Chapter 43
Accounting
The Captor class freighter was currently drifting along with engines at minimal sublight as the ship was ain clod down faze for the hyperdrive having just completed a long range jump well away from the ambush spot. The time in the blue of hyperspace had been spent going through the ship from aft to stern. The non Remnant crew with the exception of Yara had spent the lion share of the time dismantling shock and explosive collars using their rest time assisting the Remnant borne to shift through the massive amount of goods the ship contained.
The crew convened in the area of the Captors boarding ramp, the B series droids had policed the bodies of the thugs that had attempted to stop their taking the ship, the bodies had simply been jettisoned into space near the gravity well of the nearest planet courtesy of the nearest airlock. The only proof of their previous of their existence was a large pile of captured weapons that were lying on the deck and several pools of multi coloured fluid that was scattered on both the floors and walls. Only once they were secure in the area and the doors closed with droidekas on guard before the door did they take of their helmets. A quick glance showed that the in ship cameras were still disabled. All of them showed the dreaded helmet hair and their faces had a slight sheen of sweat despite the helmets having cooling coils built in. The sat down on hastily dragged over containers many showing blaster charring.
It was clear that the last couple of hours had taken their toll on Ruby as she had not even glanced at the pile of exotic weapons once as they were preparing to debrief, nor did her eyes stray to the mess that was left behind. Nor was she the only one affected once they had breached the hold holding the slave cages, the most jarring of all the cages containing younglings. Yang was subdued with her eyes at a constant red hue, Weiss was more icy in her mannerisms and Blake had her ears flat on her head and was constantly reaching towards her back where her old weapon had normally been stored. Not that any of the others were even close to their normal selves. Yatsu, normally the more controlled was constantly cracking his knuckles. Velvet was once again retiring in nature with her ears deflated. Coco was constantly running checks on her rotary blaster, going through the tack rack bang sequence, a grim look on her face and Fox was grim and subdued, no sign of his normal irreverent nature.
NDGO thanks to the harsh life in Vacuo was still faring better but not by much. Having been indentured the facilities they had been kept in was a step above the cages. Octavia was leaning against Hina with the latter having her tail wrapped around the redhead. April was cuddling into Yara as was Nora with Katya. Keira had yet to remove her helmet from her armour, but the other force sensitives could feel her turmoil, Amelia was trying to look stoic and was constantly tapping away at her datapad. Pyrrha's normal friendly personality was in absence and her expression was close to the one she wore while in combat during her competitions, one of complete focus and determination. Jaune was constantly rubbing his neck and twitching his shoulders. He looked at the assembled group and ran a hand through his hair taking a deep breath.
"Shall we begin?" He asked with a tired sigh
"This ship is worthless." Yara was the first to speak
The assembled group gave her all of their attention as they took in her statement. Yara leaned a bit more into April before continuing. Her tone was clipped and factual.
"After a look at the engines I tracked down the service log. The Neimodian only did repairs when absolutely necessary and the absolute minimum at that, and even better no maintenance was done, ever. I suspect mostly to keep his cost down and his profit margin high The engines are a mess and not worth repairing, it will have to be replaced. The ship hull has also been compromised several section are clearly not the standard hull material the ship was built with. The only place he spared the expense to maintain was his quarters and the bridge." Yara said bluntly
"The same can be said for the ships programs systems. A lot of it has not been updated since the ship had been launched." Amelia added
"And our idea to convert the ship into a fighting ship with what we had seized on the Class freighter will not work." Yara concluded
"Care to explain more on that?" Pyrrha asked
Yara ribbed her face for a moment before continuing. She pointed in the direction of the slave hold with a vague hand gesture.
"In there is a ship engineer and designer. Before I took of her explosive collar I started asking questions. You know the usual. Name, planet of origin, trade. Just talk to help them relax as I work" Yara explained
"Something we should all have done." Jaune admitted nerfishly
"Well anyway, long story short she was working for Incom on a fighter project. She got kicked from the program and was screwed over on her pay. She then decided to sell the plans to Siennar as payback."
"I guess Incom did not take that lying down." Katya winced
"Officially and publicly they did nothing. Using back channels and cut outs, she got a bounty on her head, one specifying dead. She got caught on Bakura" Yara continued
"Then how did she get here?" Blake asked
"Apparently this year Jabba demanded that at least a quarter of the slaves sent this year should be highly skilled. The price offered by the local crime lord for skilled slaves exceeded the bounty on her head and the bounty hunter who got her decided to go for the higher payout. It would not surprise me that the hunter reported her fate to the hunters office and Incom paid out anyway. Jabba is not exactly known to worry about the longevity of his slaves." Yara concluded
"I take it you asked her opinion about our plans to convert the ship." Octavia remarked
"I did. I did not even have to show her the drawings before she gave me at least thirty reasons why it was bad idea. Most being about stress point and metal compatibility and structural reinforcement."
