Chapter Two: The first 72 hrs.
The journey to Manaan took one day, while the ship was on route to Manaan, Conner changed the bandage of his leg and cleaned the wound, he applied some kolto on it to heal it. When he finished, he went to the main hold to eat something, when he noticed Bastila in the training room.
"Hey." He said entering in the room.
"Hi." She said. "How is your leg?"
"Better, thanks, I told you nothing a little of kolto couldn't do." He answered smiling. "Mission told me that you were very worried by me back on Kashyyyk." He said as he leaned against the wall.
Bastila's heart froze by these words, after a few seconds, she answered, "Of course I was, but not for the reasons you think, you are an essential part for this mission, I…" She almost realized what she was going to say and took a few seconds to correct herself. "We, we can not afford the privilege to lose you. We need you."
"You mean you can't afford the privilege to lose me, and you need me." Conner answered teasing her.
"Why you have to be always so arrogant? Forget it, I already know the answer, and this conversation is pointless, sorry for asking." Bastila answered a little upset.
Conner shook his head and chuckled. "See you later princess." He said and winked at her, causing her to blush. Then he exited the training room. She rolled her eyes and knelt to meditate. What did I do to be bonded with an arrogant man? He is going to drive me crazy. She asked herself.
After having dinner, Conner went to his bunker to rest a little before arriving at Manaan. He fell asleep and experienced another vision, this time the star map was under the water, near a submarine station. Conner woke up, and he realized he had fever. It's maybe because the day we fought the Terentatek was raining, maybe it's a cold. He said to himself. He got up and went to wash his face, after that he went to the medbay and applied more kolto on the wound.
Two hours later the Hawk landed in one of the hangars of Ahto City, in the main hold, Bastila spoke to Conner.
"Did you see the vision? Of course you saw it. But it's strange that a star map is located here, Manaan is known by its extended oceans and the kolto." Bastila said.
"Yeah, it seem like it was underwater." Conner answered.
"No doubt things will become clear once we find a way to descend to the ocean's floor." She said.
Conner gather everybody in the main hold and said that he would need two companions with him to explore Ahto City and to find a way to descend to the ocean's floor. Canderous and Carth offered to go with Conner, he agreed and they went to explore Ahto City. When they left the hangar, they presenced a fight between a sith soldier and a Republic officer. After the sith left, the Republic officer told to Conner that Manaan was neutral in the war, because they thought that the kolto was for everyone. Conner asked where they could found information about Ahto City, the officer answered that they could ask Roland Wann, he was the Republic diplomatic in Manaan, and he was at the Republic Embassy. Conner thanked and they made way to the Republic Embassy.
Before they could reach the Embassy, a woman named Elora ask Conner if Jolee was traveling with them, he nodded and said that he would bring Jolee to her. After calling Jolee, they waited until he arrived. When Jolee arrived, he asked what was going on and saw Elora and asked her what happened, she answered that her husband; Sunry, a friend of Jolee's had been accused of murder and beg them to help her to prove Sunry's innocence, Conner agreed and went to talk with the judges of Manaan, after he talked with the judges, they agreed that Conner would be Sunry's arbiter. After talking with Sunry in the jail and with the witnesses, Conner went to trail; there he proved that Sunry was innocent. They went to the Republic Embassy and talked to Roland Wann, Conner asked Roland if he knew something about a star map, he answered that he might knew something about it, but he need Conner to do something for him and Conner asked what was it.
Wann said that he needed to recover a memory data of a droid that went missing and was taken by the Siths to unlock the secrets of the droid. Wann gave Conner three options to get into the Sith Embassy. He chose to break into the Sith Embassy using access cards. The party returned to the Hawk to rest. The next day they would break into the Sith Embassy.
The next morning, Conner woke up feeling weak and dizzy. It's only a cold. He said to himself, he dressed up and went to wash his face. When he was in the main hold he found Jolee waiting for him.
"Are you feeling right son?" He asked.
"I'm fine Jolee; it's only a small cold." Conner answered.
"C'mon kid, I didn't born yesterday. I'm old, damn it! I have the years of experience to tell you that you don't have a cold." Jolee said. "Let me take a sample of your blood to analyze it."
Conner sighed and lifted his sleeve and extended his arm, Jolee took a sample of his blood and went to the medbay of the ship. Conner made his way to the ramp, outside Carth and Canderous were waiting for him, but in his way he found Bastila.
"Hey." Conner said giving her a smile.
"Hi, I heard you will go to the Sith Embassy." She said.
"Yeah, I am going to rescue a memory data that the Republic lost a few hours ago." He answered.
"I see. Are you feeling well? You look pale." She said and placed her hand in Conner's forehead. "And you have fever."
"I'm fine. Don't worry." He answered taking gently her hand away from his forehead and giving her a weak smile.
"If you say so. Be careful." She said.
"I will." He answered and turned to leave but Bastila stopped him.
"What?" He asked, but Bastila gave him a sweet kiss on the cheek.
"Please, be careful." She begged him in a low voice.
He nodded and went out of the ship. A few minutes later, the party arrived at the Sith Embassy, they were authorized to enter, but inside the Embassy, a small fight started. Conner and his companions found young Selkaths being trained as Siths, after looking for evidence to prove that the Sith were evil, Conner found a datapad that said that the Sith wanted to take control of Manaan because of the kolto. He showed the datapad to the young Selkaths and they thanked Conner for the truth. While the party got deeper in the Embassy they found the droid and saved the memory data. When they exited the Embassy, Conner was accused of breaking into the Sith Embassy, but he told the judges everything he learnt of the datapad, when he gave the datapad to the judges his hands were shaking, he didn't know why.
After the judges saw the datapad, they declared Conner innocent, and they exited the courthouse, Conner felt dizzier and fainted a few meters away from the courthouse. Canderous and Carth carried him and took him back to the ship.