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Yoda smiled slightly, coming out of his meditation with a faint smile. "Master Fay, two centuries it has been since last we spoke. Hrhrhrm, your presence, reason behind there is, yes?" Beside him Master T'ra smiled warmly as in his ship Master Giiett blinked in surprise, hearing the name of one of the legends of the Jedi Order.
Master Fay very rarely even communicated with the rest of the Order. Preferring to be guided by the Force she didn't take missions from the Council or the Senate, and she had never returned to Coruscant since leaving it centuries ago, nor had she ever taken a padawan. Rumors of her exploits continually reached the rest of the Order, telling of tales or wars brought to a halt without a single blow struck, of terrorists giving themselves up, unable to fight as feelings of peace and comradeship filled their being, quashing their hate and anger, of diseases cured and ships about to crash stopped in their tracks.
But despite knowing Fay was centuries older than him, Micah had to shake his head in surprise as her image appeared in the communication screen. The Jedi who appeared on the screen looked almost young, with delicate, almost ethereal human features, long dirty blond hair, and two pointed ears. But the eyes, those kind bottomless orbs told the tale of how ancient this master truly was, and she smiled at her friends, the only two Jedi Masters who knew her personally. "Greetings Master Yoda, T'ra, it has been many years since we have spoken. But the Force tells me we are all out here for the same reason. Permission to join this mission?"
Yoda grunted and the three ships continued on their way with even more urgency if that was possible. But even Jedi could not speed up hyperspace travel.
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The first sign of real trouble began when the lights on the training vessel began to flare, and an alarm began. All of the teachers raced to the bridge quickly including Lily, who sped through the walls between the classroom and the bridge. "What's going on?" she said as she appeared on the other side.
"We'll tell you as soon as we know ourselves," said the knight on watch, shaking his head quickly as others began to arrive behind Lily.
The ship began to shudder, and the head teacher shook her head as she sat in the captain's chair, staring at the readouts.
"Illaveil?" Lily asked, touching the Bothan woman on the shoulder. "What's wrong?"
"There's something wrong with the controls, were coming out of hyperspace where we shouldn't be!" the ancient seeming master muttered, shaking her head. "Manual override!" she barked as her fingers flew over the controls far faster than an old woman of any species should be able to move. "
"There is some kind of virus or something in the system, it's taken over our controls." Said the knight on duty from his own position, one of the four young knights that made up the teacher's aids and general
"That's impossible." Tholme said shaking his head. "How could that have been accomplished, Explorer is a closed system unless its hypercom relay is powered up."
"I'm rather more concerned with what it's doing right now than how it was put in," said one of the other teachers as she took up a position at another station. "I'm bringing up the shields."
"Why do you think it was impossible?" Lily asked Tholme as they watched the activity around them. Behind them Quinlan came in quickly, looking somewhat harried having had to instruct the children to return to their rooms and arguing with more than a few of them about that.
"This training vessel is supposed to be a closed system, the only way anything could get through his through the Hypercom relay, and that would be the same thing as, as sending someone a picture of a missile rather than the missile itself."
"Some kind of weapon I guess?" Lily asked, not having heard the word 'missile' before.
"Exactly."
"Regardless of how it was done, you have enemies out there that could attack us." Lily mused, her tone saying she wasn't surprised by this but also not happy Tholme hadn't mentioned this before. "Is this ship armed?"
"A few small quad lasers, but we have heavy shielding." Illaviel replied, not looking up from where she was still trying to stop the ship from coming out of hyperspace.
"No we don't," said one of the other knights, the one who had been trying to bring up the shields. "The programs won't respond. I think the shields might have a manual override down in engineering, I'll go see if I can activate them."
"We're coming out of hyperspace within seconds." Illaviel grunted angrily. "Get those shields up as quick as possible!"
"Where are we?" Tholme asked quickly.
"Somewhere between our last stop and our next, somewhere we weren't supposed to stop!" Illaviel replied tartly. "And oh look, our scanners show several ships incoming already, ranging from fighters to large freighters."
"This is almost like a typical pirates assault, thought they would normally use asteroids to disrupt the hyperspace lanes rather than a virus." Tholme said shaking his head. "Why would they attacked us though? They'd have to know that the Order would respond."
"Why's later, deal with the actual attack now." Lily replied, to which the others all nodded as turbolaser bolts flew through space towards the Explorer.
The moment the training vessel came out of hyperspace it came under attack, heavy turbo laser blasts smashed into its sides. But the knight who had raced off to activate the shields manually had gotten them up, and those first few blasts did little damage. The follow on blasts from the several small Corvettes and the one large freighter around them however began to tell swiftly.
"This is the Jedi training vessel Explorer, this is an illegal attack, we have nothing for you here, leave, and he will not report this attack to the authorities." Sarah said, then shrugged her shoulders as Lily and the others all looked at her. "It was worth a try. I think we'll need to turn to repel boarders soon, they're trying to take down the shields and the engines, not do a lot of damage."
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