Thrawn Full Audio Comic Movie [Star Wars Audio Comics]

[Music] uh now it could be a variant of the scytheistic language sir some of the words are familiar and the syntax is right second script i've never seen it before which means thanks to the unknown alien protocols we'll be here for a while back home on lasatra there were myths about beings named the chiss take his calm link out of the circuit we don't want the natives to eavesdrop his blaster spare power packs and concussion grenades are also missing they come from the unknown regions and they haven't been seen in hundreds of years the pilot's blaster power packs and concussion grenades are missing again it looks like everything else is still here including the body the tails speak of chis unity and military prowess maintaining control of the situation two squads of stormtroopers should be more than enough to handle one alien what it is enough is enough there are 17 stormtroopers beating the bushes out there we call them all we are pulling out what about the hut the unknown alien protocols require us to study it true soldier but they don't require us to study it here halt identify yourself once they set their minds to something they succeed or die in the attempt welcome aboard the venator class star destroyer strike fast i'm captain park do you speak basic you asked him whether he spoke side beastie i assume yes sir my apologies captain i just thought the stories all say that the chess used sai bisti in there the what cadetvanto the chiss they're uh well they've always been thought of as a wild space myth in the stories the chiss used cybisty in their dealings with us he says he understands some basic but is more comfortable with sabisti your comfort is not our priority at the moment our understanding is if you speak basic then do so i'm captain park commander of this ship what is your name mithra naruto but i believe it would be easier for you to just call me thrawn i gather you are on that planet for quite a while i can see why you wanted so desperately to leave i was not desperate but my people need me there are many dangers in the galaxy dangerous to my people dangerous to yours you were shipwrecked i was zishu azwani he says he was exiled why in basic if you can the leaders and i disagreed they do not accept belief in loosely they don't believe in preemptive strikes you seem to know something about his people not really sir we have stories about the chiss more like myths really they're supposed to be some of the greatest warriors who ever lived have you had any training in teaching or tutoring nothing formal sir i'm on track at miami to become a supply officer my family is in the shipping business and they thought as of this moment you're assigned as liaison translator and aid to our prisoner you'll also be coaching him in basic he has the fundamentals but he needs a more extensive vocabulary any questions no sir actually yes sir i do why does he need to know basic aren't we putting him back on the planet no we're taking him to coruscant i believe the emperor will be interested in meeting him and learning about these shits that'll be another of your duties learn as much as you can about him his home world and his people i myself am chiss and never have i heard of any of my people wielding mystical powers i told you these stories are barely above the level of myth but you ask to hear them i appreciate your willingness to share one may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell and what have you learned about humans i misspoke apologies i meant to say i could learn about one person from the stories he chooses to tell and what have you learned about me that you do not wish to be here you do not wish to act as translator and assistant you certainly do not wish to act as interrogator who said i was an interrogator you wish to return to your numbers and inventory lists that is where your talents lie and where you desire your path to lead fascinating i suppose that being from a race of legendary warriors you find logistics and supply beneath your dignity do you of course not because i know better my family has done that kind of work for three generations i'm just doing it for the imperial navy now instead of for my own family i presume you are good at it i'm very good at it as soon as i finish my last term i'll be guaranteed an assignment aboard a ship is that what you wish absolutely what i don't know is why you care about me i'm sorry i meant no harm i was merely interested in you as i am interested in everything about your empire but why me you never ask about captain park or any of the other senior officers you've met or even about emperor palpatine or the imperial senate you are my translator you hold my words in your hand and their meanings they are not connected to my immediate survival you are captain park i'm told you bring me a gift i do your majesty a warrior reportedly of a species known as the chiss if i may your majesty i am not merely a gift i am also a resource one you have never seen the like of before and may never see again you do well to utilize me would i certainly you are a resource of unlimited confidence what exactly do you offer jeez there are threats lurking in the unknown regions that will someday find your empire i am familiar with them i offer my military skill to utilize in making plans to seek out and eliminate these dangers and what exactly do you wish for my empire a state of mutual gain i offer my knowledge and skill to you now in exchange for your consideration to my people in the future you stated that your people exiled you they are still my people and when that future comes what if i refuse to grant that consideration to your people then i will have gambled and lost but i have until that time to convince you that my goals and yours do indeed coincide tell me if you served the empire yet a threat arose against your people where would your loyalties lie which of us would command your allegiance if i were to serve the empire you would command my allegiance what guarantee do you offer my word is my guarantee perhaps your servant can speak to the strength of that vow my servant perhaps i assumed incorrectly that he was your servant yet he always says highly of chancellor powell his name is skyler anarchy interesting and your name mithrandardo so it was you when captain park's message arrived i'd hoped it was jedi skywalker survived the war with them sadly he did not i mourn his passing he was a most cunning and equal courageous he was the most cunning and courageous warrior i had hoped to meet him again most courageous indeed but before his end he detailed for me the circumstances of your meeting and spoke highly of your abilities so you wish to become my advisor on matters of the unknown regions my home is lost to me jedi skywalker's services are lost to you if you wish my direct service as a replacement to his then i am honored to offer it there is only one favor i ask in return your majesty speak mithra naruto i am still an expert at your language i would request that my translator be transferred to duty at my side this is he it is your majesty cadet eli vanto captain park how much longer does cadet vanto have before graduation three standard months your majesty we were scheduled to return him and his fellow cadets to myanmar you will return the other cadets as planned cadet vanto will remain on coruscant and finish his training at the royal imperial academy yes your majesty i'll inform admiral fox of this change you're damn lucky the emperor has taken a fancy to you the why i can't guess foss's message that you are some kind of fancy-faced soldier already all you need is a little orientation imperial procedure equipment and terminology that's six months for a typical raw recruit probably two years for cadets from the back end of nowhere so here's the deal cadet vanto has three months left before commissioning that's how long you have to come up to speed you fail and you're out the emperor might disagree commandant dean luck if the emperor wants to put you in by fiat he can do that i hope that you prove good enough that he won't have to do that we shall see i guess we shall avos said you were to leave here as lieutenant instead of the standard rank of ensign as something about getting you into command position as quickly as possible i figure why waste time congratulations lieutenant cadet advanto can show you which way is up he didn't give you that plaque from the goodness of his heart wasn't a safe time either why do you think he gave it to me there are three reactions you're gonna get when you start flashing that plaque around one some students and instructors will see you as dean lars pet and resent you for it what is a pet in this case slang for a favorite student that group will resent you for all the privileges they assume you're getting two some will see you as a failed officer who's been sent back for a refresher that group will treat you with complete contempt so this is not so much a gift as a weapon a weapon against you yeah reaction 3 they'll think you're a joke no on second thought they'll probably think you're a test what sort of test the really hard kind we're not supposed to show disrespect to superior officers we're not allowed to disrespect aliens either officially at least alien three it's not always what we really do do you dislike non-humans elijah there were a lot of different non-human groups in the separatist movement the clone wars devastated whole worlds there's still a lot of anger especially should have stayed beyond the outer rim there's also a lot of contempt in the core worlds towards people past the mid rim humans and non-humans lack me from wild space and you from the unknown regions maybe we'll dissect your friend now the test for the cadets would be to see how creative they can be in their disrespect toward me and how close to the land they can get without stepping over it we've been invited to the metallurgy lab tonight to play cards with spank orber and rosita turi they say they're running some corrosion tests on one of their alloy boards are we permitted in the metallurgy lab not unless we have a project we're working on if we're caught it means trouble even more so if the card game includes gambling gambling for credits is strictly forbidden if we are charged with gambling there will be also you still don't get how it works do you orber's family is connected to the course and senator he can probably pull anything short of straight up murder without getting kicked out then we will simply refuse any offers to gamble you're going to go aren't you we were invited you may stay here if you wish is this what chiss do see a trap and just walk into it sometimes walking into a trap is the best strategy there are few traps that cannot be turned against their designers [Music] i suppose you're wondering why spence and i asked you to hear tonight you said it was to play cards rosita and i wanted to pick your friend's brain on tactics and strategy i'm having some trouble in a couple of my battle simulation class we figured you could help with all your military experience if what we heard was true i am happy to share my experience have you a specific question i'm interested in the idea of traps take these cards if i'm holding a king's lane there's no way any of you can beat me but you won't know that until it's too late how would you prepare for that kind of situation a king's lane is indeed unbeatable but recall that there are three equivalent runs in the deck any of them would stagger yours and lead a mutual deadlock you have any idea what the odds are against getting two kings lanes in the same deal as you say such runs are rare more likely you hold