After boarding the Corellian shuttle Kist Fisto and a small squad made up of five judicial forces soldiers and three medics with kits of medical supplies swiftly noticed the devastated state of the craft's interior.
Bright sparking wires could be seen hanging out from the walls and ceiling. Loss floor panels shifting about floor as the ship swayed. Streams of sparks erupting from broken light fixers, and high pressured steam spraying from busted pipes.
Seeing such conditions the group moved with haste to investigate the ship, in search of any injured survivors.
They soon made contact with the ships crew and passengers. Still shaken from the pirates attack, upon first seeing Fisto and the Judicial soldiers the civilians panicked. Mistakenly believing them to be members of the pirates that attacked them.
Nearly causing several of the ships security officers to open fire Fisto and co on the spot.
But Fisto luckily managed to calm the situation down and explained who they were. After the explanation the medics and soldiers moved to provide medical aid to anyone who needed.
Fortunately most of the passengers and crew who numbered a little over 120 people were unharmed, with only a few suffering minor bruises and scars. As a result of them getting tossed around in the ship during the pirates assault.
Sadly however there were still five confirmed casualties. Two of who died from receiving the blast from a major power junction that short circuited and exploded from a missile hitting the ships outer hull.
The remaining three were engineers who perished in the engineering Room.
Cause of death was from a large shrapnel explosion that ingulfed the entire room. Likely from when the ships external engines were destroy by the pirates, causing a cascade of explosions through the engine systems that reached all the why back to main engine room.
"May they find ever lasting peace as they become one with the force'
Kit Fisto gave a small prayer for the deceased.
Than began looking them over in an attempt to find some form of ID on their person. So that their next of kin can be contacted and their remains returned to them.
While Fisto disliked having to disturb the bodies of the dead, with most of the shuttles systems completely fried from the attack he couldn't access the shuttles flight roster to find their identities.
Having finished checking the first three corpses he spotted some small movement coming from underneath the last two. These were the two who had perished from an electrical explosion.
Getting closer Fisto noticed the bodies positioning and thought it was strange how the two were in a clutched position together, as if they were trying to protect something.
As he knelt down next to the bodies Fisto briefly scanned them for, he barley recognized one as a male human and the other was a female miraluka, due to both having sever electrical scarring around their faces and upper body.
The damage was bad and recent that if one looked closely they'd still make out faint wafts of smoke rising from their burnt flesh.
"Please forgive me for this discourtesy that I about to do to you"
Fisto apologized in advance before he began pulling the two apart them from each other to see what was underneath them.
He would soon see with a shock what it was.
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"I see. Indeed this truly is something worth protecting, even to the death"
In a sorrowful bitter tone Fisto spoke to him self as he looked down at the tiny object in front of him. Nestled in the bosom of the now decease.
"Master jedi sir we finished treating all injured civilians, we're ready to begin moving them over to the ships. Awaiting your or----!!"
"Is something wrong solider"
"No! No! sir nothings wrong. Its just umm. Sir is---is that a baby"
After the soldiers and medics finished providing basic medical aid to those who needed it one soldier moved towards to Kit Fisto to report to him that they were ready to start transferring the civilians over to the ships, due to the civilian shuttle being beyond repair.
The damage was so bad that several of the solider felt it was a miracle that shuttles life support hasn't failed already.
As he spoke the soldier became curious about what the kneeling Fisto was staring at and looked over his shoulder. To see a cloth wrapped baby squirming.
"Indeed it is"
"My god it needs immediate medical attention sir, it has no eyes!"
"Calm yourself soldier. There's no need to be alarmed, I'm guessing this must your first time see a miraluka, is it?"
"A miraluka? what's that"
Not wanting to waste time Fisto refrained from answering the soldiers' question, turning back to the bodies.
"It seems this women here most likely was this child's mother. Meaning this man was likely the father"
Fisto gestured to deceased miraluka women's body and then to the deceased man's.
"I see, please forgive me. This is my first encounter with this species"
"Think nothing of if. But now let us quickly move this little one and the others to our ship"
Fisto reached down with both his arms to pick up the infant, but as some as he made physical contact with the child, a large burst of force energy repulsed from the infant, send both Kit Fisto and the soldier flying into the surrounding walls.
Despite the great force that was just release the child remained in place where he lied completely undisturbed, sleeping as was if nothing had happened.
Recovering from the blast Fisto got to his feet and checked on the soldier who fortunately was not injured.
Once the two of them were sure both of them were alright they then stared at the baby, wondering what happen. But it didn't take Fisto long to realize what had just happened. To realize that this child who was barely over a year had not only used the force, but did it at such a magnitude, It left him star struck.
After several seconds of staring Fisto slowly walked back over to the child. With the goal of making a second attempt to pick the child up. This time as he draw nearer Fisto made sure to be more careful when attempting to pick up the baby.
"Sir! are you sure you should try that again. For all we know something worse my happen if we try to mess with that baby"
"You fear is understandable be we cant just leave it here. So please stay back as I approach it"
This time Fisto succussed without a repeat of the incident, and was cradling the one year old in his arms.
Shortly after, all the civilians from the shuttle were moved to the judicial forces ships. But because of the shear volume of the number of passengers that exceeded 100, it was decided they'd be split up among three of the light cruisers. It would a bit a tight fit given the available space on the ships, but it was doable.
After returning Fisto moved the child to the lead cruisers medical bay and placed it in an infant pod. And entrusting the child to the ships doctor to began all the basic medical examination and tests to checks for any abnormalities or injuries. After the order he then returned to the ships bridge to follow up with the captain.
"Master Fisto how's the condition with the civilians"
"For the most part they are well captain. Most were uninjured, with only a handful having minor injuries. They've begun settling down from their ordeal and are now just waiting to get back to safer space. Regrettably however a few on board were found dead when we boarded the shuttle, likely a result of the pirate's attack."
"I see, a pity. If only we had arrived sooner."
The captain said solemnly with closed eyes. As he lamented the loss of life.
"Come now captain, we help no one by focusing on that we can not chance. Let us focus on what can still be done. Did we gain any useful information from any of the enemy freighter's computers?"
"Surprisingly yes, we did. After accessing their system's navigation logs we discovered that they a relatively small base on nearby baren world in the next system over in fact. The communication logs has also helped us determine that the pirates overall were made up of a force of about 54 members, but after destroying their starfighters and capturing those board their mother ship. We estimate that their base still have roughly about 31 men left stationed at the base"
"I see, good to hear. Then your forces will be more than sufficient to deal with them, since I will be returning to Coruscant with the non combatants"
"Wait! What! why! no fair!"
Gortena immediately began throwing a tantrum at Fisto after being told that fisto would be leaving to return home. Some thing that Gortena had made very obvious was something he himself desired very much.
After some how managing to calm the captain down Fisto explained to him the importance of getting the newly rescued civilians to safely. After all have non combatants around when they launch their attack on the pirate base will only make their job harder.
He also noted that his present was not really required for the task force to deal with a measly 30 pirates. Since the other jedi that assigned this mission with him would remain with the task force, providing more than enough help.
So he reasoned that his priority as a jedi was now to insured that the civilians remained unharmed on the way back. Captain Gorten after hearing Fisto's explanation, though not fully satisfied reluctantly agreed and withdraw any farther opposition.
After farther deliberations hashing out the details, it was agreed upon that the two of the five cruisers and the majority of their starfighters will continue the mission and to travel the pirate base to deal with them.
Kit Fisto would take command of the three cruisers already carrying the civilians and a couple of headhunter fighters to serve as escorts, they'd begin making the journey back to Coruscant, the capital world of the Galactic Republic.