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Within moments of their arrival in the cockpit the ship came out of hyperspace, orienting itself quickly to Sorenno2. As they did, their ship's scanners began to feel out the surrounding space ways, and Harry whistled slightly. Sorenno was the most earthlike planet they had seen yet in this new galaxy, but that wasn't what he was whistling at. That reaction had been caused by the fleet presence here.
There were literally hundreds of ships in range of their scanners. Most of them were reading as cargo haulers, but there was at least over seventy which were reading as military.
Harry remembered that this planet was known to produce food for several other planets, and had three gas giants in the system, which produced orveth and sig gas. These were two types of gas which could be used in blasters large and small the galaxy over. Sorenno also had a few asteroids for heavy metal mining supporting a local but strong shipbuilding industry. In many ways this system was blessed like that, and the Great Counts who ruled it had used those blessings to ride their way into being some of the richest people in the known galaxy despite the number of times those riches had made the system a target of conquest.
"Attention incoming craft, this is Sorenno Space Control, identify yourself." Even as the voice crackled over the intercom, three Cloak Shape starfighters peeled away from the nearest and moved in their direction.
Master Fay calmly picked up the intercom, speaking into it. "This is Jedi Master Fay, here to meet with Master Dooku." Her lips quirked wryly. "You should have me on your schedule, I did after all call ahead."
The three starfighters moved into a formation around the yacht, their wing tips waggling as they did in a gesture of respect. "Roger that Master Fay, we have you on our schedule, you just came in at an odd angle, and we've recently had an attempted pirate raid out there. Apologies for our tone." The man on the other end replied, sounding rather sheepish, but not overly so. He was just doing his job after all.
"No apologies are necessary," Fay replied simply, shaking her head. "I had not realized that piracy was such a danger even here in this system."
"You should probably talk that over with Master Dooku and the other Counts," the voice on the other side said and Fay's eyes widened slightly in surprise and she leaned back looking thoughtful. The way he said that, it sounded as if Master Dooku was acting as a Count as well as a Jedi Master, which was to put it mildly both illegal under the Ruusan Reformation and rather bizarre.
She reached out with the Force as Harry took over the controls, directing the ship to follow the three starfighters towards the planet in the distance, glibly taking over the conversation as well saying his Master had decided he needed more time at the controls suddenly and was now acting as if she was unconscious. The man at the other end chuckled, but Fay only heard this peripherally, while Lily looked at her, concerned at Fay's response to what the man had said and wondering about it.
Reaching out with the Force Fay felt the presence of three other Jedi on the planet, each of them with their own distinct presence in the Force. Master Dooku's was a pillar of steel and iron strength, almost a closed off feeling like she had felt from Mace Windu the one time they met decades ago, but not quite. He felt like a lightsaber blade, sharp and stern but there was a well-hidden warmth to him underneath that. She felt his response to her light touch, as well as his irritation that he could not get away from something that he was doing at the moment to devote more attention to her arrival.
The other two presences were close to one another, and she sensed that they were both out on the planet's ocean somewhere. One of them was younger than the other, possibly only a little older than Lily's physical age. Her Force feeling was weaker by far than either of the other two, but stronger than most her age would've had. Yet at the same time it was far more chaotic, far more emotional. In various ways it felt almost broken, with strange, jagged splashes of pain and a deep well of anger that felt as if it was fading, but slowly. Fay frowned at that feeling, sending a pulse of soothing energy out into the Force to wraparound that feeling, and she felt that source of the Force slowly respond, it's angry edge subsiding somewhat.
The third presence felt that, and Fay smiled gently as she felt that worthy reach out to her in turn, acknowledging Fay's presence as the other two could not. That presence felt almost tranquil, certain and centered in a way that the other two presences didn't quite. It felt strong, though not up to Dooku's level, and also somewhat weary at the moment, though that was carefully hidden.
Master Luminara Unduli sent her regret that she would not be able to meet with Fay immediately, as well as a spurt of interest. Fay felt that Luminara might possibly have felt the Force Ghost that was with the two incoming Jedi. Fay knew her own Force presence tended to cover a lot of Harry's own Force presence since he had learned to hide his under Force Stealth, a fact Fay had actually taken pains to enhance just in case.
By the time Fay had categorized all of the interesting bits of information she could pick up from the three Force users already present, Harry had flown them into the planet's atmosphere and down to a rather neat landing at the capital's spaceport. "Good job Harry!" Lily said appreciatively. "You're getting much better at that, far better than your first time."
"The ship only bounced once mom!" Harry said rolling his eyes. "And we're not under fire this time."
"Those were fireworks, not anti-air fire," Lily said with an amused grin on her face at her rather abashed looking son.
"How was supposed to know!?"
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