Connor awoke in a sweat.

The nightmare had left him shaken. He turned to look over at his older brother BJ sleeping next to him. In his dream he saw BJ being swept onto the shoulder on a black dressed figure carrying a red light saber and carried off. It didn't make sense, they were alone on the platform and out of nowhere he snatched up BJ.

They were currently safe aboard the Rogue Shadow in space. Starkiller and Juno Eclipse somewhere else aboard the ship and their other friends/family from Kelusia.

Connor Joral wanted to shrug it off as a bad dream. That he was just afraid of losing his brother.  But he couldn't shake the feelings as hard as he tried.

The arrival at the Dak'ti spaceport was uneventful. It was another planet on the outer rim. A little more populated than Kelusia with a larger presence of Imperial Storm Troopers.

Starkiller was at the door with Juno next to him, speaking in whispers. He turned to them waiting impatiently by the door.

"There is a dark presence here," he said finally. "It's not strong. But I don't want our presence advertised either. We want to get in and get what we need and get out."

"Can't they sense us?" BJ asked.

"They may." Starkiller replied slowly. "Which is why I'm going alone." He nodded to Juno.

"But..." BJ couldn't resist, he'd never been off of Kelusia since he could remember. "Wouldn't it be better to have some back up?"

Starkiller looked at him. "I've found that it's not a good idea in most cases."

Juno walked over and put a hand on BJ's shoulder. "He'll be fine." Her expression was unreadable and BJ wondered if she was telling herself that as much as she was telling him.

Starkiller emerged into the streets of Angwat on Dak'ti. He moved towards the shops letting the Force tell him their locations. He had never been to Dak'ti and he couldn't shake the fact that there was a dark Force user here somewhere. It wasn't a strong presence he knew but it could tie back to the Emperor. Maybe just an Assassin, although what one would be doing out here, he didn't know. Perhaps a rogue Force Sensitive...he hoped. Such a person would not want to be found and would stay hidden. Worst case an Inquisitor.

They were still in the outer rim on the farthest edge of the Empire. It was entirely possible that it was a visitor from outside the Empire. Again such a person would not want to be caught here.

He rolled the possibilities over in his mind. In and out, he said to himself.

BJ paced inside the Rogue Shadow. He was used to being in charge of his family and didn't like having to wait. He didn't mind Starkiller going out for them but he resented being left behind.

Proxy was maintaining the ships course while Juno was taking a rare break from the pilot seat. She'd promised Starkiller that she would. Not that she felt the need just yet.
Juno sensed BJ's impatience and came to stand next to him. "Starkiller knows what he is doing." She said quietly.
BJ looked up at the pilot. "Are all Jedi like him? Because if they are, I wouldn't mind being one."
Juno winced. "There are not many Jedi like Starkiller. No one actually that I know of. But do yourself a favor. Don't call him a Jedi, he doesn't want to be one."

BJ was surprised. "Why?" All the stories traded about The Order made them larger than life, or evil, or good depending on the speaker.

Juno shrugged. "In the past Jedi lived alone except for their Padawans at the temple but they never married unless secretly." Apologetically she smiled at BJ. "He was more than adamant about not giving me up. Not even for what Kota called the greater good. And he wanted to marry me."

BJ took this in. "Do you know where we are going?"

She shrugged. "No, but I trust Starkiller with my life. He's saved me many times, on many occasions."

"Why did he save us?"

Juno paused. This was the part she wasn't sure about. "As far as I know, he had a vision of Master Yoda. Yoda told him to rescue any Force Sensitives we found...we opted not to tell the rebellion that Galen was back...and... well we are supposed to be keeping low profile."

Juno paused, again not sure of how much she should tell. There were still things she didn't understand. The nature of the Force itself for instance. "The Force brought a few visions, let's just say he recognized you when he saw you. There are other things coming together. I'd have to let him explain himself."

"What do you mean back?" BJ asked. Her story did not make a lot of sense to him just yet.

"He is officially dead." Juno admitted..."I am on an extended vacation."

"Oh..." BJ was burning with curiosity now but something told him that it was painful for Juno to talk about it, even if she was smiling at him. There was a sadness in her eyes that wasn't there when Starkiller was around. He recognized it though.

Loss. Unbearable loss.

Something he was all too familiar with.

"Can we at least go on the landing pad and stretch our legs?" he asked again. "We can stay near the ship."

Joran came into the room. "I'll go out with them. I want to see some sun, even if it is only for a few moments." He looked tense and Juno wondered if it was just nerves.

Juno relented. "Stay at the landing pad." She turned back to the nav center.

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Joran was outside in an instant with the children in tow. Em joined them on the dock smiling in the sun. Her husband Joran was just as impatient to be out and about as they were. He stretched and glanced around.

