Friday, November 05, 2004

Hunting on land and in the stars

Yesterday afternoon, I arrived in the Coronet starport to see if there were any good doctors for buffing. And LO! Saladrim from WIKAN was there! I sat with him a bit while I sorting my things and planned my afternoon. My original goals got revised as he mentioned he needed meats for making more buffs. I said I would hunt him some. So... there is the start of a plan. Back to Dant for Piket hunting. Well at least I will build on my sword skills and my tracking skills. Thrakazog came on the comm! Yay! He is a fine Ranger and I liked him well when we first met. He is more mature that the last group I hunted with. He joined me to hunt for Piket.

He took me to Dantooine in his Space Yacht. WOW! It was awesome. It brought back lots of memories! This was like the school I attended as a child! It was in a space yacht... a much bigger one though. Thrakazog is a wandering ranger... this yacht will be his mobile home.

On Dantooine, I showed him around the Temple and then we hunted Piket out of Wanders End. We make an awesome hunting team. He stations himself 60m from the kills withmy harvest droid and I run in to keep the Piket busy while he shoots them. We did 3 missions in 45min. That was a record for me! And it was much fun! I love hunting with someone. I guess I am becoming a social creature after all. We split ways for dinner and promised to look each other up again for another hunt... another time.

Shortly after dinner Cnl. Dolch Adare (Dolch) tagged my comm and asked if he could fly as my gunner in my Y-Wing. I never had a second shooter. This will be interesting! I warned him that I was nervous and that I was not that great a pilot. My flight officer directed me to see Lady Viopa for my next mission. UG! LOK! I had to go to Lok... of all horrid places.... Dolch did not understand my loathing of Lok. I promised to tell him a story... about a girl who fears and hates Lok for some very good reasons. But first we had to escort some of Nym's smuggler with Rebel pilots aiding to steal some Corsair ships for the Rebellion. We flew 3 escort missions. Hm... 3 seems to be the number of the day. Dolch complimented my piloting. Wow... he must not fly much.... At least I did not freeze up in panic. I must either be getting better, more confident or just feel more secure with someone else up in space with me. Maybe Lok haeld more fear in my soul than spaceflight.

We landed back in MosEisley and had a few victory drinks as he says military folks do. It was good... and a great way to destress. Hmmm... a tradition I will keep up i think. We mounted pets (me on my bol and he on his bantha) and rode out into the cool evening out into the desert sands to a hilly region for a camp. He was much impressed with my camp. :)

Her I told him the story of a girl and the early hardships she face and the reasons she cannot bare to be near Lok. As I mentioned the Imperial who saved her life, he could not inderstand the compassion of an Imperial. That will be a story for another day. Dolch played a huge hand in that girl's and that Imperial Special Forces agent that drastically changed their lives forever.

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