A bang resonated throughout the starport as several rockets where jetisonned from their tubes, they found there marks several seconds later on the tank that Asri had just been in; turning the tank into molten metal.

McGan, who had been hiding behind a few crates, realized that this was a battle he could not win. He began to make his way toward the comm. unit when a series of blaster shots made him change his mind.

"Halt where you stand, McGan!" Lavality ordered as she and several of her marines ran up to him, blasters pointed.

McGan laughed. "So.... the lovely young child finally attends a position of power... I'm surprised these dogs are willing to follow you." he said harshly with both hands up.

Lavality didn't show any emotion to his words; instead she tossed her blaster aside and ignited her lightsabre. "Perhap's it's best you 'rephrase' what you just said."

"Oh? A light sabre..." Said McGan as he dipped his hand into his pocket and pulled out a cigerrate and lit it, it blew a few puff's before throwing it on the ground; the cigerrate rolled several feet toward an open container of fuel.

Her eye's narrowed; she knew he was plotting something. "Pretty calm for someone who's about to be arrested. Not only will I allow these people to presecute you, but I'll also let them choose what punishment to give you; of course, I'm SURE the wookie's would love to have fun with you first."

"Those fur balls? Meh..." Mcgan said and spit on the ground. Lavality snarled and was about to reach for him when she felt the ground shaking slightly. She looked around before quickly realizing what it was. "HIT THE D-" she managed to say before four large plasma blast's impacted the hanger bay near them, igniting the fuel containers and causing a massive fire. The concussion threw Lavality and her marines straight onto the ground.

She shook her head and came to just in time to see McGan run out the back. "After him!" She shouted to her marines.

While Trazu was busy chasing down the traitor, Naosha was chatting with Shissa about politics.

“Seen all the trash talk going back and forth between the Coalition and TNO lately?” Shissa asked.

“How could I not…it’s everywhere.” Naosha said with a groan. “Since our joining with the Coalition the people have taken more interest in what’s going on beyond our system.”

“To be honest I don’t like the sound of things….” Shissa commented.

“It bothers me as well.” Naosha admitted. “This is looking more and more like we are about to go into full scale war with TNO.”

“I just love how TNO seems to expect a diplomat to come tell them when a planet is joining another group.” Shissa said with a snarl. “They act as if they own the entire galaxy!”

“At the rate they are expanding…they soon may.” Naosha said quietly. “My gut feeling about this is that the Coalition won’t be able to stand up to TNO if a full scale war happens.”

“Because TNO is larger?”

“No…” Naosha lowered her voice again. “Not because TNO is ‘bigger’. Something else…something I can’t put my claw on. However because I have yet to be invited to a planetary council of sorts within the Coalition, I don’t know how things are going within the Coalition: to see how the different leaders get along. If they are not completely united in view and purpose like TNO seems to be, they won’t stand a chance if war comes.”

“Essentially you mean the Coalition could be their own worst enemy….”

To that Naosha nodded and for a few moments there was silence. Naosha looked at Shissa, then glanced around: all the other guests were either in another room or engrossed in chatting amongst themselves. “You’ve heard about the recent attack on my mates Clan correct?” She asked quietly.

“I heard.” Shissa replied. “I also heard a couple of representatives of that ‘pet’ ally of yours were there.”

Naosha scowled at the ‘pet’ reference. “They are not our ‘pets’.” She reminded her firmly. “I have no control over what they do and they have no control over what we do.”

“Perhaps, but trouble seems to follow them as much as your grandson Trissan gets into it.”

The Elder Councilor could only sigh and nod her head in agreement. “Only because of the enemies they have.” Naosha admitted. “Enemies that have managed to infiltrate them. Enemies that have managed to infiltrate our government.”

That made Shissa sit up and listen. “What are you saying? That we may have a traitor in our Council?”

“Not ‘may’…’do’.” Naosha said quietly. “The assassination attempt was repealed and we were able to capture a few of the assassins. One of them revealed during interrogation that one of his ‘employers’ was a female Councilor.”

Shissa seemed to go a bit pale. “You don’t suspect me do you?” She asked.

“No my friend…you’ve been cleared.” Naosha said reassuringly.

“Cleared? By who and how?”

At that Naosha smiled and said. “There’s a reason I brought my son Trazu to this party….”

