Arthur was sitting in the cantina on one of Vast Empires space stations, waiting to hear back on how long the repairs to the CR90 he was currently station on would be.  He just finished the third glass of his tea when the report came in on his data-pad.  Repairs to the CR90 Hammer engines are estimated to take up to six weeks.  The remaining systems are an additional three weeks.  Steve Ompa Head of the Stations Repair crew.  Arthur sent the report to the Naval High Command with a request for a short leave.

The next morning Arthur’s data-pad was blinking with a message.  Arthur opened the message and found that his request was approved and he began to pack his gear and sent it to storage.  When he finished packing he sent a message to his YZ-775 Medium Transport the Rogue to prepare for his arrival.  Arthur grabbed his pack and the trunk of his spices and made his way to the shuttle bay.  He bought a one way ticket to his home-world of Iridonia when he arrived at the shuttle bay and boarded the shuttle and found his seat.

~~~One Week Later~~~

Arthur took a job from the Hutt cartel on Nar Shaddaa.  Arthur had a formed small all Zabraki crew formed for this job.  The only permanent member of his team was his co-pilot Maris Kahmf.  The rest were just hired on, but each had a skill set picked for this job.  His slicer was Aselk Frost; his forger was Junta Daseo; the demolition expert was Ifte Haewd, and the last member was the weapons expert Harzo Kerug.

The Rogues IFF suddenly showed the system was filled with New Republic Cruisers and Fighters when they dropped out of hyper-space.  Arthur slowed the ship to a crawl, and had the crew meet in the mess hall.

“There goes having an easy job.  We dropped in to a fleet of New Reps.” Maris said when Arthur walked in.

“Well it seems we are going to have to renegotiate our contract with the Hutts if they want us to complete this job.” Junta remarked.

“No.  We will do the job, but if the Hutts won’t pay us enough we can always find another group that can use those meds and weapons.”  Arthur said, “Grab your gear and be ready to move out once we land.”

They landed at one of the planets space-port with the least amount of security.  Arthur activated a few of his battle droids to keep the ship, and his pilot safe while he took his team to meet the Hutts contact.  Arthur took Junta, Ifte, and Harzo to the cantina to wait for the contact.

Aselk went to rent a speeder designed for hunters for their cover.  She flashed the Hunting pass Junta made for the crew.  Aselk stood there nervously waiting to find out if the forgery was successful at fooling their systems.  The Rental agent scanned the card, and handed her the pass back.  He then handed her the activation card for the speeder.  She paid the agent for the days use, and quickly left the area to meet the rest of the team at the cantina.

When she arrived at the table she looked at the forger.  “Next time you use your forged documents.  The Idiot almost realized the pass was a fake.”  She said as she threw the pass at him.
“Did we get the speeder or are we looking for a new option?”  Junta asked.

“We got the stupid craft, but I don’t see why we just can’t use the contacts speeder.”  Aselk remarked.

“I do plan on using that speeder and then using it as the decoy as we escape on the hunters’ speeder.”  Arthur told them.

A few moments later the Hutt contact walked in dropped a packet off at their table and left as fast as he arrived.  “No that isn’t a very suspicious thing just he did.” Harzo remarked.

“I guess it’s a good thing no one saw that little event.” Ifte said.

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Blaster bolts flew past Arthur and Harzo heads as they took off.  It took the NR forces a few seconds to give chase.  That gave Arthur's crew time to drop off the cargo at the hunters speeder and continue their escape.  Aselk and Junta quickly hid the cargo in with the few kills they had made.  When the NR forces showed up with two speeders carrying some of the bases soldiers they dropped off one speeder with a NR soldier to check out the Hunters.

“Hello we have our hunting passes right here sir.” Junta said quickly and began to hand them to the soldier.

“That’s not why we stopped.” The NR soldier said as he grabbed the passes, and began to scan them.

“You must have been looking for the speeder that sped past here a moment ago.”  Aselk said and began to point a little south of Arthur’s location.  “They sped past us going that direction, and they ruined my perfect kill shot.”

“You won’t mind if we have a look around your craft then would you?” The soldier asked.

“Feel free to move anything you need but if you get blood on those seats you can take it up with the guys we rented it from.”  Junta said.

The soldier motioned to the others to begin searching the craft.  The soldier saw the amount of kills and then checked how many they requested, and saw the numbers didn’t match.  “Your pass only allowed you to kill five and you are currently at seven.”

“Really how can we get that fixed to say eight totals which we thought we requested?”  Aselk asked

“You have to buy a new pass at double the cost in order to keep these two” One of the local soldier replied.

“You guys can move along, but which way did you say they went again?”  The soldier tried to trick them.

Aselk pointed the same way and simply stated “That way.”

