Star Wars: Knights of War - Chapter 1 - Taris

"What? You mean now?" Illya ran her fingers through her hair, pushing it back away from her face. "You want me to come stay in some of the tallest towers on Taris??? The biggest targets for a Sith invasion??? You must be out of your mind."

Adriav would recieve his holocomm.

But both him and Illya would get the same call. A call from Apollo that also cut off Vik's call to Illya.

The image of the Hutt began his speech, "Hello champions. As you can see, the Sith have invaded Taris. And as you can imagine, that fact may hinder our race in a way that I will not allow. Therefore, I have decided to move up the date of the race. Our first race begins tommorrow morning," Apollo said with a smile.

Adriav groaned. This is the last thing he wants to think about right now. He turned to the guards and addressed one, "Is there any way you can arrest or kill Apollo? Public indecency or something?"

The officers watched alongside Adriav as Apollo gave his message. Afterward, Adriav asked, "Is there any way you can arrest or kill Apollo? Public indecency or something?"

The officers took a moment to analyze what they had just heard and looked at one another. They shared a look of confusion and nervousness on their faces. Eventually one of them would respond with, "Apollo is above our pay-grade guy. He controls a large part of Taris and if he's got beef with you then you'd better be worried. Jedi or not."

The other officer would ask, "What was he talking about anyway? Some sort of race?"

"We're Pirates. We always play dirty," said the large older black man leaning up against the hull. Illya didn't recognize him.

"Besides, most of those posh pushovers can't hold a candle to us," Beezu said with a chuckle.

Cylan rubbed a hand down his mask, thinking to himself. He'd speak once their was complete silence in the room. "We don't need to worry about any of the races. We have those taken care of. I'm more concerned about afterwards. Securing the assets and keeping our distance from any of the losers who want to try and get there stuff back. Oh, and can't forget the Sith. We'll have to get past that blockade."

"Unless they get what they're looking for," the black man chimed in again.

"They won't. And if they do, it won't matter. This has all the makings of a war..." Cylan responded to his crew-mate.

One of the officers was going to say something, but at the last second decided not too. Instead, the duo continued to escort Adriav to the transport.

Once they reached the airship, the officers were relieved by Republic troopers and official Republic officers, those of which brought Adriav on board.

The transport took off with none of the passengers addressing their prisoner. They did however, give him the eye and report in to their superiors.

In a matter of minutes, the transport arrived at Taris' Epicenter. The Senate Building. From there, Adriav would be greeted by a plethora of Republic guardsmen. And at the center of the guards was there captain, dressed in official Guard Captain attire, whom welcomed Adriav.

"Welcome to the Galactic Republic Senate Building. Right this way," said the captain, turning to signal for the prisoner to follow him and his guards.

Beezu would give an awkward smile and rub his head, trying to seem casual and just laugh off Illya's comment. It wasn't working.


"We do our best to stay clear of the SU when we can help it," the black man voicing his opinion. "Our part of the galaxy is still predominantly Republic controlled, so you can imagine we don't run this sort of scenario very often." The man would finish by eyeing his Captain.

"Don't mind him," Cylan said to Illya with a joyful tone, "He isn't the biggest fan of the Sith being that he was once a Colonel in the Republic Army."

"But she's right, West," Cylan addressed the older black man, "We can get out of the Sith's way. It just won't be easy."

Cylan would then pace and turn back to Illya. "Securing our winnings is always a priority for a Pirate, Ill. We can't rely on Apollo to do it for us. But I understand that we need to focus on the race. So let's-"

The captain was interrupted by the sudden appearance of a frantic astromech droid entering the room. It buzzed and whirred and did circles around the crew. It seemed like an emergency.

And that would seem the case, as Illya could see the others in the ship jumped to their feets and looked to their captain. Cylan would just vocalize what the droid had just said.

"Apollo's security droids are outside..."