Trazu returned just then, marching the traitor Councilor into the main lobby and drawing a few questioning stares. When Shissa saw this her jaw dropped open in shock.

“I figured you would want to talk with her mother.” Trazu said as he directed the female to sit down.

“Not just me son, but the whole Elder Council.” Naosha replied as she turned toward Shissa. “We need to call for an emergency meeting.”

“If what you told me is really true…then yes…:” Shissa said softly. “This matter needs to be taken care of swiftly. I’ll call for security.”

“I’d rather guard her myself, if you don’t mind Elder Councilor.” Trazu said, glaring at the traitor. “We don’t know how far her ‘influence’ is and she could have contacts within our security forces.”

Shissa looked like she was about to question Trazu’s ability to keep control over the prisoner by himself, but obviously remembered that he did apparently capture and subdue her on his own so simply nodded. “As you wish, I’ll call the other Elders and tell them to get to the Council building ASAP.”

Spaceport

Asri had been just about to step out and join Lavality when the explosion occurred. Fortunately she had been shielded from the concussion by the bulkhead she was hiding behind and saw McGan take off before the stars in Lavality’s eyes cleared. With a snarl the albino leapt to her feet and took chase. Apparently he thought he had a bigger lead then he did, as when he looked back at her his eyes widened in surprise.

“Thought I blew up with that tank didn’t you?” She called to him with a laugh. “You don’t know me very well.” She knew she had to catch him quickly: if he got into a crowd of people she would likely loose him. Then she reminded herself that there were no ‘crowds’ currently in the spaceport due to having been evacuated. With no crowds to disappear in, where was he to go?

The answer came when he ducked into a side room: it was one of the flight simulator rooms. She quickly ducked in herself just as he started shooting at her, forcing her to jump to one side to avoid getting hit. The way they just came in was only one way in and out of the room, so he was no doubt hoping to hold her off at the door. McGan could still hold her off due to all the equipment he could hide behind as he was armed and she was not. There was one thing she could do to even the odds a bit and she did it: she turned the lights off.

The room was suddenly plunged into near total darkness, with only a few power and safety lights providing light into the room. Another Trandoshan would have trouble with this, for while they would be able to see the heat of their prey and perhaps off the few pieces of equipment, they wouldn’t be able to see the various non-heat emitting equipment very well: a very probable tripping hazard. Asri however, saw in darkness like a cat thanks to her modified vision, so there was just enough light for her to see McGan clearly in the darkness. McGan on the other hand, being human, would be practically blind.

The man started firing wildly, forcing Asri to use cover as she stalked toward him. Whether or not he was doing it to keep her at bay or using the light from the shots themselves to guide himself around wasn’t quite clear, though he was on the move: slowly, but moving none the less. But his repeated firing only pinpointed his location to her and the sound of all the blaster fire would keep him from hearing her. When she was close enough, she waited on all fours patiently for the right moment, then rushed forward, tackling the man in the legs. Quickly she jumped onto his back, using her greater weight to keep him pinned to the ground.

“Like I said…” She said as she bought her fist down upon his head, knocking him unconscious. “You don’t know me very well…”

When the marines saw her carry McGan out of the room, they looked obviously disappointed. “Next time boys…” She told them as she carried McGan back toward the hanger where Lavality was. “Next time…”

The marines all let out a sigh. "And here we wanted to kill something.." they all said and shouldered their blasters and followed Asri back to the hanger.

Lavality was already back on her feet and checking out the equipment. "One of our patrols found a cloaked prowler in high orbit, armed with a orbital cannon, rare to find one on a prowler considering the things aren't big enough to house a generator FOR those." she said and rubbed her chin. "Of course... the various peices of debris still floating orbit from the battles awhile back, one of those could've been a reactor that he was leeching off of." she said to one of her techs.

Her tech shrugged his shoulders; it was obvious he was very tired and worn out. "Maybe.. we'll know more once we interrogate the crew."

"Ok; don't kill them though. I want to hand over the crew to the Trandoshan Council. I feel they will want to question them; and might want to pass judgement considering they fired on civilian buildings." Said Lavality as she straightened her robe out.

The tech nodded and scrolled through more data on the screen. "Damn... there's information here on different strike locations all over the planet. Not to mention the council building as well; in fact. That prowler wasn't just targetting the starport, it was also about to target the council building."

