Just big business (Nima)

[Goros the Hutt]

Neutral Space
Yinchorr System
Uhanayih
Blockading the Colony of Uhana Alpha.
Aboard Goros the Hutt command frigate named: The Fat Fever, A half drive frigate

Goros had acquired a few of these ships during his time dealing with various weapon companies on the rim, and he had three of them parading around a relatively lifeless neutral world, blockading it actually. Usually he’d be nowhere near the action, in fact he’d disappeared for a few years along with all of his pull within the cartel during the fracture, to work more closely with the one Sith. How did he managed to blockade an entire planet with three ships? Good question, it involved fighters leveling any transports moving on the relatively barren ground toward the colony, and him doing the same from space, interestingly he was only after the one independent colony.

You could say since severing ties and dealing with the one sith more openly, he’d been forced into space to keep moving, which unfortunately for anyone tracking him [member="Nima Tann"] made it even harder because you had to a find where he was headed. As he never showed his face and was very cagey this was difficult, and then to get through his absolutely paranoid level of security he surrounded himself with, so much so it’d make [member="Raien Keth"] jealous.

So years had gone by for the Tann Sisters, several years.

Of course they were all mercenaries here, could be paid, bribed, but he had mercenaries checking up on the mercenaries, and then Noghri commandos checking up on them too, who were as loyal as they come. If there was ever a being who was the definition of unfair play, it was Goros the hutt.

Indulgence Room 5.

In one of his vast pleasure rooms, which if you knew goros meant ever ongoing personal banquets massed with so much food you’d struggle to wonder why there wasn’t a famine nearby. In this purple miniature palace, there were scantily clad slaves of course shock collared and constantly bringing him food, but they were for the guards, Goros liked them the larger the better and paid little interest to tiny humanoids.

Stuffing his face with two different plates at once, and impressive technique, the viewscreen facing his advisors flickered on. “Oh mighty anonymous hutt, we bow to your demands and agree to your trade restrictions, please receive our humble representative personally.”

After some short sharp hutt words, a speaker stepped forward, the usual red male zeltron and face of Goros, "you will present the technology and your rogue queen to our glorious hutt with your representative, or our majestic leader will starve your small colony from the planet's surface."

They had a stand off, so Goros kept eating, cleverly not giving the people on the ground his name or face, staying out of view. Surrounding Goros were three levels of security, even in the room he was in. Such was the overload of manpower on board his own ship, in its halls, in its cargo bays and everyone, that anyone facing him would do well to find a clever disguise or persona. What was worth the risk of him coming here personally?

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

Another day in the Temple which looked the same as the others. Nima was slowly getting used to the quiet as there was nothing that interesting going on for her. So, enjoying her little vacation with her massive mutated wolf Ice in her home, life was going good for her. But even the peace and quiet would get boring after a while. She didn't remember the last time she was on a good battlefield. Now normally she didn't like that much of war, but it was indeed a dangerous galaxy and wars were inevitible. Giving Ice his favorite food, which was like kilos of beef, she slowly prepared herself to escape her house and towards the briefing room, maybe there would be an interesting mission. "Ice, take care. I'll probably be back in hours." She said to him. Being the clever dog he was, he barked in understatement. "Such a good dog." She said, petting his head. Now now, he was the size of a horse now, but he was still a little puppy in her eyes.

Anyway, she arrived to the briefing room after a little time skip. The gardens were awfully quiet again. She sighed as she stepped inside. The briefing room had some Jedi inside looking at the missions just like her intentions were. She walked towards one of the mission terminals and started to look towards the missions one by one, passing the generic ones. "Pirates,diplomacy,pirates,diplomacy, pirates AND diplomacy... uhh" She said frustrated as she continued scrolling through the missions. One of the missions caught her attention. From a unknown planet to her, there was coming a distress signal. The signal was weak, the message could not be read clearly and appearantly from the decoded message the planet was blockaded. That would be interesting! She thought as she took the mission for herself.

She went to hangars and spoke with one of the pilot looking people that she saw. "I want a stealthy ship and a good pilot, we are going to go to the planet in these coordinates. I heard the planet is blockaded so we'll need not to be seen." She said briefly as she gave the man the datapad that contained the coordinates. "I may be of assistance." The man said after carefully examining the datapad."I have a little ship that is enhanced with stealth equipment, and I consider myself a good pilot." Nima nodded as she heard the good news. "Alright then. Let's not wait longer. "

Another timeskip later, they would be in hyperspace going towards the planet. The ship was not particularly comfortable as it was very small, yet it did the job whatsoever. They escaped the hyperspace after a couple of hours,minutes later... well Nima had no interest in fleeting so logic would not be that important. So lets just say they arrived to the scene. From the distance, the situation did not look that good, it was a big ship blockading the planet, and several small ships accompanied it. The pilot activated the stealth cloak, the ship slowly disappeared from the space, leaving only a nothing that could be seen and slowly moved towards the planet. She did not know if they were caught in the radars, yet they had not faced a big opposition for now as they landed to the surface. Nima was the one that escaped the ship, since they landed a bit away from the mainlands to not create any more suspicions. "Stay hidden. After my job is done I'll come back." She said to the pilot, and he nodded. Nima started to walk towards what it looked like a small village.

One of the villagers saw the woman and walked towards her excitedly. "Are you the one that came to help? Are you a Jedi?" It was a little girl, asking too many questions. "Yes I am." She said in a sincere tone. "Can you bring me to whoever sent the signal?" Reading the girl's aura, she wasn't lying. So there was no need for being suspicious around her. She, with a little excited girl, went through the village and towards the village elder. "So you came." The elder said after talking with the little girl. "I didn't expect you would come. "

Nima walked inside then started to talk, her voice was firm. "You've sent the signal. Is there anything I can help you with?" She asked, then the old man answered with a sigh. "As you've seen from outside, we are being blockaded by someone. Their men came into our lands, dug our soils, and took our artifacts. We have no power for opposition. We can't fight back because our leaders are already out there kissing whoever is enslaving them. We need help." He said, his voice clearly showed he was tired of all this. "They will come again to our village. Take our food... Our women... We can't do anything. We have no equipment." Nima was indeed angered by the last sentence of the elder, thus she spoke with a slight anger showing in her tone. "I will help you, and they will take no more." She said, then added. "Let them come, and let them try. I will not allow it."

[member="Raien Keth"] [member="Goros the Hutt"]

 

[Tadietti Tann]

Aboard the Fat Fever

“Damn you, whoever you are. No we are not playing your game anymore,” came a reply from below, and ahead their holoscreen turned off.

“Hohohohoho,” Goros pressed a buzzer, then went back to eating....

With their cartel political squabbles especially heated back on Nar Shadda, violent clashes meant another day away from her casino. Space became another place for her to sit and dream quietly. Yet to be summoned, she was in an all but black room alone, silently attending to records of their latest slave acquisitions. Business was harder without their cartel shielding them, but Sith still found them useful, for now, her scheming had planned for when they did not. Within her quarters, lady blue looked out her window, running her fingers down glass, sometimes wondering how life might have been different, but getting caught up, you were the bits that got caught up, became them for better or worse. At least that's what Natoline told her once.

