"Hmm. According to this, Ijatsi Systems seems to be heavily involved in the whole thing. They stole fighter designs from the K'ril, and now the K'ril are stealing back? Seems fishy..." Hawke follows the link to the Ijatsi Systems information on the datapad.
Nelson Ijatsi was the second son of a very wealthy family on Nerem 5, and a spacecraft engineering student when the K'ril attacks began. He volunteered for the Republic Navy, and trained as a pilot during the short lull between their initial appearance and when they struck in force. Ijatsi developed a fascination with the K'ril spacecraft he was going up against, and devoted an inordinate amount of the time he wasn't involved in actual combat to puzzling out how the other side's craft worked. For security reasons, the true secret behind the K'ril ships' power sources was never revealed to anyone outside the high command of the Fleet, but Ijatsi was able to use his influence with his family to get one of their companies to bid on the contract to reverse engineer whatever could be reverse engineered from K'ril spacecraft.
Placed in charge of the project, Ijatsi brought in engineers from all across the galaxy. Although their directives were to reverse engineer the K'ril ships, Ijatsi and his team devoted extensive efforts to trying to duplicate the effects of components that they couldn't determine how worked. Pressed to show a profit on the enterprise, Ijatsi suggested going into the starfighter business themselves.
Although many traditional powers in the shipbuilding industry were shocked when a complete newcomer won a contract to build the Republic's next space superiority fighter ten years after the K'ril Incursion, Ijatsi's starfighters lived up to everything they promised.
Ijatsi's internal documents suggest they never discovered the true secret of the overpowered K'ril spacecraft, though there was some puzzlement expressed at the great deal of interest the Jedi Order showed in the corporation during its early years. Still unresolved, though, is the exact history of a great many of the engineers Ijatsi hired in his early project; many came from worlds that were apparently under K'ril control for decades before the war started.
'So, grandfather was a prisoner of war but disapeared after they let him go.' Theta thinks to himself. 'He surrendered his command instead of fighting to the death in a battle unable to be won?'
"Hmmm..." Theta sighs as his data searches turn into dead ends. Hearing about the results of Hawkes search he comments to no one in particular "Well, now we have reason for the attack on the Ijatsi. We must find out what triggered the second attack."
OOC: Feel free to retroactively add any more research and/or discussion during transit...
After a few days, the Korlen Phet breaks out of hyperspace and into the Nerem system, and Hawke takes the ship on approach to the Ijatsi research station in orbit of Nerem 5.
A message buoy lies on the edge of the approach, broadcasting.
"Warning! This stations is under Republic Navy Quarantine. Do not approach without authorization. Warning!" .... the message repeats while Hawke searches for the authorization codes. After he finds them, the transmission abruptly stops.
Tomalor does a bit more research into the K'ril machines and such, sharing what he finds. But he says little more than that.
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During the trip, the Ithorian spends it in his quarters. The sound of rattling and and other sort of mechanical work can be heard. When out, he keeps to the mess, eating a lot, probably nervously. He actively tries to avoid the Jedi, obviously fearful.
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Then the ship comes out of hyperspace, Tomalor is in his room. Working on something.
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Theta continues reviewing data during their search. He doesn't say much unless spoken to directly. Afterwards, he explores the ship and spends his free time keeping his gear clean and in good condition. He familiarizes himself with the weapons controls and is sitting on station at the ship weapons post when they drop out of hyperspace. If there doesn't appear to be any immediate threat, he fires off a few salvos to get the feel of the weapons in action.
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"I'm not liking how tightly Ijatsi is tied up in all this. Says here that Nerem 5 is the homeworld of the founder of Ijatsi Systems, and that a lot of the techs he hired when he started the company were from K'ril-held worlds. Worlds they held long before the war." He frowns, then shrugs, looking up at the rest of the team. "Well, there's a mystery for sure. Not much more to learn from here. We'll be at Nerem 5 in a couple days. I think I'm going to head to my quarters and get some shut-eye."
