Ahsoka had been careful and had programmed the navigation computer so to get out of hyperspace behind the biggest planet, a gas giant, of the solar system containing Malachor. The two planets, the gas giant and Malachor, were in line at that time of the solar year. Any ship in the orbit of Malachor could not detect her that way. Making use of the nifty gadgets of the VT-49, she launched the search drone to scan the orbit of Malachor and the perimeter of the temple for any imperial presence.
Luckily there was nothing and she could safely approach the planet. Malachor was not inhabited by sentient beings and thus no ground control existed and she manually flew to the surface and landed the VT-49 in front of the temple. Then the drone came back into a compartment on the outside of the VT-49.
It was the day of days. After centuries, the key to get a physical life back, to restore their bodies, arrived. The 3 Siths were inconceivably happy and excited to see Ahsoka bringing them the key - the white Doan healing crystals. In their spirit form, they were dancing around like drunkards.
After the initial excitement had settled a bit, Ahsoka discussed how to proceed from here with them? They obviously had to wait in the temple, until their bodies had fully recovered, but there was no need for Ahsoka to remain. The Siths wanted the recharged energy cell inside the temple, because there they could best protect it. Without energy cell nobody could take their means of transport. Not that they believed someone was up for their old ship, but better safe than sorry. In addition she wrote the Com Link No. of one of her com links into the dust of one of the sarcophaguses and giving them another one. That way, the 3 could contact her once they were out of stasis. They inquired if she would not be here by then, by the time, they would come out of stasis? In response to their question, she wanted to know how long it would take for them to regain their full life? They estimated 6-9 months. Considering the long time, she informed them, that she wanted to run some biz on Coruscant and depending how long it would take her, she might not be back at exactly the right time. After all, the exact day could not be determined at the moment.
Thereafter came the tough part for her, the part giving her the creeps. Waveringly she asked: "Do you regard my training being complete?"
First Darth Letho replied: "Yes, though there is one more thing though, which I wanted to try with you, before you leave. I wanted to do one more training session with you."
She hesitated and trembled, but then asked: "Would you nominate me as a Sith master then?"
The three were puzzled, given Ahsoka's earlier reluctance, but agreed, that she would fully qualify for a Sith master and they could nominate her immediately. This they did with Darth Letho taking care of the official part, going through a bit of a ceremony, rather than doing it non-chalantly. He put an official, solemn and important tone to his voice and began: "Apprentice Ahsoka, you have successfully finished your training with flying colors and with pride and exitement we nominate you a Sith master. With the blessing of all Sith predecessors, you are a Sith now."
On top, Darth Toth reminded her: "You are allowed to wear the title Darth. I guess you know? Which name do you want to give yourself?"
Ahsoka choked, then proclaimed: "My name is Darth Ahsoka." Right after it had come out of her mouth, she had to cough. Darth stood against everything she had fought for all these years. Darth stood for the oppression of people, not for their freedom. The title stood for abuse, not for help. It stood for war, not for peace.
The 3 Sith had different associations with the title though, and jeered: "Bravo."
Darth Ra Tak pocked: "Where's the Champaign? Eh Letho, don't tell me, you forgot to get Champaign to cheer?"
Letho bitched back: "Where do you believe, is the next supermarket on this god forsaken planet? Am I in a position to get Champaign?"
Ra Tak didn't give in so quickly: "I thought, you kept a bottle in a secret cabinet on our ship? Didn't you always keep one for special occasions?"
Letho: "Off course, and after a couple of hundred years, I'm sure, that Champaign has an exquisite bouquet. I'm sure, meanwhile some decay mold has made its home in that very bottle and created a an exquisite bouquet and color. On top, let me remind you, that my spirit form cannot leave the temple and fetch something from our ship."
The dark side did not want to miss out on providing its appraisal within the ceremony as well: "Ahsoka, my love, my cute acolyte, well done. I'm proud, you are no longer acolyte, you are a Sith master. Welcome to the club. Welcome to my special club!"