"What is it?" Em asked him pleasantly. She took his hand. "You seem a bit worried."

Joran did seem a bit out of sorts, he was somewhat pale and kept glancing around. "I'm fine," he said. "Just want to be off the ship that's all."

BJ looked around his eyes taking in the scene. They'd never been to another planet before. They were all silent listening to the bustle of the city around them.

Caohdan broke the silence in his five-year-old voice. "Who is that man watching us?"

Joran turned in an instant to see a man dressed in black a few docks over watching them. 

Connor was stunned for a moment. His dream came back to him in a rush, his brother tossed over a black clad shoulder. Dangling as he was hauled into a ship...

A minute later the man in black waved at them and smiled. Joran waved back and the tension broke. "Who was that?" Connor asked a little worried.

"I have no idea," said Joran. "But look he's unloading children of his own. Maybe he was just glad to see another family."

Indeed there were two boys with the man clad in black who had turned back to checking the things being loaded into their ship. The elder was human and the younger Torgrutan.
Connor relaxed. Caohdan and Allana had started a game of tag and BJ resumed taking in the sights. There was something familiar about the man that he couldn't place. He briefly wondered if he'd seen him before and then dismissed it. They were on another world, and space was a big place.

AJ kept his eye on the family a few docksides over. The man had disappeared but the two boys remained on the dockside.

Starkiller returned loaded with supplies he towed behind him. He was surprised to find them all outside the ship.

"What's going on?" He asked quickly looking around seizing up the situation.

"Just stretching our legs," Joran replied nervously.

Something however was wrong... Starkiller couldn't quite put his finger on it just yet. There was a trickle of the Dark Side nearby.

"Back inside quickly," he said, glancing around.

Everyone ran inside except Joran who was protesting vigorously that everything was just fine.

"Go!" Starkiller yelled again. He couldn't quite shake the feeling that something wasn't quite right. He ran inside and did a headcount.

He did the head count again. They were missing one.

Connor was the first to notice..."where's my brother?" He shouted.

Before Starkiller could stop him he was out of the ship again just in time to see BJ being bodily carried into the ship at the dock by the man dressed all in black.

Connor watched helplessly as his dream unfolded in front of his eyes. Starkiller came out behind him and seizing up the situation reached out and grabbed the ship with the Force. 

Connor looked at him in shock as the doors were prevented from closing. By now quite a crowd was gathering to see what was wrong with the ship. Imperial troops were pouring in.

Starkiller could have leveled the place but Juno had run out and put a hand on his shoulder. 

"Galen, low profile remember?" She said quietly misery on her face. She didn't like the situation either but he was supposed to be dead. "We'll follow them."

"So we just let them go?" He said more harshly to her than he'd intended.

"No one said anything about that." Juno said. "But we have to get all of these to safety. We can follow him and maybe get them somewhere else."

He relinquished his hold on the ship which suddenly shot into space to the protests of the Storm Troopers running in. There was nothing they could do however.

"I don't like it," Starkiller said at last turning to her. "You don't know what happens to Force sensitives picked up by the Empire. But I do."

Juno was taken back by his angry tone but she knew it wasn't her he was angry with but himself.

"Master, if it is an Inquisitor, he may not return to the middle of the Empire right away," Proxy's voice came through his comm. Proxy was still in the front of the ship. "He will skim the outer rim using looking for more Force Sensitives."

Starkiller nodded to himself.

Connor stood staring up at him with tears in his eyes. "I saw this happen." he sobbed.

That stopped Starkiller in his tracks. "You saw the future?"

"I thought it was just a dream." Connor whispered. He stared at the ground. AJ put a hand on his shoulder.

Starkiller stood looking down at him for a moment. "Come inside," he said as the other ship took off into space. "We need to follow them."

Juno raced up to the cock pit to help prep the ship with Proxy at her side. Starkiller sat deep in thought next to them in the back. Em and Joran were in the meditation room with the kids who were all upset at the loss of BJ. The atmosphere in the ship was a somber one.

Suddenly Starkiller appeared in the doorway of the meditation room.

"I thought we'd have more time before I needed to start any kind of training." Starkiller said to them. "But it seems like you are going to be tested a lot sooner than I thought. I should have realized..." He paused. "You have to start training to defend yourselves now. That way something like this...you need a fighting chance."

Em was now holding a sobbing Connor in the corner with AJ at his side.
Starkiller came over to him and put a finger under his chin. "Hey, best way to get your brother back?," he said, "Learn to fight for him."

"How do you know we'll get him back," Connor asked.

"I've seen it," said Starkiller. He had too, they had not yet reached the place where he'd face the Dark Clone. That much he was certain. But what he did know was that BJ was there too fighting at his side.