With that, he hops to his feet and heads out of the meeting room to his own quarters.
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A few days later...
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Kacela greets Hawke as she enters, simply saying, "Hawke," and leaning over a bit to see out the window from behind his chair.
"How does it look? Signs of outside damage? Any debris?"
"See for yourself," he says, not looking up from his instruments, but flipping a switch to show an image of the research station on a screen in the cockpit.
OOC
I'm assuming there'd be some kind of magnification-enabled visual scanners, even though such a technology wasn't ever used in any of the movies.
Because I'll be out of town between Christmas and New Year's, would like to review Starships of the Galaxy before things really get going, and don't really think it's a good idea to start dungeon-crawling, err, station-crawling and then stop things for a week, I'm not going to make any major posts again before next year.
Signs of laser scoring on the outer surface of the space station are obvious on the image that Hawke brings up, but it looks like the station is still structurally sound. No debris is visible at first glance, though panning the view around shows that some things have been towed off to keep them from blocking approach lanes.
Another shuttle, with the Ijatsi Systems corporate logo prominently displayed, is docked at the station.
Kacela frowns and puts her hand to the window on seeing the spectacle. After a moment she closes her eyes and tilts her head slightly, as if listening to something...
(Searching mah feelings, trying to see if there's any Force disturbances here, or if I can sense any Force-users present)
Hawke guides the Korlen Phet on a careful approach to the station, even though there appears to be no debris to avoid. He keeps a close watch on his sensors, alert for anything unusual in the readings.
"I have a bad feeling about this. Everything's too neat and tidy. Sure, the station's beat up, but there's very little debris, all the approach lanes are clear, and that shuttle is completely undamaged."
"I have a bad feeling about this. Everything's too neat and tidy. Sure, the station's beat up, but there's very little debris, all the approach lanes are clear, and that shuttle is completely undamaged."
OOC: Checking your records, it's looks like the shuttle was not there at the time of the attacks.
Sianni yawns openly. "Time to check this out in person. There's nothing to be learned from staring at the station on the screen." Anticipating Hawke's inevitable reply, she simply wags a lek at him without even looking. "Nope, not even with your precious sensors. It's like dealing with a Hutt. If you want to get things done, talk to the slug himself and don't stop at the majordomo," she replies, mocking his attempts over the past few days to teach her something about the ship systems.
But even worse - and very close to bordering on High Treason - the human had kept his head in the engine compartment most of the remaining time, never paying her the attention she deserved. Not to mention that the Mandalorian Armor-Butt kept his distance and even actively evaded Sianni with the lame excuse of doing "family research". As if she couldn't see through such a flimsy lie - he was obviously just plain scared of her feminity.
Manning the ships guns, Theta volunteers his theory on the shuttle- "Ijatsi corp suits calculating the damage and loss total probably. Maybe they'll have some straight answers answers about what's been taken."
He was glad they were here finally. Maybe now that they had more to do Sianni wouldn't have time to keep teasing and propositioning him at every turn. On the bright side, he now had nearly enough video taken of her with his helmet cam that he could splice it together into a decent length mini-movie if he wanted to...
Kacela frowns and puts her hand to the window on seeing the spectacle. After a moment she closes her eyes and tilts her head slightly, as if listening to something...
(Searching mah feelings, trying to see if there's any Force disturbances here, or if I can sense any Force-users present)
OOC: That's not Search Your Feelings, that's Sense Force
Kacela
You sense Tomalor, but no one else. You also have a lingering low-level sense of some Dark Side presnse.
After docking at the station, you exit the ship to hear an argument between a middle-aged man dressed like successful businessmen the galaxy over and a rather young man (apparently human) in a Republic military uniform.
Hawke,Kacela,Theta
You recognize the uniform and insignia of a Marine corporal.
"I'm sorry, sir. My orders were to allow no one on this station until the special team from Admiral Aran and the Jedi got here." The younger man was saying.
"I own this station, boy." The older man said. "Let me pass."
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