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Message: <blockquote data-quote="masshysteria" data-source="post: 4854630" data-attributes="member: 16055">“What do you mean ‘we’re too late’?” Tam shouts back.“Captain?” Kaldo asks.Nali is frozen in place.“Orders?” Kaldo prompts again.Tam stares at Nali. Not sure what to do himself.“Guys?” The anxiety creeping into Kaldo’s voice. “Uh, Rowintha you better get up here!”Rowintha punches a few buttons on the sensors and growls out a warning. A flight of TIE fighter have broken off from the defensive swarm and are on a hard burn towards the Vagrant Heart.“What do you mean ‘we are too late’?” Tam repeats.Nali is still frozen in her spot looking past Tam at the Star Destroyers arrayed around the planet.“Uh, we need to do something.” The anxiety is definitely in Kaldo voice. Tam raises his hand to cuff Nali.“Stand down, Captain.” Comes a new voice. “An honor guard is appropriate escort for a princess. Tell the flight leader Princess Xule of the Falleen House Thoreen has arrived.”Seeing no other option, Tam punches the comms. “This is Captain Tam Voren of the Vagrant Heart. I am transporting Princess Xule of House Thoreen.”He nervously waits for a reply.“This is Captain Soontir Fel of the 37th Imperial Fighter Wing, Sixth Squadron.” Comes the reply. “Welcome to the Grand Imperial Navy ball, Princess. It is our utmost honor to escort your transport to atmosphere.”A collective sigh of relief is heard around the cockpit. Tam slumps into the copilot chair and slaps Kaldo on the back, “The Navy ball! Ha, the Imperial Navy ball!”Sixth squadron forms around the Vagrant Heart. They fly with spectacular precision, as if only one man is at the controls of the entire squadron.Kaldo keeps his cool and the Vagrant Heart on course. Upon reaching atmosphere, the lead starfighter shakes his craft side to side in a salute, before peeling off and burning back into space.Nali hands over the coordinates, “Put us down here.”The coordinates lead to a private docking bay on the far side of the planet. The bay is probably the cleanest, most organized bay Rowintha’s ever seen. She watches a number of techs work on a variety of transports and yachts, installing new equipment and sensor arrays.Toth grabs his crate of electronics and prepares his best pitch for the techs. Meanwhile, Tam and Kaldo bicker with a stubborn Jawa.Tam looks at Kaldo, “What do you mean he’s not leaving?”Kaldo shrugs.“My master regrets to inform you that there is nothing of interest for a Jawa to do or see here. He will remain aboard the ship until you arrive at somewhere of interest, like Cloud City.”“We had a deal, Jawa. I want to get paid.” Tam growls.After a few more negotiations Tam walks away with two thousand credits and the Jawa gets a ride to the next place the Vagrant Heart ends up.With that done, Tam meets Rowintha and the two women at the bottom of the Vagrant Heart’s ramp. A voice calls out from across the bay, “Nali!”Nali doesn’t hesitate, she runs to the voice, jumping into the open arms of a swarthy human male. They embrace and share a kiss and a few words before returning to meet everyone.The man offers his hand to Tam, “My name is Hull and I can’t thank you enough for getting my girl back to me in one piece.” Hull has a big grin on his face.Nali explains, “Hull promised to marry me when I returned.”Tam congratulates the two and starts to get impatience, wondering when he’s going to get paid. The conversation just doesn’t end. “You’re safe enough with those here,” Hull say pointing at Tam’s blaster, “But Alderaan doesn’t let people walk around with weapons if you go site-seeing. They are in the process of a disarmament. Some deal between the planetary government and the Empire; the Empire won’t have a presence here and Alderaan won’t have any blasters. But enough chit-chat, I’m sure Jurasco want to meet you and you’ll want to get paid.”Finally, the magic words.</blockquote>

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