Three ships orbited beside a blue subspace disturbance, staying within range but safely out of reach, three black dots. Across our storms surface electric arcs came outward from a black, white and blue shifting cloud. Simple colors masking flashes of purple and other colors deep within, making up what looked like a drifting ion storm which could easily play havoc with sensors. Someone had affectionately named their pet electrical nightmare sunna for mistaking the ion storm for interference from their sun.

“Lady blue. They have made a choice.” Shaking her back to reality, her attendant arose her from her work.

Gracefully rising, veiled and entirely in blue velvet dress. Since the death of [member="Bsssk"] at [member="Kiyron"] ‘s hand, Lady blue had ascended one step further within Goros’s organisation, and stepped closer to attaining real power. Little would Bsssk ever know she had arranged for him to be there that fateful day, while she stayed just out of reach.

Apparently they had refused Goros’s offer, and he was not inclined to wait any longer, not merely starving them out, in case trouble arose. So she was being sent down to increase their pressure. 6 Noghri Commandos, 12 Trandoshans, 2 Defel and a Bith, why a bith, because she liked to hear him sing. Grssska had taken Bsssk’s mantel as being their biggest and burliest of those responsible. Mean trandoshans didn’t get any meaner, by his eyepatch and battlescars he’d seen plenty of people test that theory, while those Noghri were quiet, honorable and lethal as ever.

At the village of Uhana Alpha

Below Uhana's simple village had no oxygen outside of its bubble and emergency shields if that failed, because Uhanayih was a rocky wasteland few dared to try to live on. These brave people were making a happy go of things on an otherwise inhospitable world, their fields and huts dug into imported soil and hydroponic bays, most of their time and energy spent growing or tending food to survive. Sadly for them, after some hammering laser fire streaked down from above from roaming fighters, taunting them, rocking the ill prepared colonies shield. It was all too apparent their simple life was about to be upset again, indeed a smug Zeltrons face once again communicated with them, "greetings honored guests of our glorious mighty leader. Our anonymous magnificence has thought you might want to reconsider his generous offer, you have one hour to present us the relics we seek, and also now a dozen slaves as payment for your waste of his time. If not we will settle for your oxygen, and search by force", this time their messages was right in front of the Jedi Master, and perhaps she might know the speaker in passing from brief glances previously at the pageant, but how would she react?

She had perhaps twenty minutes, because those shuttles touched down outside their colony, mounting the nearest rocky ridge line. They were a distance outside of the shielded village, and landing in deep barren craters. [member="Nima Tann"] certainly had her hands full, but she was a clever Jedi Master, not just skilled. Distantly... through that helmet giving Tadietti oxygen, under that blue veil behind it, her sister came last down the shuttle ramp. Long way away, could she make her out, would she know to look? They had been separated some years now, but there was always familiar bonds.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

Being in right place at the right time since there was an ion storm appearing in the distance that would cloud their sudden appearance and hide the ship from unwanted eyes, maybe they had a slight chance beating all the odds after all. This little village was dealing with a big opposition, looking at the ships blockading the planet, and this village might be the only liveable place, as the area was covered with a shield that would provide slight oxygen and protection over this little area. Protection that would be easily destroyed with enough pressure. The leader's voice could be heard from the distance, a shout, to be exact. The negotiations weren't going as planned, huh? Well, according to the ships they brought, they weren't here to negotiate anyway.

Then after the voices were gone, the air was filled with even more voices, as the lasers from above touched the shields. It shook the whole place like an earthquake. "It has started." The village elder said sighing, then not so long later, the holo-communicator opened above the village, showing a Zeltron's face. She has seen that face once or twice, and she did not like it at all. It was an open threat, nothing more nothing less. And a threat that would be pretty serious if they didn't think of a plan B. Then, before she could say anything two unfamiliar people appeared at the door. One male one female, both looked royal, almost too royal that would immediately make them foreigners from this village.

"They will not get anything." The male one said. "These artifacts are ours. With all due respect, my queen. They can't have what is ours." The queen nodded. "What other choice do we have, brother? They have everything. We have only us. I made this place liveable, and I will protect it no matter what. We are only a small community, a family. We can't lose...." As they were fully in the village elder's hut, they stopped talking and immediately their gazes turned to Nima. "It seems that we have a visitor." The queen said, with a smile. The tension from before seemed like completely vanished. "What is your name?" The queen asked again, smile continued. The village elder immediately left Nima's side and moved quickly towards the queen. "My queen. You shouldn't be out here right now. They are coming for you." The queen responded, in a dismissive manner. "I am not a coward to run away from a enemy's shadow, grandfather. You know that. But what is our visitor doing here, that's what makes me more curious?"

"Nima Tann, Jedi Master of the Silver Sanctum. But I believe it is not important right now. You have bigger problems than that. How many minutes until they arrive here?" She asked quickly. They would have the time to chat later, but first they needed to get out of this situation. Except Nima of course, she was going to get deeper into it and find out what was their problem. "20, 30 minutes at most. You've heard them, haven't you? They want my people, my artifacts... And I have no power to prevent this... These people will die because I was too stubborn to listen." She sighed. Well, Nima had a plan. "Alright, my queen." She said, traditions were traditions after all and she was respectful. "I have a plan. You have 10 minutes to tell me everything about this place, the artifacts, what was your problem with those people. How do you eat, how do you speak, how do you act. Everything." Then turned to the brother. "You collect every other citizen here and go to this location." She gave the man the datapad containing the info about the coordinates. "I have a ship waiting for me and tell the pilot I sent you. He'll bring you to somewhere safer. After I am done here, I'll send a signal to him."

The brother looked at the queen, and she nodded so he immediately left with such speed. "I won't leave the city." The queen admitted with a sad expression. "It's my home, my responsibility to protect." Nima immediately cut the conversation. "9 minutes. Your time is running out. If you don't start to tell me what I asked you, then everyone in here dies. Your brother, grandfather, dear villagers you wanted to protect.If you don't have the equipment, I have it. So let me protect it for you. They will not need me more than they need you." Nima nodded afterwards. A good lesson, was the mind manipulation. You didn't even need to use the Force for that. So, she would tell her everything before they arrived, and she would go to the ship safely afterwards as well.

[member="Tadietti Tann"] [member="Goros the Hutt"]

 

[Tadietti Tann]

Two of the village elders agreed to speak to Nima, the people of this place seemed to make some of the old war relics and technologies something of a familiar landmark, and most of them had been repurposed. The turtle like Yinchorri were religious and this world was a religious site of theirs itself.

“During the sky war many artifacts were left here, many great battles fought and the spirit within suffered horribly.” Within, a concept of their religion was the world within.

