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It's Shab's turn to swear, luckily no one else understand Ubese enough to shout at her for what she said. "Who wants to shoot back!?" She calls, prompting Xam to send Shkala into one of the turrets as she makes an attempt to secure Kraven from the worst of the evasive manoeuvres that Shab is performing. He was not going to be pleased when he woke up, though she hadn't broken anything yet.

Kric was still watching the scanners, shouting warnings at Shab as the ship gained or anticipated some of her manoeuvres, and affirming when she was pulling away. "Shields are starting to buckle." Another Ubese curse was his reward.

After a few more twists and spins and nose dives Shab had been able to plot in a hyperspace course and have them still in one piece enough to make the journey. "Buckle down!" She warned as she flipped the switch to make the jump.

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Astra jumped, claiming a speeder, and Fraya jumped to join her moments later. "We can't stay on the surface, we won't lose them for long."

"Who has a ship?" Nei replied.

Xam swears in more than one language as she picks up the scanner again. "Shab how tough is your suit?"

Shab frowns at the question as she finishes re-routing the power. "Why?"

Xam indicates that Shkala move to better cover Shab, the atmosphere not being the danger, it would make breathing a little more difficult, but not impossible. "Kraven's been hit with a dart, I can't tell if it's artificial of some sort of biological defence..." She added, finding the correct antidote and dosing Kraven with it.

"Is he ok?"

"He'll be fine." Xam assured her. "I'll even let you kick him a few times to make you feel better."

Shab finished up and started placing the panel back into place, as one of her motion sensors went off, and she ducked sharply as a blast went off above her head.

"I can't see anything!" Shkala shouted, her weapons raised as she tried to defend Shab. Who had lifted her head again to finishing replacing the panel, bashing it hard to fit into the now dented hole.

"There's nothing on sensors." Kric added.

Having finished with the panel Shab practically jumped back into the ship, grabbing Shkala with her to drag her back into the ship, before hurrying to a console to start the power up again, enabling her to also put the shields up. Everyone was quiet for a moment, and Shkala crept forward to look out of the hole now that they had some relative safety.

"How long till we can take off?" Xam asked quietly.

"I'd like to run a diagnostic or three first, but I'm tempted to take off now." Shab replied, equally quietly, carefully tapping at the console. "Power seems stable, but we came down hard, there's damage flagged up all over the system." She paused. "I don't trust the weapons to hold, but I think it's only the booster that's damaged on the engines. Shield grid isn't brilliant, it won't hold long."

"Get us out of here." Xam decided.

Shab nodded, and hurried to the pilot seat, but both women knew that what had been shooting them could well have followed them to the system. Or follow them off-planet.

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Nei quickly decides that Sara Jane is better with her than left on her own. She ushers the girl out after her, and quickly locates one of the old garages no one had managed to break into to loot. It wasn't difficult to use the force to open the doors to a selection of speeders. Nei helped Sara Jane onto one, channelling her force healing powers over the girl to try to stabilise her somewhat.

She easily started them up, and locked them to follow her own, as she climbed up onto the same one as Sara Jane to enable her to keep the girl upright. Then set off, homing in on Nitsua's comm. "Four empty speeders coming up, some'll have to share." She reported, as they were en route.

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Astra tilted her head as she heard engines in the distance. "I can hear them." She reported quietly, though strained as she was still keeping the shield up.

Shab and Xam share a look, the latter nods and Shab hurries to the panel outside, her environmental suit protecting her from the atmosphere outside, as she works quickly.

Xam grabs a scanner and kneels next to Kraven, trying to ascertain what he's inhaled. Her work as an assassin had led her to become an expert in both poisons and antidotes, which naturally led to knowing how to combat hostile atmospheres in dire situations. Fortunately for Kraven he hadn't inhaled that much, and he just needed to breathe it out.

"How is whatever got him not getting us?" Shkala asked from where she was stood near the hole, keeping watch.

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"Are you up to moving?" Nei asked. "Because we're going to borrow some speeders."

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"I'm not sure we have long..." Astra warned, taking a deep breath as she reinforced the force shield against a particularly determined attack.

Shab briefly looks up as she notices the slip, despite the fact she can't see Kraven. "Are you all right? You did check you can breathe that air, right?"

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Nei supports Sara Jane as she looks like she's about to fall. "We're here." She reports in as she makes out Nitsua's question behind the static. "What have you done this time?"

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"You know, there is an easy way to solve this." Fraya stated as they analysed their options about getting out of this.

"And how is that not playing directly into their hands?" Astra asked, before realising what she was saying. "Besides, killing our way out of this is not the answer."

"I'm not sure we're going to have a choice..." Fraya observed calmly.

Astra ignored her and turned to Nitsua, who was talking quietly on his comm, but she could hear him. "I can turn this shield into a force wave, but I'd rather have an escape plan." She whispered to him. "You got one?"

"Do you actually know what needs fixing?" Shab called after Kraven as she watched him climb towards the panels in question. By way of reply he sort of waved and shrugged, which she took as confirmation. "Xam, you guys keep watch, I'll walk him through it when he gets stuck." She added, hurrying back over to the control panels so she could work in tandem with Kraven.

Xam quickly had the other two organised, Kric watching the sensors whilst she watched Kraven's back with Shkala. "Is it normal for it to be this quiet?" Shkala asked, having never left Junkka she wasn't sure what to expect.

"Around those two? No." Xam replied shortly.

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Astra reacts instinctively by creating a force shield around the small group she's with. "This isn't going to help, divide and conquer is exactly what the sith want!"

"And how would you know?" Fraya asked, causing Astra to turn in astonishment.

"Because they've started a war and that's a rather standard tactic." Astra replied, still not believing that she was having this conversation.

"So why wouldn't the jedi use the same tactics?" Fraya continued.

"Because they have no interest in conquering."

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"What just happened? You're not physically sick, but I couldn't wake you." Nei asked quietly.

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