This Chapter contains alien dialog, which is probably not the correct language. I do not know Hutteese so i made it sound Jabba-like. DON'T BASH IT, plz.
Chapter 10 Tatooine.
Since it seemed Anakin and Kenobi had given the Republic the upper hand on this one. The plan was simple they would start out from one of the forward command bases and just push on from there. But when they got there the were met with a horrible surprise. After Anakin and Kenobi had left, the clones tried to hold out but the CIS seemed to have somehow seemed to have a great surge of strength and made a major push, because the clones were pushed very far back from the line Anakin had provided. The Jedi had to figure out how to give an equal surge to get the planet back into Republic control. Their plan was to hit a major CIS base and supply depot. But the problem was that it was protected by a extremely strong shield.
"I say we throw everything we got at it," said Nate.
"And what is 'everything we got'?" asked Dan.
"Well artillery and bombardment," said Nate matter-of-factly, "we'll blow down the shield and then we can charge in and take it."
"And this is going to work how?" asked Steph.
"Well," began Nate, "every shield has to have a breaking point, I should know, and when it hits that it falls. Enough firepower over a period of time will drop a shield quickly."
"And your timetable for this is?" asked Dan.
"Oh, about six weeks." said Nate.
"SIX WEEKS!" exclaimed Steph, "by that time we'd give up the advantage. They would know we were coming. Would you sit and take a bombardment and do nothing knowing the enemy would come soon." "Well I guess not. But do any of you have a better idea?" asked Nate.
"As a matter of fact I do." said Steph. And with that she turned to the commander, Jángo, and asked for his support. Then she laid out his plan.
The plan was to acquire a plan of the base, infiltrate it and take down the shield then initiate the charge. Of course there were some objections to the plan.
"Okay I have MANY problems with this plan." said Nate, " One how are we to get specs. of the base, two it's a fully supplied and heavily guarded base how do you expect to survive a second in there."
"One," said Steph, "we are on a planet littered with black market contacts, and two we are going to infiltrate straight into the shield generator room and blow it up then we will be out before any one knows we are in there."
"Okay now the plan is set when do we put it into action," asked Dan.
"In a couple of days," said Steph.
"Why wait that long if we could just hit them by…well…tomorrow maybe?" asked Nate.
"Well to lull them into a false sense of security we just got here I don't want to make our presence known quite yet." said Steph.
Just then the Jedi were hit with a hard wave of the Force. The only thing that the three of them could make out of it was that a great power had died. They decided to go with Dooku but they didn't feel to sure about that. Anakin was there to but he felt darker. The trio just went with Dooku had been killed by Anakin and that had obstructed their feeling of Anakin.
For the next couple of days the JedI sat around and did almost nothing. The clones were getting a little uneasy seeing the JedI just sit around like that. But one day they got up and set out to find a Black Market contact. The one they stumbled upon was a hutt named Jabba. The trio had little experience dealing with hutts but they hoped for the best.
"Ah, Jedi, pudo tunska duva tunka java." Jabba said.
"Does anyone know what he said?" asked Steph.
Nate had a blank face showing he had no clue but Dan turned to her and said "He called us JedI scum and asked how did we get in here."
"Oh, illustrious Jabba," said Steph, "we come in peace. We only want to make a purchase of some information and we thought you might be able to tell us what we want to know."
"No,punka tuba juba hava tunka nuba." He replied.
Steph glanced toward Dan with the look of 'what did he just say' on her face.
"He just said he might have what we are looking for but he wants to know why he should give us information." said Dan.
"We only want the plans to the Separatist base on this planet." Said Steph, "They must be disrupting your business leaving their slime on this planet."
"Ruba nova hoba tika laka ukat wey." replied Jabba.
Before Steph could speak or turn her head Dan said.
"He wants this transaction to be a complete secret but the Separatist's sweep his data banks for information every day."
"Oh great and mighty Jabba" said Steph, "do you have any enemies that we may have the pleasure of pinning this transaction on so we both may not be revealed at the perpetrators of this cunning act."
"Oh, tuska usa laika tunuka Borka banik slimo teva Seperatist pudo." said Jabba quite angrily.
"He said Borka is a hutt slime who is working with the Separatists and doing more damage to his business than the Separatists could alone," said Dan.
"We could pin this transaction on Boorka, great and glorious Jabba." said Steph.
"Tuka fave nuka laga itar natugar lage nuka tuva, Order 66, lega nuva maga lonka," said Jabba.
Dan just stood there with a great stare of disbelief on his face. The only thing he could say was "Thank you."
The trio then left Jabba's Palace and Steph was the first one to ask a question.
"What did he say?" she asked.
"He told us about a Republic order that has dire consequences. It's called Order 66, it allows the total destruction of the Jedi Order." Dan replied.
The Jedi didn't know how to respond to this news, so they continued to plan how they were going to pin Boorka. Eventually after a couple hours they had devised a ingenious plan.