Chofin - Capital of Carratos

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

Mara chooses an area close to the actual place where the riot occurred. She finds an elderly couple walking along the street, and she emits a sense of goodwill and pure curiosity as she approaches.

"Hello," she greets them. "My name is Mara Skywalker, I'm a Jedi, and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions about the recent riot?"

The couple look at each other and then back at Mara. "I don't see why not," the man answers.

"Thank you," Mara clears her throat. "Who do you believe is responsible for the riot?"

The woman answers her. "There is no way that nice young man Ire is responsible. He's only ever done good things for this planet."

Mara goes in for another question. "Being so close to the riot, did you hear anything strange before or after?"

This time the man answers. "We didn't think anything of it at the time, but my wife thought she heard several pairs of footsteps running along the street about a half hour before. Since the riot, I've expected that the footsteps belonged to whoever is truly behind it."

Mara thanks the couple for the information and bids them a pleasant evening. She decides to ask the next set of questions to a couple of young kids on the opposite side of the city. From them she gets a totally different set of answers. The hold much contempt for Ire and believe he orchestrated the entire riot, including the murder of the woman.

Having gotten her information, Mara goes to meet back up with the group.

[Johnathan Kenobi]

Johnathan listens to the story and sighs,this man had been right in the center of the croud and witnessed the entire thing though in a short version says that the Stormtroopers open fired on an old woman and a mysterious woman appeared with a lightsaber and began a full scale attack on the community,and there where bits and pieces about a stange person that all the commando's are talking about.

Johnathan questioned the man for a moment,then he heard a couple of Stormtroopers heading his way,so he nodded to the man,and walked off,then it fell into place,he could question a stormtrooper too. He turned and walked up to a Stormtrooper that was patrolling the area,he sighed,"Hey comrade,"he began,speaking the talk of the troopers,"I'm off duty,bout to go home,were you around when the attack happened earlier?"he asked,the Stormtrooper nodded and spoke,"Hey..yeah I was part of the frontlines that marched out on the city,why?"he asked,"Was wondering if the rumor's were true,what really happened?"he asked,the trooper sighed and began.

"We were doing as ordered,we all marched out on the town,and Ordered the ones Lord Ire demanded to be taken in custody to come and keep the town members in their residential homes,then when some lady was trying to assault a Stormtrooper,they had no choice but to shoot her,so he did,then the Imperial Knights stepped in,and killed that guy..I tell ya,these Civilians in this area need to be reminded that it is by our hand that they are allowed to live..hey,what did you say your name was,I don't recognize your voice.."he said,gripping his blaster,"Show me your identification."

Johnathan listened,now he was getting somewhere,then as the Stormtrooper began to question him,he sighed,and his lightsaber came to his right hand,"You've been a great help..Soldier.."he sighed,"You don't need to see my identification.."he attempted to use a mind trick,but it was too late,others were already there..they saw him,and when the man resisted the mind trick he spoke,"You..your a Jedi..your not allowed in these parts.."He said,Johnathan sighed,so much for diplomacy,they began to fire at him,he activated his lightsaber,and faught them back slicing off arms and heads,he knew he couldn't let them live,they'd simply cause too much trouble for all of the others.

He then decided to go to the meet up place,thinking he had worn out his welcome,he ran to the Town Hall,once he arrived he looked around,it was all clear,he opened his mind to the force,trying to locate his friends.

[Luke Skywalker]

Luke and Ross are on their way to the town hall. Luke is going over the information he has gotten.

In one instance Lord Ire was blamed. In another instance the storm troopers were blamed. There didn't seem to be a clear answer. Perhaps with the others information he could see a pattern.

Before long, the two of them reached the town hall. They waited for the others in an alley across the street.

[Tookie Binks]

Suddenly Tookie notices an older woman standing behind Dellon who places her hands on the boy's shoulders. Tookie stand and bows his head to the woman who is looking at him rather sternly. Just as he is about to say something to her, she decides to say something. "You should leave now, Jedi."

"Mesa doin nuttin but..." Tookie begins to say but the woman interjects.

"You don't understand me do you, you should leave."

"Whyins should mesa leave, is mesa in trouble?"

"You will be, people don't look into Imperial matters that aren't Imperial." the older woman says.

"Grandma, don't be mean to Tookie. He's nice." Dellon says which brings a smile to his face. She looks down at him and then back up to Tookie.

"Listen here Jedi, Lord Ire had his reasons if he did give the order but its not like Lord Ire to be that way." the old woman says. "Yes, he's tough on crime and corruption and those who betray the Empire but he doesn't just go about killing people for no reason at all. This was probably some rouge Imperial trying to carve out a name in the history holos."

Tookie thinks about what the woman says and ponders what this means. Tookie senses no deception on either Dellon's or his grandmother's parts so he takes their words at face value. Tookie then senses the fear rise in the air and sees Dellon and his Grandmother's eyes get big. Two shadows hit the ground and the telltale voice box of a helmet com sounds behind the Gungan Jedi. "You, what are you doing?"

Tookie looks back and smiles. "Mesa runnin!" he says and with a burst of speed, Tookie begins to run to the town hall.

