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"A Jedi holocron has been stolen from one of our temple ruins on Ajan Kloss. We've determined that the thieves intend to sell it at an art show on Coruscant, so that's where you'll be going. It's just a basic holocron, but it's better to remain in our hands rather than be kept as a paperweight for some wealthy person. You'll be meeting Padawan Crix Aran on Coruscant to assist you. It's best to keep this mission quiet, but if you do run into trouble, try not to bring anyone back with you."



"Stop right there!"

Jaesa whipped her head around to look toward the voice, one hand grasping the stolen holocron and the other instinctively moved onto the hilt of her lightsaber. Two, three, four, then five armed guards burst into the room with their blasters drawn and aimed at the two of them. Damnit. She had made it to Coruscant no problem. She found and met up with Crix, no problem. They had entered the facility and found the holocron with little issue. It looked like her luck had run out. Someone must have seen them enter the room, perhaps. Jaesa quickly searched the edges of the room and her eyes landed on a small camera not fifteen feet away. Damnit. They'd forgotten to check for cameras. No wonder.

"Return the object to its pedestal and put your hands in the air!"

Jaesa turned as if to return the holocron to its spot, but instead took a moment to look for an escape. The was a door behind them, the one they had entered the room in. It led straight to the ongoing party, but it was their only option if they didn’t want to run through the guards. She quickly turned back around and extended the palm of her free hand toward the guards, pushing them back in a push of the Force. The knight then looked at Crix and said to him, "Run!”

The guards started to fire as she turned to run, one of the projectiles beaming just over the top of her head. Jaesa stopped to turn on her lightsaber to deflect the oncoming barrage of blaster bullets, hopefully covering Crix so he could make his escape. Hopefully, the hubbub of the party and the chaos caused by their intrusion would cover their escape.
 

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Crix had been busy disabling the droid security and he had done a pretty good job of it but he would be the first to admit that he had missed the cameras. Dumb security was still good enough at times it seemed. Especially when he had thought it would be beneath the level of security that these kinds of people would have – showed what assumptions got.

He raised both hands when requested but just like his partner for the mission, Crix wasn’t surrendering at all. When Jaesa used the Force to Push the interrupting guards back, Crix used his hands to assist him with the Force as well. Pulling his hands down, he Pulled sections of the ceiling off with the same motion, sending metal panelling flying at the guards, forcing even those who had initially kept their balance to hit the deck to avoid them.

And so they couldn’t get a good bead on them.

“Turn off the saber – we might be able to blend in!”


Also maybe not implicate the Jedi in yet another disturbance of the peace – the Rangers were already kind of dicks to them as it was.

Charging through the door they’d come through initially, the Jedi Padawan didn’t really slow down much even when he was suddenly in a crowd. Instead he was using the Force to enhance his reactions to allow him to bob and weave through them with Jaesa beside him.

“Just once I’d like to be a part of a party this because I had a date…”
he muttered, “And not because they’re the high society of the underworld… just once, yeah?”

The door they’d left through would burst open and blaster fire would start up, startling the crowd as their very armed security started blasting into the air, trying to get the civilians to hit the deck. Escaping Jedi really didn’t have the time to hit the deck after all.


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Jaesa's lightsaber was off and hooked back onto her belt by the time the two burst into the party, as Crix had suggested. The holocron had been shoved into the inner pocket of her robe, and she kept a hand over it protectively as the two maneuvered their way through the crowd of socialites. She could hear the sound of disdain and surprise from the people they were passing by; she didn't exactly look as if she belonged to the party now that she had discarded her borrowed fine robes.

"I can't imagine-" Jaeda was cut short by guards entering the room and beginning to fire into the air. The guests around them dropped to the floor as instructed, but Jaesa kept going alongside Crix. They were headed backwards toward the same way they had entered, but as they neared the exit, six guards blocked the entryway and began to fire. Fuck, how important is the holocron to these thieves? Jaeda used the Force to deflect a blaster bullet away before turning heel and quickly searching for another way. There were two doors; one behind the bar (which likely led to the kitchens) maybe thirty feet away, and another ten feet away with a sign reading "Maintenance Halls, Employees Only".

