I don't own Star Wars the Old Republic or it's characters, this is only Fanfiction. Edited by Mandalore the Freedom.


As they walked towards the town exit, Jack had a feeling he was not going to like this place. Sure enough, the roadway was littered with dozens of improvised mines. This looked pretty damn bad. He looked at Ceta and she pointed at something. "I know these people must be sick of having the Sith rule them, but this is simply uncalled for."

Jack had to agree with her. "True, they don't seem to care who gets blown up with their little mines. Be they civilian or military as long as they get a high enough of a body count. Let's take care of these bombs. I can think of a much nicer way to use the materials."

Ceta looked at him and raised an eyebrow almost trying to imagine what could he use the explosive cores of mines. "Fireworks, what else would I use these. We are going to a factory of killer droids we are going to need the explosives to clear the way to the slicer."

That made sense, she understood that Jack was clearly thinking of the big models that were bound to guard that place. They took care off a few resistance fighters and took down the mines. Jack began working on them as he walked towards the base that served as a wall to separate the land into regions.

"How can you work on explosives and just treat it as a hobby? " Ceta asked as they got into the big lift. Jack put the final touches to the last of the cores and stored it away, she notice how Jack was whistling while doing this like this was normal.

"Because working with explosive materials is a hobby for me. I came up with dozens of different recipes, designs and schematics during the Mandalorian wars. The force can be quite useful in reaching those hard to reach places and thus I can make some pretty neat things with explosives."

Ceta asked him to give him an example. Well I once made a replica of a statue being sent to a base to celebrate the fifty second birthday of the pirate leader. It was probably my most detailed work to date. It was a statue of this royal pain in the ass that used to sit in the Jedi Council. I put that white haired witch made a statue of her holding a lightsaber between her legs in a thong bikini."

Jack remember how Jedi Master Atris couldn't look at anyone straight in the eye without blushing before the statue was shipped off to pirates, but she did charge him across the whole temple from her, Revan however was laughing hard with Meetra and Malak. If Jack remembered right, Meetra took a picture of it.

Ceta was shaking her head as if trying not to picture that. "The idiot pirate tried to actually grope the statue which in turn triggered the statue. Blew up him and all party guests to pieces. Revan approved and the only complaint I got from Malak was that I should have taken a picture. I didn't because I somehow knew he would send a copy of it to the Council."


Back on the ship, Mako was not having such a good time. She was still quite angry about the way their little moment was so interrupted. 'I guess I should have not done that it the open like that, but I can't help it. I love him. It took a great deal of control just to try and keep it to a kiss.'

Mako desperately wanted Jack to know how much she had fallen in love with him. The words from Rurika still were on her mind.


Jack and Ceta managed to get to the base and saw that they needed to head in a very clear direction. It didn't take long to run into the first Droids. They really were programmed to kill anything that moves. With his lightsaber in hand and Ceta's large repeater blaster, they took care of the Droids at the entrance to the place.

Jack placed a device on the ground and punched a few buttons. Within seconds they had a complete map of the entire facility. "Those scanners are really something aren't they? Normally it would take weeks to map out a structure." Ceta said as she picked up the device.

"True, but that is not the worst of it. There is a human injured in the room at the entrance and the splicer is in a segment that has some wreckage closing the entrance we will have to find an alternative route. Last but not least a facility chuck full of these killer Droids."

Ceta understood the work ahead and she was sure they would be able to save those people. They entered the facility to find a wounded Imperial soldier. His leg looked particularly bad. "So what are you doing here soldier? What is so important that they sent you to do it alone?" Jack came over to his side check his wound while Ceta kept lookout.

The soldier looked at Jack and smiled a sad looking smile. "They didn't send me alone. I am the last of an entire squad. The others were torn to shreds by the Droids. I was sent to upload a virus into the maintenance Droids to try and slow down the Droids. I been a waiting to see if they sent in reinforcements. Are you the reinforcements I was waiting for?"

" No kid, I am not. They sent me on a different errand. Now give me those viruses and I will get them implanted. You need to wait for medical evac I will send a flare."

The soldier looked like he was still in pain but he was not willing to throw in the towel.

