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    Emergence: Brave New Worlds [Rebel Alliance]

    Serena placed her hands on the flight stick of Serenity, guiding the yacht through the microjump from the location of General Tomahawk's fleet. Morgan was in the back cabin with Rhianna, most likely teaching the girl more Basic. She only hoped that the tincéir girl did not pick up some of the galaxy's more crude sayings from him.

    She looked over at the man sitting in the co-pilot's seat, Byl Laprovik. "Providing your coordinates are correct, we are there."

    Byl nodded, but was silent, eyes looking out the viewscreen. He did not trust her, but that was all right because she did not fully trust him either. Faced with her choices, however, this was the only one to make. If he could indeed bring her into contact with the Rebel Alliance she would be much closer to her goal. He was either a stroke of good luck -

    No, there was no such thing as luck. Serena pulled her thick red braid over one shoulder, and returned her gaze to the console.

    She activated the ship's sensors, sweeping the surrounding space for any sign of the so-called Rebel fleet. "I wanted to say thank you, for your assistance with the General. She is not an easy woman to convince to change her plans."


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    The Rebel fleet, if it could be called that, was comprised of little more than a handful of corvettes and fighter jets, all clustered around a single larger frigate vessel. The Alliance did want to attract any Imperial attention, so divided its resources accordingly. What the passengers of the Serenity had happened upon was just a small part of a much larger collective.

    As the yacht exited hyperspace, the Nebulon-B frigate was the first to acknowledge it's presence. With its sensors scanning a wide circumference of usually barren space, the appearance of any new ship was always given high priority. The vessel was marked immediately as being unfamiliar and not part of one of the many scout patrols and envoys that travelled to and from the frigate on a regular basis. “Scans are showing no working weaponry, no distinguishing marks matching anything in the database. Just a skeleton crew on board... should we send a hail?”

    It was a risky choice, and one left to Intelligence Director Dasquian Belargic. On the one hand, the yacht could have been innocently passing through the nearby space and simply stumbled upon the drifting Rebel convoy. On the other, it's sudden and unexpected appearance had the markings of a trap. There might have been other vessels in waiting on the signal to attack. Whatever the case, the crew of the yacht would have spotted the Alliance vessels by now. “Open frequency,” Dasquian nodded at last, waiting a moment before continuing, his voice now being relayed across space: “Vessel, please identify yourself.”

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    Originally posted by Serena Laran
    "I wanted to say thank you, for your assistance with the General. She is not an easy woman to convince to change her plans."
    "She's been out on her on for a long time. Guess its hard to listen to anybody but yourself when that's the case."

    Inwardly, Byl knew he was also describing himself with that statement.

    The hail came in, and Byl put a hand on Serena's shoulder.

    "Let me."

    He spoke into the comm.

    "Black Seven Four. Requesting docking clearance. I'm escorting guests of interest."

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    Grace waited patiently alongside her partner, leaning over the comm console to get a better idea of the ship's specs. It was a fairly harmless vessel, an older model that dated back to the Old Republic. There were no markings on the ship that identified it however. That caused alarm and she prayed that the Force would spare them a trap. Their fleet was slowly being rebuilt and an attack at this critical time could be disastrous.

    "Black Seven Four. Requesting docking clearance. I'm escorting guests of interest."

    "Black Seven Four?" Her brows crinkled in thought. "Why does that sound familiar?"

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    Morgan had been talking to Rhianna ever since intense dinner that had gotten them out of the frying pan and toward a hot skillet. He didn’t want anything to do with the Rebels, even though they had offered him decent pay after springing him out of Stars End. It had been a very strange coincidence. He had turned it down because, in his mind, joining them was a ticket to be shot at all the time instead of whenever a bounty hunter found him. Now it looked like he was going to be chased by both the Empire and bounty hunters.

    So much for that plan.

    Instead of dwelling on this, he had simply immersed himself in learning Rhianna’s language, and teaching her Basic. He had asked Serena to only speak to him in it. His vocabulary and grammar use improved by leaps and bounds every day as he did his best to fill Serena in on the recent happenings in the foriegn tongue when he wasn’t in the back of the ship. Rhianna’s language had different tense rules and subject/verb arrangements that were not totally alien to Basic. She could now communicate in awkward, often incorrectly tensed sentences about simple subjects such as food, her general state of being and welfare. Right now he focused on the spoken word, because it would be a little while before she needed how to read, and practical spoken basic didn’t always follow the same rules as written basic. Morgan felt there was no need to confuse the two.

    “Tell me about the river you mentioned yesterday.” He asked.