"Follow me!" It seemed as if the closest door was probably their best bet, as the one farthest was also closest to the pursuing guards. Jaesa made a run for the door, dodging poorly-aimed blaster bullet and shoving the door open when she reached it. Once Crix was inside, she would use the Force to crush the handle, locking the guards out for now. "That should give us a few minutes at most, or a few seconds at least. Let's hurry while we can."

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Drop to the floor? Yeah, no – Crix liked living, thank you very much!

Rather than throwing himself to the floor, Crix threw himself forward in a half-jump, half-sprint, doing his best to avoid stepping on people. He didn’t really think anyone here was a nice enough person for him to feel bad about using their backs as springboards but, well, he was a Jedi. That basically meant he had to try to be the bigger person even when it was in relation to artefact smuggling pricks.

Oh what a life to lead.

It was, honestly, rather surprising that the guards were competent enough to try and block the exits like that. Said a lot about generic security guards that blocking a door seemed to be something only the top tier guards did – trust dirty credits to have bought people who knew what they were doing. Driving themselves forward for the maintenance corridor instead of the kitchen was a good choice though Crix still had a regret.

“One of these days I’m going to have a fight in a classy kitchen I can just tell.”
He joked as they ran through the empty corridor, “I hope it’s classy anyway. Wouldn’t be fun in a run down one-woah!”

A droid arm came reaching out around a corner, almost catching the Padawan by the neck but he had ducked just in time. From the darkness of the corner, an even dozen of security droids activated and stared at them.

“Please do not resist.”


Crix looked at them once before shaking his head and continuing to run, leaving the droids to start shambling after them. A doorway at the end of the corridor was their salvation and they just needed to reach it… he swore as the droids they’d left behind started to open fire on them.

“We’re going to need a speeder or something out there!”



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"...One of these days I’m going to have a fight in a classy kitchen..." Jaesa, despite the stress of the situation, had to laugh at that. It seemed Crix really fancied the idea of being involved in fancy places, whether it be attending a fancy party or fighting in a fancy kitchen. Jaesa had never even pictured herself in a place like this before. If she recalled correctly, he was from Coruscant, so perhaps it was a difference of environment. If he was from here, he would probably want to attend things common to this place. I wonder if they have parties like this on Dathomir? That didn't seem likely.

"Please do not resist."

As Crix was, Jaesa was startled by the appearance of the twelve security droids that seemed to materialize out of thin air. She was distracted; she did not sense their arrival. This definitely complicated the situation. They were droids of brute strength, and Jaesa could not hope to go toe-to-toe with them. Blaster bullets whizzed past her and Crix, some missing her by so little that she could fell the heat of the laser warm her skin. Thank god most droids were notoriously bad shots.

"Our ship isn't far from here. If we can just make it there with enough time to spare, I can get us out of here."


Jaesa's lightsaber sprung to life as she fell just slightly behind Crix, blocking the blaster storm coming their way. They were almost to the door. Hopefully it led to more than just a closed off room.

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With Jaesa covering their rear, Crix set about getting through the door that barred their way on ahead and by that he meant he kicked the damned thing open. The door opened to the night-time activities of one of the lower levels of Coruscant – a relatively high lower level but that was just Coruscant all over wasn’t it? Every level was a lower level if you looked deep enough and behind enough closed doors.

Of course things never went smoothly on Jedi missions these days (had they ever, really?) and today was no exception.

The doors opened abruptly and Crix and Jaesa would find themselves in a back alley, having taken one of the emergency exits to the building they had been in. What this meant was that they were in a back alley on Coruscant – which meant, naturally, they ran into a half dozen street thugs who turned to look at them as the two Jedi interrupted their drug binge.

Literally one of them had a needle halfway into his arm when the two Jedi kind of fell out of the doors with the security droids blasting away.

“Hi guys, don’t mind us – coming through!”


Grabbing Jaesa by the back of her robes, he used the Force to assist him in picking the Knight up off of her feet and dragging her to the side, out of the way of the door before dragging her down the alleyway. They needed to get a move on before the droids caught up but, also, because the addicts decided that they didn’t like them dropping in.