Ahsoka was not sure, what to make of it, what to respond, but did not wanted to be rude either: "Yeah, thank you."
The dark side: "You know the rule of two?"
Ahsoka: "It's been explained to me, yes."
Now the dark side demanded: "Then kill Darth Letho, Darth Ra Tak and Darth Toth now and find yourself a new apprentice."
Ahsoka seditiously: "You know where my a.. is and how to lick it?"
The dark side: "Just kidding and for the records, I know where your a.. is, but I have no tongue to lick it."
Darth Ahsoka
With her nomination being finished, Darth Letho and Darth Ahsoka had their last training session on Malachor. Darth Letho was doing attacks guiding the inquisitors rotating light saber using the force and Ahsoka had to use the force, to turn it off. To do that, she had to break through the force shield of her opponent. It took her about an hour until she had learned, how to generate a force ray powerful enough to pierce through the force shield of a force wielder. Some more additional practice and it worked reasonably well. Letho would run an attack and short before he hit Ahsoka, she turned his saber off. It was clear to her however, that it would not work with very powerful force wielders. Their shield was too strong.
Time had come to say goodbye and for Ahsoka to depart again.
With a heavy heart, at the same time also excited, Ahsoka entered the VT-49 and programmed the navigation computer for Coruscant. Engaging the INCOM Elite II engines and the anti grav generators, the VT-49 soared into the sky.
When the VT-49 left the atmosphere of Malachor, Ahsoka recognized a Victory I Star Destroyer in the orbit. Farkled shit, what was that Star Destroyer doing here? That one has not been here before? There was no way, she could have overlooked such a big ship! What by all dead Siths did it do here, right now? She did not have to wait too long for the answer. It just dropped a couple of Tie-fighters, which were immediately going for the VT-49. – MERDE --. As quickly as she could, she entered the turret. She heard the ship being called, but nobody was in the cockpit to answer that call. Much to her despair, she also felt Vader's presence, he must have had sensed something when the report came in late. It really did not buy as much time as Ahsoka hoped it would. Anakin had always been good in sensing that something was off. The bunch of Tie fighters meanwhile had already opened fire. Opening herself to the force, she responded with the 4 barrel Null Bolt gun and hit the first Tie fighter right off. The 3rd of the 4 torpedo round made it explode and scatter into a thousand pieces. The second Tie fighter's pilot must have been in shock for 1 sec. too long, enough for Ahsoka to drive another round of 4 torpedoes into it. The solar panels were both blown off while one torpedo hit the bottom. She could not judge for now, if it could still fly and fire. Being shaken, she felt Vader was in the next one to come, it was the newer Tie XI. Exasperated she realized, in all the hurry she had not turned on the shields – cursing herself for that sloppiness. It was too late now, she could not leave the turret in the middle of battle. Especially not with Darth Vader in approach. She had to take him down now for better or worse. Therefore she immediately took the Tie XI under fire. Unfortunately Vader was too god a pilot, maneuvering around her rounds of torpedoes and bringing his Tie XI in position for a good shot. How, by all dead Siths, could she believe, in being able to shoot down Darth Vader, the best pilot in the galaxy? Ahsoka knew, it meant the end of her journey. Darth Vader would shoot her engines to dust within the next 20-30 seconds. Then, if he was in enough bloodlust, enter her ship for their last and final duel, actually for her last and final duel. There was absolutely not enough time to get out of the turret, turn the shields on and steer the ship clear of the torpedoes. A last strand of hope came to her mind: with the lethal threat at hand, she had momentarily forgotten, what she wanted so badly: free Anakin, free him from Sidious and the dark side. Pondering about it, she started to call Vader through the force. It was her best and only chance left. In ultimate shock, that very moment, she saw the laser shots coming for her ship and thus there was no calling anymore, she would lose her beloved ship and had to think what to do. Was there anything she could do in this last fraction of a second to avert the fatal fate? That precise moment the VT-49's autopilot entered hyperspace and the laser shots vanished in space. Ahsoka knew, either a close shave, or a damned lot of luck or both.
