About yay-big.

The possible hijacking of the Cabal's space station is not to be, much to Oola's disgruntlement.

When the group lands on Coruscant, transporting their prisoners back, they split up. Ree goes to the Jedi Temple to report while the others hie off to take care of various things. The Temple, however, is oddly...empty. The door, normally open, allows her passage but closes again when she enters. Various details quickly add up to the certainty that something has gone massively wrong. She finds Dalt out of his cell and trying to crack some of the locks, and he helps her save some of the Temple's children ("Oh, what the hell, I'm going to die anyway," he says). Following a path of scorch marks along the walls and floor leads them to the Council Chambers, which Dalt breaks them into.

Inside, they find a possessed, black-eyed Luke with lightsaber drawn, being confronted by the Anakin clone, with most of the Masters lying dead around their feet. "This would never have happened if you hadn't brought that back," grumbles Dalt, gesturing vaguely with his hands to indicate something of maybe a cubic foot or so.

And then the Force-users wake up, safe on the ship and wildly uneasy. They call Kyp, but there's not much help to be had. None of them quite know what they saw...only that it portends something about as massively bad as they can imagine. They are able to identify the spirit shape they saw behind Luke as a Sith--a real Sith, as in the extinct evil Force-sensitive species. According to their impressions, there might've been a lot of them in there.

When they get to Coruscant, everybody goes to the report session together. Kyp tells Luke about the premonition privately, and they don't bring it up in the meeting. Afterward, following a hunch, Kedrihm'Val goes down to visit Dalt, who has little but complaints to offer, though he's a bit more satisfied now that he's able to cook (turns out he's a gourmet chef as well as a mad scientist). Kedrihm'Val waits to see if he'll say anything, and finally Dalt's curiosity overcomes him: "You didn't find anything about...yay-big, did you?" Yes, he had the vision too. No, he doesn't miraculously have his Force powers back. When Kedrihm inquires, he reluctantly admits that he built a Force-powered farseeing gizmo--from what, no one can figure out. "You're not going to let me keep it, are you?" he mumbles. Still, unwilling to allow his enemies to think he's gone soft, he insists, "Only way I'd save those kids is for later consumption."

"Sith eat babies?" Kedrihm'Val asks.

Later, annoyed with people constantly coming and going in her room, Ree enlists Z's help in wiring the place with better security. He's...a little overzealous about it. Just a tad. They're pretty sure pigeons landing on her balcony won't set anything off. They also discover that Lydia's going to be getting a teacher. She's decided to become a Jedi.

That's it for the good news. They're soon summoned back by the Council to be handed another mission, this time on Bothaui, the infamous center of the galaxy's espionage industry. Agents from Thule will be meeting someone there, and the group is to learn the details.

To that end, it's undercover time! They pose as filthy rich tourists and, erm, "shipping" industrialists. Ree gets to play a spoiled brat, which revolts her since that's exactly the kind of person she grew up loathing. She does her best, but proves incapable of being bitchy enough, so they do the next best thing: they assign SARR as her attache-droid. Oh, yes, this is going to be fun.

Upon arriving in their ludicrously expensive hotel suite, SARR begins layering on the complaints: "My mistress finds the bed too small." "They're very slow." "The servants should go before they break something." As he sees them out at the door, he passes them a credit chip, whispering, "Help me, she beats me!"

Kedrihm'Val and Oola, meanwhile, pose as, well, wealthy smugglers. To do this, they're told to dress extravagantly and throw money around like it's going out of style. So long as they don't get ridiculous, of course. The Republic's picking up the tab. Still having little clue as to how one handles large sums of money, Kedrihm'Val asks for clarification: "How much money is 'ridiculous?'" "You don't ask that kind of question," replies Kyp helpfully. "Just don't go buying starships or something."

On their first day of sight-seeing, Ree discovers to her surprise that she apparently finds public bathrooms distasteful. "Do you have any non-Zoo themed restrooms?" SARR asks of a passing employee.

"This is probably the worst day I've ever had," moans Ree when she gets back to her room. "Oh, we're just gearing up, honey," replies SARR. "Tomorrow's breakfast!" But her evening isn't over yet. Apparently Ree caught someone's eye, because someone named Jek Zillar sends up an invitation to dinner along with a thoroughly expensive ring. SARR claims that he earned the ring, so she tells him he can have it. Reading the invitation, Ree find that apparently he found her 'delightful wit' to be 'perfectly charming.' She's appalled.

Still, occupying the young man at dinner will buy the others time to sneak into his rooms and investigate, so she's stuck with the onerous duty. "Do I have to wear that ring?" she asks mournfully. Not necessarily, but "you might not want to tell him you have your droid wearing it," replies Zan. "It's mine," say SARR.

Over dinner, the following witticisms were heard:
"Sir, my mistress would like you to take several steps away from her table, as the stench of your failure is interfering with her meal."

"Pick that up, as I'm sure that, like the rest of your family, you d your best work on your knees."

"Meatbag! MEATBAG!"

Charming.

Meanwhile, Zan and Kedrihm'Val sneak into Zillar's room, where they find Z. He tells them Zillar is here to meet Darth Maul, but before they can do much else, two Massassi walk in on them. It's a fight! But it doesn't stay in Zillar's room for long. Z blows the floor out from under them, and all five combatants fall into the dining room below, landing on Ree's table. Z hooks a landmine onto one, while the second one gets staked. Jek takes Ree hostage, muttering something about how it's a shame, because he quite liked her. Irritated, she goes along obligingly, hoping to get him to spill the beans and then planning to subdue him. This he does, going on in true villainous monologue fashion about Dathomir, meeting Darth Maul, and dealing with the Shadow Academy. Then Kedrihm'Val, having followed along, ambushes him.*

Dusting herself off, Ree quips, "So much for my first date. The attention was nice, but the insults were a bit much." "Maybe we can do it again sometime," replies the irrepressible rogue, as he's led away by the authorities.

* I am here contractually obliged to note that a spectacular fight scene was stolen away from Ree's player by said ambush.