“But all the weapons and ships were taken by scavengers there is so little left.” One of those beside them added, but obviously there was something left, something important that had existed before or after the republic quarantined this planet when the Empire had conquered it. The elder continued on regardless, seemingly set on retelling the story quickly as requested! Impending doom and all!

“Quarantine meant our people were left to fend for themselves, isolated from the outside, forced to adapt, and eventually we became as nomads after we were conquered by the empire.” Retold their elder, slowly taking her religious shrine to pieces, it was the relic! The technology decorated so well to look like a shrine, something attached to the blinking radar box, was a box of numbers, and they seemed to be counting up, they looked to read into the millions, more. Nima had managed to get them to part with the truth.

“There is nothing left, just our guides to the stars.” The Hutts hadn’t thought to check the elders shrine!

20 minutes was becoming 15 and soon 10….

Across the craters the Hutts came, starfighters sometimes shooting at the shield, just to rock the village and blow out some lights or knock down a wooden wall, to remind them time was ticking down with every shot. Goros had done this before, but how many times now, what was he building?

Quarantine, could it have something to do with the quarantine? Perhaps a shiver of force insight thereabouts might give way, but little time was left, as the few electric lights there were shattered above them by the now constant pounding, left only with dim candle light and roaring fire to keep them warm.

Outside the shield their arriving guest's group was bigger, meaner and bristling with menacing looking weapons, claws, blades, and fancy weaponry, they were packing some extremely big looking guns this time. Still having 10 minutes left before they reached the metaphorical door and came knocking, but he had promised 1 hour after all, could Goros be trusted or negotiated with to keep his word?

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

She managed to persuade the queen, who told her advisors, the village elders to tell her the story briefly. These creatures were indeed interesting ones and maybe not even discovered, it would be great to know about them more since gaining knowledge was one of her hobbies. But of course, circumstances did not let her do this so she quickly nodded, as one of the elders brought her an artifact. "As you see, Master Jedi. Our only wealth is our relics. And I am not talking about the credits. These artifacts were long here before we even came here, and they will stay here even after we are gone. These artifacts belong to the spirit of our planet, belongs to the Elders Shrine. We can't simply give them to these... thieves..." She said, a sigh following afterwards. And Nima nodded. "You won't need to do that. Leave it to me, alright?" She said in an encouraging tone. "And I would like to talk about your history more after I am done. I am pretty curious." And that would assure the queen that she was determined to have a success.

"We can talk while having our drinks." The queen was a bit more relaxed after hearing Nima's words. "And I want to know about the outside world as well, since we haven't been able to communicate for a while." She said with a wink. Their time was running out, so Nima didn't go on with this dialogue, they would have quite a time afterwards. "That's a promise then." She answered with a wink as well. Well, if only she wasn't a turtle!... Anyway! How many more minutes did they have? 10 minutes, 5? "Alright. So, let me look at you a bit." She said, now that she had enough information about the situation, she would move on to the second step. She memorized each detail, from her skin to her clothes, visible wounds. Each detail was important. Then, she closed her eyes and imagined the memorized appearance of the queen. Slowly collecting the Force around, she started to create an illusion around herself. Like a cloth, the queen's appearance slowly closed her own and after seconds, she was the queen.

All the people around them seemed shocked, even the queen seemed to not believe her eyes. "How... how did you do that?" She said in a shocked tone, seeing herself in front of her would be a bit creepy! "Well." She did her best impression of the queen's voice. "I told you I have my tools, didn't I?" She said as she made a punch and let go again. The illusion seemed real enough! "We have only a little time, if you go now, you can arrive there before they come here." Nima said, then added. "Let me welcome my visitors to my village, hm?" The queen nodded, impressed and she had many questions yet no time to find answers. "Alright people, it's the time. Let's move." She shouted, letting everyone hear her voice. As they started to leave the village quickly, the storms seemed to have worsened. It was a good thing, and bad at the same time. Then, she closed her eyes and started to wait for the bad guys. "Well, Nima... It seems you are in a big pile of pain again..." She laughed softly. Also, she still had that language rule!

[member="Tadietti Tann"]

 

[Tadietti Tann]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYq_Jpxdq2A​

Time was soon up.​

Lady Blue awaited behind their shield, her underlings making entry, walking behind them. Noghri commandos forever underused by their competitors to Goros’s benefit, they were small, sturdier lethal killers, moving through their captive village with purpose. Trandoshans instead were loud, brash, lumbering and big, knocking over anything that got in their way, kicking over fences, things used to harvest crops, malicious and hyper-aggressive by their nature. Dark haired and spotless appearance, a myke female had arrived to stand by Tadi’s side, cold, ruthless and especially focused, swords a-plenty decorating her.

Activity which showed Tadi’s, no lady blue’s growing resources and power within her master’s organisation. Behind them forever veiled and hidden she walked, not even needing to say her word for her ruthless killers to stop and wait toward their receiving queen's door. Noghri bodyguard's checked to make sure nobody was wielding weapons in their direction, and then about six of them entered.

Both sisters disguised, both perhaps unaware of just who was facing who. Making matters harder for Nima Tadi didn’t even speak, her underlings jockeying for position in who would address their receiving queen, times's past that would have been her role. Nima, her sister, looking upon split personalities behind Tadi’s veil, could she tell them apart without speech or sight?

Distractingly that was becoming a mixed sight, between their calm but lethal female Myke, silent Noghri and their hulking great trandoshans, Grssska the biggest and loudest of everyone, fittingly wearing eyepatch gained in recent exploits. His scarred face looked to lady blue to be sure before he acted, then pushed to front their group of criminals, lackys and other gangsters.

Grssska's face came forward to Nima, his breath not much to write home about, “Relics. Or oxygen.” While the Myke human with him, her dark eyes looked displeased, being shoved aside, nor did lady blue's Noghris' firm sense of honor seem happy being used as tools for vile acts. All of this mixed atmosphere probably visible for Nima's Jedi Master awareness. Nima could play these personalities off each other easily enough, or lead them on, or trick them.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

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[Nima Tann]

And here they are...

Considering that this place was very small and its people didn't have any weapons to defend themselves, coming with this amount of people could mean two things. First option, they weren't taking any chances, second, they liked showing off. Maybe both mixed, well she was going to find out about that. The shields were almost off, she could feel the oxygen in the area was slowly decreasing, yet she stood strong with a smile on her face. That should make a good point. Still disguised as the queen, she watched the army enter the shields and took a breath. So many unknown species, so many to examine. Being a Jedi Master, she could read what was on their minds, some of them calm, some of them didn't want to be in here, some of them angry and just wanted to be done with it. If the boss behind them could create an army consisted of those, he had to have a lot of money.

