"Easy hunt" the Mandalorian says as he rains fire on 3 lone Banshees. The banshees quickly start to use evasive maneuvers, but by the time they do, each banshee has suffered damage to one of their wings, causing it to lose speed. With the Banshees becoming sitting ducks, Ian immediately blows up the one in the middle, causing a explosion and sending the other two purple winged fighters take damage from the explosion and the fragments. The Arc-170 turns around and fires the left banshee. Once destroyed, the Arc-170 flies upward, spins around, flies downward and destroys the final covenant fighter. Ian smirks under his helmet as a small screen appears in front of him with his Experience, credits, and items gained. Ian keeps flying around to find any more rogue fighters that he can defeat. As the green eyed Mandalorian flies through space, a red button start blinking several times on the ships right control panel. Ian looks it it a bit confused at it and starts pressing a few buttons and turns several knobs. Once he finishes a static noise is heard. Ian then starts tuning in to the frequency.

"H-help!....separatist....boarding my....." A static female voice is heard on the comm channel. Ian locks on to the location of distress signal and flies his fighter towards the coordinates.

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'There it is....' Ian thinks as he looks to a light Jedi cruiser floating in space, with two hunter pods (or are they droid boarding ships. Idk but they came out in the Rising Malevolence episode) attached to the hull of the ship. Ian puts on his helmet and opens the cockpit to his fighter, jumps outside, and lands next to a pod. Afterwards the mandalorian uses his jet pack to get find an entrance. After a while of searching, he finds a hole about 6 feet in diameter. 'Looks like a battle took place. Must've been a misfired missile or something' Ian thinks as he flies inside the ship. He looks left and right just to see several Spartan players floating around. Dead. He also finds several destroyed super battle droids. 'Guess they didn't stand a chance' Ian thinks as he head to the elevator shaft which has the elevator completely ripped out somehow. Ian peeks inside and looks up to see the bridge elevator door opened by force. As he flies his way upwards he hears a feminine scream coming from the bridge. Once Ian is at the bridge, he sees 5 super battle droids. 2 guarding the elevator door, two looking for information, and the last one holding a blonde blue-eyed teen wearing some short-short, a sleeveless blue shirt with some music notes patter going across the shirt.

"Intruder" one of the guarding super battle droids says as he and his buddy turn around to face Ian. Ian immediately reacts by drawing his blasters and shooting the guarding droids in the red glowing circle placed on their chest. With that they stumble backwards and float off as two other super battle droids start firing at the green eyed soldier. Ian flys and upwards a bit and throws two emp grenade. Deactivating the separatist droids. With the last droid keeping the blonde a hostage, Ian fires 5 shots straight at its back, causing the droids to lose power and be destroyed. Ian flies towards the female teen that was being held hostage. "You alright?" Ian asks. The girl then crawls a little bit backwards, afraid of the soldier standing in front of her. "Guess I sound scary with my helmet on" Ian says as he proceeds to remove his helmet. "As I said. Are you alright?" Ian asks again.

"I-I guess I am now" the teen says softly. "Alright. Want to explain what happened to your ship?" The black haired player says. "My ship was intercepted and was boarded by two hunter pods all carrying B-1 droids and a several super battle droids. My friends and other players held off for as long as they could but....died in the battle..." She says the last part sadly.

"I'm sorry about your friends" Ian says with a small tone of comfort. "It's all my fault..." The female teen says. "Well we can't do anything about them. I have to ask you something"

"What is it?" The girl asks

"You look familiar. Are you a pop star or something?" Ian says trying to guess where he have seen the person in front of him

"Yes! I am! I'm Lief. The pop star. Are you a fan?"

"No. I'm not into music or anything relating to famous people" Ian admits his disliking.

"I'm sorry to hear that..." She replies a bit hurt

"But some of your songs are good. I've heard them cause of my cousin. She's a fan" Ian says

"Oh. That's cool" she smiles.

"Well, do you have a class and armor cause your not going to survive a long time in the vacuum of space with that" Ian says

"Well I got the special edition personally from the game producer so I have a clone class with some things other players didn't get. Such as being able to breath a bit longer on the vacuum of space. But even so I'll still not survive that much. As for armor, I chose the limited edition Clone Cadet armor. I like it" she replies.

"Put that on then. Cause I'm taking you to somewhere safe" Ian says as he puts his helmet back on. Lief then opens her menu and goes to her armor slot and activates her clone cadet armor which then starts to appear on her. "Here, you'll need this to survive" Ian hands a DC-15S blaster. Lief nods and turns the gun from stun to lethal. "So what made you get this death game?" Ian asks curiously as he walks to the elevator. "Well. It was more of a challenge. It's the Artificial Challenge or something. Lots of famous people did it as well. Since I can't meet some fans in the real world. I got the game to meet some of them without leaving my house" she answers as she stands next to the Mandalorian. Ian then puts one arm around her waist, causing the pop star to blush. "I only have one jet pack." Ian says as he flies down the shaft and outside the hole he came from. "Also. Are you sure it was just the challenge?" Ian says as he opens the cockpit with one hand. "Yea. Why do you ask?" Lief answers and questions him.

"Well. Any one like you that just got the game for that reason wouldn't have known by what they got boarded, or what armor and class they chose, or even know that I put the blaster at stun. I assume you like Star Wars" Ian says as he sits the pop star inside the co pilot and puts her seatbelt on. "That's not true!" Leif defends herself. "I won't tell anyone if it embarrasses you" Ian smirks as he sits on the pilot seat and closes the cockpit. And with that he flies towards the Cosmo.

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The commanding ARC trooper waits at the hanger bay and walks in a circle excitedly. 'Am I really going to meet the pop star! What should I say!cmon think, don't embarrass yourself!' She thinks as the hanger bay door opens and an Arc-170 starts to land. Once landed, Ian opens the cockpit and carries Leif off the fighter. "H-hello! My name is Heather and I command this ship. I'm a big fan and it's nice to see meet you!" Heather says quickly. "Hello. I guess you already know who I am. It's nice to meet you too" Lief smiles.

"Ladies, I'll leave you two to chat for a while. Until next time" Ian says as he boards his fighter and leaves the Cosmo.

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Player count-

Players Alive: 19,762

Players dead: 238