Nashasil'ev'nuruodo and the Moff

The Star Destroyer that had entered our area wasn't after us, or even the Rebels for that matter. It attacked the Imperial Governor's holdings. We watched the Empire battle itself from a safe distance. The thought of a government physically duking it out with itself, using the defense fleets, is absolutely alien. I can see fighting a rebel group, like the Alliance. This Empire is far from the monolith it likes to portray.

After the Star Destroyer fled, the Rebel commander asked the Ithorian to approach the Imperial Governor. It was to see if he was interested in joining the Alliance. As she is not officially a member of the Alliance, I was designated her "official" Alliance representative. The rest of the crew took us, through a series of hyperspace jumps. Can't have the Governor knowing exactly where we came from.

Despite their state of emergency, we were allowed to approach and land. Their defenses were not run by real professionals. Their poorly constructed space stations were clustered over the capitol city, leaving the rest of the planet exposed for invasion. Their flight groups were also not functioning at even close to Imperial norms. The Governor's forces were not Imperials. They appeared to be some sort of local militia.

After the Ithorian received the run around for awhile, she decided to bypass the usual routes to speak with the Governor. Instead, she chose to look into the military side of things. This meant communicating with the Sector Moff. We found out that he was under house arrest and managed to bluff our way in. The Moff was loyal to the Empire and clearly laid out for us the details of the Governor's attempt at a person fief.

While the Ithorian and I were in with the Moff, Jahjee decided to to take the others out for a ride. She took control of our land speeder and made it go "whee." When they returned, the law enforcement officers were waiting to arrest them. Word had gotten to the Governor of our side approach and he ordered us all arrested. Unbeknown to the rest of the group, this is what the Ithorian had been hoping for. Due to lack of knowledge, they defended themselves.

When the pounding came to the door of the Moff's house, I shoved the two of them into the kitchen. Not wishing to let the Moff see my blade, I armed myself with a large kitchen knife. I knock the one officer out who was on our floor and we fled in the land speeder with the others. We now had the local Governor/Warlord after us and an Imperial Moff in our custody. So much for the Rebels getting the Governor to join.

After a small confrontation with technicians on our ship, the Captain had me take flight control for the escape. Using my previously gleaned information about the defenses, I found us the safest route off the planet. The Zabrak took control of the ship's simple guns while the Captain ran the shields. The Moff watched us all commenting that "Senators' aides have all the fun." Surviving a small skirmish with fighter craft, we entered hyperspace.

During that aforementioned confrontation, the navi-computer was apparently damaged and we overshot our intended destination of Ord Mantell. We instead arrived, safely, at a more remote location. While awaiting the parts to repair the computer, another ship arrived. A bounty hunter minion of the Governor had tracked our hyperspace direction.

The Moff gave us detailed information on the man and his ship. It was decided to approach him when he was outside of his vessel, as it would be safer. Due to the Moff staying on our ship and refusing to go near the bounty hunter, I was able to be more free in my tactics. Jahjee sneaked out and scouted his location. He was in sniper position, ready shoot any of us that left the ship. I sneaked out and closed to engage him in melee. We caught him off guard and he panicked at the site of my blade. he managed to survive a couple of my blows and fled via jetpack. The Captain took the final shot to bring him down.

The local authorities were upset at our use of force. Reprimanding us, they confiscated the bounty hunter's body and ship. It had been my hope to turn him in for the 40,000 credit bounty he had on him and pay off the Captain's debt. So much for that plan.

We fixed the ship and dropped the Moff off at Ord Mantell. He was grateful and may be of some help in the future. With our return to the Rebels, they decided to use the chaos to their advantage. The Rebels want to raid the Governor for military supplies and a cruiser. I shared my knowledge and skills with them, to aid in the plans. The commander seemed pleased with what I provided.

After the planning phase, I was officially assigned to a fighter squadron as a pilot. Jahjee desperately wanted to be a pilot too. As her skills weren't up to their standards and the equipment modification would be messy, they assigned her as a Y-wing tail gunner. I removed her from another pilot's ship and placed her into mine. She would be safer with me.