The biggest creature among them, looking like a pirate and not so clever as loud ones were never the cleverest ones, started to come towards Nima and after a second or two she could feel his breath on her face, and more threats. These kinds fed upon the weakness of the ones that they were dealing with, and weakness that he wasn't going to find in the Jedi Master. So, without even looking away from the creature, she started to talk. "You should use a breath freshener. Your breath stinks." A rebel queen, she was playing the part if her observations about the real queen was true. "And considering the situation we are in right now, I think I am not very well with threats. So stop playing the tough guy." Nima being the perfectionist, this whole speech was not at all similar to how she would do but how the queen would act. Nima would immediately attack because she wasn't going to talk with bunch of thieves, but she continued to play. The creature looked very angry, and from his behaviour she could guess that he was about to attack. "If I were you, I would not attack me. You need me, and the relics after all, right? And if you hurt me you'll only get the ones you find. And believe me they will bring you only a little, comparing to what I will give you." As an example, she brought the clock-like relic and gave it to the creature. At the end she was going to bring all the relics back, but first they needed to take the bait.

Nima wanted to wipe the look off his face, but of course, she still needed to know about things and not act quickly. "New deal." Now the advantage was hers, as she gave them what they wanted, but not all. "I want you to bring me to your boss. Only to them I am going to tell what I know. I am not going to share this information with thieves like you. Or... you go home with a corpse and only a little money that will be enough for a month. Disappoint your boss, end up dead and no one will remember you." She placed a smile afterwards, even though she didn't know if they would do what she asked. From the back, she could see a totally different person from all these creatures. A person covered in blue, silent and more... human, comparing to them. What was she doing here? Wait a minute.... Seeing her started to create something in her mind, a familiar sight... Then she remembered as the pieces slowly fall into place, first the Zeltron, now the girl standing between those creatures... Lady Blue... [member="Goros the Hutt"]'s henchmen. The Hutt that she was tracking years ago, and lost for almost 5 years was back, but what was his plan? Was he running away from something? No, stealing relics would give his position away. So what was he doing here suddenly? The only thing she knew, that they needed a reunion. And this time Nima wasn't going to let the Hutt go away. "So what do you say, creature? Go discuss it with whoever you want, I'll be staying here."

[member="Tadietti Tann"]

 

[Tadietti Tann]

Goros definitely liked showing off, bigger stuff the better!

Big like the reptilian looking at Nima. Grssska’s breath did stink, he opened his maw wide enough to show her that he cared, until apparently lady blue had held up a hand from the back of their group. Smaller noghri shoving their bigger trandoshan with a none too soft rifle butt. Grssska was about to rip their noghri up or try, until he saw blue give him just a look through her veil, one long look.

Clock given, Nima's gesture confirmed what they needed, but what they REALLY needed was her radar signal device formerly attached, if only they knew that too was in her hutt. Lady blue silently decided how to play this. Goros always sent more people than was needed, because he didn’t like wasting them, overkill for him was preferable, businessman that he was. What they all knew, was what Nima said next, if they went home empty handed a few of them were going out the airlock regardless of the cost of rehiring.

Arana, the calculating Myke spoke up next, powergames between Grssska and the lady known as Arana Kem, while Grssska was brash, Arana was not. “I am their boss.” Though outwardly she put on quite a convincing sabacc face for bluffing, Nima was no ordinary person. “Everyone else leave us.” Apparently Lady blue snatching her opportunity exited the queen's hutt, which was cause enough for everyone but the myke to agree to leave too, silent control blue exerted over the others was almost forcelike, inspiring either extreme fear or the need to protect perhaps.

This left Arana and Nima alone in the tent, one Noghri sent back through, probably by blue with nothing more than a touch to his shoulder. Hints though that Arana was not fully in charge, but Nima had Arana almost completely to herself right now for any force techniques she wished to try.

“They can be so uncivilized, don’t you think.” Arana smiled falsely laughing, but it was the smile of a ruthless killer, taking time to sit beside the queen if she sat, or stand if she stood, her twin swords across her back carefully positioned so not to break her furniture. “Now, we will take your remaining relics, and you will take?” She was not above civilized negotiation, or ruthlessly executing her competition, often at the same time.

[member="Nima Tann"]​

 

[Nima Tann]

Nima could be a little naive, maybe sometimes she could trust people that she shouldn't have, but she wasn't in any case stupid. She would see this woman's lies clearly without the need of the Force, and she knew that she wasn't the boss, even though she had a good sense of talking and some kind of diplomacy. The real reason why she understood the truth, was that her direct announciation of her being the boss. In a shady business, unless you knew the person really well you wouldn't directly announce yourself to be the most important target. It would make that boss, a stupid one or... their boss was really standing in the army somewhere and this woman was protecting her, which, she believed was the right answer. All the army has left the tent of the queen, and seconds later it was only her and Nima sitting in the tent, poor woman was probably just thinking it was going to be an easy interrogation. Oh how she was wrong!

"Yeah I do think that they are quite rude. I am trying to be a good queen and comply, and they are making my job difficult. You should discipline them more." The woman let out a fake smile, trying to look as sincere as possible. But her whole expression was giving her away. "I agree. They haven't been the best of their kind recently. But you have to understand it is pretty difficult to keep them together. None of them are alike so it's difficult to find a common ground." Nima, was prepared for this kind of speech, and maybe a bit too much having fun. "So that's why you need my planet's relics? To keep them together? I don't think it's as simple as that. A big group like you should need a bigger chain of command, if I know politics." Continuing to place one piece to another, Anaya seemed to be starting to get angry a bit. "Well, you are dealing with me, darling. And I assure you people outside will not like if you continue to waste time. Now, I want the relics, please." The tone of the woman continued to get angrier and angrier with each second passing.

"Tell me about the [member="Goros the Hutt"]." It was Nima's voice this time, she was pretty much tired of threats. "Wha... what are you talking about?" Time to show she didn't take them very kindly. "And who really is your boss here. Right now." She said in a commanding voice as she extended her hand towards the woman's head, interfering with her thoughts and totally gaining control of her brain as her talons slowly closed up on her victim's brain. "And if you do anything suspicious your brain will fry in seconds, then I disguise as you and tell them that the queen attacked me. Now, speak." The woman, almost like in a hypnotized voice, started to talk. It was really easy to enter to her brain, and she called herself the boss. It was a pathetic attempt, but she respected her trying to protect the real one. "He is running away. Afraid of his life. Don't know why. He orders us to get relics. Get food. He doesn't say much. He never shares anything with ordinary mercenaries. His... second in command is Lady Blue... He shares a lot of information with her... I... I..." At that point, the woman's mind was like the boiling water, and more info would destroy her identity. So, she let her mind relax a bit. Of course not without a little tweak here and there. "You are going to say that the queen shared the necessary information with you. You are going to lead them to the storage area." She knew that they spared some of the relics to that area in order to give it to the hutt before the deal was off. "And you are going to say that the queen wants to have a conversation with the anonymous hutt, to make sure she strikes a deal with him to leave her village alone. Also, you are going to forget this little... conversation between us." She said in commanding voice. "Y...ye...yes... I understand..." The woman replied, her voice was shaking. Then she let go of her completely.

Now the woman with a twisted mind slowly escaped the tent. She, of course continued to wait in her disguise, happy with herself.