Tie fighter
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Victory I Class Star Destroyer
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The dark side snickered, timing down to the fraction of a second. Skirmishes like that were much to its liking. The fear, the adrenaline and hormone flow it had produced in Ahsoka, were ambrosia to it. Ahsoka on the other hand hoped, that nothing would happen to her Sith friends, but nothing she could do for them. Her alone against a Star Destroyer plus Vader simply was too much. It would be a suicide mission. It was also obvious, that she needed a god gunner rather sooner than later. In any case, the empire now knew for sure that somebody had taken the VT-49. Due to the Taozin amulet, she was not sure, if Vader sensed her presence, as well. Rum go – she had to think about how to bypass Coruscant ground control. Unfortunately, the VT-49 was on the list of searched vessels and if Coruscant ground control saw its RegID, she would be in trouble. She would not be able to get away with a bribe of 200 credits there, if at all. With automatic landing, the ship and the ground control computer negotiated everything on their own and part of the negotiation was the transfer of the RegID. Thus automatic landing was out of the question in the future.
Coruscant
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In the Tie fighter.
Darth Vader was irked, the vessel and whoever was in it, had escaped. If the star destroyer had arrived only 5min. earlier, then that vessel would not even had the slightest chance, but so they engaged it with only a fraction of the available Tie fighters, the three which were the first ones to exit the harbor bay. He did not sense a force wielder in that ship, but for a tiny bit he it felt like he was called through the force. He was sure, that the force was with that pilot. Nothing he could do now though. As the ship was on the list of searched vessels, hopefully it would pop up somewhere again. In the aftermath, he ordered search drones to scan the inside of the temple and the vicinity of it. After an hour, they had found 3 skeletons and remnants of inquisitor's uniforms. The skeletons were brought to the star destroyer for forensic investigation, but Darth Vader was already sure, that those were his inquisitors. When the star destroyer arrived back on Coruscant, he already received the report from the forensic lab of the star destroyer: DNA matched with the missing inquisitors, one got cut in half with a light saber having left distinct burning marks on the bones, the other got decapitated with a light saber. The pattern of the burning marks on all bones were the same, leading to the assumption, that it was one and the same light saber. The flesh of the inquisitors had been devoured by insects, there were bite marks of giant ants on the bones and also DNA traces of those animals. As such, the time of death could not be determined accurately anymore, somewhere between a week to a day before. One inquisitor got burnt or incinerated and the cause of his death, could not be determined unless it was the incineration itself. The one inquisitor who got cut in half, had a broken throat, thus possibly had gotten choked to death. With that report, the forensic scientist had done a good job, still what really happened remained a mystery. However, it was clear to Darth Vader, that it was the work of one force wielder, a powerful and mad force wielder, a dark side user. He could not sense Ahsoka through the force though and she was not a dark side user, nor mad, on top not powerful enough for three inquisitors. One, yes, two, maybe, but three, no. He remembered old tales, that a Sith spirit roamed the temple. Then he remembered, that Darth Bane and a few others knew the secret to transfer the spirit into another container, another body. Far-fetched, but not impossible, that the Sith spirit had taken over Ahsoka's body. It would explain the madness, the use of the dark side, the power and that he could not sense Ahsoka through the force. It frightened him, because such an entity could be a dark side demon. A Sith spirit roaming the temple for centuries, flooded with the power and the evilness of the dark side from the temple, could only turn into one thing, a terrible dark side demon. There were few things in the galaxy, which he had to fear and a dark side demon was one of them. Those were old tales and assumptions without evidence though, but in any case, he had to find out what happened and more so who did it? He instructed the desk-oaf to issue an arrest warrant for Ahsoka with a 100k credit reward, for information leading to her capture. The only problem the desk-oaf had, was that no current picture of Ahsoka was available. It was useless to upload a 15 year old picture into the surveillance system. Darth Vader knew, he could also hire bounty hunters, but without a current picture, it was no good. Likelihood that they would bring the wrong person was high.