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    She was so weary of being confined to her bunk. It was to be expected though. Ever since her recent bout of illness, Sámh had been at her constantly with medicines. Rhianna had been told the "injections" were going to make her stronger. Safe on her remote world, she hadn't been exposed to a lot of the everday germs that were floating around. They didn't make others sick, but to her they could be very serious. Until she had completed the series, she was to stay in bed. Boring.

    It wasn't a total loss though. Morgan came to sit with her a lot of the time and he was teaching her to speak the other words. Although she had a tendency to roll her r's a bit, she was picking up the new tongue quickly. It helped of course that Morgan was also learning to speak her own language. Much.. quicker than she was learning his. Apparently he had a talent for such things.

    She didn't even try to make the words. She just focused on what she had told him yesterday about one of her favorite places. It was a holy river that her family had stopped at frequently in their perpetual wanderings. How to describe it..

    "Naofa.. It was important to the Tincéir . In the middle of a very thick part of the ..tree's? " She was sure there was a better word for the place, but she had already explained the place in her own tongue once.

    "It was dark there. No sun. Many tree's. The water was bright. Lit from under. "

    She didn't know enough basic words to properly describe the sacred river. In the middle of a dense forest, the river shone like liquid diamonds. It spouted from a massive waterfall and was the source for many of the rivers and streams in her homeland. The source of their water and how their clans mapped their travels. It wasn't known why the river cast the white glow in the middle of the darkest part of the forest. Some said it was from the tiny creatures that lived in the water, they were the light. Rhianna didn't know the answer, she just loved the solace and peace of the place.

    "Beautiful."

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    Serena waited for the Alliance to respond, finally picking up the fleet on the sensors. For a small ship she had good sensors, but they did not have the range of a larger ship, such as the frigate that was before them.

    The fleet was small, and still far enough away that it was hard to see them on the viewscreen. The Jedi Knight ran her hand down her braid and continued moving Serenity towards the ragtag fleet. If this was all the Rebellion against the Empire had, they were in poor shape.

    "Do they always wait this long to reply, Byl?" She turned to study his face, but he didn't seem worried at all. He was tense, but that was to be expected.

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    "They're probably busy running my clearance."

    Byl's hawkish eyes glanced to and from the distant specks of the Rebel task force.

    "Keep your course tight. They'll bring an escort when they recognize me."

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    One of the communications techs, with a database of information at his fingertips, ran the call sign through the Alliance's list of known contacts and allies. It was only a matter of seconds before a result was returned, and a personnel datafile appeared on-screen. “Laprovik?”

    To Dasquian, the name rang a bell. “Now where do I...”

    “He's listed as a casual operative of ours. Apparently he hasn't touched base for sometime... should we clear them?”

    Belargic nodded. “Send out an escort to meet them. Have them searched on arrival, then send them up to conference room six.”

    The comm channel opened once more. Clearance was given to the yacht and within minutes a shuttle was deployed and en route to meeting the Serenity. Dasquian and Grace departed the bridge, heading for the privacy of the conference room.

    “Guests of interest... what do you think he meant by that?”

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    Grace studied her datapad and frowned. Laprovik was a good Agent and was sent out on various under cover and high priority missions in the past. He wasn't known to really link in on a regular basis but everything checked out.

    "I'm not sure." She called up his last known whereabouts, which were two months old. Seemed Laprovik was hopping around the systems towards the Rebels various safe houses to keep low. "Nothing in his records mention kidnapping or rescues."

    Dasquian opened the doors to conference room six and Grace stepped inside. "We'll find out when we have our crew search them and the ship. I really hate surprises."

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    Morgan smiled and corrected Rhianna’s speech. He explained what she did wrong in Basic, and filled in any gaps of misunderstanding in her language.

    “We’ve been out of hyperspace for several minutes. I’m going to go see what is going on.” He said. Morgan stopped in the door, waved, and then dashed up to the cockpit.

    He paused, his powerful vision picking up several ships on the main screen. The Nebulon B loomed closest. It alone easily outgunned Serena’s vessel, and they probably were in range already.

    “Any luck so far?” He was more asking Serena. Byl was playing his own game with his own rules, he suspected, and Morgan didn’t trust him. He was also leading them into the Alliance, which made Morgan a little resentful.

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    "Yes, Morgan." Serena pointed at the HUD for the sensors to indicate the shuttle that was coming towards them, flanked by two Y-Wings. "We are being escorted in." She was grateful that Morgan was gentle with Rhianna, and that he was being understanding about their situation since the initial plan to drop him off on Ithor had gone haywire.

    He hadn't seemed to mind where he was being taken, as long as it was away from Hutt space. But since they had been captured by the General and it seemed apparent they were going to be taken to the Rebellion, she had sensed an underlying tension to his demeanor. He didn't trust Byl, and had spent most of the trip as far away from the man as possible.

