Marloo and her male mate Hariin strolled down the passage that ran parallel to docking bays one through twenty. They'd just recieved a call from their carry mate, Gukopa. She said someone important was coming their way, and that they should watch out for Bors Norno, the station manager. If he were to see this important person, they were to follow him. If he tried to make any calls to his masters, they were to try and stop him. And as luck would have it, the Human had just exited bay nine, and was coming their way. Just as the blast door leading into bay ten opened. A Red Spiked Cerinian in a blue flight suit ran past them, heading for the cruise ship lounges. At first Norno didn't seem to pay any attention to her, but then he turned and stared hard at her receding form. He then grinned and ran for his office. Marloo and Hariin trotted after him, while Hariin sent out a call to the other Reepans that the manager must not get his call out. When they got to his office, they found the two Reepans who were supposed to be on duty standing in the hall. "I am sorry clan leader." One of them told Hariin as they ran up. "But he pulled a blaster on us, and made us leave." "You did the right thing." He said as he moved past them and pulled an access panel off the wall and crawled inside. "I'll try and stop his signal from going out by cutting the com system's power supply." Presently, a stream of Huttese invective began flowing from the hole in the wall. Marloo slapped her mate's backside as he backed out. "Watch your language!" She told him sternly. "I take it you were unsuccessful?" "The power cable has been replaced with an armored one. I guess he's not as dumb as we thought. I'm going to call Zara and have her alert our 'special merchants' that this Empire will probably be on it's way." "What do you mean, the Empire might be on the way?" A deep voice said behind them. Hariin turned and found the smuggler Zakaria Cronda standing there. They briefly told the black skinned Near Human what was going on. "Can you lock this door so he can't get out?" He asked. "Yes. It'll hold him for maybe an hour." Marloo said with a nod. "Then do it. I've got something I want to do, and I don't want him in my way." Zakaria told them as one of the techs worked at the door's control panel. "He's locked in." "Good, thank you. I'll be on my way then." He shot back over his shoulder as he was entering the station manager's apartment. Hariin put the wall panel back in place. "Let's get out of here. I'm hungry! Let's go hit the buffet at Varufee's. I'm buying you three." They laughed. Reepans can eat a lot. The Reepans are a bipedal race native to Khamas. They are also a tri-sex race. A male will copulate with a female and fertilize her egg. The female will then copulate with the carrier and deposit the egg. Carriers behave as males when not pregnant, but then act as females once impregnated.