In the VT-49.
Having been in hyperspace, thus save from her chasers, Ahsoka climbed out of the turret placing herself in the pilot's seat not knowing, why she was even going to Coruscant. It was just out of intuition. In that moment, her eyes fell on a little board, which was plugged into the console. She wondered what it was before already, but never investigated it. She unplugged it and played with it and it turned out to be a remote control for the VT-49. Obviously, she had no idea, how well the VT-49 could be flown with it, but for sure she would find out.
Watching the run through hyperspace, she sat in the pilot's seat for a while recapping what just happened and deciding, that she would have a couple of modifications made to the VT-49. The question was who could do it? From the times of the clone wars, she remembered a garage in the underworld of Coruscant which did all kinds of illegal tweaks, mods and tunings, but she did not remember where exactly it was located. The other problem was, the VT-49 was too big to fly into the underworld of Coruscant, so where could she leave it safely? She contemplated about it until she fell asleep.
Hours later, she woke up while the ship was still in hyperspace. She actually felt thirsty and hungry, thus made her way to the kitchen area. Ahsoka never learned how to cook and trying to make anything else than sandwiches would have been a waste. So she prepared two sandwiches and carried them over to the couch. The view was really cool. The ship running through hyperspace while she was watching it through the big glass dome in the bow. It made the sandwiches taste even better. Whoever had that idea to set the couch up here in front of the window, Ahsoka owed him a thank-you.
She couldn't sleep anymore but did not know what to do either, so she ended up juggling dishes using the force. Eventually the VT-49 dropped out of hyperspace and Coruscant came in sight. Quickly she climbed up into the cockpit when the ground control computer was already calling her ship. This time, she did not opt for automatic landing, because the RegID would have been transmitted and that could have ended fatal. Instead, she turned to audio com and started a debate with a ground control officer with a made up story.
Ahsoka: "Freighter Babuja Ant calling Coruscant ground control."
Coruscant ground control officer: "This is Coruscant ground control, what is your ship's name and the RegID?"
Ahsoka: "I just know, the ship's name, which is Babuja Ant."
Officer: "Roger, why do you not know the ship's RegID?"
Ahsoka: "Nobody told me."
Officer scolding: "Well, you are the pilot, you need to know these things."
Ahsoka: "No, I'm not the pilot, I'm just the cook."
Officer indignant: "Then where is the pilot and why is the cook flying the ship after all?"
Ahsoka: "Because the pilot cannot walk."
Officer agitated: "Why can the pilot not walk?"
Ahsoka: "He got into a fight."
Officer: "Roger, then where is the captain?"
Ahsoka: "The captain cannot talk."
Officer irked: "Why can the captain not talk?"
Ahsoka: "Because he got into a fight."
The officer sighed: "Why did the pilot and the captain get into a fight?"
Ahsoka: "Because of a woman."
Now, the officer had a slight glue of what might have happened: "How many people are on board?"
Ahsoka: "Three, the pilot, the captain and me, the cook."
Officer: "And you are the only female on board?"
Ahsoka: "Yes."
Officer: "And how long have you guys been traveling?"
Ahsoka: "Two months."
Officer: "So the pilot and the captain have been fighting over a woman?"
Ahsoka: "Yes."
Officer: "And was the woman you?"
Ahsoka: "Yes."
The officer was sneering: "Can you fly a ship?"
Ahsoka: "Not really."
Officer: "Ok, it's always the same with the guys from the other rim, there are always problems. I will send you a message with the option for automatic landing. The flight computer will ask you "Yes or No". You will opt YES, then the ship will automatically land here at the ground control center. Then we have paramedics taking care of your pilot and captain and officers who will sort the paper work out with you. Don't worry, it'll all be fine."