~~~Just outside town~~~

Arthur, Ifte, and Harzo quickly got out of the speeder and ridged it to crash into the closes rock face in sight.  They quickly got changed and walked back to town to meet up with the others at the hunting lodge.  When they got into town they saw the whole place swarming with NR patrols each having a former member of the bases guards to identify the smugglers.  They watched as the patrol stopped every single person and check both their faces and packs.

Arthur opened a com-link to the Rogue. “I need you to meet us outside of town.  I’m sending our location now.”

“Roger that the “hunting” party has returned and we are waiting to get access to the Rogue.”  Maris replied.

“What is your current location?” Arthur asked.

“We are currently in the cantina waiting for the soldiers to get off our ship and not find the cargo.”  Maris said.

“I hope my tea doesn’t get you in any trouble.  It is legal in Vast Empire space, but I’m not sure about New Republic space.”  Arthur said the com went silent for a few moments.

“We were just told we could board our ship.  Let’s hope this goes well, and I don’t have to activate the droids.”  She said.

~~~Five minutes later~~~

Maris walked into the hanger and active the V6 Pilot Droid to start the preflight sequence, and began t active the battle droids.  When Junta, Aselk made their way to the loading ramp, twelve New Republic soldiers poured out of the alcoves surrounding the Rogue.  Maris quickly pressed the activation key, and the four B-1aa Air Assault Battle Droids dropped off the top of the Rogue and tried to surround the crew.

The NR soldiers saw this and began shooting at both the droids and the crew.  The NR was able to hit Maris in the arm as she began to climb up the ramp, and they killed Junta as he tried to reach the ramp.  The four droids were finally able to pin the soldiers down in cover.  The ramp was pulled up when Aselk helped Maris aboard, and the V6 began to pilot to Arthur's data-pads location as was programmed to.

When the Rogue was clear the B-1aa Air Assault Battle Droids took off and followed the ship.  The Rogue appeared above Arthur and began to land a few yards away on a large flat ground in front of them. The ramp was lowered and the rest of the team got on board.  Arthur 2-1B met him at the top of the ramp.

“Master, Maris was shot in the arm, and I have done what I can to help her, but she needs to be submerged into a bacta tank to fully heal.  I have waited to place her in the tank so she could talk to you by her order.”  The droid said.

Arthur had Harzo check the cargo while he went to check on Maris.  Arthur ran down the narrow corridors towards his medical bay.  He slid down one of the halls as he tried to stop to turn.  Arthur was heaving as he made it to the med-bay.  He slid open the door and walked in to the room.  He walked over to Maris and Aselk when he caught his breath.

“She has been asking for you.”  Aselk said.

“Thank you for waiting with her.” Arthur told her, as she left the room.

Arthur cupped Maris hand in his as she reached for his arm.  “I’m right here.” He said.

“I screwed up this job.”  She told him.

“No you didn’t, we are safe aboard the ship.” Arthur said.

“Not all of us.  Junta didn’t make it, and it is my fault for leaving the ship.”  She told him.

“This is not your fault there was no way you knew what could happen.” Arthur told her.  “If anyone is to blame it is me.  I was the one who took the job from the Hutt, and it was me who they were looking for.  Now you need to rest, and let the 2-1B do its job I’ll see you in a few days.”

“This talk is nowhere near over we will continue it after I am released from the tank.” She told him.

“Ok, I’ll visit you later.” Arthur told her as he left the room.  Arthur met up with the rest of the team in the mess hall.  They waited for Arthur to talk before relaying any information.

“Well this is not how I wanted this job to go.  I will pay anyone now if they want to leave and I will drop you all where ever you want to go.”  Arthur told them.

“Arthur we still have the supplies on board and how would it look if I jumped ship now.  I don’t think anyone would hire me after this.”  Harzo said the rest of the team was in agreement.

“I found out that the Hutt sold us out to the New Republic when I sliced into their system.  We need to find a new buyer for the product now.”  Aselk

“Try to contact the Black Suns, as well as The Vast Empire.”  Arthur told them.

“Why the Vast Empire?” Aselk asked.

“I have a few friends there, and I’m sure they might want these.  Tell the VE to contact me personally though.”  Arthur told them.  They might request me to return to active duty though, and if it mean I can kill the NR soldiers I will, Arthur thought.

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