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One of the Wookies growled at Harry. He was a younger one judging from his size and lack of adornment on his bandoleer, but he seemed to be respected for all that. "/Asking us to keep it a secret is fine. We will do so, of course. But I still have no idea what we're doing here./"
"We're trying to prevent a hostage situation from occurring," Harry said somewhat blandly. "We can't fight our way through from the landing pads to the slave areas, not and stop anyone from trying to take them hostage. So instead were going to take command right here."
"/We can't survive out there!/" shouted one of the Wookies Harry had been introduced to whose name was Sarboucca. He shook his head wildly, his dark brown fur sticking up in all directions. "/We didn't bring any of our Zero-G suits with us./" Wearing those things was the next best thing to torture for the Wookies given the amount of hair they had, and so they rarely if ever wore them outside of real life or death situations. The idea of bringing them along normally, let alone for a battle, had never occured to them, and it wasn't like they would have fit into any the Nabooans could have supplied.
Moreover, though the Wookies themselves would not admit this, wearing helmets over their faces for extended periods of time was enough to drive most of them crazy. It's why they rarely ever wore armor in combat, let alone helmets.
"You won't have to," Harry soothed. "I have a Force technique that allows me to…teleport, I suppose you could say…from one spot to another. I will pop in first, memorize the layout of the place, and then pop back out before bringing you with me in groups."
Harry had to raise his voice to be heard over the shouts of surprise, consternation, and shock from the Wookies all around him. "After you are down one group will take position there while the rest of us spread out from there into the base, opening a second front against the defenders. This will force them to both split their attention, and allow us to safeguard the slaves who we are here to free! I realize this sounds unusual and dangerous, but it is necessary!"
That did not quiet the growls and mutters from the Wookies, and he was forced to use a silencing technique on the entire crowd to regain order. The glares he received after that made Harry cringe, no one likes seeing that many angry Wookies, after all. But they quickly understood that he was no longer hearing their voices, and indeed, none of them could hear each other either very well either.
"Thank you!" he said, removing the technique over the area and going on before any of them could realize it. "Now, if you could all be quiet for a moment, I have to concentrate on this so that I don't leave bits of myself behind! Unless any of you has a better suggestion?"
The growls and hand gestures told Harry that the Wookies were not exactly happy with this, but would go along with it for now. Though the glares he got from the younger Wookie warriors told Harry he might have issues there.
"/We don't believe you can succeed in this. We have had many Force sensitives join the Jedi Order in the past, and what you are saying goes well beyond what Jedi can do,/" said one of the Wookies bluntly in their own language, shaking his head. "/But then again we've never heard of Jedi being able to silence all sound in an area like that before either./"
"Yes, you'd be surprised at what we've been discovering Jedi can do lately," Harry said dryly, as his mother floated up through the floor.
As soon as Lily's head was above the level of the floor she began to talk quickly. "There's a quad laser in the ceiling in terms of automated defenses, but there are six guards, and they're arguing right now about what to do. Two of them think they should start dragging the slaves out to use them as meat shields while the other four are holding out for new orders. One of those is trying to get in touch with their boss. The speed of our assault's taken them completely by surprise, but we need to get in there!"
Lily immediately began to describe the area, going into detail on the shape and organization of the room as well as where everyone was in it. Thank God for Jedi mind techniques! The mix of the Jedi's mental techniques and Occlumency enabled Lily to quickly memorize what she saw and then regurgitate it verbatim later, which in turn gave Harry the ability to teleport into places he had not actually seen personally. They'd only used this technique a few times, after all it was supposed to be a secret, and the more often you used a secret technique the less it was an actual secret, but it had worked every time so far.
After a few moments Harry repeated what Lily had said word for word, then began to construct an image of the area in his head. At the same moment he felt Aayla reach out to his mind. "We're starting our assault, Harry! Master Quinlan's out and moving to the door!"
The other troop transports had landed on the base's actual landing port, but the defenders, despite no longer being led by anyone, had the presence of mind to shut down the atmosphere shield, the very low powered shield that was intended to keep in atmosphere, as it would on a ship's loading area. But Quinlan had a spacesuit and a computer, and was hacking software that would get them into the base soon enough.
The plan from that point was to leave Master Fay by the entrance with a group of Wookies, the youngest of them, to defend their path of retreat while the rest of them would press forward. Each clan or family would operate independently to break the defenders' positions and search out the pleasure slaves scattered throughout the rest of the base, while one team would head forward with Aayla and Quinlan, and another with Harry as Master Fay directed them towards the control center of the base.
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