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Satunda, 13 Yelona, 12731

Knives in the Shadows

by Jedi Knight VN Ysadora





Episode3.10 - Knife in the Shadows


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| Nov 7, 2025





 
Satunda,
13 Yelona,
12731

 
During the past 4 weeks,various Roughnecks have cycled in and out.

 
Hicks' new astromech is SK-873, nicknamed "Scooter"

 
Chancellor Kanter wants us to come see something in her possession. Derma recommended that she show it to us specifically.

 
Recording from a week and a half ago, taken by a drone near the outer gas giant. (The drone was doing some automatic prospecting.)

 
An imperial star destroyer, with escort, not the Katana Fleet btw but the one carrying Galactic Empire Consort Yeager Markovich, is positioning for a hyperspace jump. As the engines start to power up, abruptly a Lucre-hulk battleship "decloas" in the middle of their formation. It launches an assault, starting with concussion missiles and then a set of power beams around the edge of the ring.

the ISD took heavy damage, but did not get destroyed. His escort got wrecked. Armored boarding shuttles rammed into escort ships to raid them.

In the end, the Lucre-hulk withdrew, taking their own boarding vessels plus some of the Imperial escape pods. It then wavered out of view again.

 
And it's not that it was there but invisible, because Yeager drove his ISD directly through the space that the Lucre should have been occupying.

 
Chancellor Kanter says that ship has appeared two other times, always at the edge of the system. One of those previous targets was a fuel convoy -- one of those massive ships with the big spherical fuel tank up "front" and more chained together in sequence.

 
Previous video, taken at a mining station:

Invading troops also visually seem to "materialize" or "teleport" into position to attack. They have a violent clash with high trained mercenaries from Clan Bareesh.

Some of the shaky-cam footage of this raid reminds me of K-7.

 
Chancellor Kanter tells me that reports she has gotten have repeated some things.

  1. looking for Lt Felderk Jessip

  2. want some kind of crystals

  3. some kind of gigantic laser

  4. a planet named Auratera

  5. looking for Noki Sunfell


 
I need an investigative path to find out where Jessip currently is.

 
The intelligence expert who wrote the armor's dossier on me was certainly no Nova Trooper. It may have been whoever hired on the engineer(s) who designed and oversaw construction + testing of the K7 armor.

 

 
Commissar Celestime is here.

 
She wants to know where her Lieutenant Jessip is.

 

 
We wound up bringing the Commissar and her Nautolan escort Librarian Assistant to the private dining room of Derma the Hutt.

 
So many of these delightful friends and allies have a lovely time in throwing me under the metaphorical bus: Commissar is here to hire a detective to find her Jessip? Is that how this romantic saga is going?

 

 
The ground shakes.

 

 
The last time I sat at this table and felt the ground shake, So'Zen shoved Port Etmar across the continent to near the equator.

 

 
I ran outside. Dark smoke billows out of the back half of the Dirtside Cantina.

 
Emotion, yet peace

 
Yeah, the Roughnecks and the Adepta like to hang out there. This evening, the Roughnecks were going to chat up some friendly fellow barcrawlers, the Adepta Sororita, regarding back channel gossip of their injured Consort.

 
Ignorance, yet knowledge

 
Encrypted comms on -- which Roughnecks are so close to me right now that I can see them through the walls?

 
I see Rico, Hicks, Goss, Sparks. They're in combat against people in that black "Temu Store Predator Armor" suit.

At the back of the Dirtside Cantina: 1) blue glow of Noki Sunfell doing a move; 2) black armor person "materializes" and opens fire at the Roughnecks and then dematerializes, at which point another one at oblique angle decloaks and fires.

 
Passion, yet serenity

 
Kitkat and Almon are in charge of locating and tracking the Temus.

The Kolenes will disrupt and prevent the attempted kidnapping of Noki.

I'm going to draw aggro.

 
I light both sabers, run toward the Temu who is about to shoot at Rico, and run into him. Shoulder first. Knock him back on his shebs.

 
Our team has some great practical applications of the area loudspeakers at sleepy-causing low frequencies; plus four Adepta and Aerena all doing plasma firestream attacks, should equal Temu Predator Armor shatters itself.

 
Chaos, yet harmon--

 

Four flashbangs go off in the center of the combat.
The light is brighter than sudden noonday
The sound is a roiling wall that wipes out everything.


 
Death, yet the Force.

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