They gathered around the inner circle of the room, and with a wave of his hand towards the windows, Yoda willed the blinds to close, the room growing dark as the morning’s first rays of sunshine were shut out. Master Windu brought up a holo, its blue glow now lighting up the room. It showed a desert planet, the info box beneath it reading ‘Erimea, Outer Rim’. Windu turned to face Cody.
“I assume General Kenobi has forwarded you the information we gave him?” he asked.
“Yes, Sir,” Cody replied, giving one firm nod.
“Good, then we shall begin.” With a motion of his hand, Windu spun the hologram, stopping it at the south side of the planet. With another gesture, he zoomed in to another info box, this time reading ‘Karas-Lith, capital city. Population: 5.473 million. Area: 1.695 km²’. With another zoom, they were shown close images of the city itself.
The tall buildings shot high into the sky, with smaller buildings and huts towards the outskirts of the city. With another flick of his fingers, a photograph appeared. A male of humanoid species. There was really nothing particularly special about him.
“This is going to be your target. He has used many names over the years and he’s never used the same one twice. We have no information on the name he’s currently using, nor on an official given name. He is of the utmost political interest to the Republic. Unfortunately we’d lost sight of him four months ago, until now. A contact reported to us that he’s been seen on Erimea, and we were told that he did not seem to be in a hurry to leave.
Your job, as we agreed upon with said contact, will be to locate him, then our contact and her organization will take over and find out what his next plans are, where he intends to go, what he’s doing, who he’s meeting. If you are able to find out any of those informations before handing the task over, that would be very helpful too. We already told Master Kenobi, the mission is set to take between three weeks to two months, depending on how well it goes.”
Obi-Wan’s eyebrows rose in apparent surprise. “This sounds like a job for a bounty hunter, not Jedi,” he noted.
There was the usual annoyance on Windu’s face that always intimidated Cody.
“There’s no hunt, therefore we won’t need a hunter. The ideal situation would be that there is no personal contact between you two and him, but it would not hinder the mission if there was, as long as it gave us the desired information. You will not expose yourself at any point. You will not confront or deliver him. You will solely gather information, so that we can once again build up our network that will keep track of him, without exposing any of them, either. Which is why our informant will not do the job of finding him herself.”
Master Windu looked at them, making sure they were following before he continued. Obi-Wan nodded.
Chapter 23 is now posted!!
this chapter is my actual baby. my favorite. It's long and I actually love it which is rare for me to say about my own stuff so I hope you agree!
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