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Chapter 22 by Caesar25 Caesar25

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Check the warehouse

Lana (looking at the place from the street): The place looks abandoned... Are you certain this is where the signal was sent from?

Drek: 100% sure, according to my estimations, the warehouse had been abandoned long before the signal was sent. So, our contact might not have been the original owner of this property. But it was sent from inside.

Ranvi: Well, obviously! Who would ask for help with an out of date signal, only to point to his own house!

Drek: Well, good point.

Barriss (looking at the markings on the wall): The place belonged to the Black Sun. These are their symbols here. Let's hope they left for good.

Lana: I wouldn't want to be here when they return, so let's go in there and be done with what we came here for!

The big rusty doors of the warehouse open with a lot of cracking noise. The place is empty, save for a few big, empty and dusty containers. Everything looks as if nobody has entered the place for months, if not years. You take a look around and see nothing and nobody.

Ranvi: Hellloooo? Is anybody in there?

Barriss (facepalming): Yes, this is how you enter a Black Sun warehouse with style... Hope there won't be a volley of blaster fire coming at is in a sec...

Ranvi: Relax, if they were here, we would have noticed that! And if our contact is here, we should let them know we arrived!

Lana: Well, it seems this was all nothing but a hoax! Not even a trap!

Ranvi: Something must be in here!

Drek (using his datapad): Wait, my scanner found something. It's the source of the signal, it's coming from that container.

You **** pull the door off of the container and find the signalling device inside, still active and sending the distress signal.

Drek: The device is still active...

Barriss: It's a trap! We should get out of here, now!

Lana: I sense a presence here... Behind that container!

Ranvi and Drek **** push the container out of the way, revealing a person behind it in robes, with a blaster in their hand.

?: Ehm, hello! Sorry, I just wanted to make sure you were truly the Jedi I wanted to meet and not some scavengers!

Barriss (igniting her lightsaber): Drop the blaster!

? (dropping the blaster): Oh, yeah, sure, sorry!

Lana: Who are you? Why did you send the signal?

?: Don't you remember me?! Oh, wait, the hood!

He reveals his face and you can hardly believe your eyes. It's Uppa'Dor, Sidious's underworld lapdog!

Barriss: You?! What are you doing here?! Wait, if he's here than it's really a trap!

Uppa'Dor: Wait! I can explain! I risked my life coming to this place too!

Lana: You better spit it out, because after the last time we were this close, I had a VERY bad day! I would very much like to repay that dept to you!

Ranvi: You know him?

Lana: He's Uppa'Dor, the man I told you about some months ago! We tried to capture him a few times, but he always slipped away!

Uppa'Dor (proudly): Hm, yeah, I did have some serious troubles, but all in all, I'm a slippery one you know!

Barriss: Enough of your folly, you better have a very good reason for dragging us all the way here, or you might explain things in your cell!

Uppa'Dor: Okay, okay, let me tell you everything, just please, lower that lasersword before somebody gets hurt!

Barriss (pointing it to his throat): No chance!

Uppa'Dor: Alright, alright, I have always liked the colour green anyway! I seek amnesty!

Lana: Amnesty? After all you have done?!

Uppa'Dor: Look, I went into some very serious trouble to get myself and you here, without Sidious knowing about it! I'm willing to go with you, tell you everything you want to know! I can tell you stories you won't even believe! All I'm asking is protection!

Ranvi: Protection from what?

Uppa'Dor: Not what, who! If Sidious learns of this, I'll be dead before I know it!

Drek: So that's why you got that Jedi signalling device? But why not just signal the Republic? How did you get that thing anyway?

Uppa'Dor: Because the Republic is compromised! Anything going through Republic channels will be known be him! As for the device... This is Atzerri, you can buy literally anything here! Even membership into the Jedi Order!

Drek: Really? How can you buy that?

Uppa'Dor: Well, if you are interested, look for a guy named...!

