Tython // DEEP CORE
"Sithspit." Lance ducked as a bolt threw over his head. "I swear. If Aphra was still alive, I'd kill her myself." He nearly tripped over an old and long-deceased stormtrooper body as he tried to work his way back through the cold and windy passageway. He had come to Tython a week ago, expecting to find an untouched treasure trove of ancient Jedi Artifacts. Instead what he found was an Imperial Warlord camping out in the Deep Core of the Galaxy, including Tython. Having discovered it from a time where he had to go rescue Vader from the world after Aphra apparently had tricked him into heading there under the guise of finding the Rebel base, that at the time had been instead built on the ice world of Hoth. With the fall of the Empire, some warlord whose name he hadn't really cared to remember had decided it would be a nice place to set up camp. Sitting on top of a veritable treasure trove of ancient Jedi artifacts. Using stolen codes he had managed to get onto the planet surface, and even managed to find a temple that he had believed to be relatively untouched. Until running into a scouting party who hadn't bought his cover. They hadn't been much of a problem, an officer and two scout troopers.
The issue had been the reinforcements. He tapped his wrist comm, holding one wrist just in front of his mouth while his other held his blaster at the ready as he hid behind cover. "Blue. Ready the ship and meet me at the following coordinates." He nodded to the DRK-1 Probe Droids that hovered near his head, occasionally popping out of cover to fire at the stormtroopers. 'Aurek' and 'Besh' as he had named them. One of them had their antennae extend as it transmitted the co-ordinates to the shuttle. He jumped up and ran down the corridor, his body struggling and he found himself slower than he had used to be. He was frankly, getting too old for this. If it wasn't for his curiosity at this point he would have given up long ago, he had more than enough money. Frankly however at this point, he was fascinated by the old order. The order that had tipped the balance so heavily against him in the Clone Wars then had mysteriously turned against Palpatine at the end of the clone Wars despite being his greatest champions. Then all of them wiped out in a matter of hours. It never quite added up to him, and one day he hoped to find out why.
Aurek beeped as he received a transmission. "It's a bad time for someone to meet me Aurek."
It beeped heavily again. "How much?"