The Hypershuttle arced skywards, engines on full. "So you escape death again Rosser." muttered a bruised and wounded Carlos. Damn, the leg was beginning to bleed again, where was that medic!. "Medic!" "MEDIC!" "ALMAZ!...where the hell are you!?'

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!

A thunderous explosion fills your eardrums, you instinctively duck and unholster your Blaster pistol. Looking towards the direction of the sound, you see a charred and blackened figure sailing through the air above you. The body hits the building opposite and drops to the pavement with a sickening thud. You recognise the armour.

'Great...just great...'

With the andriod Rosser still alive and apparently nursing a grudge against you and your companions, you decided to leave the planet of Ban Satiir IV and move with your family to New Alderaan. If Rosser and his buddies could track you down to a fairly unknown world, then they could do it again. New Alderaan would prove a whole lot safer for your family for several reasons.

1. Kayleigh is an Alder and has relations there.
   
   
2. The No weapons policy on New Alderaan would make kidnapping a lot harder. The security systems at the space port are the best in the galaxy and can detect and known weapon.
   
   
3. It would be easy for a security specialist to get a job there.

After spending a couple of years in the New Alderaan Police Force (with your experience you quickly made Detective), you where asked to join the new Interstellar Police Force (IPF). This new service was created to deal with criminals who had a galaxy wide operation.

Increasingly in the last four years, several worlds in the New Republic have been victims of terrrorist attacks. The worlds generally on the outer rim of Sector 2 (Laj, Kail, Sen III and Eskion) have had several key installations destroyed apparently for no reason. The terrorist calling themselves "Brothers of the Star" make no demands or give any warning. You are assigned the job of gathering information on these terrorists and hopefully to track them down.

After several months of investigation (with no real success) you were alerted by your underworld contacts that several large purchases of weaponry had been made on the planet of Dra III. You immediately went straight to this system and after careful discussions with the planetary police authority, set up an ambush operation. You were infiltrated into one of the larger illegal arms suppliers, working as a hired thug. After 8 months you managed to gain the confidence of the crime boss and were "promoted" to be his right hand man.

The months of waiting paid off, rumours of a group of individuals looking for a large supply of weaponry came to you attention. These people also claimed to have a large amount of hard currency with which to make the purchase. It had to be the group that you were looking for. You managed to persuade your crime boss to offer his organisation's services to this group (simultaneously tipping off the police force). A deal was made and the time and place of the transaction agreed.

Need I say more, when the two groups met for a exchange of arms and money, you and the police were there waiting for them. After a bloodbath which resulted in 53 criminals and 9 Police Officers being killed, you managed to stop the transaction. The terrorist group (six people) were unfortunately also killed in the crossfire.

Ooophs!

After checking dental records, the six were indentified and you discovered that they have been operating in this sector for some time (bank robberies, thefts, etc). The leader of this group and the seventh member was a man called Gant. He hadn't taken part in the arms transaction and was still on the loose.

After checking police archives for all data connected to Gant, you discovered something very interesting. Gant and his group had robbed a bank on Ord Mantell only 4 months before the arms operation. This would explain the hard cash the group had boasted about. More importantly, the report of the bank robbery had indicated that the pilot of the getaway ship had been captured. The pilot's name, Mattlock Starfighter.

You immediately went to the Ord Mantell system to question Starfighter about Gant. Unfortunately Starfighter said we would only co-operate with you if he was released from prison (He was serving a 845 year sentence). This the authorities would not allow (Gant's group had killed several civilians during the heist). Mattlock said he hadn't known about this and had been step up.

No luck here, so you went to Mon Calamar, where the old Imperial Data Banks were located (the most exhaustive in the galaxy) to see if they could turn up something. You stayed at your old friend McJimmy the Finn's residence.

During your stay, one of the Space Docks above Mon Calamar exploded. The dock belonged to McJimmy Engineers and contained the new MC-90 Light Cruiser "Freedom". This new class had been devised to combat the rampant pirate attacks in this area. Initial reports indicated a reactor fault on the "Freedom". McJimmy said that was impossible, there had to be some other reason. Since you hadn't found anything on Gant you offered your services to the Mon Calamari authorities.

After careful investigation is soon became apparent that it was no reactor fault that has caused the explosion. Only carefully planted explosive devices could have caused the total system failure on the space dock. You passed this information onto the authorites.

IPF MESSAGE: Code BLUE: Assignment CHANGE: EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

Go to New Alderaan. Meeting 1300 hours. You will be IPF's contribution to new task force to combat emerging space pirate threat. All other assignments secondary.