Betrayal at Kuat

Duran Senshi was the hand of his master, Knight Vandis Zan of the Regime. Fearless and ruthless, she was the perfect master for him, he was ambitious and those ambitions had no limits, there was nothing he wouldn't do to help himself and his master get the recognition they deserved from their leaders, Not that Vandis Zan got that, and that fuelled his desires even more….

This mission was like many he'd done before, go in, take out the target and generally cause chaos that would benefit his master and hopefully him in some way. Something he'd just done over this last month. He was sat in the lounge area of his ship, a heavily modified YT-1930 transport on his way Home after the long and arduous mission on Endor in the Moddell Subsector of space, when his master commed him with a live holo message. This was unusual, as she normally just sent a comm message with details on the operation and he had to figure out the finer points.

"Greetings Master, this is unexpected"

"Well done Duran, Endor was a huge success" Zan replied "I need you to head to Kuat Drive Yards, there is someone who needs your special attention!" She was, as usual, straight to the point, and in a good mood, compliments from here were as rare as the Jedi after the battle of Yavin.

"What would you have of me Master?" He asked, still kneeling, but his head raised from the initial bow.

"Kuat Drive Yards, what do you know of the people who run it?" She asked, arms crossed staring at him over the huge distance through the holocam.

"I know the ruling family of Kuat used to run the Yards, then The First Galactic Empire pretty much took control, and since then, they aligned themselves with whomever was the most powerful and had the most money" Duran replied.

"Close enough!" She replied "The current Administrator is in favour of joining the enemy, I want you to change his mind, if he doesn't, make him and his family suffer until he signs the agreement with ME…. Do you understand Duran?"

"Yes Master, I understand!" He replied, bowing to her again,  her words left him with no doubt of what he had to do, she smiled her wicked smile as she cut the comm off.. she wanted the Drive Yards, he didn't know why, and wasn't going to ask, but it will be done ..

2 days later his ship jumped back Into realspace, he longed for a real bed and a real shower, but his masters gave her orders. He'd already sabotaged his ship so it would need emergency repairs, he put in the call

Kuat Drive Yards tower, this is cargo freighter Rising Sun, requesting emergency repair, please respond"

"Rising Sun, this is KDY tower, permission granted, head to bay 63, level 17" the tower replied.

"That was easy" He said to himself, he'd expected a lot more persuasion from his side "Thank you tower, I'm going to need some assistance landing"

"Copy that, we'll have a tractor beam standing by" they said.

Duran smiled that was the easy bit, the hard bit was to come….

Once the painstakingly boring part of being tractored into position and then lowered onto the Dock took place Duran walked down the ramp, not in his usual around the citadel look, but a designer matt and shiny black suit with dark red lining. His cover was something he'd used before, an antiquities dealer, his ship, apart from the sabotaged bits was pristine, so it fit with the story.

"May I speak with the supervisor please?" He asked, the tone of his voice e made it a command, and he gave the impression he wasn't used to being told no.

"I'll see if she's available" the officer mumbled something into the comm "Sir, she'll be down in the next hour sir"

"Unacceptable, if the Supervisor is busy, get me her boss?" He said more forcefully.

"Err, yes sir" she said nervously. And made another call.

Duran enjoyed this part if the mission the most, the subterfuge and trickery, he laughed to himself as he thought about it, he could hear the officer and someone else talking away, he had his back to them for added effect. it didn't take long and the officer said "Sir the sector manager will see you, this driod will take tou there now"

He nodded his thanks, passing her a credit chip worth 1000 credits, no harm in making another contact he thought, he was hone before she replied so if she said something, he didn't hear it.

"This way sir" the droid said, as he took him not so short distance to the office complex, it was done in silence but eventually they arrived, and Duran got his first surprise of the day….