Gerrenthum. Thousands of navigation beacons surrounded the blue-green planet, as many more thousands of starships entered and exited the planet's gravity well every hour. Ringed by spaceports and important corporate stations, it was also home to a military base, and the urban world hosted dozens of cruisers and battleships, as well as several Venator-class Star Destroyers. The capital ships were an intimidating sight, formed up around a commandeered fueling station in a defensive pattern. Nobody in their right minds would attempt to enter the planet with a bounty on their heads.
"Time to wake up, Master Tarumana. We're here."
Kaga awoke slowly, first feeling out with the Force as his eyes slowly opened. Diana had already left the room to continue copiloting, and the young Knight was left to his own devices in order to prepare for the long day ahead. Sliding off the hard bunk, he rose and changed from his sleeping robes into his 'street' clothes- More of a disguise, really. There were not many Kaleesh wandering the galaxy, and with one of those few being a Jedi Knight, there was no doubt in his mind that he would be singled out for any searches. At the same time, it would not be good to appear too normal either. They were in a luxury military shuttle, after all, there was no good way to appear as civilians while flying their ship.
Slipping into a green skin-tight jumpsuit, with padded robes and cloak quickly thrown over, Kaga soon looked reminiscent of the Ubese wanderers, and this look was quickly solidified with an Ubese breath mask. Kaga walked out of their quarters, to see Diana already in her fine robes and jewelry. During their wandering, it was often required of them to don disguises, and here were the ones they had chosen; A young noble from a second-rate planet, and her hired Ubese mercenary. Both of course carried their lightsabres, both hidden in their robes, while Kaga also carried a modded WESTAR-34 blaster pistol.
Diana was at the navigation array, and Kaga sat in the pilot's chair to open communications and begin their landing procedure. Opening the channel, they were greeted by one of the orbital stations and given landing coordinates and a bay number. An hour later, they were safely docked and ready to go out gathering information and supplies.
"We need to have a case of food and water rations delivered to our bay. I've already contacted the station, and we will be refueled within the next few hours. We will gather information we can while we're out. I want to be out of here within the day. Do you understand, Padawan?" Tarumana glanced at his apprentice, to see her nod once. The Knight allowed a smile to creep across his face, hidden by the helmet covering every feature of his face. After a quick equipment check, the cargo ramp lowered and both Master and apprentice left the safety of their ship.
Wandering the streets of Gerrenthum, both Tarumana and Diana were reaching out with the Force, feeling the emotions of passerby and trying to discern information from the crowd. Their rations order had already gone through and was ready to be loaded onto their shuttle, and so both had decided to practice their sensor abilities. Kaga felt the ripple and flow of emotions in the Force, its current dragging along the edge of his consciousness. Every being in the crowded port had a unique flavour, a slice of their life open to anyone with the ability to read their emotions. Bitter over their lover, angry at the port service, elated at a successful business transaction. It was like reading from a book for the skillful Knight.
However, the disguised Kaleesh could also feel the waves of frustration overcoming his apprentice. Most skills came easily to the gifted young woman, and when they did not, it was often a short fuse on Diana's temper. A soothing ripple in the Force was not enough to calm the angering Padawan, its cooling touch lost in the now bubbling activity in the Force. Reaching over to touch her shoulder despite his disguise, Kaga sent a stronger wave of calm into the Force. Seemingly more open now, Diana accepted the sentiments and slipped into a standing meditation.
Tarumana allowed himself a moment of worry over his Padawan, before setting aside those emotions to continue feeling out with the Force. He was well aware of the dangers Diana brought upon herself by lapsing into anger, but Kaga felt confident that he could confront her when the time was right. Now, in a crowded spaceport under Imperial boot, was not that time. Again lapsing into an openness with the Force, Kaga lost himself in observing and learning.
An alarm went off in Kaga's head. Reaching out, Kaga could sense several hostile presences, their signatures seeming to have them in mind. By now the two of them had left to just outside their bay, continuing to practice at a distance as the crowds thinned out. Feeling them approaching, Tarumana opened his eyes and glanced at his apprentice, to see her hands slipping into her robes, readying for battle. Kaga nodded in approval, before reaching into his own robes as they retreated to behind their bay's cargo doors.
With Diana opening their cargo ramp, Kaga held his unactivated lightsabre in his left sleeve while the right held his laser pistol. Both the ramp and the bay doors opened as one, two Mugaari and a Nothoiin in padded armor charging in with lasrifles blazing. Kaga quickly drew fire, Diana not recieving any as the group seemed to avoid firing after her. Seeing that these individuals were not part of the authorities, but rather thugs likely looking for a quick ransom, Kaga allowed himself to show a touch of abilities.
Rolling past the shots aimed at him, Kaga advanced on the trio quickly, one of the Mugaari breaking off as the Knight swept past him. Now without his companions directly to cover his back, the thug was quickly disposed of with strikes to the chest and neck. Dropping heavily, Tarumana turned to face the remaining two. Diana by now had raced up their shuttle's ramp and was preparing the ship for launch, the overhead roof opening to reveal the light purple of Gerrenthum's night sky. Seeing their marks readying to flee, the pair themselves raced up the ramp, a startling move to the young Knight. Who retreated into the enemy's territory?
Shaking his head, Kaga raced up into the shuttle as the ship began raising off the ground and the hydraulics to the ramp began raising. Now inside, Kaga confronted both criminals as they stood, blasters pointed at him. "Drop it, fracking Ubese merc. You can't run now, it's just the two of us and one of you. Can't hope to win this," said the smirking Nothoiin, his eagerness to shoot betrayed by his condescending tone. However, the thug had forgotten who was currently piloting the ship, and that this model had an excellent autopilot program perfectly capable of taking over launch details.
As his Padawan engaged the stunned Mugaari, Kaga disarmed the arrogant Nothoiin with a shot before planting a fist in his now shocked face. Nothing quite like a fistful of pain to wipe off that smirk. Planted flat, Tarumana stood over the prone forms of both intruders as his apprentice looked his way for approval. Removing his breath mask, Kaga smiled at the young woman openly, quickly met with a smile of her own. Nodding towards her Master, Diana left to assist with piloting duties, the Knight left to deal with the two unconscious thugs now in their cargo bay.