Serenity(OPEN)

[Foxfire]

The drop ship came into the atmo so fast that the ship was still trying to cool off as Mal Konti left the main ramp. The crew of Starburst, Toln and Prie, was not in a very good mood for they had spent the last five hours making a minor run with medical supplys to a planet that was of no improtance. While other compatriots of their guild were ferrying Jedi Masters and The order of Blades into battle.

OK Cantee.... here you are you new home till some one else come for you. If you are not so high and mighty you will want to give us a hand. Hhmm?

Mal slowly turned his mass around and through the force found the crates that held his supplys and slid them out of the hold unto a waiting transport waggon. Taking his time with such a minamul task helped to keep him humble. Most Jedi would have had no need in moving their own things but those Jedi were better respected and known. Mal cared for neither.

Toln scoffed at the display of force power and went back inside to make the ship ready for the return trip to get their pay. Mal waited outside for either to come back so that he could bid them fair well. The ship simply lifted off and Mal was left standing on the pad. He'd never get use to humans and their compasity for rudeness. The ship boomed in breaking orbit showing their emotions.

One would have thought that the noise and the take off would have got the attention of anyone but the location he landed at was one would have wondered if anything was alive at all in the first place. Mal stretched out in the force only to find beings miles away from where his current position was. So transportation would be required and looking over to the waggon it had no motor just what was nessary for it to roll. Sighing Mal slithered over to the front of the waggon and began to pull the waggon toward the settlement.

[Foxfire]

It was very slow going even for the Hutt's normal speed. He did not know why but the force told him too. A he reached the valley walls he could see the reason the whole valley was ruined. Fire had engulfed it. Buildings were still smoldering. Not a single living being was present. As a matter of fact not a single living thing was anywhere to be found.

Mal had a very bad feeling about all of this. He searched around leaving his supplies in the main square. For a few hours he did not find anything, no being, no creatures, not even food. It was as if anything that was eatable was eaten. Great hunger could mean only a few things. One was a plague. He hope in all regards it was a pirate raid. Checking the final house he found a corpus in a freezer frozen solid.

The body was badly mutated. He scanned the body by a droid nurse in case of plague. His fears were confirmed. What was more it was a mutated form of the plague called 'Rat Ghoul'. No wonder then the village was destroyed. He went back to the main square and got a sample container for the corpus head. Then he burned the body. Diving into the force he search in this way as well for the aberrations that the plague would give off in the force. Nothing too small would suffice.

Three hours of searching in the force and he found his source of the plague. He dawned his haz. mat suit and traveled to the ship that had crashed two clicks south of the village. When he arrived he sent a probe droid out to search for plague infestations while he checked out the ship. The ship he found was to small for him so he sent his nurse droid in to check and search for plague. What it found on the ships logs was that it had a single pilot and nothing else. No creature, or other thing was aboard the ship the pilot was the only thing on the ship and the villagers were first on the scene to find and be contaminated.

The probe droid came back and confirmed this as well all things living with in a thirty click radius was dead. All were killed by the locals whether it had the plague or not. Mal had the nurse droid pull the flight plan from the ship and found it's original departure point, Taris. He sent word to the council and informed them of the events at Serenity and asked to go to Taris to quell the mutation of the Rat ghoul plague. They responded by sending a droid with a message that they would allow the quelling, but he had to make his own way there for the Sith had their ships busy as of late.

Mal sent a request to a bounty hunters guild for help in the quelling. He waited four days. While he waited he burned the ship and watched the life forms around the village for plague growth but found none. On the fifth day a interstellar sloop came into the abandoned village. Mal slithered over to the star black ship. The ramp lowered and a droid came out. To Mal's surprise he had seen this droid before at the temple. He did not know what it was doing here until a twi'lek of the same color of the ship stepped around the droid and asked......

So we hear your looking for help and transport to Taris.*waving her hand*Welcome aboard the Dark Matter. I'm Reina your pilot and this is your body guard Ryver/Taym. So.... .... Let's go quell that plague.