T'sal's Knight Trial

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T'sal is send to an area in space where several spaceships have went missing to investigate it. In a shuttle she flies to the area and finds a space station. It did not seem to be owned by any faction or superpowers and scanning the station did not show anything special. She hails the station and suddenly she is caught in a tractor beam and it is pulling her into the space station. When she arrives in the hangar and goes outside to take a look see sees the missing ships. They are functional but empty.

T'sal goes to a control panel and hacks into the system, she finds a map. She locates the tractor beam room, the hangar control room and a laboratory. When she tries to leaves she feels danger at the door, there seems to be some kind of trap installed. Luckily there is another way at a high balcony and with a force jump T'sal is up. Using her stealth and guidance from the Force she goes to the tractor beam room, she manages to avoid the droid patrols. In the room T'sal discover that a complex automated system is controlling the tractor beam and the hangar doors. She hacks into the system disables the tractor beam and rewrite the programm to open the doors when she hails the station. Just as she tries to writes a cover programm so they would not she that the tractor beam is off access is denied and she feels danger. T'sal quickly leaves and goes to the laboratory.

Once T'sal arrives at the door of the laboratory she gets an unpleasant feeling. There are a lot of people behind it. As this was the only way leading to the lab T'sal had to enter this door, it would open by pressing a button. T'sal carefully enter the room, there she sees the missing crews member beating bound and wired to various machine with monitors showing a lot of data. It seemed they were used as guinea pigs for some kind of experiment. Suddenly she is welcomed by professor Longenough from a high balcony. He offers T'sal two choices, she either helps him with his research which could possible save thousands or stop him and then the research station would be destroyed and the data lost. T'sal tries to start a conservation with him, but he does not want to talk much. He wants proof of what her choice is. A panel opens and reveals a syringe. She has to take the blood from a zebrak and put it into an human.

T'sal tries to get a better grabs of the situation, but is not able to find a way to get save both the research and the people. She jumps up to the professor and knocks him down, but just before he manages to push the self destruct button. T'sal frees the crew. She wants to stop the self destruct system, but that will take to long. She takes the professor and helps everybody get to their ships and out of the station. The stations explodes just after they reach a save distance. T'sal asks the ships to come with her to Unity so they can get a thourough medical checkup. Once she arrive back Union security take the professor in custody and master Leithor is way for her. He congratulates her on completing the mission.