Synopsis:
Hart - and Parn Gorra - Fiolla of Lorrd (known as Fiolla of Lorrd
for short), Corporate Sector Authority Auditor General had just
exited hyperspace when she receives a Priority X message from the
Office of the Prex. She delves into the body of the message, finding
to her shock that the Prex's informants have discovered that the
Rebels had just destroyed the Empire's Death Star battle station
near the Yavin star system. And because the Corporate Sector
Authority had an Imperial charter, anything that affected the Empire
affected the CSA as well.
The message indicated that one rumour placed the fleeing band of
insurgents in the Abo Dreth system, which was within Corporate
Sector borders. The Prex wanted her to verify that information -
immediately. After taking a sleep from exhaustion from being awake
for 30 hours, Fiolla awakes to a start by her male prisoner Crell
from Commex. She lands her ship, the 'Tydia Rish' on Abo Dreth, a
large brown world dotted with hundreds of silver lakes. Fiolla sees
an object through her macrobinoculars about three kilometers away,
gleaming in the light of the system's yellow sun. "It's a
Corellian StarRunner", came a woman's voice from behind her.
Fiolla spun around, the human woman before her wore standard
spacer's clothing and a breath mask - and had a sporting blaster
trained on Fiolla.
After bargaining her ship for her life, Fiolla discovers that the
mysterious woman is actually after her. Fiolla believes that the
woman's boss is Erdin Giblo of Commex, where Fiolla had just
infiltrated one of his corporate headquarters not three hours ago.
"Hardly. I report to the head of the super - corp that owns
Commex," replies the woman. Fiolla starts to wonder how this
woman would have known about her last assignment. There were only
two people who had access to that information - the Prex himself,
Chils Meplin and his assistant. She looked into the woman's eyes.
"Akeeli Somerce". "Very good, my ex - Auditor
General. The Prex has decided that you and your friend know too
much." Fiolla discovers that the rumour about the Rebels is
obviously fictitious. "Wait!" Fiolla says, stalling.
"I do not understand. What does the Prex have to do with Commex
leaking top - level CSA data to the Empire?" Suddenly, Crel,
somehow getting out of his binders, hands Fiolla her blaster and
Crel and Akeeli both shoot each other. Crel lays dying, and Fiolla
notices an ID card fall from his jacket - he is an Auditor General.
Finally the circumstances started to fall into place, forming a
twisted plot of sabotage and treason - and now attempted
assassination. Naven Crel had gone undercover to ferret out a
traitor against the CSA, and his investigation had lead him to
Commex, which was in turn controlled by the Prex, the second most
powerful man in the Corporate Sector. Crel, tells Fiolla in his last
dying words to "Get . . . Meplin"
Synopsis taken from Christopher
G. McElroy's Time Tales, www.theforce.net/timetales.
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