the prince's lane at best or a queue or triad in that event what you described as a trap would more likely be termed simply a bluff okay but you're avoiding the question i didn't ask for a dissertation on game theory i asked what you would do if i held an unbeatable hand there is no such hand as i suggested earlier i might have a king's lane of my own in that case a challenge would mean mutual destruction and that is never the preferred option you have not yet made your challenge it is not too late to choose another but none would be more satisfying as you wish a moment if you will i believe you are about to make a challenge what's going on here cadets orbar and toroi are running a test sir my translator and i are observing their progress lieutenant i very well carry on there is no guaranteed winning hand cadet aubar i suggest you not forget that well that was fun so you knew he was gonna pull that you yourself suggested his tactic this afternoon what did you learn tonight anticipate your enemy figure out what he's doing and try to stay a step ahead of him a step ahead or to the side when an attack comes it is usually best to be out of the target zone if possible yes i can see how that could be handy though i guess you can't always choose hey get him if he's too injured to complete his training he'd have no choice but to drop out the emperor's grand experiment of faith and i'd be free back to my life as planned what the hell am i thinking hey you bright eyes hey what's going on here run are you all right i'm fine you my injuries are minor despite appearances your assistance was most timely thank you sorry i couldn't do more i was on the wrong side of the hedge i gather you heard them coming there is a particular trade all predators tend to use a balance between silence and speed humans use a version of this tread thanks for getting me out of the way i've had just enough training to know i'm not very good at this you are welcome and now i believe it is time for us to see commendant dean lark all right cadets obar and turi set up the assault you say and did you actually hear them calling in the men who attacked you no sir we didn't but the comlink record should give you the necessary indicators yes they should unless the assailants were an entirely separate bunch they were not they came across the southwest corner of the parade ground moving with speed and stealth the only way for them to have independently identified us was with electro binoculars which none of them had ah ober's family has a lot to say about what happens on coruscant i've put up with obar's antics for almost four years because of it they would not risk going outside their closest circle of friends i assume those suspects would be from the same social level as cadets orbar and turoi if you're suggesting i'm going to look the other way on this cadet i strongly suggest you revise your thinking yes i am concerned about the potential political fallout but i can't let this slide and i won't i'm gratified to hear that covenant let me then suggest an alternative means of action after the attackers have been found i recommend they be transferred to starfighter pilot training you don't want them to be charged pilot training is hardly what i'd consider a punishment it is not intended to be all three show the aptitude and aura necessary for phytocraft pilots it was obvious from their method of attack the way they moved it was the mark of instinctive combat pilots i believe the starfighter program at the sky strike academy is equally capable to the one here at the royal academy the sky strikes far better with pilots than we are and there's no reason to tell obar or turi where their fellow conspirators disappeared to is there i would suggest that the three begin their new training is there a word in basic for that yes incommunicado can they be held in communicado commandant on sky strike it's hard not to be in communication and you're right i imagine even obama might learn to behave himself after three of his conspiracies disappear without a tricks for a human like cadet orba this uncertainty will prove a useful lesson one can hope he will take it to his core and become a better person and officer it's worth a shot if you're sure you want to do it this way allow me to state it more strongly if you bring the attackers to court martial i will not testify against them is this how you do things in the unknown regions cadet a bypass for laws and regulations and get what you want through blackmail or extortion we attempt to solve problems this is the solution that is best for the empire as a whole that a new lieutenant plaque dean lark gave you with the graduation ceremony evidently he forgot he had already given me one i guess you can keep the other one as a souvenir or find another use for it interesting i am to be second weapons officer aboard the gozanti class cruiser blood crow nice and you i presume you asked for a supply officer position i did good chance i got it too bigger ships are always hurting for supply personnel the blood crow aid to lieutenant thrawn lieutenants don't get aids ever you set this up with the emperor didn't you the emperor does not speak to me nor have i spoken with him since my first day on this world this didn't happen by accident you must have said something what was it the blood crow is scheduled for duty in border sectors where sybisti may be spoken i merely pointed out it might be beneficial to have two officers aboard who understand the language if you wish i will refuse to accept you in that position no point the navy doesn't change orders just because junior officers don't like them when you're an admiral we'll see what you can do very well i shall strive to achieve that rank as quickly as possible chiss do not make idle boasts or promises once they set their minds to something they succeed or die in the attempt thrawn you mind telling me what this junk is doing taking up space on my ship the parts were in a scrap market we investigated for smuggler activity captain rossi they are antiques remnants of the clone wars i know what they are droidica two buzz droids half a stab is that part of a hyperdrive ring these aren't antiques lieutenant this is junk and virgilio let you bring this stuff aboard captain virgilio permitted me to purchase them yes ma'am as i'm not fully familiar with the technology of that era i hope to gain insight by studying them and maybe get them working again i can see brand new components on those buzz droids you may have noticed that virgilio isn't captain anymore i am and i don't care about his pet projects i run a clean ship i want this garbage dumped before your next watch clear yes captain although may i offer an alternative all property aboard an imperial war vessel is under the control of the commander the bastroids are mach 1 quite rare and apparently quite valuable to collectors collectors people with more money than brains mark once you said well is she making you throw it all out why do you assume that eli i've warned thrawn about the presence of politics within the imperial navy because vergilio let you have it rossi wants to wipe every trace of him off the blood crow i've seen her type i'll bet she used her connections to get virgilio transferred as it happens in seinfanto she agreed to allow me until the end of our current patrol to bring the items to full function we saw hints of that political influence during the ordering of the academy generous of her i presume there's a catch i reminded her that it would become her property i also mentioned that the buzz droids are mach 1 models that particular model had a dunium shell protecting the brain core it was removed in later versions the high value of the metal meant that the cast outweighed the defensive benefits thrawn may believe he can get by on merit alone dad always put on extra security whenever we were lucky enough to carry a crate of dunium rossi is no doubt congratulating herself on putting one over on her poor naive weapons officer hopefully she won't figure out that the buzz droids are already fully operational should probably take them right now but that doesn't mean politics can't directly affect him both of us if i understand correctly the most disagreeable part of retrieving the tabana gas cargo is the dust yes sir tends to get everywhere everyone hates retrieving static locked cargo i'm sure that's where rossi puts you in charge lieutenant i bet 50 credits we don't find anyone on that freighter automated beacon dead in space odds are they got dust in the hyperdrive couldn't fix it and took off if static locking has such serious disadvantages why is it still used to transport cargo it's really only used when transporting to banner gas sir this stuff's highly explosive and highly valuable far too valuable for the empire to abandon even if salvaging it is a pain engaging locking collar okay we're set atmosphere inside breathing normal lights on low temperature mid-range gravity functional and standard life form readings nothing useful sir the static locking still screwing all that up scrubs finished um negative on any dangerous chemicals or microorganisms we're good to go lieutenant and sanfanto take text lenio and jakeev after to the engine section enzyme parlin and i will go forward to the bridge really hate derelict sir too many ghost ship stories when i was growing up i heard my share too lanio most are just fantasy the rest are real incidents embellished out of all recognition i'm sure this place will look a lot cheerier once barling gets to the lighting controls yeah i don't think so jakeeb hold the light in the world freeze you hear me please i swear i'll shoot you where you [Music] lieutenant may i present neville cigne he apparently mistook us for someone else did he whom did he mistake us for please believe that i thought you were we were attacked by pirates who were they did they mention any names no no names at least nothing i heard i sort of ran i hid in the captain storage locker i know what you're thinking i'm a coward should have stood with the others fought and then they took them all of them i heard someone say they were headed back to their base to get a slicer to get the ship running what happened to the hyperdrive i've got lanier checking it out best guess is someone locked it down before the pirates could get to it yes that was it captain fitz locked the hyperdrive i heard them threatening her i heard screams you thought we were the returning pirates yes i was scared didn't focus on the uniforms when i saw who you were i guess i'm lucky you didn't shoot me for pulling a blaster imperial officers have better self-control than that order sir report the situation to captain rosie informer i will make a thorough examination of the ship stay clear of the power compartment sir that's logs show a bad leak in the main reactor oh yes don't go in there sorry i should have warned you about that tell captain rosie i recommend bringing a full operational crew aboard while we attempt to restart the hyperdrive if we are unable to do so i recommend disengaging the static locks and transferring the tabana cylinders to the blood crow uh yes sir i suspect that the captain will find your suggestions a bit excessive she may nevertheless those are my recommendations a full up crew is he out of his mind ma'am the cargo is extremely valuable if we can move either the ship or the cabana or he could end up blowing himself to adams i'm not risking my crew anyway it's a moot point ensign bantu a mark earth boss is shooting up a hodein settlement on malta we need to go stop a war from breaking out what if lieutenant throne and i stayed behind possibly with one of the techs along to assist we could