The Rebel Faction

A bang resonated throughout the starport as several rockets where jetisonned from their tubes, they found there marks several seconds later on the tank that Asri had just been in; turning the tank into molten metal.

McGan, who had been hiding behind a few crates, realized that this was a battle he could not win. He began to make his way toward the comm. unit when a series of blaster shots made him change his mind.

"Halt where you stand, McGan!" Lavality ordered as she and several of her marines ran up to him, blasters pointed.

McGan laughed. "So.... the lovely young child finally attends a position of power... I'm surprised these dogs are willing to follow you." he said harshly with both hands up.

Lavality didn't show any emotion to his words; instead she tossed her blaster aside and ignited her lightsabre. "Perhap's it's best you 'rephrase' what you just said."

"Oh? A light sabre..." Said McGan as he dipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out a cigerrate and lit it, it blew a few puff's before throwing it on the ground; the cigerrate rolled several feet toward an open container of fuel.

Her eye's narrowed; she knew he was plotting something. "Pretty calm for someone who's about to be arrested. Not only will I allow these people to presecute you, but I'll also let them choose what punishment to give you; of course, I'm SURE the wookie's would love to have fun with you first."

"Those fur balls? Meh..." Mcgan said and spit on the ground. Lavality snarled and was about to reach for him when she felt the ground shaking slightly. She looked around before quickly realizing what it was. "HIT THE D-" she managed to say before four large plasma blast's impacted the hanger bay near them, igniting the fuel containers and causing a massive fire. The concussion threw Lavality and her marines straight onto the ground.

She shook her head and came to just in time to see McGan run out the back. "After him!" She shouted to her marines.

The marines all let out a sigh. "And here we wanted to kill something.." they all said and shouldered their blasters and followed Asri back to the hanger.

Lavality was already back on her feet and checking out the equipment. "One of our patrols found a cloaked prowler in high orbit, armed with a orbital cannon, rare to find one on a prowler considering the things aren't big enough to house a generator FOR those." she said and rubbed her chin. "Of course... the various peices of debris still floating orbit from the battles awhile back, one of those could've been a reactor that he was leeching off of." she said to one of her techs.

Her tech shrugged his shoulders; it was obvious he was very tired and worn out. "Maybe.. we'll know more once we interrogate the crew."

"Ok; don't kill them though. I want to hand over the crew to the Trandoshan Council. I feel they will want to question them; and might want to pass judgement considering they fired on civilian buildings." Said Lavality as she straightened her robe out.

The tech nodded and scrolled through more data on the screen. "Damn... there's information here on different strike locations all over the planet. Not to mention the council building as well; in fact. That prowler wasn't just targetting the starport, it was also about to target the council building."

"What stopped it?"

"Apparently when it first fired it drew A LOT of attention from the combined Seren/Trandoshan/Wookiee armada in orbit. I don't think they felt they 'could' fire without being blown to bits." The tech snickered, but quickly cleared his throat when he noticed the glare coming from Lavality.

"Ma'am!" A marine shouted from across the bay. Lavality looked up to find Asri carrying McGan. "At least this is one problem we don't have to worry about." she said and walked over to Asri and lifted up McGan's head before swiping her hand away.

"Well Asri; since you caught the pray, who shall we give him over to first? Sha'tor Rissonik. Or the council?" Lavality asked with both hands folded. She hoped it would be Rissonik, since she was certain he'd want a few things to say, not to mention his warriors would 'love' to treat the man to a fabulous 'gift'

Kashyyyk

With Tzhali's cruiser in for repairs; he allowed his crew time to rest and do things that they enjoyed. Much of his crew had family's that they hadn't seen in several months thanks to the battles that had recently occuried, and with his ship deployed to the outer regions in several occasions that just added to the already building stress that much of the crew had been under.

Tzhali however was saddened; his wife and child where no longer around, killed just before the war ended by supporters of Miknaks group. They had approuched him two times demanding he cooperate, but he refused and that refusal meant the death of his family, it was a burden he was forced to live with.

Therefore instead of heading to his home he decided to check on a few things - he had received a message from Lavality just a short time before he left his ship, requesting that he deal with a loose end on his world.

He had a feeling he knew who this other person would be; during the battles above Trandosha one of the ships under his command did very little in terms of 'helping' at the time he just wrote it off as the captain being nervous and inexperienced but when he was given command of the entire fleet, he realized that this wasn't the first time that captain had ignored orders.

Now the captain and his crew where planetside and enjoying some RnR, or at least thats what he was suppose to be doing. One of his contacts told him that the captain had been seen making a hastey retreat out the back door of a bar, closely being followed by two of his men. "I guess he got word." Tzhali chuckled and continued walking.

Since wookie's rarely wore cloths it is sometimes difficult to tell one from another; but Tzhali was different as his fur was a lighter brown color and this mean't he could easily be picked out of a crowd provided no one else had the same color fur.

As he approuched the building that the captain had ducked into he unholstered his crossbow and armed it, behind him was a mixture of human and wookiee marines, all armed with either blasters or crossbows.

