Tales of the Jedi Academy by Star Wars

Author:Star Wars [Wars, Star]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Hunting the Gorach

By Jeff Grubb

Insider 133

Parella the Hutt, hunter extraordinaire, reached out with a heavy, soft arm and stroked the activation sigil on his ship’s holorecorder.

“Expedition Log 2435 - I am on the planet Lowick, on the hunt for the elusive Gorach. My prey is a brutal and wily creature, and even now I find it hard to believe that its ancestors once ruled this cluster of worlds. I have greased many pseudopods to track this specimen down, and now in the great rain swamps of this world, look forward to a challenging hunt before delivering the beast to its inevitable fate and hanging its head on my trophy wall. I will report again upon my success.”

Parella switched off the holorecorder, slipped out of his hisp-silk robe, and retired to the ship’s armory, where his droids already had his armor ready. The Gorach was reportedly both strong and quick, so the Hutt chose a full-body armor consisting of overlapping plates of Ruusan copper, running from the nape of his fat-swathed neck all the way to the tip of his tail. A heavy helmet nested snuggly into its fittings at the armor’s neck, its HUD flickering to life on the inside.

His fingers stroked a toggle and an interior wall of the ship slid away, showing all manner of blaster pistols, carbines, and rifles, along with a selection of close combat weapons. This was to be a traditional hunt, one that tested both wits and brawn. He chose a blaster carbine with a long vibrobayonet attached, in the style of the Taloron Hunters.

Parella secured the ship, activated its passive defenses, then lowered the landing ramp and stepped out on the planet’s surface. The ground was soft and mossy and gave slightly as his heavy armored form slithered forward. His official guide, provided by the closest settlement in this Ardos-forsaken wilderness, waited for him. It was a Pa’lowick of course, a mottled, spherical, body resting on stilt-like legs, its eye stalks raised in curiosity and its snout-like mouth pursed in apparent disapproval.

“I am Kashina Furt.” said the Pa’lowick. “I assume you are Parella the Hutt.”

“Parella the Hunter,” corrected Parella. “When I am on the hunt, I prefer that sobriquet.”

The Pa’lowick made a noise that sounded like a kloo horn with a cold. “I am your official representative for your hunt. You seek our legendary swamp ape?”

“Yes.” said Parella, “Though I know the beast by another name. He is a Gorach. He will be found here.”

Again the kloo horn-sniffing noise. “Are you certain? This part of our world is mostly unpeopled, save for the occasional duck snarer.”

Parella nodded. “Yes, but those trappers have spread the Legend of your swamp ape. Four-armed, hair like hanging moss, luminous yellow eyes, greenish pallor, twice your size. It is a Gorach.”

Kashina Furt made another noise, and Parella was sure that it was disapproval. “Our swamp ape is described as such, but that does not mean that it is your Gorach. The Gorach themselves are a legend.”

“A great legend.” said Parella.

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