Disclaimer: I don't own any star wars related items, characters or ideas, except my own, I do however own Inhered Arios (and I did in the first chapter too, I just forgot to mention it), and you can't have him!
There were only six Delta-7 Jedi Star Fighters in the temple hanger in the High Council Tower of the temple, when Inhered arrived there. He found one the attendants had prepared (by order of the council) for his short journey to Cato Neimoidia.
He was going to Cato Neimoidia to attend talks on free trade zones and route agreements. He was to meet Mace Windu there and they would attend together.
He got into the small ship and let the astro-mech droid take him out of the atmosphere.
When the ship broke atmosphere, Inhered took the controls and slowly guided the small, triangular ship into one of the many orbiting hyperdrive rings.
Each ring had two hyperdrive engines which could propel the small ships faster than the speed of light, making interstellar journeys a lot more practical than the old sublight starships, which took many generations to get to their destination.
This journey would not take that long as Cato Neimoidia was quite close to Coruscant, on the Galactic Scale, around eight thousand light years.
When the automatic mechanisms locked the ship and the ring together, the ship, which had the hyperspace co-ordinates pre-programmed, flashed away into hyperspace.
Hyperspace travel brought the galaxy together after its invention 25,000 years ago. It took advantage of the fact that space was not flat, but has many, uncountable folds. Travelling in the regions between the folds in hyperspace made journeys shorter, thus giving the impression of faster than light travel. Although the ship may reach its destination before light from the same point and time, it still was travelling at speeds below the speed of light. This is because the light is travelling in real space rather than hyperspace, and therefore has a very much longer distance to travel. On average, travelling in hyperspace gives the impression of travelling at nine million times the speed of light, which means one can travel the length of the galaxy in less than a standard week.
Inhered was glad when the nav-computer told him that they would arrive in thirty minutes. He was getting sore (I think you know where) after the seven hour journey and it would be a relief to get up and walk about to stretch his legs.
There was a slight vibration as the Delta-7 shifted into real space. Inhered saw the green planet, but he wasn't landing yet. Suddenly, the comm opened and he heard a familiar voice through his earpiece.
"Good to see you, Inhered. We were not expecting you for another couple of hours."
"Good to see you to, Master Windu," he replied. "Where is your ship? I don't see it."
"We will send you the co-ordinates now…" There was a pause, then a beep, "… There, see you soon."
"Right, Arios out."
He set a course for Mace Windu's ship, which had landed on an uninhabitable asteroid near the planet.
He landed in the hanger bay of the large Republic Cruiser. There was only enough room in the small hanger bay for two small ships, and there was already an old looking shuttle parked there, which made landing a little harder, but he, with a little help from the Force, managed it. Once landed he headed for the meeting room at the front of the ship.
He entered the meeting room to see Master Windu standing, looking out a view port at the rugged terrain. When the door hissed closed behind him the Master Jedi turned to face him.
"Sit down," Mace said pointing to a chair at the table. "We have much to discuss."