Space was dark, and silent, nothing moved in the vast void of nothingness. Suddenly, however, a tear opened up and a ship shot out into what was a silent void.

"Ma'am, where at the location." spoke a crewman on the bridge of the small light cruiser. The cruiser looked like it had seen better day's, it's hull was blackened after many year's of combat. It's engine buff's looked worn, and the turrets looked like they where in need of an over-haul, despite all that it was very easy to tell that the ship had been modified. It was sporting four extra engine's instead of the usual three. Not to mention a hanger bay that was normally not apart of a cruiser, let alone a light cruiser.

On the bridge sat an older female, she looked to be in her late twenties. Her hair was light brown and she bore a scar on the side of her face. "Commander Merendez?" a crewman said as he walked up to her and handed her a report.

"Steller Enterprise eh?" She said to herself as she continued to read the report. "I wonder if they would be interested.." she said

Merendez was in charge of the industrial part of the Serendivus, it was her responsibility to look for new place's to mine resources, or to find lucrative deals. Lately they'd been having problem's finding good mining locations, not to mention someone who could build ground bases. "Perhaps if we can meet with one of there represenatives, we can close to deal's at once."

"Ma'am, that may be possible, but we are still low on funds." Another officer said and the commander nodded. "we lost a good amount of traders in Kashyyyk during the war, so it'll take awhile before we can hire new ones."

She smiled. "Although we are slowly regaining people." she said and got up. "Let's see if they are interested."

"Mr. Stellar, we'll be emerging in system in five minutes." Called out the captain in command of the Stellar Class Destroyer.

The figure seated at the bridge guest chair gently smiled and nodded. "Thank you Captain Nelson. We seem to be right on time."

For all intensive purposes the figure sitting there, looking towards the foward display, was Rob Stellar in every single way. Externally it was Rob Stellar down to the last fine hair on his arm. The figure acted and reacted like Rob would to the tee. Its vocal patterns and along with whatever little blood was running through its veins would all match that of Rob's on any extensive scan or test. However, it wasn't Rob, it was a newly designed and built android by Stellar Enterprises.

Internally it was completely machine like, with all bones and structures designed to appear normal during scans. It also contained a complete set of fake organs which would appear as real unless the exam was conducted through surgery. This model was one of the most advanced androids in the galaxy and had been designed specifically at Rob's request. Rob felt it would be good business to have a few on stand by incase he was unable to attend a meeting for clients.

This was the case now. Rob himself was away meeting with a representative from the Gestalt Colonies and therefore could not attend the meeting which the Serendivus group wanted. So as not to put off the meeting till later, this android had been activated and sent on this mission. Its deployment was so secrative and not a single sole on the ship knew that it wasn't in fact the real Rob Stellar. Every detail had been put into the design to make this so and even after three days of interacting with the crew, no one realised it wasn't Rob himself.

Even Rob's affinity for watching hyperspace roll by the ship was programmed into the droid. As he now sat there in the guest chair the android was doing just that, watching the display of hyperspace inside the large internal bridge. All around him people were busy at work doing different system checks and getting ready to exit out of hyperspace. To the side the Captain stood and studied the holodisplay of the space they would be emerging in. A portion of the galaxy was seemed to be empty for the most part.

Finally alarms rang out around the bridge and the large 1450 meter Star Cruiser shot out of hyperspace. Stars all around the ship reverted to their natural state and the bridge digital display clearly showed every inch of space around the large ship. The ships three large engine nozzels light up and pushed the cruiser lazily foward towards the ship that had been picked up on sensors.

"Sir, getting readings of a single vessel. Profile and signature matchs with the one we have on file."

"Alright, comms hail that vessel. Inform them Mr. Stellar has arrived for the meeting."

The commander stood there looking out into space, a moment ago she saw a hyperspace tear form off there starbord bow, it was still a good distance away though. "Ma'am, where being hailed." the communication's officer said

"I still don't understand why we didn't cloak..." a crewman wondered to himself

Merendez smiled. "Because if we had cloaked, it might make them worry."

