Legacy

[Kaia Starchaser]

There was a lot going on here. She liked it. No need to be on a planet. Just clean recycled air, fresh recycled water, hydroponic farming at its finest. Or that was what this station could become. As well as a sometimes home for the pilots involved in the Underground. She knew that her business wasn’t to do the fighting, but this sort of thing? She could do. The Jedi-wannabe knew that for her, conflict was a last resort. Some Covenant creed, to stay and protect people who needed it.

The rest?

Well, she was a tiny thing, even with the lightsaber she built from Covenant parts and the crystal [member="Khaleel Malvern"] provided her, she was not really that good. Sniping? Sure, she could knee cap a sumbitch from 150 plus meters easy, but the rest? Even Mara told her no blasters.

She didn’t listen. Her father used blasters, and it worked out well for him!

But that was when she looked around the hanger. She made sure her ship was shut down and her crew was out. And she smiled, taking a look and seeing a familiar face.

“Walker!” She all but shouted, moving a bit hurried over to him, with a mixture of practiced blending in and youthful excitement.

When she first met him, she didn’t know they were actually really on the same team. He was a bit more… harsh with his tactics, but if he was working with the Underground?

 

[Arage Bao]

[member="Kaia Starchaser"]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Heya, kid.” [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]The Underlord would greet with a wink accompanied by a warm smile. Kaia was an alright gal, nice, friendly and could kick some fair ass in her own time, more importantly she was family. Maybe not directly, but she was with Coren and that told Khal all he needed to know.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Just like he took care of Coren, he would always have some time for the gal.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Only way things worked in his own sphere of influence.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Ya been keeping outta trouble I hope? Don’t wanna see another lizard chasing ya here.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Couple of his own guys walked past with some heavy crates in between, they looked with a question at Walker and he gave ‘em a nod and then gestured towards a specific direction. “Ya’ll find Toto in the hall adjacent to us, he is doing the usual readings and will tell ya where that needs to go.” [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Khal looked on as they trudged on and then looked back to Kaia.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Walk with me, Kai. I wanna see what we are dealing with here.”[/SIZE]

 

[Kaia Starchaser]

See? There were people in the galaxy that made Kaia actually excited. She liked meeting people, but past the first like… dozen interactions or so, she wasn’t sure. People weren’t challenging to her. They went away. Keeping a starship in check? That was an issue, like a real concern. Something that needed to be worked on, fixed.

But for whatever reason, Khal was interesting. Maybe it was because he’d been teaching her about the Force, a bit here and a bit there. Between him and Mara, she was getting the basics down, she could move a bit with her mind and do that whole predictive combat thing. Just enough to like… make broken gate work. Sort of.

She laughed at Walker and nodded. “For the most part. Helping run supplies for some people, and well, working here.” Here being the Underground, obviously. She was one of the transport pilots. Unlike her brother, she wasn’t really a fighter pilot.

“So, where have we been finding all these people?” Underground was gaining traction, but… could they pay everyone?

[member="Khaleel Malvern"]

 

[Arage Bao]

[member="Kaia Starchaser"]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Them?” Khal asked, before looking back at the people that had come with him.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“My guys, all loyal to a fault and eager to help the cause.” [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]The price wasn’t in monetary goods this time around, his Syndicate had grown so far and width that he could afford just a little bit of [/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px]charity[/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px] every now and again - even though it wasn’t really charity anyway, pledging his help with the refitting and construction effort had a specific reason. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]It always did.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]The price this time around was a presence on the shadowport that would be created, Khal was a visionary in a lot of ways, a man who looked into the future and tried to play a hand that wouldn’t only win him one game.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]But every game in the future too.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]The Galaxy was filled with shadowports these days, his own organization had a presence in almost every single one of them, but there was a reason they called it [/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px]shadowports[/SIZE][SIZE=10.6666666666667px]. Their main selling points were the secretive nature of the stations.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]And these days? It seemed as if anyone and their mothers knew how to locate the former shadowports of glory. Which meant that it was time to establish a new network of stations, a framework for new shady dealings.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“How we looking here? You got me the dets on this beauty?”[/SIZE]

 

[Kaia Starchaser]

See? Kaia didn’t exactly build a crew. She was still, for most intents, a kid. She knew people who knew people who needed a pilot. And that was what got her involved in the Underground. She flew ships and brought people where they needed to go. It wasn’t the best of circumstance, but she wasn’t getting involved in combat, so at least she was safe.

Her brother would kill her if he knew she was getting herself involved in combat.