try to get the ship started maybe work on the tibana while you settle the maltalk situation very well ensign inform lieutenant thrawn he can have up to three crew assuming he can find that many willing to volunteer you'll stay with him regardless of course an important officer like that can't be without ease yes ma'am i'll deliver your message will attempt to access the hyperdrive through what is known as an asymmetric back door from the bridge i can't believe captain rossi would just leave us i can almost got it meanwhile we will direct our efforts toward acquiring the tibana gas what in the world is that a buzz drawing please tell me it isn't functional of course it is functional it would hardly be of use otherwise okay you've lost me these things were designed to eat star fighters right they also have other uses tech jakeeb confirms my earlier assumptions the static lock does indeed seal the tibana cylinders but only from the inside using the buzz droid to cut through the hole will give us access to the cylinders although we would drain one of the cylinders into space where we cut through but if the vapor were to spark couldn't that blow up the ship fortunately it will not be necessary to take such a risk enzyme parlin do i hear the hyperdrive going active yes sir got through the lock we're just about ready to go does sydney have the destination coordinates or are we just going to take the ship to ansion neither i'm afraid we're good three with the tabata and two on the bridge perhaps lieutenant thrawn would be kind enough to order barlin and lay neo to surrender quietly what the hell why should i deprive them of their right and duty to defend their lives because if you surrender none of you will be harmed all we want is the tabana well and the ship too i guess that goes without saying blasters down they've surrendered angel i said down no shooting what the hell is that that is a lieutenant of the imperial navy now keep your weapon down and lieutenant enzyme barling a group of pirates are on their way they've been ordered not to harm you if you surrender without resistance you will do so that is an order i trust you've decided which of your men will help me bring the dromedar to port oh yeah i got your team starting with me getting the cylinders will take time even with lieutenant thrawn's idea of cutting through the hole there's no need for you to come personally angel well you know now things don't always go the way you want them to sometimes there are accidents sometimes there's trouble let me sweeten the pots we avoid any accidents did you notice the buzz droid in the box in the passageway that's a mark one angel take it as a bonus add current prices it's probably a thousand credits for the course doonium shell 200 credits each to keep five otherwise worthless imperials alive fine some of your men would be dead right now maybe even you remember if i hadn't persuaded them to surrender they would have fought this is a rescue squad something like that this is lieutenant thrawn i'm ensign vanto are you captain fitz yeah so sydney snuggled you too you've got to board the drummer with a fake authorization then took us prisoner on this excuse of a ship the ship's gone the tabana is gone and we're done might as well kill us i wouldn't give up hope quite yet lieutenant not yet inside patience what are we waiting for for cygni and the others to reboard the drometer and jump to light speed i'm counting out the estimated time now you want him to get away with our ship be quiet captain take lenio if we isolate the bridge can we fly the marauder from here probably it'll take some quick rewiring though if the pirates are fast enough they could disable some of the circuits before we can override them i think we can keep them occupied sounds great except that the circuits are out there and we're in here i'm guessing not much longer captain inside you once asked what i would do with the spare pluck commandant deluxe gave me at the academy that's a beckon call isn't it you're gonna remotely access a ship but the blood crow is long gone beckon calls do not only work on ships inside banto move back from the bar what well done ensign phantom take jackie captain fitz take the blasters and got this section and sign violin and tech lanier the control system we'll need more weapons if we're going to make a stand that won't be necessary the pirates still forward of the entrance hatch will not be joining us the other sections of the ship have been open to vacuum what how in the world lieutenant thrawn is always prepared and as it happens he also owns a second buzz droid how very unfortunate for our pirates lieutenant fran i believe the ship is yours what course shall we set let me get this straight you're saying you let yourself be captured yes ma'am it seemed the simplest way to find and rescue the dromodar's crew damn stupid risk not just of your own life but also those of my crew it was not a serious risk part of my job is to anticipate the actions of our enemies i knew cygni was a plant from the very beginning man a crew member would have warned us about the supposed reactor leak yet he didn't you had a decision to make lieutenant the dromedar and its cargo or the missing crew who may not have even been alive you chose the latter wrong choice and because of it lost extremely valuable cargo but we saved the crew man and captured several pirates and their ship none of which stacks up against even one tank of tibana gas let alone 20. until i receive a ruling from coruscant i have no choice but to suspend you from duty ma'am you will both remain on antion while the blood crow finishes its patrol dismissed my apologies ensign fanto i realize you wished to stay on the blood crow however there is a task of great importance that can be accomplished on anson you are no doubt wondering why you are here i wish to offer you a deal and you can go dump yourself straight back on pandora if you came here to insult us you're wasting your time on the contrary i am impressed that successors of the pirate queen khanna still operate throughout the galaxy grand moff tarkin is still bitter that remnants of kana's marauders escaped their captain's fate pirate queen we have no idea what you're talking about a brave but useless bluff rest assured i would prefer to trade you for your leader the true irony is that your leader angel holds much the same philosophy as i do you surely note he left you and the remainder here to die when he went to sydney's rendezvous your talking path spit i applaud your tenacity but surely you can see it is of no value once tarkin arrives with his isb interrogators in hand we will know everything however i offer you an alternative i will give you and your fellow prisoners a civilian transport it is partially derelict but it should safely convey you from this sector before requiring repairs in return you will identify the system where signia and angel have taken the dromedar to remove the tibana what guarantee do we have you won't take the information and turn us over to tarkin anyway i offer my word i also offer simple logic you three are too young to have been any of kana's original pirates tarkin's lingering vengeance will not therefore be directed specifically toward you more importantly i know tarkin he will take extra pleasure in the fact that angel will know you were freed as a reward for betraying him you can't know talking very well if you think he ever shows mercy to anyone precisely his reputation does not permit such actions that is why i will release you on my own initiative that is my offer i will wait while you discuss it among yourselves a nice quiet place to park a freighter for a while and the insulting slang term for it is squalish is the local slang for the inhabitants they're not known to be technological geniuses then we have it and it is therefore the decision of this panel that lieutenant thrawn be cleared of all charges of insubordination during the dramadon mission your family still engages in private shipping does it not enzyme yes sir why is there something you need a knowledge of supply and demand dunium signe identified my birth droid as a mark one he clearly knew the value of its doonium content the price of dunium has gone through the roof since the navy started its latest shipbuilding search that is the tale but there are more intriguing possibilities some other project something large and unannounced invisible to the senate and finance ministry's public records secret project or not the money has to come from somewhere material costs engineering worker payments resource transport the bigger it is the harder all that is to hide i can look into it if you'd like i would be most appreciative i was told our new orders would be waiting for us here ensign eli vanto a word if you please my name is kulper i'm an aide to moff gotti you do know who moff gotti is i assume of course how may i be of service an associate of his excellency a governor in a prestigious interim system is in need of an assistant military attache a single word from his excellency in the job is yours being an officer's it's a path that leads nowhere interesting unfortunately i'm committed to three more years of service to the navy and even if i were in a position to consider it i'm not yet ready for a desk job the attached office is an extension of the imperial navy and this would hardly be a desk job at best i'd end up a lieutenant commander serving in thrawn's shadow you'd certainly be promoted to lieutenant along the way with captain soon following before you know it you'd have a command in the system fleet's own defense force sounds intriguing could i really pull this off i don't have any leadership training or experience but still captain of my own ship more than simply intriguing i would hope and yet you seem oddly hesitant denson to be perfectly honest and interim assignment is more than generous what do you mean more than generous i mean that for a wild space person like yourself the inner rim is an incredible move upward i see this is about thrawn isn't it moff gotti doesn't care if i succeed what he wants is for thrawn to fail his excellency has no interest in what happens to a lowly senior lieutenant too much to hope that i was actually being cited for ability groomed for a prestigious post only he's not a senior lieutenant anymore is i'm thinking he's just been promoted to captain fine yes there are those who aren't pleased by the attention your alien friend is getting he cost the empire hundreds of thousands of credits and risked the blood crow crew to rescue some aliens all to show off how clever he was i'm just a tool to topple the non-elite non-human threat to their comfortable little universe i appreciate your honesty miss culper please thank his excellency for the offer but i'm happy right where i am then you're a fool he will go down someday and anyone too close will go down with him good day ensign oh and if i were you i'd get comfortable with that title you'll be holding it for quite some time we're going to hit a lot more parties before ascension week is up right as many as you can handle you are here or at least until we get thrown out will they all be as fancy as this one orinda i feel very underdressed you're the guests of a lowly senator's aide you're not expected to have a thousand credit gown look mirinda here's the reality now that price mining has a dunium vein you need support protection protection ovus what do you mean takeover there are a dozen ways a big mining corporation can take over a small operation like your families or bleed it dry if you would consider selling the governor another 21 percent of price mining what absolutely not you'll not getting controlling