In the Bowels of the Drewwa Homebase the last of the Aiki masters, Irman Nogar, sat in silent meditation. This facility had a network of secret passages and work ducts. Some that were large and cavernous others that were barely large enough to allow a body to to crawl on ones belly to continue forwards.

Here he and Jaymach trained in the Aiki arts. As he himself had. In the dark and with only the force as his guide.

Jay himself was wandering after him in order to hunt him down. Blindfolded using only the force as his guide. Little did his new apprentice know that the hunter can easiely become the hunted.

Another twist to this excercise.

Echos can be his only guide in this laberynth before him. He feels Jay in the force but locates him by listening to the faintest resounding beat of his heart resenating from his location.

::Come now little rodent, catch me if you can:: He thinks to him self as he rests in meditation.

From the bowels of hyperspace a singular ship exits into the Almanian system.

The ship is immediatly scanned by a Law class ship. The law class is a classic systems patrol ship.

:: Ship registration:

- Class-Trillion aggressor
-Armaments: Tractor beams, Ion canon, 2 laser canons.

- Name- SHadow hunter
- Owner- C4 sith hunter
- Affiliation- Vinda corperation
- Known occupations- Defense commader and bounty hunter
- Race- Positronic droid in modified Phase three dark trooper bodies.

::End file::

The ship came to a halt responding to hailing communications.

"This is the Patrol craft Adjucator please state your business in this system." The craft was colored white and bore the symbol of the Alderaanian guard.

"This is C4 of the vinda corperation, my bussiness is with your boss Greyy Trespe." A data stream is shot at the craft. Indicating command codes and clearance to dock at the Drewwa Home base.

"Permission granted, please follow on the proper flight paths until your docking." at that the adjucator continued on is way.

The shadow hunter heads on it's path as well. The Sith hunter was curious as to what Greyy, a former New Alliance commander wanted to speak about that was so important that it had to be said in person.

"We shall see then." The Ominous form of the dark trooper says to himself.

Drewwa Home base was alive with activity.

The search for the Observer had been a tireless task that took up most of the resoursces that the group had at their disposal.

Deep under ground he made his patrols. The classified Research department was his next stop. Projects years in the making were coming to fruitation.

All around him Alderaanian guard scientists were hard at work. They had at their disposal the latest in computer technology. For the time being all of their work was set in the realm of theory run through in simulations.

But others were at work on physical projects. One group was at work on modifiing the Phantom cloak shield for alternative purposes. He stoped to watch his people from above looking down on the research team through the glass of an above balcony.

Tweety people swarmed over a cloak engine. Googles over their eyes as they prepared to acivate the test run. All at one the engine came to life. Spreading a shield that made the engine dissapear into nothingness. But it was most assuredly there.

He pressed a com switch to listen to the dialogue below.

"Readings?" One of the lab technitions yelled to a counter part actively monitoring a screen.

The technition hit several buttons in succession. Making adjustments for her readings Toryn Assumed.

"Readings still run in the red." The lab person on monitor duty finally answered.

"Damn still too much energy demanded." The woman grumbled to herself.

From her left a Wookie growled out too her, "Yes I know, I know."

The human technition head rubs her temple.

"Shut it down and start from scratch people we have a deadline to keep." She storms off into what appeared to be her office.

The staff of the base never ceased to amave Toryn. They were from so many different backrounds and yet that made them work all the harder to make up for any differences of opinion. And those very diffences give some fabulous results.

He moves on non-chalantly.

The next project he looks into personally. It has been his and Greyy's intention to get this particular project off the ground as soon as possible.

He slides his clearance card through the key card holder, sticks his hand on a scanner for a dna analysis, and submits toa retinal scan. All for high security.

The door slides open and inside is a second steal door. Guarded by dark troopers. He gives a vocal code and he passes them by going through a third door. lastly he has clear space before him. He stops short of going down a stair well into the lab. A small terminal is present in front of the stairs. HE punchs in a code and a force field shimmers off in front of him.

Going down the stairs now the field shimmers to life behind him.

