Clementine was a bit bored as she had pretty much nothing to do while the Scather idled on the soft herbivore planet, as such she tried to find other things to do besides routine maintenance on the Scather.  Really the worst that had happened was some resilient moss kept trying to find a foothold on the Scather's hull, but some quick buff work always did the trick.  For now, she was in charge of the Ki Signal that was used to call the Yardrats when a team was assembled.

The Ki Signal was a large cylindrical device about the size of an escape pod.  All one needed to do was charge the device with their own Ki and it would be converted into a signal easily picked up by the Yardrats.  The signal was very precise and had a particular pattern to it that was hard for an individual to mimic, which was what made the piece of equipment so reliable in getting the Yardrats' attention.  A few groups had already departed for various corners of the galaxy and the next to go was the group taking the kidnapping mission.

Clementine took a look at her pad to see who had signed up.  "Let's see here, Burnet, Rabi, and the Sixth one?"  She gave then a look over from beneath her helmet which she seemed to never take off.  "Well you obviously know what you're getting into, I'll get the Ki Signal ready to-"

"Wait, wait, I'm joining too!"  One last member stumbled in from outside, slightly out of breathe showing that they had been pretty far away and and really booked it to make it.  "Sheesh they really should implement a cool down period for missions so they don't miss anybody!"

Clementine looked down at her pad as the newcomer quickly inputted his own personal code into the computer to officially join the mission.  The late comer was of an insect type race called the Arlians and wore a rather impressive looking suit of battle armor.  Soon enough his profile popped up on her screen and she added him in.

"And [url=https://safebooru.org//samples/2899/sample_57250a3b07e2bc6c7442968a0858ae1ddb0cc236.jpg?3021343]Brackus[/url].  Alright that should be enough, time to call the Yardrats."  Clementine put her gloved hands to a hand reader pad and started to pump in her key, the device lit up with a green light and started humming in response, if one listened they could detect an almost song like quality to the humming.  Within a few seconds a brown and yellow spotted Yardrat appeared beside the device.  Clementine stopped supplying the machine which shut down almost immediately and showed the Yardrat the pad with the members and the mission information.

"So that will be four for transportation, make sure everyone is touching either me or someone else and let's go!"  With the short bit of instructions, everyone did as they were told and before they knew it after about two jumps they had arrived on Planet Karkon where a small delegation waited for them.  The feline like natives looked a little troubled upon only seeing five people arriving, which would soon become four as the Yardrat was about to leave.

"Give those slavers hell when you find them!"  The brown Yardrat saluted and was gone as quickly as they arrived.
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The Karkonites shuffled around a bit as one carrying what looked like a battle rifle approached the group.  "Hail mercenaries, my name is Grippa.  I hope you live up to your reputation..."  He looked at the four individuals and couldn't help but be somewhat impressed by Gastrod's rather large build.  "Well if you fail at least we won't have to pay anymore."  Grippa grumbled which prompted a bit of a hiss from an elderly looking Karkonite as a warning.

"Right, forgive my rudeness, I'm just annoyed that we haven't been able to do anything about the situation yet.  Considering they have only gone after one village at a time so far, we have reason to believe they are dedicated their entire force in one concentrated effort at a time, which is probably why no one was able to escape to tell us exactly who has been attacking us.  The only pattern so far is that each village attacked has been larger than the last, like they are working their way up toward a big haul.  I've sent out scouts to try and create an early warning system but, considering how efficient they've been I have my doubts it will be successful."

"Anyway, I'll be counting on your guys to sort this out when the time comes, I'd rather not have to start evacuating all the outlining villages and send everyone into a complete panic."

"Don't worry sir, we Planet Breakerzz will be sure to earn our keep."  Brackus stated, his insect vocal cords adding a bit of a buzz to his words.