An Investigation Most Foul

[Talon Vosra]

[member="Serenity"] [member="Hunter Cain"]

Silence, incredible silence was all he could hear. As a Zelosian he could go 3 hours without beathing, as a Zelosian Jedi he could double that, and with the amount of air in the sealed suit he could last for a day or more. All that combined meant if there was something to be found, he would find it...

The force had little to say on the subject as he looked through the debris. The cloud had expanded significantly from when it had initially occured and a neat ring had formed in the expanse of space. It was an hour through his search he found something he remembered exceedingly well, a Graug sword. He grabbed the mostly intact weapon and held it as he sifted through more of the ship. There was simply no way a Graug would be on a republic warship of any size without someone knowing about it.

Talon continued his search for another hour before he came upon an object that was the size of a shoebox. He grabbed the box and began making his way back to his ship. He held the items tightly and sailed into the cockpit of the fighter. He tucked the sword beside the seat and settled in with the box on his lap then sealed the cockpit. The small area repressurized and Talon removed his helmet and opened the encrypted channel.

"This is Investigator Vosra to Serenity." He began, "I have the ship's black box and an item of very great intrest. I will drop these items for your agents at a location you designate and then I have to return to Ossus. If you need any assistance feel free to contact me and an Investigator will be sent under your direct command, over."

He restarted his engines and turned his ship around to prepared to head to the decided location.

 

[Hunter Cain]

Serenity
Kiskla Grayson
Hunter watched as the Jedi Investigator recovered the Graug sword and the blackbox. The implications of these items were monumental. A tingling down Hunter's spine gave Hunter pause. He was no master of the Force, be he was sensitive to it.
He ran to the window and peeked out from behind the curtain. A speeder was parked across the street from the Inn he was at. There was something suspicious about it, so Hunter ran to the door of his room and peeked out the peep hole of the door. Down the hall, three dark dressed figures were moving towards his room. They had blasters drawn and moved in a military manner. Hunter didn't wait to see more. He scrambled to the desk and closed his computer and shoved it into his back pack. He pulled on his jacket and slung his pack over his shoulders and and ran towards the window at full speed as the door was no longer an option as an exit.

Hunter heard the bang of the door being kicked in just as he launched himself through the window. The glass shattered as Hunter sailed through it, landing on the roof of the opposite building. His feet hit the surface and he rolled forward to dissipate the force the landing. He cam to his feet and took of running just as blaster fire started erupting in his direction. He ran to the other side of the roof and again jumped. This time he caught the side of the next builind and slid down the drainage pipe.

He made it to the street and had bought himself some time from the agents that were searching for him. He didn't know who was after him, but apparently he had stumbled onto something that people wanted to stay hidden.
The men that were looking for him only knew a room number and the name Nixon Carter, an Insurance Agent. Hunter disapperead into the bustle of the city and made his way to the spaceport. He had lost his tail so he comm'd on his encrypted frequency the Investigator.
<Master [member="Talon Vosra"], I am the Agent assigned to this Investigation. Aeten II is no longer safe. The items you found seem to be sensitive items that somebody wants to remain hidden. Get out of system immediately. I will meet you at the provided coordinates to retrieve the items.>
He sent the transmission, along with coordinates to Ord Mantell which was still in free space.

Not long after sending that transmission, Hunter was on a shuttle and was safely away from Aeten II, en route to Or Mantell.
He sent an encrypted update to the Head of State Hanna Vondiranach
and sat back and let himself finally relax...

 

[Talon Vosra]

[member="Hunter Cain"] [member="Kiskla Grayson"] [member="Serenity"] [member="Hanna Vondiranach"]

Talon didn't need to ask questions. His ship would have only received a direct message if it were sent by someone with his direct frequency. His emerald eyes flicked over the co-ordinates and he entered them into his ships navicomputer. The little astromech processed the calculations and within minutes Talon could see a small unmarked corvette moving toward the debris field.

"Understood." Talon sent over the encrypted channel, "May the Force be with you."