In the lab he finds his prized project. Several arch ways stand on plate forms around him. There are ten total. The first one he comes too he stops at for a moment. Raising his hand he reaches out and pats the course metal lovingly. This was one of the original Hyper Portals, based on gree technology and designed by the brightest minds in the New Alliance. Amoung that first team of designers that backward engineered the Hyper portal from the gree hyper gates was Vonta horn herself.

He trained with her in the original Alderaanian guard academy. But he forgot that she was such a dynamic induvidual.

The portal was limited but it had it's uses. The original was too tempermental and crude. before the guard would make use of it Toryn wanted to have it refined more thoroughly. He walks down the expanse of this large research faculty that has been kept under lock and key for so long. He can see the succession of the device. In each consecutive design one aspect of the portal was improved. Safety precuations were added. The sensors could sense mass shadows between linked portals. Shutting down if it was not safe to travel. The tech was refined so that it would be safer to travel. As safe as a shuttle ride from one location to another.

He comes to the tenth and final incarnation of the new Hyper Portal.

He moves towards the head technition. A Sullustian male.

"Professor how goes the project?" Toryn asks.

The sullustian makes a double take as if surprised. "Director Sabreen! What a pleasant surprise. I was not expecting your visit for some time now."

Toryn continued to look over the newest portal. "This is a personal tour professor just to see how things are progressing in the R&D department. So how are things progressing?"

The sullust made a plesant voice. Almost getting a litteral spring to his step. "I am pleased to say that this project is Complete sir."

Toryn was taken aback this time with surprise. "Complete? When?"

Several technitions were working at the controls of the Hyper Portal.

"Well sir." The professor took a data pad and handed it to Toryn, "We finished as of a week and a half ago. With all of the commotion from commander Horns search and sudden return we have been working around the clock to stay occupied. So we finished ahead of shedule."

"Show me." Toryn made the simple statment.

"YOu aare in luck sir were are about to conduct a test now. We have constructed three portals from the new design. One is mounted Here, One at the surface and one on the Observer academy on Almania under heavy guard." He looks out at the portal again three technitions are working around forth person, a twi'k who is dressed in a suit covered with sensors, "We are going to track the occupant, one of our team on the entire trip."

Standing at a set of controls in front of a small two meter obelisk a white coated techy activated the portal.

"I never get tired of this part sir!" The sullustan was invariably happy as he should be after so much time and effort on a project.

The archway shimmered to life with a light that filled it's center. The occupant walked through without hesitation. The group had full confidence in their work then to have no hint of fear.

"He is through to the surface gate" The tech at the portal controls called out.

"Second gate making contact to the Academy gate." The lab was hushed with silence.

The queit was so complete that every one could hear the transmission as it came in.

"Almanian gate confirms traversment." The room erupts with elation.

"Yes!" The professor moves to give Toryn a hug but catches himself before doing so.

"Directory we have just traversed almost a million kilometers in a matter of seconds." He stated with vigour.

Toryn gave him one of his rare smiles. "Well then professor get your cosmetic touches on this devices an put them into production as soon as possible. The Hyper Portal MK II is officially sanctioned for fleet usage."

:: What was the saying that I was trying to remember? ::

Vonta questioned herself mentally as she slept in quarters in the Drewwa Homebase.

:: Oh yes out of the frying pan and into the fryer. ::

She recalled the saying from her brief childhood. Her father said those words to her in reguards to going from one complicated situation into another. That was before the empire guned him down for aiding the rebellion.

She lay looking blankly at her cieling. The room was Greyy's so it was one of the more comfortable accomidations on the base.

So much had happened from the time that she was a child to now. She had been thrust into a world a lone as an orphan. One that learned to fly fighters to aid in the rebellion against the empire.

Before that when her father was gunned down by storm troopers she first used her powers to defend herself as a child. Her ablity to make people not see her saved her life that day.

Her mind flashes back to those moments that seemed like an eternity.

(" Go now! Hide, and remember that no matter what happens i well all ways be with you."

At that she ran next to a wall that just conceled her and watched as the storm troopers got to her father. the appeared to talk the troopers ordering him t do something and him agreeing to go. As he was walking ahead one of them hit him over the head with the butt of his blast.

"No, don't hurt my PAPA!!" a young vonta cries out from a distance giving away her position.