"We should have though about that." Jaune admitted
"In our defence not one of us is a designer or engineer. A lot of the basic concepts you take for granted still go over my head at frequent regularity" Pyrrha pointed out
"Pyrrha is right, none of us are qualified enough to have known better, I guess we dodged a bullet there. How about we move on to the cargo before getting to the other slaves." Velvet suggested
Keira finally removed her helmet and ran a hand through her sweat matted brunette hair. She rubbed her pointed ear tip before speaking.
"The containers carrying the credits according to the manifest was sealed so I think they are accurate. The problem is that there is a lot of fakes and knock off with the gems, jewels and trade cargo, Coco was able to spot a lot of the fakes at a glance." Keira nodded to Coco
"Who knew that years of shopping and studying fashion would come in usefull. Though Weiss helped with the jewels and gems I was not sure of." Coco shrugged
"There might still be a degree of error I am not a jeweller or a specialist." Weis demurred
As the atmosphere of the debrief was constantly dropping the groupd looked more and more grim. Amelia leaned forward a forced smile on her face.
"In a bit of good news. I managed to drain the Neimodians accounts. He was one of those idiots who kept his account number and password permanently logged in. I moved it through several accounts before making a new account for us, we will need to create a new identity for the Bantha to use it though" Amelia reported
"I guess that leave us with the slaves . What are we looking at?"Jaune asked
Hina took over an looked at her datapad
"We don't have an exact record of names, there two hundred and fifty in those cages, fifty being younglings. We have the usual spread of Twi'lek, human and quite a few Zabrak, Several Falleen, a bit more Ugnaughts." She counted of
"So what do we do with them
"From my talks with the designer I think she will be eager to stay out of public view. I think we should get her either to New Yukira or the Vale settlement. I think if we talk more to them we will find more like her." Yara suggested
"I think we need to offer them an option. Offer them to either be turned over to a friendly planet like Naboo or Alderaan or offer them a new life outside the Empire. I seriously doubt any of them will be willing to fight for anyone, so I would not bother trying to recruit." Katya stated her position
" Though I think for safety we should not tell them where till we are certain they are sincere. I overheard some of the older Twi''Lek girls trying to convince the younger ones they would be better off as property." Keira cautioned
"Why would anyone believe being property is a good thing? The entire idea of owning someone is wrong" Ruby demanded hotly
"For some of them it is the only life they have known. Slavery has always been a large part of Twi'Lek culture. One they only paid lip service to abolishing ever since joining the Republic. Also for people that had been in long term captivity a change occurs in their way of thinking, slavery or captivity becomes normal to them." Hina explained
"The truth is if one was to ask what the main export product of Sleyheron and Ryloth was slave girls would be the top on the list. It does not help that male births are only on in ten for Twi'Leks. So girls are easily available." Katya added
"Their entire social structure is a convoluted mess. Males are dominant in society, but then it depends on your colour and the clan or house your are from. If the female is from a higher colour or clan they are dominant up to a point. Some days I think even they don't know who is what." Jaune said
Trying to figure them out is headache inducing. Even protocol droids have problems figuring that out." Amelia said
"Speaking of protocol droids there are five among the cargo. They can be usefull." Keira said
"Better not let SCD hear that, he might go shoot them out of principle. But you are right, we can transfer them to the Bantha and scrub their databanks" Jaune remarked
"Keira is right about not mentioning where we are moving around, that information would be good currency for a slave looking for favour." Dew said
" Are you think they would barter information for preferential treatment?" Blake said
"We did it while we were indentured. They would do the same in a heartbeat," Dew replied
The conversation died at the not so subtle reminder that Remnant also had a serious problem with being rights. The took the Vacuo girls word as proof as they were the closest they had to anyone who understood being denied freedom with the exception of Jaune. Though his captivity had been much shorter in duration than their indenturation. Jaune looked at the others. He tapped a hand on his knee before speaking, drumming his fingers as he spoke,
"I think we load the credits, the most valuable cargo on the Bantha and then fimd those who want a new start. We leave the rest of the cargo and those unwilling on the Captor. We preset Alderaan from the hyperspace coordinates and set it to trigger the hyperdrive a few minutes after detaching from the ship. We can set the systems to send an alarm call as soon as the ship exits near the planet gravity well."
