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Chapter 32: How it's Done
It took a couple days for CorSec Inspector Lillian Hunter to take Jedi Master Obi-wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight Rachelle Hunter, and former CorSec Inspector Maria Jade to all the crime scenes of the warehouses that ships been stolen into. She took them to the old scenes and then to the new ones.
Rachelle right away notices that the newer seem to be different. The older ones show signs of someone hacking into the systems and stealing ships. The newer ones, which happen in the past couple weeks, did not show the signs. Right away a warning flag went up to the newly Knighted Jedi's mind.
"Master Kenobi, these systems were hack by Force Sensitive. They why they do not look as bad as the older scenes." say Rachelle. "I came to that conclusion too; because even the best hacker will lay some kind of trace either it would be physical or digital. Their systems were hacked by the Force." say Obi-wan.
Lillian turns to look at the two Jedi that was standing on the other side of the holographic yellow police tape. Lillian cannot believe what she hears. "You are telling me some of my best officers that have great knowledge of computerized technology wasted there time trying to find something and here they did not even use the computers." say Lillian.
"Yes, see someone used the Force to open the warehouse doors. They why it seem like they are damage slightly because they were not order to open but forced to be open by the Force pulling on them. The Force does not only manipulate living things as most believe, it could make things works." say Rachelle demonstrating the power of the Force to open the door. Instead of pushing the door open like the thieves did she use the Force to manipulate the controls within the door to make it open so it would not damage even more.
"See, these thieves were careless about the Force. They use pushes the doors open, leaving a trace of physical evidence that the door were forced open. Rachelle used the Force to control the controls of the door to open. She did not pushed it open with the Force in a physical term as our thieves has." say Obi-wan.
"Even our security cameras did not pick up anyone until the ships moved on the most recent cases." say Lillian. "Someone who is trained well in the Force could sometimes bend light and sound around not only themselves, but around others to make them appear visible. Scientifically, we are able to see because of the light. By bending the light with the Force one could be appear invisible. Through it is a hard thing to do on oneself and much hard to do onto others. The difficultness increase with the number of people being hidden with the Force. So someone strong in the Force must be helping them, because I sense a lot of presence coming in here, but was masked." say Obi-wan.
Rachelle knows what ability Obi-wan is speaking of. Mark used it on Kashyyyk as he follows Padme into the room with Darth Vader. The ability is called Force Cloak. One could use the Force to render themselves invisible to machines and beings, it is good to use around droids or species that are not easily affect by mind tricks ability of the Force.
"Could you sense who was doing the hiding with the Force?" ask Lillian. "Whoever was doing it was also hiding their presence in the Force." say Obi-wan. There only a few people he knows that can be that power to be able to hide themselves from the Force and still shield people with Force Cloak. Most of them are in the Jedi and only one he can think of that could possible do it is a Sith. He knows Mark can hide himself from the Force and from being seen or hear with the Force, he never seen if Mark could do to others.
"Does the security camera picks up on anyone outside?" ask Obi-wan. "No, at the time of the crime the only show was the door opening and ships leaving." say Lillian. Rachelle looks up at Obi-wan. "If I am right, that ability will also be hard over distance too, if you hiding other people." say Rachelle. "True, Mark taught you about that ability then. He would know more about it since he is a natural at it. This person was also hiding themselves from sight too. So that will add more strain to the person. It has to be someone powerful in the Force. How long have ships went out." ask Obi-wan as they walk into the building.
The building was a large and huge place with many floors that have openings for ships to come out through the large door. "There were 5,000 ships in here. All the ships were out of here within 30 minutes." say Lillian.
Even someone as strong as Master Yoda or Mark would have a hard time holding that ability for that amount of time as the people did here. He does not even know if Yoda could use the ability. It is a hard ability to teach, but is teachable. Then right away, Obi-wan mind flashes. The only person that is on the Dark Side could be as powerful as Mark, was Darth Vader. He highly doubts Darth Vader would be coming all the way out here. Obi-wan think with such a dark presence and try to conceal it and do all this with the Force would impact him greatly. It is harder to conceal the Dark Side of the Force than it is to conceal the Light Side.
Then again he is not an expert on Darth Vader, Mark is. That makes sense to Obi-wan since Darth Vader was made from the DNA of Mark, and only Mark knows his own limits and abilities. He must not forget that Darth Vader also have a mixed DNA, because he have DNA of Palpatine to so he is much stronger in the Dark Side. Could it be possible someone could use the hatred to power them up to help them hide the darkness in them. He knows Darth Maul stay alive from him being cut in half back in 32 BBY by his hatred for him. Even if that was possible, he would image it will be harder to conceal the Dark Side if you are using the Dark Side to give you a boost, because that would make the Dark Side stronger.