"No, I will help you. I would not send in a man to do what I am not willing to risk myself."

Jack looked at him with a glare, "Don't make me sedate you. You stay here and await evac." Ceta knew this guy was not about to risk his life needlessly and that spoke well of him, still Ceta will give him credit for being brave. With his lightsaber, Jack was able to destroy enough of the droids to have them sent a maintenance Droid to look into the damage droids.

Ceta cover fired for Jack as he uploaded the virus and saw that a nearby left sent them directly to where the slicer was. "Ok, that is done we will send a evac after we get done with the slicer. This lift takes us to the room directly outside the corridor to the room the slicer is located. We just blast open the door and mow down any droids active in the area. Do you have any suggestions?"

Ceta looked at the map of the facility and she was amazed that he could come up with an alternative route so quickly. "I agree it is the most expedient means to get to the slicer. Good thing you made those fireworks. I hope the slicer is alright."

The two got on the lift and took it down. As they about to reach it Jack threw a large metal orb and when it hit the ground it bathed the surface with lightning. Many droids that were waiting to ambush got hit by the electrical blast and their circuits were fried.

Ceta and Jack looked around the room, it was likely the control area to upload the virus, finally Jack spotted someone hiding behind the terminal, they went over to find her clutching her left side, it was slightly bloody but overall wasn't too serious.

"You Zalia the slicer? Pirrell send me." Zalia was a human woman looking be in her mid 20s, fair skin, spikey brown hair, Ceta and Jack could see she was under lots of stress. "Oh thank the stars, never thought Pirrell would send two Mandalorians help. I didn't think I was gonna last any longer." she stood but still clutching her side.

"My reconnaissance team were evaluating the factory's computer systems when the droids overpowered us. The droids killed my whole team, I haven't been able sleep or eat for days." Ceta could the signs of that, she's been in that situation before in combat, but it looked like Zalia was only here for likely 2 days, no more. Jack however didn't think it wasn't needed for Zalia not know why their really here.

"You don't need lie, I know why you're really here Zalia." Zalia's eyes widen before she then figure they knew why she couldn't upload the virus. "You know the mission? then you should know why I can't upload the virus, I already told that idiot Pirrell. If I upload the virus, it will trigger the alarms, the droids will swarm us!"

Jack and Ceta knew most of the droids were not advance enough take them on, they were more or less basic battle droids. "Trust me, those droids haven't seen the like of us, we can handle them while you upload the virus." Zalia however shook her head, "that's not the problem, I don't doubt you Mandalorians could handle them, it's me what's the problem. I ain't blaster prove!"

Ceta was already loading up her heavy blaster repeater. "I fought in worst situations, my friend here has as well. If you're so worry, take this." Ceta hands Zalia a Mandalorian power shield, "highly upgraded energy shield, should be able stop any blasters those droids are packing." Zalia however raise a brow. "Should be able stop them?"

Ceta shrug. "Longest those droids don't have any disintegrators, you're be fine." Zalia sigh, she knew she was gonna change these two's minds. "Alright, I'll upload the virus." she goes over to the terminal, brings out her data pad. "Alright, here goes nothing." she works on the terminal, the alarms go off soon as she was finished.

Jack decide give her his blaster. "Here, take this!" he throws Zalia the blaster as she actives the shield, catching it, she takes cover behind the terminal. About couple dozen battle droids come out, Ceta opens fire on them as Jack actives his lightsaber and charges in.

Jack slices through them, either slicing the cheap swords the droids were using or force pushing them away. Though shocked, Zalia return fire with Jack's blaster, becoming very surprised how effected it was. "Damn, this is a good blaster." she shoots one droid's head clean off before she was force take cover.

Ceta slowly moves in with her heavy repeater, shooting down any droids that got in her way, however just as the first was finished, two large battle droids come in the play. "Osik!" cursed Ceta was she was force roll out of the way as the battle droids fire a rocket at her direction.

Jack turns to face them, he charges in, blocking blaster shots from the droids, he actives his jetpack rise himself in the air before he drops down, he smashes his crushgaunt the droid, destroying it. Ceta returns fire on the other large droid, it wasn't able defend itself against the slaughter from Ceta's blaster fires before it broke down, destroyed.