Ahsoka: "OK, roger."
Next a message from ground control came in giving Ahsoka the option for automatic landing on the ground control center. Ahsoka, hit NO and manually selected the ground control center as destination instead. When approaching the surface though, she reverted back to manual controls, entered the stream of vessels on the next big air highway and flew away from the center.
Now where to land, that was the question, she had no answer really. She remembered the old days now, during the clone wars, when they were taking off or landing at the big military space port with maybe a thousand ships and vessels stationed there. And that actually was it, the VT-49 would not catch attention amongst those many other ships and it was guarded at the same time. With new motivation she searched for the space port and eventually spotted it. Soon after, Ahsoka was called from the guard of the port when entering the restricted air space around it: "This is Thrawn military space port. You have entered restricted air space, turn around immediately!"
Quickly she replied: "I'm an inquisitor on a classified mission and I will report to you right after landing. I cannot disclose mission details via com link."
It was an old line, which Anakin often used and it always worked. The space port officer: "OK, roger, look for parking, then report to me!"
However, after landing Anakin would leave all the formalities to her. He'd tell her: "Snips, you will handle the paper-shufflers in the guard's house!", then disappear. She usually yelled after him: "Master, can't R2 do it?" And R2 used to finish in binary: "I was programmed to be an astromech, no paper-shuffler." With that the formalities were always with her – good old days. Looking for an appropriate landing spot, she found one in a rather remote corner. Good thing, she was still wearing the inquisitor's cloths. That might help with the port guard, but she also needed her civilian clothes for later. Ahsoka had no bag for it, so she ended up wrapping them into a towel. Just when she wanted to exit the ship, it came over her to also take the remote control with her, just in case. After the ship was locked, she walked over to the guard's office for report. The military space port was almost deserted now, quite different to the extremely busy times during the clone wars, when Storm Troopers stepped over each other and ships were constantly starting and landing. She could not believe it, but there was only one officer for the whole entire place. During the clone wars there were min. 20 on duty at any time. The port officer had nothing to do and was rather bored and Ahsoka caught him playing a game. The paper-shuffler dared ask for her mission alias, so that he could look it up in the system, but Ahsoka had no mission alias. Back during the clone wars, they often used "Shme" as a mission alias, she could try that one and if it did not work the only option left was to use thought implantation and make the man just wave her through. She wanted to avoid having to kill the guy, it would just make matters more complicated. The officer was looking up and down the list in his computer and eventually had a hit: "Huh, it's quite an old entry, but the mission is still open and the mission alias valid. High priority mission, but what other priority should an inquisitor have? Please fill in this form!" She still knew the form in and out and could have filled it in while sleeping. Eh, that one was almost too easy ... The guard also gave her a chip with which she could exit and enter the space port without control any time.
Space Port
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Having successfully mastered the useless formalities, with which the bureaucrats had to bother the ordinary people, Ahsoka left the port and looked for public transport shuttles. People were staring at her, an inquisitor in public transport was something rather rare. Anyways she could not help it. She hoped, the station she got out was the correct one? Eventually, she came to the area, where she thought that fricknin' garage was. Somehow though the aisle she was in did not look familiar and she ended up having to ask people. It turned out, she was about right, but the garage was one level deeper. Entering the garage, she already saw mechanics working on some smaller vessels. Scanning the place, she approached what looked like an office.
The fat bloke behind the counter immediately started: "An inquisitor, what an honor. We don't do anything illegal here. You have come in vain."
Ahsoka replied: "I hope I have not come in vain. I need mods for a ship, carried out with discretion."
The blokes eyes widened: "Oh, I see, I believe we are experts in carrying out work with discretion."
Ahsoka brightly: "Sounds good. I want your best mechanic, so that I can explain what I want."