“Hey! The kark are you guys?!”

Too late on that last one so… Crix pushed out with the Force not as a Push or a Pull but as an illusion. Banking on the fact that they were high as hells…?

“… January’s Twi’lek of the month?! It’s March!”

Kark.


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Jaesa felt a pang of sadness strike her as her eyes laid out over the addicts in the street. What a terrible place they must be in, to turn to and be surrounded by addiction. She had little time to grieve for them before she was helped away by Crix. As they made their way down the alleyway, a loud sounded crashed through the air. It came from behind them; a haphazardly-stacked pile of boxes had been just so slightly jostled by Jaesa before she was out of sight. From the yells of confusion, it seemed a distraction enough. It became mixed with the sound of the security droids, but by the time they glanced down the alleyway Crix and Jaesa had taken, the two had already disappeared around the corner.

"We need to find our way back to the ship, but I have no idea where we are." This was not something Jaesa was familiar with. This was maybe her second or third time on Coruscant but she had never been much farther than the surface level. "We need to find a way up somehow." The Jedi Knight continued to move away from the scene, hand still hovering protectively over her pocket, as she searched the area.

"BB-8, how far are we from you?" asked Jaesa of her comm link. A series of beeps followed and she turned to look at Crix. "It says we're not too far from the ship--we just need to get up a floor."


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Enough of a distraction was, indeed, enough of a distraction.

Thankfully the security droids were pretty dumb in the intelligence department and they couldn't really tell the difference between Jaesa and Crix... and all the addicts that they had left stumbling around. As far as their dumb AI minds could tell, they were armed sentients and basically human-like enough that the droids considered them interchangeable. That the addicts, naturally, took exception to that just reinforced the droids' decision to attack them.

Not exactly what he had intended but it would work as the vehicle for their escape. It tugged at a string in his hearts that they were fighting for their lives for the crime of, well, just kind of being there. That they would have also attacked them for the crime of walking past them was basically the only thing keeping him from going right back there.

"Well did'ya park it on a lower level or higher?"
he asked, tilting his head slightly to one side as he checked out not the street signs but the graffiti, "Cus we're in Turquoise Ynxan territory, see the markings? Which means we've about a dozen blocks... that way? Yeah, that way - from a spaceport landing area."

He was, after all, a native and the son of a Ranger who had spent years on the beat here in the hub of the Galaxy's scum and villainy. To him? It was easier to tell where he was by gang territory than it was by street names and that probably said a lot about how he had grown up.

"Up? Alright follow me - they probably think we're tourists so we won't know the local way."


The local way to head up levels, especially when you were down on some credits, wasn't to take the massive lifts that people used when they were new to the planet. No, the best way to head up for a local on a budget was tag a ride on one of the freight lifts that companies used instead. Heading over to one that looked like it was only for use by a local butchers, Crix opened the conversation with the operator.

"Wanna see the piss-air."
he explained as he handed over a few credits, "Show the missus, aye?"

Operator in question just looked at Jaesa before shrugging, pocketing the credits and starting the lift up to the level above them as he was paid to do so. As they began to ascend, Crix kept an eye out for either the gang or the droids.

"Been awhile since I saw home from this angle."



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Jaesa sat cross-legged on the the freight lift and folded her hands in her lap. This certainly was an interesting view of the ventilation shaft. When she peered down into the void below her, it even gave her an uneasy feeling.

"You are from Coruscant, correct? This planet is-" Jaesa paused for a moment to find the right words. "-uh, certainly interesting. I-I mean that not as an insult, of course, it's just so different than Ajan Kloss, or even Yavin IV. It makes you feel so small." The dathomirian woman shook her head ever so slightly. "I'm showing my lack of travel, I'm afraid," she added with a small chuckle. "I grew up on Ajan Kloss so I was far from any sort of urban environment."

Jaesa pulled the holocron from her pocket and held it suspended above her hands as she rotated it with the Force. She had been unable to get a good look at it when they had nabbed it back, so she wanted to make sure it hadn't been damaged--or opened. It seemed just fine however, so a satisfied Jaesa returned it to her pocket.

