The rebel alliance has spent the last couple of days holed up at Mos Eisley, a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Heat, frustration and boredom are bringing out the worst in everyone. Added to this, Skyrider has lost a close comrade in the shape of Kiryienka, who was engulfed by another timewarp, similar to that which swallowed Tedward Kingo. Rather than being an unfortunate phenomenon, it appears these timewarps are in fact deliberate and targeted, and speculation is rife that they are a new and terrifying weapon of the Empire’s.
Meanwhile, the in-fighting between the fighter pilots of the rebel alliance, which has been bubbling away for quite some time, suddenly reaches new proportions. A huge fight breaks out in the cantina between the Oricans, the Lotto, led by Grrreipel and Henderson, and Cavrissian’s OPQS droids. All groups are jockeying for position, the frustrations of the recent past erupting in an intense and fierce brawl. The young Padawan Kittel, leading a deployment of Argoans, enters the fray; the trainee Jedi using his skill with the Force to calm the various groups and regain control of an increasingly risky situation.
However the furious Cavrissian is not quite as easy to appease. Aggravated by the Argoan Veelo, Cavrissian is not ready to end the argument. A staring contest. A dodge left, a feint right. A blaster shot. Cavrissian shaking his head and Veelo on the floor. But who shot first?
To be continued…
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