[member="Tadietti Tann"]

 

[Goros the Hutt]

Planetside:

One well shook up female Myke later! Nima had really done a number on her, for the rest of the day appearing agitated at best and not knowing why! Message relayed through small holoprojector on her wrist to what seemed like a female red zeltron, no words were replied, there was just nod given. As if someone else was really answering. Goros was incredibly evasive, even putting himself in orbit was unlike him, what was that device REALLY worth. Tadetti’s small gathering waited surrounding the tent, while she moved to where the storage facility was, silently wondering what Goros would do. The Noghri would no doubt escort the queen, while the trandoshans just pulled wings off flies or did whatever they did while waiting.

Onboard the Fat Fever.

Games with queens, and pieces moved, queen to take a knight. Goros was as cunning as he was fat, well not really but close.

“HOHOHOHOHO”. Went the traditional belly rumbled laugh at the request, only with subsequent burp because as ever his pink fatness was thoroughly enjoying his 7th course at the buffet, a buffet which was naturally brought to him. Anything capable of entertaining our supersized overlord’s belly for a time stuffed into his huge mouth.

Foros the Hutt​

Foros the Hutt entered, none too happy to be asked to go, the two had to negotiate the sale of a modest sized weapons factory for him to be involved, which took almost an hour itself to draw up contract. Fair likeness to Goros, what gave him away was his cousin had darker arms, and was able to walk unassisted, he was still considerably fat. Hutt were quite amiable to their families, much gentler than you might imagine if you witnessed the many slaves inside his own feast, hutts families were their softer side, definite leverage. Just how many minions did goros have in his pocket? Always one more...

Planetside - The queen was signaled and escorted by the more honorable commandos if she came.

One long hour and twenty minutes later Foros and a few of his own escorts arrived, waiting by the storage area with lady blue, the pale faced myke and several others. What did Nima have in mind to shatter the all too fragile allegiance that brought thieves, cut throats and criminals together? She had all the cards, nobody suspected a thing, except... no Lady blue didn't recognize anything familiar, not yet.

Foros being nothing like as clever as Goros hadn't put out any kind of clever orders for where to put his escorts, or assessed the tension between the Noghri's and Trandoshans. The large, bad breathed Grssska and one noghri commando falling out again, which for a trandoshan usually meant only one thing, someone wasn't going home. Lady blue's stare went right through both, they stopped dead and moved away from each other slowly, she still had this almost silent control over what happened, why?

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[Nima Tann]

The waiting game began.

As the woman got outside with her mind twisted and tortured, some guards entered in with their ugly faces. Of course, she didn't wait for them to leave her alone. Even though the queen seemed to be "not dangerous"! Oh they had no idea about the one inside. One wrong move and this charade would end. Nima already started to get very bored waiting around. "The anonymous hutt will be coming soon, right?" She still was playing her part. The guard didn't care about her question, at all and continued to look around. She sighed, without anything to do, continued to wait humming a little song. The guards didn't seem to like that song, though. "Shut up." One of them said with a grunt. "Why?" The queen said sighing. "Do you want to continue the disturbing silence? Be my guest." Well, Goros indeed chose his henchmen pretty well. He was going to jail very soon though, so she was looking forward to it.

Tick, tock, tick, tock... The clock continued ticking and finally, one of the guards went outside. Nima was getting a lot tired with all this, but at last Goros was going to come here and she would continue her mission. A lot of questions, and no answers. Why was he running, why was he collecting relics and money, why was he so fat... no, she didn't want that answer. The guard, after minutes, came quickly back to tent, with his face grinning. She didn't like that grin. "Is the anonymous hutt here?" She asked with a bored voice. Guard didn't say anything yet took her arm, then brought her towards the storage area. As they entered, she could see the main group has been assembled in the middle. As she predicted, some of the relics were here, stacked to be given to the hutt if everything went wrong. She examined the room. It was very much for only one person. Clever. She always liked some challenge. But, there was something wrong. It... wasn't Goros. She could understand, even though they were almost identical. Goros was fatter.

She sighed, Lady Blue could recognize this sigh since Nima would sigh exactly like this if things didn't go as she wanted. Yet, she still needed to play her part. Before she could act however, one of the guards hit the back of her knee, which immediately made her fell down on her knees. Showing a... fake respect for the Hutt. She did a death stare to the one who hit her. "I would have done it myself." She said, was going to add something else but she had the language rule. Foros, with all his... might?, was standing right in front of her. "HOHOHO... I love some respect..." He said with his annoying voice. Nima, was not amused. "Oh mighty Hutt..." She said, one could say Nima was pretty much patient. And... the only way to reach Goros, was to reach the one Lady Blue, if the female Myke told the truth, if only she could lie. So she had to create some distraction.

"I present you the rich history of our planet. The relics in here are all yours." To be honest, with a quick dash, she would immediately reach to the Hutt, it seemed like his tactical mind was not that clever. But, she was a perfectionist, and so she wanted to do this without unnecessary violence. Besides, being the queen was pretty much fun. So, she continued. "In return, I ask of you to protect our village from outsiders, if the anonymous hutt pleases." It was difficult to talk like this. "But I have a question.." She said, with a suspicious look towards Grssska. Now the opportunity was perfect, since she could see some arguments growing between mercenaries. "I've heard from the big guy here, that you are running from someone. That's why you are trying to be anonymous and get this much money." Then she stood up finally. "If you owe so much money to some faction that strong. I believe this deal of ours will need to be declined. We, as a village, don't want to deal with a bigger threat. I am sure you can understand." One thing that would heat things up, a huge loss of money. And it was all "Grssska's fault."

"Grssska you karking traitor!" One of the Noghri commanders shouted. Then another followed. Then another. Grssska shouted as well, filled with anger. "SHUT THE KARK UP! I DIDN'T DO THAT!" Surely they didn't see the creature for a while, who wouldn't believe such a well crafted lie. Especially when you didn't trust each other that well. Surprisingly, the female Myke joined the conversation. Good girl. "I saw them speaking, almighty Hutt. She's telling the truth. Grssska betrayed us." Since female Myke was very well calculated, and was one of them, they would believe her very well. Foros was frozen in place, didn't know what to do. "SHE'S LYING TOO!" Grssska shouted. It was too late for that though as one of the Noghri attacked one of the Trandoshans. Then it turned into a fight. Now that it was pretty well distracted, she started phase two and examined the room for Lady Blue. And she found her, her back was turned. Perfect opportunity to strike. She dashed towards her and with a quick move caught her by the neck, her grip was very tight before she could get things under control with a look again. Nima was indeed clever to understand everything was a little play and she was the one being played. She didn't like being played at all. "Hey there, Lady Blue. " She said, she was now in full Nima mode. "Let's take a walk, shall we?" Advantage of this distraction was, no one understood what was happening and shouts were not heard because everyone was shouting.

