USH'S GAME EPISODE V- 'MAUSOLEUM'- LIGHT SIDE AREA

It's odd to watch the ships some of you have travelled in being detatched and left to drift as you make your stops along the way. You have to wander if you ever really will come back this way again to collect them. Still, at least it stops U9 moaning about the overload of the ship.

And something terrible is going to happen!

Gundy, the certainty of your vision is becoming more and more clear the further you travel. Something very terrible, great death and destruction, are coming. But you can see no sights, just a vague blackness, and so caught up are you in this non-vision that you are only brought back to real life, with a start, when U9 makes an announcement.

"Hyperspace fuels levels are at critical point. But destination co-ordinates have now been achieved. We are about to enter real space."

I hope kellan was wrong about this one, tho I fear she is not
"Our mutual faith in the Force is what brought us here in the first place Kellan, I do not think that it is the will of the Force to lead us to our unmeaningful death. If we die and die we shall, maybe just not yet. It will be at a time which is unknown to us and more important we will have played our part in this play between light and dark. About Kuylen and his companions, from what I have read Kuylen is the most talented swordfighter ever to have studied at the academy, that certainly gives him credit and makes him a very dangerous opponent. However I fear that it is not his skill with the blade that is most dangerous about him, I believe it to be his militairy way of thinking and his extraordanairy ways to come up with ambushes and tactics. However his companions are good no doubt there but they have not yet learned to controle their abilities and as all dark siders they feed on emotions. They will be beatable. We just have to make sure these young ones don't wander off all alone and we should keep our eyes open at all times."

Kellan was startled out of her brief, blind vision by the announcement of U9. She nodded in agreement to Marcus and moved to study the console at Xeth's elbow. "Any readings ?"

The stars streak again, and you drop into real space.

Actually, the first thing you notice- NOT many stars. You are virtually outside the Galaxy. There's not much here.

You have a star and a five-planet system. You have arrived in the gravity well of LV-201, your destination.

It is a large, cold, dark planet.

U9 makes a scan, as you ask, Gundy.

"No sign of life. Surface conditions are tolerable but unhealthy due to particulate matter in the atmosphere. Recommend use of filter masks. No sign of civilisation or life." U9 whirls and clicks for a while as he makes further checks.

"I am, however, picking up many large power sources on the planet. Standby... also, faint traces of hyperspace trails in the atmosphere, suggesting semi-regular usage."

Anything in particular you want to scan for?

I doubt I am powerful enough to use the force to see wether or not I can detect any dark side energy.
maybe scan for the last active hyperspace trail or do a decent scan around those power sources

"Do you detect any return scans of any kind, U9 ?" Kellan asked. "Even automated ?"

The power sources are largea and sophisticated, no clearer reading than that.

Unfortunately it is not always easy to tell when you yourself are being scanned but there is no obvious sign of it.

There might be something more specific you guys can look for...

"hmm, do we know the Ion trails of Kulens ship, if we do we can perform a search and determine the where he went the last time he came through here."

You know a lot about Kuylen's ship- Master Marcus saw it stolen from the planet Tartarus.

(U9 is just beeping and then the readout screen picks up the audio and translates. There are numerous readout screens so everyone can read it.)

Xeth picked up on Master Gundy's words about having Kuylen's lightsaber at her throat. "It wasn't my fault!" he chuckled over the comlink, still up in the cockpit. "Good thing that, U9, good thing..."

As the ship comes out of hyperspace, he pilots the Nexu's Grin steadily towards the planet LV-201. "No life, but energy readings and hyperpspace trails? I wonder if Kuylen is there and is blocking something on our scanners...I don't pick up any jammings of any kind though, as U9 can probably tell you. I doubt that freighter could do that anyway..."

(Rex's drawing on the hull is supreme! Now he's going to be doing the interior stuff, like the cockpit, the ship's entrance, and the "family room".)

*I marvel at my now fully restored lightsaber.* "Welcome back." *I say to it as if to an old friend. I Activate it, the yellow blade shimmering, acasting a yellowish light on the slightly dark room of the ship. I give it a slight swing to test for balance.* "Beatiful, apart from a couple of scratches in the casing I't completely back to normal. Once again thatnk you for the parts Xeth and Master Gundark."

*I turn to master Gundark.* "I would be very surprised if the Hyperspace trails put us anywhere close to the mosseleum, the dark siders would not be so foolish. Perhaps if we combned our force powers, we could get a better idea of their whereabouts."

Hyperspace trails froim a single ship are indeed too vague but I think there is a more basic means of identity than that that you may have overlooked...

EDIT - BB - forgot to switch out, at Rex's house!

"U9, are you sure there is nothing on the surface?" Xeth asks his droid as he pilots the Nexu's Grin into LV-201's atmosphere.

"Its a cold planet, search for heat, bodyheat."

"good idea"

U9 reports that, unfortunately, surface conditions make it impopssible to pick up individual life signatures.

Something a bit bigger than a person... a lot bigger... you have been dancing around it!

U9 search for ships, I think the only one here should be Kuylen's ship.

U9 processes information for a little while. Then he reports.

"Based on the description you gave me of the ship stolen from Tartarus, I do indeed believe I have discovered a trace on the planet that resembles that ship. it is in the upper right fore-quadrant of the planet's surface. I have locked on to the position."

Yup, simple enough, if Kuylen has landed here, his ship muist be visible...

Head over there Xeth