"Why pick Alderaan and not Naboo?" Coco asked
"Both planets were active against the war and pushing for peace and with the formation of the Empire for a return to the Republic but since the death of Padme Amidala, Naboo has been less active and vocal. I think Jaune is banking on them being more proactive." Keira said
"There is a another reason. Recently Alderaan has been losing ships with relief supplies on a frequent basis, yet they are doing nothing to stop the losses. I heard rumours that the ISB is thinking that the losses are deliberate and that Alderaan is supporting a rebel movement." Amelia informed the group
"So by sending the ship and slaves there, we are what? Trying to draw the attention of those opposed to the Empire?" Pyrrha asked pensively
"I know it is long shot, but it may be easier tracking down people asking questions about us than trying to find groups opposing the Empire planet by planet." Keira nodded to Jaune
"Any other ideas? Or shall we vote on it?" Pyrrha asked
Alderaan System
The Tantive 4 came out of hyperspace at the edge of the system. The captain engaged the sublight engines and moved in the direction of the home planet. As they were moving past the sentinel satellites they were broadcasting the ships transponder signal. Once the identity was confirmed they will start receiving information packets from the planet itself. This system was used to ensure that whoever was on the diplomatic vessel had enough time to be informed of any major news or incidents beit from the planet or the Senate. As they were approaching the second set of sentinel lights they were starting to receive several large packets of data.
Bail Organa closed the last file on his terminal with a sigh of relief. He turned his attention to the corner of the Master stateroom and had to still his smile at the sight before his eyes. He schooled his face to a neutral expression before coughing to attract the girls attention
Leia Organa turned slowly around schooling her expression to appare contrite. In truth she was somewhat sorry, She was niot sorry for having totry and access the secure files on the terminal, she was sorry she had been caught. Bail immediately spotted the false contrition, years as a politician and diplomat giving him the edge to see behind expressions and masks. For a moment he was reminded starkly of her mother, she looked a lot like Padme had at that age. As he was about to address her attempt at once again trying to breach secure files the doors opened and two men entered rapidly. One was his aide a lifelong friend, the other the security officer attached to the ship. His aide was holding a datapad. He was about to dismiss Leia and shelve their conversation for later when the aide Jan Aron spoke having spotted the direction his eyes had gone
"She might as well stay, all of this is all over the holonet anyway." Jan said
Bailsat back in his chair and Leia moved over rapidly to stand behind his shoulder, a little bit faster than decorum demanded she should move. Jan waited before speaking. His expression was grim
" Why do I get this feeling this is going to be bad news." Bail remarked
"Years of experience. Eight hours ago a ship reverted from hyperspace and started broadcasting an emergency beacon on all frequencies. SAR was launched from both the surface and from orbital stations and converged on the ship, on approach it was noted it was a Captor class ship. Police units were launched immediately." Jan started his report
Bail sat forward instantly more intent on the report. Behind him he heard Leia shuffle, a quick look later made it clear she was confused.
"Captor class ships were the backbone of the re supply lines of the Seperatist army." He explained shortly to her
" After consideration it was decided that the police units would board first. They found two hundred beings on the ship. They were mostly inside an area that had clearly been used for slave transport. They found signs that an extended skirmish had been fought aboard the ship. They proceeded to the bridge and found no one at the controls all the systems were locked down." Jan proceeded with the briefing
"I take it there was more." Bail said
"Preliminary questioning revealed the ship and cargo had originally been en route to Tattooine before it was intercepted by an unknown group" Jan continued
" Do I even have to ask for who the cargo was destined?" Bail asked rubbing his eyes
"If you are referring to Jabba, yes. The cargo was his yearly tribute offering from his underlings." Jan confirmed
"What do we know about the group that boarded the ship?" Bail asked
"Very little. They had scrubbed the ship security footage thoroughly as well as the hyperdrive record since they had boarded the ship. We have found the remains of various B1 and B2 droid fragments and hulks. The former slaves stated that they were wearing Clone armour but were clearly not clones."
"How do they know that?" Leia blurted out.