With that Talon began accelerating away from the debris field. The corvette shouldn't have seen him, but it turned toward him. the only way Talon could think of that they would find him so quickly is if one was a force user. Sensors and even visual checks would have been useless unless they knew where he was already. He closed his eyes briefly as he felt for the shadow bomb in his torpedo tube. He pulled it free as he flew and it self armed. he reached for the control to jump to hyperspace and released the bomb at the same time. As the bright lines of stars appeared in his viewport the baridium bomb exploded to his rear. As he vanished into hyperspace the space where he was became consumed with a brilliant light. From Hyperspace Talon prepped a message for the operative and set it to send as soon as he reached Ord Mantell. With that set and hours to the drop point Talon closed his eyes. 'All in a days work' he thought as he faded to sleep.

 

[Hunter Cain]

Kiskla Grayson Serenity Hanna Vondiranach
The shuttle touched down on Ord Mantell. A weary agent walked down the ramp with his backpack slung over his left shoulder. His right hand stayed near the blaster tucked in his waistband. Hunter Cain walked through the street proper, making his way to the Afterburner cafe. That was the destination he had given the Jedi Investigator.

He walked in and headed straight for the refresher. He stood in front of the mirror for a moment. Dark circle were forming under his eyes due to his lack of sleep. Once this mission was over, he decided it was time for some R&R.
He ran the water in the sink and splashed some water on his face. Then he exited the refresher and sat down at the booth in the corner. He wanted to keep his eyes on the door. He ordered some food and a pot of caf while he waited for his contact to arrive. He sent a burst transmission
<Corner booth. Male in black jacket> [member="Talon Vosra"]

 

[Serenity]

Serenity buzzed in Hunter's ear. " Good job, I must say you preform better than most of my agents combined. Please up link me to that box, once you can I can begin feeding it's data to you." She awaited the delivery. This was all going to be crucial to finding out the origin of this whole mess. it was curious how much resistance they were getting. The problem with mandolorians is they all seemed to throw reason out the window for a fight. They were a group she didn't get, they seemed to glorify combat above all. It was strange when you considered other cultures strive for peace, that such a group would not be exterminated for the greater stability of the galaxy. She also deposited a number of credits into Hunter's account as if to reward him for his work and professionalism so far and to cover anything with the other agent, sometimes humans decided to do strange things for credits.
[member="Hunter Cain"][member="Talon Vosra"]

 

[Talon Vosra]

[member="Hunter Cain"] [member="Serenity"]

The first thing that Talon did when he arrived on Ord Mantell was remove the last two shadow bombs, the flight recorder and the astromech from his stealth X and traded the ship to a Junk yard for a Starlight-class light freighter. With the shadow bombs on board he took off again and landed his ship on ten mile plateau.

He had waited there only a few hours before the burst transmission came through. Taking off immediately he landed at the local star port. He had the sword on his back and the black box in a rucksack. Before he left the ship he wrapped himself in the cloak of shadows technique and disappeared. He walked quickly and invisibly to the meeting spot and sat down in front of the agent. The man did a good job of looking like just another out of work spacer. Talon released the technique and appeared in the seat across from the man. He put the sack and the sword in front of the man with a secured comlink.

"Here are the parts and weapon you ordered and a new comlink." Talon said, "did you have time for lunch or did you have to get back to work soon?"

 

[Hunter Cain]

Hunter had a partner that he had worked with on several occasions who specialized in force stealth techniques, so he was less jumpy when the Jedi Investigator popped into existence across the table from him...only a little less jumpy.

He placed the items in the seat next to him, out of view from any potential prying eyes. Then he adressed the Jedi "Lunch sounds amazing, If you have time?" [member="Talon Vosra"]
He waved the server droid over.

While he waited for the droid, he quickly uploaded [member="Serenity"] the black box so that she could be hacking it. Hopefully soon they would have the evidence that they had risked their lives to get...

 

[Talon Vosra]

[member="Hunter Cain"] [member="Serenity"]

Talon sat and leaned back as if relaxing as the droid came up. His bright green eyes went to the droid.

"Hi." He said to the droid, "could you get me a nice salad and a glass of Corellian carrot juice please."

He looked at the man and made like just a pair of pilots talking shop. "Did you hear about the new ship from Mandaltech." He said nonchalantly, "I heard it's a capture ship for rounding up pirates. I wouldn't mind seening that happen. How about you?"

 

[Hunter Cain]

[member="Talon Vosra"] [member="Serenity"]
When the server droid arrived, Hunter ordered a simple sandwich with a glass of water. Hunter saw the charade and went along with it. He respected the Jedi more for his ability to keep things clandestine.
He nodded "Yes, I've been hearing alot of buzzing about Mandalorian space in general. That ship would make my life easier, I wouldn't have to keep my eyes glued to the scanner so much" He chuckled.