Zalia came out of hiding, shocked to the core.

Jack walked up to her and smiled. "Ok, before we go on there are a few things we need to know. Did you upload the virus and does Pirrell know what you look like? Think really carefully about that last question. We need to be sure."

Zalia tried to remember and when he had the answers he told them. "Yes on the virus, but no he didn't even bother checking my face. He was too busy groping this Cathar woman. The only thing I am thankful is that he was not interested in me. Just the idea of it makes me nauseous."

Ceta understood where Jack was going with this. Jack looked at her and smiled trying to appear as nice as possible, but Ceta then decide give a blunt answer to Zalia.

"You need to be more careful about who you work for. The idiot didn't send us just to get you to finish the job. He sent us to kill you. He has no intention of paying you at all."

Ceta just had to drop the bomb like that.

Jack saw the look of fear that she had in her face. She knew these two could easily kill her. He touched the top of her head and rubbed it like a person telling a kid it would be alright. "The thing is, we aren't going to kill you. Instead we will detonate a nice little bomb here and it will make it look like you died uploading the virus."

Zalia was more relaxed as she heard him say that. "You are a slicer, a new name, identity and change your hair and you got a new life. Just be more careful next time. You might not run into a pair of nice Mandalorians or bounty hunters like us."

Zalia thanked them profusely as they got out of the Droid Factory. "Before you go, I got some files that you might find interesting. It is a series of messages between a guy name Tarro and a person that goes under the name of M." Jack and Ceta had a feeling who the M person was.

Jack thanked her and they went their separate ways as soon as they made it to the forward outpost, after fighting few rebels who attacked of course.

"So he bribed my rival on this planet. Can Tarro possibly even care how immoral he is?" Jack asked Ceta and she told him that it was pretty much as he told the kids back at the port.

"We keep this as evidence. I know he will say this is all made up. We will use it if we ever find the need to. " Ceta and Jack walked over to a very worried Imperial officer and told him that his missing squad had only one survivor.

"So did they manage to upload the virus?" Jack looked at the officer and told him yes they did. "Sorry to ask but the Sith pretty much would abandon the surviving member if they failed. Thank you for telling me this. I promise you that squad member will be brought in and he will receive the best medical care."

The officer seemed to relax somewhat and that is when he told them if he could do something about his stress he might feel better.

That is when Ceta said something Jack wished she never said, "Well how about a joke? Maybe that will make you feel better?"

When the people around heard that a Mandalorian was going to try to tell a joke, everyone in the outpost dropped whatever they were doing and came running to see this. It appears that everyone believed a Mandalorian was incapable of telling a joke to save his or her own life.

The people started a small betting pool that he could not tell a joke. Jack looked at Ceta shaking his head. "You kinda put me on display here, alright, I know a joke it might not be funny to everyone but here goes."

"A Mandalorian woman goes to a Hutt arms dealer. She tells him. 'I need to buy a blaster it is for my husband'. "

"The Hutt dealer asks her. 'What kind does he prefer carbine, rifle?'"

"The Mandalorian woman says 'why would he care?' She said. 'He doesn't even know I am going to kill him'."

Every woman in the entire crowd began to laugh really loud, but the men looked surprised. "Another give us another." Said one of the women, she was enjoying these jokes.

Jack was almost tempted to make Ceta do it. What was this, Mandalorian comedy hour?

"A pair of Mandalorians are lost in the jungle, one is looking sick so his partner calls his Commander. 'Commander my patrol partner is sick, he has this glazed look on his eyes and he can't seem to breath correctly'."

"The commander thinks and he tells him. 'It is alright I know what to do, first we got to make sure he isn't breathing'. After a few moments a blaster is heard. There was a dead silence and then the guy asked. 'OK he is not breathing now what?'."

This made the women and some of the men laugh again, but the rest just shook their heads.

At last, they were allowed to get back to what they were doing. Ceta mentioned that it would be more realistic if the commander shot both of the idiots instead.

At least Jack got pay for the jokes, made at least couple hundred credits.