"That doesn't make sense. We have four corvette's around our ship, they are cloaked. So why keep them cloaked?" The crewman asked

She placed her hand on the young crewman's shoulder. "Just for protection, unless they do an extensive scan they won't pick them up.. and if they do they can always ask us to decloak them."

With that said she walked over to the communication's panel, a large monitor displayed different communication's channels that where being monitored, suddenly it went away, and a holographic image of herself appeared on the small tank next to the communication's officer. "Transmitting..." the officer said. "This is 2nd Grand Admiral Merandez Foe, of the Monteson Trading Declaration apart of the Serendivus Organization." She said and ran her hand through her hair. "I'm glad to see you are interested, please name the location of where you would prefer to have this meeting."

Merendez, while a grand admiral, wasn't as cautious as Lavality who would've prefered to have the meeting on board her ship. In this case, Merendez felt it might be better to have it on the Steller ship, provided they felt it was ok.

She thought about the four corvette's that had her ship surrounded. They weren't that heavily armed, and with a destroyer in the area, they would be useless in the event the destroyer had a sudden change of heart. But, she had confidence this would be a very clean deal, and she had a lot to talk about right now considering the need's of the organization.

"Lt.. dump all information related to the moon 'Tissuss' and also related to our command ship protect 'Catalina' as well as information related to our mining needs." Merendez said to the Lt who was behind her. "And keep scanning space, even though we are out here, I do know that we are fairly close to a pirate outpost."

"That's true, but they currently hav a non-agression pact with us. Unless they want to incur Lavality's wraith..." Another officer grinned.

Merendez shook her head.

The large ship slowly paused in the dead of space ten kilometers away from the Monteson Trading Declaration ship, somewhat looming over it. As it held its position and really from the moment it had exited hyperspace, the ship's Spectrographic Sensor Array had been scanning the space all around the vessel. It's advanced sensors gathered in all light from the surrounding area and processed it through the onboard computer systems.

When light from the stars reflected off an object in space, such as the ship in front, it was analyzed and produced a picture much like that from other sensor systems. This one, however, could detect ships even if they were in stealth and using only passive systems. It was the analysis of this light pattern that at first seem to baffle the sensor officer as he looked at the screens before him.

"Captain? I'm getting some strange reading here. There seems to be a sort of light distortion at three... no wait.. make that four points around Contact One."

"What kind of distortions? Also transfer them to the main display please."

"Well, sir, it seems that there is a longer time for light to pass through these four point than anywhere else in space. It could be a computer error of course, but all systems check out."

The Captain thought and stood before the holodisplay as the four points appeared around the main ship. As they did he instantly realized they were in what seemed like an escort position. Perhaps they were cloaked ships of some kind, but he couldn't be certain.

"I want those points designated as probable targets two through five. Store them in the targeting computers and have them ready to be taken out should the need arise."

"I'm sure it wouldn't Captain." The android of Rob Stellar smiled and interrupted. "They are probably just causious like use at this first meeting. Send back the reply that we would like to have them on board this ship. Inform them that weapons should be left on their ship and they can bring on board two body guards if they wish. I will meet them in the hanger."

The android nodded at everyone as it got up. It moved slowly towards the bridge exit and to the turbolift nearby. While the lift moved towards the private quarters on the upper deck of the ship, it called down to make sure the gathering hall was ready for guests.

Merendez nodded when the communication's officer played the message that the destroyer sent them. "Prep my shuttle." she ordered and soon left the bridge.

In the back of her mind she ran through everything that she planned on discussing with the representive that the Steller Enterprise had sent, of course she wasn't to sure 'who' they sent exactly but was hoping it was someone who knew how to listen to those with money, after all, the last ten people she talked to ended up trying to tell her how to run her organization.

