Malak got into the ship, and the cargo door hissed shut behind him. He walked toward the cockpit, removed his helmet and rolled the stiffness from his neck. He slipped into the cockpit and flipped the switch to start the main computer. A couple of seconds later the engines roared to life. He looked outside his ship and saw thousands of ships slithering slowly between the buildings. Some ascending, some descending in control lanes.
"Control this is SM-14447 requesting departure from pad 8."
A couple of seconds later, a reply came.
"SM-14447, departure approved. Proceed to corridor Aurek-seven, maintain vector ,and don't move towards restricted lanes."
"Understood." Malak said as he pushed the throttle forward.
The ship slowly lifted and quickly joined the massive traffic lane of Coruscant. He put on the autopilot and got up. He went to the kitchen to make himself some more caf, while waiting for the ship to pass the stratosphere. A couple of minutes later, he returned to the cockpit and watched the sky darken from smoggy orange to deep blue, then to complete darkness. A star after star appeared one after another, filled the dark space with their natural light. He put in the coordinates for MR-4821.77 GX9903-12 Cresh-19 and set the computer to calculate while he controlled the ship to get out of the Coruscant's outerspace traffic. Soon the calculations were done, and he entered into hyperspace.
Two days later the mantis exited hyperspace, and was in front of the massive green gas giant filled with storms.The planet, three times larger than Jupiter, was Tethraxis. A dense asteroid belt surrounded it by two shattered moons.
Malak carefully manoeuvred the ship toward the asteroid belt. He weaved through the smaller asteroids that had sent encrypted pings that only his ship could detect. Keeping a steady pace toward the middle of the ring. Soon a large asteroid came into view. He entered a passcode and a small door covered with asteroid rock opened into the side of the rotating asteroid. He slowly entered the hangar and saw a couple of different ships around him. He parked the Mantis while waiting for the radiation wash of the ship. After a through cleaning of the ship by the austromechs. He got out of the ship he passed trough the first door and said.
"Maze, status of radiation shields around the base. Any entries into the star system while I was gone?"
"Master, the status of the radiation shield is 100 percent operational. And no entries into the star system ." A female voice sounded above him."
"Tomorrow I will go on another mission. Look through my holocomm and compile the data about the target. I will see to it in half an hour. Also order WR-67 to remove the weapons from the mantis and clean them. " Malak ordered as he entered into the armoury. He removed his armour and put it on a stand then he pressed a cleaning button. That pressure washed the armour. And the undergarments. While waiting , he took a shower in his resting space. Afterward he put on some clothes and sat on the sofa in the living room. He got the holopat and looked through his holocomm.
"The two messages are compiled master." Maze said.
Malak opened them and looked trough the information.
Assassination of a republic senator close to the Hutt cartel space.
The assassination does not need to be confirmed.
Senator: Virella Tann incorruptible new senator in Orvannis trade world that interferes in cartel interest.
Sender: Jabba the Hutt private order and the Hutt cartel placed a public order for the assassination.
"So two rewards for the same target from the same organisation. Jabba must be angry to type to me personally for my services." Malak thought.
"Might as well take it. 200000 credits is not a small sum." The mandalorian thought. As he confirmed the order.
Next he opened the last message from the chieftain of Vorn clan.
"I will be busy this time I can come at the end of the year." He replied cople of minutes later while he edited his video of Master Windu a lone reply arrived .
"Understood."
Malak sighed as he continued editing. Later that night. He got to bed and slept.
In the morning with fresh brew of caf he went into the living room.
"Maze get me all the information about this senator." Malak ordered as he opened Holonews on his projector.
A couple of minutes later a data packet came trough his personal holopat. He opened it.
The Female senator of office 1 year with 3 assassination attempts in the last month, lives at the Twin Towers in Orvannis, floor 312.
"Hmmm. What is the distance between the twin towers?" Malak asked.
"200 meters. And she is on the other side of the Twin Tower." Maze said immediately.
"Too close." he thought.
Open the map of the city.
