Return from Hunting

[Skeang]

Skeang flew down to the same general area as last time walking into the bar waiting for Lents

[Eth Erzin]

Lents landed the outfitted Tri-fighter and remembered something that Skeang hadn't. Opening the cargo hold of the Headhunter, Lents yanked the Pirate captain out and loosened the bonds on his feet so that the man had simple stepping ability. "Alright, this way." Lents said as gruffly as he could, shaking the captain awake from his injury-induced slumber. Lents tried looking at the wounds. He had never actually hurt someone this severely before, excpt for those Omwati boys back on his homeplanet... He shuddered and blocked out the memory with a simple force autohypnosis trick he knew, then pushed the captain along in front of him as he stopped outside the bar and called for Skeang, because Hurri the Hutt's palace was a little ways into the city, and not in the bar. Lents rolled his eyes to himself. For someone who had done hunting, Skeang of all people know that you bring the target back to the person who posted the bounty. Lents attributed it to a weariness of mind from Skeang's also considerable injuries, although he was healing quite fast.

[Skeang]

(lol brain fade over here)

Skeang saw Lents near his headhunter from accross the way he began to laugh "I thought i would of had some down time since I got here so much faster then you did last time" He offered his fullest most sarcastic appology and agreed to help with the stuff

[Eth Erzin]

"Alright let's get this pirate over to Hurri and we can find a way to sell the spoils to some junkyard, so the best thing to do would be to split up. I'll take the pirate and you find a junkyard and sell all the stuff from the destroyer that we can't use." Lents paused. "But keep everything that can be useful, like blasters, energy cells, armor plating, et cetera."
Lents pushed the pirate into the city and made his way over to the large palace and imposing doors, waiting for a second before he walked in to greet Hurri.
"Just kill me already, don't make me bother with that fat excuse for a sentient being," the pirate captain spat spitefully.
Lents shook his head and pushed the palace com button on the key panel so someone on the inside could unlock and open the door.

[Skeang]

Skeang grabbed anything that seemed to be of value to sell over at the junk yard carrying the load accross he noticed a familiar face along the. The small creature that had annoyed him the first time they came here was near him he looked at it and expected fear to come across its face. Unfortunatly the small creature just grabbed a piece of the loot and ran off he figured he would squash the thing if he ever saw it again. He sold all the objects and made a decent amount. He decided to wait for Lents back at his headhunter.

[Eth Erzin]

The com next to the door beeped. "Who is it?"
"I am the bounty hunter Eth Erzin. I have brought a gift for the honorable Hurri." Lents said in as intimidating a voice as he could muster.
There was a pause, then the door slid open.
He walked in, pushing the pirate in front of him, still bound by tight durasteel cuffs taken from the ruined destroyer. Lents emerged into a grand hallway with Hurri, a murky greenish brown color, resting atop a dais and many servants scrambling around him. Lents walked up, subtly puffing out his chest and holding his shoulders back, showing off his bright Mandalorian breastplate, despite that he had abandoned their lifestyle years ago. Hurri growled out something in the mucouslike language of Huttese, and a silver protocol droid next to him translated into Basic for Lents.
"The Great and Honorable Hurri would like to know about this gift the bounty hunter Mister Erzin has brought him."
Lents replied loud and clearly, trying to give his voice the same brassy quality that made the Jedi masters always seem even more authoritative. "Some days back I and the other hunter Skeang took up an offer posted in the bar by Hurri to stop the raids on the cargo ships running to and from his spice-mining colony on Ylesia and to bring back the leader of these raids dead or alive. We traveled to Ylesia to track where the raids were coming from and follow the raiders back to the base of operations, only to discover that the raids were conducted by a gang of pirates masquerading as Imperial troops flying in a class II Star Destroyer. They used TIE and Tri Fighters to disable the cargo ships and then proceed to steal their precious cargo, whether it was one type of spice being brought up from the planet, or another being sent down to the miners, as you very well know. Skeang and I boarded the Destroyer and fought our way up to the bridge where we detained and captured their leader, this man here."
The pirate rolled his eyes and muttered to himself, yet Lents could still hear, "I can't believe I was finally done in by a hunter still wet behind the ears that took me and my ship down." Lents gave his an inconspicuous yet rough shake to get him to quiet down.
Hurri gurgled something else and the protocol droid translated again. "The Great and Honorable Hurri would like to know what happened to the potentially lucrative class II Star Destroyer you described in your account."
Lents laughed in embarrassment and replied "Skeang and I, not having enough crew to pilot it ourselves, accidentally crashed it into Ylesia, yet it crashed into an empty region, and none of your miners were hurt."
Hurri grumbled another question and the protocol droid asked "And of the current cargo ship?"
"As far as I know it safely made it to the colony." Lents said.
Hurri gurgled out a long sentence that took the droid a moment to translate with its rusty databanks. "The Great and Honorable Hurri is pleased with your work and will pay you the promised sum of 25,000 credits."
Lents almost peamed with pride at theat moment, but held it in. He wasn't sure how much a good bounty ran for, but he knew 25,ooo would be plenty to acquire a new ship, plus whatever Skeang had managed to acquire from selling their spoils. He traded off the bitter pirate and colleced the sum, leaving the Hutt's palace feeling very triumphant.

[Skeang]

Skeang saw Lents coming down the road with an accomplished look on his face he ran up "how much did we make?" Before his answer came he also had to ask "where are we headed to next this planet is beginning to irk me".

