I depart to the space port early next morning, after another set of quick goodbyes and promises. I had booked passage in a passenger liner. If nothing goes wrong, I should arrive at Corellia in a weeks' time. I booked a business class suit. I want it to seem like I was a rich snobby heir, so that the Corellian authorities don't suspect me from the get go. Especially when I will be throwing a lot of credits around. Some of the transaction I have planned are not so legal. I had hired a few smugglers to acquire certain commodities for a pretty penny. Those items should have arrived at the company building by now. Let's just say these items were expensive to acquire. I could have bought a few more freighters with that money. Some of them had to be bought from greedy Hutts. And for the others had to bribe a few greedy neimoidians in the trade federation. I even gifted some top of the line protocol droids to the trade federation leadership. These droids where running on my "personalized" codes. I even gifted a couple to Nute Gunray. It pays to have eyes in the inner circle, just in case. And since these droids and credits where sent as bribes the greedy little bastards didn't even suspect a thing.

The travel was peaceful and uneventful. And passed through Corellian immigration and customs checks without much trouble. I catch a taxi aircar and make my way toward Straxon Trading and Logistics Co.

Yes, I named the company after my name, call me vane if you want, because I had it doing legitimate business , while on the side some not so legit trading and forays into the black market as well. I get past the building security checks and make it to Havar's office.

"Good you finally made it", he says as soon as I enter. "Give me report on what's happening and the progress on our more clandestine operations", I wanted to know how the whole thing has been running.

"The company is turning profit so far. Since it's Corellia there is always business to be had. The companies in which you had us invest in are also doing fairly well for now. We gathered all the resources needed in many of our secret warehouses. We had a few officers snooping around, but a few bribes and blackmail here and there sorted that problem out really quick. Mind if I ask ,why did you ask me to buy all those materials, it's enough to build a fortress and from some of the parts I can assume you are going to build a ship and fighter aircraft?", he asks.

"Well that is my little secret, suffice to say it's a little hidden project I have going on. While we are on the topic of secrets did our friends from the Trade federation and Nar Sheda deliver the goods?". I side stepped his question and moved on from that topic.

"Yes, they all arrived yesterday. Two containers packed full of droidikas. They are stored with the other droids in the warehouse." Then he gets up and moves to a side cupboard, from where he brings two suitcases." one contains the data chips with the droidika schematic and program codes. The other contains 5 crushgaunts. These five old gauntlets where extremely hard to acquire.You could have gotten one more container of droidikas for this price."

I just shrugged" These are old relics in a way. They don't make them anymore. Throwing away money to get these five was more than worth it". Spending this much money did hurt my pockets. I might be rich but I am not neimoidian rich. I might have at most 2 billion credits to my name, that doesn't mean I can go financially against those rich greedy bastards. And I am already using upmost in my little ventures. All I can do now is balance expenditure and profit. We discuss more business details and investment goals. After a few hours of business meetings, I head out to my hotel. I needed some good sleep.

Another little secret is I have some droids scouring the industrial and warehouse areas of Coronet city for any useful intel as well. No one suspects a few protocol droids walking around. They can gather useful information this way. And just as luck would have it, my initiative paid off. I was able to locate a warehouse through which the trade federation smuggling goods, and there were at least 6 containers full of droidikas there. I need them, and buying them would bankrupt me. The only solution was stealing them. If I am going to do this I will need a spectacular distraction. And I find it in the data the droids sent me. Three warehouses down from where the droids where stored, there federation had a storage full of what was marked as valuables. I could use this. I spent the next day making plans and gathering intel on local gangs.

On the third day I set things into motion. I sent data on the warehouses and valuable to three of the largest gangs in Coronet city. I also send them a hacking spike (one time use of course). All of this done anonymously through droids. I didn't want their little shenanigans traced back to me. And you can guess what happens when three rival gangs converge on one location. Especially when there is large amount of credits to be made. It will make quite the distraction. I also slice into the droid warehouse and make it so the containers are loaded and ready to be moved to a more 'secure' location. After the arrangements were done I made sure to erase any and all trace of my involvement. It was planned to go down in two days.

On the night of the heist, I waited nearby the droid warehouse in the darkness. I watched as guards stood loitering around. I could also spot the six containers loaded onto a hover truck. Now all I had to do is wait. After almost half an hour, load shouts and shooting could be heard a few warehouses down. When I looked over, I could see panicked guards running that way. This was what I was waiting for. I sneaked up to the truck. Jumped in and used a programmed slicing slick to override the trucks security measures and took off towards my warehouses. All the while smiling like a lunatic. I had prepared unloaders so that I could get these containers quickly offloaded and stored away from prying eyes. Then I uploaded a virus into the trucks navigation system, so that it would return to its original place and after its done all the travel history will be wiped.

After everything was sorted out, I went back to my hotel and slept.

The next day was a buzz with reports of three warehouses being burned down and multiple causalities in what was assumed to be a confrontation between multiple gangs. Plus, even if the Green Jedi investigate, they won't get anything on me as I am a walking wound in the force. All in all, a good heist. I take the next few days off and only thing I did was check up on the business. The later days I spent gathering resources for my projects and arranging things so that I can have a steady flow for my base building. I want things setup before the clone wars.

It's been a month and Janak finally arrived. We went out for the night and got drunk and visited some "entertainment" establishments. The next day I took him to the company and showed him around and brought him up to date on all my little deeds. The second day we took an air taxi and went to the office of Corellian Engineering Cooperation or CEC.

Walking into the lobby of CEC, Janak asks "Why are we here again?". I look at him with a raised eyebrow" As I said yesterday, I bought old freighters and had the retrofitted and modified for our little project. We walk up to the receptionist, who turned out to be a curvaceous lady in her late twenties. She notices us and asks" What can I do for you fine gentlemen today?"

I lean over and give a toothy grin" Well hello there, I came in to check on a few orders I placed and maybe your holo number, so that we can go out for dinner say , tomorrow evening".

She just giggles and shake her head. I turn to see my cousin shaking his head disappointedly. I just shrug, can you blame a guy for trying. I give her my order number. She takes a few minutes to cross check it and says "Mr. Rork will be handling your order. Take the elevator to the 20th floor and it's the third room on your right". I smile and nod at her. We go up the elevator to the room designated room to find a guy in his fifties sit behind a desk, looking through datapads.

"Well hello there, you must be Mr. Rork. I am here to collect on the order I placed" "Yes, Mr. Thrunn your order has been completed as requested. As soon as we get the paper work done and accounts cleared, we can have the ships released to you.". At first, I ordered three used Baleen class heavy freighters, but later decided to add one more just to cut down on the number of runs we might have to make to transfer resources. The original Baleens where about 450 meters long, after retrofitting and upgrading they became 500 meters long. I had the sublight engine improved, improved the Hyperdrive and added more generators.  I also made sure to improve the shields capacity and added four automated quad laser canons. These modified freighters could lift more cargo, move a bit faster and packed sufficient protection. We went through the paperwork and made the necessary transactions. Once that was done the ships were transferred under my name and moved to a dock near my warehouses to begin loading them. I had B1 droids, maintenance and repair droids and astromech droids take their place within the freighters, just in case of trouble. And started loading all the collected resources, because we head out to find this hidden base in two days.