[Wedge didn’t like being relegated to the sidelines but he kept that to himself and just accepted Luke’s decision with his typical near unflappable calm.]
You’re right, it’s unfortunate, but you’re right. [He said regretfully. The only sign of his hidden agitation was the restless way the brunette was toying with the handle of the mug holding his half-finished caf.] I’ll reach out to my contacts and see what I can dig up.
[Mirax was currently smuggling cargo both for the Resistance and for other independent entities, or at least she had been last time they’d spoken together on the holonet.] What kind of ship? What's your cover story going to be? I'm sure we can hustle you up some kind of nondescript freighter pretty easily, especially if you're looking to go the smuggler route.
[His brows knit together in a concerned frown for a moment though as he considered his next words carefully. The last thing Luke needed was him needlessly pointing out that if Boba Fett had decided to cart Han off to say the central systems or even Coruscant itself to be made an example of by the Emperor, the chances of them successfully rescuing him plummeted to near zero.]
But depending on where in the galaxy you're going, a craft that will mark you as a smuggler or someone who just plain doesn't belong in that area is going to end up being more of a pain in the long run. Do you have any idea where Fett was planning on taking Han?
[Luke flashed a smile, because he did know, he had a lead from Lando. And despite what had happened, he trusted the gambler.]
He was taking him to Jabba directly. And I know exactly where to find Jabba.
[It wasn't really a secret that the gangster had a fortress set up on Luke's homeworld, after all. It was getting someone close to Jabba that was going to be the problem. He had some ideas, but getting a smuggler in close was going to be the goal.]
The plan is to get someone into his palace, and in his good graces. Leia and I are working out the specifics, but we were thinking a bounty hunter, someone who can come and go most places unnoticed. Probably not me, because my face is right up there with yours on the list of most wanted men in the Galaxy...but a freighter we could scrub the title from would be perfect.
[Yeah, it's an audacious plan, but that's something the two of them have done before.]
Also, if you know someone with contacts in the slicer community, maybe someone who knows about setting up a fake identity?
[The bounty had specified dead was just as preferable as alive, if his memory served him right. Plenty of people in the Rebellion had a Death Mark on their heads but Jabba apparently had a pretty big axe to grind because he’d placed a significant bounty out on the smuggler.
So hearing that bloated parasite of a worm had Han Solo in his grasp had a chill running up Wedge’s spine.] The princess’s face is just as recognizable as yours. She’s been a burr in the Empire’s side long enough that I’m pretty sure her holo has been blasted across the entire universe. You’re going to need an unknown face or a hell of a disguise. See if you can hook up with some of General Cracken’s people over there in Intelligence? Not that the princess probably doesn’t have all of that well in hand.
[He admitted with a crooked looking smile.] By the time you and I finish flapping out gums, she’s prolly gotten three-quarters of an extraction plan already worked up.
[Wedge admired the hell out of Leia Organa, not because she was royalty or one of the ‘faces’ of the Rebellion but because she’d proven time and again that she had just as much mettle as the lowliest, most hard-working grunt. In a way he almost might have been able to scrounge up the tiniest bit of pity for the foolish bounty hunter and the damned slug who’d conspired to steal Han Solo away. Leia wouldn’t stop until she’d either seen the smuggler home safely or avenged his death if it came to that.]
I’ll see what I can come up with but again, that’s definitely something the people over in Intelligence should be able to help you out with. Faking identities and inserting operatives into hostile environments is their job.
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Date: 2018-02-21 02:29 am (UTC)You’re right, it’s unfortunate, but you’re right. [He said regretfully. The only sign of his hidden agitation was the restless way the brunette was toying with the handle of the mug holding his half-finished caf.] I’ll reach out to my contacts and see what I can dig up.
[Mirax was currently smuggling cargo both for the Resistance and for other independent entities, or at least she had been last time they’d spoken together on the holonet.] What kind of ship? What's your cover story going to be? I'm sure we can hustle you up some kind of nondescript freighter pretty easily, especially if you're looking to go the smuggler route.
[His brows knit together in a concerned frown for a moment though as he considered his next words carefully. The last thing Luke needed was him needlessly pointing out that if Boba Fett had decided to cart Han off to say the central systems or even Coruscant itself to be made an example of by the Emperor, the chances of them successfully rescuing him plummeted to near zero.]
But depending on where in the galaxy you're going, a craft that will mark you as a smuggler or someone who just plain doesn't belong in that area is going to end up being more of a pain in the long run. Do you have any idea where Fett was planning on taking Han?
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Date: 2018-02-22 06:13 pm (UTC)He was taking him to Jabba directly. And I know exactly where to find Jabba.
[It wasn't really a secret that the gangster had a fortress set up on Luke's homeworld, after all. It was getting someone close to Jabba that was going to be the problem. He had some ideas, but getting a smuggler in close was going to be the goal.]
The plan is to get someone into his palace, and in his good graces. Leia and I are working out the specifics, but we were thinking a bounty hunter, someone who can come and go most places unnoticed. Probably not me, because my face is right up there with yours on the list of most wanted men in the Galaxy...but a freighter we could scrub the title from would be perfect.
[Yeah, it's an audacious plan, but that's something the two of them have done before.]
Also, if you know someone with contacts in the slicer community, maybe someone who knows about setting up a fake identity?
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Date: 2018-04-07 04:25 am (UTC)So hearing that bloated parasite of a worm had Han Solo in his grasp had a chill running up Wedge’s spine.] The princess’s face is just as recognizable as yours. She’s been a burr in the Empire’s side long enough that I’m pretty sure her holo has been blasted across the entire universe. You’re going to need an unknown face or a hell of a disguise. See if you can hook up with some of General Cracken’s people over there in Intelligence? Not that the princess probably doesn’t have all of that well in hand.
[He admitted with a crooked looking smile.] By the time you and I finish flapping out gums, she’s prolly gotten three-quarters of an extraction plan already worked up.
[Wedge admired the hell out of Leia Organa, not because she was royalty or one of the ‘faces’ of the Rebellion but because she’d proven time and again that she had just as much mettle as the lowliest, most hard-working grunt. In a way he almost might have been able to scrounge up the tiniest bit of pity for the foolish bounty hunter and the damned slug who’d conspired to steal Han Solo away. Leia wouldn’t stop until she’d either seen the smuggler home safely or avenged his death if it came to that.]
I’ll see what I can come up with but again, that’s definitely something the people over in Intelligence should be able to help you out with. Faking identities and inserting operatives into hostile environments is their job.