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[Tadietti Tann]

Fragile allegiances crumbled, battle between their smaller Noghri Commando and their overlarge, one-eyed Trandoshan Grssska might at first glance seem mismatched, but if you thought so you didn’t know Noghri Death Commandos! Needless to say they’d be at their honorable combat awhile! The only one who noticed the queen doing anything was that pale myke and she was too scared stiff to let on, plus she sensed possible advancement if Blue AND Grssska both died here today, she let their queen grab blue and actually distracted people to help her!

Behind them, Foros was waving his tiny arms up in the air, panicked he’d be running in circles if he could, but his sizeable bulk at best could just jiggle side to side, while he tried to work out what to do!

Blue feeling her neck gripped, exhaled, her lips only visible below her veil, silently keeping her cool. She had suspicion about their queen's sigh which had also caught her completely off guard. If Goros always had another minion, blue always had another card to play. Nima was smart to take blue away, because she had special techniques for gaining obedience from her entourage, especially those unlikely Noghri… to be revealed shortly.

Lady blue was far too cunning to shout. She didn't start talking straight away, way too smart for that too, and when she did, her posture entirely changed to be subservient to her queen rescuer, because queen's were used to servants, or so blue thought.... After minutes of silence she did speak.

The very first thing lady blue fell back on, was to visibly allow her slave collar to be shown, because how could slaves be responsible for anything? “Thank you for rescuing me,” her voice said with some practiced ease as they walked, blue having sung her slave tune before. “He tasks me with being his eyes,” some truth... “You saved me, but please… if you remove my veil, or my collar, my collar will detonate and harm you.” All practiced lines, said convincingly, not Tadietti’s way of speaking but very similar sounding voice. Along her neck her thin collar showing blinking red electronics, she might be wearing her bomb, might not, either way her slave color was exquisitely decorated and designed.

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[Nima Tann]

The girl didn't struggle as she took her by the neck, didn't say anything, it was like she already knew about her and decided that she wouldn't hurt her, or was that Nima's imagination and it was all her manipulation for Nima to think like that? Possibly. This whole thing was a bit awkward for her as well since she thought she had some kind of connection to the Lady Blue the first time she's seen her in that Beauty contest. It was all a familiar feeling, but she just couldn't understand. And besides they didn't have so much time to learn about each other as Goros suddenly disappeared. Anyway, she didn't let her own thoughts prevent her from doing her job so she moved with the Lady towards the exit where they could be a bit alone and away from probably the two mercenaries cutting each other, and if things went very badly today, she knew who she wasn't going to kill. That myke, could be pretty useful to trace Goros if she couldn't get anything from Lady Blue.

"Rescuing you?" She asked, with a curious look and a short laugh. Her laugh would give the Blue a chance to remember. It didn't look anything like a rescue mission, more like Nima kidnapped her. The girl was good in whatever game she was playing in her head. But Nima, had the lightsaber. You shouldn't really bring words to a lightsaber fight. "It was more like a kidnap, my dear Lady Blue. You are the key to reach Goros, and you are going to call him now." Slave collar. More resemblance to the someone in her past, and her voice... Her voice was just something that triggered some feeling inside of her. Call it a hunch, or just a cruel play of imagination in her head, she actually felt like she knew this person. But also, she was so distant that, her stance, her talk, her everything... were so distant. It was all a complicated feeling, to be honest. "You didn't exactly look like you were doing it out of fear for some Hutt. Or just because you are a slave and you have to obey." The one thing that angered her the most, was a person that accepted the fate that has been given to her, instead of creating the fate for herself. But this girl, was something else entirely. She would realize the change of tone in her voice as the next words came. "I saw your look, I saw your satisfaction as those mercenaries listened to your every word. You are not a simple slave." Simple slaves didn't have that much of a fancy collar. It looked more like decoration. "You love power, don't you?" She said, then continued.

"I give you a chance to take the Hutt out of your game. Then what happens? You take the control. Absolute power. I can see that you would like such a thing." Her voice was perfectly crafted, like in those movies where the bad guy tried to manipulate the good guy to join the cause. Only now that the players were reversed. It would work in most mercenaries. Maybe this girl too. And according to her voice, she was still very young, and young people made mistakes. Oh how she absolutely felt bad for her and just wanted to know more about hher. But it was all a game, and a better player would win. She had her lessons from one Master Kawakami, and she knew exactly what this girl was doing. She had many cards to play, so that would be interesting. "Or if you don't want to comply... that's perfectly fine for me. I'll find another. And I'll learn where Goros is eventually. Only one of us will die, and that person will be you." She had many methods to kill a person. It didn't need to be explosions, she would just shut down someone's brain entirely if she wanted. Oh how she wished she brought Ice here. He definitely was a very good factor to scare people off. Meanwhile Lady Blue would be to take the situations in more passive manner, Nima was immediately threatening. She didn't like the games, they were so dirty. Direct approach was always the best, but if situation wanted a game, she would play that.

The questions were indeed very much, she would immediately take the veil off if the Blue didn't say anything about explosions. One could never be so careful. Maybe Blue would recognize her, as she was in full Nima mode now, her speech, her laugh, even her threatening ways, her hesitation, there were some subtle hints for the Blue to find. "What do you say, Lady Blue? You want to help me take down this crime lord?" One would guess after she was done with Goros she would immediately take down Lady Blue as well, no one was giving any promise about that. But it was difficult a bit to talk with her now, as the feeling of nostalgia hit her once more. What was happening?

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[Tadietti Tann]

Lady Blue’s collar continued to show softest light, colorful gold swirls sparkling, to perhaps reflect sunlight? The queen’s laugh, an expert of masks, meeting an expert of masks. Her lekku shifted to tighten slightly underneath her lace veil’s foldings, suspecting she knew her captor. Her usually nervous, unmasked tension and her mouth felt dry, but being so practiced at her game behind her veil, she moved past her misstep.

Sleak silver pistol under her robes shifted to aim toward their queen’s side, she may or may not feel her movements of Tadietti’s barrel. She was a Jedi Master after all!

The reason this small petite creature could order honorable Noghri commandos of all people to carry out her Goros’s distasteful tasks, was…. “oh but of course I’d like to comply….”

POP.

Grssska found his head exploding from not far away. Gone just like that. Petite hand atop pistol, her neck had sent her signal from her collar, smallest presses of her hand upon trigger, same might happen if her collar was removed! Nima would find Lady Blue leaning to her! So her explosive was very, very close. Shape of her face this close might make impression across her usually well-disguised veil, to show outline but not image of her sister. So cold of expression and voice as she callously took life. Explosive technology Raien Keth had used when one of his assassins [member="Niaana Ren"] had failed him in killing Mantic Dorn, timed detonators embedded in her own people, they had worked together to retake their own slave pits at Lorrd on their travels. Now with Raien's death guess who ran those slave pits....

“We have no love for our fat overlord,” her smile tightened, sensing opportunity indeed, she had no doubt both their queen and goros needed to die to ensure her survival. Lady blue’s voice whispered very calmly next, “yes my Queen, let me assist you in his demise.” Absolute power. Control she craved. Assist, by first removing her hand from lady blues BLINKING neck!