"What stopped it?"

"Apparently when it first fired it drew A LOT of attention from the combined Seren/Trandoshan/Wookiee armada in orbit. I don't think they felt they 'could' fire without being blown to bits." The tech snickered, but quickly cleared his throat when he noticed the glare coming from Lavality.

"Ma'am!" A marine shouted from across the bay. Lavality looked up to find Asri carrying McGan. "At least this is one problem we don't have to worry about." she said and walked over to Asri and lifted up McGan's head before swiping her hand away.

"Well Asri; since you caught the pray, who shall we give him over to first? Sha'tor Rissonik. Or the council?" Lavality asked with both hands folded. She hoped it would be Rissonik, since she was certain he'd want a few things to say, not to mention his warriors would 'love' to treat the man to a fabulous 'gift'

“That depends.” Asri replied. “If Trazu weeded out the Councilor that was helping him we might as well try them both at the same time during an Elder Councilor meeting. Otherwise taking him back to the Clan first would do. Besides, from what I saw, those assassins seemed to be targeting Trazu and the kids more then Sha’tor Rissonik and Elder Councilor Naosha on our side of things. Speaking of which…I should let him know we got this bastard.” She took out her comm. device and dialed the number of Trazu’s device.

Shissa’s Manor

Trazu and Naosha were patiently waiting for Shissa to finish calling all the Elder’s when his comm. device beeped. When he answered it he was suddenly reminded that Asri’s flight training was at the Spaceport all that commotion was going on at, which seemed to be over. “Asri…glad to hear your voice. You ok over there?” He said.

~More then ok.~ Asri replied. ~I just helped capture a certain traitor.~

“Ha! I should have known you wouldn’t be able to resist helping out. So what is she going to do with him?”

~She decided to turn him over to us so we can try him under our laws.~

“This will work out then, I discovered our traitor and captured her. Councilor Shissa is calling up all the other Elders to get them to come to an emergency meeting.”

“Russis! This is far more important then you reading poetry to your skragging plants!” Shissa was suddenly was heard shouting in the next room, prompting a bunch of fits of laughter from those within earshot. Trazu even chuckled a bit.

“I’ll call father and let him know: he’ll want to bring witnesses from the earlier assassination attempt.” Trazu continued. “Once all the Councilor’s are contacted I’ll call you back.”

~Alright hun, I will stand by until then. I’ll ‘try’ not to rough ‘him’ up too much before then.~ He could almost see her grin in her voice before she disconnected.

“From the sound of things they got him?” Naosha asked.

Trazu nodded. “Provided neither of these two get loose before we can try and sentence them, that would leave only one left.”

Naosha nodded and said quietly. “He’ll be the hardest…I just know it.”

“He’ll likely lay low once he hears we just captured his two remaining partners. However, if he is a wookiee as our intel suggests…Tzhali will be the best choice to find and deal with him.”

Kashyyyk

With Tzhali's cruiser in for repairs; he allowed his crew time to rest and do things that they enjoyed. Much of his crew had family's that they hadn't seen in several months thanks to the battles that had recently occuried, and with his ship deployed to the outer regions in several occasions that just added to the already building stress that much of the crew had been under.

Tzhali however was saddened; his wife and child where no longer around, killed just before the war ended by supporters of Miknaks group. They had approuched him two times demanding he cooperate, but he refused and that refusal meant the death of his family, it was a burden he was forced to live with.

Therefore instead of heading to his home he decided to check on a few things - he had received a message from Lavality just a short time before he left his ship, requesting that he deal with a loose end on his world.

He had a feeling he knew who this other person would be; during the battles above Trandosha one of the ships under his command did very little in terms of 'helping' at the time he just wrote it off as the captain being nervous and inexperienced but when he was given command of the entire fleet, he realized that this wasn't the first time that captain had ignored orders.

Now the captain and his crew where planetside and enjoying some RnR, or at least thats what he was suppose to be doing. One of his contacts told him that the captain had been seen making a hastey retreat out the back door of a bar, closely being followed by two of his men. "I guess he got word." Tzhali chuckled and continued walking.

Since wookie's rarely wore cloths it is sometimes difficult to tell one from another; but Tzhali was different as his fur was a lighter brown color and this mean't he could easily be picked out of a crowd provided no one else had the same color fur.

