The turbolift doors opened to reveal a long straight brightly lit corridor. Doors could be seen on either side. Waiting for the lift were four men. Mando looked at them, Three were dressed similarly to the troopers they had left behind in the cave, but their armour was coloured light brown rather than the standard original stormtrooper white. They also wore a storm trooper helmet which was the same brown colour, each helmet also had a black emblem painted roughly on one side. The other man had a similar uniform to Dec Ktar, only his was not as grand.

It was the uniformed man who addressed Ktar as soon as the lift opened.

"Leader Ktar, the reconisance team has just reported in from Csaplar. There is no unusual activity. Long range sensors are not picking up any more ships approaching. Their ship..." he pointed towards Bossk and Din, "...was by itself. Engineer Swit has made slow progress with the repairs to the short range array however."

"Very good Assistant Railo, that will be all." Ktar dismissively replied.

The man called Railo immediately turned and Mando watched him as he headed towards the closest door on the left hand side of the corridor.

Ktar took one step out the lift and then turned around to address the two bounty hunters.

"It's your lucky day. I am still undecided if I shall kill you today or not. Until I decide I am going to treat you as my guests. You may be useful to me, so I have a proposition of my own for you. You will be escorted to a comfortable...holding area...by my shock troops here, it seems I have an engineer who needs to be reminded of his duties. Once I have dealt with him I will discuss my proposal with you." Ktar walked briskly away down the corridor without looking back.

The bounty hunters did not move until one of the shock troopers spoke, the voice sounding metallic through the helmet. "OK you two. You heard Leader Ktar, follow me."

Mando noticed that all three had subtly angled their blaster pistols ready. Mando looked at Bossk who glanced back at him before stepping out of the lift. Din followed behind.

The five men walked in formation along the corridor, one troop in front, two behind, with the bounty hunters in between.

They walked past several doors before the lead trooper stopped and motioned to a door to his side. "In here you two".

Bossk and Mando entered the room, and immediately the door shut behind them. Mando spun around, he could see no door opening mechanism in the room.

I knew this was a bad idea, he thought.

He turned back to look at the room they were in, it was brightly lit, and other than four chairs and a table the room was empty.

"Cave dwelling scum eh Bossk?...Good call." Mando sarcastically said to Bossk. He continued on as he sat in the nearest chair, "quick and easy job, you said, and now we find ourselves waiting for a psychopath effectively in a prison cell in who knows where. What's next on your plan?"

Bossk continued to stand as he defiantly shot back "its easy...Mando...we wait to see what Ktar has to say, there might be a handsome pay day in it for us, and if we don't like what she has to say, then we fight our way out..."

Mando shook his head "You don't get it do you ? We've had our guns taken away, and we have no idea how many soldiers we are dealing with..."

Bossk thought for a moment "we aren't defenseless though are we...I know about that suit of yours, you could get us out of here. We could still even get the crystal, my employer isn't the type of person who would understand if we left empty handed..."

Mando was just about the reply when they door opened. Ktar entered.