"Various reasons. For one a lot of the armour was designed for females, two they were a lot more colourful than clone armour had ever been. Tird reason several carried lightsabers." Jan said
"Lightsabers." Bail echoed
Jan produced several pictures it showed the damaged blast door to the bridge and a few showed locking mechanisms that had been sheared by a high temperature device
"What colour was the blades they mentioned?" Bail asked
"Blue, green, purple and orange." Jan listed off
"I have never heard of orange and purple lightsabers." Leia spoke up again
"I will admit I have not heard of orange blades either, and the only purple blade user I knew of was Mace Windu. It is not a hard and fast rule that Jedi used only blue green and yellow." Bail said thoughtfully
"During this time the Imperial Outpost had dispatched several shuttles to aid in the investigations. As far as we know none of the lightsaber users had been identified as Jedi. For that matter there is no confirmation on identities of the boarding party." Jan stated
"What of the ships crew? I would assume that their would have been a large presence to guard the cargo."Bail asked
"Several B1 navigator and bridge droids were found in pieces on the bridge, the bridge escape pod had been jettisoned. In the ship itself no trace of living beings were found with the exception of the former slaves." Jan said
"They did find several drag marks to the airlocks." The security officer; Mark Holden, spoke for the first time
Bail shot the man an annoyed look as Leia hissed in surprise behind his shoulder. The man returned an unrepentant look. Bail shook his head
"And I assume we have no description of the boarding ship used." He said
"Correct, the boarding party was very particular in revealing as much as possible about themselves. I should add that according to records recovered indicated that there had been two hundred and fifty slaves that had been embarked on Nal Hutta. The ship had launched from there, no records were found to indicate death among the prisoners or that any had been disembarked along the route. It also appears that some of the non biological cargo had been removed from the shop. A full inventory of what is missing is being compiled. Preliminary reports would suggest that high value goods had been removed." Jan concluded his report
Holden consulted his datapad
"This is not the first time there had been reports of ships being boarded by people in clone armour, There has been a reported hijacking of a Class Four freighter. Details are limited. The crew reports had been redacted post incident. Judging from the amount of reports I would say it is safe to say that none of the crew had been harmed. Our operative on Rustam station report that a group of beings in clone armour had fled the station under fire after a brief skirmish with several bounty hunters. In both cases an Arkaxia three thousand was listed as the ship in use."
Bail decided to make this a training opportunity. He turned in his chair and faced Leia. He pressed his finger tips together as he looked at her and waited for her to come to a conclusion
"So what are your thoughts?" He asked
"That there is too little known at this point to make a reliable judgement. My biggest question is why were the fifty beings removed from the Captor freighter. Were they the reason for the attack and if so why? Or were they just an afterthought." Leia said musingly
"Go on." Bail motioned with one hand
"If it was just about piracy why send the ship and most of the captives and the cargo here? I do not think piracy was the main reason." Leia continued
"What about the class four, both crew and cargo was listed as lost." Holden stated
"But the crew was spared, not the reputed actions of pirates. And that is what I find confusing. On one attack everything gets taken but the crew spared and they did not try and hide information about them, here we know there were casualties if not knowing the numbers, they only take part of the cargo but scrub all traces of them. Also this attack seems more aggressive than the first." Leia said
Leia tapped a finger against her chin as she thought more about it.
" The redacted reports of the first incident is also worrying, what is being hidden? The biggest question is the lightsaber users, why risk using that and draw more attention on you? I believe the next attack will give mor information " She shook her head
" Why do you say the next attack?" Bail said
"I believe it is likely they will do so again. I would say this attack was to draw attention. If they are pirates they had two successes and they will go for a bigger score as their greed will force them to it, if they want attention for another reason they will try again and again to draw more attention or they achieve their goal." Leia said
"You sound as if you believe they are not pirates." Bail remarked
"They have not attacked civilian shipping, a much easier target than Imperial or ships belonging to crime lords." She pointed out
" What actions would you suggest?" Bail asked
"Warn the outreach programs to be on alert and report any rumours or facts, and have our embassies do the same as well, then wait for more information before trying to set up a counter to protect Alderaan and its interests. They will have to show up somewhere at some point. We simply do not know enough." She finished
Jan's datapad chirped as he received a message. He looked at the message and switched it to display
"It seems they left a calling card on one of the walls. A member of the SAR had send it to a family member on seeing it for translation. The university of Alderaan has failed to translate the writing on the wall. It does not match any known form of writing, they are still searching. They found a drawing next to it or what they assume is a drawing."
The strange lettering was replaced by a drawing of a broken moon.