As he approuched the building that the captain had ducked into he unholstered his crossbow and armed it, behind him was a mixture of human and wookiee marines, all armed with either blasters or crossbows.

The entry into the building was quiet and stealthy, two humans accompanied Tzhali as they made their way deeper into the warehouse. After some time they began to hear voice's, one was diffinantly the captains while the others appeared to be human.

They crept up to an area full of boxes and peered over them - sure enough one wookiee and two humans where present, talking to each other.

"This is a damn bind we are in." One of the two humans said. "First that damn trandoshan.. and now him..."

The captain let out a growl. "None of this would've happened had our Trandoshan captain done his job and elimananted Lavality during the war!" the wookiee said with a hint of pure hatred in his tone. "But instead he had to go up against that fool Tzhali and his fleet...."

Both of the humans nodded. "And McGan didn't succeed in taking out Lavality either. Plus 'Kyara' didn't succeed in taking out Trazu or his kids." One of the two humans snarled at this, while the other folded it's hands across its chest.

"This is becomming to costly; we've spent way to much time trying to take care of these problems, we don't have unlimited support! Even as we speak Lavality's support GROWs every day. And not only that, but support toward Naosha and Rissonik is also growing within her organization. The Trandoshan's there are fighting more valiently, they see that their people are becoming aware of the changes outside their own world." A human said and spit on the ground.

The wookiee snarled. "Yea; that might be true. But Lavality has no idea of the mole I have in her group."

"You mean Maskis?" The humans said.

Tzhali blinked when he heard that word. Maskis? He's one of them!?

The captain nodded. "Although I haven't heard from him now in the past few weeks; and according to McGan, he fought against our force's on Trandosha. I wonder if he's changed alliegences."

"Huh... wouldn't surprise me to be honest. First he was ordered to kill Lavality back when she was on Naboo. He failed. Then he was ordered to kill her on Hoth. Agan he failed. Then he was ordered to kill her on Trandosha. He failed again. Three failures... what is his game?" The captain snarled and tapped his fingers on the desk.

The two humans where about to say something when they heard a sound in the warehouse. The two of them unholstered their blasters and where about to fire when two blast's hit them in the back. The wookie turned around but he couldn't see who it was.

Tzhali and his marine's suddenly sprang from their hiding place; weapon's raised and ready to fire. "Errr.... I should've realized that hiding wasn't possible." The captain snarled and continued to aim his crossbow.

"But how'd you know it was me?" He asked curiously. "As the humans say 'Thats for me to know, and you to find out." He said and then took out a stun blaster and fired it at him, rendering the captain unconcious.

Tzhali let out a sigh and holstered his two sidearms. "Take him to the starport; we'll take him to Trandosha."

"Huh? But he's wookiee?" A wookiee sergeant said. "Yes he is. But he and his group have mostly been operating on Trandosha, causing trouble there. They've done little here." Tzhali said and the wookiee sergeant nodded, saluted, and then went to take the 'prisoner' to the starport.

Tzhali decided to make a side trip to the captains home. He knew the captains wife, along with two children, one of which was very ill and close to death. He wondered if that was the reason the captain joined up with that group, the money alone would most likely be enough for him to get his son treated on some other world.

But he didn't know; all he could do was make assumptions until after the interrogation. He walked up to the door and was about to knock, but after some thought he decided against it and turned to walk away. That was when the door opened, the captains wife looked at Tzhali and watched him leave. She some-how 'knew' why he was there, she wanted to ask him but realized that it might lead to more pain.

He only just turned to corner when a massive bang resonated across the platforms that made up the wookiee's city. Several platforms higher up lost there support's and fell toward the ground below. Tzhali rushed to where the explosion came from - the starport.

Several marine's crowded the landing pads, trying to put fires and search for survivors. "Damn it.... we should've looked harder." He heard one of his human marines said. "What happened?" Tzhali asked, his translator translating it for his crew. "The captain had a detonator on him, apperently his crew must've rigged the starport so that he wouldn't be taken alive."

Tzhali looked back at the starport; all in flames. "So.. he got the ultimate punishment - death." he said and gestured to his second in command was who was watching from above. The officer nodded to relay the information back to Lavality and there supporters on Trandosha."

