Bast slowly lifted herself up on her elbows. It was still the dead of night. A hazy, orange light slipped into her room through the cracks in her blinds, casting moving shadows as the train approached, then grew distant. She had become accustomed to its high pitched whine every twenty minutes...
Bast had arrived at the Orange Lady ten minutes early. She could wait no longer, nervously pacing in her hotel room, for the meeting. She was both dreading and looking forward to seeing her partner again. It had been half a dozen months since duty had once again ordered them their separate ways...
Time was a fluid substance. It no longer flowed like it used to. Even if she concentrated, the pieces never fell together in the right order. It was if nothing and everything had happened since the destruction of the Ranger Headquarters. She was still the same woman. Stuck in the past. Alone...
Crowd control and client relations had never been Bast’s speciality. She could look for tells of lying, watch for nervous twitches, and analyse personality exceptionally well after years of honing those particular skills. But she was a detective. She saw the worst in people and pressed for...
Outer Rim Territories
S-12
Nar Shaddaa, the “Smuggler’s Moon”
Transit District
The Sector Rangers had a poor hold on Nar Shaddaa, if it could even be called a hold. In reality, they were more of a minor presence. Less corrupt and more effective than planetary law enforcement, but officers were...
Level 1469, Coruscant
Business Sector- “The Narrowlands”
The controls in the lift flickered as the Ranger descended roughly. The lift itself was open air, only a platform hugged by industrial railings. It could likely fit ten average sized, humanoids, but Bast was alone. Not that she minded. An...
Onderon
O-9
Iziz City, Public Health District
BactaCorps Medical Facility
A low buzz and steady beeping provided the music of the med pod. Rain pelted the window above the patient’s head. Funny choice, a skylight, all I have seen is only gloom, Bast thought dryly. Her internal commentary was...
Bast knew the job was going to be headache from the moment she set eyes on Jakku. However, she was new and new rangers got the short end of the Acklay tooth. Dust clouds whirled around the planet in golden marbled clouds. Programming in the planetary coordinates for the nearest spaceport, Bast...