Star Wars Jedi Knight IV: Sith Empire

Chapter 6: Errant Misadventure

"You must begin by gaining power over yourself; then another; then a group, an order, a world, a species, a group of species...finally, the galaxy itself."

―Darth Plagueis

Vestara was still laughing to herself about Jaden Korr.  In some ways it resembled a practical joke: it was immediately apparent to herself, being a member of the One Sith, exactly how the Jedi Academy on Shedu Maad was found and soon to be destroyed, but the Jedi themselves were still completely and utterly clueless. 

The truth was the One Sith had been spying and gathering information through none other than Jaden Korr himself for almost eight years now. It was so beautiful and classically Sith Vestara fought back tears. His apprentice, Marr, made the horrible mistake of not letting his master die. In his attempt to keep him alive in that selfish way the Jedi were so infamous for, he used a Rakatan Mindspear to transfer the consciousness from his dying master to a clone of Korr. A clone, who's body was hardwired to comm home and give the One Sith telemetry. Vestara honestly didn't think Lord Krayt could manage something that genius again if he tried.

But she couldn't die from laughter just yet. Right now she was in a junky SoroSuub yacht pretending to be a semi-normal person. She needed to keep herself together at least for now.

The One Sith supplied her with complete working IDs in her alias, Savarah Raine. Again she was amused at the thought of how easy it was for the One Sith to simply create an identity for any given person and make it perfectly valid and verifiable, anywhere. It was like re-writing history. 

The One Sith's fabrication for "Raine" was that she was an accomplished bounty hunter that had a darker side and sometimes dabbled in piracy. She was a Jedi defector and carried a lightsaber. Her "history" was complete with arrest records on Coruscant, wanted status on thirteen planets, and even an employment history with the Hutts. It was good to be Sith.

The trashy yacht finally dropped out of hyperspace, and the Errant Venture in all it's redness filled the viewscreen. It was appaling.

Of all the ways to ruin a perfectly good Star Destroyer. Vestara thought to herself. Gut it, turn it into a giant floating hotel, mall and casino, and paint it red. Brilliant. She did't have any bones about what was going to happen to it or it's stuck up passengers.

The yacht's handling was lackluster to say the least, but she managed to land it in the Venture's hangar without too much trouble. She stepped out onto the deck and started making her way to the Diamond Level. Other than a blaster strapped to her hip and a small scout bag over her shoulder, Vestara looked almost completely normal, and even subdued...exactly what she wanted.

The first step of her mission was find Booster Terrik, the captain and owner of the Errant Venture and get a minute with him alone. She needed to "persuade" him to order a hundred thousand YVH droids from his friend, Lando Calrissian. From there she would proceed to kill him with the blaster, and make it look like a scrappy pirate job. After that, she would activate a beacon that would let the Sith fleet know Booster was dead and start working over the Venture. Vesetara would access the main computer while the attack was underway. She'd wipe the surveillance holos and install software that would let the Sith control the ship remotely. Then she'd take her yacht, land it on the Bloodfin, and take the fleet out a ways. They'd monitor the Venture's sensor readings and wait for the shipment to come in. It was really quite simple.

Vestara strolled into the Maw Casino on the Diamond Level. In order to get to Booster she would have to cause some trouble. She spotted a Rodian betting on a Jubilee Wheel. Perfect.