Star Wars - [Episode 1 Adventures 02] - The Bartokk Assassins (by Ryder Windham)

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Star Wars

Episode 1 Adventures

The Bartokk Assassins

By RyderWindham

Scanned by [BroD] June 2003

Introduction

Before the events of the Trade Federation's invasion of Naboo, the Jedi

Council received a mysterious data card that alerted them to the construction

of fifty droid starfighters, each equipped with hyperdrive engines. The

Council sent Jedi Master Adi Gallia to the planet Esseles in the Darpa Sector

to investigate. When Master Adi failed to report back from her mission, the

Council sent a rescue team to Esseles. Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn led the team

that included two Jedi Knights: Vel Ardox, an amphibian from the Ploo Sector;

and Noro Zak, a winged Bax - thrax. Against the wishes of Mace Windu, Qui-Gon

also brought his Padawan apprentice, Obi-Wan Kenobi. On Esseles, the Jedi

realized Adi Gallia was trapped within a starship factory that had been seized

by renegade droids. After the Jedi rescued the factory's owner, a reptilelike

Kloodavian named Boll Trinkatta, they learned the starfighters had been

manufactured for the Trade Federation. Trinkatta claimed he had not wanted to

work for the Trade Federation, but he'd changed his mind after his test pilot

had vanished. Trinkatta believed the Trade Federation was responsible for the

pilot's disappearance, and feared for his own safety. The Kloodavian ordered

his droids to build the starfighters.

Before the finished starfighters could be delivered to the Trade

Federation, Trinkatta's droids were reprogrammed by the Bartokks, a species of

insectoid mercenaries with a hive mind. The Bartokks had intended to use the

droids to take over the starship factory and steal the droid starfighters.

Much to the dismay of the Bartokks, the starfighters had already been stolen

from Trinkatta's factory by an unknown enemy. The Jedi defeated the

reprogrammed droids along with two Bartokks, and Master Adi was found in need

of medical treatment. Qui-Gon decided that Vel Ardox and Noro Zak would

immediately escort Master Adi to the nearby planet Rhinnal, famed throughout

the sector for its citizens' expertise in medicine. Meanwhile, Qui-Gon and

Obi-Wan remained on Esseles, where they hoped to track the trail of the stolen

droid starfighters. Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan feared that the starfighters might

have fallen into the clutches of someone even more menacing than the Bartokks

or the Trade Federation. In need of a guide to Esseles' capital city Calamar,

the Jedi enlisted the reluctant Trinkatta.

Qui-Gon Jinn belted himself into the front passenger seat of the

landspeeder while Obi-Wan Kenobi slid behind the controls. Obi-Wan gunned the

turbine engines and angled the speeder away from Trinkatta's starship factory

and toward Calamar. The capital city was already visible in the distance, a

silhouette of several hundred towers that hugged the lush, green horizon.

"This is madness!" Boll Trinkatta exclaimed from the speeder's backseat.

"Even if all fifty droid starfighters are still on Esseles, how do you two

hope to take them from the Bartokks?"

While the speeder zoomed over the grassy plains, Qui-Gon turned to his

outraged passenger.

"As I said, Trinkatta, the Bartokks don't have the starfighters. If they

did,

they wouldn't have left two assassins to guard your factory. With those

two dead, the surviving thirteen members of the Bartokk hive are probably

still searching for the ships."

"Then I should flee this planet immediately!" Trinkatta shouted, his beak

opening wide. "And not just because I'm afraid of what the Bartokks might do

to me. Since the droid starfighters weren't delivered to the Trade Federation,

the Neimoidians who ordered them are probably already on their way to Esseles

to investigate. They'll kill me if I can't deliver those ships."

"Then maybe you shouldn't have done business with the Trade Federation in

the first place," Obi - Wan commented as he neatly directed the landspeeder

over a dirt road that led into the city.

"I didn't have a choice," Trinkatta insisted. "If I hadn't built those

starfighters, the Trade Federation would have made me vanish without a trace,

just like my test pilot. I'm lucky those Bartokks only reprogrammed my droids

to cut off one of my arms." Trinkatta winced at the memory of the violent

interrogation. With his left hand, the reptile-like alien massaged his right

elbow, where his lower arm was rapidly growing back.

As the landspeeder approached Calamar, Obi - Wan kept his eyes on the

road.

"Master! I don't understand why you suspect the droid starfighters are in

Calamar. Wouldn't it have been smarter for someone to hide them at a remote

location or even offworld?"

"Don't underestimate the intelligence of the thieves, Obi-Wan," Qui-Gon

stated. "If they could steal fifty starfighters from Trinkatta's factory

without alerting the Bartokks, they're very smart indeed. And in my

experience, the best place to hide a needle is among other needles. I've a

hunch the starfighters are in a spaceport."

"I don't believe it!" Trinkatta snapped. "You're risking my life over a

hunch'?"

Qui-Gon cast a sympathetic glance at the Kloodavian and replied,

"Be assured, Trinkatta, no harm will come to you while you're with us.

All we ask for is your help."

"But what can I do?" Trinkatta answered, shrugging his shoulders.

Qui-Gon raised an eyebrow at the alien. "You can start by telling us

about your contact with the Trade Federation. Did Neimoidian leaders come to

your factory?"

The Kloodavian nodded.

"Yes, there were two of them. Officers, I think, although they never

identified themselves. They brought a prototype hyperdrive engine with them

and insisted l duplicate it for all fifty droid starfighters."

"And what about your test pilot?"

"He was a Talz named Bama Vook," Trinkatta replied. "He was an excellent

pilot, even if he was sometimes a bit reckless. His copilot was an LE-PR34

navigator droid called Leeper. They were such good friends the droid didn't

even address Bama as 'Master.' Oh, and Bama had a young son named Chup-Chup, a

real rascal. The poor lad must be an orphan now. But why do you want to know

about Bama? Like I said, the Neimoidans got rid of him."

"Actually, you said he vanished without a trace," Qui-Gon corrected.

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