So this was safe. And probably wouldn’t have her brother commit whatever a brother murdering a sister was. “That’s good. I was told to pick these folks up. I’m… they seem nice? And the references came from on high in the Underground So…” She shrugged, and smacked her gum. Apparently Kaia chews gum. Surprises.

“Me? No… Just… I know we’ve got use for it in the Underground, what with… my father.” She shuddered. “Stirring up a hornets nest, we’ll need places to lay low, and pass on messages. Isn’t that what this was for?”

[member="Khaleel Malvern"]

 

[Arage Bao]

[member="Kaia Starchaser"]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Fratricide.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]That was what it was called, but Khal didn’t know the details on the fine inner workings of Kaia’s mind so he couldn’t supply her with that particular bit of information. They kept on walking for a bit, passing more and more of Khal’s man wandering out and about - already some of them were scanning the area for the more important things to do, structural weaknesses and the sort that would need to be sorted out immediately.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“No idea, kid.” Khal replied honestly and with a shrug. “Heard from the grapevine that this thing had landed here, got the coordinates and was requested to help refit and repurpose the station for the usual purposes.”[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Scratch of the chin, it would soon become apparent that they were walking towards a little side mainframe that would hold some schematics of the place. Because at this point neither Khal nor Kaia really knew where they would be going.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“[/SIZE]Aye, think we are gonna be turning it into a haven for ‘em folk that need to lay low. It’s got the size for it, alright.”

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Wandering over to the data screen, Khal started rummaging around. He wasn’t exactly the best slicer in town, but with names like Cryax Bane, Simone and Calfur around him all the time? [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Yeah, he picked up a thing or two.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Ya been keeping up with your studies?”[/SIZE]

 

[Kaia Starchaser]

She nodded. That was why she was here too. Word came through the grapevine, and Kaia was a transport pilot. One day she’d get herself flying her Twintail fighter, or one of those Incom A-Wings in combat for the Underground, she was sure. But right now? It was fine, flying freight and passenger trips. Plus it let her do her Warden thing for a while longer. Being a fighter pilot, that didn’t exactly work out the best for helping people.

Kaia liked to wander, but wandering space lanes was easier. After all, when she wandered on foot she started getting attacked by lizards. But she did have Walker with her this time. And that was good. He was the one who saved her from the beast, and she got a lightsaber crystal out of the deal! How lucky was she? Now she could run around with her saber and save the galaxy.

Maybe.

When they approached the mainframe, she nodded. Right, directions. And no hiss-hisses.

Good.

“Studies? You bet! I’ve got a lot of time between lessons at the Astro Academy and on my supply runs. So, I fill the time doing that.” When she wasn’t playing Halo. “Its good, I’m hoping to use it to help some folk soon.” It was kind of a secret that she was a Warden, but she did enough traveling and was of the Jedi persuasion, so helping people?

Kind of her thing.

[member="Khaleel Malvern"]

 

[Arage Bao]

[member="Kaia Starchaser"]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Didn’t take too long to get a map uploaded to his feed though, the Saelari Medical Center hadn’t been a military facility and with that? It meant that it didn’t have military-grade encryption protocols and the like, it was as easy as pushing a few buttons on the screen to get everything uploaded to his own feed. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Aight, good to hear.” the Underlord would say with a nod added to punctuate.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Education was important, one of the most important things a sentient could possess really. He could value this worth, because he hadn’t been given the privilege when he had been younger.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]Which meant that for Khal? It had been a fight uphill to get where he was today.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]But eventually he had succeeded in gaining grounds in areas he hadn’t been as educated in, reading for instance and all that sort of crap.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=10.6666666666667px]“Okay, I got the map. Let’s head for the central mainframe, and see what we are exactly working with here. From there we can start organizing the repairs and refitting.”[/SIZE]

 

[Kaia Starchaser]

Sometimes things were better made when they weren’t military. Kaia wasn’t much of a slicer. She could work some systems, but her skill was more in mechanics of how things moved. Systems she’d need to bring her astromech along. Maybe she could make an all purpose droid. Or have someone else make one for her.

And then there was Khaleel checking on her like some sort of pseudo-father, or uncle. Or whatever… Did he know her father? She was going to assume yes. They both seemed to roll with the same crowd. Both approached the Force in a similar fashion… And well, maybe it wasn’t so bad? Maybe that meant her father wasn’t a complete bastard.

“Yeah. Well, if the school is being paid for, I suppose I should reap the benefits.” She smiled. “Right, mainframe. Are anyone else from the Underground joining us?” Right was she supposed to say it that loud?

Oops.

[member="Khaleel Malvern"]