Games… would she really detonate herself just to be let free. You better believe our former slave would do ANYTHING to be free. Freedom through control. "Or we can die together, if you wish my veil off" This was a litmus test to see how far their queen would go, if she wanted her veil, she was going to pay a heft price to take it.

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[Nima Tann]

She noticed the slight expression change of Lady Blue, her stance and struggle stood still as Nima continued to talk. She felt like Blue was hesitating, nervous even. Being a Jedi Master she would know the change of emotions the best. Besides, it was one of her problems too. She had the mood swings here and there as well. Even one more thing that she could say the two shared, which... made her even more thoughtful. Maybe Blue felt like that too? Who knew? Or maybe the girl was just too good at this game and was playing her all along. That was quite a possibility as well. She was tired of those games, she wasn't like that at all. She just wanted to find Goros and do what she was going to do, because she didn't like being thoughtful, trouble always followed her whenever that happened. Looked like she was right again, as she was busy being thoughtful that she didn't realize the girl shifted a pistol with such speed, thus couldn't react faster before she popped the former beast Grsska's head with it, just like that, he was dead.

She was shocked. How could she be so careless, that she didn't see this potential threat coming all the way... And now, the roles were reversed. The one that she kidnapped, became the kidnapper, as the only thing between her and the girl was a button's little press. Then everything would be gone, heads popped, no information, and a waste of a valuable life. What? Did you really think she would die with her? No. But she didn't want this girl to die yet as well. This cold expression, this... voice.... it was evil. She didn't hesitate to openly threaten her captor as well, that required some courage to do. She, the one that she thought she knew, was yet a foreign person to her again, and she was getting angry. Her thoughts... yet they could be only a fragment of her imagination, or nothing was really what it seemed. As Blue leaned over her, she could see the one that did all these in a split second, a very blurry image behind the veil but enough for her to determine, that she was very young. Young for all this. Who knew what her "master" did to her to make her like this? It was indeed a poor, sad life. But, a life that the girl chose, and the girl was going to die with it. This open act didn't amuse Nima, as she hated being threatened. And the girl, was going to have a bad time. But not so soon, first, she needed to get rid of that button. So, Nima laughed, her laugh was strongly disappointed, continued playing her game.

"A bold move, Lady Blue. But a stupid one indeed. You played your cards so soon. But I am not going to do that. Not going to play that game." She whispered to her, as they were so close to each other. "Look around yourself." She said, then added. "You have the button to their demise, you have the control over them. You arrange their life, and their death. But... someone else has that control over you. One press of a button, and boom, you are dead. Just because a fat Hutt wanted you to die. All the control, all the power, they're totally gone." Her voice was still corrupting, she had arranged her tone so good that one would think she was a criminal mastermind. "Kill both of us, and you are going to die a slave. No one will remember you more than that. You are always going to be the young girl that once worked under Goros. Would you like such a fate for yourself? I guess you wouldn't." And there was the part, where the "villain" of the story talked about joining the cause. "Help me get Goros, and I'll make sure you die a boss when I cut you down. If... you are feeling suicidal that much." This part was colder than expected, all the anger mixed together as the girl tried to play her. But now, her cards were out. She openly threatened her, and revealed she was indeed something more than a weak queen. Whatever the girl wanted to believe. And also gave her a choice, if she didn't feel suicidal, then the cutting part didn't need to happen. Criminals loved choices.

"Suggest you put the pistol down. You don't need to die as a slave today. That, I promise to you." And why was she constantly talking about the veil? Nima never mentioned she wanted her veil off, even she didn't care, she didn't need to see her face. She just wanted her to do her part and then cut her half as her being alive wouldn't help her anymore. One more criminal down, because that was how it worked, right? She gave so many wrong people so many wrong chances, and now... she was now careful. Not too naive, not too cruel. Well, maybe a little cruel, but the years she has experienced in battlefields were enough evidence for her actions. Seeing her face wouldn't give any more satisfaction to her as she was too young and she would have a big life ahead of herself. Instead she was... she was... Why... Why hesitate now? Was she curious about her? Did she really... want to see her face? Or was Lady Blue unconsciously sending her a message that she needed to see her face, maybe even without her knowing it as well.

Spoiler

"What's under the veil, Lady Blue?" She asked, her tone was different this time. It wasn't a weak attempt to gain the trust of the girl, it was pure curiousity. "Why do you wish me to remove your veil constantly?" She asked even though Lady Blue didn't directly say she was wishing her to remove the veil, maybe the true one under the veil would get the message under her words. She wanted to know about that person, not this carefully masked one. The one thing to destroy an opponent, was to know their true self. Only then you would get the advantage over them.

Back to reality. None of those words escaped her lips, maybe she was afraid of really knowing her. This wouldn't be such of a good reunion after all.

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[Tadietti Tann]

Outplayed by her sister, only suspecting she knew their queen, not that she was close family. Lady blue mis-stepped twice! Nima called her bluff. She’d never expected their queen to risk her life. Blue wasn’t suicidal, she’d do anything for control, including play along fooling herself into believing she was (Queen)Kingmaker. Their story as if written and foretold, Nima would know her subtext so well, she guessed wisely. To keep seeing hand gestures, face gestures, head gestures about her veil, constantly there, over and over, waiting for release from self made her prison. Beware what came underneath when pains were touched too deep all at once...

Smile faded beneath her veil's edge showed creeping tension across her visible chin.

“There is no power without mask.” She said sternly, “who sits atop our throne next?”

Though Goros would never know, he could own the galaxy with his name, blue had need of his fat self blocking her from view. Goros's blanketed silence he surrounded them with was oh so useful. In her mind she was fully in control, realities as Nima pointed out about her own neck were very different! Ever the slave she couldn’t even register what Nima had meant about her neck, not at first.

What's under the veil....

As Tadietti, almost.

Her blaster tensed underneath her dress…. but something had made her hesitate “s.sstop.” She would pull away, frightened, holding hand to her veil if allowed. Fear. Tension. “a.a.greed.” Either way in Nima's grip or seperate she would stutter, visibly holding her palm to her face. If Nima reached again for her veil, she’d raise her weapon back up coldly. She needed time to bring their queen down, s…s.s.omething f.felt wrong. As Nima needed time to reach her, pushing would not work here.

As Lady Blue.

“We will go to him.” Her voice fell back into practiced form, and on queue were their minions coming back to her side, valuing their heads! Nima’s move! She'd take their queen to Goros if she came, Foros and the others were already looting their settlement, whether Nima really liked that or not! Because Criminals!

