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Katunda, 07 Melona, 12731

Palatrium Flying

by Aerena 'Relentless' Kolene

We are sitting around a conference table discussing what to do next. It appears that there are miles and miles of underground tunnels extending three miles below the surface. Beneath that is a hollow area that has multiple power signatures. Perhaps smaller ships? There is a mention of steling the ship by someone and for some reason every single person in the room looks at me. I look back at them and read the room and then sigh heavily. "Fine, I will takeover the ship and save the planet. I however will not do this from the main bridge. There is too much activity there. Let's find the secondary bridge."
 
The team discusses the where and how and who for a while. The consensus is that Kit Kat and Kitarr know the best place to look for the bridge while So'Zen pulls together the map from all of the various droid scans working with Steelflow. I ask Zaye to go with us as I really want her with me. We send the children to Hicks to help keep him entertained and following doctor's orders. I tell everyone that I need help to do this. We need to get someone to help with the engineering and weapons as I figure we want to use the ship's weapons to take out the multiple power signatures. I get agreement from our current group in the conference room except Darkstrider. So'Zen tells her to prepare her people for what might happen if we fail.
 
We head towards the area where So'Zen found the engines. As we are heading that way, we see a plume of smoke rise into the sky and we stand on the rise above what is very obviously an engine exhaust. So'Zen begins using his staff to find the entrance hatch. Vanya, Zaye, and I stand watch while the men look for an entrance. We listen to their chatter and while they do find an entrance, the also find a large life source on the other side. We decide we have no other choice, but to continue on. Kitari thinks he has a vaild code and goes to open the door. On the other side is darkness and as the sand falls in, dim lights turn on and show the huge cavarn with a six-limbed rhino looking creature with wings, scales, and horns. So'Zen tells us it is a rare Dagnoi. It can be tempted to move by the judicious use of sweets. He then suits actions to words.
 
While he has it engaged, I look around the room and see two doors out of the area. One is to the right and heading away from the engines and one to the left going toward the engines. I check with Kitari to see if he has an idea as to which direction we should go and he is thinking that the secondary bridge is closer to the engines so I grab Zaye and we head to the left. The rest of the group follows my lead and when we get to the door, Kitari enters the code and the doors open - LOUDLY. We glance back to see So'Zen dealing with a bit of agitation from the creature though he motions us on and tells us he will catch up. He does catch up as we are standing in the corridor as the lights turn on. We can see multiple doors on each side of the corridor so I take point as we head down the corridor. Vanya mentions that there is danger to the right side so we focus on the left side of the corridor.
 
I go to the first door and enter the code shown to me by Kitari. We enter the room to see consoles and holoscreens. It could be the bridge and I activate a console, but I can't read the language. So'Zen comes up and is able to do some translation and identifies this as a medical ward. Then the lights in the chamber light up and we can all see thousands upon thousands of Kitari-like individuals that appear to be in stasis alcoves. I am ready to quietly leave, but the Jedi get a bee in their bonnet about getting them awake in batches. I disagree with this entirely, but they just ignore me and continue decanting the beings in this room.
 
Zaye and I head to the next door and enter the code. The air is moist and makes me think of a hydroponics room we I move one with Zaye. The next door on the left has stairs going up. I check in with Zaye and she thinks we should investigate the stairs, but also thinks the previous room isn't hydroponics, but has something to do with the power source. I am confused by this and ask her if we should go back to the room first before we go up the stairs, but we decide to continue going up the stairs. When we get to the top, we can hear voices and the lights are already on so we aren't the first ones here. I send Danar a quick communication to bring all of the group available to handle this. As we start down the corridor, I ask Kit Kat to send the tentacle droid to the end of the corridor to listen while we check the other rooms on this corridor.
 
We find a meeting room, three sleeping chambers, and a storage room while we get closer to the end of the corrider. The droid tells us that there are twelve signature of beings like Kitari and two others that are not. One that has more going on than Kitari and one that has a data crystal and the same signature as the sphere. The transcribed text is showing that there are two people arguing. One wants to leave this system - and destroy this planet in the process - while the other is not sure that will actually work. One just wants to destroy Chalcedon and take over the sun. We get to the end of the corridor and I get down close to the floor so I can look into the room. I see the people scattered around a giant room that isn't a normal bridge, but looks like you fly inside a giant hologram - just like a palatrium.

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