The group had made it back to the Green Dawn and docked within the ship. The rescued slaves was mostly human, several being from family units, a pair of Zabrak sisters and a family of Cathar rounded out the list. After finding a space for them on the Dawn, the ship left the area they had been hiding in. The group had decided to debrief fully later, most of them disappointed in failing to achieve their objective, and scattered to their rooms. The next step will be decided once they had rested and had time to ponder their decisions.
The next morning Katya was struggling to contain her laughter as she was looking at her girlfriend. Nora was looking in horror at the contents of the plate before her. She had demanded pancakes for breakfast and was given them. However they had run out of regular white milk and blue nerfmilk had been used. This resulted in the pancakes sporting a look reminiscent of mould, nor did the drama end with unusual looking pancakes they were out of syrup and a selection of fruit had been presented as a topping. Further down the table Ruby was prodding a knife at a tub of jam made from yogans, the strawberry jam having met the same fate as the cow milk and syrup. Hesitantly Nora cut a pancake, another first for her and with a look of someone about to be shot brought the piece of food to her mouth, She closed her eyes before taking the piece into her mouth and starting to chew.
In their shared room Jaune woke up and found himself in the middle of the bed. Looking around he saw Pyrrha's feet at the top of the bed. Looking down he saw her propped up on pillows at the end of the bed watching a emotidrama being relayed to the rooms holograph emitter from her datapad. Jaune hid a snort of amusement as Pyrrha had found a way to indulge in a guilty pleasure, the girl was seriously addicted to sappy romance stories and for some odd reason hard bitten detective stories. He shifted and kissed her check as he moved to the end of the bed
"Where is Velvet?" He asked
"She is on the observation deck, she wants to get the fountains and the UV lamps going so she can finally start planting a garden in the planters." Pyrrha replied.
Jaune settled down beside her and cuddled Pyrrha stroking her now much shorter hair. She happily leaned into him with a contended sigh. He kissed her forehead lovingly,
"So what are we watching?" He asked
Later Jaune was sitting down for a meal before his bridge watch started. Derrick sat down before him and placed his own meal and a datapad down. When Moody did not join Derrick, Jaune realised this would be a business meal. This was confirmed as Jonathan took a seat as well a cup of caf in hand. Jaune swallowed the mouthful he had been chewing and waited for them to start. Derrick shifted the datapad and opened it. He was till somewhat clumsy with the device but was rapidly catching up
"We finished questioning the ex slaves you got back and that ship designer, Ayana Carnet, was the biggest catch among them." Derrick started after taking a swallow of caf
" Not much use for a ship designer at present here." Jaune remarked
"True but long term she is an irreplaceable asset. Even if we can not build ships having her teach how to designs ships will be be knowledge we desperately need for development of Vale. Even short term she has given us a lot of usefull information. What do you know of Fondor?" Derrick continued
" It has a minor shipyard not even close to scale as Corellia and the Siennar yards." Jaune replied
"She has identified an area where her former employer and another smaller company is currently storing fighters and small freighters. Also she gave us a location where the company was going to store simulators for their new generation fighter." Derrick informed Jaune
"That information could be invalid now." Jaune pointed out
"It could be, but considering the scale at which these companies operate I believe they would not really change sites because of what an employee knew, she was hardly the only value employee in their service, And since she is assumed dead they could very well not worry about what she could have revealed." Derrick replied
"Speaking of teaching, she has told us where she had stored her personal terminals and design equipment before she was forced to run. It is currently in a lock up facility on Fondor. From what she said it might also be a good place and try to source flight simulators" Jonathan said
"We can decide what to do at the next meeting." Jaune said
Keira sat down beside Jaune and placed a datapad down beside her plate and mug. With a few taps a revolving figure appeared. It appeared to be a bulk ship nearly triple in size to the Captor freighter they had gone after, if the rapidly revolving Auarabesh script was to be believed
"What is this?" Jaune asked
"That is one of three mobile repair yards belonging to Mandalmotors. This one was in orbit over Concord Dawn the last time I passed through the sector. It has been in orbit there for a few years now." Keira replied
"And why are you showing us this?" Jonathan asked
Keira held up a hand as she was busy chewing and she spoke after swallowing
" Sorry, please bear with me this is going to be a long explanation.I was going through my family holocron last night. My ancestor had used it as both a diary and a training tool. I was reading the section on the aftermath of the destruction of the Star Forge and the Sith fleet. As I have mentioned before what the galaxy knows and what happened was two different things. The story was spun to make the Senate and the Jedi look good" She started
" Not an uncommon tactic when dealing with governments." Jonathan remarked
" What was not mentioned was that several Yuki and Mandalorian ships and a ship from Arkaxia had taken part and they had jumped in as the Republic ships had been in a stalemate against the Sith. In exchange for their silence they were offered a part of the vanquished fleet along with several concessions. Needless to say they got screwed over." Keira continued
"Again not uncommon." Jonathan said
"The moment a fully stocked hospital frigate had been "erroneously" allocated somewhere else they had decided to take what they can and leave. Instead of going for military craft they had gone for support vessels. Everyone that could fly a ship took one and they jumped away and regrouped outside Arkaxia. Most of the ships were used in the expansion of Arkaxia. Some were send to Yukira and Mandsalorian planets. Before they dispersed the ships they went through the hard drives and systems of all the ships." Keira expanded
"They found something?" Derrick asked
"The location to the sources of materials that was used in the construction of the Sith Fleet. Once they had locations they dispersed the ships and went looking. Once they found a depot or store it was looted to bedrock."
