

"Fine... after?" I suggest with a wry grin. "Come on, be honest..." I tease.

She turns her head away with a small frown, but I can see her orange skin darkening slightly on her face, and the blue stripes on her lekku darken to show more of a purple shade: she's blushing. My smile grows wider until she eventually concedes.

"Maybe..." she replies sheepishly, looking up at me with an innocent expression.

"Yes!" I say with a dramatic fist pump. "Good enough for me!"

She slugs me on the shoulder in response. "Hey that's still a while away, things could change so don't screw it up," she threatens with a half-hearted glare.

"And I'm Darth Sidious," I say sarcastically, knowing she didn't really mean that. She rolls her eyes but we give each other a quick, but warm hug after our little our with each other.


As expected, Mara immediately demanded to come with us when we told her we would be leaving for a Rebellion mission, refusing to be let behind on our ship while we were out raiding old Clone Wars bases. After a lengthy discussion, she eventually conceded, much to me and Ahsoka's relief that she would stay with R5 on the Knight Hawk. However it was under the condition that once we got what we need and left the planet's surface, she and R5 would come by to dock with us.

I was a little wary about that, but let it go, knowing she wouldn't accept anything less than that. Right now, me and Ahsoka were headed through Hyperspace towards Hypori, briefing a small group of rebels about the mission. They were very loyal to Senator Organa, and he confirmed them to be trustworthy, so hiding our identities from them wasn't as big of an issue, although we wouldn't openly say it. This rebel cell fought on one of the Mid-Rim planets, as far as I was aware.

"As you all know, we're traveling to the planet Hypori, notable for its droid factories and Separatist bases during the Clone Wars," I told them.

"Our mission is to retrieve anything that could be beneficial to the Rebellion, ranging from droids and weapons, to possibly vehicles or even ships." Ahsoka added.

"What if we encounter Imperial's on this raid?" one of the soldiers asked.

"Hypori resides in Hutt Space, so the chances of running into the Empire are slim," I said. "However there are still plenty of other bounty hunters, or criminals that would jump at the chance to earn a profit, so be wary."

The rebel raid group all nodded and muttered to each other, understanding what needed to happen. The ship then shook a little bit as we came out of hyperspace, and we descended towards the planet's surface to a larger sized base location, making sure to stay out of view of any other ships that might be passing through the place.

Once we landed, the pilot's voice over the intercom told us we were all clear, and lowered the ramp next to us, and we rushed out as a group into the rocky landscape, moving towards the base entrance, which was visible nearby. The corvette we took was hidden amongst the rocks, ready to take off in an instant if the situation called for it.

Our team move up towards the base's entrance, and begin to scout along the walls towards the main doors for any sort of side entrance to not attract as much attention. The main doors were absolutely massive, wide enough for a small cruiser to fly through so there was no need to open those.

"Over here!" one of the scouts says a little ways away. We rush over to find a simple side door, yet large enough for a small AAT tank to get through.

"Nice work," I tell him, getting to work on the control panel. After crossing a few wires, which spark considerably from old age, I manage to get the door to open up. It creaks and groans in protest from how old it is, but thankfully the power generators inside are still working.

"Split up into pairs or groups of three and begin searching for anything," I tell the group. "Don't go alone, and be wary. This facility could still have a few dangerous traps or droids lurking around."

The Rebels give a nod of understanding and split up, going in groups of two or three, while me and Ahsoka head through the facility together.

"Feels like old times huh?" Ahsoka asks me.

"Yeah. All we need now is General Grievous to growl and cough at us," I remark.

"True enough," she says in reply.

A small crash off to the side of us gets our attention, and we look over to see a badly damaged Commando droid moving for us threateningly, blaster raised. It fired two shots, but we both calmly dodged them by simply leaning out of the way before Ahsoka swipes her arm at it. The droid slammed into the wall, and sparks flew violently from its joints. It looks up again from the ground and attempts to crawl for us when I simply activate Ahsoka's old green lightsaber and stab it through the head, destroying it instantly.

I placed the saber back on my belt next to my own and turn to her with an amused grin. "Who knew I'd still be adding droid kills to my tally?"

"Technically you used my lightsaber to do it, so that tally gets added to me," she says.

I raise an eyebrow at her. "You don't even want or use it anymore," I deadpanned.

She shrugs, a mishcievous look in her eye. "Still my lightsaber."