"When we reach the next level I will contact BB-33 and have it prepare the ship for takeoff in case we are still being pursued."

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It always amused Crix to no end the way people tried to do mental gymnastics to try and compliment his home planet. If they were local then they would know to not even bother trying since they both knew the truth about the place. No, it was people from other planets who liked to try and dress it up as something that it wasn’t. Most people went with some of the good variations of “big” and he could see that Jaesa felt that was the safe bet too.

He chuckled a little bit.

“The phrase you’re looking for is ‘shite hole’.”
He told her with a bark of a laugh, “Don’t worry, I’ve known this planet for most of my life and I know it’s not great. We got rats here bigger than your head and puddles of liquids so strange that stepping into them leads you into an underwater kingdom.”

Jokes, of course, but the worst thing was that they weren’t really big jokes. Never far from the truth because Coruscant was just like that – however bad you thought Coruscant was as an outsider? A local could tell you the truth about just how much worse it was than you ever thought it could be.

It would be funny if it wasn’t quite so hard to hear people talk, deserved, smack about his home planet. Especially when they were looking at it was rose tinted spectacles at the best of times. Though her being raised on Ajan Kloss would make Coruscant seem a lot worse and a lot more surreal… from what he had been told.

“I never got to see Ajan Kloss.”
He admitted with a small shrug, “By the time I joined the Order, it was lost to the Sith. What was it like there? You know, aside from having a whole lot less in the way of skyscrapers.”

Asking a woman how her home was before it got raided and corrupted? Eh probably not the best thing to say but kark it, they had just run for their lives in search of a relic from Ajan Kloss that had been treasure hunter’d and sold to some shady buggers. They were past the point of where it mattered to be polite about the place he thought.

Getting off-planet?

“Makes sense.”
He agreed with a smirk, “Gotta make sure to vacate the scene of the crime and the best speed to do that at is lightspeed.”

The lift reached the level they had requested and Crix jumped, gesturing for her to do the same because the lift wasn’t going to stop moving. If she didn’t make the jump then she would be taken higher, up to the next level that the warehouse worker was heading toward.


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Jaesa was known to exude the attitudes and teachings of the Jedi. She was a generally friendly and agreeable person, though quite emotionally detached. But when Crix asked her to describe what Ajan Kloss had been like, her face fell. Though not her homeworld, it had been her home. The jungles were hot and humid, but the nights were cool and the reflection of the Ajara gas giant gave the nights a warm glow. She had been brought there as a baby, so it was special to her. Now it was gone, because of the Sith.

"Warm, full of life... the sun would set but it would never be completely dark. You could see the galaxy around you and still tell the color of your shirt. It was not my homeworld, but it was my home."

She was cut a little short by Crix gesturing her to jump off. With a little aid of the Force, Jaesa leaped from the lift to the next level. She turned to make sure Crix made it, then busied herself with getting a path to their ship drawn out.

"It's this way. Let's go."

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Judging by how she suddenly looked like he’d kicked her puppy, Crix had the slightest suspicion that asking how Ajan Kloss had felt like was a bad idea. It was supposed to be a Jedi thing that they didn’t let the bad thoughts catch up to them and linger, even though they were past the whole “conceal don’t feel” type of deal.

But the reality, of course, was different.

People were still people and they held onto things, feelings, when they were connected to things that they had lost. So he knew how she was feeling, even if he had never seen it. It was actually lost the same day he decided he was going to become a Jedi.

“It sounds like I missed out by not seeing it.”
He admitted with a small shrug, “I was… on Sullust at the time.”

Sullust.

Not the triumphant second attack on the hellish planet either but the first attack, the rescue attempt of his mother from the jaws of the beast. It hadn’t been a great time at all. Thankfully the conversation seemed to switch gears back to the practical side of things - getting out of the area was far more important than talking about how shitty their hometowns were after all.

Crix didn't need to jump so much as he stepped off, the instincts of a native telling him when the best point to actually step off the lift was and he didn't even lose a step as he started off toward the spaceport.

