Open Arms on Taboon (Republic)

[Corvus Raaf]

Having understood that Reelo was fortunately not the gangster she’d heard of but the youngest of their family, she made every attempt to look calm and in control.

“OK. First thing I’d recommend is you keep together. We don’t want to have to find anyone else if one of you gets separated. Next, go back to…” She struggled for an appropriate word. Not ‘home’ for sure. “Go to where you’re staying. He may just get their under his own steam. I will go looking for him.”

She took directions as to where they were camped out and with her most Jedi-like bow, promised them she would find Reelo.

She allowed the Force to guide her. Sure there were a lot of generally unhappy people around here but a lost child should stand out from the crowd. She used her Force Empathy and followed the sense of sadness and fear that she was sure would be Reelo.

Sure enogh she found him. He was between two prefabricated buildings, in something of a natural alleyway – and he was surrounded by four human boys – all taller than him.

They were all taunting him. “Is the poor little alien baby crying?” “Why do you stink alien?”

Her presence was noticed by the boys one at a time until one voice remained, the shortest of the antagonists, with a shaved head – who had his back to her. “Stinky Rodian – go home.”

She could sense his friends wanted to bolt but daren’t. And they wanted to warn their friend too but similarly lacked the courage to do so. Finally the shaven haired boy turned to face his comrades. “What’s up with ya? Gone soft?”

Only then did he spot Corvus. She did little other than stand there, hands on hips. One by one they found their feet the most interesting thing to look at - as their faces reddened.

“There you are young Padawan.” Corvus walked over to Reelo and put a comforting hand on his shoulder. “Excellent. I see you took my instruction to learn self-restraint seriously. You could have picked more impressive opponents though.”

She saw that the boys were now daring to peak at her as she spoke to Reelo. “Did you try the ‘lost child’ ploy? I bet you had to use all of your restraint not to use the Force on them. Anyway…” she patted him on the back now, “Jedi business has to take priority over training. But don’t worry, I’ll let you work under-cover again soon.”

She then faced the boys. “Thank you for helping my young Padawan here. Excellent self-restraint, I’m impressed by him. Best run along though, in case he falters.”

The boys ran, stumbled, fell and ran some more. Within a few seconds they were gone.

Kneeling next to Reelo, she whispered, “Now, let’s get to back to your parents. I suspect they’ll not bother you again.”

Corvus quickly reunited the family and buoyed by her success, decided to head to the medical facilities to see if she could lend a hand.

[member="Johnny Diamonds"] [member="Veino Garn"] [member="Kahne Porte"]

 

[Yarna Kiren]

As soon as she landed on Taboon with some members of the Jedi Corps, Yarna had begun sorting difficulties between the refugees. She had just given three steps when she saw two Toydarians arguing in Huttese over who took that spot to settle themselves until the arrangements to properly place everyone where made. She approched them and fluently spoke in Huttese with them, it was in this situations she was glad for having learned the language. Due to the pride and stubborness of the Toydarians it certainly was difficult to get them to stop insulting and threatening each other but she finally solved the 'discussion' by looking a spot for each one of them, away from one another. She didn't try the mind-trick with them, she knew it wouldn't have worked. After that she started looking for fellow Jedi so that she could receive orders on what they needed her to help with.
As she walked through the crowdmany eyes turned to look at her, some with surprise and amazement and other with fear. A small, kind smile played at her lips as she bowed her head gently to some of the refugees who did the same in a greeting manner. She was almost out of the crowd when someone bumped into her, someone too little like to make her loose her balance. She turned and smiled at a human kid who apparently lost his parents in the mass of people, "Hello, what is your name?" She said, sweetly as her ice-blue gaze fell upon the boy. He looked at her, somewhere in between awe and fear, "I-I am Kared" He replied a nervously. Yarna smiled and squated, now she was at the kid's high so he didn't make him more intimidated; she also removed her hood, "Pleasure to meet you Kared, I am Yarna. Tell me, where are your parents?" She asked, looking around a bit, double-checking they weren't near. The boy was a little more comfortable with her now, but the look of distress did not abandon him, "I am lost" He said with an innocent voice wich made Yarna think how bad he must be feeling, "Come, Kared. We will look for them." She standed up and intended to start walking when she felt the kid pull at her brown robes and extending his arms, silently asking to be lifted. Yarna was a little confused at first, being raised as a Jedi she wasn't used to making or receiving this kind of requests. Nevertheless, she smiled and lifted the kid up, placing him on her hip while holding him with her arms. She saw another padawan and she recognized her, Corvus Raaf. She walked up to her with the child still in her arms and spoke, "Greetings, Corvus. Hope the times find you well." She said before looking to the worried family that stood in front of Corvus and bowing her head in greeting, her gaze returned to the Jedi, "Is there a problem?" She asked, referring to the family.