"Wha- how does that even make sense? I killed it!" I protest, but she already walked on. Grumbling to myself, I followed after her, kicking the droid's head along the way. We spent the next few minutes wondering the halls before coming to a promising looking room.

I open an old door to a large, dark room and feel along the wall for another panel, hitting one of the buttons. After a few seconds, the light slowly flickers on, dim and crackly at first but eventually bright enough to where most of the room could be seen. Inside were storage crates, old weapon rack, and even a row of deactivated droideka's all in their curled up positions. I give off a low whistle.

"This is certainly a good score," I say happily.

"Question is if anything in here works properly," she reminds me, moving into the room. I follow after her, and she heads over to check on what could be inside the storage crates while I move over to the droidekas, looking at their condition. Everything in the room is dusty, and obviously not in the best condition for having sat here for so many years with no use or repairs. I put a hand on one and give it a light shake, and immediately it's gears and joints screech in protest, a massive layer of dust clouds the air. I wave the dust away with a grimace.

"What a piece of junk," I mutter in disappointment.

"Mostly old datapads in here," Ahsoka calls out from one of the crates. "Another has a few thermal charges."

"Do they look fine?" I ask.

"Well, the charges seem to be okay, although how effective they'd be in battle I'm not sure. Most of these datapads seem broken down, although a few of them seem to work," she comments. "Not much good intel on them though, considering how old it is."

"How about the droids?" she questions.

"This one here seems like crap, although given the proper treatment and repair it could turn out to be something useful. I would count on it completely though," I report with a skeptical glance.

"Well you know the Rebellion needs anything it can get," Ahsoka says in resignation. I nod in agreement when my comlink crackles to life.

"Sir, I think you need to see this," one of the Rebels reports, sending me their location.

I share a look with Ahsoka before telling the rebel that we'd be right there soon enough. Exiting the storage room, me and Ahsoka headed through the halls of the base towards the rebel group who contacted us, eventually finding them at a large door directed to a hanger with the rest of the team.

"What's you find?" Ahsoka asks with her arms crossed.

They all look at each other with eager grins, and I get the sense that whatever they found must be really, really good.

"We don't know it's condition yet, but if it works it could be the jackpot of this place," one of them says with a smile, pressing the button to open the door to the hanger. Curious, me and Ahsoka walk forwards to the door and look through, our eyes widening in disbelief and awe. The massive hanger is dimly lit by overhead lights, but there is no mistaking the two Municent-class cruisers sitting there, ripe for the taking. The large door on the far wall was the massive entrance to the outside.

"You guys, are geniuses!" I exclaimed eagerly.


The finding of two Separatist battleships was amazing for us. After showing us the two cruisers, I headed inside both frigates to check their power levels and whether or not they could operate and still be usuable, and too my delight they still were, albeit a little slow, and with enough fuel to get to our destination. Old, deactivated or broken droids were scattered about the ship's, which we could use later for repurposing or sell them for parts. And with a few months or years of repairs, these two frigates could be great for adding to the rebel fleet.

We spent the next few hours collecting any valuable items from the Separatist base and loaded them into the cruisers, signaling the corvette to fly into orbit to meet up with us once we got these things flying. Ahsoka organized most of the other things while I focused on getting the ships workable, powering up their systems.

Hours later we had our raid party split up between both ships, me and Ahsoka in one with a few others, while the rest were in the other ship. We were in the bridge to get the ships flying.

I pull a beaten up battle droid off of a chair and sat down, bringing the systems online.

"Alright, moment of truth," I muttered. "Hope these old junkpiles actually work. Everyone ready?" I called out.

"Ready and waiting sir!" A few cries came back.

"Go for it Jarik," Ahsoka said.

I pushed the throttle and began the liftoff sequence for the ship. It took quite a few seconds, but with a large shudder the engines came online, and the cruiser slowly but surely began to lift off from the ground, the thrusters outside of it began to blast any loose items in the hanger around violently. Glad we weren't out there. Beside us, the other Munificent cruiser began to do the same thing, also starting to lift off from the ground.

"So far so good," I muttered, slowly moving the ship forwards towards the massive, now wide open door. I carefully maneuvered the ship outside, the other group waiting for me to go first in order to lessen the risk of a crash.

If felt like hours during the short amount of time for me to angle the cruiser out of the hanger, but finally it got free, and we began to lift into open air towards the atmosphere. Our group cheered while I slumped in the chair, feeling exhausted. Ahsoka walked up to me, patting my shoulder.

