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But the others others relax, lowering and holstering their weapons. No better time to interject, clapping your hands to get everyone’s attention. “Master Bashur and I are going to visit the Kakari. She was planning to leave Padawan Clavis with the ship while we were gone, and pick him up when we got back.”
Nujem suddenly looks (understandably) nervous as the gazes of Ceyla, Trykov, Elba and Suzel suddenly bear down upon him like an extra force of gravity.
“Nothing’s changed in that regard, despite a rough first impression.” You pat him on the shoulder, then address both padawans. “No lightsaber dueling and frivolous Force abilities while we’re gone unless it’s an absolute emergency.”
“What he said,” grouses Arotta, but she levels each one of the crew the stink eye. “Fair’s fair that you got him back for the prank, but if I see as much as one scratch on him…”
They get the message. Trykov remains indifferent, but Suzel and Elba give Nujem a look that makes their feelings about the matter clear.
“And behave yourself, you hear?” she adds, pointing specifically towards her padawan. “Don’t make me come back earlier than I have to.”
>>New Nest, Kakari Enclave, Great Plains
>>Amagi, Mylus System, Unknown Regions (H-3)
Amagi is a relatively underdeveloped planet. Beyond Serano Spaceport, the only other major cities and settlements are shantytowns and slums servicing the extraction of a resource. Living on plantation-style manors, the Tof only allowed for the construction of the bare minimum of housing for the slaves set to mining or farming. And while there’s an intercontinental railway network for most of the cities, as well as dedicated fusion power plants, there is a noticeable shortage of higher-end industries.
But, you digress. Those are all matters of internal policy and development for other people to worry about.
The Alliance had given the Kakari an area of roughly five thousand square kilometers to do with as they saw fit. By all accounts, it’s a mere fraction of the 350 square kilometers that comprises the surface area of Amagi. Any other group might have complained, but it’s certainly far more generous than seven hundred refugees would expect. Certainly far more open-aired and less constrained than the original block that Archon Sanada had initially offered.
As you bring your speeder through the countryside, you spy grazing herds of sniztrix under the watchful eye of bronka-riders. Farmers drive walzors, ploughing the fields and sowing seeds into the upturned earth. And in the backdrop, the mountaintops cast long shadows across the Great Plains, and the emerging settlement of New Nest.
“For a celebratory get-together for us becoming Knights, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind,” Arotta snarks.
In spite of her words, her tone doesn’t have any bite. “Considering how you survived together on Kakarit, I thought having you go unintroduced would feel...wrong, y'know?”
(cont.)