By the time they made it back, Jack saw Pirrell and the fake servant doing a few things that are best done in private. "Should I go outside give you two time to finish or do you want my report."

Pirrell zipped up his fly and told him. "Do tell us what happened, did you take care of everything?" Jack smiled and told him that he didn't leave any loose ends. Pirrell must have been really happy to hear this. "Great, I knew that Mandalorians could get the job done. What do you know about a local insect called the Collocoids?"

Jack had no clue but Ceta did.

"Large insects, resistant to most toxins and eat everything including industrial waste." Pirrell was happy to hear that they knew this much.

"The good colonel has developed a means to keep the Collocoids in check. I am sending you to do a few things. I want you to take a slicer under my command and scramble all the Imperial com channels, then you need to introduce a virus into a shipment of Droids and lastly you need to stop the transmission that are keeping the Collocoids under control."

"If you manage to do this, believe me you will be richly rewarded."

Jack pretended that he was a greedy bastard and said richly rewarded were his favorite words.

"Then you and I are going to get along swimmingly." Pirrell smiled, liking this already. "Good, then off to it, I need get back to some..busy matters." Jack and Ceta could see Murghir smile, though it was fake and could clearly see she was wishing she could bite Pirrell's dick off.

They actually felt sorry for her. They quickly left the room, not wanting be in there. "Okay, that hut'uunla is really getting on my nerves." Said Ceta, Jack nodded, he too was getting tried of that coward. The two made their way towards the small shuttle that'll take them to the base near where Collocoids were at, however Jack call Mako in, he didn't trust Pirrell's slicers enough to do job right.

"Hey Mako, got a mission that needs you're awesome slicing skills, I don't trust the slicers Major Pirrell is sending me with to do job right. Think you can help?" Mako nodded from her side of holo, "sure, I can get where you're at in few minutes, meet you at the shuttle bay cyar'ika." Mako cut off holo, leaving a surprised Jack and Ceta who was raising her brow.

"She's been picking Mando'a? interesting, she consider being Mando?" Jack shrugged, "I haven't ask her yet, I want give Mako time to think." Ceta nodded, becoming a Mandalorian is not easy, it's a big commitment, some cases even bigger then Jedi, only Mandalorians allow feelings in, it'll break you make no mistake, but you do emerge stronger out of it. Tarro Blood though has shamed name Mandalorian, he did had to go through those high challenges.. before he got his ass kicked in the Great Hunt.

Ceta and Jack finally made it to the transport that'll take them to base, standing next to the shuttle was a male blue skin Twi'lek in light clothes and a brown coat, he looks up from his datapad to address Ceta and Jack. "Ah you arrive, Lieutenant Major Pirrell informed me of the mission, shall we get going?" The Twi'lek spoke in form of Twi'leki, Jack shook his head, confusing the Twi'lek.

"Not yet, we'll waiting in on someone, my data slicer, I want two on this just in case." said Jack as he looks for Mako, though the Twi'lek was confused, he did understand the need of two slicers, he suggested same thing for Pirrell but he was too busy with that Cathar woman care.

They decide head to transport area, Mako let them know they can go on ahead, she'll get to them when she can. They then made it to the supposed captured explosive caches, the supposed because most were blown to bits. They were however surprised when they found a Cathar woman in blue and black Mandalorian armor, she was not wearing her helmet, letting them see she was Cathar.

She was fighting some a large group of resistance fighters. Jack didn't want to lose time so he did the best this he could.

He took another of his improvised bombs and he charged it with force energy. He threw it hard and it flew over the Cathar and landed in the middle of the group of resistance fighters. It made a noise as if it was a dud. As the others got close to check it out or where laughing the explosive blew up killing them all.

The Cathar looked almost surprised and turned around to find a pair of Mandalorians and a Twi'lek headed their way to her. "You alright? Need some medicine or ammo?" She was surprised at the way Jack asked, she was light orange fur color, few brown scraps, and interesting cat green eyes.

She stood as she placed the rifle on her back. "No need for medicines or ammo. What I need is an explanation. Why did you decide to help me?" she was clearly suspicious of their motives. Ceta decided to tell her they didn't need a reason to help a fellow Mandalorian.