"Nice job little Jari," she said happily.

"You have no idea how nerve-racking it is to pilot a giant cruiser out of a large hanger door," I said in response.

"Well you did it, and now we're home free," she replies.

With all the free room it now had, the other Munificent frigate was able to slowly edge its way out of the hanger, thankfully coming out without a scratch as well, rising up to space after us.

"Mission success," I said in relief.

Our two frigates continued to rise into the air slowly, but at a constant pace. The ships readings were a little busted, and a few lights were flashing indicating some sort of problem, but it wasn't too serious to worry about, being something that could be fixed later on once we're in safe space.

High in orbit above the surface, the corvette we brought with us and the Knight Hawk flew over to our position, and flying alongside our ships. The Knight Hawk moved closer and docked with our cruiser, no doubt from Mara wanting in on this place. The corvette also decided to dock with our ship as well, and I gave the order for the other Munificent to prepare for hyperspace to get out of here. I would send ours into hyperspace after they were gone.

"You guys can head back to the corvette is you wish. Ashla and I will take care of the jump," I told the rebels, using her alternate name. They didn't know about our real identities as a security precaution, in case they were ever captured by the Empire at one point. It wasn't a matter of not trusting them, since the less people knew about us the better, but they knew Bail had us in high favor so they trusted us. With a few nods, they did as I asked and exited the bridge, heading back to the corvette, chatting excitedly with each other for a little bit about our success in acquiring two Separatist cruisers.

About a minute later, the bridge doors opened again to reveal Mara and R5, the former of which was gazing around the bridge with a look of awe on her face. She rushed over to meet up with us while R5 followed, muttering irritably to himself about having to lead a 'irritating, hyperactive young girl' through an old Separatist warship.

"Woah, this place looks so cool!" she says with wide eyes.

"It's the bridge of a warship, its supposed to look cool," I say in reply.

"From what I've read a bridge is important, doesn't mean it has to look cool," she retorts. I roll my eyes in response and wave my hand in a 'yeah-yeah' manner.

"I still wish you would've brought me on this mission though," she said a little bitterly, crossing her arms with a frown.

"Well it wasn't to fun anyways Mara. Just a simple, search mission through an old base." Ahsoka replied in disinterest.

"A searc- Mom, you guys came back with a kriffing battleship!" she exclaimed incredulously.

"Hey, language!" I told her sternly.

"You've said it before!" she accuses me, and Ahsoka looks over to glare at me while I shrink down in my seat, smiling sheepishly.

"Jarik..." she growls warningly.

"Hey... well that doesn't mean you should say it Mara," I say defensively in an attempt to get back in the good light. Mara blows a raspberry, crossing her arms with an amused smile on her face while Ahsoka continues to glare at me with a look that promised death.

"Ok... I'll be quiet now," I say in resignation. "At least this mission is over and we can all head back to safe space without incident."

As if the Force or the universe decided to outrageously laugh at me, the ships sensors started to beep loudly in alarm, signifying that something was coming out of hyperspace. Mara jumped in surprise, looking around nervously while Ahsoka and I had looks of dread and disbelief on our faces.

"Me and my big mouth," I mutter furiously to myself.

"What's going on?!" Mara asks in worry.

R5 beeps furiously at me, and that's when three Imperial light cruisers emerge out of hyperspace in front of us, laser cannons primed and ready. Behind those three, a single Imperial Star Destroyed exited hyperspace with a loud boom, laser cannons also prepared to fire.

"How did they find us?" Ahsoka says in bewilderment. Mara stares out at the ships with eyes wide in shock, and I could not answer Ahsoka's question.

"Were in trouble," I said quietly.

Seeing the four ships, three of them were just regular navy ships of the Empire, but the lightcruiser reading the charge got my attention. I recognized it as the Thunder Wasp, a ship I've read about in a report not too long ago. I'm not sure who commands it, but it turned the tide vastly in the Empire's favor during a battle above the planet Umbara. Whoever was at the helm of that ship was bad news.

"We're in trouble!" I said, going to alert the other cruiser to make the jump to hyperspace.

"You think?!" Ahsoka says incredulously.


And just when things seem to be going so well... the Imperial Inquisition arrives hah! That was a joke. Oh Jarik why'd you have to open your big mouth! And why did I leave you all on such a big cliffhanger?

These questions can never be answered mwahaha. :)