"what was that," one of the troopers exclaimed. "It's the girl, get her I well watch him."

"Vonta," whispered her father, "NOOOOOOOO!"

In a single motion he tripped up the soldier heading for her and shot the other one with a hold out blaster. Square in the throat at point blank range. He fell to the ground limp. He turned on the other one to shot but was to late the other trooper had out drawn him. The crimson bolt shot right through his chest. He was dead before he hit the ground with thud.

"papa,PAPA!" She screamed at the corpse that was her father.

"COM'ERE YOU REBEL BRAT!" screamed the remaining trooper.

Startled she ran down the street only to find that it was an ally. No where to run or hide she cowered in the left corner of the ally. She desperately started to pretend that he would not see her.

:: He can Not see ME he can Not SEE me:: over and over in a child’s last desperate attempt to stay safe in her imagination.

:: he can NOT SE….. :: she repeats as the foot steps get closer and closer. Until she knew that he was no more then a few feet from her. Tremblleing with fear she heard him talk.

"Where the hell," he just looked around the ally way sure that he followed her in there, "This is unit 17029, Apprehended target eleminated on cuasualty, 23889, one child still at large."

Clenching his fist as he speaks. " May still have sinsitive info pursueing and requesting backup"

She watched petrified as the white wraith that murdered her father turned and left with her sitting in plane view in the corner.

::it worked :: she thought with amazment.

How it worked she did not know or care she only wanted to do the last thing that her father asked of her. And took the package to the bar. The bartender turned out to be a rebel opperative. and the package was sinsitive plans for a offensive againest secret Rebel Operatives. From there she was raised among the Rebels. Learning every slowely about her hidden gifts.)

Her mind swings back to the present. So much had happened sense then. She had met Greyy trespe in the rebellion and trained with him to hieghten her latent battle skills. She became an ace fighter and a talented inventor. Her wookie teacher in the Rebellion was always after her about taking things apart.

Learned wookie in the process. She never thought that beings that looked so cute most of the time could swear so much.

She trained at the Jedi academy for years. Moving between that and helping the lead the New Alliance. She did a lot of good there. Almania was part of that alliance and was her home and was now her home once again.

The alliance fell but peace came to Almania once again.

When the Alliance was merged and portioned off by the republic. She went on her own way. Her master was not of the same faith in her newly chosen path. The force beckoned her in the direction of finding other force factions. Groups that were thought to be long dead yet somehow their tradition survived.

She became the Observer Jedi, the many who is one, a nickname that surprises her to this day. Used with respect that she did not think that she deserved. She was merely following the will of the force.

She did meet many challenges. Bringing so many traditions into one was no small task. She traveled the universe in her ship the Saber Strike. Meeting her Aiki master, Irman nogar, upon a hidden home on Obrai-Skai. Leaving to train with the mysterious Jensaarai, and coming upon the desperate Teepo palidins.

The last engagement where she met the Teepos was also when she first encountered the Krath. Dark force entities. They possess force users and use them as their servants. The force only knows what their order has done left unchecked in the universe at large. She even had to be resued from being nearly turned to the path of the Krath herself.

Finally she fought a battle with Chikama. The Dark force user that she had faced on more then one occassion. He and another sith were assualting the Gungan city of Otta Gunga. She did not know what the circumstances were but she did know that they could not be allowed to slaughter the innocent.

She fought until she could fight no more. She stood ready to die then and there when she was pulled away by an unknown force. Defined as the legendary Aing-ti race. This race of force teleportors stole her from the jaws of death. And condemned thousands of gungans to death as she had just learned of the fate of Otta Gunga after she was ripped from the fight.

With the Aing-ti she was judged for her worth of the path that the force had chosen for her. As if she could be such a threat with what she found.

:: Or perhaps had yet to find? :: She thinks to herself.

There amoung a Ruling council of the Aing-ti, The Council of TEN, she was judged for her worth. Put through a trial of the spirit against the krath spirits upon the astral plain. She did not remember how she resisted them before but she learned then just how she did it. She colesced all of her teachings into her being. Each part of the puzzle making her a stronger whole.