The entry into the building was quiet and stealthy, two humans accompanied Tzhali as they made their way deeper into the warehouse. After some time they began to hear voice's, one was diffinantly the captains while the others appeared to be human.

They crept up to an area full of boxes and peered over them - sure enough one wookiee and two humans where present, talking to each other.

"This is a damn bind we are in." One of the two humans said. "First that damn trandoshan.. and now him..."

The captain let out a growl. "None of this would've happened had our Trandoshan captain done his job and elimananted Lavality during the war!" the wookiee said with a hint of pure hatred in his tone. "But instead he had to go up against that fool Tzhali and his fleet...."

Both of the humans nodded. "And McGan didn't succeed in taking out Lavality either. Plus 'Kyara' didn't succeed in taking out Trazu or his kids." One of the two humans snarled at this, while the other folded it's hands across its chest.

"This is becomming to costly; we've spent way to much time trying to take care of these problems, we don't have unlimited support! Even as we speak Lavality's support GROWs every day. And not only that, but support toward Naosha and Rissonik is also growing within her organization. The Trandoshan's there are fighting more valiently, they see that their people are becoming aware of the changes outside their own world." A human said and spit on the ground.

The wookiee snarled. "Yea; that might be true. But Lavality has no idea of the mole I have in her group."

"You mean Maskis?" The humans said.

Tzhali blinked when he heard that word. Maskis? He's one of them!?

The captain nodded. "Although I haven't heard from him now in the past few weeks; and according to McGan, he fought against our force's on Trandosha. I wonder if he's changed alliegences."

"Huh... wouldn't surprise me to be honest. First he was ordered to kill Lavality back when she was on Naboo. He failed. Then he was ordered to kill her on Hoth. Agan he failed. Then he was ordered to kill her on Trandosha. He failed again. Three failures... what is his game?" The captain snarled and tapped his fingers on the desk.

The two humans where about to say something when they heard a sound in the warehouse. The two of them unholstered their blasters and where about to fire when two blast's hit them in the back. The wookie turned around but he couldn't see who it was.

Tzhali and his marine's suddenly sprang from their hiding place; weapon's raised and ready to fire. "Errr.... I should've realized that hiding wasn't possible." The captain snarled and continued to aim his crossbow.

"But how'd you know it was me?" He asked curiously. "As the humans say 'Thats for me to know, and you to find out." He said and then took out a stun blaster and fired it at him, rendering the captain unconcious.

Tzhali let out a sigh and holstered his two sidearms. "Take him to the starport; we'll take him to Trandosha."

"Huh? But he's wookiee?" A wookiee sergeant said. "Yes he is. But he and his group have mostly been operating on Trandosha, causing trouble there. They've done little here." Tzhali said and the wookiee sergeant nodded, saluted, and then went to take the 'prisoner' to the starport.

Tzhali decided to make a side trip to the captains home. He knew the captains wife, along with two children, one of which was very ill and close to death. He wondered if that was the reason the captain joined up with that group, the money alone would most likely be enough for him to get his son treated on some other world.

But he didn't know; all he could do was make assumptions until after the interrogation. He walked up to the door and was about to knock, but after some thought he decided against it and turned to walk away. That was when the door opened, the captains wife looked at Tzhali and watched him leave. She some-how 'knew' why he was there, she wanted to ask him but realized that it might lead to more pain.

He only just turned to corner when a massive bang resonated across the platforms that made up the wookiee's city. Several platforms higher up lost there support's and fell toward the ground below. Tzhali rushed to where the explosion came from - the starport.

Several marine's crowded the landing pads, trying to put fires and search for survivors. "Damn it.... we should've looked harder." He heard one of his human marines said. "What happened?" Tzhali asked, his translator translating it for his crew. "The captain had a detonator on him, apperently his crew must've rigged the starport so that he wouldn't be taken alive."

Tzhali looked back at the starport; all in flames. "So.. he got the ultimate punishment - death." he said and gestured to his second in command was who was watching from above. The officer nodded to relay the information back to Lavality and there supporters on Trandosha."

"So... you think this is the end?" The human marine said. "No... something tells me things are just getting started. Clear out these fires, search for survivors, we'll depart in four hours." Tzhali said and turned around and walked away.

The assassin looked around the room and then at McGan and Kyara, he looked back down at the ground before explaining what they where order to do. About assassinating Trazu and either capturing or killing his children.

"We had been told that Trazu and his kids where a threat to our government; so we infiltrated the clan grounds and tried to kill them. Damn Jedis'.. it's bad enough one was there, but two?" He said and noticed a few looks, some of curiousity, others of fear.

Some distance away in the audiance, Lavality sat in disguise, she was secretly probing his mind. Tell them everything... she said in a low tone.

The assassin then continued. "There was.... eight of us who where apart of the assassination attempt." he said. He was having trouble trying to explain with so many people around; it was making him very very nervous. He had no issues telling his interrogator since that was, kind of, one on one.