"Keep your head down."
he encouraged her quietly as they approached a crowd, "We're being followed... a little way back, they look more professional than the others. Five of them; don't actually look at them. Just out of the corner of your eye."

Crix's Master was the Master of the Jedi Shadows - he had picked things up from his time with Hannibal that some Jedi might say were unsuitable for the life of a Jedi.


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With Yvain as her mentor and Master Faern as her (former) master, Jaesa had a lot of influence from the older ideas of what the Jedi were supposed to be. She was caught between liking the ideas of the new order, and being told of the superiority of the old.

But back to the moment, Jaesa as not surprised they were being followed. She felt something off in the Force, so when Crix alerted her to the five following them she did not need to look to believe him. Concentrating on the Force around her, Jaesa picked through the crowd until she found the five following at a distance behind them. It was hard to conceptualize them fully with the noise of all the other lifeforms around them, and she could not maintain her view of them. It was, however, enough for her to gauge exactly where they were in relation to her and Crix.

"The ship is just up ahead. If we can lose them for just a moment, I can get the ship ready if you can create a small illusion and send them in the other direction?"


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Could he create a reasonably small illusion and distract five people out of a crowd of a few hundred? Probably not, no, but he didn't really need to, did he? He needed them to be unable to catch up with them as they fled to their ship and that could be accomplished through other means. Means he could actually accomplish too, which was a nice change of pace for the Padawan - his local knowledge was going to come in handy. In his missions before this one, he often got sent to rural locations so he was glad this was going so well.

"Not without a couple hundred other people seeing it and outing that there's Jedi here - I can get them delayed enough for us to be able to slip away."
he confirmed, "Just keep your bearings about you because this will disorientate everyone."

Reaching into the Force, Crix didn't cast any illusions so much as he reached out to something he knew was there. The weather on the lower levels of Coruscant was artificial, it was created by atmospheric generators that were scattered around areas. Worse, they were all damned ancient especially when you weren't on the higher levels which meant that they were prone to breaking down.

Spotting a large atmospheric generator, which was currently beginning to pump out the beginnings of some light cloud, he reached out with the Force and began to heat the device. Heating something up over such a distance was difficult to say the least but he only really needed to heat up a relatively small area - he knew the machines quite well and with just a little bit of extra heat... there!

The device began malfunctioning almost immediately, spewing thick fog from its dispensery that began to fill the entire local area. It would blow away soon but, for now, it was suddenly like trying to see through pea soup. Crix let out a deep breath, feeling the headache coming on from that much mental work to heat it in the first place but he stuck close to Jaesa, trusting that she knew the direction they were supposed to be going in.


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The thick fog that rolled in was greatly hindering of her vision, but when Jaesa closed her eyes and concentrated she could use the Force to get an image of her surroundings. She grabbed Crix's wrist to guide him along with her as she continued in the direction she knew the ship was. Eventually, it came within her sight and she was able to make a straight line for it.

"BB-33, start the ship," commanded Jaesa to her droid through the comm link on her wrist. The door to the vessel dropped down and extended out to let the two enter. Once inside, she felt a wave of relief flow over and calm her down. When she checked, the holocron was also still securely in her pocket.

"Let's get out of here." Jaesa plopped down into the pilot's seat and began to start up the engine. Once the fog cleared, they would be able to leave.

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Staggering through the sudden fog was hard but with the Force as their ally, the two Jedi managed to make it inside the ship without too much issue. With the doors shut behind them, Crix allowed himself a moment to breathe a sigh of relief as he sat down heavily in one of the chairs. Not the pilot’s seat because Crix didn’t want to crash this particular ship, but a comfy one at least.

He made a weak, sarcastic, cheer at the mention of getting out of the area.

“At lightspeed, preferably.”
He joked, “I miss the old planet sometimes but whenever I come back I get reminded why I like living in other places better.”

Seriously – Coruscant just remained the taint of the Galaxy no matter what anyone thought. They all believed that because it was close to the Galactic centre and because it had been the capital of… several iterations of Galactic government, that it was suddenly this sparkling jewel. In his experience the only reason parts of Coruscant sparkled was because the electrical wires would often get cut for the hell of it.