This made her relax somewhat, Mako then comment on Jack's bomb. "Nice bomb, Jack you were not kidding when you said you made interesting stuff with explosives." this made the Cathar ask who they were. An introduction was in order it seems.

"The big guy is Jack Keldau, otherwise called Jack The Reaper. Believe me, I know you are not going to believe it but he is the real deal. I am Ceta Farr, I came to see if he was worthy to have my clan follow him. So far he has not disappointed me." Jack then took over introduction the others.

"This is Kakhan." Kakhan had told them his name on way here, he nodded to the Cathar Mandalorian, though he was surprised to see a Cathar Mandalorian of all things, the Cathar nodded. "Su cuy'gar, am Lanie Bralor, I came here to do some mercenary work." Ceta raise a brow, she was not aware Clan Bralor adopted a new member.

Jack however was surprised, her last name caught him surprised. "Wait? you're last name is Bralor?" Lanie nodded, "yes, am a recently new to the Clan, I just joined 2 months ago. Tell you what, since you look busy, I can tell ya the rest on way where every you're going to." Jack nodded, they could use all the help they can get.

Together the three managed to take down the turrets and even take the info from the resistance supply master. The other thing they managed to do was take down the guards and steal both the schematics of the stealth shuttle design and send a completed prototype to the Imperial base nearby.

As the group made it to the landing point, Ceta told them that she wanted to go back to the shop and give Lanie a chance to get to see how Jack got down to business. Mako came in the shuttle and was surprised to see the new member.'Damn it, I got three potential love rivals already, am I going to have a fourth one that soon? Rurika wasn't kidding that Jack is getting a lot of admirers just like she warned me about.'

She and the Kakhan got through the communication equipment in record time and jammed the channels and even planted a virus to do some data mining. As the Twi'lek was ready to go, Mako did something that caught Ceta and Lanie by surprise.

She took Jack's helm off and gave him a passionate kiss on his lips. After the kiss was done, she threw at him his helm and jumped into the shuttle as it was about to take off. "I'll see ya after the mission is done!" she shouted as the shuttle took off, Jack waved at her, smiling.

Lanie was smiling at him and even said that he had quite an interesting girlfriend. "Let's go, we still have the bugs and droids to deal with." She smiled as they took off. 'Sure, sure we are all business but you can't hide the fact you looked pretty happy to be in the receiving end of that kiss. I guess this crew will finally cure me of my boredom.' Lanie had a feeling things were gonna be interesting with this group.

The droids went haywire as soon as the virus and attacked everything in sight. The Collicoids were absolutely pissed off by the looks of it. Jack even said that it looked like the Imperials had done something involving their mother.

The two made it back to the base and as they walked, Lanie got a particularly telling smell and she stopped him from entering. "I think we should let them finish and get dressed. Unless you want to enter and see them both go at it?" Jack made it quite clear that he didn't want to see that not even for all the credits in the entire galaxy.

Jack decide let Lanie give her story to them, she wasn't able to when they were busy. "So, if you don't mind me asking, how does a Cathar end up becoming a Mandalorian? you're people don't have a great history with Mandalorians." Jack wanted be careful not push any bad buttons here, Lanie however understand why their curious.

"If you ask me that 10 years ago, then I would never in million years, then again. I never gotten full look how Mando'ade work." Lanie lean herself on the wall, "well, I was born on Taris, I was once one of rebels fighting the Sith Empire, Taris may be a wreck, but it's home. But when I was scouting out the Mandalorian mercenaries that were hired by Empire, I got captured by them." Ceta raise a brow, she was not expecting Lanie having been from Taris, she must have been tough to survive a planet like that.

"I was shocked how I was treated fairly by Mandalorians there, I was with them for few weeks before they were called off to do some other jobs, and I may have eh." Lanie looked to the side, blushing deeply here, making Jack curious. "I eh.. grew close to one of the Mandalorians, Jogo Bralor." that made Ceta surprised.

"Wait? Jogo Bralor? the Clan Leader's son? hot headed and little too eager fight Jogo Bralor?" Ceta remembered Jogo Bralor, she saw him training with other younger Mandalorians, he was hot headed and was quick to anger, but was a skilled swordsmen and shown promise, Lanie chuckled.

