The Rebel Faction

"We're picking up more contacts coming out of hyperspace..." said the crewman at the scanner station. "Three of 'em, rear quadrent to our own fleet."

"Hwz?" the captain started and woke up, almost falling out of his command chair. "What is it now?"

"Another rogue attack?" said Jargur, as he leaned over the crewman's shoulder.

"No," said Oaxaca, who pointed at the shapes whizzing across the screen. "Those are some of ours - Kris starfighters! What are they doing here?"

"Dawara and Jan are sending word, sir," said a crewman at the comms. "The pilots are here to talk to you."

"Hail them," said the captain.

The screen on the edge of his chair lit up, and an Azguard in flight gear looked back. "Captain, this is lieutenant Ibrams of the Azguard-Sector fleet, we were drummed up by Regrad to check on the situation in person. Everything going okay?"

The captain looked to Oaxaca and Jargur, hoping they could explain to him just what their situation counted as. The two ambassadors just shrugged, however, so the captain said "Yeah, we're pretty good. Situation normal, everything's fine, we're all fine here. How are you?"

The Azguard gave him a look, so the captain sighed and tried again. "Well, we've made contact, and now we've been waiting forever for the Wookies and the Trandoshans to make some decision and meet back up with us again. Things keep going crazy with weird ships and traitors and stuff." He paused, scrutinizing lieutenant Ibrams for a second before saying "Actually, we could really use a couple Azguards around right about now, things are getting a little tense."

"Well, one of us will have to go back and report your status, but sure, me and lieutenant Rox could hang around. Permission to come aboard?"

"Granted, lieutenant," the captain smiled, and cut the transmission. "Well at least we've got a few Azguards, now. I've seen one take an explosion to the face and... well okay, he bled a lot, but the point is he was way less messed up than most people would be. Could come in handy if anyone tries to start something next time we meet the other ambassadors."

Jargur was intrigued by this development, lowering himself into a chair and leaning back slowly. "Hm... you know, they could be useful for the negotiations, too. If the warrior clans on Trandosha are yearning so hard for something to do, training with Azguards might just shut 'em up."

"It's a dangerous idea," said Oaxaca, but he also seemed to feel the gears turning. "On a one to one basis, a single Azguard has the physical advantage over a single Trandoshan. Even a Wookie would be more challenged than most, but a Wookie and a Trandoshan together?"

"Yeah... like some sort of mock fights or arena, or something. Give 'em a reason to work together, make it a big deal, accolades and honour for the winners. But how would you create something like that, or suggest it?"

The captain snapped his fingers, and said "I read once about this old custom somewhere in the Core, where all the nations on the planet would send their best to compete every four years in all the sports and contests they could think of. It happened every four years, like some kind of holiday."

"Interesting..." Jargur was now looking entirely into the distance, his tongue gently flicking out as he cycled through the possibilities. "Maybe we could have some sort of... tournament, like for fighting, or sports, or athleticism. If we got backing for it from the Coalition government, that could divert the frustration of each race's warrior class into a new, more constructive field."

"Look who's talking like a holo-vid presentation!" teased Oaxaca, and he barked a deep laugh at his fellow ambassador. "You're right, though, I just didn't expect you'd be the one to say it. A contest! Why not? It would relieve tension a little, and I've never seen people who need a rest more than those delegates earlier."

"I'm writing this one down," said Jargur, who grabbed a datapad. "I think we've got a keeper."

"Hold on, hold on!" said the captain, who threw up his hands. "You haven't spoken to the Prime Minister or anybody! How can you be sure you can promise this sort of thing?"

"Sure?" said Jargur, surprised. "Captain, we're ambassadors - it's not our job to follow through on our promises, that's what we have politicians for, right?"

The captain waited for any trace of irony or humour to set in. It didn't, so he said "Suuuure..."

Several of the workers glanced away then back at the Trandoshan, two of them nodded while the rest just went to work. They guided Tiosk and his entourage to the conference room, where four supervisors had been talking with a certain someone on a video screen, it appeared that none of them even realized that Tiosk was there

"Yes Mi'lord." One of the supervisors said. "Our jump drives will be charged in an hour, then we can make the jump to Korribon."

"Good... once you arrive we'll be able to turn out ships and crush the Serendivus, then turn around and use there name and strike back at the Trandoshans and Wookies." The figure on the screen said. "While your waiting, find out who downloaded the research database from the Seren Headquarters, the database is no longer present and I want that data!" with that the view clicked off and the supervisors nodded. "Find out who it was." one of them said before the other three turned around. "Huh?! Who the hell are you!" The other's yelled

Trandosha, K'Satikur Clan Grounds, Conference room

Angella nodded and took a seat, before placing a pad on the table. The pad showed Asri's image, but it also showed Lavalitys. "Our doctors got back to me about something truly disturbing, while running a blood test one of the doctors ... accidently.. missed labels on the tubes of blood."

The girl sighed and then took in a breath. "I don't know how it's possible or even if Asri knows, but did Asri tell you that Lavality is her daughter?"

