[Erax]

Seeker I, Captain's log, SGY 2401.9:

We've just arrived back at Syned, coming from the new system called Keedad. As soon as we left the wormhole on the trip out we started picking up comm signals. This system was even busier than Galthus, with five inhabited planets and at least four ships. And they were all talking to each other in several Languages, Basic among them, on the wavelengths the Empire uses for civilian communications. For a while we thought we were back on the Outer Rim.

Our arrival caused quite a stir. First they warned us that the whole system was private property, then they seemed to recognize us and all of a sudden became very polite. I had a very interesting talk with their flight control staff and then with their starport manager. The man looked like he was expecting a fleet of Star Destroyers to come out of the wormhole behind us.

He told me this system was settled by a Hutt trade caravan that got their jump codes mixed up and ended up out here. Knowing the Hutt, I'm pretty sure their 'trade goods' included slaves, guns and mercenaries, so they had no trouble making a home for themselves on one of the planets.

They invited us down to their capital, but I had no intention of letting them find out that we were all of the Imperial Navy in this sector. I told them we were on a scouting mission for the Empire and that proper communications would be established as soon as we relayed their position back to Fleet Command. All of it true enough and it allowed us to back out through the wormhole before their warships reached us.

Admiral Wiers wanted us to head back to Virgillia to resupply, but I convinced him to let us make one more trip out. By the time we get to the next wormhole, step through and then back, Syned I will be colonized by the new Comet ship and they can start building a resupply depot. The Seeker can get supplies faster by waiting for the depot to be finished than by flying to Virgillia and back. If the Hutt find out about my little deception and decide to attack, they'll have to come through this system anyway and it's better to face them here than at the sector capital.