Mos Eisley Cantina

[SK]

As SK was walking around, looking for enemies, a couple of Dargula's henchmen came up to him, with thier blasters to thier sides, and not looking for trouble. "Jedi, my master wishes to have an audience with you. He feels that you and him can have a meeting that would be beneficial to that both of you." SK then looked at the henchmen, and smirked. "Why should I even consider going with you guys? I don't need your help, so you go ahead and tell your master that I am gonna decline his offer. Now, if you will excuse me, I have more people to kill..." As he said that, one of the guards then said something that caught his attention. "We can get you to the Jedi." As the henchmen said that, SK quickly turned around and raised his hand, and with the force, started to chocke him out, while the other guard raised his blaster, but SK quickly dismissed him, as he too got him in a force choke, but unlike the first guard, he threw the henchmen against the wall as hard as possible, and the guard thn hit the wall, and a big spot of blood was seen as the guard was dead. He then looked at the guard that he had in his grip, and tightened the grip a little more. "Listen to me, I want nothing to do with your boss, nor do I want to do anything with you. Now, say your last words before I am to end your life." The henchman then struggled for air, when a couple more men came around the corner and aimed thier blasters at him. "Dargula the Hutt wishes to speak with you. He knows about your quest to the Jedi capital, and would like to help you obtain what you want. So, let him down, and we can go to him peacefully." SK then heard what was said, and then let the henchmen down, and then proceeded with the other guards to Jabba's old palace to have a meeting with this Dargula.

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke made his way through the cantina district, following SK's presence. He approached an area cordoned off. He stuck to the shadows and crossed over at a place where there were no officers. Law enforcement here was almost non-existent. There were only three or four patrolmen to cover the entire area.

Luke stepped through the door of the cantina and stretched out with the Force. SK's presence was strong here. Many had died, not all of them by his hand. Luke shook his head and said nothing for a moment. "Why is he doing this? Why such destruction on a large scale?" asked Luke, not expecting an answer.

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

"Your guess is as good as mine," she murmured, poking around the cantina. After a few minutes she stopped and sighed. "I can't shake the feeling that he's going to hit Yavin IV. And if he does, I will personally remove him of his skin."

[Luke Skywalker]

"You may be right," Luke replies. He centers himself in the Force, and focus' on SK. He gets familiar images of a palace and a Rancor pit. He remembers his last trip there, and all that transpired. "I think he is headed for Jabba's Palace. Not sure why he would go there." Luke considers going after SK, or returning to Yavin IV. "Red, what do you want to do, go after SK, or wait for him to go to Yavin IV? It's hard to say who is holed up at Jabba's." Luke is leaning towards trying to finish this now, but realizes that if Mara has a feeling about something, he should listen to her.

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

A moment of uncharacteristic indecision comes over Mara and she sighs. She's never understood the expression "between a rock and a hard place" more than she does now. "As Ben's mother I want to go home to Yavin to protect him, but as a Jedi I know we should go after him. We don't know how long it would be until he reaches Yavin, he could murder hundreds more before then." Her decision made, she looks up determinedly. "I guess we go after him then. Just let me comm Gert, see if she'll keep Ben with her."

[Gert Yonsz-Kenobi]

Mara's com bleeps. It's 3P0.

"What is it 3P0?" she asks, figuring this was as good of a time as any to get a message to Gert.

"I have a message for you Master Mara. Master Gert has returned home and requested I get this to you immediately." The next thing Mara hears is Gert's voice in her thoughtful processing events tone.

"Let Mara know that the meeting with Black Sun went well, our suspicions were correct, there has been a shake up. The current head Vigo is Selina Uhopria. She's a dark side user but I would not say she is a sith per say. She was very accommodating and very anti slavery. The issue on Alvorin should clear up on it's own. Have Leia find out who is missing so the authorities can find them as quickly as possible.

Also the issue with Naboo was ordered by the previous Vigo. I got the distinct impression if she hasn't murdered him already, Selina plans to. Might wana let the Alvorine authorities keep an eye on their prisoners. She was very serious about her anti slavery policy. I think they are now targets."

She then sighs. "We have an issue, while I was on Coruscant I was approached by a former Shadow. Markon Starkiller. He murdered a bouncer to get away when I forced him to make a stand or leave and disappeared. I'm sure all the holos I saw on the way home about a rampaging Jedi are him. I'm not sure what his goal is but he seemed pretty personal in his anger at me and at the Jedi in particular or perhaps it was just the Shadows in particular. As I was trying to maintain cover I didn't ask.

He may be heading for the temple. I will inform the security team to put the temple and surrounding areas on full alert. The padawans will be confined to the temple proper or those facilities reachable by underground transport.

Mara, he must be stopped. He's completely lost his mind. The good man we once knew has died inside of him. If you are off chasing him please be careful, he is a powerful Sith and has no remorse for those he murders."