"So... you think this is the end?" The human marine said. "No... something tells me things are just getting started. Clear out these fires, search for survivors, we'll depart in four hours." Tzhali said and turned around and walked away.

Once all the Councilor’s were notified everyone started heading toward the Councilor building. Rissonik brought the cooperative prisoner along with a small squad of K’Satikur warriors. He also brought Trazu’s lightsaber and a change of cloths: clothes that included a very jedi-ish dark cloak. The reason behind it was simple: Trazu felt that, even though his people tended to be suspicious of them, a Jedi’s presence would help the proceedings. However he didn’t want everyone on the Council to know who it was for this, because he feared the Council may feel Naosha would have an ‘unfair advantage’ having a Jedi in her family and possibly strip her of her position again.

While Trazu changed, the K’Satikur warriors took control over the traitor Councilor, Kyara it turned out her name was, along with McGan once Asri arrived. Asri didn’t bother changing or otherwise altering her appearance: if the Council had issues with how she looked that was their problem as far as she was concerned.

“So what’s the big idea calling for an emergency meeting Shissa?” One of male Councilor’s griped. “I was in the middle of a relaxing massage….”

“If we are done whining about having to come in we can start now.” Naosha cut in before Shissa could retort.

“No we can’t.” The same Councilor growled. “Councilor Kyara hasn’t arrived yet.”

“Actually we can, as this meeting is about Kyara.” Naosha snarled. The venom in her voice, along with the contents of her statement, caused more then one Councilor to draw back.

“Why? What has she done?” One Councilor demanded.

“She’s been uncovered as a traitor to our government and to our people.” Naosha explained. “She’s been working with a rogue faction that has plotted to assassinate myself and my children along with overthrowing our government.” As she was saying this, the warriors brought the prisoners in, lining them up in a row so all Councilor’s could see them clearly. Off to one side she saw a dark cloaked figure she knew was Trazu, though the other Councilors wouldn’t know who he was. They were a bit unsettled by his presence.

“What’s a Jedi doing here!?” One of them growled, more out of fear then anything else.

“He was instrumental in discovering who the traitor among our ranks was.” Naosha explained, seeing the knowing look in Shissa’s eye. Unfortunately Shissa now had to know what Trazu was, but Naosha trusted her to keep it to herself. “It is his right to be here.”

“Bah…a good thing I suppose.” The Councilor snorted. “Would keep the accused from lying: Jedi are good at knowing those kinds of things from what I heard.”

“Jedi beside….these are serious accusations you have brought against a fellow Councilor Naosha.” Shissa said. “While I do not believe you would lie, we need to see evidence that would convince us of these charges against the accused.”

“Of course Shissa.” Naosha gestured to one of the warriors below, who tapped the assassin on the shoulder, prompting him to look up at her. “Tell us what you told our interrogator young man.” She said. “Spare no detail.”

The assassin looked around the room and then at McGan and Kyara, he looked back down at the ground before explaining what they where order to do. About assassinating Trazu and either capturing or killing his children.

"We had been told that Trazu and his kids where a threat to our government; so we infiltrated the clan grounds and tried to kill them. Damn Jedis'.. it's bad enough one was there, but two?" He said and noticed a few looks, some of curiousity, others of fear.

Some distance away in the audiance, Lavality sat in disguise, she was secretly probing his mind. Tell them everything... she said in a low tone.

The assassin then continued. "There was.... eight of us who where apart of the assassination attempt." he said. He was having trouble trying to explain with so many people around; it was making him very very nervous. He had no issues telling his interrogator since that was, kind of, one on one.

He ended his statement by stating that another faction wanted Trazu's kids for some strange experiments and that the councilor knew about it. He also went on to tell them that the money being funded to these assassin's was coming from McGan.

Back in the audiance Lavality nodded. Very good... of course he didn't tell them 'everything' I guess I'll push him the next time he's called.

Naosha’s eyes widened in shock: she didn’t know about the experiment part. She was having difficulty keeping her temper now, knowing that if had an outburst now she would have be ‘excused’ due to the ordeal being so personal. Below she saw Trazu flitch in apparent surprise himself and she could only hope he didn’t blow his cover. Asri, whom she could see in the audience below, looked like she was about to jump out and rip Kyara to shreds.

“When we found out that one of his employers was a female Councilor we immediately set out to figure out who it was.” Naosha said after taking a moment to calm herself. “Councilor Shissa’s dinner party provided the perfect opportunity.”