interest it's the only way to keep some predatory mega corporation off your back you need to at least tell your mother about the governor's offer as the general manager she needs to know which part of know is confusing you i think you should get off our property please i own thirty percent of price mining you can't just throw me out the price family owned seventy percent and the guard droids answer to us for now goodbye miss price call me when you're ready to see reason father what is it your mother she's been arrested the complaint came from the governor's office they're charging her with embezzlement i'm sorry arinda as matters stand i can't lift the embezzlement charge but senator ranking you have influence here can we at least get her out on bail you really don't understand what this is about this is azadi's attempt to take over price mining there is a way i can help your mother but i don't think you'll like it i can get the charges dropped but you'll have to sign price mining over to the empire you're going to lose the mind orinda either to azadi or to the empire because of the dunium remember coruscant could take it by fiat right now they prefer to play nice in this part of the outer rim the question is what exactly do you want i want to go to coruscant you must have a hundred good assistant positions you can offer i want one i assume a new junior vein is worth the trouble as it happens there's an opening in one of my citizen assistance offices you'd be representing the interests of lothal citizens visiting or temporarily working on coruscant i've never seen anything like that before what is he some kind of pandering with an eye condition now that's just rude let's go over and ask ah orinda i'd hope to run into you this is a rinda price one of my aides miss price this is colonel wolfe yularen of the isb senior lieutenant thrawn a rising star in the navy and ensign eli vanto the lieutenant's aide honored noble says colonel yularen was telling me about an operation the lieutenant and ensign were recently involved with the lieutenant single-handedly captured a pirate ship and saved a valuable shipment of tibona gas it was hardly single-handed colonel and saevanto is too modest about his and the other's contributions well congratulations to you both i presume you're on coruscant for commendation not exactly there are those who dislike lieutenant thrawn's methods but i'm not worried i was an admiral during the clone wars i still have friends in high places and are no doubt making a few more tonight very perceptive miss price that's why i'm putting the lieutenant through the chorus on social grinder i think he did a remarkable job i want to make sure as many senators know about it as possible well i'll be sure to look into the details when i get a chance but right now i need miss price to run an errand for me i need to get a data card to maf gotti you know who he is right so ranking has you working tonight does he yes your excellency but i'm sure he wouldn't have interrupted you if it wasn't important my secure data pads in my suite it'll just take a minute and then you can get back to enjoying yourself get yourself a drink if you'd like a droid can fix up anything you can name thank you your excellency i've seen you in my office several times usually playing career ranking must have a high opinion of you tell me have you enjoyed working for him it's been very interesting of course interesting the most diplomatic word possible and the most insipid here you go you may take it back to him i think that's the wrong data card sir there's shame miss price if you had just taken it back to him too bad really so now we have to do this that miss price is palestine spice highly prized highly expensive highly illegal and you my dear have enough of it on you to guarantee that you spend the rest of your life in prison unless you do exactly what i say it's good to see you understand your position here some allegations have recently arisen of financial and corporate discrepancies coming from my office while these allegations are categorically false i must nonetheless address them as quickly as possible as i will be returning to lothal for a time i have no choice but to close several of my outlying offices my apologies to those of you i'm no longer able to employ i'm certain you'll find other positions soon miss price if you'd stay a moment [Music] i hope you're proud of yourself i didn't have any choice he said he would have me arrested and you honestly believed you were important enough to waste the time of a single police call on we could have done great things together arinda i'm sorry i couldn't rely on you whatever you were trying to do you must not have disguised it very well if you had warned me i'm sorry i couldn't trust you either trust don't be a fool there's no trust in politics never has been never will be now get out i'm sure you'll be very happy back on lothal hey stranger how are you doing chewa here driller what are you doing in the pricey end of the planet we have dinner reservations at the pinnacle you came [Music] i dusted off my own martial arts stuff and got into bodyguard training i have a job at the yin jump dojo now we do civilian training but we're also licensed to train government bodyguards you should come in for some self-defense classes sometime i'm still running my advocacy group that's our real reason for visiting actually we have a position for an expert in minds mining and refining you would be a perfect fit i'm definitely ready to move on to something else where and when do i apply for the job you just did seriously i've already floated your name and the rest of the group vetted you if you want the job it's yours just so you know it doesn't come with an apartment but juwah has got a decent sized place near the senate building she'd love a roommate the hours will be long if you're a mining expert that means you get all the mining related jobs but licensed advocacy groups have prestige if not power you get more notice than when you were delivering data card packets for senator ranking and the pay isn't bad either let us show you how much coruscant still has to offer you i think that's enough for today so i hear i wasn't lying then she told me you'd be a dedicated student is that all she told you about me outlets what in the world are they doing here welcome to the incheon dojo captain thrawn i'm marinda price we met at an ascension week reception in the alessandra hotel when you were a senior lieutenant certainly i remember you miss price you are an aide to senator domes red king you have a remarkable memory captain i work for an advocacy group now how may i assist you we're here to speak to the owner cease good day officers of the empire i am he master of the incheon dojo how may i serve you i'm colonel yolaran we are doing a routine spot check of the dojos in the federal district i presume you have full records of this facility's government contracts and bodyguard training of course i will get them for you before you do we are also interested in trainers for a possible new urban combat unit i see your students are practicing advanced stick fighting i would like to observe your best technique first hand excellent captain your style is unknown to me but you have clearly been well trained thank you instructor perhaps the next time i'm on coruscant you will teach me some of your style it is of your species yes a tagorian form i would welcome you as both student and teacher and now colonel yularen i will retrieve the records you requested you said you worked for an advocacy group which one it's called higher skies thank you miss price i'm sure we will see each other again i'm going to have to miss our next session my employer is back on the planet but i may have a free evening in the office there's a conference room with enough space for sparring practice is everyone off to a party i am watching the office alone tonight the conference room is just through here good evening miss price it's nice to see you again mufgati nice to see you as well i wish you had taken me into your confidence back in the alessandra hotel if you had i could have told you that i was just as eager to take down senator renking as you were really your own boss the man who engineered the imperial takeover of my family's mining business on lothal i just would have preferred to destroy him without messing up my own life in the process your poise and confidence alone show you've come a long way since we last saw each other i'll get straight to the point who hide your advocacy group to destroy me i have no idea what you're talking about right after one of your people visited me my confidential financial information was recovered from smugglers and one of my minds was hit by raiders barely a week later is it renkin or maybe a moth huh of course it's tarkin isn't it grand moff tarkin he's wanted me gone for years tell me it's him i am sorry your excellency but i can't help you maybe you don't know what your boss is up to but we really need to know for sure don't we from now on you're my eyes and ears inside higher skies you'll copy files and report on conversations and contracts i'm sure that's not necessary your excellency oh i think it is and you do it while i call isp and tell them you've came here tonight to steal confidential files outlets will confirm that of course you should welcome the chance to prove you're not playing games with me miss price nice glasses with your eyes covered most people would probably assume you're a pantoram so i've been told why did you ask me to meet you i'm in something of a situation i think you're also dealing with some problems i'm hoping we can help each other i recently spoke with a high government official who thinks the advocacy group i work with is trying to destroy him he wants me to spy on them for him threaten to turn me over to isb under false charges if i refuse did he seem confident in that threat yes and that if nothing else he didn't realize that while threatening me he let something important slip during his rant he mentioned that one of his minds had been recently attacked i poked around a little dunium yes a good-sized vein which he apparently never registered which means he's selling it on the black market i thought that since you're a friend of colonel yolaran you could quietly pass this along to him i can give this to colonel yularen but i cannot do so now if your corrupt official was confident in his false arrest threat am certain he has allies among the isb the longer this information is with colonel yularen the more likely it will become known to others i will hold your information but i will deliver it only when i judge the time to be right what if i sweeten the pot you know military tactics but i no politics i could help you there i appreciate the offer but i do not need assistance your aide might disagree ensign vanto in three years you've gone from lieutenant to commander yet he's still an ensign that is a military matter politics should play no role you're too good for those who dislike you to attack directly politics is all they have pressuring the high command to keep your aid from advancing putting your ship last in line for repairs i had noted that the thunder wasp was placed at the lowest priority i assumed the repair ranking was based on which ships needed to be returned to patrol duty most quickly you were half right i have some contacts who may be able to alter that tell me who does your high government official fear i don't know that he fears anyone then whom does he hate all who hold positions of power fear or hate someone or something a threat to your enemy means potential vectors of attack for you ms arinda price i