 

[Yarna Kiren]

(Sorry, my cell-phone double posted)

 

[Corvus Raaf]

Corvus noticed [member="Yarna Kiren"] in the crowd and saw she too was delivering a lost child. She figured she would be able to handle this by herself but thought it rude to walk on by.

So she wandered across, thoughts of the medical bay temporarily pushed aside. "Padawan Kiren." Corvus bowed a greeting. "And who do we have here?" she asked and looked at the child on Yarna's hip, smiling as she did.

 

[Yarna Kiren]

Yarna's ice-blue eyes where placed in the Jedi Padawan that was now speaking to her and the child. She then looked at the kid whose brown eyes where placed on [member="Corvus Raaf"], "I am Kared" He answered with a bright smile while his little fingers fidgeted with Yarna's brown cloak. The blonde-haired Jedi then added, "He got lost, I am looking for his parents. For what he told me they should be somewhere near here I feel them close." She said looking at Corvus. The boy had seem to forgett his parents weren't close but it was better to have him distracted than worried to death about not finding his parents, "You have a similar problem, i suppose?" Her calm voice sounded again, her question directed to Corvus.

 

[Corvus Raaf]

"Mine was less...cute. But easier. Finding the child presented the problem not the parents. You have the exact opposite challenge."

Her voice was soft and friendly and aware of what she was saying in front of the boy. She sensed for how the bonds of the Force were interacting, searching for signs of anyone with emotions of loss. "You're definitely heading in the right direction." She nodded reassuringly. "And you Master Kared, have the ideal Jedi around to keep you company. Yarna here is the best."

Looking to [member="Yarna Kiren"] she added, "Would you like the company or would you prefer to carry on with this young man by yourself?"

 

[Yarna Kiren]

The blonde haired Jedi nodded in understanding once [member="Corvus Raaf"] explained to her the situation. A small smile of absolute modesty and a grateful look, "I am not the best Jedi here at all, but I will keep you safe until we find your parents which will happen soon." She said, speaking to the child but looking both at him and Corvus. "On the other hand I think that with the help of fellow Padawan Raaf we would certainly escort young Master Kared to his parents and sort any other difficulties that may be found after that" She said, speaking to the kid but with an obvious indirect speech to Corvus, "What do you think, Kared?" She asked the kid who laughed and smiled while nodding his head with a content expression. She located the possible parents again through the Force, they hadn't moved a lot which didn't surprise her since it was difficult covering too much ground with so many beings on the move, "Let's go then" She said and smiled starting to make her way through the immense crowd, her lightsaber hanging from the hip where Kared wasn't placed.

 

[Johnny Diamonds]

NTS Transit HUB
Getting flirted with by the bombshell?


Johnny nodded, looking to the map Jerry pulled up as she spoke about operating systems, and frowned a bit as the error codes began piling up like a speeder jam on Coruscant during rush hour. Rubbing his chin a bit, he seemed to go into a trance for only a few moments, before smiling widely, looking back up to the sultry Zeltron. "Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. This is simple stuff. I've got some stuff that'll help, clear this shocked system up decent enough."

As she stood there, smiling her gorgeous smile at Johnny, talking him up and making him feel a like a million credits, his rather odd-wired brain kicked it into overdrive; 'Dude, you know Zeltrons, man. They are such super-flirts. You know the old phrase I bet you say that to all the girls? Well, Zeltrons do it to everyone. It's like, applicable here. Just let it go, man. You ain't here to get upside down with no one around, you got a job to do. People, man. That helping hand. Let's get to work, brochacho!' Johnny's mind was indeed unique, frazzled but singularly brilliant. Looking to Jerry, he winked back and slung his messenger's bag around behind him.