" I assume it was not taken to Arkaxia or the Mandolorian and Yuki worlds." Jonathan said
" No, the Wren, Ordo, Brevkin and Cryze clans knew the location of a hidden Mandalorian orbital shipyard. The Republic has assumed that all Mandalorian yards had been destroyed as per the treaty after the Mandalorian War. They shipped everything there." Keira swallowed some caf
"Okay, interesting story but how does this help us?" Serrick asked
"I was speaking to Amelia and told her the story and Carnet overheard us. I made a joke about how all of that was probably al large rust cloud now when Amelia made a comment that we could go build our own ships." Keira replied
"And what did Carnet say?" Jaune asked
"That everything would be the same as it was left assuming they had kept everything in orbital yards and the yards maintained their orbit." Keira said
"Okay but it does not negate that the material is four thousand years old and the technology beyond outdated." Jaune replied
"That is where the Mandalmotors repair ship comes in. The ships were designed to do heavy repairs while towing crippled craft back to repair docks. Each ship has forges and fabricators and dedicated repair and construction droids. All they do not carry is raw materials and components." Keira countered
" And there may be a an abundance of raw materials at the hidden yards." Derrick said
"As for more modern parts and components I have an idea. When we were hunting Jaune and the others we stopped by Arkaxia. On the planet there are several warehouses packed with enough part and components and processors and datachips to outfit several fleets of freighters. With the destruction of the Arkaxia yard they had just been sitting there." Keira said
"You would have though they would have sold all that to other ship makers." Jonathan said
"There lies the problem with Arkaxia made ships, their parts are not compatible with how other shipmakers. Either you get the part from a dedicated source or you are forced to make it yourself." Jaune said
"And right now we sit with a Class four Freighter and close to five million of Jabba's credits."Keira concluded
Jaune pushed his plate forward.
"And what if the yards are useless or have been destroyed or the material have been used?" He asked
"Then we have wasted fuel to go and check. Even if we can not use anything taking the ship benefits us. Vizla is pro empire. Taking that ship makes him look weak to the clans and his Empire allies. And by taking the ship we deny him a resource to repair his ships and that of the Empire. And we gain a ship we can use for repairs should we need one." Keira replied
"So in essence we only stand to gain. A chance at our own ships at best outcome and at worst a way to maintain our current assets." Derrick summed up
Jaune drummed his fingers as he studied the display before him
" Why has that ship been in orbit there for so long? A ship like that should be in high demand." He said
"Thanks to the mess of recent Mandalorian history. As you know Satine Kryze has attempted to stay neutral. This brought sanctions from both the Seperatists and the Republic. Mandalmotors was hit hard by these sanctions as they were not only unable to source resources for constructions but were unable to obtain contracts. Those sanctions were intensified when Pre Vizla had overthrown her government. Right now Mandalmotors exist mostly in name it were not a state owned enterprise it would have been disbanded long ago." Keira replied
She finished her caf
"I admit my information could be very outdated and even outright wrong but what would it cost us to go and look around?" She asked
"At the very least it will have us well away from the Remanant sector for a while." Jonathan said
"Which may be a very good thing as LA1D2 had been picking up Imperial transmissions. If I understood what it was saying it seems as if probe droids are being dispersed throughout the sector. Odds are they already know of the Vale Colony and the settlement of New Yukira and am waiting for us to pop up. Doing something far away seems like a good idea to draw their attention away." Derrick said
"You got the hyperspace coordinates for the yard?" Jaune asked Keira
"I do." She replied
"Then let us go see what is there before we decide what to do next." Jaune replied