[Luke Skywalker]

"Alright Red, see if you can raise Gert. Have her warn the Temple that SK may be headed there if we are unsuccessful," suggests Luke. He has no idea what the body count is for SK, but this has been one of the bloodier weeks in recent memory. Luke sets his resolve to stop SK.

A feeling of darkness suddenly comes over Luke, danger, death. He grabs the vision with the Force and focuses. It is SK, and from the guards garb, he is on Naboo. "Red, forget Jabba's Palace, SK is in Theed on Naboo. He's at it again. I feel great anger and darkness in him."

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

"I only hope the Naboo recovered enough from the last fiasco to at least slow him down." Mara's comlink chimes, and she removes it from her belt and thumbs it on. It's a message from Gert relayed to her comlink through her fighter. She reads over the report about Black Sun and sends a reply to the Kenobi Ranch.

"Hello, Gert. We are aware of Starkiller's path of destruction and are currently a few steps behind him. We also believe that he will eventually hit Yavin IV, just as you suspect. I'm going with Luke to try to stop Starkiller before he reaches Yavin IV." She hesitates a moment, then continues softly. "I hate to put the burden on you, but Ben is alone in our apartment with Threepio, his nanny droid, and a Force sensitive babysitter. I'd feel more comfortable if he were with a fully trained Jedi and was wondering if you would keep him with you? Thank you, Gert, and may the Force be with you."

Mara sends the transmission and returns the comlink to her belt. "Let's go see what he's left for us to clean up on Naboo."

[Luke Skywalker]

"Let's head to our Stealth X's, and head to Naboo. But when we arrive, let's stay in orbit. I am tired of being 2 steps behind him. I have a feeling that he is finished with Naboo and moved on to his next planet. I should be able to get a sense of where he has gone, and maybe catch him on that planet," suggests Luke. "Maybe we can even prevent some deaths."

Luke starts towards the door and heads for his Stealth X. Mara passes him just outside the door to the cantina.

[Lord Zairon]

Lord Zairon and his unit of stormtroopers who, in order to avoid drawing attention, are dressed as bounty hunters exit their shuttle after it lands.

"Let's head to the cantina. It'll be the best place to gather information." He says nodding at a nearby cantina.

The group enters the cantina and Zairon reaches out in the force looking for some sense of Skywalker or the killer.

[Lord Zairon]

After talking, bribing, and mind controlling various people, Zairon was able to discover that the killer had struck here as well murdering countless people in the cantina. He had been approached by some agents working for a local hutt and had left shortly after. What had surprised Zairon the most was that the killer had used a green lightsaber.

Zairon pondered this. He couldn't simply storm a hutt's palace even with the Empire behind them. The last thing they wanted was to start a war with the hutts. Walking with his squad of troopers, the group headed to a more private location to send a message to the Emperor.

[Lord Zairon]

Zairon's comlink beeps, "Executor Zairon." He answers.

"Lord Zairon, I finally got the information on the planet you requested." A male voice says.

"Nagi? What about it? Skywalker asked about it for a reason. I'll bet it's where the killer is headed. At the very least we've lost all leads here."

"Alright, I'm sending a file containing all information we have on it as well as its location to your datapad with highest security encryption."

"Good work, thank you."

Zairon nods at his soldiers. "Let's head back to the shuttle. This package will tell us everything we need. I'll send a message to Lord Ire and then we can disembark."

The group heads back to their shuttle and after boarding it they lift off and head to orbit.

[Tookie Binks]

Tookie and Jade enter the Cantina side by side to the sound of a classic song playing on the holo-juke in the corner showing five memeber Bith band playing the one time hit "Mad About Me". Tookie in his brown robes and Jade in her green Master robes tell the motley assortment of spacers and interstellar riff-raff who they are. Tookie turns to Jade as he and her walk towards the bar. "So good bein inside, dat sun was doin murder to mesa skin."

[Jade Albright]

~She looks around and feels the glare of all here. Her face loses some of it's sweetness a a cold warrior look enters her eyes. Her hand moves to her saber as she looks around.~

It was awfuly hot out there wasn't it?

~She moves in further and flicks out her red hair which is sticking to her face.~

Do you sense anything else here Tookie?

[Tookie Binks]

Feeling the glares of everyone around, Tookie pays it no mind since they obviously haven't seen too many Gungans. It was the same feeling he had on Carratos not too long ago and he doesn't care. He looks over to Jade and flashes her a goofy smile. "Mesa say we be havin a drink befores wesa be leebin."

With that Tookie marches off to the bar to get something to drink. The scruffy looking nerf herder of a bartender gives Tookie and Jade the once over while cleaning a pitcher. "Can I help you... Jedi?"

"Mesa hopin so, yousa eber heard of a Naboo Sunrise?" Tookie asks. The bartender nods and goes off to make them.