"I don't need all three days, but you know, if you want to find me at some point, it's all good in the hood. I'm gonna make tracks for the medical wing. Catch ya on the rails, chicadee!"

And with that, Johnny tossed his earbuds back in, and hauled his skinny backside on down the corridors. It wasn't as if he needed a print-out, Eidetic memory was an awesome thing, yessiree. Zoom, zoom!



[member="Jerry Mars"], [member="Kahne Porte"], [member="Veino Garn"], [member="Corvus Raaf"]

 

[Jsc]

NTS Transit HUB
Idle

Jerry smirked as Diamonds took his leave. Humans were such an entertaining species. She reformatted her computer screen and grabbed her missing keys too. It was time to get back on the hunt for the most elusive prey of all.

Lunch.

 

[Kana Truden]

Kana hadn't prepared herself for the sheer amount of emotion there would be at Taboon. The air lingered with despair, of frustration and fear. All these people who had lost their homes to the Sith or worse. It reminded Kana of herself. It wasn't long ago that she too would have lost her home. Her thoughts were of Alderaan and with those around her with the difference being that at least Kana had been able to get rid of her possessions by choice.

As she took the final step off of the shuttle's loading ramp she looked around the platform. She had been told there'd be a fellow padawan somewhere around here that would be in charge of things but she couldn't seem to find them. A quick look at the time answered all her questions.

"Lunchtime." Kana muttered bitterly. "Dockworkers, I swear..."

With no one she recognized being around she decided to approach the fellow who looked to be somewhat in charge at least. Little did she know it was [member="Veino Garn"].

"Since the person in charge seems to have taken a break, could you do me a favor?" Kana tried to smile at the man but the atmosphere just made it sort of awkward. "If you see someone called '[member="Jerry Mars"]' could you tell him that Kana Truden has arrived?"

 

[Corvus Raaf]

Corvus smiled at Yarna’s modesty and hoped she hadn’t offended. The compliment was primarily for the boy’s sake but she understood that some people might take offence.

She walked alongside Yarna as they headed to where they both clearly believed the boy’s parents to be. “You seem a natural with children. Do you have younger siblings?”

[member="Yarna Kiren"]

 

[Yarna Kiren]

The Padawan's ice-blue eyes moved onto [member="Corvus Raaf"] once she asked her question and with the blank expression full of calmness she had answered, "No, I do not have any younger siblings, just a twin brother. Nevertheless I feel empathy for kids, so innocent...oblivious to the many perils of life and therefore defenseless to them. It just feels correct to keep them happy as long as one can." She explained, Yarna hadn't had a long childhood not only because of the Jedi training but also because her father died young due to illness and she never met her mother. She didn't regret anything though, she always believed that her task in life was to help others and follow the teachings of the Light and the Force and being a Jedi was her way of fulfilling those tasks. It wasn't long until they came across a nervous pair of humans, a woman and a man who where asking everyone around them if they had seen "A kid with brown hair, about this height" while putting their hands in the air above the ground to state the actual height of their son. Kared smile widened hen he saw his parents and made his way out of Yarna's arms and into the ground, running towards them, "Mommy!" He shouted as the red haired woman turned around and smiled, catching her son and hugging him after lifting him into her arms. The father gave a pleased smile, relaxing once he saw his son "Where have you been little man?". The woman's expression turned quickly and transformed in that of a slight scowl, "Never leave my side again Kaden, you almost scared me to death!" She said but her son just giggled, amused by his mother's expression and suddenly pointed a little finger at Corvus and Yarna, "The Jedi brought me" He said before getting closer to whisper in his mother's ear, "They are very pretty, almost as pretty as you mommy" The woman gave a smile before kissing her son's cheek and walking towards the Jedi with her husband, "Thank you very much, for finding our son" She said which Yarna answered with a nod, "There is no need to thank" she said.

 

[Corvus Raaf]

Corvus listened to Yarna with genuine interest. Although Corellian Jedi were permiited to live at home and keep family ties – she’d chosen to live at the Academy and hadn’t seen her parents or siblings since she was ten.

Finallty they came across Kaden’s parents. Their relief was palpable even to those not blessed with being Force Sensitive. Corvus let Yarna do the talking but bowed in unison with her Padawan colleague as they made their exit.

“I was heading to the medical facility to see if they needed a hand – I got the impression they do. Or would you prefer to remain out here, and I can go there later?”