    Serena did not fully trust Laprovik - he was a man of many facets and he was certainly not revealing all of his true intentions to them. The Jedi guided the yacht towards the frigate, and as it was only a little bit larger than a shuttle they were greenlit for a hangar. Serenity slipped through the opening and landed quietly on the deckplating.

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    Byl was already up on his feet, with his hand on the egress hatch. He paused, glancing back to speak to Morgan.

    "Is the girl fit to leave quarters?"

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    Outside the Serenity a small group had amassed. Six armed men and one escort guard were waiting for the guests to exit their ship. They had been instructed to be courteous yet firm with the new arrivals. Once they had departed, others would arrive to give the yacht a once over.

    Meanwhile, Dasquian and Grace sat waiting, occasionally glancing again over Byl's file for some indication of what might be stepping through the conference room doors.

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    Grace threw the datapad away with disgust. "There's absolutely nothing in these files to give us a clue what he was doing. Hell, our boys higher up were tempted to list him as MIA because he hadn't checked in for so long."

    The small computer at her desk chimed with an incoming page. "Yes? What is it?"

    Ma'am. We're waiting for the passengers to depart now as ordered. So far scanners pick up four life forms. One of them seems to be ill according to the vitals.

    That was interesting. "Very well. Give them another five minutes and hail them again if no one contacts you."

    Yes, Ma'am.

    "We have three guests of interest, one of them is ill. Perhaps that is why Laprovik sought us out." The resigned look on her face said it all. "Nothing we can do but wait."

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    Unlike the previous encounter, we docked the ship ourselves this time, and while our escort was armed, there were no blasters in faces. Morgan was less nervous, but he still wondered what Laprovik’s game was. Serena was awash with calm, as always. Morgan supposed it was a Jedi trait.

    The whole affair was too uptight. Morgan fanned out his fingers and put his wrists on his temples.

    “Wooooo… take us to your leader.” He said, waving his hands around. It was immature and silly and dammit that was what the situation needed.

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    Serena's eyes widened at Morgan's antics, but she couldn't hold back a smile. Rhianna was walking beside her, arm linked through hers, and the Jedi turned her attention quickly back to helping the girl out of the ship. She was strong enough to walk, but tired easily. In a few days the girl would be as good as new.

    Byl was standing up with Morgan, and the Jedi listened carefully to what his reaction to the slicer's actions would be.

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    "Hehehe."

    Byl cracked an appreciative laugh at Morgan's joke.

    Back to business, he passed a dataslip to the ranking escort.

    "I need to see the ship's commander. Also, the girl needs medical attention. My clearance should be in order."

    On the coded slip, they would find my background and commission as an Alliance Captain. My tours of duty would include Hoth, Endor, Sullust, and Bothauwi, with large gaps in between reserved only for "special assignment". My current orders listed as "local population interdiction" which loosely meant to persuade neutral parties into open rebellion. Such activities were necessary to destabilize the outer rim and add recruits to the cause.

    That being said, nobody knew exactly what liberties I could and did take with those orders.

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    A quick scan search of each passenger was performed. The guard who had been placed in charged looked quickly over the identification provided by Byl. Another guard, meanwhile, radio'd for a medic team to be sent down to the hangar bay. Soon enough, the small team had arrived to take Rhianna away. “Everything here seems to be in order. The medic team will take the girl for her treatment while the rest of you are meeting with the Commanding office. Please, come this way...”

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    Morgan, Serena and Byl were led towards a lift by a small escort of three, one Bothan and two humans. It was the Bothan that called in their arrival. "This is Sergeant Bellin. Everything checks out. The young woman that is ill has been taking to medical. We're bringing you the rest."

    Excellent. Grace's voice crackled over the comm. See you soon.

    Five minutes later of walking down the spotless white corridors of the command ship, Bellin opened up the conference room doors and let the trio enter first. The two humans fell in place as guards outside with Bellin entering last. The two Rebel Agents were already standing and waiting. Grace approached them first, observing the male and female human behind Laprovik. Grace's sabbac face disappeared the moment her eyes registered exactly who the young man was. It was Morgan Evanar. The same human they rescued from Star's End months back. He wasn't their assignment. The Jedi that they had come for had been turned over to the Empire and in order to escape themselves, they had made a deal with a Bimm named Roker: his services if they took Morgan along with them. There was little time to understand why him, so she and Dasquian had to agree to the terms. When they were free of the Corporate Sector, she had asked the young slicer if he wanted to join the cause. A man of his talents would be very useful to the Rebellion. However he had refused to join. Grace never thought she would see him again.

    "You?!" She was stunned. "By the Force! How did you manage to run into Laprovik?'

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