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Bro'jen begins the day by attempting to accelerate the growth of the plants (two coffee beans) he has been given. To begin, he uses Sense Force, but senses great evil within them! He proceeds to remove the evil through Telekinesis, only then realizing that he did not detect evil, only caffeine. He now has two decaffinated coffee beans.

GM-"You're starting to realize that it's not EVIL, it's just caffeine."

Quindo gets a brainstorm on the assassination of Senator Petothal?:

Q:"Ok, we need to go through the whole passenger manifest and match it against the security footage at the time of the assassination attempt to eliminate as many people as we can. We can have protocol droids do most of the work with security personell to prevent tampering. Oh, and you need to have a security person watching whoever is assigned to watch the droids because we can't rule out crew. So, unless we're dealing with twins or some kind of Jedi power, we can rule out any matches. Then we can check out whoever is left."

Christina: "He's scary!"

The intent was to reduce several thousand to several hundred possibilities.

Meanwhile, Igashu plays in the Wallball tournament. Quindo takes the time to Sense Path:

Quindo finds himself hiking up a mountain in winter. A cable car awaits him, on it the Violet-eyed Girl?. She asks if he is the Time Warrior, as the Armored one awaits. She apparently has been sent back in time to ensure the Time Warrior's victory, but she hasn't met Quindo yet. Quindo attempts to sense path within a sense path, but this opens a black hole in the vision, threatening to pull him in. He climbs up on top of the cable car, cuts a rung, and slides back down along the cable. He's going really fast by the time he's approaching the last tower. Quindo tries to slow down using TK, but fails. He lets go, using TK to avoid trying to hit the tower, but this too fails. AAAAGH!

Quindo wakes up. The rest of the party goes to a play while Quindo looks over the security footage and sees the Violet-eyed Girl on one of the feeds! He runs to security to find her, but alarms go off: The Kauri Princess is under attack by pirates!

Bro'jen goes towards the hangar bay and keeps the refugees calm while Christina and Igashu stay with the Senator. Quindo keeps moving and takes sensors on a turbolaser with crewman Valen Saper?. The pirates are broadcasting Code Black Hole, and the captain hails them to negotiate. The pirate captain, Gir-Ephin Vorusk? replies: "Prepare to be boarded." Apparently they're there for the Senator and her entorage. And they're willing to exchange the Senator for safe passage for the rest of the ship. The captain says, "We have Jedi on board, do you?" Christine is incensed by this: "Jedi don't associate with Pirates!"

Well, apparently Dark Jedi do. Garrek Brynn is the pirate leader. Chris talks to him while Igashu mouths "Dark Jedi." Chris lies about the senator; Brynn doesn't believe her. The Senator insists on talking to him.

S:"What do you want?"
B:"We want you to uphold your end of the bargain."