[member="Yarna Kiren"]

 

[Veino Garn]

Veino turned as [member="Kana Truden"] approached and asked about Jerry. He nodded, and glanced around, trying to figure out where she had gone. "She should be over in the transportation hub there." He pointed back behind him to where the command center where Jerry had organized the rail lines sat. "Unless she's gone off to find lunch. Then I'm not entirely sure where she'd be."

He felt a short surge of premonition and turned as a young Alderaanian ran up to him. He could feel the fear and panic. Something wasn't going well. "Excuse me, please," He said to Kana, and walked over to the young boy and knelt down in front of him.

"What's wrong?"

"Please, master Jedi, there's bad people down below, asking for money." The boy rubbed at his face, "With lasers." Veino's jaw tightened. Robbery? Organized crime? He couldn't be sure yet, but there was enough information to know he needed to go step in.

"Lead the way then. I'll do what I can."

 

[Kahne Porte]

[member="Johnny Diamonds"] [member="Corvus Raaf"] [member="Yarna Kiren"]

Things seemed to be picking up, more and more were getting processed and any injuries and the like were being cleansed. However it seemed that as time dragged on the more restless everyone was getting. While it was busy, and even the refugees were beginning to get slightly agitated by the process. Many had gone without food for several days and they were hungry. He was doing the best that he could do, but he didn't complain, this was his duty, this was his life. To aid those that couldn't help themselves, and ensure that everyone had a chance for survival, as was all their jobs those Jedi that were in the galaxy.
The Jedi Master placed a hand on the shoulder of a much older gentlemen after he cleaned and wrapped the wound that was on his forearm. He listened to the older mans thanks and just beckoned him to go forward at which washed his hands again and reached for his water bottle that was nearby and took a small drink from it. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath and that was when he heard a small shout, and several more screams. Kahne immediately looked towards the cause of the commotion and carefully moved towards that direction. He heard various noises and several more screams as he lightly pushed through the crowd to what was going on. There was a man around mid forties that was on the ground and clutching his side and someone else who was standing a few feet before him holding a woman hostage, knife to her throat. Kahne motioned for one of the medical personnel to help the man who was already wounded.

The individual holding the knife was young man early twenties if he was to guess. His eyes were blood shot, and as he moved closer to the situation. He looked to be a drug user, a heavy one at that. He was surprised he hadn't run into more of these individuals as the day went one.

"Look, I just need some food! I haven't eaten in weeks!!! "

A roar of shouts, angry and others in a different tone yelling at the assailant that they were hungry too. It was a deafening roar, until his own voice entered. "QUIET" It was load, and thunderous but it did get everyone to pipe down. Kahne raised his hand and spoke calmly into his comlink. "Additional security down to the Medical Center,asap."

Kahne then looked to whoever this man happened to be and just shook his head. "Let her go, I will not tell you again." His voice calm as calm as can be, instructing him to lay down the weapon, or else he would be taken down as necessary.

 

[Kana Truden]

“Thanks.”

Kana left Veino to the kid and proceeded to enter the refugee camp proper. If the landing area had been bad then she truly had nothing to compare the actual camp to. There were so many people in just one place. She still couldn’t help shaking the feeling that if anything she could very well have been where here even under other circumstances.

Now where would she place herself? The image of Yetari plopped up for some reason. He had been a doctor; he helped people in situations like these. If he had been here he’d probably be at whatever section of this place that would count as a hospital.

It seemed like a good idea to her. Her skill level in the force may have been abysmal but at least she had shown herself capable of fixing things of a medical nature before, right?

She stopped by the door to the medical center. Going by the noise coming from inside it seemed safe enough to say something was going down inside.

“QUIET!”

Taking the shouting as a sign that it was time to step in Kana did just that. To her utter surprise she found herself in the middle of a hostage situation.

“What’s going on?" Kana tried to act as calm as she could. "Why is he..."

[member="Kahne Porte"]

((I'm so sorry about the earlier mess up))

 

[Yarna Kiren]

The blonde Jedi turned to face [member="Corvus Raaf"] once Kared and his parents left. She listened to Corvus question, her eyes quickly scanning through the area to make herself sure that no other problem was gestating in there. All she was able to see were many expressions of sadness or worry, some where just empty, staring blankly at nothing in particular.
Once she was positive that, at the moment, that no one here required their presence she answered, "I believe that going is a better idea. No one here seems to be in need of anything we are able to provide." She said, briefly explaining the reason that impulsed her reasoning. She awaited, choosing to follow her rather tan leading the way to the medical corps.