Angella nodded and picked up the pad and looked at the information, it was beginning to make sense. "I see..." she said and put the pad down and clasped her hands together. "That would explain a lot, mostly about why Lavality doesn't fear the Trandoshans, but also why she seems to have such unusual regenerative properties. We thought it strange when she was able to recover from the wounds she sustained in her battle against Trazu." she rubbed her chin some more

A few minutes passed before she nodded and looked back at Rissonik. "I ask that the information I have given you not be passed on to anyone else, at least, not yet. I'm pretty much Lavality doesn't know this, and if she ever finds out it could tear her to peices. She may be sixteen, but her emotions are still very fragile." she said with a sigh then looked toward the door. "I have some favors to ask of you, these are issues that only you and your people can help us with, we'd ask the wookies but last I heard, our wookie friend is having a bit of a problem on his world now

Cut back to Kashyyyk

"No no no! I told you to put it over there!" Yelled a wookie

The droids nodded and picked up the crates then began to make there way back to the previous area and placed them down. "Ok.. hmmmm.. no that doesn't work either. Put them back." The same wookie said

The droids looked at each other before picking the crates up and throwing them off the landing pad, then walking away. "HEY!"

Back on Trandosha

"I got word that your warrior clans where beginning to feel... restless without any action am I right?"

On the Tissuss Shipyard

A young girl stayed in her quarters, refusing to leave and refusing to move. She sat there on her bed for quite sometime before hearing a knock on the door, she didn't answer it. The knock came again, and again she didn't answer, after awhile the knocking stopped. In the girls hands where several datapads all with the RnD symbol on them

On the Seren Flagship

The 2nd in command, Rages, looked around the bridge a few times before sitting down in the captains chair. "Angella's been gone a long time..." he said and tapped his finger on the arm rest

"Gone? She's only been gone ten minutes." The Liutenant said and walked over to him and handed him a cup of coffee. "Thanks." he said and took a sip of it

Wookie Flagship

Tzhali continued to talk to the many tribes on his world, he had just finished convincing six of those tribes, but was having a difficult time convincing the last one. This last one was being headstrong and not willing to cooperate with the Coalition, actually, they had accused the Coalition of assisting the Slave Trade. So he really didn't have much options open to him

"I guess I'll have to ask our wookie ambassador for the Coalition to lend a helping hand." Tzhali said as he got off the shuttle and motioned for the door, which opened, he then made his way to the bridge where the communications officer was about to say something when he cut him off. "Can you open a channel with the Coalition Ambassadors?"

"Well.. no sir.. thats the problem. We've been trying to contact the Seren's and the Trandoshans, but our communications are being jammed." The communications officer said and Tzhali shook his head. "Where is the jamming coming from?"

"No idea sir, it's a safe bet it's near our fleet but I can't figure out WHERE."

"Is it only affecting us?"

"We can receive messages but we can't send messages, or respond to those sent to us." The officer said with a shrug. "Our fighter's, who have nearly crashed into each other in several occasions already, reported sighting nothing out of the ordinary."

"Well... hopefully one of these three will figure out that something is wrong and send someone." With that Tzhali took a seat and just sat there

Rissonik was right, she didn't. She read the information several times before finally putting the pad down, she sighed then buried her head in her hands for a bit then came back up. "Damn it....." she said and looked away from Rissonik for a breath moment, then back at him. "Those few that are still loyal to the Serendivus and to Lavality are growing smaller and smaller each day. Tiosk might've just saved the only shipyard that we have left, other than the one given to the wookies which was rushed into service, it doesn't have a working communication's dish yet so that one might be ok." she rubbed her chin.

She took her datapad and looked at a list of 'suspects' that she had compiled back on the ship, it was a long list to say the least, well over five hundred officers that she had lost contact with over the past few hours, there name, rank and last known locations where all on the pad. She then handed it to Rissonik. "Normally I'm not allowed to request this, but since I'm Lavality's right hand woman she has given me permission to take measures in the event this would occur."

"You see. Lavality has suspected a coup for some time, she had become aware of it sometime before we got involved with the Seperatist Movement." Angella said with clasped hands. "She had several of those responsible detained, but at the time we didn't know Miknak, the ring leader, was behind the coup."

She sighed and pressed her hand up against her forehead, she had one hell of a headache right now. "Miknak is the name of a trandoshan who performed experiments on humans and other's of his kind." She said, knowing that would probably anger Rissonik, but he had a right to know. "The man has access to the black market and also to sources on Nar Shaada, which would explain the bounty's that where on Lavality's head, but before I left I was told those bounty's suddenly 'vanished' so I'm hoping someone got the right idea."

She turned her head a bit to the left then to the right, trying to clear her mind. "From what we know of him, he's largely responsible for some of the problems we've been having in certain sectors, he doesn't like the Serendivus Family at all because they are responsible for assaulting, and destroying, his labs back on Korribon several years ago."

"that... was when we found Lavality." Angella said, "She was far to young to leave alone for Fikan took her in and nursed her back to health. I don't think Lavality even knows what had gone on there, and if so, it's probably buried deep in her memory." She said and flexed her hands. "Miknak is involved in what happened with Tiosk, I can just smell it, but further more, the main HQ for the Seren's has undoubtingly been compromised."

She sighed once more and looked back at the door. "Get that pad and those names to your warriors, and to the other warrior clans, it will NOT be easy to get those people, most of them are surrounded by soldiers loyal to them alone. Thankfully most are located on the ground, only a few are in space." She said and looked at him. "Now, I'm pretty sure you have some intense questions for me. Please go right ahead."