~~~Shortly before Arthur left the Vast Empire~~~

Arthur was patrolling the station waiting for his CR90 to finished repairs.  He stopped when he saw the amount of scorching the ship had taken.  He was surprised the amount of casualties was low, but the amount of injured made up for it.  He knew when the ship was ready he would get stuck with a full crew of new barely trained crew members.

He began to look over the list of names to try to get the replacements he wanted.  Knowing all the while that he might get about half the ones he picked.  He was about half of the way through the list when he received a message from Harzo he old crew member.

I found out which Hutt was behind the betrayal.  I have his current location and how many guards he has with him.  I have Aselk Frost, and Ifte Haewd both ready to get their revenge.  We will be at the same Cantina we met at on Iridonia.  If you don’t show we will run this without you.

Harzo Kerug

Arthur sent a message to the Rogue to pick him up at the space station and sent his authorization code to the docking authority to allow access to an attachment tube.  He quickly ran to his quarters to pack up his gear.  The Vast Empire can wait, while l kill this Hutt.  After which I will deal with any response or action from the Vast Empire.

~~~A few Hours Later~~~

Arthur was waiting for the message that his ship was finally in range and was about to dock.  Arthur sent a short message to High Command about what he was about to do, and that he would take any action they deem necessary against him after he returned with that Hutts head mounted to the Rogues command center.  After he finished the message he received the alert that his ship was docking.

In the Docking tube the station security chief was waiting for Arthur.

“We need to talk now.” The Security Chief told Arthur.

“What do you want and make it fast.” Arthur replied.

“An officer of your rank should know that no personal craft are allowed to approach this station without the approval of High Command.” He responded.

“Well I don’t care, but the droid pilot will be wiped and this location will be removed from the astrogation chart upon departure.  If you want to oversee this I will be more than willing to have you watch.” Arthur told him.

“Fine I’ll watch, but this will go into my report, and if I can get you court-martialed
I will.”  The Security Chief said and followed Arthur on to the Rogue.

Arthur quickly went about the removal of the location of the space station from his ship.  When the Security Chief was certain that the ship had no known location of the space station he left and gave clearance to leave, but not before leaving a locating beacon on the ship.

Arthur quickly entered Iridonia into his charts and plotted a course through Hyperspace and then engaged it.  He had the V6 Pilot Droid take over and he walked over to his holo-terminal to reach Maris on Iridonia to have her meet at the Cantina with the rest of the old crew.

~~~Two days later~~~

Arthur finally dropped out of Hyperspace in his home system and plotted a course to the spaceport.  He landed and found where Maris left the speeder for him to meet with the rest of the crew.  He quickly speeds off towards the cantina out in the middle of nowhere a good meeting location for fellow smugglers and that sort of crowd.

Arthur pulled into his reserved spot and walked into the cantina to find many different faces all much younger than him but with the same spirit.  He saw his old crew and began to make his way over there when a young Twi'lek came running up to him.

“You’re Konebeso Dragon aren’t you?” The kid asked.

“What is it to you kid?”  He answered.

“Well if you are and you’re looking for a new crew member I’m your man.” He said.

“In that case I am Konebeso, but I don’t think you will want to join me on this job.”  Arthur said.

“Why not?” The Kid asked.

“Let’s just say you’re better off not knowing.”  Arthur said and continued to his group.  He sat down and looked at each of his former crew members.  Waiting for one of them to begin the briefing, Arthur was getting impatient and just began to ask questions.

“Ok, so how is it that people here know who I am?”  He asked as he began to look for signs for them.

“Well I found out that shortly after we sold the supplies to both the Black Suns and The Vast Empire that the Hutt placed a bounty on your head.  That has some of the best out for your blood.”  Harzo Kerug replied.

“Does anyone else know I am an Officer in the Vast Empire?”

“I’ve never told anyone.” They all said.

“Ok so how do we get to the Hutt to be able to kill him?”  Arthur asked.

“Well the best option is to pretend to sell you to the Hutt for the Bounty and kill him from within his own base.” Harzo Kerug answered.

“Is there a bounty out on Maris as well because she was the only other member of the crew that the Hutt ever met?”  Arthur asked.

“There is a small bounty on her.  The plan requires us to turn you two in for the bounty and after we get paid we will be able to get a floor plan of the Hutts palace and then be able to bust you guys out.  The one thing we need is another person to pull this off.”  Harzo said.

“What kind of person do we need?” Arthur asked.

“We need to get ourselves a real Bounty Hunter that is well known, to be able to pull this off and make it believable.” Aselk Frost said.

“Well I hope you have one in mind that you guys can trust.” Maris said.

“We do but he wants half of the bounty on the two of you.”

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~~~The Rogue~~~

Harzo and Ifte ran towards the armory and finished their inspection of the weapons and explosives.  Maris activated the droids and sent them to the armory. Aselk began to slice into the Hutts systems trying to disarm any alarms, turrets, and loop the holo-recorders.  She was also trying to find Arthurs location in the palace, and the fastest route to get there and then to the Hutt.

When Aselk finished and got the plans laid out she called the rest of the crew to create their plan.  The crew gathered into the mess hall and worked out every step of the way.  When they had the plan and knew every step they plotted a course to the planet and to make sure the government doesn’t inform the Hutt they landed in the middle of nowhere and began to walk towards the Hutts palace.