"Yeah, that's him, his clan was hired to take care of small job on Taris before they called to take few other jobs. Jogo may be hot headed, but he has a soft side he doesn't like letting others seeing. He and I are dating at moment, but I decide head here to do some jobs while his working with Clan Fett." Jack felt himself frowning, he sure hope they not like Cassus Fett.

Deciding it was time to head in, Jack and the others head inside, they see that Major Pirrell was finishing putting his clothes on, so was Murghir, however she looked very surprised to see Lanie, a Mandalorian Cathar is not something you see everyday. "Ah! you're alive, and you brought a new friend, it'll be wonder that you were able get the job done with three Mandalorians." Pirrell decide get done to business.

"There are now frantic reports of Collicoid attacks are pouring all over the planet. I've added a bonus to you're payment, Colonel Sartius is going insane! Ha!" he laughs a bit, Lanie shares a look with Ceta, she gives a similar annoyed look to Lanie back.

"Once Sartius is removed from his position, Admiral Ivernus will now certainly consider my application for a promotion. It's a flawless plan isn't it?" Jack shrug, "I was expecting bit more." Lanie and Ceta nodded, agreeing with Jack.

Pirrell blinked. "Well.. yes, I wanted keep it simple, I didn't want upset the Admiral in any way. So, how you think I should approach the Admiral?" Jack smiled behind his helmet, finally they were gonna get the target. "Don't hide behind reports or a holo. Meet face to face, let him know the man whose gonna take the job." Ceta nodded in approve, good, play the idiot's greed.

Pirrell thought about it, actually liking it. "Hmm meet the Admiral personally? don't just make myself "a choice for position", make myself "the choice for the position". If things go bad enough, Admiral Ivernus will want conduct another inspection here. That could be my chance to prove myself to the Admiral." Major Pirrell step forward to Jack give him a datapad.

"I need one more brilliant maneuver to arrange me meeting the Admiral face to face meeting. And I know just the thing." Jack looks over the datapad, "reports indicate that Republic Forces that stayed after we invaded, are currently training rebels combat fighting in Balmorran Arms Factory." Lanie decide ask a question.

"What hasn't the Empire just finish off the Republic forces that are here, their can't be too many of them." Pirrell gives her a scanning look of her body, she really disliked it, Jack moved in view of his vision to get his attention. "If only, there are complications because how well their dug in position and because of course, the Colonel's incompetence!" he scowls at mention of the Colonel, making Jack really think if Colonel really was that bad or not.

"The Colonel has learned of a secret rendezvous between the Resistance leaders and several offworld allies. His spies planted a homing beacon on the Resistance leader's shuttle. You are gonna remove that homing beacon." Jack raise a brow, what a idiot Pirrell was being here.

Ceta was also thinking the same thing. "You do realize this will be helping the Resistance right?" Pirrell shook his head, "only temporarily. I'll deal with the Resistance with the Colonel out of the way." The three Mandalorians doubt he could deal with them, so did the undercover Bounty Hunter.

"You will remove the beacon and place it on a garbage transport. The Colonel will swoop in with his warships and found only garbage shifting Ugnaughts. The shuttle will be at Balmorran Arms Factory. Be cautious." Jack nodded, he and the others leave the room, not wanting be anywhere near the damned room, even smiled disgusting.

Lanie shook her head in disgust as they made it out. "That man is a real piece of work, the way he was looking at me was disgusting." Jack nodded, he was also disliking the Major even more, "yeah, don't worry, after we get at it with Admiral Ivernus, Major Pirrell is next on the list." Lanie nodded, fairly happy that would be case.

As the two walked towards the forward outpost, they saw a man from Imperial Intelligence trying to get their attention. "I got a job from Keeper for you Reaper. Some genius decided to steal the schematics for a new top of the line Walker. He stole an experimental model and ended up blowing it and himself up. Now we need to recover those schematics and the black box. We don't need resistance fighters with that kind of hardware."

