Film Footage Used with Permission from the Galactic Alliance
A grizzled human who, appropriately enough, looks like he’s survived a war stares at the camera, obviously now in a studio.
“I don’t know how much has already been said. We had a pretty limited perspective. At first we thought it was just a coincidence: the station crashing, the tidal wave, the rampant fires. We had set up our homestead only a few years previous. We were a limited commune, but we got by. Then The Day happened.
“On that day we thought we’d bought it. We hid in our homes praying to whatever guides the galaxy that the fires and earthquakes would pass over us. Then some fool fishhead – sorry, Mon Cal – comes busting open the door telling us to run to the landing platform. These privateers had landed to save us. We approached hesitantly. A Corellian was barking orders for people to cram into a retro-fitted cargo hold. This ship was unlike any I’d seen. [Galactic Alliance records indicate that the Scimitar had been a part of the rescue effort. It had last been in service by then-Senator Palpatine in tracking down Qui-Gon Jinn on Tatooine. Since then it has transferred ownership. Jedi scholars claim that "the presence" still remains.]
“That same Mon Cal came running in asking if his Kel Dor friend had made it back yet. He barked some orders, ran to the back of the ship, and jumped on an Old Republic speederbike heading straight into the fire.
“The Corellian, the pilot, and the man in the katarn armor all rushed us on board, which was a difficult task for those of us who just lost our livelihoods. When we were airborne, we could see the fire had shifted in the wind. For the longest time the ship just waited with no sign of their friends.
“Coming out of the fire was that Mon Cal holding a Kel Dor, the struggling Kel Dor holding an unconscious teenage girl. As the Kel Dor began to black out, the handlebars of the bike twisted and sent the entire mess into a flat spin.
“I never thought the adage about Corellians was true, but the co-pilot swung the back of the ship in time, eased it enough to slow the crash, and blasted out of the atmosphere with everyone alive.
“As we left we could see that the destruction planetside was nothing compared to the bloodshed above. Even the bright, shiny New Republic overkill rescue cruiser that had probably never seen action was ripped in two. That freaky Kel Dor coughed under his breath mask, ‘I told you, Admiral.’
“I still don’t know what happened to those guys, that crew that picked us up and risked their lives in the flames. After we got transferred to another ship at the rendezvous point, we hypered out of the area. I could have sworn as we left I saw some claw-shaped craft closing in on that Old Republic masterpiece.”
(Out of character – Nice Natural 20 (to co-pilot the Scimitar into picking us up), Gary! Yay living! I like my Kraka.)
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