With it she resisted the krath spirit dragon. Forcing it back into it's own realm. but it left a profetic line as it left. It said that it would have vonta, one day.

Her fight with the krath was not yet over.

Even more amazingly she finds that in the wake of her disappearance all of the force groups that she had learned from had been united in a search for her. The had come together. Members from various factions coming forth to continue her dream in an actually Observer Order if she was indeed dead and gone.

Master Irman, A nohgri and the Last master of the Aiki, was one of her greatest advocates. He had even begun an academy with several students on Almania. She had intended on starting her Observer order to pass her knowledge on to others but her dream was realized in the near tradjedy of her passing.

The force does indeed work in mysterious ways and now she finds herself the spear head of a new planet a new order and hundereds of force users.

The question is-

Where to go from here?

Greyy sat at his desk once again.

Finding a brief bit of solitude.

Ever since Vonta had dissappeared the force users had been petitioning him for his time incessingly. Although it gave him several new allies it was still a tiresome excercise to a soilder such as him self.

As a soilder he knows that he needs allies and all of this work well pay off in the end but that it does not mean that he has to like the work.

Several new projects were under way. He was putting in a new order for Dark Trooper Phase three suits. For a new arm of the corps to deal with the heavy suits in combat situations. Another gift from Wayland in the days of the Alliance.

The Observer Order were getting into the swing of things and the Techees had some new toys worked up for them. Working off of some of vonta's designs that she had stored inside of Cypher, her astro droid (R5), he worked out several vessels in the R&D department. Specifically made for her new order. Some of the designs had possiblities for use by the Guard.

He looked at several plans in motion. The astroid fields that the guard had formed around almania and it's moons was being adusted by tractor beam. The trainees in the fighter corps were mapping new flight paths through it on a dayly basis. The field elimitated certain vectors to all but the most experienced pilots that knew the paths through the fields.

There were planetary defenses being moved to the moons.

Per moon there was: One Gencore type two shield, two planetary turbo laser networks, and an ion canon network.

Giving the planet an impressive array of defenses once inplace.

He types up further info.

A message from Toryn. Project HPM2 is complete. That brought a smile to Greyy's face. A new edge in battle is always welcome. And this would help a great deal.

The final message reads:

Priority 1:

Shipclass: Trillion Aggressor
Name: Shadow Hunter
Pilot: Droid- C4, A.K.A. -Sith hunter-
Docking: Drewwa port 1

So his little message had reached it's desired target. Time to go met the guest of honor.

The port that C4 docks at is largely automated. Not so much as a droid technition in sensor range. Normally he would not risk landing in such a high risk location. This is a military complex. As such it has enough personel to take even him out with shear numbers and fire power.

But this was different. He started life here in the Almanian system. The person that contacted him, Greyy Trespe, is in charge here. Greyy has always payed well, always being up front and truthful and most of all he disliked the sith as much as he did.

Though these days there were more dangerous beings out there then just the sith. His cybernetically modified vong-armor was proof enough of that. Beings from out side of this galaxy bent on the destruction of all infidels. The enemies were begining to mount in numbers.

The ship touched down with out so much as a thud thanks to droid precision flying.

The ramp drops and the ominous form of C4 exits into the port.

A droid comes to him speaking in binary to follow it. As C4 does so he tranmits back to the ship. It goes on defense mode shields up and sentrys at the ramp. C4 may like Greyy but these days he prefers to stay on the safe side of things.


* * *

C4 is led to a transport. One with a human Heat signature inside.

Dressed in classic Red and white guard armor greyy waves him in.

"Greyy." One word suffices as his greating as the door closes and the speeder starts off.

As much as Vonta tries to sleep, she finds that she cannot. Her experience on the astral plain had been dissconcerting to say the least. There a Dark dragon of black-green flames came into her soul through what must have been a portal to another plane or the dwelling of the Darkside itself.

There on the Astal plane she found that she was not alone but added by the spirits of manner force pricipals. Animals of flame and strength of many different form and colors each with a different strength that she made her own in the end as they all came to gether in her defense.

She sits up in bed all of her weapons lie on a table accross the room.

All representing all of those different strengths.