 

[Jsc]

[member="Kana Truden"]

Cafe7 - Converted Employee Lounge
Grabbing Lunch

___

Café7 could hold about 200 people and was now a functioning cafeteria. I say 'functioning' because it was mostly composed of volunteers, repair engineers, and plastic food dispensers. Mmm. MRE's and a microwave. Nothing says hot food like plastic wrapped nutrition nuggets. Just like girl's camp back home.

Jerry frowned as she opened the microwave and popped her lunch into the metal box. She set the timer for warm and stood back to look around. It appeared nobody was better off either.

"Yo Jerry. How's it going."

"Food processing. The usual. You?"

"Darn girl. You know they got hot chow over on Stephan's barge don't cha?"

"I thought Stephan was distributing GR's to the Railyard tomorrow?"

"Nah man. His captain worked out a deal for hard cash. They converted his barge into a restaurant for the rich and famous. All them Empress Teta nobles venture there to spend their coin. The Railyard ain't getting squat. But hey? At least somebody is figuring out how to make some money from this venture. People will do anything to pretend they ain't refugees eating cold soup."

"Gods damn it! This isn't the time to be enterprising with government goods. Those are taxpayer supplies. What the hell? How can they do that?"

"Beats me? I mean, ya know. I kinda liked the idea?"

Jerry was furious. She slammed the microwave door and grabbed her food. It looked like the chaos was already driving people to cutting corners. On day one, no less.

"Oh. And yo Jerry!? ...Call for ya came through. Some new Jedi wanted to see ya over at the shuttles. Kana Truden?"

"Fine. Fine. I'll text her right now to meet me here. Now, if you'll excuse me. I've got a lunch to pretend I'm enjoying. Ugh."

She was going to need a break from her break pretty soon.

 

[Johnny Diamonds]

NTS Medical Wing
That Darn Code!


Johnny had been in the medical wing for a little while at this point, already having his datapad in hand, linked into the medical computer. His free hand had dashed across the touchscreen like a possesed womp rat, darting back and forth like lightning, writing a compatible communications cypher so the metric ton of messages coming through the pipeline would display in galactic basic properly. It really was just a case of the galactic universal translator within the medical computer suffering from a case of multiple personality disorder. Still, Johnny didn't half-ass his assignments, and the medical wing was basically ground zero around here. It had to run as flawlessly as possible, and the young Jedi would make sure it did.

Just then, as he was finishing up the communications bungle, that voice bellowed out like a thunder crack;

"QUIET!"

Johnny heard it clear as day even with his earbuds firmly slammed into his ear canals. Blinking a few times, he yanked them out by the cords, and looked over to Kahne, and canted his head to the side as whoever he was talking to began apologizing like mad, backing away and lowering some sorta rudimentary blaster.

"Wow, man. You are totally volume max'd right now. You always this loud, or did I miss something?"



[member="Kahne Porte"], [member="Corvus Raaf"], [member="Jerry Mars"], [member="Yarna Kiren"]

 

[Corvus Raaf]

The blonde Jedi turned to face Corvus Raaf once Kared and his parents left. She listened to Corvus question, her eyes quickly scanning through the area to make herself sure that no other problem was gestating in there. All she was able to see were many expressions of sadness or worry, some where just empty, staring blankly at nothing in particular.
Once she was positive that, at the moment, that no one here required their presence she answered, "I believe that going is a better idea. No one here seems to be in need of anything we are able to provide." She said, briefly explaining the reason that impulsed her reasoning. She awaited, choosing to follow her rather tan leading the way to the medical corps.

Corvus took the lead in the short trip to the Medical Facility. Like Kared, she checked out for any trouble as she walked.

As they approached the Centre, they heard the bellow, “QUIET.” Corvus picked up her pace initially but as she turned the corner to face the facilities, she slowed right down to assess the situation.

She saw a man holding a knife to a woman’s throat. She also saw a Jedi appeared to have the situation under control, so halted – in case she spooked the man.

[member="Yarna Kiren"]