"So we should start shooting once they get here, thus risking more damage to them?"

"So any plans on what you guys are going to do for the next day or so? I saw a arcade near here, I'm sure they have a shooting sim there, maybe you guys can run the hell out of that?"

Graothar and John approached the Phoenix(sp?). "Nice ship." Graothar complamented.

Ok im back yall and we got a new pilot! This is Graothar he is an excellent pilot and a way better one than me, Graothar, Our Captain is Jacen, thats him unloading the crates, thats niomi, shes the medic, Emma over there is our 3rd gunner, the one next to emma is kin, hes our 2nd gunner and im the first and head gunner,ya im the skillz that killz (sarcasticly) and last but not least is the engineer, "Scuzzy"

Alright thats settled, anyone wanna try to beat me in the sim, cause im gonna beat kin's score o wait emma beat ours with 110, thats going to be hard to beat

"Glad to meet you." Graothar said to the crew. "Jeez, I'll have to share my credits with all of these guys." he thought. He approached Jacen and told him about his bounty. "I'll gladly share all the credits I get on my Bounty Hunting missions." he said aloud.

((Killwithhonor, it's Emma that beat the record and the sim's currently broken.))

"John, a blind rodian smoking spice can piolt the ship better than you. Anyways, nice to meet you and I mean this in a good way I hope you get hurt, these lot are too carefull. I find myself throwing a ball in the air and catching it nower-days"

"Would you like me to shoot myself in the foot, Niomi?" Emma joked. "Give you something to do?"

"Gee Niomi, when you put it like that, well gosh, now I just want to go out and insult the nearest Hutt crimelord."

He turned to Graothar. "Nice to meet you."

(yea i know it was a typo, and i know its broken but my character didnt)

Yea well you know what, im not a pilot, i suppost to protect the ship now steer it, alright im going to fix the sim before i become overwhelmingly bored.

John walked over to the console and it sparked, "o d*****, the friggin chip is busted

He walked back over to Jacen, uh how much are we getting paid for this? Because what emma fried is about 2,000 credits, she burnt the generator that makes the ships in the game, lets you control your ship and she burnt the controls completely. I dont think it was you though, it was probaly an after effect of the surge that the hyperdrive gave off and of overuse. Hopefully our next destination will have the parts

Scuzzy just shook his head as he loaded the last of the crates on board the Phoenix. Just as he was starting to reach for his flask of Rubar Scotch, he heard the unmistakeable sound of a refit-speeder approaching, and that meant Lawrence had just arrived. Scuzzy quickly made his way back outside and caught sight of the speeder and the two engines that were loaded in the back of the speeder.

"Well, I'll be bloody d***ed: those engines don't look used at all," Scuzzy observed aloud as the speeder began to approach the back of the Phoenix. "Lawrence!! I thought you said we were gettin' some used engines!!" Scuzzy yelled out over the noise of the speeders. "Don't worry bout that, Scuzzy. You already paid for them, so don't worry about it!" Lawrence yelled back.

With that, Lawrence guided the speeder directly behind the left engine, deployed a series of heavy support arms that allowed the speeder to land, and then turned off the speeder's motor. As Lawrence got out of the speeder, he was followed by his two sons who immidiately went into the Phoenix's Engineering Room to start the refitting process. Lawrence, meanwhile, activated a number of droids that would assist with the retrofitting on the exterior of the Phoenix. After the droid began to get into place, Lawrence got back into the speeder and activated a special retrofitting arm that would quickly extract the old engine as it was seperated from the Phoenix.

Experienced with this sort of thing, Scuzzy went back inside the Phoenix to assist with the retrofitting.

"O.k guys as we are all here now and we finished loading the cargo so We'll have a quick breifing while scuzzy finishes the re-fit. Meet me up in the gally in 5 minutes." With that Jacen turned around and headed back upto the gally.

"Would you emma? I would be wonderfull" joked Niomi. "Yes captain." Niomi, having nothing better to do she headed there right away.

Emma nodded and went to her room. After locking the door behind her, she went to the footlocker where she kept everything she'd brought with her. She opened it and took out the black bag that held everything. A quiet beeping could be heard and Emma rolled her eyes. She opened the bag and pulled out a black wig and bits of stuff that looked like skin. When these and the wig were in place, she took out a communication device of some sort and activated it.

"Ah," a small voice said. An image appeared. "So you've finally decided to answer me."

"I thought I told you not to call for the next few months," Emma snapped.

"Why?" the tiny figure wondered. "Has the great assassin Hawk found something better to do?"