Jack smiled at him while shacking his head. "Honestly, it is a small wonder you guys keep any of your weapons schematics safe. Might as well put them in a lending library and have people register for library ID cards. Tell Keeper I am on the job and send him greetings from me. Who am I supposed to take these stolen good to anyways?"

The man didn't like his comments of their habit of losing schematics, but since he accepted to do it he would let it go. "An agent on the field and before you ask who it is, it's your old pal the Red Blade. I don't think you would criticize her efficiency if the rumors I hear are true."

This made his angry enough to grab the man by the throat and demand what did those rumors say. "Relax Reaper, they are mostly spread by some lady watchers. They seemed to think you and Cypher nine are more than friends. They think so because she just needs to ask for help and you jump at the chance to help her."

He let go of the man and glared at him with such a cold glare it would have made a common soldier pee his pants. "We are friends, just friends. I never even seen her in her underwear. So help me if another idiot says we are lovers, friends with benefits or in an open marriage arrangement, I am liable to show that person the business end of my blaster and give that person the perfect excuse for medical leave. Are we clear?"

The man tried to look composed as he said crystal clear.

The way towards the experimental Walker was relatively easy and the fighting was routine. The thing was most of them were wearing Republic trooper armor. "Lanie call me nuts but these so called resistance fighters seem more like Republic soldiers to me."

She had to admit this was what it seems. "If they are indeed soldiers, then they must have a forward camp. You know and well as I do, military men establish a forward base or camp to have a place to organize and plan their activities."

Jack was feeling something odd a few hundred yards from there and closed his eye. He almost out of sheer instinct holster his blaster and took his lightsaber. "If you think that is weird, we got Jedi a few hundred feet from here."

This made Lanie and Ceta both switch strategies and decided for a full frontal assault. The Jedi would act as a location Beacon. They found the Jedi and managed to knock her out and take back the Walker plans from her. As Jack was about to leave he heard, a voice not from her but from the holoterminal near the unconscious Jedi.

"Jack, you would hit a fellow Jedi? I would never believed unless I saw it myself. How could you? You know that we are just doing what you once loved to do. Defending the weak and protecting the people." Satele was even more surprised to see him wearing Mandalorian armor with two other Mandalorians with him.

The scowling face of the woman made his companion feel a shiver of fear run down her back. "Satele Shan, you don't have the moral or legal authority to critic my actions. I will remind you, your Order kicked me out on drummed up charges without a hearing or trial by the Council. Left me for dead dressed in rags in a planet with no food or water. And you dare tell me those words?"

Satele didn't like the sound of that and it was clear she was not happy on how they made her feel. "Jack, you should know I had no hand in those actions. You know how much you meant to me. I would never do such a thing to you. Search your feelings and you will see that I speak true."

Jack looked at her and looked seriously upset. "Having no way to survive, I decided to return to the people of my mother. I am a Mandalorian bounty hunter Ms. Shan, be grateful I didn't kill your Jedi. Now if you will excuse me I am rather busy."

Laine was happy that Jack walked to turn off the com channel. "Now wait just a minute.." He turned off the channel mid sentence and walked off.

"Do they honestly think that using her would make me give up and let them keep these schematics? I don't think so." Laine asked what was so special about this Satele Shan. Jack said that she was the woman who took his master exam from and she had been a good friend to him.

Laine began to suspect that the good friend remark was a lot more than Jack was letting on about. "Come on, Cypher nine is not going to like to he kept waiting." they left the room.

They walked over to the place they were supposed to meet and found Thalia and her creepy friend Kaliyo, they were both wearing new type of gear though. Thalia was wearing a odd yet advance looking pure black body armor with blue lights, though she still had her blaster rifle with her. Kaliyo herself was wearing a dark gray combat armor, even having a jet pack with it.

Thalia smiled when she saw Jack and the others enter in view. "Ah, hey Jack, it's good to see you, and I see you got new friends." Thalia noticed both Ceta and Lanie, she raised a brow when she saw Lanie, 'A Mandalorian Cathar? was not expecting that." Kaliyo however had a different ideas when she saw both Ceta and Lanie.