[Eth Erzin]

"We made 50 grand on the bounty. Here's your share." And Lents gave Skeang his 25,000. "How much did we make off of the spoils from the destroyer? Because I still need a new ship. Let's go to one of the shipyards here." Lents turned and walked over back into the city, scouting around for a dealership. Eventually he found one that looked about 600% nicer than the dealership he got his Y-wing from back on Coruscant. 'Well, with more money I can get a nicer vessel,' He thought to himself. He entered and nodded to the owner, a smart-looking yet obviously hard-working human who was busy polishing the front window of a Corellian YT-1300 Freighter, like the legendary Han Solo's Millenuim Falcon. Lents thought about it for a sec, but didn't really like the look or the handling perspective, as the cockpit was all the way on one side. He thought that sense of imbalance would really mess his piloting skills up. He walked through the rows and rows of ships, ranging from smaller personal craft like XJ X-wings and E-wings, and up to some bigger ships like the Corellian freighter or a vessel that Lents fell in love with the instant he laid eyes on it.
"What's that ship over there?" He asked the owner as he walked back towards the entrance where the owner still was, quickly but doing his best to hide his enthusiasm.
"Oh that one? That's an Imperial VT-49 Decimator. It was invented a few hundred years ago as the Empire's reponse to the Corellian Freighter, but it's a fine ship, even though the design is old. It's stood the test of time quite well."
"And as far as using at a personal ship?..."
"You could, I guess. It's a freighter, you know. It was mainly used to transport six elite Stormtroopers, but you could refit the interior for other functions."
"And the crew?"
"Oh that's also like the Corellian Freighter. You can pilot it with one person, but you'd need to have pretty fast eyes. The burden is lessened with a copilot that reads navigation and weapons systems and such, but flying with one person has been done."
Lents eyes gleamed. "So I could remove some of the transport space for added shielding and maneuvering?"
"I don't know if you could, but I sure could. It wouldn't cost you that much more."
"So how much would it cost total, if you removed space for say four passengers and added some power cells to boost shielding and power to the handling?"
"Eh, I'd say 55, maybe 60 thousand credits."
Lents sucked in air and bit his lower lip. He quickly pulled out his comlink and punched in Skeang's number. "Skeang? It's Lents. Listen, it's kind of an emergency, but could I sort of borrow your share of the bounty?"
"You want me to get started?" The shipyard manager asked.
Lents shrugged and said "Just one minute."

[Skeang]

Skeang smirked and said "sure" over the com link as he headed town where lents was giving Lents the money he began to say "take my 25000 but next time we hunt i expect it back in full and if its not back by 1000 years from now im charging ur ancestors intrest. Sound good?"

[Eth Erzin]

"Yes!" Lents exclaimed. "Go ahead," He told the manager/mechanic, waiting excitedly. "Is there anything I can do to help?"
"Not really. It'll be ready in a couple of hours. You say you wanna get rid of enough passenger space for four people in exchange for power cells running to the engines and shielding?"
"Yeah, and is it possible to adjust the HUD to fit one pilot?"
"Can do. Just to give you the headsd up I'll put 40% of the extra power routed to the shields, 50% to the engines, and the last 10 to the cannons, because this ship could already take a hit as it is, so the adjustment would make it more balanced."
Lents nodded in agreement "Ok."
"Oh and just to let you know," the manager/mechanic winked, "Normally a ship like this with these upgrades could run ya upwards of half a million credits."
The blood drained from Lents' face. "And how much did you say this would cost?" he squeaked.
"55 thousand. Lotta bounty hunters in the area. All the good business lets me have competitively low prices so that they buy from me, and I can afford to sell the ships for so low/"
Lents nodded again. "I understand."
"Say, what's your name, kid?"
"Eth Erzin."
"Alright, Eth, thanks for the business."
Lents laughed, then after not much was said he sat down on top of a crate a couple meters away and cleared his thoughts, entering a Jedi trance to make the time pass by quicker.

[Skeang]

Skeang wasnt good at the whole trance thing so he knew just what to do.

[Eth Erzin]

When the time was up, Lents awoke just as the manager/mechanic walked over to tell him the modification work was complete."Thank you!" Lents said heartily, "I hope business continues to run well for you."
"It was my pleasure." The manager/mechanic replied, and shook Lents' hand. Lents handed him the necessary cash, then climbed into the ship and walked through the short space to the cockpit. Settling himself down in the main pilot seat, he turned on the main console and reveled in the sound of the systems starting up. He set up a fingerprint scanner to make sure nobody could steal the vessel, then thought again and included a long password override in case something happened to him. He activated the repulsor lifts, then turned them off as he remembered Skeang was still in the hangar. He set the Decimator back down again and opened the ramp leading up. "Hey, Skeang, you want a lift?"
Lents also thought to give his new vessel a name. The Y-wing hadn't really warranted one, but this beauty deserved a name that would be remembered across the galaxy. He smiled as an idea came to mind. "The Illuminant Rush," he said to himself. He liked it.

[Skeang]

Skeng saw lents and said "impressive then again for the amount you paid it better be" He had lents give him a ride back to his ship and asked "so where to now?"

[Eth Erzin]

"I want to return to Ossus and refine my telekinesis. If you don't want to go there, I guess you can do whatever you want. Just keep in touch." Lents opened the hatch of the Illuminant Rush and let Skeang out, then brought the VT-49 up out of Nal Hutta and into space.

[Skeang]

Skeang knew what he had to do and knew he couldnt leave hut space yet. He said to Lents as he flew off "Well then I've got a neojedi to track down around here but as soon as you get the chance to kick some sith ass let me know assuming i don't catch up to you before then".

Skeang went and found the people who had given him the job of tracking down the neojedi they were displeased but told him "We have sent several others after him now, for he has proven too difficult for the average hunter. You may still try your hand at catching him he has been now confirmed to be on Hypori and you are now one of 15 hunters after him." Skeang ran to his headhunter he knew that those other 15 didnt have the same intentions as him as he sped off toward Hypori he was detirmined to find him this time.