Teepo palidin blaster, Jensaarai cortosis armor, jedi light saber, Aiki akendo wooden blade.

"Commander Horn, are you all right maam?" A female voice spoke from the corner.

The Android strike stood vigilent over her captain. Vonta had program Strike as one half of a whole she was the arm that struck out for the other half that was the main computer of the ship the Saber Strike. Saber was the other half of the pair. She possessed only a holographic body but she under stood the importance of her role.

"Yes strike I am just restless," She looks at her weapons again, "Although maybe I do need to do something a bit more productive."

She moves to get her robe, "Strike am I correct in assuming that there is a weapons shop ajacent to these quarters?"

Saber was silent a moment before answering seeing as she was accessing the Homebase computer data base by remote.

"Yes through the back door and to the left commander."

Vonta collected her weapons and moved that way. "Thank you strike."

"Well I be needed further Commander?" She inquires.

"No return to recharge mode." Vonta answers looking with admiration at the android.

"Yes ma'am." She closed her eyes and looked almost as if she could be sleeping standing up right.

Strike had not had many long recharges sense she found that Vonta had disappeared the droid had been operating on less then optimal levels. Such detication in a droid. Not that Vonta was surprised by such detication. R5 had been like that for as long as she knew the astro droid.

Moviing to the work shop she found it fully stocked with every thing that she needed. She had trained with Greyy for years in the rebellion. He always was tinkering with his weapons to improve them. Now that he had nearly unlimited reasources she would find it hard to believe that he would not keep a personel shop near by.

Putting her mechanical weaponry down she goes to work. First on her light saber and then on her Teepo blaster. Her full Jensaarai armor was the last piece.

Into the night she worked taking her weapons apart and modifying them with what was at hand.

Come the morning she was slump over her work bench asleep with her head cradled in her arms. Hyrdo spanner in one hand and a diagnostic pad in the other.

Strike gingerly patted her on the shoulder.

"Commander?" Vonta did not stirr at first.

"Commander Horn? Vonta wake up." Vonta raised her head up with a jolt. Blinking the sleep from her eyes.

"Strike...What?" She looked around and then remembered what she had been doing before the night had gotten the best of her.

"It's morning sir." Strike answered her question.

Vonta smiled at her friend, "It is indeed strike. And I cannot think of a better face to wake up too."

She rose slowly stretching out all of her muscles.

Looking down she saw her handy work. The Jensaarai armor had an additional layer of blaster armor placed strategically around the inside of the armor. She needed to be more aware of attacks besides those of light sabers. The Eagle like helmet had macro googles installed but she replaced them with ablast shield. Something to slip over her eyes. With the Teepo abilities she had no more need for such technology. Her saber was next. It had an additional switch on it now and it was longer and had a longer circomferance then before. Flicking the swich a sheath extended over the blade extension about half the lenth of her saber. Setting two she had a quater staff on setting three the other end extends to form a bo staff. She sets it to default and it is normal length again. Lastly is her Teepo blaster. The entire blaster was lined with a layer of metal. The from of the trigger had a hand guard and at the flick of another switch the bottom of the but of the blaster extents to become an arm guard.

Now she was truely integrated into her arts. Making them her own.

Vonta dresses and places all of her newly modified weapons at their proper places.

"Come on strike. Breakfast is waiting."

Greyy sat accross from the bounty hunter.

C4 had made quite a name for himself over the years. Reknown bounty hunter known for taking bounties that involve risking contact with dark force users. In almost every story that he had ever heard about the droids escapades with the Sith or other dark force users he had given it just as good as he recieved. There were even rummers of his killing sith and taking their light sabers as proof of his conquest. The very fact that he is adorned with Vong crab armor that has been changed in some fashion to serve him was a testament to his strength.

"I called you here becuase I have a job for you and I need information that I think that you can supply." Greyy sat back in his seat the only sound was the gentle hum of the hover units taking the pair accross the expanses of land to their destination.

C4 moved lightly his motors emmiting only the slightest whir of sound.

"Yes, go on." C4 sounded impatient.

