posted May 29, 1999 12:26 PM              

When my shuttle exited hyperspace in orbit of Kidron. I was surprised to see just how many pirate and smuggling vessels there could possibly be in one system, the entire system seemed masked with them. Com traffic was filled with distress signals, threat calls, and "Space Traffic Control" checking clearence and giving permission to land, and they quickly told me that I would have to wait at least half a standard hour before they could get to me, so I decided to meditate until then. When they finally messaged me the chronograph said it had been 3 hours and 24 minutes, somehow I wasn't surprised. I gave them my clearance and they gave me permission to land at Starport 43, Deck 12, Bay 94, which unbelievably only took me 20 minutes to find.
After I had landed the shuttle I boarded another shuttle to take me down to the surface, it was the only shuttle available for quite sometime so I boarded it. The shuttle landed at a small landing field outside of the town of Hileo, in the North Hemisphere. I knew I had to be quick about finding Jacks before he got off the planet so I quickly found a ride that would take me down south, near Winfel, the location where Jacks landed, I couldn't believe my luck.
The ride I found was in a smuggler's speeder truck, who had no idea I was aboard, that is until we got to Winfel and he started to unload his cargo. When he found that I had hitched a ride in the back of his speeder truck he quickly reached for his blaster, I reacted quickly by pulling the blaster out of his holster before he could even set his hand on it, using the Force skill of Telekinesis.
With the surprise of finding a Jedi in the back of his speeder truck, the Smuggler just stood there, shocked, but I was not going to wait for a reaction, so I put the blaster on my belt and charged at the smuggler, I tackled him then quickly used induced sleep on him, then I picked him up with Telekinesis and hid him under some of his cargo, and locked his Truck's door.
Making my way away from that speeder, I located the local cantina and made my way in, it was filled with more lowlifes than I had ever seen in one place, and alot of them eyed me as I walked into the establishment. I walked up to the bar, ignoring the stares, and ordered some Corellian Ale. I quickly drank and paid for my drink, and then I used receptive telepathy to read the minds of the lowlifes for any that might know something of Jacks. Most of them were too drunk for me to be able to comprehend anything in their mind, but I did find one individual who I thought might know of Jacks. This person was a rough looking human in his mid-30's sitting at a table alone, reading a datapad, and drinking some odd looking drink.
I walked over to the table and did a quick glance through his thoughts up close with receptive telepathy, and it appeared he was browsing through some galactic news, and was pretty occupied. He didn't notice I sat down until I asked him if I could buy him a drink. He looked up from his datapad and I could tell he was annoyed, he said, "No, but you can leave some credits on the table, and leave," and then returned to his datapad.
I replied, "I'll give you all the credits you need if you tell me all the info you have about a guy named Jacks Madidala." He said, "what makes you think I know anything about this Jacks character?," while reaching into his holster to stealthly remove his blaster. I was sitting down and couldn't act quick enough to stop him from shooting at me, but I could use the Force power Absord/Dissipate energy, and try my best to dodge. He shot and hit me in the calf area, but it was a weak holdout blaster, and I was using the force, so it had little effect on me, I was quickly out of my chair and upon the man. I used injure/kill to put the man to a quick, but agonizing death, and then pickedup his datapad, and searched him for anything I might need, and just my luck, I found a note from Jacks to the man, named Jaf Maloon, that told him to meet Jacks tonight in downtown Winfel.
I put the note and the datapad in my pocket, and then made haste to get out of the cantina, I didn't need more trouble, and I had found what I needed. I proceeded to the meeting place about 4 hours early to check out the location.
The meeting place was beside a fancy restaraunt and a speeder dealership. There was an alley across the street that I decided to hide in till meeting time. When Jacks arrived, with 3 guards, I quickly got ready to ambush them.
I got out my stolen blaster and shot twice, taking out 2 of the guards. Jacks and the other guard quickly found cover and returned fire. Using receptive telepathy I tried to find out their plan, Jacks was gonna retreat while the guard held me off. The guard kept firing at the alley, while I sensed Jacks begin to leave the area.
I knew I had to get out of the alley, and in a hurry, so I used inflict pain on a pedestrian caught in the cross fire, who quickly jumped up and was shot by the guard. I then used projective telepathy onthe weak minded guard, and made him think that the person he shot was me, and he quickly got up and walked over to inspect the body, and fell for my trap, I was quick about shooting him in the head, and then begin my pursuit of Jacks, who I could sense was only around the block.
Knowing he didn't know who he was running from was a good advantage, and I decided to use it. Jacks was hding in another alley, waiting for his guard to return, when I turned the corner. He didnt know who I was, so he only raised his blaster and told me to scat. I kept walking toward him, and he shot once at me, barely missing my upper torso. I then shotonce at him, missing his leg by a kilometer, and then charged head on at him, and he was ready. He threw his blaster away, and when I reached him he quickly stepped out of the way and stuck his leg out and tripped me, perfectly timed, and then he pulled out a vibroknife.
I quickly got up just in time for him to slash at me with his vibroknife. I dodged, but he cut deep in my left arm. After he had cut me and I had used control pain to keep my pain at ease, I grabbed the arm he slashed at me with, and kicked him in the torso, and then used inflict pain to put Jacks in terrible pain.
Unbelievably, he kept fighting, and I found myself quickly on the ground again, but I got up swiftly. He tried to kick me in the knee, but was way to slow because of the terrible pain he was in. I caught his leg, and then kicked him right where it counts, and he fell down, almost unconcious because of the pain. With my opponent down and out, I used control another's pain and accelerate another's healing to quickly bring him to again, and since he was still dizzy from being unconscious he was an easy target for projective telepathy, I made him think I was his guard helping him ,and he followed me, slowly, to a shuttle that took us to my shuttle. He fell asleep on the shuttle ride to mine, and when he came to again he foudn himself aboard my shuttle, lying on the floor. I then used injure/kill to give Jacks a slow, torturous death.