Though that was more “sparking” than “sparkling” he supposed.

“And we’re sure, one hundred percent sure, that it’s the real deal?”
he gestured to the holocron that they had gone through so much to actually make off with, “Please tell me we didn’t race for our lives for a shiny paperweight.”


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"Well," Jaesa paused to study the holocron in her hands. "I suppose I could try to open it?" She'd opened holocrons before, but she wasn't sure if they were allowed to open it. They hadn't said not to. "I can't imagine they'd guard it so closely if it wasn't."

The Jedi handed the holocron to Crix after she pondered that, as the fog in the area was being ushered out. Slowly vision came back to the ship, so she put both hands on the wheel and guided the ship through the ventilation shaft and to the surface. After a quick check of the system she brought them out of the atmosphere and into hyperspeed. It'd be a while before they got back home to Yavin IV.

"I'm sure it's fine. I think we should make sure." Jaesa, now that the ship was on route, turned to Crix to see if he would choose to open it and see.

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Opening a holocron was an odd thing – sometimes it was as simple as making sure you connected to it with the Light side of the Force only. Other times there was a guardian of the holocron who wanted you to do something to prove that you were worthy of actually having the knowledge within. Of course even the most stringent of guardians couldn’t really keep the truly determined out but they tried their best.

They were an obstacle at the very least.

Taking the holocron when it was offered to him, Crix tilted the cube this way and that as he eyed it with scepticism. He had gone one a few historical trips with Masters and the like so he had seen holocrons and other Force-based relics. The holocron didn’t feel like the relics but it also didn’t seem like any of the more powerful holocrons he had interacted with either.

“I think non-Force Sensitives can’t tell the difference between a holocron that holds the secrets to lost Jedi Lore and one that teaches gardening techniques for the Green Jedi or whatever that old Order was called.”


The agricultural corp or something like that? Jedi gardeners was the best way he could describe them as off the top of his head – his historical knowledge wasn’t quite good enough to tell if it was anything important. Reaching out with the Force, he connected to the aura of cold calm that was emanating from the holocron in the Force.

It felt like the thing was opening a tunnel to somewhere else, somewhere unbelievably cold. As the corners of the holocron spun to allow the whole thing to open like a mystical flower, he opened his eyes to stare at what was within.

“… co-ordinates on a star chart.”
He muttered to himself as he eyed the star chart, “Something close to the Hapes Cluster?”

It didn’t ‘say’ anything more on what the co-ordinates were to at this point but he was fairly certain that further meditation on the holocron would reveal that. He eyed his partner for the mission with a cheeky grin.

“Fancy a detour?”



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The Hapes Cluster? Jaesa glanced back at the hyperspace route displayed on the ship's console. If it was inside the cluster, that would make things difficult for her, but if it was simply nearby it would be fine. Jaesa looked back at Crix for a moment. Was it irresponsible? Mmm... probably. Jaesa's usual passive expression morphed into a grin. "Yeah, let's do it. Punch in the coordinates."

Once the coordinates were in, Jaesa rerouted the hyperspace route to match. It wouldn't be hard to get there. If they continued on the Hydian Way for a bit, they could jump onto the Vaathrkree Trade Corridor and would end up near enough to the Cluster to jump straight to the coordinates. She punched it all in.

"Any idea where this is leading us to?"

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Crix Aran

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Oh boy oh boy here they were going on an adventure!

What was at the end of said adventure? Damned if he knew but he was about to go on an adventure so who really cared all that much, right? Of course it was on the edge of the Hapes Cluster but if the Hapans were involved it would not be fun for either of them - they were just so incredibly snooty.

They (probably) wouldn't start by opening fire on them but they were also likely to object to the fact that they were there in the first place. That would just be bluster though cus the Hapes Cluster wasn't restricted space or locked down or anything like that - it was just a common power move that the locals liked to play that he'd learned about from a throwaway comment from his mom about a Ranger mission in that neck of the woods at one point.

"Looks like its on the outer edges of the Hapes Cluster."
he admitted, "So the locals might not get all angsty with us right away but..."

He shrugged.

"They're Hapans. They're not happy unless there's something to complain about."



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