Hunt for Ziro the Lynx

## Premise

Cad Bane has broken Ziro the Lynx out of prison and the emperor Council demands that Ziro tell them where he's hidden vital -- and incriminating -- information: a journal detailing the criminal activities of the five emperor families. Ziro makes another daring escape with the help of his estranged (and strange) lover, Sy Snootles. Bane is back on the emperor's trail -- but he's not the only one. Master Daniel and Master Wolf need to find him too.

A chase through the swamps of  lynx territory leads the pursuers to Ziro's enormous mother, Mama the Lynx, who points them to the direction of Teth. It is here, in the secret grave of Ziro's father, that the fugitive Hutt has hidden the diary. When he retrieves it, Snooty reveals her true spots. She's a deadly woman scorned and a bounty hunter for hire. She kills Ziro, and returns the journal to her client: the emperor.

## Synopsis

Following his liberation by Cad Bane, Ziro the Lynx has been brought to the swampy Lynx home world of lynx territory, since he is holding critically incriminating information about the emperor Crime lords, stored in a holodiary whose location only he knows. Ziro ensures his own safety by claiming that if something happens to him, the information would be immediately sent to the Kung fu authorities. However, Ziro has an ally in the singer Sy Snootles, with whom he had entertained a romantic relationship. After learning that Ziro is being held captive in the emperor stronghold, she secretly visits him. Ziro exploits her affection for him to have her break him out, and the two escape into the swamps, to the abode of Mama the Lynx, Ziro's grotesque mother, who provides him with a starship so he can travel to Teth.

In the valley of peacet, Daniel is entrusted by the Master Council with the task of retrieving Ziro and bringing Cad Bane to justice with the help of the skilled, but rather free-minded, crazy and impulsive Master Wolf, whose company is not exactly a delight for Daniel. Nevertheless, Wolf is well-informed about the possible reason why Ziro has been freed, so they travel to lynx territory. The Lynx Council denies any knowledge of Ziro's and Bane's whereabouts, and Daniel is reluctant to confront them openly since the Kung Fu Warriors owes the emperors for their contributions to the war effort, but Wolf states that they could have freed him, to Gardulla's resentment. He then detects Ziro's presence by psychometrically scanning a cup Ziro has drunk from. As the two arrive at Ziro's detention cell, they find him already missing and promptly attempt to track him down. Shortly afterward, the Hutt Council also learns of Ziro's flight, and once more Cad Bane offers his services (for a fee) to retrieve the renegade Lynx.

The two parties successively follow Ziro's trail to Mama's abode and learn of his intent to get to Teth. In the meantime, Ziro and Sy retrieve the diary from its hiding place, the grave of Ziro's father, but then Sy, out of greed and a grudge against Ziro for having abandoned her, turns on the Lynx and blasts him to death. The masters and Bane meet beside the corpse and immediately begin to slug it out between themselves: While Daniel intends to bring Bane to justice for the Senate hostage incident, Bane is tempted by the reward for each dead kung fu master delivered to the Dark Empire. The masters press Bane hard, however, and he barely manages to get away with his innate skills and the help of his droid aid Todo. But while this is going on, Sy delivers Ziro's holo-diary to her true master...