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"Nothing." Xam assured the people on the other side of the comm. "We just have some news reports you guys should read once the ship is fixed." She paused. "We'll head back shortly."

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Shab nods, not sure if she believes the woman, but she knows she'll get answers eventually anyway. So signs off the comm before heading into the shop Kraven is in, sighs as she sees the stalemate between him and the shopkeeper.

Instead she leans over the counter, applies a quick upgrade to his stocking & purchasing system and then claiming the order that Kraven had attempted to put in. As the shop keeper didn't argue this was apparently an acceptable trade.

Their trip to the bulk metal merchant was thankfully easier, and they were able to acquire enough material to fix the hull. Now they had their supplies they headed back to the ship to continue their work.

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Astra looks around though looks unconcerned. "She's fairly resourceful, and easily bored, she's probably trying to get some information or some quiet."

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Shkala and Kric come to a stop, far enough away from the wookiees so as to not be seen. Shkala curses in language Kric doesn't know, then regards him suspiciously. "You seem awfully calm about this..."

"Nothing a little virus in their tech won't be able to track." Kric explained. "If we need to find them later we can."

"Yes, and we need a working ship before we can do anything." Xam corrected.

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"What have you two done?" Shab asks, as Kraven stops outside a different store to grab supplies on their way up to find hull plating.

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Shkala catches up with Kric. "I think we need to chase smarter. They wearing any tech you can hack?"

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"We haven't done anything." Xam corrects calmly. "We have a few news reports you need to see though."

"I can only speculate." Xam admitted. "But best guess is that the Sith have set up shop on Korriban, and anyone being on that place is never good." She frowned as she continued to scour some of her electronic back channels. "And Manaan seems to have gone quiet." She sighed, and opened a comm channel. "Shab, how are those repairs coming?"

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"That depends if he holds a grudge as well as you." Shab retorted as they started their journey towards the merchant. They were halfway there when their comms beeped as Xam radioed them. "Slower than I'd like, but we've made decent progress."

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Shkala shakes herself off and hops to her feet again. "Kric I lost my guy, you still got yours?"

"Yeah, home in on my comm." Kric replied. "You remember how to do that, right?"

Shkala glared as she started running again, calling Kric names under her breath.

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"Considering you have no formal training, it's actually quite good." Astra replied. "But you need to remember to keep your cover up when you have no weapons. And to keep moving, don't wait for your opponent to come to you otherwise they have you on the back foot, not the other way around. And it allows you to turn to see all of your surroundings as you go."

"I don't suppose we can break for a bit? It'd be good to get some food." Nei asked. She had nothing to add as she agreed fully with Astra, but she could sense that Sara Jane was tired, and if she were honest she was too.

"My experience with war is limited, but I want to say the usual." Xam decided. "At least attacking the most common hyper-space trade routes during a war seems like a tactical ploy, for better or worse. The problem is where the most frequent attacks are." She added, passing Lilithen the data-pad, unsure if the woman knew her trade routes, or even that Korriban existed.

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"The most important thing is a new bulkhead." Shab replied. "Naturally they'd start with the least important things first. Though, having said that, we can mitigate the hole with force-fields." She paused. "I know a merchant two floors up that sells hull-plates and pieces."

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Fraya finished her drink and moved to one of the communication booths, and quickly sent a short, concise message - detailing her last few days.

Xam passed Lillithen a drink. "Drink." She stated simply. "It shouldn't take Shab long to fix the ship, then at least we get away from this hell-hole." She paused. "Ah crap." She muttered looking at the data-pad.

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Nei decides to start her slow, not using force powers for now, getting her into the feel of sparring, light hits, time enough to fall without hurting. As Sara Jane started to relax into it Nei started to slowly up her game, faster hits, more feints.

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"Depends, do you want a fixed ship for when we find out what trouble they've managed to get themselves into?" Shab asked.

Xam considers her last few days, and somehow despite the mess they've navigated through, it was no more or less dangerous than her usual life. And as a bar is a bar, it didn't take her long to have ordered them drinks and acquired a data-pad to scroll through on the pretence of checking bounties but really surreptitiously using it to check the wider goings on in the galaxy.

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"Well the main rule is to not actually hurt your training partner, other than that anything goes." Nei explained. "So we can either teach you some basics and see how quickly you pick them up, or try a spar and see what you already know."

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"Sure, why not?" Shab replied as she headed towards the store that Kric had said the stuff was waiting for collection. They arrived to find a very confused looking shop keeper, as she ticked off what Kric and Shkala had bought with what they needed.

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Shkala didn't even need to order Kric to split, they'd lose one, but if they kept up with two of them between them then they'd probably find the rest eventually.

"I thought the Force used people, not the other way around?" Xam checked quietly, looking around to figure out the type of clientèle they had stumbled upon as they headed towards the bar.

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Shab frowned in her enviro suit as she read her comm. "What are those two up to?" She muttered to herself. "We have most of our parts, but apparently they need collecting." She sighed. "Guess I better go and deal with that." She added, standing up.

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"Nei?" Astra asks, and Nei looks up as if realising for the first time that anything else is going on in the room. "Perhaps you would like to show Sara Jane how you fight?"

Nei looked between them as she stood up. "I guess we can go through some drills, add in the Force skills later..." She suggested. "Do you know sparring rules?" She asked, looking Sara Jane.

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Kric tugged on Shkala to slow her down, let the wookies stay ahead of them, but keep them in sight.

"Sure." Xam agreed. "Just, please don't try any of that Jedi crap and fix people here. The more fights we can avoid the better."

Xam calmly looks around at their choices, and then points as she picks one.

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Astra places a hand on Nitsua's shoulder, silently reassuring him that they'll work on the anger when they continue her meditations. But the girl needs a break from mental discipline. "So no offensive weapons?" After all, they had an expert in weaponless force-sensitive fighting in the corner.

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Before the clerk can do or say anything Shkala quickly sends him to sleep. "Better put full credit down and put down Shab's name to collect." She decides quickly.

Kric briefly regards her before nodding and doing as she says. "They're more interesting?"

"Oh, yeah." Shkala agrees.

The moment the payment has processed they give chase, as Shkala sent a message to Shab to let them know they'd sourced the parts, they just needed collecting.

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