:: So he has learned a thing or two about bussiness while working in the corperate sector for the Vinda Corperation. ::

He grimaced and said swore at himself mentally. Both former New Alliance droids C4 and Zed Nine had gone over to the Vinda corperation after the fall of the Alliance. What Greyy cursed was that he no longer had their excellent abilities to call upon. Zed's civil law finess and C4's security and combat programing would have been great assets to the guard.

"You are aware of the terrorist force order known as the Krath?" He asked the droid.

"Yes, Zed had a run in with them and I read the file of what vonta and master Nogar went through with them. We attempt to weed them out but as of yet we have come up empty handed." He finishes.

"Well what you did not know is that the Teras Kasi has been keeping a look out for them as well. There are several possible areas that they may be hiding so I am offering to pay for your services to help bring some of them in allive." Greyy hands the droid a data pad. C4 taps the pad scaning it once and then handing it back to greyy. Droid abilities to copy information quickly can be quite an asset.

"Why allive? It is risky enough trying to take on a dark force user while using deadly force. Trying to take them allive is all the more difficult these days..." Greyy interrupted him.

"Since you last had access to the Ylasimari in the New Alliance." Greyy finished the sentence for the droid.

"Yes..." The droid said his voice sounding almost irritated at the interuption.

"But they are only found on Myrkr how would you have any here?" He asked genuinly interested now.

"When the New Alliance was at it's peak and I was founding the Alderaanian guard I had many resources from around the alliance transported to Drewwa. IN the homes where we are going we have a breeding colony of them. It was a chore to learn to raise and breed the creatures but through the years some how we managed to make a successful breeding program." He finished and the droid remained silent.

"Several specimens would be your payment for services rendered." He finished.

The droid sat as if pondering the facts at hand. He had been at a disadvantage with out the force inhibiting creatures. having them in his arsenal would aid him greatly in his crusade.

"You have a deal Trespe." he reaches out and shakes on the deal, "You well have a live Krath someday soon."

"Now I have an item of bussiness for you." He continues on.

Greyy spread his hands open. "Feel free to ask."

"What has Vonta been up too?" The droid asked with a bit of concern. Vonta was his programer and mentor originally. She was the closest thing he had to family next to his three droid counter parts. A1 was in her possession and B2 was in Greyys.

Greyy puased he was just trying to figure out where to begin.

Vonta had been gone for a while now. She walked about and was assualted by members of the varies force sects that she had met.

A group of 5 young Teepo Palidins come up to her thanking the force that she was well and that they were still in her dept and that they were staying on with her at the new academy until she stated other wise.

Jensaarai Defenders come up to her garbed in the Animal Cortosis armor to tell her how glad that they are that she has returned safely.

Students from the original class of Alderaanian Guards from the Guard training academy welcome her home.

Several of her old guard students come from all around her when she inquires how they knew that she was in the vicinity they state that they are trained in the Teras Kasi now. They actually sensed her coming near.

So much was happening around her. She now had a large number of Force users supporting her cuase, the Alderaanian Guard was being trained in the art of the Teras Kasi, and there was an academy down on Almania that was not there before she dissappeared.

From around a corner there was a loud beeping and the a sound of motors straining.

An R5 unit come reving around a corner nearly falling on it's side becuae it is simply traveling too fast.

"Weee-Bo-dee!!!" The R5 unit whins out loud. Many in the immediate vicinity cover their ears becuase the excited pitch is so high that it is actually painful to hear.

"Cyper?!!!" Vonta reconizing her age old companion.

The droid skids to a screeching halt. A muffled cry comes from inside the droids casing.

"shes here?" comes a barely auditable voice.

Cypher answers with a beep of 'Of course she is here!"

The droid brings its third wheel in and rocks back and forth excitedly. The muffled voice continues from within the droids caseing.

"Well let me out of her you Frilling astro-unit!" R5 rattles of a series of beeping responses, "I do not care if you do not like my language you out dated piece of rubbish I am not sitting in here while you get to speak with her, you blimy..."

Vonta places her hand on R5's head and the red and white R5 droid calms in an instant, though the protests continue from inside his casing. She gives the droid one look of reprimand and with a small whin the droid relents and opens a door on his outer frame.

The voice becomes clearly audit able now with out metal standing between it and open air.

