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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masshysteria" data-source="post: 4847326" data-attributes="member: 16055">Tam tries to keep his head up, but he’s starting to get the feeling every time he’s walking back to his ship on Raxus VI he ends up holding the short end of the stick. Toth’s mind is still on credits. “What do they need on Alderaan? It’s a core world, there’s gotta be something good we can take from here and sell there.”Kaldo searches his memory, “Electronics and manufactured goods are always in high demand there.”Toth’s knows just where to go. A visit to the backroom of Bruck’s Bargain Basement and an hour later he shows up with a repulsor cart loaded with a crate of electronics. “Make sure you secure that crate.” Tam says, “I don’t want it to be like last time.”Toth looks at him. “Come on, I cleaned it up.” He says as he cinches the straps holding the load tight.“I was picking circuits out of my hair for the next two weeks, last time.” Tam responds.With no other delays the Vagrant Heart leaves Raxus VI and makes the jump to hyperspace.The trip from the outer rim to the core is long. Toth runs through a systems check on the weapons system. Everything is in order. He leans back in the gunners chair watches the mottled sky of hyperspace. He closes his eyes, just for a moment. When opens them, he’s back aboard the Outbound Bounty. His old Rodian partner sitting in the pilot’s chair looks at him. Toth hasn’t seen him since that fateful day. “Well good morning sunshine. Welcome to the ass end of space. Think our payday is out here?”Toth looks out the view screen, another unexplored sector of space. They really all are starting to look the same.All at once, the ships console lights up with a hundred different warning lights. Alarm klaxons fill the tiny cockpit with noise. The ship shutters and the Bothan catches a piece of the ship being torn off in his peripheral vision. Ahead, a green moon grows larger in the viewport. Toth closes his eyes and braces for impact.Toth opens his eyes and lets them adjust to the darkness. He’s been stranded on this forest moon for sixteen days now. Each night the fusion lantern puts out less light, each night the noises at the edge of the light get closer. Like the last few nights, the noises have changed. The normal croaks and chirps have been silenced, replaced with sounds of something moving through the underbrush.It must be some sort of alpha predator. Why else would all the other creatures be silent?Whatever it is, it has been stalking Toth. For the last three nights, he’s woken to the same eerie silence. Toth crawls deeper into his lean-to and tries to will himself back to sleep. And that’s when he see it.Dark beady soulless eye stare at the Bothan. It wears the hide of a recent kill draped around its head, a warning sign. It walks forward, a teeter-tottering walk meant to hypnotizes its prey like a snake charmer’s flute. It opens its mount showing a row of teeth capable of tearing flesh from bone. Then with a feral intelligence, the creature hops forward brandishing a stick with a sharpened bone end. It pokes Toth in a meaty spot near the knee.Toth grabs his blaster and fires. The shot going wide in his haste, but it put fear into the creature and it begins running away. Toth, angrily follows it. As soon as he steps out of his lean-to arrows goes whizzing by his head, one sticking him in the arm. Toth fires again and the smell of burning hair comes from the miniature feral bear. Wounded it runs to the edge of the light and tries diving deeper into the forest. Toth knows the danger of a wounded animal. He draws his blaster up to a firing position, trying to draw a bead on the venomous predator, when three more arrow come flying past him. He ignores them squeezing the trigger again.THUMP-THUMP. THUMP-THUMP. Toth jostles awake, the laser cannons of the Vagrant Heart firing wildly into hyperspace, his finger pulling the trigger.</blockquote>

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