Mr. Obese: "Well maybe you should bring your vessel first."
Ahsoka harrumphed: "Well it's too big to bring it in here."
Bloke: "What type is it?"
Ahsoka: "A cargo ship."
The obese bloke assiduously: "Ah, Oh, OK. And you have credits?"
Ahsoka placed a 50 credit chip on the table and retorted: "Those are yours, when your mechanic impresses me."
The bloke looked at the credit chip, quickly snatched it and a second later he yelled: "Mike", into the workshop.
Mike was glum, when his boss called him. He had to talk to customers again and provide advise. It would steel at least half an hour of his work time and he had to work late into the night again to get his task done.
Once the mechanic entered the office, Ahsoka greeted him: "Hello Mike, nice to meet you."
Mike was ensorcelled, there was this beautiful Togruta inquisitor with the nice figure and the unfathomable yellowish blue eyes standing in the office. She would definitely be worth giving excessive advise and information, even if it meant for him to work longer. Mike jokingly: "All mechanics are called Mike, eh? It's an honor to meet you Ma'am."
Ahsoka innocently: "No, your Boss called you Mike. I did not know, if all mechanics are called Mike. I wonder, when all mechanics are called Mike, why not everyone came, when your boss yelled Mike into the workshop?"
Mike again joking: "Well the other one's deaf, that's why."
Ahsoka teasing: "So you're the best mechanic here."
Mike swanky: "I guess so."
After the short introduction Ahsoka discussed her project with him. First she wanted to know, if INCOM Elite II engines could be tuned. He told her, that he knows a guy who can do that, getting about 15% more power out of them. Next was, that she wanted the shields being supplied by separate energy cells, so if the shields should deplete the energy cells it would not affect the propulsion. He told her, he needs to see the ship and how the energy conductors are laid out. Next is, she wanted to know, if the ships registration ID can be changed and if it would be possible to have two or three of them. He replied, that that would by far be the easiest task. She then mentioned she also wanted orange sharks with blue stripes being painted to either side of the ship.
Mike: "That is a rather unusual request, but it can be done. But why orange sharks with blue stripes? Is there any world, where sharks are orange and blue?"
Ahsoka derisively: "Don't you see, orange and blue are my colors."
Mike: "Very true. Though, I don't recommend to paint the sharks to the ship. I believe it will be a lot easier and prettier, when we have them being designed on a computer, then being loaded into a special printer which directly prints on the ship and finally temper the pic in."
Ahsoka: "Fine, how much is that gonna cost all together?"
Mike teasing: "I feared you would ask that question. I don't know. I have no idea, what the tuning of the Elite II engines will be and I cannot estimate the effort necessary for the separation of the energy supply before I've seen the ship. The thing with the registration IDs, will be ~700 credits and the shark pics maybe another 1000. Tuning the engines, we have to see my friend."
Ahsoka eagerly: "Then let's see your friend."
Mike could not believe his luck, the fox would possibly spend the next couple of hours with him and he would give her the best recommendations he could. So he informed his boss, that he would be gone for quite some time. After exiting the garage, it came even better. The gal did not have her own transport and they both mounted his scooter to fly to his friend.
It turned out, that tuning the Elite II engines would be 15000 credits, more than Ahsoka had. Ahsoka wanted to know, why it is so expensive and he replied, he would have to take the engines out, dismantle them, put zero tolerance zero friction bearings in, mount a custom made low impedance high power energy cell to the end of each engine and replace all conductors with latest generation super conductors. In essence he would have to dismantle the whole engine and put it back together again.
"I see", Ahsoka said. "That means, the engines are not supplied from the main energy cell anymore?"
Mechanic: "No, for lowest losses and highest power, each engine has to get its own energy cell."
Ahsoka somberly replied: "I need to check, if 15000 credits are within the budget."