"And further more..." The voice stops mid sentence, "Oh..."

The voice stops ranting and sounds a bit foolish when he sees that the door was open while he was still ranting.

Out of the door floats a small box. No more then 4 by 4 inches in size. The positronic Droid A1's visual recepter focused in and out on vonta's face as if confirming a fact that she was in fact here before him.

"Commander it is you!" the little droid said aloud. He started floating from side to side, "Sir the odds of you actually being found were astronomical, Perhaps 123,020,232 to one. And the odds of you just appearing on the Drewwa Homebase well..."

Cypher beeps in another interuption, "Yes I know that you never gave up on her. But you are not a very logical unit are you."

R5 was about to retort when vonta steps in between them, "It is good to see the two of you as well. The pair of you seem to be getting along as grandly as ever."

She sometimes looked at the pairing as a very odd couple. A1 had an advanced artificial inteligence that made him so inteligent that he is virtually his own being. Positronic droids are great hacker droids but prone to boughts of independence that takes them off of the missions that they are on. To solve the problem she raised them as induviduals so that they knew of their importance on a mission. They were performing their jobs and did not mess around becuase they had a sense of importance to their work.

"A1 I need an intelligence report on the Guard activities. Can you help me?" She smiles at the droid. Although the pair fought their affection for her made them a good team most of the time.

"Of course sir. Director Sabreen has Maintained your security clearance. If you go to the Lowwer levels you can access the entirety of the Guard networks." He answers.

"Good. Shall we get going then?" She asks.

"Of course sir." He floats back into his compartment he was silent for but a moment.

Vonta turns back to him, "OK you can ride with me for a time."

The droid floats out, "Why thank you sir."

Vonta plucks him from out of mid air and places him next to her belt buckle the droid locks him self inplace with several clamps in the rear of his unit. The droid was her personel unit. That made hacking a breeze.

The three head down to the guards under ground elevator.

* * *

The elevator takes them down several levels but stops short of the level that vonta expected to go. The panel asks for additional Identifition. Vonta enters her command codes and gives a DNA scan. The doors except her and she exits. Two armed gaurds great her. Both are adorned in White royal guard uniforms. The only strange thing was the size. The pair were not human so the Uniforms were specially designed to fit each of them. One was tall and broad shouldered. The other was an Insectoid. The first was a wookie the second a Givin.

The Diversity of the Guard never failed to amaze her.

She stoped dead in her tracks not believing what she was seeing.

Cypher inquired in beeps and tweets as to what was the matter.

"A hyper portal?" She questioned out loud.

A1 chimes in, "Yes ma'am the guard had developed the Hyper Portal Tech since the fall of the Alliance. But this is not your original Hyper portal. I do not know the specifics but this is the Mark II version. Some how it is supposed to be better then the original"

Vonta slowly approchs with R5 in tow. The operator asks for her command codes for comfirmation. Upon confirmation the Portal Operator activates the gate.

"The portal well take you to the lowwer levels 4 miles down sir." The opperator was a female bothan.

"Yes thank you." Vonta made a salute that was returned immediatly. She passes through the 3 meter portal with R5 at her side. One the other side she enters a small room. From there she exits through several more armored doors. On the other side she enters the cavernous expanses of the under ground base. The cieliing was high above and She could barely make out the walls. they were so far away. A transport unit came to meet her. He asks her for a destination she give him a general location for a command terminal.


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She enters into a breifing room. The guard was just as good as ever. Using the Hyper portal for transport below was ingenious. It made it all the more difficult for the base to be penitrated by a would-be spy.

She finds a terminal and enters in her old codes. She had the highest clearance next to Trespe or Sabreen.

She Poured over the data base for the next several hours.

The guard had expanded all of their operations they founded several new colleges on Almania along with programs to allow for the people to live peacefully on Almania. The guard were following the codes of old Alderaan by making a peaceful haven here. The populace was ingrained within the guard itself. Most of the guard came from on planet. Going through rigorous training. The back round checks were even more thorough. Already the Guard had trapped mutiple induviduals from other governments trying to gain intrance and infiltrate the guard.

