Jedi Apprentice - 08 - The Day of Reckoning by Star Wars

Author:Star Wars
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Science Fiction
Published: 2010-08-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

When she was sure they were away from their pursuers, Andra loosened her hood.

"Thanks for not falling off," she called back to Qui-Gon.

"Thanks for rescuing us," Qui-Gon responded. "I was almost starting to worry."

She grinned and gunned the motor. In another few minutes, they landed in the alley near her house. Den and Andra concealed the swoops behind a pile of rusty abandoned floaters.

"Whoa!" Den called as he swept off his hood. "Did we beat those odds, or what? The next time I'm outrunning some security police, I want a Jedi at my back!"

Obi-Wan didn't respond to Den's friendly grin. "You wouldn't have had to rescue us if you'd warned us back at UniFy," he pointed out.

"I was about to," Den protested. "I didn't get the chance. At least I came through in the end."

"Only because I insisted," Andra said. "I'm the one who proposed the rescue."

"Kill me now if I wasn't going to! You didn't give me a chance!" Den protested.

"I suggest we continue this inside," Qui-Gon said, his eyes sweeping the sky overhead with a glance. "In my experience, security on Telos doesn't give up easily."

They climbed up the drain and entered Andra's snug home. Andra began to heat some drinks and set out a plate of bread and fruit. Obi-Wan reached for it hungrily.

"I don't know what to do now," Andra said worriedly. "We can't break into UniFy again. I'm sure they plugged the holes in their security. We'll never be able to get the proof we need that UniFy is tied to Offworld."

"If only we'd had more time to look," Den said.

Qui-Gon gave him a hard look. "But you weren't looking very hard for an Offworld connection, were you?"

Den shifted in his seat. "Of course I was. There were too many files. You said so yourself."

"I saw your screen, Den," Qui-Gon said. "You weren't looking at the Sacred Pool files. You were looking up Katharsis."

"Katharsis?" Andra turned. "Why?"

"Don't look at me like that, all of you," Den protested. "I'm an honest man!"

Qui-Gon cocked an eyebrow. Obi-Wan looked disgusted. Andra blew out an exasperated breath.

"Okay, so I'm not one hundred percent honest," Den admitted. "But I'm loyal! I was looking up Katharsis. When I worked there I found out by chance - well, not so much by chance, but because I broke into some files - that UniFy controls Katharsis."

Andra swiveled, the pot in her hand. "You mean the government doesn't control it?"

Den nodded. "They just want you to think they do. If everyone knew that a corporation controlled Katharsis, they'd realize that. .."

"UniFy decides how the profits from Katharsis are spent," Andra said rapidly. "Which means they totally control our public lands."

Den nodded. "UniFy came up with the idea for Katharsis in the first place. They paid off some key government people in order to push it through. Basically, the government is in UniFy's pocket."

Andra sank into a chair, stunned. "Do you think that UniFy deliberately devised Katharsis just to distract the population from their intentions? They're going to open all our global parks for development.

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