“So let me guess, you brought the Jedi along.” One of the other Councilor’s asked. “I’m curious how you managed that…since I doubt Shissa would have allowed someone that wasn’t a T’Doshok to participate in the party and there’s no such thing as a T’Doshok Jedi!”

“Don’t make such a statement with such confidence….” Trazu said from below, being careful to alter his voice. “Anything is possible.”

There was a dead silence in the chamber; the Councilor’s were stunned speechless. Naosha wasn’t sure it was a good idea for Trazu to say that, for all she knew she just invited her people to start a witchhunt. “So who are you then…Jedi….” One of the Councilor’s asked, Naosha hearing a slight note of venom in his tone.

“My identity is not important.” Trazu said flatly.

The Councilor snarled, but didn’t press. Instead they continued hearing evidence until they decided they heard enough and temporarily left the chamber to debate Kyara’s fate. Naosha could not attend the deliberations since she was directly affected by Kyara’s actions, so was forced to wait anxiously with everyone else.

After what felt like an eternity the other’s returned, Shissa approaching Naosha and pulling her to the side. She handed her a certain object, of which Naosha immediately knew it’s meaning.

“You sure you want me to do this?” She asked quietly, slightly uncertain.

“Yes, not only as one of the victims…but, more importantly, as Speaker-Above-All.” Shissa said.

Naosha nodded and carefully concealed the item in her sleeve before stepping up to her podium once again. For a long moment there was silence as she gathered herself for what needed to be done and when she did it it was with the full authority of her position.

“Kyara!” She cried, her voice demanding with a slight hint of anger in it. Kyara looked up at her, her face full of defiance. “The Council has decided your fate!”

It was now she threw the item Shissa gave her, the object landing at Kyara’s feet. It was the Tak'sk.

The Tak’sk a ring bound with leather, six inches in diameter. Along the inside of the ring were ten smaller blades, each with a small hoop at the end, one blade was slightly longer then the other to signify the Speaker-Above-All’s seat. Tied in the loop of the blade that signified Kyara’s were two ribbons. One was yellow, which meant shame. The other was black, for death.

For those that were not Trandoshan the objects meaning wasn’t obvious. However, since the look of defiance on Kyara’s face was melting away faster then ice place under Tatoonie’s twin suns to be replaced with a look of deep despair, the message was obviously dire. This was clarified by what Naosha said next.

“Kyara, for your traitorous actions, not are you striped of your Councilor position, but your family is similarly stripped of their nobility. As your ancestors have done, they will have to work hard to earn the right be nobles again. As you match to your death Kyara remember it was your actions that have brought this shame upon yourself and your family before the eyes of our people and the Scorekeeper.”

Lavality watched with amusement at the look that Kyara was givin. It was comical to her, someone who had ordered given orders was being ordered to her own death. Kyara's head lowered toward the ground, the look in her eyes - defeat.

The assassin who had given his statement watched her; it was a greater defeat for her than him. A deal had been struck with the Serendivus that if he confessed that they may take him in, but that deal only existed if the council here decided not to put him to death or to a harsh prison sentence.

As it stood; the assassin felt a sense of relief. He had always felt shame since being ordered to kill or capture a chlid, but he couldn't say no as the money would've been enough for him and his own family to leave a somewhat peaceful existence.

Lavality, on the other, continued to watch. She was still probing his mind, looking for things that he hadn't said and she found several. This assassin had far more connection than he let on, or rather, that his apperence let on.

When she looked toward McGan, he bore a sly grin. He was enjoying this and it really worried her that he wasn't concerned. Her worry intensifed when she felt another presence in the chambers, it was an evil presence, she couldn't isolate it though and thats what bothered her.

After some seconds she finally realized that the presence was coming from one of the six ventalation ducts that pocketed the chambers with clean air. She searched with her mind until she found a lone figure lying on his stomache, she couldn't tell what he was holding 'exactly' only that it appeared to be some sort of granade.

Are you sure this is the type of action you want to take? she asked him; pushing her mind to speak with his. It was something that a Jedi rarely did these days.

The figure shot his head up; hitting the ceiling of the ventalation shaft in the process, his head bounced and then his chin by the bottom, a 'thump' resounded across the chamber.

