The captain turns to Haykriss looking into her eyes with the black eyes of his helmet. His voice gradually gets louder as he speaks years of frustration and anger boiling over. "My original company was sent out here nearly thirty years ago to suppress pirate activity in the outer rim. We expected to find wealthy aliens complaining about some minor thefts. What we found was planets being plundered, whole population centers starving, and people dying in each other's arms for a moment's comfort. Do you know what seeing thousands of people on the worst day of their lives teaches you? It teaches you the things taught to you in the core worlds are meaningless. All the superior genes in the galaxy don't help the mother selling her body so her kid doesn't starve. It doesn't help the man who decided to have his wife sell him to the hutts in hopes of buying passage to the core worlds for the rest of his family. It teaches you that if a woman offers you her heart, you take it even if your captain doesn't approve because she is blue. It teaches you that you take help where you can get it, because no one else is coming for you: not the old Empire, not the New Republic, and sure as hell not the Sith Collective." The captain takes a long breath then continues. "That Twi'lek is the son of one of the lieutenants under my command when we first came to the outer rim. His mother was a Twi'lek woman we found in a similar position we found you in. Many of the men and women under my command are the hybrid children of my original troops. Others are recruits wanting to take their home lands back from the hutts. Many have no knowledge of the old Empire, and to be frank I have little care to teach them. Now, if you will not be joining the battle I suggest you either head to the ship or take cover here I must join my men." The captain turns to join the squad, marching down the dark hallway to his troops.<br/><br/><br/>Meanwhile in the fore of the ship. Ejay spots Laeli approaching and waves. "Looks like we have a full crew tonight fellas."  Ejay approaches Laeli still holding his knife by the blade, he extends the weapon to Laeli. "In case you need to take something from the pirates, just give us a heads up before you do............ Actually do you have a weapon at all?." Ejay looks Laeli over searching for a weapon he has not seen. "If you require a weapon, I can hand you my blaster."<br/><br/>Further toward the cockpit, the dark skinned trooper is on one knee his blaster leveled at the door as the troopers finish planting charges. He looks over across the hall to Darla and speaks. "You sure you'll be alright with just a light sabre? One of our blasters might keep you safer than a sword."<br/><br/>Meanwhile in the breeching hallway, a single stormtrooper stares at Har-vey as the bay door open to the imperial raider. Standing in the door way is are a pair of humans in dark grey uniforms one male appearing to be in his late fifties with greying hair and a stern expression, the other a female in her early thirties with bright golden blonde hair and flashing blue eyes. The female excitedly inspects Har-vey rushing through the doorwar and circling him like a hungry shark. "A lepi male, and in such exquisite condition! It seems the troopers have finally fulfilled my request. Quickly we must get your mandatory biological sample!" The woman howls excitedly placing a glove over her right hand. The male human strides toward Har-vey, his hand extended. "Greetings, I am Ayddar Raftoul commanding officer of the Swift Vengeance. Please ignore my over eager medical officer, the biological sample is not mandatory." From the doorway Har-vey can see the ship is in no greater shape than the trooper's armors. Cables hang from damaged sections of the celling, live conduits spray sparks on to metal floors, and blaster scoring covers the walls of the vessel. All the whiloe the medical chief bonces around Har-vey. "Look at his ears, and his feet! What a remarkable specimen!"