She stepped into the hanger bay just as her second in command handed her a datapad. "Here's the information you requested ma'am." the officer said and soon left to take care of something. She passed two marines, one Trandoshan and One wookie. "Both of you, with me." she said and the two marine's nodded and followed her on board the shuttle, minus there weapons of course.

"Destination ma'am?" The pilot asked as he closed the shuttle bay doors. "There's only one other place in this system to land... that destroyer."

"I just hope they grant me landing clearance.. the last thing I want is to have you dawn another space suit just to go to a meeting.." the pilot said and hit the engines, the shuttle lifted off the deck and hovered over to a launch ramp, where the shuttle's magnetic clamps latched onto the square peice of the ramp. A second later the shuttle was launched forward into space, he bent hard right to made it's way toward the destroyer.

"I've been meaning to ask.." one of her body guards asked. "why do we still use outdated launch ramps?"

Merendez smiled. "Because they work..." she simply said.

As soon as the shuttle shot out of the other ship's launch bay, it was monitored by the sensor officer onboard the star cruiser. Every inch of the shuttle, inside and out, was looked after and scanned in order to make sure it was safe to bring it onboard. The scans revealed that as per request there were only three life signs on board. Along with these no explosives were detected and so the decission was made to allow the ship to land.

"Shuttle, this is Enterprise, you are clean to land in main hanger bay, landing pad One Four. Mr. Stellar is expecting you."

Inside the hanger bay everything had been prepared for the guest's arrival. Rob stood at the hanger's enterance and watched as the last of the Hellhound fighters was loaded onto the racks surrounding the bay. All around personel and droids were moving around to move crates and other cargo into holding areas. A group of combat droids stood in formations around the hander both as a show of force and also as a display of Stellar Enterprises equipment.

Merendez let out a whisle when she saw the display. "Huh... interesting..." she said as the shuttle slowly moved into the hanger bay. The shuttle's external landing gear came out and a magnetic pulse emited through the landing clamps, as soon as the shuttle came close to the deck the magentic pulse caused the shuttle to stick to the deck, at least for a second before the onboard AI turned it off and went into stand by mode.

"We here Admiral." The pilot said

Merendez nodded and walked toward the ramp. "Lets see what they have..." she said and walked off the shuttle.

Rob watched the shuttle land and moved towards the blastdoors that seperated the hanger from the rest of the ship. These massive doors slowly parted as the android stepped in front of them. Once they opened enough for a man to walk through, Rob entered the hanger.

He emerged in the hanger just in time to watch the hatch of the shuttle open up. With a warm smile Rob walked towards the shuttled, seeing a woman and two body guards come out from inside it. He readjusted his black suit coat and stuck his hand out for a hand shake just as he reached her.


"Commander Merendez I presume? I'm Rob Stellar of Stellar Enterprises. I'd like to welcome you aboard the Star Cruiser Enterprise."

One of Merendez's guards shifted uneasily at the word 'commander'. "Don't worry about it..." she smiled at her guard. "Not everyone know my real rank." she said to him and he nodded.

She extneded her hand and shook the hand of Robs. "Thank you. My name is 2nd Grand Admiral Merendez Foe of Serendivus Monteson Trading Declaration." she smiled. "It's nice to meet you, I'm glad you agreed to our meeting."

Rob smiled and looked over at the guard without any fear or hasitiation in his eyes. He just nodded slighted and looked back to Merendez.

"I'm awfully sorry ma'am. I didn't mean to offend you in any way." Rob let go of her hand and smiled.

"Is there a shorter name I might call you or do you prefer 2nd Grand Admiral Merendez?"

As he said this Rob turned towards the blast door at the end of the large hanger and slightly motioned towards it with his hand. "Please come this way. I have prepared a room for our meeting. There are drinks and food for us to enjoy while we work out or discuss our deal together. Your guards are of course welcome to any food and drink they desire as well."

He looked back at both the large wookie and trandoshan. As they started slowly towards the exit a small group of six dark gray armored battle droids moved into formation around them. Two at the front, two at the rear and one on either side, escorting them all down the hanger.