In 3 seconds the map opened. A skyscraper was seen at the distance what is the distance from this corporate skyscraper and the twin tower. " malak asked. And the map showed 1500 meters. He scratched himself, while thinking.
"Viable." He said out loud.
"Order WR to get me the SM Las sniper rifle. With a tripod. And bring it to vorn class stealth ship. Also fill the jetpack and two pistols. I will depart in 4 hours prepare the base for shutdown from the grid." Malak ordered in quick succession as he put an episode of his favourite holodrama.
Four hours already armoured up he got into the cockpit of the Vorn class stealth ship and departed from his base.
He punched the coordinates for Orvannis. And waited for the final calculation. Because the planet was on the mid rim the computer calculated the distance for only 4 minutes.
The ship entered the hyperspace.
A day in half later the ship exited the hyperlane, behind the last planet.
In full stealth mode the ship passed all controls and landed on a pad in the darker side of the planet.
From the black market Malak bought a used speederbike registered on some poor fool, that is desperate for spice. He drove it into the city leaving it in a garage which is a cashe place for the cartel. There he waited until the night.
In 3:00 local time he moved trough the city unnoticed. He jumped from roof to roof using his jetpack until he reached the twin towers. From the nearby building he sent couple of scouts scouting the layout of the building and the guards that are stationed he watched the droids vision in his helmet. Mapping everything that can be useful.
"Just as I thought. The security is two tight after the previous attempts. Direct assault will be unwise, if I want to be unseen. " malak thought as he send one of his droids to activate the alarms of the building. When the droid got close the alarms went off. He timed response time.
"Two minutes and twenty seconds. It needs to be clean." The mandalorian thought as he stealthily went back to the cashe. Where he went to the corporate skyscraper he tried to hack the alarms with a slicer droid and the droid barely succeeded.
"Alright, let's hope our senator has a good last morning." He thought as he went back to the garage. He reved the engine and turned between the tall buildings towards the corporate skyscraper. He moved silently into the garage where he used the pass key to enter silently. From there he used the jammer from his vambrace to shut down the security scanner and cameras. Looping the same stillnes that came before him. He moved through the floors silently even though no one is in the building except the security in the lobby. He got up on the 313th floor and placed the tripot. He assembled the SM las sniper rifle. And waited while he ate a nutrient pack.
Soon the sunrise came he sliced the window and lay down on the ground making final adjustments to the scope. He released droids from his jetpack that directly flew to the twin tower. Where he waited for the droids to locate the target. Soon at 8:00 the target got out of the bed and went to the living room she spoke eith one of the security guards.
"Don't worry senator at midnight the alarm went off butt it was a false alarm. No one is stepping even close to this building that does not work here and your floor is sealed.
Meanwhile one brown cloaked person exited the shuttle taxi and went towards the entrance of the building.
The droids located him and directly sent an urgent message to the mandalorian.
"Kriff, a jedi! I keep clashing with them this year. So unlucky." The mandalorian said out loud.
"C'mon, c'mon move out of the damn column! Don't make my work harder." The mandalorian thought as he tried to keep calm.
Soon Virella Tann stood up and went to the caf machine.She stared it to warm up she placed her cup and waited for the cup to fill up.
The droids locked her coordinates and estimated 7 seconds window for a shot.
The Mandalorian saw the trajectory and quickly aligned with it and took one shot half a second later he took a second shot 0.002 downangle.
Meanwhile Virella spoke to her husband.
"Don't worry, darling the security locked everything no one will touch you in this. Building."her husband said.
" I know just this month is too much for me the cartels placed a bounty for me. And I can't prove it because it came to me through encrypted mesa…."
"DOWN." She heard a female voice in her mind and instinctively ducked down.
Half a second later, a las blast came through the window and hit the fridge behind her, destroying it completely.
The second shot struck her while she was ducking, exploding her head like a watermelon.
"VIRELLAA!" The husband screamed as he saw the headless corpse of her wife.
"Mission accomplished. Time to get the kriff out." The mandalorian thought as he gathered his equipment, broke the window with his vibroknife and jumped directly from the 313 floor.