She got volunteer crews for them, made some slight and secret modifications, put some stunned (yet stupid and easily fooled - being mindless was NOT an advantage) Imperial Sentinels back on both of them, then returned them both to service as Imperial Dungeon Ships.
They'd just fail to deliver Jedi to their dooms and secretly squirrel them away instead. Put faster hyperdrives on them, multiple ID transponders so they could fake many names and registries of other ships in the Dungeon line while being more places than they could with their slower drives, they could raid across the whole Imperial Dungeon project with speed and impunity.
As part of the prison transport network, they could tie in to that datanet and take on cargoes of prisoners unsuspected. Then rendezvous with a rescue ship, offload them all to freedom and safety, switch their own ID, and go to another port to pick up yet more prisoners. A few reports of prisoners who 'died in transit' filed in the appropriate databanks and they could go on doing this for years if they got lucky.
Also, it gave them much better chances to pick and choose who to rescue. A corrupt official was worth nothing to them compared to a cargo of Jedi, or even political prisoners who could be returned to their worlds in secret and supported to incite rebellion.
Taking a third of her cruisers out yet again, she made a last few desperate piracy raids to capture a few dozen more of these little ships. Activating more double-agent Dungeon ships would cause the whole scheme to be discovered much sooner, but time was not something the surviving Jedi still had. The Purge was killing them faster than conscience would allow for the extra time to be of worth. Far, far better to save all the Jedi they could get right now.
Still, an agent in place doing modification to transfer records and they'd be at this some time to come, until someone far up the Imperial ladder got a clue that important prisoners had a habit of disappearing in transit and looked into it. Which would likely result in the shutting down of the whole system of prison ships to be replaced by something else.
Sentinels were so stupid they were easily gassed into submission, then when they awoke put back to their duties with an entirely different crew and never were the wiser. The orders they followed seemed precisely the same, to take on living cargo, secure it, then dump it at a destination. They were too mindless to figure out how very different was the mission they were supporting.
Mindless was NOT an advantage!
Yet the presence of Imperial Sentinels made the bogus Dungeons Ships convincing to even the most suspicious transport or prison officers. Especially with former Imperial officers familiar with the protocol among the crews.
No, this was a deadly blow to the efficacy of the prison transport system.
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(Posted Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:28)
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