A warrior who had been watching and listening suddenly turned from his post and motioned to two other warriors and pointed at a shaft.

Meanwhile the figure frantically crawled out of the shaft and into a hallway - right into the waiting arms of two warriors who bore a very mischivious grin.

"What was that?" Someone in the audiance asked quietly. A few others just shrugged. Lavality giggled slightly; it was the most fun she'd had in years.

After several minute's Kyara lifted her head and was about to taken away when she suddenly turned out. "I know you are in this room!" She said; speaking of the leader of the Serendivus. "Be warned that your beloved Maskis is an agent of us!" she said

Up in the stand; Maskis unfolded his arms and sighed. So... the cats out of teh bag now... he said

"He'll kill you!" Kyara said before being bashed up against the side of the head and then being taken way.

Lavality exchanged a look with Asri and Trazu; she wasn't sure if they knew it was actually her. She could feel the anger wavering off Asri, she would make certain to have a talk with him after all this was over. She, in some way, knew something was up but she hated how he was never able to tell her much of this.

After a few moments she motioned to someone sitting next to her. The two of them then got up, drawing the attention of the counculors and the audiance.

Both of them wore darkened clothings to hide there features; they both walked toward the railing and looked at McGan.

"Look at me with such hatred and I'll snip that head of your's off." McGan said before a warrior bashed him across the back of the head.

The cloaked figure to her left just shook her head before walking out of the chambers. Lavality, on the other hand, walked the circomference of the audiance seating before stopping close to where McGan was. "Whether it be crime's against the people, or against the organization." She spoke, concealing her voice in the process.

"And who might you be?" A counculor demanded when he heard the figure speak. Lavality turned toward him; her face concealed by the hood. She bore a smile that he couldn't see before removing the hood. "My name's Grand Admiral Lavality Serendivus, leader and judge for Serendivus." she said

Several of the counculors shifted in there chairs; some knowing that because of the Serendivus and their aid to Naosha that their planet had be spared a very terrible war.

"You don't 'look' like much of an admiral." The same counculor but didn't go any further.

Lavality smiled when she saw the look on McGan's face. He was scared, nervous, afraid of her, was it because he was being tried by a government who's system of punishment was actually worse than their own? Or could it be that he realized that this was a battle that he could not win.

"I, Lavality Serendivus, recognize the Trandoshan Council and those gathered. I here by allow the Serendivus Traitor, McGan, to be tried under this government." Lavality said in a calm and collected tone.

McGan suddenly shot up. "You can't DO that! I'm Human!" he said

Lavality shot him a glare at him that could melt ice. "You ceased being human the moment you targetted innocent children." She said, her tone this time was full of anger and hatred. She turned around and left the audiance.

She was a witness to his actions; but she was a biased witness considering she was a leader of a group. There for she had asked for two of her own to attend the trials, she still had to ask Naosha if they could present evidence, the most damning being McGan's order to bombard the city from orbit. if it wasn't for her own patrol ships his own might've succeeded.

There Lavality waited and looked out the window. The two officers behind her bowed to her before leaving to make their requests.

"With the counculors permission." One said. "We'd like to provide evidence to McGan's actions against you and your people." one of the two officers said

Trazu too had sensed the malevolent presence and was relieved when someone else took care of the problem for him. He guessed it was Lavality’s work, having sensed her join the audience before the proceedings started. When Kyara did her piece before being dragged off to her fate, Trazu realized that it wasn’t over yet. He hadn’t really been bothered by Maskis, sensed no real ill will from him beyond that one instance back on Naboo, but he hadn’t really been ‘looking’ at him either. Surely the Force would have warned me of him…. He thought. I’ll have to have a chat with him after this…if Asri doesn’t rip him to shreds first…. Trazu certainly didn’t miss Asri’s expression when this little secret was spilled out….

Asri meanwhile was fuming. That little lying bastard…. She thought, griping the sides of her seat so tightly it was starting to crack. Whose side is he really on!? I’ll find out if I have to beat him to near death….

Above Naosha sighed. Looks like Lavality has more ‘weeds’ to pull. She thought before addressing the two cloaked figures below her that had addressed the Council after Lavality left the room. “We know little about this man beyond the evidence we have already heard.” She said. “For us to try him effectively we would greatly appreciate any evidence you can provide. So you may proceed.”