Z's favorite space station, the Tapani follow-up

After leaving the Tapani sector, Oola's contacts in DUST inform her that a Tapani ship with some potentially dangerous files on it regarding House Pelagia has turned up on a commerce space station in Hutt Space, where it's on the auction block. They need to get those files before someone else does.

There are all sorts of colorful characters on the station, not to mention merchandise. Z has his eye on a set of Mandalorian armor that's up for sale, and he swears he won't leave without it. Oola, Z, Onna, and most likely Zann all stock up on whatever illegal goods make their lives as adventuring galactic heroes a little less deadly (for them). Several groups are eying the same ship the Starwind's crew is interested in, including a mercenary group led by a Bothan, an obvious Imperial spy backed by a very good one (Thrawn, keeping his eye on things, most likely; Zann thinks he knows the more talented one), Sareth Fenn (the DUST agent who helped them on the ghost ship), a dusty treasure hunter of Jedi artifacts who Ree spends some time chatting with (he gives her his contact information)...and Drath, who turns out to be accompanied by a clone of Obi Wan Kenobi.

Ohh, boy, this gets fun.

They're not sure how to go about this until Oola talks to Sureth Fenn, who asks, "Do you need your daddy to buy you a ship?" Oola, in a little girl voice: "Yeah." But with so many interested and shady-looking bidders, they can't trust that the ship will stay around that long, so the crew goes into sting mode. The key is to get that computer core out of that ship, so some of them stake the place out while Oola plants some useful gizmos. While they hope to take the thing out quietly, it all goes pear-shaped, of course. In the end, it turns into a screaming Force-enhanced battle explosions galore, thanks to Z getting creative with planting charges on Drath's ship, and violent combat breaking out among the various armed and dangerous visitors to the station cloak the action as Zann, Kedrihm'Val, and Z take on the Obi Wan clone, while Ree distracts Drath long enough for Oola to pull the computer core...after they all get over the sight of Z streaking naked through the halls on his way to leap into that Mandalorian armor.

The expression on Drath's face when he gets to the space that had previously held the core is priceless, but by then, Oola's droids have carted the thing to her safe little hiding spot. Drath and Obi Wan escape the premises, but the crew has what they came for, and they look like gloriously destructive heroes for saving the space station from lightsaber-wielding maniacs. The Zabrak who owns the station declares himself in their debt...and lets Z keep the armor ("Z, shouldn't you give that armor back?" Brief pause. Z: "I'm not wearing anything under it." Zabrak: "It's a gift!").