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Commander Tan stood with his hands folded behind his back, he observed the endless blackness of space and sighed. “Captain.” A soft voice spoke behind him. He turned and saw a young female Lieutenant. “You must be new around here.” His eyes showed no emotion, it wasn’t if the Duros had eyebrows. “Lieutenant Britjess Hazlege of Coruscant, Captain.” The woman spoke softly and the Commander nodded. “We have made contact and they are friendly to the New Republic. We are approved to land.” The Lieutenant informed the Captain regarding their approval to land on Praadost II. Commander Tan had be selected by the New Republic to assist the New Jedi Order in tracking down the “Fallen” either Jedi who went into hiding or those who had fallen to the Dark Side due to Order 66.
Commander Tan looked to his side and a Zabrak stood beside him, his facial tattoos and spiked head were odd to even the Duros but Ril didn’t really care. “Master Remus—I mean Master Strax.” Tan looked to the Jedi Padawan who had survived the Great Jedi Purge and had assumed the “Imperialized” name of Evander Remus but his actual name was Aeksei Strax, a Zabrak who had served as a Jedi warrior and then become one of the dozen Zabraks in service to the fighting Iridonian mercenary companies. He did not want anyone to know who he was but now with the New Republic and becoming a member of the New Jedi Order he was proud to be a Jedi again.
His connection with the force was weakened due to his attempts to hide it and mask it from prying eyes of the Galactic Empire. “It is okay Commander Tan; I’ve had to get use to it too.” The Jedi placed a hand on the Duros’ shoulder and he felt a sense of calm. “There is a Jedi here. I can sense it.” Strax stated. Strax was a powerful sensory Jedi, he was a young Padawan with much skill prior to Order 66 and now, despite the distance of the Force, he remained intertwined with the Force like a long lost lover. “We will find him. Please, let’s make planetfall.” Strax nodded at the Commander. The Commander nodded and motioned for the Lieutenant to bring Strax to the landing area.
Commander Tan was joining the expedition down on the planet. Praadost II was a heavily forested planet that technically belonged to the Galactic Empire but the Empire was unlikely to be present at all. Initial scans show that the Empire had vacated the Praadost System shortly at the destruction of the Death Star II. Commander Tan had stopped prior to arriving in the hanger to depart to the surface and notified the political attachment from the New Republic that they were potentially going to make contact with peoples and that they should dispatch more ships and scout vessels. Representatives from the Ministry of Galactic Affairs were all but obliged to be needed.
As the shuttle departed from the Liberator Commander Tan viewed out one of the windows several smaller scouting vessels, reconnaissance droids, departing from the two Sphyrna-class corvette's assigned to Commander Tan's task force.
OOC: As a note Aeksei Strax is a future character of mine; I'm doing some set-up RP for him so that he can be written in the very near future.