Mine Your Own Business

[Duke Heston]

"Is that another lie?" Heston quipped as he left the Mockingbird. Heston takes a deep breath "Musty but I ain't choking."

He adjusts his belt and start moving towards the Jedi's ship, looking to rendezvous with the Jedi before moving deeper into the station.


[member="Samuel Culban"] [member="Cato Marek"] [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Rorke Sueban]

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[Arahael]

Cato stood, watching the ship land in the hangar. Making sure to keep one hand on his lightsaber, he approached the people he presumed that had been on the local channel.

Glancing back at the entrance from the hangar to the station itself, then back to the landed ship, he saw two figures moving towards him.

"Three's a crowd, as they say" Cato greeted them, smiling.

[member="Duke Heston"], [member="Samuel Culban"], [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Rorke Sueban]

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[Rorke Sueban]

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[Duke Heston]

Heston rounded the ship with Culban and spotted the hooded figure, "I assume you're Master Jedi [member="Cato Marek"]?"

Heston halts in his tracks and introduced himself, "I'm Duke Heston, no doubt I match the voice you heard over the radio." Heston then motions to Culban "This is [member="Samuel Culban"], I believe you two are going to get along just fine."

Heston chuckles after introducing Culban, "You must have a light step, Master Jedi. Because I walked around your ship three times before finding you."

[member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Rorke Sueban]

Rorke opened the auxiliary hatch on his ship and climbed the ladder down an access tunnel to the utility room for Hangar 2B. He looked around the small room, all of its equipment was missing or broken and rusted. He approached the door to the hangar and removed the plate to the doors access panel to activate the doors locking mechanism and waited listening for any movement or chatter between the crews of the two landed vessels.

 

[Samuel Culban]

Samuel looked at the Jedi, examining him. He noticed the Master's hand was on his lightsaber, then adjusted his jacket to try to cover his own. It still stuck out a little.

"Nice to meet you Master Marek."

He could sense Master Marek's connection to the force. It was much stronger then his own.


[member="Duke Heston"], [member="Cato Marek"], [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Duke Heston]

Heston looks between the two and notices Culban trying to hide his lightsaber "He's got one too, kid. You don't have to hide it from him." Heston then whips the right side of his overcoat behind him to reveal his FWG-5 pistol, "Now we're all showing the galaxy what we're packin', hopefully we don't have to use them."

Heston then fixes his gaze on Cato, "Now that we aren't strangers, how about we move in? Someone might need our help."



[member="Samuel Culban"] [member="Cato Marek"] [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Arahael]

Cato nodded at the two, then turned to walk towards the entrance to the station itself. Whatever they were getting themselves into, the state of the station didn't give him any hope that the distress was just a simple power shortage.

"This may not be so simple, so I'd stay on edge for now. Where you guys from?"

[member="Duke Heston"], [member="Samuel Culban"], [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Duke Heston]

Heston follows Cato to the entrance and halts as Cato halts, he places his feet at shoulder length apart and assumes a relaxed stance. "My family is on Alderaan but I mostly live on my ship."

Heston then moved his feet closer together and bent his right knee, appearing to not like standing still. Heston then turns his head to Culban "Isn't your sister on Alderaan?"

Heston turns his head back to Cato, "What about yourself, Cato?"


[member="Samuel Culban"] [member="Cato Marek"] [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Samuel Culban]

Samuel looked at Mr. Heston, then tried to relax a little. This was his first time interacting with people other than Master Culban and his slave Masters, he felt awkward.

He followed the other two men to the entrance. The doors were sealed, but the control panel appeared to have power. A red light was on, on the panel, indicating the doors were locked.

"Yeah, my sister lives Alderaan. But I'm from Nar Shaddaa originally."

[member="Cato Marek"], [member="Duke Heston"], [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Arahael]

"I'm from Coruscant and most of my family still lives there. We're still pretty tight knit."

Reaching the door, Cato pressed an entry button, the door replying with a low buzz and the red light flashing.

"You guys want to slice through this or just crack right through?"

[member="Samuel Culban"], [member="Duke Heston"], [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[MisterVasili]

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[Rorke Sueban]

Rorke stood listening right at the door to the utility room, hearing everything the strangers had to say. He continued to wait patiently to pass through the entrance so he could begin to trail them.

 

[Duke Heston]

Heston motioned his hand back and forth between the door and Cato, "If you have the technical know-how, you're free to slice. Don't break what you don't have to, that's just plain rude." Heston seemingly freezes as if he forgot to say something and then remembers, "Also it's good that you're so close to your family, I try to stay as close as I can. At least as close as a freighter can be when on the job."

Heston noticed Culban being a bit standoff-ish and reaches out to pull him in by the shoulder, "Now while Master Jedi Cato is working on to door, why don't you tell us about your family? Why'd your sister end up on Alderaan and you on Nar Shaddaa? Those two planets are the definition of polar opposites."

Heston felt the hair on his neck stand up and looked around as he held Culban.

"You ever feel like you're being watched?"


[member="Samuel Culban"] [member="Cato Marek"] [member="Rorke Sueban"]

 

[Arahael]

"All the time, pal." Cato responded to Duke.

Taking out a computer spike, he carefully inserted it into the door's manual control slot. Pressing a button, the head of the spike turned left and right at various intervals, communication with the door slot. After a slight pause, one last turn made the door light turn green.

"Ah, that should do it."

Pressing the door button once more, the door creaked open most of the way, then stopped. Cato placed both his hands on the edge of the door and pushed it fully wide open, then would proceed through the door, gesturing for the others to follow.

[member="Duke Heston"], [member="Rorke Sueban"], [member="Samuel Culban"]

 

[Rorke Sueban]

Upon hearing the door open, Rorke would grab his MK-II Paladin Blaster from his back, he then loaded an energy cell and set the blaster to stun. Taking a step back from the door he places his hand on the utility doors access panel, ready to open the door.

 

[Samuel Culban]

Samuel looked at Duke, feeling a bit uncomfortable from Duke grabbing him by the shoulder. He needed to relax if he was going to get a long with these two.

"Well, she's actually not my real sister. We were both... Slaves on Ylesia. I don't know exactly how she got her freedom, or how she ended up on Alderaan. But she's the only person in the galaxy I trust right now."

The door opened to a well illuminated hallway. Old mining carts and equipment littered the hallway. Down the hall, there was a faint sound of boots marching down the hall that were getting louder as the three stood there.

"It seems we're not alone."

 

[Duke Heston]

Heston looks down the hall at the approaching sound, "I see. We'll have to sort this out later, we got bigger fish to fry." Heston lets go of Culban and approaches Marek.

"Samuel and I will move up to a mining cart and take cover. You'll be the bait to see if they're friend and foe. I think you can handle yourself better than us if they're foe."

[member="Samuel Culban"] [member="Cato Marek"] [member="Rorke Sueban"]