Skirmish in the Crustai system

Almost three days after the Skirmish between the Chiss and Progga, but before the Springhawk, under the command of Thrawn, reached the Crustai base of the Chiss Ascendancy: Picket Force Two, Dubrak Qennto, Maris Ferasi, and Car'das, captain and crew of the Bargain Hunter (now Thrawn's "captives",) stood at the back of the Springhawk's bridge as it flew through a small asteroid field. Thrawn came over to them from where he had been standing beside the navigation station and pointed out a large, wobbly asteroid with a slow rotation which, he explained, was the base where they would land. While they were talking, a Chiss called to Thrawn speaking in Cheunh. Thrawn replied and returned to his command chair. Almost immediatly the Springhawk jumped into hyperspace and preformed an amazingly accurate micro-jump lasting less than a minute. The Springhawk returned to real space and as it did two small ships, Vagaari fighters, roared past the viewport spitting laserfire and Missiles. The fighters quit firing as they flew out of optimum firing range, but they soon came back around for another pass, this time one on each side of the Springhawk. The Springhawk's weapons returned fire aiming at the hole from which the fighter's missiles was just about to launch detonating the missiles before they were ejected and exploding the fighters. The Springhawk then turned to a larger ship that had been hiding in the back round. The Vagaari ship fired four slavos of missiles which the Chiss vaporized in midflight, but it could not get away because when it had first arrived a Chiss sentry had disabled it's hyperdrive. Thawn informed Qennto, Meris and Car'das that he was going to board the ship with his warriors and told them they could return to their quarters. Even though the bridge crew did not board with the others they helped them by tracking the Vagaari combatants with the Springhawk's sensors and informing the boarders where they were. The Chiss had secured the vessel within an hour and two hours after that the crew of the Bargain Hunter were called to board the ship. When they did they were led through groups of dead bodies to Thrawn who then, in turn, led them into a large, high-ceilinged room that was piled high with treasure of all kinds; metal ingots stacked inside acceleration webbing, bins filled with coins and multicolored gems, other bins stacked with rectangular packages, cabinets holding other things, and many pieces of artwork. Commander Thrawn had the vessel towed back to the Crustai base for further study.

Appearances

 * ''Outbound Flight