Favours for Favours: Setting: 1 week after Ando.

It was a calm day aboard the Imperial warship Black Widow, as the stars whirled by. The day had been uneventful, but soon that was to change. Right now the crew of the warship was down to two thirds normal capacity, for space would be needed to transport the crews aboard the other three warships home. Off to the port side in hyperspace sat the Imperial Victory Star Destroyer Mark II Python, having recentley been repaired after a brutal fleet engagement in the Ando system. Although the battle had been a stragetic victory for the Galatic Coalition, it was a tatical victory for the Imperial New Order, who managed to destroy more meterages in ships than the Galatic Coalition did. Now, the warship, along with two smaller ones that served in the battle, all of whom had been repaired, were being loaned to the goverment of Farfalen, potential allies of the New Order, and known to be in a war with the Outer-Rim Soveriengty.

Then the ships emerged from hyperspace, far from any systems, but near a comet, a comet that now served as the meeting place for the exchange. After an order from Commodore Huey, The two Imperial Destroyers, and Medium Cruisers glided near the comet, waiting for the customers to show themselves..........

The Shoto class cruiser Shoto dropped out of hyperspace no less than five-kilometers away. A good use of the five-axis jump system. Commanding the Shoto was Commander Pij'fa. The shadowy group Farfalen had just taken the barren rock world of Kessel in a bold move to show the galaxy that they are indeed active in the seeming never-ending battle to put an end to terrorists and cheap thugs. The New Order, shared this point of view.

"Mister Keff," the Command spoke to his first officer, "Hail our friends, tell them the party can get started."

"Aye Cap'n."

The Farfalen Shoto class Battlecruiser shot out of hyperspace near the comet. The members from Farfalen had arrived to accept the generous gift from the Empire. Commodore Huey recieved the signal from the ship for the exchange to begin.

"Shoto Battlecruiser, this is the Star Destroyer Black Widow. The exchange will begin as soon as your identities are one hundred percent confirmed. I trust you brought extra crews for the ships?" asked Commodore Huey.

"Yes we did, its been a helluva tight fit over here, with all the spice and all. Shall you be picking up your spice or would you prefer we dropped it off?" The Commander said with a chuckle.

Huey had a small chuckle at the joke, then responded,

"No need for that. We are sending over our shuttles now to pick it up. The spice should be secured aboard our ship at just about the time our crews have finished transferring from those three ships to our ships." said Commodore Huey.

At that time, the skeleton crews aboard the three warships filed to their hangar bays, where they promptly departed in Lambda shuttles for a rendezvous with the Black Widow, while Sentinel Shuttles departed from the hangar bay of the Star Destroyer to retrieve the payment spice from the Shoto Battlecruiser.

Lambda shuttles and Warlord drop ships carried men back and forth between the Dirk and the three cruisers. Highly trained soldiers of the once mighty Juutralian Empire were about to embark on a new journey, once the spice was gone.

It took several minutes of constant shuttling back and forth between the five warships parked around the comet. But finally, the shuttles from the Shoto made their last run with full cargo holds of spice, and the last shuttles from the three cruisers docked, having taken the remaining crew off of the warships. Commodore Huey opened a comm channel to the Commander of the Shoto.

"Transaction complete. Spice exchanged for three cruisers. We will now depart. Have fun with your new toys. Commodore Huey out." said Commodore Huey.

The Imperial Star Destroyer came about, and laid in a hyperspace course for home.

OOC Assets being Loaned:

1 Victory Mark II Star Destroyer
2 Belarus Medium Cruisers