"I've signed on with a mercenary," Emma/Hawk answered. "I told you that before I did it. I told you I wouldn't be available for a while."

"Oh, come now," the figure said. It was replaced by a map. "According to your implant, you're here." A planet flashed. "Your newest target is there."

"I can't take the job," Hawk protested. "Don't you listen?"

"You can take the job," the figure said, reappearing. "Just slip out, kill him, slip back. For however long you're on that ship, that's how you can operate."

Hawk hadn't thought of that. "I... I guess so."

"Then you'll do it?"

Hawk nodded. "Yes."

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Two minutes later, Emma had removed the wig and fake skin and put them back in her bag. The bag was on her back and she headed out of the ship. Her departure was so quick and silent that nobody noticed she was gone.

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Ten minutes later, she returned, placed her bag in the footlocker in her room and hurried to the galley.

"Sorry I'm late," she said as she came in. "I lost track of time."

((I'm presuming everyones character is in the gally at the moment, With the possible exception of Scuzzy.))

Emma walked into the Gally "Sorry I'm late," she said as she came in. "I lost track of time."

"Well emma thats not a luxury we can currently afford... Anyway back to buissness, As I'm sure you all know we have an almost full cargo bay. Our employer was very specific on the fact that they must not be opened by any of us but being the nice guy i am and not wanting any halm to come to my beautiful crew, I made sure it went through an explosives scanner and theres nothing to worry about. Our destination is the smuggler moon, Nar Shaddar. We are to land in the refugee sector where a landing pad will be waiting for us. when we land we will be met by an aquish by the name of Chenus... Now for the news you all waant to hear we are being paid 750'000 credits for this, you all get your standard 10% so you can do the math... We leave as soon as scuzzy has finished his re-fit to the ship... Any questions?"

"Yeah." Graothar said to him. "Have a bounty to catch near our destination. Can we get him for his bounty? It's 10,000 alive, 5,000 dead."

Jacen looked at His new pilot.
"That depends what did the guy do?" Jacen Asked, As some of the longer running crew members knew Jacen Only occasionally took bounty jobs and that was only when he beleived the bounty was just.

"I say no. We're smugglers not murders. I dont know about you guys but I dont like being contract killers." commenting Niomi "My old brother is or was a bount hunter and I dont want to end up like him." Her hand began to shake at the thought of what happened to him.

"I'm with Niomi on this one." Said Kin.

Graothar turned to Niomi. "I am no contract killer." He told her. "I don't kill anyone until I know what they did wrong. This guy deserves to die. It said on his profile he attacked a Republic cruiser and stole all of it's cargo." Graothar pointed out. "It also said he murdered a member of the Senate, destroyed multiple Republic ships and murdered everyone on those ships, and blown up lots of dams." Graothar sighed. "He deserves to die for what he has done." Graothar told Jacen. "If we do this, it will be a big help for the Republic. We would be serving justice. Please."

"We're no friends of the republic here, Truth be told they don't like us much at all. If you want to go for the bounty when we reach nar shaddar you can but only those who want to help will."

"I'll side with Graothar," Emma said quietly. "First, it's not like we're going to do this on a regular basis. Second, he's worth more alive than dead. If we catch him, we won't have to kill him."

She turned to Niomi. "We won't be murderers."

"I'll help capture him, but not kill him." Said Kin.

((ooc- Guys just to yet you know before you get to heavily into this convosation, We won't actually make it to Nar Shaddar (at least not for a long time) as things are going to happen concearning the jedi))

(OOC:when will we find out about the jedi?)

((Later, I'm trying to make this more story based , with a bit of action rather than action based with a bit of story. I have twists and turns planned.)

Alright, ill tak the bounty as long as we dont kill, if this guy is killed im gonna blast whoevers ass blasted him, got it? Now if we are done breifing, im going to try to repair the sim with the parts we have

Jacen moved towards the corridore that led to the cockpit and turned around "Graothar, come with me and i'll show you the ships cockpit." He continued on walking into the cockpit and taking the his seat next to the pilots seat.

The refit was moving along quite rapidly. Already, the first engine had been removed, and now they were carefully moving the new engine into place as they made sure the engine didn't bounce around and hit something important. Whenever the engine was in place, Scuzzy immidiately got to work reconnecting wires, fuel lines, and engine mounts while Lawrence and his sons got to work on removing the next engine.