understand you represent an advocacy group called higher skies that's certainly what they think actually i'm here to represent myself and to make you the best offer you'll get today really i think perhaps you overestimate your charm oh i don't run on charm your excellency i run on information here's a sample i'll be happy to wait while you look it over full credit for ingenuity at least you aren't so obvious as to try a data thief program not at all this is the one with the thief program it's the highest guys brochure and agenda i was supposed to give you really who exactly are you miss price someone who wants to make a deal that will benefit us both the information on that card should give you a taste of what i have to offer most of this i already know which proves you've successfully tapped into governor nasaling's records how did your employers come to create such a clever thief program i imagine they brought in someone to help you see i think they're rebels rebels yes your excellency but don't worry all they have is the merest skeleton of that data file just enough to keep them happy with my work it's a double layer thief program crafted on the orders of isb colonel wolfie laron the one who advised me to bring the results to you was commander thrawn very interesting and what exactly did they expect from you in return for their help colonel yolaran wanted the data of course commander thrawn asked only for a long overdue promotion for his aid but there's still some political resistance resistance to a military promotion which of our esteemed politicians has that much time and energy to spare moff guardi moth guardian i should have guessed i have information on him of course he was one of the first politicians i targeted what's in it i don't know this one's under a different encryption than anything else i've found but if it's like the ones i've read and probably has a lot of secrets in it things talk in what we want everyone else knowing about get it on a data card and bring it to my office now i'll decrypt it let's see how high mighty grandmother is when i'm shoving his dirty little secrets down his throat imagine that a high official conspiring to use illegally obtained material to topple another high official so you offer me valuable data as well as the satisfaction of removing mothgardi from the face of the galaxy we haven't yet talked about you what do you get out of all this your patronage and support the knowledge i've helped the true powers that keep the empire running and i'd like the governorship of lothal lothal exactly the ground shaking demand i'd expected why there governor azadi and senator ranking cost my parents their mining company and forced them out of their home being made governor of lothal will humiliate the first and make it easier to take down the second i'm afraid what you've given me isn't quite enough a clear vision of one's goals is important in a governor but governorships are valuable commodities i thought it might not be but this is everything about lothal the empire would ever want to know the empire is gathering up the outer rim worlds it might as well be as easy and painless as possible interesting some would consider that a betrayal of the home world i prefer to think of it as loyalty to my new home world hey arinda we doing a workout or lunch neither we're making an arrest a woman using her training position to bribe a blackmail high-level bodyguards to spy on their bosses and occasionally to try to murder them there's just one thing i want to know were you ever my friend or was i always just a tool to you i yes i was your friend i wasn't involved with this until after sending the ranking fire to you it showed me how corrupt the whole system was later when driller approached me and then you figured you could use me poor arinda cast adrift in the swirling dregs of coruscant the perfect patsy wait arunda i was your friend i was there when you needed someone can't you help me now here's what i'll do jeweler here colonel yularen is going to interrogate you if you give him everything he'll send you to prison instead of having you executed i'm on the road to power now i may be able to pull enough strings to get you out in a few years if not well perhaps you should have chosen your friends better [Music] it appears to be a land dispute enzyme on one side is the afe clan of the native safari on the other side is a group of human colonists in an enclave pressing up against afe territory and we are here why ensign the promotion the thrawn promised me still hasn't happened and i'm the only one who knows why maf gotti's flunky made it very clear for all of thrawn's military cleverness he has no idea how to navigate course on politics here tell me what you see shellfish exports have doubled over the past four months about the time the land dispute began the dispute has been ramping up for approximately twice that long but the recent escalation in cross-border incidents does date from that point the humans have precious metals to smuggle likely because they discovered a new vein under afe territory someone calls in night swan he shows them how to smuggle out their contraband inside the shellfish you'd think someone as clever as night swan could come up with a new technique instead of repeating himself come now don't you recognize an invitation when you see one we really don't know how many confrontations knightswan and i have had over the past few months only those operations that he signs as it were do we know to attribute to him perhaps you hadn't noticed but there appears to be a growing number of these incidents around the empire there's been an increase in smuggling activity which robs coruscant of tariff money thefts of metals like doonium have also increased at the very time the empire is gathering these resources there have been disputes between peoples within the empire which distract attention and drain military resources even more disturbing there are a growing number of incidents of unrest or open revolt i have no doubt that night swan has had a hand in some of the incidents let us see what he has arranged for us this time i really don't understand the purpose of this meeting commander we already gave sworn statements to coruscant the purpose of this meeting is so that i may meet the dispute committee in person it's not a dispute committee it's a committee for justice we're the ones who've been attacked commander not the safari the reports suggest that is a matter of dispute hence the term i've assigned you not our reports not any report that anyone in his right mind could believe i assure you i am in my right mind do you agree mr tano are the ciphery statements untrustworthy ah yes of course the clan thing you know they just repeat what their leader says may we ask what decision you've come to i have hardly had time to make a decision may have been my next task is to view the disputed territory fortunately i have already received afe chief joko's invitation [Music] mayor benshil is an obvious choice he's loud and passionate and did most of the talking but i'm thinking he may be a little too loud and the others i'd say scath and pulsary maybe tannu but he seems a little too simple-minded i can't see night swan trust in him with big secrets you forget the conspiracy was already in place prior to nights one he may not have had any say in the participants still my congratulations ensang your skills have improved markedly thank you sir which ones did i miss none scath pulsary and tanu are indeed involved in the conspiracy may adventure as you have already surmised is one of the duped have you any further thoughts or conclusions not yet sir there is yet time study further i know not what to tell you commander thrawn the reports of my clans folk are true and accurate the humans have crossed the border on many occasions stealing and attacking once a home was also burned fortunate that it was not the clan meeting house this structure is rich with the culture and history of the afe clan it is few of the empire would notice fewer still would appreciate perhaps did you confront the attackers on two occasions our sentinels were attacked eight were injured none were killed let us now examine the other side of the blade i am told members of the affair clan have also crossed the border into the hollandside enclave yes we have crossed the border yes we have inflicted impairment equal to our suffering but never have we attacked the humans on their own soil i would like to see where the first of these incursions occurred here where the grain was yet ripe and unharvested is where humans first came onto afe land chief joko did any of the afes note anything unusual about the crops from this field was any grain discarded due to disease or malformation some plants die in all fields this field has a history of such damage the stunted stalks are a sign of improper development you have a keen eye commander throne i offer two suggestions first do not hold guards for pursuit deploy them solely in protection of your villages second i know that many of your people live in this district i request that they leave for tonight how long would you have a scour before an enemy except disruption for our families and our young it will end tonight what do you conclude from the stunted plants heavy metal poisoning which implies the vein of oars near the surface easy credits for a group as small as our conspirators here they come and there's tannu locators for record i want a list of his areas of knowledge and expertise his secondary schooling was in organic chemistry was he ever arrested or charged with a crime no arrests for tanner himself but his older brother was arrested for possession of spice specifically a rare variety called scarn that forms under grain fields show me the method this is commander thrawn send the shuttles and stormtroopers i ordered to this location for prisoner retrieval also add lieutenant kim to the thai escort launchmen ready all this will be for naught if our targets don't stick around to be prisoners you are correct inside we must make certain none of them get past us i'll deal with the landspeeders while you target the raiders set on stun understood i'll start you'll know when to open fire i'll know how will i take cover the raiders he's lined them up right in my field of fire and that close to the land speeders they won't be able to dodge thrawn was right i knew exactly when to fire mr tanu i expect you're ready to talk it wasn't my idea it was pulsary she's the one who came up with it they forced me i didn't want to a man who is forced to work against his will could easily sabotage their efforts yet you did not you were the one who refined the pre-spice for smuggling the technique is quite interesting fine you caught us now what possession of pre-spice isn't illegal he's right sir free spice isn't an illegal substance there are too many other products that can be turned into that are perfectly safe and legal but the product you have created is illegal he'll never prove it the others are hiding all our product where no one will ever find it perhaps perhaps not one final question which of your group brought in nice one to advise you how do you it was scath she knew someone who knew him and thought he could help and so he did but not enough his end will come yours has now arrived what do you do do you attack our sovereign land at will i have destroyed the source of the conspirators prophets if the pre-spice had remained the attacks would have continued and if they did you would have lost more than just farmland what more orchards bridges lies i see your concern for my people but their lives and lands could have been protected in a different way a better