Chapter 5

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Kreel departed swiftly from the office and headed back to his shuttle. While on the journey back to the Justifier, he wondered what Vader would do if Luke Skywalker managed to escape his grasp once again. The infamous way of Vader's anger to failure was to choke whoever was responsible. 

When the shuttle arrived at the hangar bay of the Star Destroyer, Kreel had decided to go alone to extract Skywalker to attract less attention. That way Skywalker's capture would be swift and discreet, and, more importantly, less dangerous. 
"Commander Hanford, prep a civilian transport. I want it to blend in with Ryloth," Kreel ordered to the communications officer. Hanford acknowledged, and keyed in a request for a stormtrooper squad to capture one. 

Two days later...

"A public transport has been captured," Lieutenant Landor reported, leaning closer to his console, "It's a national Ryloth civilian corvette. The civilians inside have been taken to Kessel for slavery." Kreel grinned slightly under the spotless white stormtrooper-class helmet.
"Move the transport into our hangar bay. I will be impersonating a passenger who we captured."
he said.
"Acknowledged, Captain."
"Commander Hanford, take control while I am absent," Kreel demanded. He walked off the bridge and headed towards the hangar where the compact Ryloth corvette. He stepped inside, and started up the power.

The ship zoomed past the filled rack of TIE fighters, and moved towards the asteroid field that was presently ahead of the Justifier.

Then, when Kreel had set the coordinates, the ship entered hyperspace.



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