The troops were on the shuttle, heading to rondevous with one of the pickets to drop off Vin Hofferstien. As the shuttle connected and the Lieutenant was aboard the ship, he was informed of the organic ships last known position.

"She was bearing in grid three-eight four, heading nine-six one."

"That could be anywhere..." Eric trailed off.

"Yes, but one planet of interest: Dameo."

"Bosses planet."

"Yes."

"Round up the troops, we're going to Dameo."

-Incoming Hyperspace Signature (Unknown Vessel)-

...///Calculating Possible Trajectory///...

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...///Course Path Laid Directly Through Dameo///...

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...///Calculating Origin Destination///...

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...///Path Course Passes Through Ganath///...

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...///Calculating Possibilities///....

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...///Most Probable Statistic: Taja Retreat With 15% Margin Of Error///...

-Preventative Action-

System Defense ships moved into line with the course path of the unknown vessels hyperspace signature. Ghosts near the Planet raised their Gravwells as Ghouls flew out to the edge of the system to the point where Gravwell effectiveness would pull the ship from hyperspace.

The planets Defenses raised as the PIM Den network was prepared for immediate action, its own micro-shield generators coming to life and the networks auto loading sequence went to action.

Jade dropped out of hyperspace and saw ships up ahead, a bit away from Dameo, which was in sight now. The pathetic fools actually think she's gonna land on Dameo right now, and that made her laugh.

Without even a thought, her MindDrive activated the thing she went to go get, a mechanical ball buried deep in the dirt. Still without thought, the ball rips itself out the ground, a big piece of the planet's dirt still attached to it, and heads for Jade's ship.

A small hatch opens and Jade grabs the sphere after its inside her ship. She tucks it away for later planning and kicks back into hyperspace, speeding well past Dameo for the time being.

As soon as her vessel neared the Dameo vessel it was violently ripped from hyperspace by the gravity well generators. Her ship would have tossed about like a rag doll from the internal pressures. It was a crazy Pilot that would attempt such a thing, flying into a source of gravity in hyperspace.

The Ghouls were upon her position instantly, not sparing a moments notice or a word of warning they unleashed their missles into her small vessel, their Ionic Pulsars plunging them through her shields like so much cheese. They were aimed directly for the engine portion of the craft, which they very succesfully destroyed.

Retargeting for another payload, the Ghouls hang just above the damaged vessel like the spectre's they are named for.

Jade's living ship, DragonStar, was fast and manuverable, and she used that manuverablility to work her way through the ships and the missles flying at her.

As she makes her way through them, she reaches out with the Force and gently nudges away a few of those missles that come extremely close to her hull, and her ship, for that matter.

Force user or not, she couldnt fight the laws of physics as the missles blasted into the rear of her vessels, knocking her engines out. Two Ghouls moved up beside her drifting vessel as it spun in space on the course it had previously been moving in. Another two took positions above and below it as they engaged their tractors on the Smaller transport.

Setting Course for the inner reaches of the Dameo system, but not Dameo itself, they towed to worthless vessel to its ultimate destination.

Jade remembers the built-in mechanism, one used for such emergencies. She feels under her seat for the button, and presses, then sits back down and buckles in. The front half of her ship detaches from the rear half, and jettisons into space, away from the planet.

While her ship is doing that, she activates the very slow hyperdrive, jumping to Geonosis.

Her ship, still being inside the Gravity wells having been draged there via the Ghouls, was unable to effectively jump into hyperspace. Though, still being surrounded on four sides by Ghouls, was immediatly cought back in their Tracor grip as this time all four Ghouls griped the new smaller vessel completely. It was held steady as the unfamiliar class of vessels approached. It wasnt that they were unknown, it was merely not a Dameun class of ship. Over the designated hyperspace frequancy, rang a voice..

"Eric here boss, ready for transport..."

OOC: Jade, wait for Eric to post, hes missed his turn a couple of times....

"Roger that." Eric replied, he was aboard the Picket still, but commanding the theater for his men. He ordered both of the smaller Skiprays to approach the vessel. Aboard the skiprays were some of the wonderful Ysalamari beasts--who would now provide cover for the ships. "Open a band, ask for her to come on out."

There was a momentary pause, then on all channels of standard communication rang out to the small Sekotian vessel "Roast Beef."He was referrring Jade, "You have sixty-seconds to exit your vehicle--perferrably in a zero-g space suit-- or we will open fire upon your vessel with no reservations."

The communication was terminated and all weapons on both the pickets and Skiprays were locked onto the Sekotian Vessel, even if she could somehow dodge the several dozen bolts of energy in less than half-a-second, the tractor beams would not allow, nor would the Ghouls. Meanwhile, Eric looked over at his communications officer, the man who sent the message and said "Roast Beef?! What the hell?!"