way you may appeal my actions to coruscant they may repudiate them yet the damage will remain i will appeal your actions and i will pray we never meet again inside vanto has horizons responded to my report yes sir i'm afraid they're not happy with you they're absolutely furious which is insane you ended the conflict exposed a criminal conspiracy and kept spice off the market what more do they want they want a commander who follows procedures they want a commander who will ask their advice i have found that many admirals aspire to that rank because of a wish to exercise control and authority such leaders are threatened if officers of lower rank solve difficult problems without them what about you commander why do you seek high rank because there are problems that must be solved while not the most politically astute of actions we can't argue with the results some cannot be solved by anyone except me do you know what this is about sir you were cleared of any misconduct in the sci-fi incident no but i find it interesting that you were also summoned try to read their faces we are met this morning to pay special honor to two of our own never has any officer of the imperial navy achieved such success in so short a time it is therefore with great pleasure that this board confers upon commander thrawn the rank of commodore congratulations commodore thrawn it is also an honor and a privilege for this board to rectify a situation that has too long been allowed to stand it is therefore with equal pleasure that we confer upon ensign eli vanto the rank of lieutenant commander but an instant jumping ahead that many ranks at once is unheard of congratulations lieutenant commander vanto congratulations thank you sir and thank you man [Applause] a fine ceremony i'm glad i stopped by governor arinda price sends her regards and her own congratulations i wondered if she might she is well i trust quite well eagerly preparing to take on her new post consider this a bonus thank you your excellency please thank the governor when you next see her i will now i believe you have enemies of the empire to deal with good hunting to you [Music] once again congratulations lieutenant commander vanto i trust the weight has been worth it it has indeed sir and now we'd best get to our new ship there will be a great deal to learn our new ship i see you were not paying attention at the end i thought not we're being transferred commander i am now the captain of the imperial star destroyer chimera [Music] [Music] admiral thrawn may i introduce admiral dural of the isd judicator and admiral kinshara of the isd stalwart admiral thrawn of the isd camara recently assigned the 96th honored and these are the governors of the relevant systems governor rustosa baton governor wistron of dinash governor eston of salmon and governor price of lothal it is good to see you again governor price likewise i wish it could have been under more pleasant circumstances circumstances you've been called upon to deal with sit down please and we'll get right to it colonel yularen we've been noting a rise in insurgent activities in the bataan sector for the past several months we now have indications that some of these groups may be starting to work together none of them are much above nuisance level but we feel this is a trend we need to stop out before it spreads a question colonel there are four governors here yet i see the commanders of only three task forces may i ask which of our systems you're planning to ignore the insurgents of lothal are already being dealt with by admiral constantine governor price requested to observe as her system is nearby and experiencing much of the same trouble i see as long as baton will be getting sufficient attention we're going to start with your world governor since it seems to be the focal point for activity in the sector if we can push back those insurgents the other groups will wither away admiral thrawn this one will be yours five days ago insurgents took command of the imperial garrison on scrim island west of bataan's main continent they have at least 100 hostages control of the island's energy shield and three of its ion cannons have you a schematic of the facility which of the fortified emplacements along the shoreline are the three controlled by the insurgents shouldn't matter you're not going to breach above anyway best approach is by low altitude incursion the shoreline defenses are more than adequate to repair leaving a sizeable attack you haven't been with the navy long have you with only three ion cannons they can't defend the shoreline a few assault boats worth of stormtroopers and it'll be over perhaps i will need more time to study the situation there is no time every hour the garrison is held the reputation of the empire is tarnished a little more you are to proceeded once to baton and release the insurgents hold on scrim destroy the island if you have to destroying the island would also kill the hostages there are better ways but they require more reconnaissance and planning if you can't handle it the 96th can go to some moon will that assignment be more to your liking i will go wherever the navy wishes you disapprove of my decision i think everyone disapproved of your decision sir whatever capital you might have had with the high command i think you've just burned it for the moment that will change admiral durrell has a tendency to value speed over precision often it leads to miscalculation this failure will be costly both to his task force and to him personally wonderful should we say something i did say something admiral durrell has not taken our advice we must now stand aside and allow him to test his confidence i suppose may i ask what you're doing sir studying summony art i need a better sense of the culture you disapprove of my choice of transport as well do you have to do that i find it tends to bypass unnecessary conversation i'm ruth run for commander pharaoh yes admiral have we ordered sir we do commander you are to take the task force to summon there's insurgent activity there that we are tasked with eliminating you say i'm to take the task force you won't be with us sir that is correct commander vanto and i have an errand elsewhere uh are we treading on dangerous ice here sir denasius ordered us to go to salmon not precisely fleet admiral dhanasius said the 96th was to deal with the insurgency there no specific mention was made of you or me yes sir may i ask where we're going to baton of course admiral durrell is convinced he'll have no difficulty capturing scrim island i'm interested in seeing if he is correct and if thrawn is correct it means more men and women hurt or kill because of the arrogance of their superiors [Music] looks like admiral dural's got all his ships firing squirm island's energy shield was holding still no response from the insurgents on the top that would soon change by ordering fire from all of his ships dural has now demonstrated their full capabilities shield seems to be opening the island commander is smart he's counter-attacking after the ships close marked all their positions and those counter attacks have perfect timing i on fire direct hits on the judicator whoever's in charge down there is good now dural's just flailing he doesn't seem to see the northern shoreline opening up damn a turbo laser the nasty has never said the island had functional turbo lasers he may not have known an attack focused on the judicator's port side flank opposite to the direction of the insurgent freighter freighter where flying eastward from the island running low and on minimal power which renders them largely invisible to ships already under attack and to ships that aren't under attack but are concentrating all their attention on the ships that are okay i've got them now i fell for the trick too it's angling away from the planet hail it a tight signal to keep the conversation private we're the slipknot and you're a weapon smuggler named horatio fig so that's the real reason you put us in a captured smuggling ship am i buying or selling whichever will gain us an invitation to visit his base unidentified freighter this is the freighter slipknot looks like you're scorching out of here need any assistance don't even think about it not thinking it just trying to start a friendly conversation if i'm right about your current cargo there might be something i could take off your hands or maybe you'd like to add a little frosting to your new cake you deal little of everything since you just hit a military base i'm guessing you're mostly interested in weapons you in the market or aren't you we might be boss says he's willing to talk i'll send you the coordinates jump whenever you're ready what about the judicator there's no aid we can render i've already transmitted an emergency distress signal on admiral durrell's behalf our efforts are best directed elsewhere this is your old lieutenant's plaque isn't it the one you modified with the remote but why the blaster burn you took the tunic from an officer you killed you wear it because it intimidates people and yes i modified the remote for our current need push the top left tile when the time comes that time being you'll know hide the holdout blaster it will look suspicious if you don't have one the other is a sample of what you're selling where will you be engineering our escape in the meantime learn as much about them as you can well well horatio fig was it an imperial what a surprise and you're exactly the kind of idiot that i wear this for did you even notice that it doesn't fit or perhaps the blaster burn you're dealing antiques too part stock part insurance you'd be surprised how many customers try to walk off without paint personally i'd have blown you into dust and been done with it back on baton but the boss wanted to see you so i guess you get to live a little longer he won't regret cindy so you remember me from our tabana gas encounter it's good to see you again commander vanto and please call me night swan i'm glad that admiral thrawn sent you to seek me out i always thought you've been dealt a bad set of cards your presence here means you'll be spared what the rebels on bataan are doing to him right now does he think thrawn is directing that botched attack against the baton insurgents star destroyers are pretty tough ships the island also has only one turbo laser he may survive perhaps but it doesn't really matter losing his command ship is a blunder even he can't withstand whatever highly placed friends he has they'll have no choice but to turn their backs on him though even bataan may not be enough considering how thrawn happened to be admitted into the navy in the first place a non-human from the unknown regions it would have to be someone very highly no wait helen brimstone that was him i heard about it a couple years ago from someone working the through gay asteroids an unknown non-human blue skin red eyes who teamed up with a jedi general during the clone wars anakin skywalker yes general skywalker so you do know the story yes no one else support the slip knob but listen the engine compartment's showing a radiation leak it looks bad should we track to the whole thing out of the bay before it goes critical no need to go to sagic streams it's just a ploy there will be another imperial or two hiding among the baffles armed of course so be careful i don't know whether to be flattered or insulted you're probably wishing you tried something else i didn't know i'd be playing to an audience who'd already put on the same show let's talk about you with ron about to leave the stage your career will finally be out of his shadow it has been rather in his shadow hasn't it i'm not worried about it i'm a commander with a