To boldly hunt what no one has hunted before

[Ugohr Poof]

Before Ugohr had finished loading the captured panokseons the pilot of said AT-AT realized that there was a new contact on sensors. Not being sure as to who else could potentially want to search for panokseons out on a crag-filled planet, he wasn't sure how to react at first. He was dazed and confused but realized that a fourth party was after the panokseons. They knew that, because of Keres I's sparse vegetation, they simply ate hypermatter whenever they could. They suspect panokseons have a pretty slow metabolism, but strong bones, especially on their limbs, so once they ate hypermatter, they mostly stay put and go asleep, due to the sparse vegetation and even wildlife. They probably are non-sentient. Ugohr finally had to resort to responding to the fighter's call on Keres I's unicom channel when he realized that there was a new contact on the AT-AT barge's radar.

"Yousa clear for landing, Kiara. Yousa hep capture a fine beast capable of munchen hypermatter?"

"An extra hand is better than nothing when it comes to hunting hypermatter-eating beasts, general. I'll just keep the used Pokeballs safe"

"Please do"

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

"Yes, that's why I'm here." Kiara mumbled into the microphone inplanted in her headset. After she cut off the communication, she let out a long stressed sigh and expertly guided her ship to a landing pad. She zoomed about at a high speed, slamming it to a stop near perfectly. After a moment, she undid her belts and began to flip on her droids, one by one, letting them peel off from the outside of the wings and begin to re-design themselves into lanky assassin droids.

Kiara hopped out last, wearing her usual brown robe over her messy, dirty hair, then she began to look around as the droids helped themselves to the back of the ship to take out weapons of the small but varied sort. There were four of the skinny things in total. "I'm here, message! Point me out!"

[member="Ugohr Poof"]

 

[Ugohr Poof]

"Wesa prefer dat yousa capture usen live panokseons. Yousa get dee thousand credits for each panokseon yousa get" Ugohr told Kiara over comms.

Four assassin droids were coming alongside the new huntress, but if she put the assassin droids' weapons on stun, would Kiara be able to get more live panokseons, rather than dead ones? Because panokseons were a species about which very little is known, he'd rather not risk cloning them. Maybe those people back on Dagobah would be able to study them in more depth, especially in hypermatter-rich volcanic areas like the area where Dagobah Tech was located. Ugohr readies his stun grenade and throws it at the rest of the pack. He hoped to immobilize two or three of the panokseons and use mind tricks to then use the Pokeballs to then capture them, and, best-case scenario, he neutralized four more panokseons on which he used a Pokeball each. He knew the Pokeballs were single-use and were best used on stunned creatures. Once the creatures fell asleep, Ugohr wasted no time preparing the tug droids for hauling the captured panokseons into the barge.

"Yousa prepare da tug droids: wesa capturen foosa more panokseons with una stun grenade" Ugohr told the AT-AT barge pilot.

"Consider it done, general"

"Wesa have ate-a panokseons: theysa safe?"

"Yes, sir"

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Only a thousand credits..? The thought wondered softly in Kiara's mind, but for someone who hasn't left a dirt hut in Dagobah in more than twenty years, a thousand credits per beast was something to start off of. Even so, she had other plans for the droppings of those creatures. After a moment of making various alien hand signals to her assassin droids, she reached into the small shuttle and grabbed a long metal rod that served as her walking stick. Two more small snake-like droids slithered out and began to camouflage themselves into the ground. The hatch was shut by an assassin droid, and everyone in the small group began to walk off in their own direction.

"Living creatures who feast of hypermatter. One thousand credits. Got it." Kiara said out loud with a change from her usual gravely voice, actually trying to make it sound more decent than not for this one time. "So, where are they?"

[member="Ugohr Poof"]

 

[Ugohr Poof]

"Three thousand credits per beast, Kiara" Ugohr corrected.

"Tell her where to form up with us, General"

"Mesa transmitten coordinates to yousa"

People mostly understood Gunganese almost as they would Basic. Ugohr was surprised to hear in the Force that Kiara understood the bounty as being 1,000 credits/beast. With the assassin droids, hopefully, Kiara would be able to stun more panokseons as they spotted an additional pack of panokseons getting near the droppings of the last one. They think the disappearance of the last pack is going to mean that more hypermatter is ripe for the taking from the second pack's viewpoint. But that is just a trap set by Ugohr et al for capturing more panokseons so that they can eventually farm them. For the Alliance to weaponize and unleash upon unsuspecting enemy bases to cripple their ability to fuel their space forces. Ugohr knew that panokseons could die from overeating hypermatter: if one panokseon delivered by some unknown party onboard the ANS Bestine crippled its hypermatter tanks and died in the process...

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

The previous hermit stopped in her tracks, narrowing her electric blue eyes around the area she had landed on. They knew her name... Did she give them her name? Oh, yes she did. She adjusted herself awkwardly, then continued forward with her long metal staff gently tapping away at the ground as she walked. One of her assassin droids quickly came over and presented the side of one of their strapped together weapon to show her a small map. Good enough.