Graothar followed Jacen into the cockpit. He took a seat in the pilot's chair. "I piloted this kind of ship before when I was a delivery Wookie." Graothar told Jacen. "Plus, I studied it's layout when I was a mechanic. I will have no problem flying this thing." Graothar looked toward the controls. "This is going to be good." He thought looking at the controls. "I'm ready to leave when you give the OK." He said to Jacen.

"That's good, We'll leave as soon as scuzzy has finished the refit, It shouldn't take long he's the best enginneer in the galaxy... But don't tell him i said that. Anyway down to buisness, You will get paid 10% of any money made on jobs. As our pilot i will trust you in taking us to our destinations off of the radars of the republic and sith. Obviously that will mean we can't go in a strait line alot of the time but i think you should be able to plot a cource. The Auto pilot is quite sophisticated so you can plot a cource and it will follow it, Really you will only be needed for landings, takeoffs and any let's say sticky situations. You have your own room as far as i'm concearned it's yours and you can do what you want in it and with it. It s on the starboard side inbetween mine and scuzzys, scuzzys is the closest to enginneering for obvious reasons, on the other side of me is niomis so if you need medical attention go there or the infirmery which is inbetween her room and the gally. I'll let you to get acquainted with the controlls and to check out your room if you like."

Niomi was lying in her medical bed. Back to throwing her ball in the air. 'Maybe I could buy a portable holotv... wait that's a perfect idea!... Just need some credits'.
Niomi waved as the new piolt and captain walked past.

Kin passed the infirmary on his way to his room. He looked in.

"Y'know doc, if you're that bored, I could throw myself off the walkway in the cargo hold, break a few bones, give you something to do."

"Nah. I hate broken bones. They hard to mend. I perfer flesh wounds. However you could lend me 100 credits I can get a small holo-tv I can use on this desktop i dont use. It would keep me and my patients interntanted. Speaking of cargo hull, what do you thing is inside the barrels

"I'd say spice, but with the one that's bigger than the others, my guess is weapons."

"Didnt smell like spice. I guessing half of the containers are filled with food or something else. Only a few of them have valubles in the"

"I say weapons and something else," Emma said, overhearing the conversation and stopping to join in. "That bigger crate just doesn't make sense to me. If it's some kind of weapon, why isn't there more than one?"

"Simple. A bigger weapon. However I get a strangh feeling when I go near it. And when I got to sleep early I dreamed that I was in the container. It's weird"

"But if it were simply a bigger weapon, I'd imagine there'd be more crates like it? Who wants only one of a bigger weapon? And now that you mention your strange feelings near it, I'd say for sure it's not a weapon. But that leaves the question 'what is it?'" She shook her head thoughtfully. "It bothers me when we don't know what our cargo is..."

"Well we don't Have to know what it is, to get paid for it now, do we." Jacen said as he walked up behind emma. "Now leave Your curiosity outside cos it's no use to us here."

Emma turned to face Jacen. "But that's just the thing... we don't know what we're getting paid for. That's what bothers me... but I suppose I can suffocate my curiosity for now." She turned and made her way toward her room without another word.

"Could be an animal." Said Kin. "The smaller crates could be its food." He left and followed Emma.

"Hey, listen. We get hired to do a lot of work we don't know about." He shrugged. "I'll admit, this time it's more suspicious than usual, but I don't think it's that unusual."

"Jacen your no fun." She shouted as he lift and turned to Kin "Well we could have a look a bit later. When we're flying adn he's asleep."

Kin grinned at Niomi. "Sounds like a plan."

"Good. Now can I borrow 100 credits? That holotv is sounding like a good idea right now"

Kin sighed, and tossed the money to Niomi.

"You owe me." He said

She caught the credits and leeped up. "Cheers Kin." She left her infantray and shouted "I'll be back in an hour" With that she left the ship and wondered into the city.

Graothar decided to leave the ship to get a holonet terminal, a couch, casino stuff, and a holotv. Before he left, he seen Niomi leave. He decided to look at the bazaar terminal. When he got all he wanted, he decided to shop for more stuff. When he got as much stuff as he wanted, he walked back to the ship and set everything up. He set up a sign outside his room that said: Graothar's Casino. He saw Jacen and asked "Will we have to go to KashyyyK for a job?

Niomi returned to the ship carrying a big box. On her way to the infirmary she saw the sign and laughed. "This wookiee is going to get along fine on this ship.".

She returned to her infirmary and installed the holotv "Well Kin old buddy. What do you think? Did I do it right?"

Jacen turned to look at Graothar. "We go where the money is and the jobs are. If our travels go near Your homeworld we can land there for a day or so."