fairly decent list of victories on my ledger and i'd like to think i've picked up one or two friends along the way a wild space nobody who spent his entire career as a houseback to a non-human do you really think you have friends on chorus captain captain what's going on [Music] this way welcome aboard commander we should be clear before they realize we're not part of their group so that's why we're taking this one instead of ours an unexpected bonus my primary goal was data that might have been left uncleared on this ship's computer navigational records in particular that might point us to bases and supply lines you are taken to their leader i assume was it night swan you knew it would be him didn't you i didn't know for certain but i suspected no one who i was up against could have been extremely useful on the contrary you produced a convincing performance because you were genuinely surprised he needed to believe we've been caught unawares now time to return to baton and see how admiral durrell's task force has fared after that we were able to make running repairs on the engines and get out of range i apologize for my failure fleet admiral dynasius but my next assault will succeed perhaps admiral kinshara your report the insurgents at dinash have been dealt with fleet admiral however prisoner interrogation suggests that a large portion of their forces were already transferred to baton excellent all the barks in a single hound that much easier to roll up the lot of them admiral thrawn someone is likewise pacified two enemy ships were destroyed four ships captured a considerable array of small arp's ordnance was also captured without your actual presence i'm told the action was carried out under my direction admiral i see admiral dural when will the 103rd be able to travel we can re-engage in 30 hours sir i didn't ask when you could fight admiral i asked when you could travel uh five hours perhaps but with all due respect sir in five hours you are to bring your task force to the marley vayne shipyards for repair admiral thrawn you said you needed to gather intelligence on the baton insurgents how much time will you need sir i must protest this operation was given to me actually fleet admiral the gathering is complete i can eliminate them whenever you wish have you ever been aboard an imperial star destroyer governor no i haven't had the privilege colonel governor price colonel yularen welcome aboard thank you admiral we appreciate you seeing us on such short notice we understand you've pinpointed the insurgent's main baton stronghold the creek path mining and refining complex outside paragusto city commander vanto was able to sort out shipping vectors utilized by the insurgents they indicate their cargos ultimately ended up in creek path and of course you're planning to go in there in force i don't see that we have a choice governor the complex of shield blocks orbital assault even if it did not there are approximately 30 000 civilians within the complexes boundaries yes i know two of those civilians are my parents i see which is not necessarily all bad governor price has been following events on bataan very closely two days ago she came to me with a proposal governor it's very simple admiral i want to go down there and reacquaint myself with my parents and their friends and get a close-up look at the insurgents defenses and weapons set up that way when you send in your forces they won't go in blind depending on the setup they might even get a crack at the shield generator taking that down would make this operation considerably easier a question when you last visited baton you're a senator's aide now you're an imperial governor your position and reputation may precede you i can wear a disguise but the simple fact is that for most people expectations override observations they won't expect to see governor price of lothal so they won't see her i assume you're not going alone of course not agent goodry one of colonel yolaran's isb agents will go with me the story will be that they're hunting down a friend who's gotten mixed up in the mind situation a plan that does not require her to take a side in the dispute all for the best since we do not know which side her parents support i'm sure they're loyal to the empire perhaps knights one is quite persuasive and even with an isp escort this will be a dangerous undertaking i'll be fine and you need the intel these passcodes will decrypt anything they send back try to keep them isolated from the ship's computer it's one of isb's best encryptions and we don't want it wandering around the galaxy understood commander can you tell me who set up the positioning of the chimera and the rest of the task force i believe admiral thrawn did that himself why because it's decidedly non-standard in fact it's borderline insane your three light cruisers are not only too far from your flagship but too far from one another the damage they took in daril's failed assault means they're hardly battle ready they can't support the chimera and the chimera can't support them a few armed ships come out of hyperspace and you'll be down one cruiser and a whole lot of support ships three forces attacking in unison all three cruisers and support clusters would be gone not in unison they'd come in sequence sharack then flintzer then tumner they'd give the chimera just enough time to turn its turbo lasers toward one cruiser before the next was attacked i see you're learning to think tactically the question is why isn't thrawn doing the same i'm sure he is but yolaran is right on all counts unless thrawn arranged the freighters as bait to draw the raiders into an attack but the bait is helpless any attack would instantly degenerate into a slaughter well i for one can't see the logic in this plan but i suppose that's his business not mine all i'm saying is you should keep an eye on things with night swan involved i've had the feeling ever since that first tabana gas encounter that the man's gotten under thrawn's skin deeper probably than the admiral will ever admit with him orchestrating this whole thing i'm not sure how clearly thrawn's thinking he's thinking just fine and whatever he does it'll be for the good of the empire i hope so keep an eye on him anyway [Music] this is quite unexpected not that your mother and i aren't glad to see you orinda but while the hair and the islands i'm here very unofficially hence the disguise aside from making sure you're safe we need your help a friend of my ties is inside the mine area we need your help to find him he's just the type to jump headfirst into an insurgency without thinking i need to get him out of there before the whole thing goes up those people in the mines are heroes fighting for our rights against a repressive and dangerous government i think you may be painting with too wide a brush the empire is quite multifaceted maybe on coruscant it is maybe on lothal not on baton here the governor and his friends are corrupt utterly corrupt and the galaxy needs to hear about it there are imperial procedures for dealing with corrupt local politicians mother i'll look into it when i get back to lothal i can petition the senate possibly even the emperor but that won't be soon enough to help my friend i've heard too many stories about people being press ganged by insurgent groups fine i'll take you you need me to get through the cordon what's your friend's name i don't know what name he's using here he hasn't always been on the right side of the law but he's a weapons electronics guy so that should give us a clue as to where he's working we'll go in and take a quick look around but if and when they tell us to leave we leave clear clear the irony is that the governor has himself to blame for the fact that we've got a shield at all creek paths owner pleaded with him for some protection but he wouldn't give us any of his troops so instead he found a used dss-02 regional shield and had it set up i'd have thought the operators would have tried to sabotage it before he kicked him out before the insurgents kicked them out i might agree with some of their grievances but i'm not with them from what i understand they were escorted off the premises before they even knew what was elaina is something wrong talmur i don't i don't feel well i think it was i i think it's something in the air can you come home i i need you and arinda to come home yes of course orinda here sorry i saw a group of men and wanted to check them out none matched matai's description is something wrong your mother's taken ill we have to go home right away wait a minute i need to find my friend can't i stay i promise i won't get in anyone's way i don't think that's a good idea you can find your way back to the house right sure you two go on i'll be fine are you all right elenia you sound terrible what in the world are you talking about that was me i'm afraid i needed to get back here and i needed to get away from my thai this was the simplest way to do it there's going to be a battle soon a big one you need to leave before it begins start packing orinda rinda it's okay the governor wouldn't dare attack the mine there's an imperial task force overhead with orders to neutralize the insurgents on baton that means creek path so you need to gather up everything you can't live without mirinda please there's no please mother you need to go pack and you need to pack now come on elaine do what she says what about our friends what about the men and women we work with in the mine i'm not here for them i'm here for you this is admiral thrawn aboard the isd chimera i wish to speak tonight swan excuse me this is admiral thrawn please inform knight's one that i wish to speak with him [Music] this is night swan how did you get this frequency it was one of many contained in the records of the freighter commander vanto and i took from your ship careless of whoever flew that ship last with anyone else i would have expected an ultimatum or at least some gloating but neither strikes me as your style why did you call i wish to speak with you face to face with no barriers between us i expected you would wait until my arrival night swan i got bored admiral thrawn besides i was curious to see if you told me the truth about coming alone you are no use to me dead or captured so you said though i like to point out that i was the one who saved your life during the dromedar hijacking i persuaded angel to take that buzz droid back aboard his ship i suspected you had a plan for it thank you allow me to point out that had you not i had a second droid already more to the hull nah of course you did so much for playing the card of appealing to your sense of obligation i find obligations are not a stable basis for a relationship perhaps it is different to the mining guild not really how did you know about the guild you noticed the disappearance of dunya more quickly than one not familiar with the metal marketplace i presume you saw the confusion in the empire's metal markets and broke from the guild to manipulate it for your own gain in part i worked with citizens who'd been hurt by the empire and couldn't afford the justice they deserved smuggling medals like dunium was the most efficient way to generate that money for all of us for a while i straddled the line mostly helping innocence working with occasional insurgents but then i started hearing rumors something nasty the empire was up to out in the middle of nowhere the project that was sucking up all the dunium iridium and other metals being yanked out of the markets i heard about whole planets being strip mined private operations being taken over by the empire i started getting curious sometimes it's a very bad thing to be curious it is never wrong to be