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[Nima Tann]

Nima seemed like she was winning this little game, which was a surprise because she was very bad at it. Or was that her low self confidence speaking? Anyway, she managed to find a crack on her mastered mask, and a little push would make the crack bigger. "We all wear masks, but it doesn't always make us powerful. You are only powerful if you don't have masks to conceal your wrongs." She said, then added. "That mask is your weakness and always will be your weakness, Lady Blue. It's only a thing that has been planted on you by your master, a thing that conceals your true identity and make you his 'slave'. Meanwhile you were fed with the thoughts of power, you are only as powerful as your master wants you to be. Why do you think that he put a bomb on it? Because he wants you to be who he wants you to be, and stay like that forever. You are clever, Lady Blue. You can put pieces together, and see it for yourself." She can hear the cracks growing, it was only a matter of time, that she could make the girl see what she was put through all this time. "Things can still change, if you only break free from the mask." Then, and only then, hearing a little crack in Lady Blue's voice, she stopped. Her grip over her has loosened a bit as she went back to her thinking space. That voice... she knew the shyness in it, she knew... No... It was another imagination, right? Why, though? What was happening now...

It was Lady Blue. A criminal. A slaver. A slave. A lost girl. A young girl that has been tormented and lied all this time. A familiar voice. A familiar aura. But why? This familiarity. It was giving her a headache, and almost caused her illusion to dissolve but she could barely save it and strengthened it as she wasn't done with this identity yet. Besides, it seemed like she got things under control now, as the girl agreed to take her to Goros. It was mission finished and done, wasn't it? Why didn't it feel like that? She could see the surviving group slowly appearing at the distance coming towards their side. So, she left the girl's neck and prepared herself, relaxing her mind. Not before saying her last words as Nima to the Lady Blue, her voice was like a whisper as the mercenaries got closer and closer. "You are doing the right thing. And I know you will do the right thing again, when the time comes." She was talking about the mask. "Don't let him win." And then they were finally here, with the loot they could gather from the village. It was no big deal, after today, this whole mercenary group was going to be destroyed after all. She could always bring the loot back to the village.

"Thanks for giving me the opportunity to talk with the almighty anonymous Hutt, my Lady." And she returned to the full queen mode, as she put a respectful bow for the Lady Blue.

For one, final act.

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[Tadietti Tann]

Listening, torn between mask and truth, Nima was speaking to her mask, she was speaking to what she wanted off. Asking for suicide of sorts, which our Jedi Master might feel as in how Lady Blue froze, unable to move. Folding her thin silver pistol away to sit with its partner inside her dress, “Don’t be so sure Queen.” Lady blue’s voice warned her? Not sure why she was warning her, our motley group made their trek toward landed shuttle. Mostly silent on their trip back, thinking plenty behind her veil, lady blue just pointed where she wanted people, Grsssk’s corpse taken with bodybag. Plans within plans.

Hauled relics coming with, everywhere was combed, and what they could salvage was, assuming Nima didn’t object now she really had what she was after! A trip to see Goros? Maybe. Foros sat his pink round blubber down aboard ship, nestling his bum in for duration of their shuttle ride back. Which mostly consisted of their counting their spoils, throwing certain bits of junk over their shoulder. Priceless junk for those below below, up here worthless, except for two or three really important items.

Board the Fat Fever

Of their now three frigates in orbit, the fat faver was by far most overloaded of all! Opportunity to talk with Goros! Hohohohoh, belly laughs between overstuffed mouthfuls was no doubt being made. Did our Queen think she would walk right into his lair? If she could feel anything but frustration for these hutt games, she might sense trap. Trap and opportunity.

Goros had more security than Raien Keth used to bother with, unbelievably paranoid. She passed guards, mercenaries, spies, slaves, more guards! Walking down one of their ships hallways she’d come to a grey circular room, one zeltron and two guards standing opposite her. Guards were everywhere, guns where everywhere, eyes on them all. Paranoia.

“Goros will speak with you now.” Lady Blue said, visible smile pressed beneath her veil. Had she double crossed her? No, but Nima might not know at first, unless she pushed to read her masked mind's plan.

A holoprojection appeared in front of Nima, Goros’s fat belly taking up most of it, their red zeltron translating. “Kwee-kunee, u have choba che je?” <<Queen, you have offer for me?>>

Where did Lady blue stand, by a large door. An important door.

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[Nima Tann]

There was still doubt in her voice, yet from her expression Nima understood she was going with the plan. At least, for now. No matter how she was a master at reading things, Lady Blue had a good control over her mask as well, almost like an another personality. Nima realized that the woman was... different from time to time. Once, she would become nervous and her expressions would become very easy to read, and she would have the familiar aura that bugged Nima's mind, and the other times, she was like this, unpredictable. Years of torment would create a shell around you, sometimes you would believe in that shell too much and would become the shell you created to protect yourself. It was something like that, Nima predicted. But, she was going to find out about that, wasn't she? Of course she was, if Lady Blue didn't decide to suddenly double-cross her. If that happened... Well, let's just say her job would become more complicated than it already was. Also, she had no idea what she was going to do when they arrived at the ship. She liked to improvise sometimes.

She didn't care about the relics that the criminals stole from the village as she knew at the end of the day she would bring them back. She wasn't going there to fail after all, being always determined. Soon, the shuttle to their final destination would come, she was pushed around and oftenly insulted by the criminals until they arrived, which was totally understandable because she created some conflict between the mercenaries and she was a prisoner after all, but nothing changed the fact that it was not pleasant. Still, she had more important goals, so let those pass for this time. She would deal with them first when things got heated, which, she was almost sure of it happening. Because no one would just say "Of course you can arrest our leader and then destroy our entire criminal gang!" and cheer for them, right? As they arrived to the main ship, which was big enough to contain a very fat Hutt, she immediately started to examine each detail. Numbers, spies, escape pods... Everything needed to be memorized if things went wrong. And she had the feeling of being trapped, the whole aura of the ship was proving her point.

The main aura around the ship was paranoia and fear. Everyone looked so careful, eyes following and whispers travelling through. They really were in a pretty bad situation, weren't they? Well, suddenly vanishing to nothingness for at least 5 years, she would easily say that. Goros was known for slavery and theft around all the Jedi databases, so if he could afford losing the lead in his job, those people must've been very dangerous and he probably pissed them off. Well, they already arrived to their destination as she lost herself in her thoughts. Then she started to wait. Waiting and waiting for the Hutt... Meanwhile she started to think of a Plan B, adding her observations about this place to her plan. And then, finally it was the time for the game. "Thank you, Lady Blue." She nodded. It was such a cold and threatening tone that would make someone think twice if that someone decided to do something crazy. Which, from her stance and the little change in the face that could be seen from the mask, Nima was being careful.

And then, a holoprojection appeared. Of course. He was too scared to show his face in a real environment... Well, she could still get something from this, wasn't she? So, she bowed respectfully. One knew she was a perfectionist so her role had to be perfect. "Mighty Goros. You are honoring us with your presence." She hated herself. "With all due respect, Lady Blue told me we would be having this conversation face to face. What I am going to say to you shouldn't be talked over a holoprojection, one can't know who is listening. Something about an "Elders Shrine." " She returned her gaze to the Lady Blue, she was oddly standing just in front of a big door. Could it be she was trying to say something to her? Maybe Goros wasn't very good at hide and seek. Which was indeed very clear. She nodded to Blue. Whatever she was going to do, it would be a good time to do that.

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