~~~One Hour later~~~

They crew was standing in the woods that surrounded the palace waiting for the guard patrol to finish their route.  The patrol passed and Aselk timed the system shutdown and pressed the button.  The crew moved into the Hutts palace bypassing the first patrol.  The droids took a defensive position around the palace and waited for the signal to draw the Hutts guards away from the palace.

Ifte was planting charges at some of the key points in the palace as they moved through its bowels.  They ran past the beast pens and ran towards the holding cells to find Arthur.  They searched each of the cells they found Arthur barely alive laying on the floor.  Harzo walked into the room and grabbed Arthur and pulled him up to a stand then they began to head towards the exit.

Arthur slowly looked up his left eye was swollen closed his right was opened enough to be able to figure out that they were heading to the exit and not to finish the Hutt off.  “Stop, we need to end this and the only way is to kill the Hutt.”

“You’re not in the best condition to handle the guards to get to him.  We are going to take you to the exit then we will handle the Hutt ourselves.”  Harzo said.

“No, I was the one who took this job I will be the one to kill the Hutt.”  Arthur said.

“Fine signal the droids to open fire to try to draw the guards away from the Hutt.”  Aselk said.

Maris sent the droids the signal to attack, and Aselk grabbed her data-pad and activated the alarms outside.  The group turned down another walkway and headed towards the Hutts throne room.  They stopped just outside the room and checked the security in the room.

There are two guards in the front of the room.  Three guards were standing by the Hutt, and another one was at a control counsel on the right of the Hutts seat.  The guard at the counsel was waiting for an attack to active the shield generator that protects the Hutt from attack.

“We need to take care of the guy at the counsel that is a closed circuit.  I can’t get into that system without using that counsel and then I don’t even know if I will be able to deactivate the shield.”  Aselk said.

Harzo grabbed his blaster rifle and slowly moved to take the shot.  Harzo lined up the shot and pulled the trigger.  The bolt from the blaster missed his target and gave the guard time to activate the shield.  The rest of the guards took cover and began to open fire.  Ifte grabbed his detonator and blow the explosives he planted.  The floor under the throne room gave out in places luckily the three guards hiding location was right above one of the bombs.  When it went the guards flew up into the air and then they went through the hole in the floor.  The other three guards began to shoot at both the doorways into the room.

Harzo rolled into the room getting to a better location to pin the guards down.  Maris fired a burst into a table that one of the guards was hiding behind.  The bolts ripped through the table killing the first of the three guards.  That caused a break in the shootout in which the rest of the Rogues crew moved in to the room.  They spread out through the room ever keeping their eyes on the Hutt in the center of the room.

“Raubu the Hutt tell your men to stand down and they will survive this fight.”  Arthur shouted.

“You can’t expect to survive this attack Dragon you have dug your own graves by attack us.” Raubu said.

“No you can’t expect to survive this, as you can tell your other guards are not coming they are currently being killed by the soldiers we brought along with us.”  Arthur said.

Raubu looked around and realized that the rest of his guards were in fact not coming to the rescue he saw that his only choice was to give up.  The Hutt was looking for a way to flee but soon came to realize that the only way was to remove the shield and hope for the best.  He decided to remain in the field hoping that he would remain safe and hope that the rest of his guards make it to them.  The Hutts guards laid down their arms and Harzo and Ifte stood watch over them.

Arthur walked over to the shield and watched the Hutt squirm.  He motioned to Aselk who walked over to the counsel and began to get to work.  It didn’t take her long to find the system that controlled the shields, but it did take her a short while to shut them down.  She signaled Arthur when she had the holo-recorders running and broadcasting to the guards outside the base.  Arthur then drew his blaster pistol and aimed it at the Hutts head.

“This is for Junta.” Arthur said as he pulled the trigger killing Raubu.

The crew then walked out of the room and signaled the droids to create an opening in the guards’ line.  They began to run out of the palace and back to the woods dodging the blaster bolts as they fled.  They made their way back to the Rogue and left the planet.  Arthur spent a week in the med-bay of his ship healing all of his wounds when he was ready he contacted the Vast Empire.

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