Then again, Darth Vader manages to conceal himself and Leia from Mark through the Force for 2 months. Wait that was not entirely true, If he remember, Mark say that he could not find them because of the darkness masking there location. Darth Vader was using his own darkness to mask there presence so good that Mark could not even track where the darkness was coming from but was still able to sense the darkness.
So even if Darth Vader applied that same trick here, Obi-wan would be able to sense darkness but cannot pinpoint where the darkness was. He does not sense any darkness at all, so that idea is scratch. He never experiences the Dark Side so he does not know what the Dark Side can or cannot do. Even someone like him who studies the Light Side, he does not even know everything about the Light Side.
"So what are you thinking?" ask Rachelle know that Obi-wan was thinking when he was rubbing his auburn beaded chin. "I was thinking about Darth Vader and how he manages to hide his and Leia location in the galaxy from Mark. The only problem with that idea was that he was using the Dark Side of the Force to mask their locations, but Mark was still able to pick up on the Dark Side but not the location. So even if he applies that same trick here, we would be sensing the Dark Side, but would not be able to pinpoint the location. Then I was thinking the Dark Side of the Force is harder to hide complete from the Force. I figure maybe he was himself, those criminals, but using hatred to power him up. Then I realize that will make the Dark Side stronger and hard to hide." say Obi-wan.
He is hoping Rachelle can put her thoughts on the topic of Darth Vader since she is Mark's Padawan and maybe she will have better understanding of Darth Vader then he does. Still the fact remains the only one who knows the most about Darth Vader out of all the Jedi Order is Mark. Maybe it was a bad idea to let Mark sit out on this one. What happen if Darth Vader is on the planet right now? He is not for sure if he or Rachelle could stand up to him and live.
If he takes everything down to basic right now then it is possible for Darth Vader to be hidden on the planet. If Darth Vader is on this planet and not using the Force to hide anyone or himself from his sight, It would be easy for Darth Vader to hide his presence through the Force even still using little bit of the Force. Even if he is hiding himself from sight, hearing and the Force itself, it will be a bit harder but not impossible depends on the length of time he is hiding himself physically with the Force.
"Maybe we are looking at this the wrong way. Who said it is Darth Vader. You are forgetting there are two Sith and a whole bunch of Dark Jedi. We just know he is involved somehow, but that does not mean he is involved directly." say Rachelle. She is no expert on Darth Vader either even with her time with Mark. She even tries to meditate to find information about him. She does know a little bit of his ways, but not as much as Mark.
"I thought Darth Vader was stronger out of the two Sith. Look at Mark. Every time he fights him, he gets hurt, beside the last fight on Kashyyyk." say Obi-wan. "It could be Darth Destria or one of the other Dark Jedi. Yes it is someone who is powerful but it does not have to be the most powerful. They most likely walk away tired." say Rachelle.
Lillian feels like she is the third wheel of the party, because she has no clue what they are talking about. She understands bits of it. She has heard the name Darth Vader and Darth Destria in the news. Darth Vader is more common out of the two. All the talk about the Force and how Darth Vader could do with it got her lost. She is not used to feeling this way. On cases she always knows what is going on in the case as they try to solve it.
She knew that the door was damage due to the fact of it being forced open, but how it was damage and being forced open she could not figure out. She at first thought maybe someone break through the wall or the door itself to force the controls open, but with how the doors are that would be impossible.
"Well at least we got an idea of whom, and we got the possible location of where they are taking the ships." say Lillian. "Well the location on the planet where they being picked up. We do not know where they are heading off the planet. I say the best way to deal with this is to head to the location where the ships are heading to get taken off the planet." say Obi-wan.
"I could have the military make a blockade around that area so they it will be harder for them to jump to hyperspace." say Lillian. "Then if we do that, it might provoke them to attack. If they attack, the military will fire back in defense, which will destroy the ship along with the cargo. Then you will be back in the same mess. Destroy the ships, will not stop the group. Plus you want to find the insider too." say Obi-wan.
"No duh, because the insider got a member of CorSec killed and his brother got blamed for it." say Lillian. "While the best thing to do, as you know, is to head to the area where the ships being taken too and capture the criminal gang. Then you can question them and find out who the insider is." say Obi-wan.
