Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
MONASTERY
NEUTRAL SPACE
MID RIM
[member="Bethany Kismet"] was a storied name in certain private circles. Long association with Ayden Cater -- as respectful enemy and tentative ally -- had given Ashin/Ajira a frame of reference for that name. Once or twice he'd let it slip that he held Kismet's holocron and considered it a treasure. So when Kismet's name cropped up not far from Naboo, tacked to a nonprofit's call for donations, what could one do but show up?
RNS Jamillia exited hyperspace over Monastery, in company with two sleek little Handmaiden-class escort corvettes. The Naboo flotilla wouldn't be earning any awards for firepower, but the Jamillia's multi-hundred-metre sensor pylons, four-kilometre towed array, and dispersing scout ships added up to unmatched sector-level situational awareness. Nothing and nobody would be sneaking up on the meeting.
And if, by chance, they picked up indication of nearby Imperial Remnant movements, so much the better.
On the Jamillia's bridge, Ajira stood from her command chair and clasped her hands behind her back. Something about the moment gave her nerves. She took a second to ensure that her ever-present Quey'tek concealment was still fully functional -- that in the Force she felt nothing like a Master and nothing like a Darksider. "Give me a channel to the surface."
"Aye, ma'am."
"This is Director General Ajira Cardei, representing Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps. I would like to speak with the Order of the Sacred Lotus, primarily Jedi Master Bethany Kismet."
NEUTRAL SPACE
MID RIM
[member="Bethany Kismet"] was a storied name in certain private circles. Long association with Ayden Cater -- as respectful enemy and tentative ally -- had given Ashin/Ajira a frame of reference for that name. Once or twice he'd let it slip that he held Kismet's holocron and considered it a treasure. So when Kismet's name cropped up not far from Naboo, tacked to a nonprofit's call for donations, what could one do but show up?
RNS Jamillia exited hyperspace over Monastery, in company with two sleek little Handmaiden-class escort corvettes. The Naboo flotilla wouldn't be earning any awards for firepower, but the Jamillia's multi-hundred-metre sensor pylons, four-kilometre towed array, and dispersing scout ships added up to unmatched sector-level situational awareness. Nothing and nobody would be sneaking up on the meeting.
And if, by chance, they picked up indication of nearby Imperial Remnant movements, so much the better.
On the Jamillia's bridge, Ajira stood from her command chair and clasped her hands behind her back. Something about the moment gave her nerves. She took a second to ensure that her ever-present Quey'tek concealment was still fully functional -- that in the Force she felt nothing like a Master and nothing like a Darksider. "Give me a channel to the surface."
"Aye, ma'am."
"This is Director General Ajira Cardei, representing Theed Palace Space Vessel Engineering Corps. I would like to speak with the Order of the Sacred Lotus, primarily Jedi Master Bethany Kismet."