"Damn Jack, didn't realize you're running a harem now, there any room for me join?" Ceta and Lanie shot her a glare, Jack shook his head, looks like Kaliyo was still trying get in his pants again, good thing Mako wasn't here. "First, it's good to see you too Thalia, and second, Kaliyo I don't do harems, besides, my Cathar friend here already has a boyfriend." Lanie nodded, crossing her arms.

Kaliyo shrugged. "Eh, you're lost, I hear lots of things about you Mando boys, curious if ones regarding you're skills in bed are true or not." Jack raise a brow, what was with this woman? Ceta decide quickly take matters into hand and gives Thalia her datapad. "This is the data containing regarding the Walker, I would ask keep you're friend in line about her urges." Kaliyo narrow her eyes.

"What? you don't have someone you want go and fuck huh? you having trouble finding a man." Jack and Thalia could see things are getting tension as Ceta gave an unimpressed look to Kaliyo. "At least I know how not make myself look a professional, you on the other hand look like you want jump every man like a cheap ass whore." that made Kaliyo angry. Lanie was about step in and stop this before Jack was already ahead of her.

"Alright you two, that's enough! we have better times then fight each other. Is that everything you need Thalia?" he turns to Thalia, she shook her head, "no, I got everything covered, got few jobs take care off in area anyway. Hope we can meet on better day Jack, till next time." Jack nodded and Thalia makes her leave with Kaliyo, who shares a very long glare with Ceta.

Lanie shook her head. "That Rattataki is really asking for it, just something about her that feels off." Jack nodded, there was something about Kaliyo that made him wary, not many people can do that to him. "Alright, we got that taken care of, let's head to Balmorran Arms Factory. I'll call Mako, we might need her help, but Ceta, got a small job that needs be look into."

Ceta raise a brow. "Really? what's the mission?" Jack takes out a datapad, man he seem be getting lot of these days. "While we were traveling to Balmorra, I got a contact from Mandalorian Enclave, two Trandoshans me and a friend of my encountered happy give some very disturbing information regarding some pirates, their calling themselves Clan Rook." Ceta was not liking this.

"These aruetii think their Mandalorians? this does need attention, they can cause trouble if they have Mandalorian armor and weapons." Lanie nodded to Ceta, people with gear like that would cause lots of havoc, Jack then gave her few details. "Alright, from what the Mandalorian Enclave were able dig up, there's a contact by in spaceport that has info. While me, Mako, and Lanie go take care of mission in Balmorran Arms Factory, you find out what this man knows."

Ceta nodded, "Very well, I'll be waiting for you and others back at the ship." Jack nodded, they made their way out of the area, heading towards nearest Imperial base, Ceta takes a shuttle back to the main base. Jack called Mako and asked for her help in Balmorran Arms Factory, Mako nodded and she said she'll make her way towards where their at.

About 10 minutes later, Mako came out of the shuttle, wearing her Mandalorian armor. "Hey Jack, so this is our new team member?" she places her hands on her hips, she was still surprise to see a Cathar Mandalorian, Lanie nodded. "That's right, you guys seem like a elite team, I needed get good job to help my clan while my boyfriend is serving with Clan Fett." Mako felt herself relive, she was glad she did not need deal with other woman interested in Jack.

"Alright, good to have ya on team, so what we waiting for? might as well get this job done." Jack nodded, the three make their way towards their location, however as they got in view after taking an elevator up to camp, they hear lots of fighting going on nearby. "Kriff, are we heading to one of the biggest fighting areas on planet?" said Lanie, she could hear lots of blaster fire and explosives going on.

They get off elevator as it make it, they now had a big view of big battle going on in trenches and glass lands with bomb holes, Imperial troopers and droids fighting Rebel forces with some Republic troopers. Mako shook her head at mass killing that was likely going on.

"Man I feel bad for lots of those people, being blown up in trench, being forgotten, I don't want end up like that." Jack nodded, he fought in similar battles, he remembered being in a trench with other Republic soldiers when he was fighting the Mandalorian Neo Crusaders in the Mandalorian Wars, it was bad for both sides. "Let's get this done, but first, let's load up on suppiles before we get in there, we'll gonna need everything we need."

Lanie and Mako nodded, the three go into each shop, gathering everything they need. Good thing they had lot of credits cause this might get messy.