He ended his statement by stating that another faction wanted Trazu's kids for some strange experiments and that the councilor knew about it. He also went on to tell them that the money being funded to these assassin's was coming from McGan.

Back in the audiance Lavality nodded. Very good... of course he didn't tell them 'everything' I guess I'll push him the next time he's called.

Lavality watched with amusement at the look that Kyara was givin. It was comical to her, someone who had ordered given orders was being ordered to her own death. Kyara's head lowered toward the ground, the look in her eyes - defeat.

The assassin who had given his statement watched her; it was a greater defeat for her than him. A deal had been struck with the Serendivus that if he confessed that they may take him in, but that deal only existed if the council here decided not to put him to death or to a harsh prison sentence.

As it stood; the assassin felt a sense of relief. He had always felt shame since being ordered to kill or capture a chlid, but he couldn't say no as the money would've been enough for him and his own family to leave a somewhat peaceful existence.

Lavality, on the other, continued to watch. She was still probing his mind, looking for things that he hadn't said and she found several. This assassin had far more connection than he let on, or rather, that his apperence let on.

When she looked toward McGan, he bore a sly grin. He was enjoying this and it really worried her that he wasn't concerned. Her worry intensifed when she felt another presence in the chambers, it was an evil presence, she couldn't isolate it though and thats what bothered her.

After some seconds she finally realized that the presence was coming from one of the six ventalation ducts that pocketed the chambers with clean air. She searched with her mind until she found a lone figure lying on his stomache, she couldn't tell what he was holding 'exactly' only that it appeared to be some sort of granade.

Are you sure this is the type of action you want to take? she asked him; pushing her mind to speak with his. It was something that a Jedi rarely did these days.

The figure shot his head up; hitting the ceiling of the ventalation shaft in the process, his head bounced and then his chin by the bottom, a 'thump' resounded across the chamber.

A warrior who had been watching and listening suddenly turned from his post and motioned to two other warriors and pointed at a shaft.

Meanwhile the figure frantically crawled out of the shaft and into a hallway - right into the waiting arms of two warriors who bore a very mischivious grin.

"What was that?" Someone in the audiance asked quietly. A few others just shrugged. Lavality giggled slightly; it was the most fun she'd had in years.

After several minute's Kyara lifted her head and was about to taken away when she suddenly turned out. "I know you are in this room!" She said; speaking of the leader of the Serendivus. "Be warned that your beloved Maskis is an agent of us!" she said

Up in the stand; Maskis unfolded his arms and sighed. So... the cats out of teh bag now... he said

"He'll kill you!" Kyara said before being bashed up against the side of the head and then being taken way.

Lavality exchanged a look with Asri and Trazu; she wasn't sure if they knew it was actually her. She could feel the anger wavering off Asri, she would make certain to have a talk with him after all this was over. She, in some way, knew something was up but she hated how he was never able to tell her much of this.

After a few moments she motioned to someone sitting next to her. The two of them then got up, drawing the attention of the counculors and the audiance.

Both of them wore darkened clothings to hide there features; they both walked toward the railing and looked at McGan.

"Look at me with such hatred and I'll snip that head of your's off." McGan said before a warrior bashed him across the back of the head.

The cloaked figure to her left just shook her head before walking out of the chambers. Lavality, on the other hand, walked the circomference of the audiance seating before stopping close to where McGan was. "Whether it be crime's against the people, or against the organization." She spoke, concealing her voice in the process.

"And who might you be?" A counculor demanded when he heard the figure speak. Lavality turned toward him; her face concealed by the hood. She bore a smile that he couldn't see before removing the hood. "My name's Grand Admiral Lavality Serendivus, leader and judge for Serendivus." she said

Several of the counculors shifted in there chairs; some knowing that because of the Serendivus and their aid to Naosha that their planet had be spared a very terrible war.

"You don't 'look' like much of an admiral." The same counculor but didn't go any further.

Lavality smiled when she saw the look on McGan's face. He was scared, nervous, afraid of her, was it because he was being tried by a government who's system of punishment was actually worse than their own? Or could it be that he realized that this was a battle that he could not win.

"I, Lavality Serendivus, recognize the Trandoshan Council and those gathered. I here by allow the Serendivus Traitor, McGan, to be tried under this government." Lavality said in a calm and collected tone.

McGan suddenly shot up. "You can't DO that! I'm Human!" he said

Lavality shot him a glare at him that could melt ice. "You ceased being human the moment you targetted innocent children." She said, her tone this time was full of anger and hatred. She turned around and left the audiance.

She was a witness to his actions; but she was a biased witness considering she was a leader of a group. There for she had asked for two of her own to attend the trials, she still had to ask Naosha if they could present evidence, the most damning being McGan's order to bombard the city from orbit. if it wasn't for her own patrol ships his own might've succeeded.

There Lavality waited and looked out the window. The two officers behind her bowed to her before leaving to make their requests.

"With the counculors permission." One said. "We'd like to provide evidence to McGan's actions against you and your people." one of the two officers said