[Jade Albright]

~The panther tilts her head and smiles in her mind. She moves silently towards the area the old woman was pointing to.. She begins sniffing and looking around.. After about ten minutes she finds the shirt. She picks the edge of it up in her mouth smelling burnt cloth coming from it. She begins running from the site staying in the shadows. Sensing Luke and Mara waiting on her. She shifts back to human form and walks up to them~
Where to now Luke?

[Luke Skywalker]

Tookie arrives at the town hall after his encounter with the stormtroopers.

"OK, that is everyone. We'll debrief back at the hanger bay," says Luke. "Let's get out of here before something happens." As Luke starts toward the other side of town, he sense danger through the Force, and unclasps his lightsaber and ignites it. Off to his left and to his right are a group of stormtroopers. About 10 in each group, marching toward them.

"Halt, you are under arrest," yells one of the stormtroopers. The troopers open fire on the small group of Jedi, catching them in a cross fire.

[Luke Skywalker]

Tookie unclasps both of his light sabers and ignites them. "Mesa thinkin dis is bein' crazies." He faces towards the right side, going on the defensive. He begins to whirl the sabers in a circular motion, deflecting bolts back into the ground.

Hearing the sounds of battle, more stormtroopers come and engage the small group of Jedi.

[Johnathan Kenobi]

Johnathan jumped into action,pulling his sabers off of his belt,activating them both,he began to deflect blaster bolts,spinning both sabers,his yellow saber sang the song of battle,its hum called out to Johnathan,and by its deep yellow,it was apparent that Johnathan was truly as good as the stories,and was more than equipped for his titles,he continued to fight them off,then he deactivated his sabers,reaching out in the force he threw a speeder at them,and after reaching to his belt,grabbing a few smoke grenades,which he tossed at the Stormtrooper's he yelled out,"Lets get outta here.."he yelled,ready to get away from this,knowing he didn't need to endanger the community by attacking full scale.

[Jade Albright]

~She un-clips her saber and with a snap hiss the teal blade glows.~
You know Tookie I agree with you.
~She tumbles into a roll to avoid fire and spins back. Her robe at the hip is singed.~
Darn it I like this robe.
~Her blade twirls blocking the shots. She is trying not to kill them, but can't predict where the deflected bolts will hit~
Where should we head Luke?

[Mara Jade Skywalker]

The stormtroopers open fire and Mara whips her lightsaber off her belt and ignites it. She concentrates her attention to the group on the left, opening herself to the Force, allowing it to guide her hands. She deflects their bolts into the ground or harmlessly into the sky.

[Luke Skywalker]

"Head for the hangers. Let's get back to Yavin IV," replies Luke as he deflects blaster bolts from the left. "Get ready to move." Luke centers himself in the Force, and focuses on the group to the left. He draws deep into the Force, and pushes outward toward the group. It is as if a large hand pushed them backwards. Most of them fell down and rolled on the ground. Luke trusts that the others will handle the group on the right, and the remaining ones on the left. He grabbed Ross' hand and pulled him in the direction of the hangers.

[Tookie Binks]

Listening to Luke, Tookie nods and begins to run to the hangar bays to get to his ship. Covering the right side of the group, Tookie sees two stormtroopers are immediately in front of him and engages them. The way he figures, two stormtroopers plus two stormtroopers equals fair odds and Tookie steps away from the group before he enters a Jung Ma spin as the troopers open fire. Their blaster bolts are easily deflected as he spins towards them and the strikes from his lightsabers cut their rifles in half before Tookie roundhouse kicks both of them upside their heads, knocking them out, before continuing on to the hangar bays of the spaceport.

[Johnathan Kenobi]

Johnathan held his ground against the Stormtroopers,he threw his lightsabers at them,and they activated,and cut off the heads of a few of them,then returned to Johnathan's hands,he then turned and began to follow the group,he saw a group of troopers attack Tookie,and watched as Tookie took them down,he couldn't help but grin,he hadn't had this much fun in a while,he turned to a group that were charging him and the others,reactivating his lightsaber he went into offensive,and easily destroyed them,his mastery at Soresu helped against the blaster fire,but Niman helped him cut them up faster..and then after they were cut down he spinned and entered force speed,using the strength of his own legs plus that of the force,he was a blur to the others,but to the untrained eye,he would have vanished completely.

[Jade Albright]

~Hearing Luke, she begins running. She pauses watching John for a moment and laughs.~
There he goes Big bad warrior.
~She looks to the troopers on the right and cast force storm on them many fall down. She begins running towards the hanger.~
Allora stop playing with that Storm-Troopers leg and lets go.
~She follows the others back to the hanger. Deflecting Bolts back at the troopers as they run.~

[Lord Zairon]

The bodies of the stormtroopers John had killed are reported found dead and killed by a lightsaber. Seeing this information an issue is ordered that the Jedi are to be arrested for questioning. If they cannot be taken alive, they are to be killed.

Seeing the Jedi making their way to the hanger, the stormtrooper quickly calls for a lockdown.

"LOCK DOWN THAT HANGER! Don't let them escape! We need to question them!"

The commander grabs a megaphone and yells out "Jedi, you are wanted for questioning in regards to murder. Stand down and come quietly. Lower your weapons and report for questioning."