Kiara's old legs made their walk around to the coordinates to follow, and all of the droids kept either around or nearby, hiding and moving in their own controlled way. The snake-like droids went to slither in front, the assassin droids to the back and side, and Kiara in the middle, even if she didn't consider herself a robot. "You're not human," Kiara said blankly, almost to herself. "Your voice is weird. Like some kind of slime person. I think."

[member="Ugohr Poof"]

 

[Ugohr Poof]

"Why yousa think mesa slime person? Why yousa think Gungans slime people?" Ugohr said over when he comes across Kiara.

Ugohr spots the snake-like droids as they made their approach towards his own position and the new pack of panokseons. These panokseons have made their approach towards Kiara, at a brisk pace though, bypassing Ugohr entirely since Kiara seemed to have a stronger hypermatter signature than Ugohr. But... but near Kiara's position, there is, lo and behold, an hypermatter lake! That's why the panokseons were flocking near where the duet was now. The hypermatter lake was a big pool of liquid hypermatter, a few hundred meters wide. Enough for a few packs to eat from the hypermatter lake for a while. But that wasn't that big as a hypermatter lake: there were larger hypermatter lakes on the planet when they overflew it, but Ugohr didn't dare fly across the large lakes by fear that entire herds of panokseons would eat up all the hypermatter on the ship upon landing. That's why he initially chose to land away from the big hypermatter lakes.

"Yousa must not antagonize them-sa: better stun them-sa when theysa sleep"

"They will probably fall asleep once they have eaten enough hypermatter. But when they are hungry they will be on the lookout for hypermatter"

"Let them-sa eat from da hypermatter lake. There-sa hypermatter lake around here"

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Kiara watched for a moment, then began to bounce away at a brisk pace, using her staff as a third leg to give her a small boost to get away from the creatures. She wasn't quite sure why they seemed so attracted to her, until her eyes locked onto their eyeing location. The lake, of sorts. Why not? After all, they have clear water lakes for other aliens. ​

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"I see." She muttered as she wiped her brow with the edge of her hood, then took a look back at the creature of... yeah, she didn't know it. She knew ships, and droids, but not alien species. "Gun-game people? I don't know. I just thought you'd be slime from the tone of your voice. Sounded about right." Kiara straightened her pose as the snake droids began to slither forward, trying to get out of footsteps to not be crushed as they approached the lake and it's creatures.
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The assassin droids simply stayed put, or so it seemed. One of them was cloaking well with it's surroundings and beginning to get closer, on the ground where it crawled. "So we're going to sight-see them for a while? Is that it?"​

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[member="Ugohr Poof"]​

 

[Ugohr Poof]

"Stun them-sa now! Theysa done eatin hypermatter"

Luckily he had each Pokéball in his possession marked with a number: Pokéballs marked with numbers 1 through 7 were already used up, he has five more Pokéballs so that he can bring the panokseons bound to each of them back to Dagobah or Malastare, as he would the rest of the pack. While Ugohr is using a mind trick, he wonders how [member="Kiara"] will react while the panokseons are It has been theorized that panokseons eat hypermatter due to the barren nature of the planet but that they were results of some alien species leaving behind a planet that they used to farm, breeding animals for some combat purpose but hanging them out to dry once they served their purpose.

[member="Kiara"]

 

[Kiara]

Kiara simply motioned for the droids to do their work. Near instantly all six of the droids attacked with several darts and lasers of the stunning properties. The snakes simply coiled and sunk their own darts into the skin as they could, a knock-out large enough for a creature twice it's size. Then again, Kiara didn't exactly know how much these creatures could take.

All of the pack was targeted, and shot at. "This doesn't seem worth the ride." She mumbled as her snake droids began to try harvesting some of the outer and inner flesh with small needles.

[member="Ugohr Poof"]

 

[Ugohr Poof]

"Not worth da ride? Yousa just capturen five panokseons: here-sa 15,000 credits for yousa" Ugohr told Kiara as he transferred the credits to Kiara's account.

"They appear to be vulnerable to stun weapons: while panokseon hide would be able to provide protection against ion weapons, they don't last long against sedatives - doesn't take more sedatives to knock out a panokseon than to knock out a human or Near-Human"

"Load da capturen panokseons and wesa leaven as soon as da panokseons are secured"

"Panokseons secured, general"

Kiara's captured panokseons are being loaded inside the AT-AT barge by tug droids, which is now full with captured panokseons and the dead one on the upper deck. Ugohr assumed that this was the number of panokseons that could be safely transported, and he assumed each captured panokseon took as much place as an AT-ST onboard a barge. Also Ugohr initiated a pre-flight check before the AT-AT barge could take off.

[member="Kiara"]