A/N: Dearest Korrd, why ever would Mara wanting to kill Luke set them up as being a good couple? Anything I write will be light romance, to get Miss. Jade out of the way. Thanks for the following.

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Exar Kun's mind flew like a windjammer from its nest and caught glimpses of a behemoth--no, a high-tech tracker--no, a few university students' space yacht, so far beyond the spacelane seekers of his era (and era it was, he saw the whole stretch, he wanted to wear time)--jumping out of hyperspace and floating past Yavin IV on its way to elsewhere.

Exar Kun, disembodied and unknowing of his own power/frailty, rode the bow wave of that starship and began to sense the order of things.