6th GJW site - The Enemy Within
[OOC: The full text of this introduction can be read on the "plot" page of the GJW site. Just the first paragraphs here to wet your appetite...]
The sun was blistering over the trees on this hot summer day. The creatures of the jungle if they were visible at all were lazily basking in the warmth or the shadow, moving only occasionally to follow a sunray or avoid it - each to his taste. A stirring in the distance betrayed the approach of a small starfighter on its way towards Taldryan headquarters. The denizens of the undergrowth were long used to such happenings, their home being located under one of the main approach corridors to the vast complex that housed one of the Brotherhoods most powerful Clans.
Palpatine Four to Taldryan base, the young Acolyte piloting the Y-Wing radioed. Taldryan base here, state your request. Request landing on cargo platform six with trade supplies. Enter holding pattern while we identify your identity. Roger, entering hold at 18 kilometers, radius seven km, right circles. Palpatine four out.
In Taldryans flight center, the routine checks for the approaching ship from Scholae Palatinae began. It was customary for the Clans of the Brotherhood to exchange small amounts of vital supplies electronics, data too sensitive to be sent over the holonet, scrolls, and medicines via older 2-seater fighters refurbished to have a cargo capacity of approximately half a metric ton. Not only was this an efficient and fast network, it gave the junior pilots vital hours at the controls and on empty returns, they were expected to put in a few minutes of individual, self-paced maneuver practice at the least. The deputy shift leader examined the data on the screen. The flight plan was valid, the consular authority for the wares exchange present from both Clans and the manifest listed vaccines and blood replacements Taldryan was recently running short on. The deputy nodded and turned to his microphone.
Taldryan base to Palpatine Four, come in. Palpatine Four here. You are clear to approach and land on platform six. Belay that for a minute, I have some sensor troubles. My guidance systems are behaving strangely and I need to recalibrate. Roger that, you have no traffic, take your time. Keep the channel open.
Twenty seconds passed in silence.
Palpatine Four, can you read ? Are you maneuverable ?
I everything is falling apart. My stabilizers are going. Give me a visual to a emergency landing site, I dont know how much longer I need to
Palpatine Four, steady yourself and use the Force as youve learned it!
I am oh noooooooooooooOOOOOOOO
Before the flight controller could say anything more, an aggressive yellow blast on the southern horizon, like a second sun rising and then fading, betrayed the fate of the Y-Wing, its pilot and the supplies on board, not to mention a multitude of jungle creatures. Thirty seconds past that, the shock wave of a massive explosion rocked the citadel to the basement. A plume of acrid black smoke began to rise over the site of the wreckage.
It is an outrage, Consul Dakari complained to the Deputy Grand Master.
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