"You could've fought back." Qi'ra said desperately. "You could've become something different."

Maul's eyes met hers for a moment, seering. "I can't choose what I am anymore. I have become it already. To start from scratch would be excruciating and tiresome. If I can do something using this, maybe . . . I will come not to hate myself."

The ship descended into orbit in the planet just as they saw a droid speak quickly in binary. The ship lurched as Maul hit the accelerator. His eyes held Qi'ra's. "There's three imperial class star destroyers who've come out of hyperspace so we'll have to take a bit of a detour before we reach our destination." He landed the vessel on an outcropping outside of a cave before getting outside.

Qi'ra was curious as to what he was doing so she was about to follow when everything on the ship began to scatter about. There was a liquid recepticle before her that was floated. The liquic bubbled up as she herself felt her body being raised a couple of inches off of the ground. Then it hit Qi'ra-he was using the force to push the ship deeper into the cave.

Everything that was floating dropped as Maul came back inside to turn the power down on the whole ship. He caught every single droid on the ship and turned him off the droids on the ship.

"For the planetary scan? So they don't find us." His yellow eyes looked predatory as he assessed the situation around them.

"Did you know they would be here?" Qi'ra chirped.

Maul shrugged. "What's important to a hunter is getting his quarry and leaving before anyone notices that it's missing."

Qi'ra threw on a parka and thick fur lined boots as the ship's heating systems stopped working and the cold of the planet outside started seeping into the vessel. She hilted on a blaster and a small knife. A small voice at the back of her mind knew they would be useless against her cohort, but she couldn't stop herself from taking the precaution, At least I'll die knowing I fought back, she thought to herself grimly.

Maul wrapped himself in an animal skin that Qi'ra assumed served both to camoflauge himself as well as serve for insulation. His light sabers glinted for a moment in the sun reflecting off the icicles in the cave as he put on his cloak of sorts. Qi'ra also noted he was surprisingly well muscles for someone who was rumored to never leave his lair.

Next to where they'd landed the ship there was an abandoned control unit that Maul configured for a bit before bringing up a faint hologram of the plant. He withdrew a disk from his belt and shoved it into the port to produce the facility on Hoth that had the fuel depot. "Our objective is here to infiltrate the old imperial base here and take the refined coaxium in storage. Since the temperature of the planet is so cold, the coaxium in storage here is stabilized for a large period of time. The vessel we've brought has a system on it to keep the cannisters cool until we can relocate them to an undisclosed location. The stardestroyers that you noted entering the system are only here as a byproduct of gang activity of an order of scum who rally hehind one known as Saponza. While the Imperial soldiers are occupied we slip down and away un-noticed with our goods."

Qi'ra quirked her brows. "And what do I get in return."

Maul's lips pursed. "Dryden taught you well. Your stake other than as a figurehead is cold hard profit from me. 3 million unmarked Imperial credits, enough to start whatever side venture you're interested in beginning. You can buy the latest fashion, if it suits you. Racehorses, canines, betting on podraces. I don't care as long as you maintain First Light as a premier destination for the scum and savvy."