After having told his friend goodbye, Mike and Ahsoka took off to see the VT-49. Ahsoka managed to get both of them past the separate outside gate into the space port and led him to her ship. Mike was very surprised and also impressed to see a VT-49. After having taken off many panels inside and outside the ship he told Ahsoka, it could be done, with two energy cells one for the right shields and one for the left shields. After Mike had his inspection finished Ahsoka wanted to know, if he could tell her how much the mods would be. To her disappointment he replied that it very much depended if he could get the extra energy cells in the cargo area to work. Ahsoka sighed, again he did not call out a number.
Suddenly Mike blurted out: "Listen, I need money, I have depths. You can give my boss the order to do that work or you pay me directly. At the end, it's always me who will do it. Though, when you pay me directly, I will do the installation of the energy cells for the shields, the fake registration IDs and the application of the shark foils for 2000 credits. What is not included is the engine tuning and the making of the shark foils."
Ahsoka: "OK, that sounds good to me. Two questions though, what do you want to tell your boss? And what if you don't get the energy cells to work?"
Mike informed her: "I will most likely get the energy cells to work. The problem is rather, I don't know how long it will take. My boss will charge you by the hour for that work and after opening them I have to make a judgement, if it is commercially better to refurbish them or get new ones. When you pay me direct, it will be my own risk, how many hours it will take. If it should really turn out, what is rare though, that the energy cells cannot reliably be refurbished, then we need to renegotiate. As to my boss, I will tell my boss how many hours I expect it will take and what materials it will need. Then he will make you an offer. Then you can still decide, if you want to do it via my boss or rather with me directly."
Ahsoka: "I understand, is a good plan."
When they left the space port, Ahsoka saw a delivery van parked outside the ground control office. It was from a laundry. The woman piloting the van was inside chatting with the officer and she had left an airborne trolley outside the door. Mike already headed in direction of his scooter, but Ahsoka was in an inner twist all of a sudden. There was some inner urge to look what was loaded on the trolley – it was freshly washed uniforms neatly folded into creates. There were blue mechanics overalls with the imperial sign in it, too. She quickly grabbed three of them, then rapidly walking to the scooter urging Mike to take off.
Mike's air scooter
Next Mike steered the shooter to a print shop. They were both entering and Mike explained to the shop owner what technically had to be done and thereafter Ahsoka explained the design. Eventually the shop owner called out a price of 1100 credits to make the design and print and temper it to the ship. The owner told her he would have the design finished by tomorrow evening, then she should come back to check the design, once she is happy with the design they can print it onto the ship.
When they came out, she saw a sign over a door stating "Lady's Tailor". An idea came to her and she told Mike, that she needed some changes be done to her inquisitor's uniform. She would meet him back at the garage in the evening. So they departed and Mike took off with the scooter while Ahsoka went into the tailor shop. It was a very small shop, a table with a sowing machine, a computer and piles of fabrics and materials in the back. She explained to the tailor that the uniform did not fit her and needed to be cut correctly. Ahsoka had to undress and using the computer and a little scanner, the woman scanned Ahsoka's body features and the uniform in. With the computer she made many virtual adjustments and changes to the inquisitor's uniform overlaying it with Ahsoka's body shape, until Ahsoka liked it. Now the woman had the computer calculate the new cut, clamped the uniform to a board and had computer driven scissors cut the uniform to its new shape. For the next step the uniform was given to the sowing machine. The sowing machine effectively was a robot, and in half an hour, it sowed the uniform together again. Once the sowing machine was finished, Ahsoka tried the uniform on again and was very pleased with its fit. The woman finally told her how much it was and Ahsoka paid. Before leaving she changed into her private cloths, wrapped the uniform and the light sabers into the towel and exit the shop. The tailor however called her again when she was in the door already and showed her an orange back pack with white stripes. Obviously Ahsoka had to get that one.
Flying back to his work, Mike was very happy, he would make 2000 credits, thus being able to pay a big portion of his depths back and on top, he would spend quite some time with that beautiful woman.