"The only problem is those sectors that I made, are pretty big given the size of the planet." say Lillian as she looks at Obi-wan. "It is still doable. I say we better start looking fast, because I have this strange feeling, that after the Sith are done with this gang they would be killed." say Rachelle. One of the things she knows about Darth Vader is that he does a lot of killing. He killed the people who told him about the stations.
Seem like Darth Vader likes to use people to get what he wants and after he gets what he wants, he kills them. He will use any means necessary to get what he wants. He is a killing machine. No wonder why, Mark wants only himself to face Darth Vader. For some strange reason Darth Vader would only kill Mark when he is on top of his game. Mark told her of the times where Darth Vader could have killed him but didn't. Mark could have died on Bakura, die on Kashyyyk to, but Darth Vader did not. Seem like the only time that Darth Vader would went through any means to kill Mark was on Mustafar.
"I think I might have something that could help with searching them. I had request Corellian Engineering Corporation to put trackers in all there ships that they making and that are in any warehouses. So if they do it again we might be able to either stop them in the act or track them to where they are taking the ships to on the planet." say Lillian.
"Let just hope those idiots are not smart." say Rachelle as they look around the room for anymore evidence. Then Rachelle stops and thinks when Lillian told her about the trackers. "Wait a minute, if you told them to put trackers in them, couldn't the insider tell the gang and the gang would not attempt to steal it?" ask Rachelle looking over to her older sister.
"Yeah about that, see we got couple of undercover CorSec working there. Not even the company knows about it. Those are who I told to put the trackers on them. Most likely they would not even know about them." say Lillian as she shows them around the room. Everything was in perfect condition. Besides the lack of ships, the security cameras catching the ships moving and the damage door, there was no evidence of what went on.
So the only lead they have to go on is the sectors and trackers. "Do we have a time frame where they usually commit the crimes?" ask Rachelle as she looks at her sister. "Usually in the dead of the night. Wait a minute could you track their presence to where they were going?" say Lillian as they walk to the main door. "No, it is faded and they were going faster so they did not lead as much of a trail to follow." say Obi-wan.
Lillian groans slightly but then went back to her normal self. Look like it is going to be a late night for all of them. Lillian is dead set to finish this tonight rather then any other time later. It seem like this is their best chance to get anything worthy done in the case. When this case is done, she will be glad. Then she will have to pack her bags to head to Coruscant for her new job at the Republic Security Force.
Well now she can see it as a good thing moving from her home planet to Coruscant. She will be able to be with her sister more if she does not have missions to other planets. Before meeting her sister the only reason why she wants to join the Republic Security Force is to help going against crime throughout the whole galaxy. She feels like that will be a better use of her time. That is why she taken the offer to join. Before she can even join them, she must finish this case. To her this case seems to be almost done.
Darth Destria smiles as she looks around. It seems like one more full night will full up the last of the shipments. They have gathered a lot of ships in the time limit that Darth Vader had sent up. Due to her involvement in the matters it made it harder for the CorSec to find out about them.
She did sense two Jedi came to the planet. Both of them were the ones she sense on Kashyyyk, but only one of them was the one she faced. One of them is the one who joined up with Master Zane and escaped from both her and Darth Vader. Her fist tightens as she remembers sensing those presences.
Her hatred for the Jedi is overpowering. Her sky blue eyes begin to turn Sith yellow slightly. If they get involve with her matters, she will kill both of them. She grabs her Lightsaber and activates it. She stares as the red purple tinted plasma blade that had came out of the black hilt. She deactivates it after a few seconds and clips it on her belt.
She walks toward some of the Providence-class Destroyers which are being loaded up with some of the ships that were stolen the night before. She cannot wait to head back to Korriban to farther her training in the Sith arts.
Even through she cannot wait to go back to the place she called home for 4 years now, she still wants a chance to kill the Jedi who have arrived onto the planet. She really hates the Jedi for betraying her. She also consider them cowards, have to rely on creature that was more machine then human, such as Grievous to attempt to kill her. She will make ever last one of them pay dearly for their betrayal.
Oh she hopes she gets the chance. She will make sure she kills the one that she failed to kill on Kashyyyk and then kill the other one she had sensed on the planet along with her. Imagining the death of the Jedi who manage to elude her on Kashyyyk makes her smile. Maybe she will go out looking for her… no, she must not do that, or she will face the wreath of her Master for not doing her job.