To the Tapani Sector

Having family in the Tapani Sector is not uncommon for Jedi, apparently. House Pelagia has been allied with the Jedi since ancient times, and since the Tapani Sector was somewhat autonomous from the Empire, a number of Jedi went into hiding there. So off they go.

When they arrive at the museum that contains the relevant records, they interrupt a robbery: three bored noble boys, from all appearances, who've crashed the place to grab stuff. They stop it, of course, but upon returning the items, they notice that what Ree came to look at--something that strongly resembles one of the Jedi medallions--isn't among the recovered goods. Or rather, a fake copy of it is. Ree spots it because the real thing glowed with the Force, but this duplicate's just a dud. Inspection reveals that the real one seems to have been pocketed by one of the guards, but the guy clears out before they can try to call him on it. And the boys who broke in are from the family that donated the collection. So what really happened here?

Investigation gets them into trouble, of course. While respected as dignitaries, Jedi are not legal operatives in the Tapani Sector, and one of the port officials, Commander Teris, is suspicious of Ree and her friends. What's more, he bears a family resemblance to Dalt, which makes them suspicious of him.

The trail leads to signs of intrigue among the noble families. In the Tapani Sector? Go figure. Turns out, one of the Tapani noble families, Pelagia, had a history of producing Jedi, and helped to hide them from the Emperor. A couple of others, however, were not so pleasant, and wound themselves into a conspiracy with Palpatine back in the day. House Mecetti, especially, has ancient history with the Sith, and even shows signs that it may foster Dark Siders in the gene pool, and House Melantha was strongly pro-Imperial during Palpatine's reign, which cost them their position when the Empire fell.

They get themselves invited to a party so they can learn more. There, Oola spots a tiny spy-cam, which takes pains to avoid her. Then somebody turns out the lights and Ree ends up in a chase with someone whom she spots stealing the fake medallion, while Kedrihm'Val follows the guard who stole the thing in the first place, hoping that this guy might lead him to whomever is behind this. But Ree and Kedrihm both lose their respective quarries when Drath turns up!


Following the party, the group gets sat down by Teris, who demands an explanation and turns out to be one of the good guys. In the name of justice and order and a Mountie-like determination to never let the bad guy get away, he helps them set up a trap: set up another party by letting the donor family know that it was Ree Shevan who saved their collection. There, they can make it look like the guard got the wrong item, and then follow him to whomever he's working for when he steals the "real" object.

It...kind of works, except there's an element none of them planned on: Drath was expecting their trap and reprogrammed the droids at the museum with SARR's personality.

A whole room full of SARRs. The Force help them.

Fortunately for life and sanity across the galaxy, SARR himself doesn't take kindly to this copyright infringement of his identity, and shuts them all down. Ree catches the thief, then she and Zann take off in pursuit of Drath, who escapes in his ship.

In the end, they're left with suspicions they can't prove about House Mecetti, but that's okay, because the good guys end up with the stuff everyone was after. Zann, who disappeared during the party, managed to retrieve the stolen medallion. Ree finally gets her meeting with House Pelagia, who're joyful to finally be able to turn over their vault full of Jedi secrets to the people it belongs to, including their family coin.