It took years of confirmation to gain intrance to the academy. There were several thousand assigned to the task of looking over all of the applicants. There was virtually no way for an insurgent to enter the guard.

Several files were on spy missions at the home worlds of many of the races that made up the guard. Data came in from all venues in the universe. She glimpsed through some files on the VC that followed their smuggling activitys as well as their legit bussiness. The Almanian system was regularly trading with Coorperate sector planets. Allowing the Guard and Order to avoid concerns in the core. Further reading came on the activities of the New Order, the Hapans, and the GC. There was alot to be found here since her dissappearance.

A small file caught her attention. It was a news file on a Gungan. One Sorra Bing.

She was pleasantly surprised to find that she had released evidence that showed the genicide that vonta had been trying to prevent before her obduction. She reviewed the Holo-vids. They had been released to the general public. Proven and tested that they were genuine.

::At least they did not die with out acknowledgment. :: She thinks sadly too herself.

MOving on she finds further reading in classified projects.

Labels The Horn Files

Of all things.

Glancing through them she was in for another shock. these were files on ship designs. Designs that she herself had made but these were taken much farther than she had gotten.

She read on further.

These craft were made for her new order. Designed specifically to complement for user abilities.

First file contained a carrier support cruiser.

The ship was fast and carried her Modular fighters.

The original fighter was not that strong but it could be changed with a module based on the mission perameters. The variation was invaluble to Jedi when they were facing ever changing missions. They needed all kinds of different craft for varied occasions.

She looked at the modules-

1)Bomber enhancment
2)Shield and aquatic unit
3) cloak unit

The cloak unit was the one that she looks into in detail.

It uses the imperial force cloak. The file stating that the ship using the Tie phantoms cloak shield to become indetectable. All cruisers in the Horn files have cloak capability.

She is intriqued. Further on she looks on.

The cloak module, Support cruiser, and Training frigate are all included with the cloak tech.

She looks into the training vessel.

"It is completed?" She states in disbelief.

The Training frigate is a ship that is strictly a training and exploration craft. When she dreamed it up she was looking into a ship that could be a place to further the training students yet allow for the possibility to explore the galactic spanses for more lost force sects. The elegant ship fufilled her requirments.

Currently there were 2 of the frigates and four support units along with numerous modular units.

She found another file that worried her more then any of the others. The Krath had been continuing to wage a terrorist compain successfully in all corners of the universe.

The threat was still far to real there.

She winces remembering her encounters with the force entities.

There was much more to do in the universe.

Scanning through the communications network Vonta finds further evidence of Guard efficiancy and improvments.

She logs into the weapons network on Almania. Presently there are 2 advance turbo lasers on the surface. Along with a planetary Ion canon. At this time they are test firing the planet based weapons with shields up at several specific locations.

The weapons charge and fire off. Doing so she sees a stream of information pour into her counsil. Recording the time that it takes for the shield to drop, the area of shield that had to be droped to hit a desired quadrant of space, along with the time that it requred to raise the shield again. The information was made to figure out the firing timing so precisly that there is no room for any ships to inter through the shields in that moment that they are droped to fire the planet based turbo lasers. As it stood they had it down to matter of seconds.

Based on records of previous tries they were steadily improving.

Scanning the data she finds another joint teepo palidin alderaanian guard project. The Teepos were training to use their force abilities to sense cloaked vessels in space and then relay their locations to command ships. There were 25 of the Palidins praticing this in space and on the ground.

Currently they are tracking life signations of squadrons of Phantom tie fighters. The phantoms flying in formation to simulate having multiple life signs of a cruiser. The Fighters had a specificly laid out flight plan and the Teepos were maintaining an 80 percent success rate so far.

Now this was surprising. The were also utilizing a form of force mind meld. Linking to remainin contact even through cloak shields. The practice was being done on the Carrier Support cruisers so far. Allowing the Force piloted craft to stay incontact with non-cloaked forces even with the cloak.

She commended their efforts so far. She would have to try and work out the details of these excercises herself when she got to the academy.

Scanning around she found a catologue of placed hyper portals. There was one on a Training frigate and on two of the carrier cruisers.

A perfect chance to look at these new toys first hand.