Hoth: Blood and Ice

Baesal had asked for a meeting with the Turtle's engineer, she knew the Duros from her past associations with the crew and he had proven to be a very adept mind.

She might need to hire the Turtle once again...or at least they could join forces.

She walked up the ramp and buzzed her arrival.

"Mmmm? Whozat?" Hacha stumbles out a bit groggy. "Oh, it's techie Jedi. Are you looking for techie Sith? I think he's a few ships down. Or..."

He pauses abs grins. "Looking for upgrades?"

''I am looking for you, actually....hum...'' she was a bit embarrassed to have woken him up ''...sorry to take you from your bed. I wanted to poke your brain about something.''

''Can we talk in engineering?''

"Of you sweet talker you! Come, come to my lab." Hacha looks back. "Is this how Togruta flirt? Because I'm sorry if so, but I am extremely flattered and you're doing it the right way"

Hacha ushers Baesal into his private work area

The jedi could'nt help but smirk. She did like the guy but maybe not in that way.

''A proper assessment of your mental faculties is flirting to you? I guess I understand...but no, that was not actual flirting.'' she replied as she followed him to his work area...

...which was impressive, truth be told

''I came across something interesting and I wanted what you thought. I must ask, however that this remains between us for now.''

She reached around her person and started to deactivate devices able to hear, record or see

"Oh thank the maker." Hacha breathes a sigh of relief. "That might have made things awkward."

The Duros motioned around. "We should be private. Boss had me soundproof the rooms ever since Lana started riding with us. Apparently my hydrospanning is noisy. I have no idea why they thought hammering was going on... I'm getting off topic. You've definitely got my interest "

''Noted'' she leaned on a tool bench, wondering where to start ''I'll get to the point: two parties of possible hostiles are planning to steal a powerful object from one of the pirate queen's vaults. One already have an inside man, scouted the joint and has a possible plan to go steal it. The second one stole a copy of the plans, the name of the inside man and might try to take over the plan to steal it of poach the prize.''

She paused

''The second person might be more dangerous then the first but the object would be better in our hands or destroyed altogether. Got the gist of that before I go on?''

"I think I get it." Hacha mulls on this. "Are we the distraction? The fall guys? It would explain why they let us flee here and not bothered us since."

"And...are you thinking of stealing it first? Because this sounds like a heist." The Duros rubs his hands with glee

''A Heist would be interesting but I do not think we can plan one in such a short time.'' she replied ''We need to mke a different move on the board.''

Hacha slowly nods. "Ok. What did you have in mind then? Waiting until one of them steals it, and then stealing it from them?"

''Before I continue I invited two more people to join us. I know it is impolite but there is a certain urgency.'' she admitted ''I came back to echo base as soon as I could''

Her previous demeanor had been controlled but it was clear something was gnawing at her

"I mean it's cramped in here, but considering what the others have done I'm going to have a wide berth on side projects. Let them in"

She relaxed a bit more

''Thank you...it...has been a long evening.'' she looked around ''If anything here can access the holonet or be accessed by it turn it off.''

"Umm ok. Let me check" Hacha has seen operational paranoia enough from Nudie to know it can be justified.

Darth Bellious had been around, as the Bitch was parked near the Turtle. There seemed to be some activity on board, so she stopped for a moment, looking at the light in the porthole.

As Hacha was checking his workshop the Togruta turned in time to spot her old friend. She furiously began to write...on actual paper... and pressed it on the porthole window

Come inside, no technology, IMPORTANT!

Omandri had recieved the notice from Baes and made his way to the Turtle. It had been an exceedingly long day but he didn't show it here. He boarded the ship and regarded them each with a nod.

She suddenly turned towards Omandri and pointed feverishly towards the paper she was holding especially the no technology part.

She wrote on the back and showed it again to him

She has it already, always had it

He had already left everything on the Whisper and wrote back

I'm clean. Talk freely?

She checked back to Hacha and then waved a Moyr to come in

One moment

Moyr wondered what constituted technology, but okay, Baes' lunacies had second bottom, she left every electronic device behind her on the Bitch before meeting the good doctor near the Turtle's ramp, greeting him kindly. Then she joined the pack. "What is this about?"

Baesal relaxed then looked at all of them in turn

''Grave news people...All devices that uses, connects to or can be connected to the holonet are compromised.''

He frowned a little "how do you know she has it? It wouldn't make sense to ask me to help her get it back it she had it this whole time." He said with a bit of confusion.

''She lied'' she let out ''What she wanted was access to Hydra's facility so she could access...and delete her.''

She massaged her temples

''I contacted Hydra, like I told you I would earlier, and she revealed that The Cunning Man already had the device. Hydra panicked learning that her facility had been breached by your sister and was immediately attacked.''

She revealed the Rakatan Egg in her robes: a metallic ovoid device of unknowable make

''I manage to pull what I could save of hydra into this.''

Hacha raises an eyebrow. "Well if that's the case the only thing I can think of to go that far is shutting the whole ship down while we talk. But I might have a simpler solution. "

Hacha heads to his workstation and pulls out a can of paint in the same shade of blue as the ships hull and a piece of scrap metal. He pulls out a brush and scrawls in a tight script.

<I assume we can read Basic? Will this bypass your concern?>