curious but it can sometimes be dangerous this project you see i too have become interested in what the empire has planned what i don't understand is why you still serve the empire can't you see the evil you're helping to perpetuate there are things in this galaxy far more evil than the empire and far more dangerous to all living beings i sought out the empire to discover if they would serve better as allies or as easier prey than my people i dug to get your royal imperial academy records a story i heard was that you were rescued from exile it was intended to so appear but that was not the reality the encampment was designed to appear as if i had been abandoned by my fellow chiefs for years in truth i was only there a few months the plan was to lure an imperial ship to the planet use my tactical skills to slip aboard and be taken to coruscant i had hoped merely to persuade the emperor to allow me to study the empire's political and military structure his offer to make me an officer in the imperial navy gave me the opportunity to learn much more i'm afraid that uniform has blinded you to reality especially if you think i would abandon my people and my cause and join you in your fight for a better empire you are correcting that i asked you here because i wish to offer you a position but after your activities you would never be accepted by the navy the role i have in mind for you is not with the empire but with the chis ascendancy you're kidding all of them all of them and if i find that other box before you drag us out of here there'll be ten more the records of your childhood orinda your life everything up until you left for coruscant you've got 15 minutes and don't forget to grab some of your own there you are price and here i thought you'd be at the hospital your mother being deathly ill and all we had to put her feet up and she started feeling better agent gutry i figured since we were here i'd get them ready to evacuate sorry sweetheart this isn't a rescue mission it's a search and destroy luckily for the empire i didn't need you i have an explosives cache in the shield generator both set to my com channel and ready to blow we can still take my parents with us they won't slow us down no a party draws attention we can't afford i'm a governor i've got the blaster what i'm not leaving without them i don't die here with the rest of these outer rings arinda what he was going to leave you and father behind get your bags we're leaving now you want admiral that's crazy is a human among the chiss more implausible than a cheese among humans it would offer you the chance to stand against forces far more evil than you face now and what of the people fighting your lesser evil right now what would happen to them the people of patone are imperial resources a wise commander never wastes resources without need if the insurgents disperse leaving their weapons behind this will be the end until you leave even if governor resters honored your deal it still wouldn't last the injustices against the people are too great the arrogance of those in power too deep sooner or later they would rise up again only this time they would have no one to lead them they would be cut down like grain in a field their voices silenced before they were ever heard so you will stay perhaps we ultimately seek the same end but we see vastly different roads to that end i have no choice we have the same sense of duty admiral thrawn good evening admiral and thank you for your time we've been distant adversaries for a long time my curiosity is now satisfied is it there is still the matter of the empire's new project if i were to aid you in your search for answers would it persuade you to join me what exactly do you know i have no direct knowledge but i too have gathered some of the pieces of the puzzle to myself i may also know where the main work site is located and if you find it what then what do you do you serve the empire and this project whatever it is represents a great deal of imperial resources i do indeed serve the empire but i also serve the causes of the chis ascendancy if i deem this project to be a threat against my people i might find it necessary to reconsider my path on one hand we have a puzzle and a fear of what the empire is planning on the other hand i have real flesh and blood people to protect in the here and now i'm sorry i have read about the nights one how it sings only as night is falling if you do not expect your stand to succeed why not come with me now a man must do what he must admiral thrawn even if his stand is against the fall of eternal night insurgent god let me do the talking halt where do you think you're going i need to get my parents out of here mother's not well i need to get her to let's see some ids all of you that won't be necessary i'm tell more what happened to you must have caught some shrapnel come on inform the ground commanders that they are to ready their troops if we have not heard from governor price and agent goodry by then we will assume their mission has failed we will proceed accordingly yes sir prepare the chimera for combat commander pharaoh i expect enemy forces to appear shortly yes sir the ship and records we obtained from the captured base indicate 30 mid-sized ships they could be incoming 10 ships on vector 110 by 80 baton insurgents two more groups incoming 11 vessels each admiral they're targeting the cruisers i see them then do something thrawn those cruisers are defenseless and once those ships cut their way through them the camaro will be alone and outnumbered signal the ground commanders the units on the west and north may open fire on the creek path insurgents but they are to remain in position until the shield is down or until i give further orders yes sir sir the ships yes commander the ships let us now discover how well i have read our opponent and whether we're about to die yes and whether we are about to die i'm marinda price i'm here on special assignment from colonel yularen we need transport off planet governor arinda price about time we heard from you the colonel's been worried you better give him a call the team's already gone in what team the rescue team heading to your parents house see them yes these are my parents wasn't there supposed to be someone with you we got separated where's your hq i need to get my parents some proper care we'll get to the hq right away governor the rescue team can take the last transport out what in the world why aren't they firing the attackers were never going to fire on defenseless cruisers commander pharaoh remember we face nightswan the same man who insisted that the dromodar's crew be held captive by pirates who wanted to kill them you knew he would never order his forces to fire on ships that could not fire back and now that they're drawn out you'll send the cruisers away so we can finally fight back i am not sending them away patience commander [Music] admiral are those they are indeed commander thai fighters a force squadron in each cruiser courtesy of the judicator brought into the baton system concealed inside the repair patches waiting for the attacking ships to pass them back yes and now thanks to knights one strategy they are perfectly positioned behind their targets this is a price resident agent goodry he's better i saw some horrendous things during the clone wars this ranks right up there with the west of them as you can see the number of civilian deaths far exceeded the number of insurgents killed governor price you are the only one of us who is in creek path before it was destroyed you do not know how the explosives came to be detonated before the planetary shield generator i went to my parents house to get them ready to leave we waited there for agent goodry he didn't return by the time we'd agreed on so we left i can only assume he was trapped by the insurgents he must have triggered the charges rather than allow them to take him alive the senate has already ordered a full inquiry but i doubt their investigation will find anything useful the inner section of the complex where the explosions took place was reduced pretty much to dust your report colonel said that the death of nightswan was confirmed yes sir his body was found and identified in one of the outer areas where the damage from the explosion was less severe overall the emperor is pleased with the outcome very pleased indeed i expect he'll find a tangible way to show his thanks governor price a word with you in private if i may a question admiral a statement governor no that's not how you bring an accusation against a powerful member of the imperial government for all your tactical skill admiral you still don't know the first thing about dealing with politicians do i not no your entire career has been one of military triumphs and political bumps every one of those bumps has required someone with political skill to get you out of it you clearly suspect me of knowing more about what happened on baton fine suspect away but don't lose track of the fact that you need me in what way to smooth out your future political bumps and trust me there will be more bumps you're a successful admiral that makes you a target for people who want some of your power for themselves people such as you at least you've learned some political lessons but no i don't want to take your power away i merely want to direct it along a line that will do us both the most good the fact is i have an insurgent situation on lothal i've had some discussions with grand moff tarkin he's not happy that our local rebels are hitting other places in the region he wants me to find a solution i think that solution is you and the benefit of this assistance would be your political guidance if that isn't valuable enough consider the games your prestige from another victory or two my sources tell me the seventh is going to need a new fleet admiral soon they're sent to all the major conflicts do you think there's anyone else in the imperial navy who cares as much about limiting casualties as you you make interesting points i will consider your proposal do that in the meantime go have your meeting with the emperor smile and thank him for whatever accolades or trinkets he heaps on you congratulations grand admiral an excellent day for you an excellent day for my empire though i fear many will not see it in that way i will endeavor to set their hearts and minds at ease but i must first come my own heart and mind must hear now very well speak your mind grand admiral tell me about the death star when and how did you hear of that project i learned the name from unguarded dispatches i deduce the size and power from resource allocations i now wish to learn from you its purpose your thoughts are laid bare mithras allow me to allay your fears i have no designs against the chiss nor do i begrudge you with the defense of your people i would also warn against diverting too many of the empire's resources from a flexible navy massive projects such as this can bring the imperial presence to only one system at a time there will soon be no need to spread the imperial presence across the galaxy once the death star is fully operational its very existence will suppress all opposition and so good ah lord vader come join us i don't believe you have met darth vader grand admiral thrawn i greet you lord vader i have heard a great deal about you i am pleased we have finally [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] grand admiral thrall grand admiral the emperor recently promoted me after my victory at baton rouge civilian casualties outnumbered the insurgents at the time acceptable margins agent callus for there are no longer rebels in that sector

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