Lana: We don't care about that! What do you mean the Republic is compromised?

Uppa'Dor: He's more powerful and influential than you realize... Than you can possibly imagine... Only the Jedi may protect me from him!

Lana: Why risk your life to tell us this?

Uppa'Dor: Because once his plan is complete, he'll finish me off for knowing too much anyway! I want to be a step ahead of him. I know about his Jedi youngling trading system, I was tasked with running it!

Barriss: Jedi younling trading system...?

Uppa'Dor: Yes! I don't know ho, but he had some kind of information containing boxes, that could determine where the **** sensitive babies will be born.

Lana: Those are holocrons, but the Jedi have been recruiting all those babies from around the galaxy, none were reported missing!

Uppa'Dor: Yes, but he's not after the ones mentioned by the holocrons. Those are only the ones with a strong **** sensitivity. But if they have siblings, their **** sensitivity is usually a lot worse, but they still possess some of it. Only not enough for the Jedi to take them in and train them.

Ranvi: What? The Jedi would never leave behind anybody, only because the aren't strong enough with the ****!

Drek: That's not entirely true Ranvi... There are databases about those who were deemed not strong enough to join the order. But they were never really looked after again once their stronger siblings were taken.

Lana: It's true, it has happened a few times throughout the order's history, I have read records about such cases... When the trained one learns about the **** sensitivity of their siblings, they sometimes take it upon themselves to train their family on their own but... That rarely ended well... Without proper training, even a weak connection to the **** could lead to trouble.

Ranvi: That's unbelievable!

Uppa'Dor: Whether it is or not, it's happening! I was the one who organised the abduction of those who were left behind...

Barriss: You monster!

Uppa'Dor: Yeah, yeah, I know, but what could I do?! I couldn't possibly defy the most powerful being in the galaxy! And he had pockets deeper than all the Hutts combined... I had to comply!

Lana: There's always a chance to do the right thing! You just simply ignored that!

Uppa'Dor: No I haven't that's why I'm here! To do the right thing!

Barriss: No, you want to save your skin!

Uppa'Dor: Isn't that the same? Anyway, if you take me to a prison or whatever in your Jedi temple, I'll tell you all the details of his operations! I know where the remaining children are kept, who Sidious truly is, I can tell you all about it!

Ranvi: Remaining children...?

Uppa'Dor: Yes, they were tested on by Sidious, with all sorts of nightmarish technologies... Most of them didn't survive the tests... I don't know what he wanted exactly, but I know the coordinates! They are being held on Hypori, in an old droid factory! They were shipped here from all over the galaxy before transported there. The smuggling captain is in the capital, his name is Bambu, you can find him there if you want to learn about the defenses and surroundings of the place!

Lana: But Hypori was almost captured by the Republic during the war with the battle of Hypori! Why would he choose such a location for such a secretive operation?!

Uppa'Dor: Yes, the Jedi had almost captured the planet, but what do you think, why were the Separatists using such a **** to defend the planet? Not only for their droid factories, I can tell...! There are more shadowy thing on that planet than I can tell!

On a higher area, a shadowy figure clicks their sniper rifle, before aiming at Uppa'Dor's back.

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Lana: I can't believe it... You said you know who Sidious truly is... Who is he...?

Uppa'Dor: He is behind both sides of the conflict! He's leading the separatists through count Dooku and he's pulling the Republic's strings as...!

A sniper shot is fired at his back and he collapses instantly. You all ignite your lightsabers but you can't see where the shot came from in the darkness, neither do more shots come to reveal the assassin's location. You rush to Uppa'Dor, but he is already dead from the fatal shot.

Lana (angrily): No! Damn it! We were so close...!

Ranvi (as a handful of thermal detonators land and bounce on the floor all around you): Lana, watch out!

You quickly push them away as a reflex, but the explosion still affects you four, throwing you against the wall and containers, knocking everybody ****.

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