It wasn't long before<span style="font-style: italic">Emerald Dawn</span>was moving away from the rapidly deteriorating research station.  Alethea had done well to get the ship up and running even as Thal-ion had brought aboard the supplies they would most certainly need.  By the time he had made it to the cockpit; it was to see that which Alethea was even now mentioning:  The Blockade of Naboo.  Sitting in the co-pilot's chair; Thal-ion could see the large circular warships belonging to the Trade Federation encircling the lush and beautiful world of Naboo.  Though there was absolutely no doubt about what he was viewing - it still left him breathless for a moment.  Almost immediately, the young Jedi Sentinel reached out with the Force to see if he could get some kind of measure of what they were up against.<br/><br/>At the same time, he turned to Alethea, "Keep us away from them until we figure out what to do.  I doubt they are just going to let us approach."  He was fairly sure the warning was unnecessary, but this was an exceptionally strange situation...better safe than sorry.<br/><br/>Through the Force; Thal-ion felt a conflict erupt on one of the Trade Federation battleships.  The Force hummed with the presence of two Jedi even now fighting to survive.  Master Tionne had shared with him the journal of one of the former Queens of Naboo which had detailed some of this event they were even now witnessing.  Indeed, it had been one of the things he had brought with him on the journey to study and discuss later with Tionne.  The sheer coincidence of the moment was not lost one Thal-ion, and the battle continued to unfold on one of the battleships between two Jedi Knights and forces belonging to the Trade Federation.  It jogged a part of the Queen's entry about this.<br/><br/>"Master Qui-gon and his apprentice are ambushed on the Viceroy's flagship.  I remember reading about this in the journal Master Tionne had given to me.  We don't have much to go on, but perhaps...," he began, but just as he was about to suggest going back through the storm - the station they had left exploded near the maw of the temporal wound.  Something about the backlash of energy caused the portal to suddenly and rather brightly vanish without a trace.<br/><br/>There would be no going home now.<br/><br/>The comm suddenly crackled to life. "Unidentified freighter, you are approaching the legal blockade of Naboo by the forces of the Trade Federation.  You will withdraw at once, or be destroyed," came the alien voice.<br/><br/>They were in for it now...