They chatted for awhile as they waited for their food to arrive. Any curious observers would only witness a couple of spacers catching up at a well known watering hole.
The server arrived with their food and Hunter tore into his sandwich. He didn't realize how hungry he was.

The earbud was in his ear so that he could discretely hear Serenity when she reported her findings.

 

[Talon Vosra]

[member="Hunter Cain"] [member="Serenity"] [member="Hanna Vondiranach"]

Talon dug into his salad and quickly had the slightly less than fresh vegetables eaten. The juice he sipped while they chatted and he waited for a while the agent ate. The importance of the information he assumed would be great and he didn't want to risk the agents life by acting foolishly. He waited until the man had finished and drank down his last few drops of carrot juice.

"Well my break is about over." Talon said standing, "See you later give me a call if that run doesn't work out. You have my comlink code."

Talon stretched and scratched his abdomen through his shirt as he waved to the Human female cook in the back. With a nod he walked toward the door and out into the street. It would be a mere matter of minutes before he was in a new ship and waiting for clearance to take off.

 

[Serenity]

Serenity began going through the data, viewing what happened before the fateful crash. She then buzzed in Hunter's ear.
" Please find somewhere I can play you video feed" She said spotting through camera feeds and reading what was being made on the ships computers she knew what he was up to.
She was able to see none other than Darth Vulcanus on board the ship showing that no republic forces commenced an attack and the remaining fragments of the data from the ship had what was a mostly complete copy of the very letter delivered to the republic. This would indeed prove it. She waited till hunter found a place that he could view the video feed, she also forwarded it to the relevant offices.

[member="Hunter Cain"]

 

[Hunter Cain]

Hunter nodded and shook hands with his comrade. Some of it was for show, but most of it was cause he truly respected the Jedi, and hoped to work with him again. In Hunter's line of work, he didn't find to many people that he liked working with. [member="Talon Vosra"]

He heard [member="Serenity"] in his ear, so he left credits on the table to cover the bill plus a little extra, then made his way to the refresher. He entered a stall and closed and locked the door. Then he pulled out his datapad and linked the sound to his earbud and cued Serenity. <Alright, I'm ready>

 

[Serenity]

[member="Hunter Cain"]

Serenity began playing the footage and sending the data of the document he was crafting. " I have already notified the republic, we will attempt to talk to the mandos I imagine soon, Should we dig deeper or do you think we reached the correct conclusion. "
She asked curious of his instincts, after all it would seem that this was all that went on but with intrigue you could never really be sure.

 

[Hunter Cain]

Kiskla Grayson Serenity Hanna Vondiranach
Hunter let out the breath that he didn't know he was holding. The footage Hunter just watched was more drastic than he had anticipated. The implications were dire, and hopefully, the evidence he found would prevent a war with the wrong people.

Collecting himself, he responded. "Serenity, I think we have found all that we are going to find. Inform the Head of State that I am ready to meet, and that I have her last bit of evidence. Then we can talk about payment"

Agent Hunter Cain, aka Nixon Carter, boarded a shuttle and left Ord Mantell to an undisclosed location. Once he met with the Head of State, his mission would be complete.

 

[Hunter Cain]

His comm buzzed. Looking down at his wrist he looked at the message. It was coordinates to the Hapes cluster. He was to meet with the Head of State, and the Chancellor [member="Popo"] himself to deliver the final piece of evidence.
He walked to the cockpit and informed the Captain of the change in coordinates and returned to his passenger compartment.

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Agent Hunter Cain walked down the ramp of the shuttle that ferried him to the provided destination in the Hapes cluster. He wore his pack on his back, and held the Graug sword which was wrapped in a cloth, in his right hand. Seeing the Head of State and her entourage, Hunter made his way towards them... Hanna Vondiranach

 

[Hunter Cain]

3 hours later​

Hunter sat in cantina and let out a huge sigh. The mission was a success. He had stopped a war from breaking out between the Mandalorians and the Republic. Though no one would know that he had. Save for the select few that had been involved in the operation. He would not receive and medals or promotions for a job well done. But that was the nature of being an operative. At least he got paid.

The Republic was very generous with his pay. Not only was his account filled with several more zeroes, but they had thrown in a new ship.
Hunter ordered a drink and celebrated his win.

[closed]