Mara Jade has landed in an orbital cargo station in the Elrood star system. She is looking for a smaller blaster than her present one. The kind she's looking for is illegal in the New Republic, so she'll have to use some of her influence from her days with Karrde combined with some minor force-tricks to succeed. This is a few years before the peace treaty was signed by the Empire and the New Republic. Someone has recognized Mara, and tipped of the Imperial garison on Nentan, a few star systems away, and here they are. She is vastly outnumbered, although the Imp's don't know that Mara has become a Jedi. The only way of making it back to Yavin, a quarter of the galaxy away, is by capturing some small and fast ship and escaping the patroling TIE Interceptors. That's why the recently docked Corellian Corvette isn't good enough. It'll be blasted before you say Taun-taun. Remeber: a Jedi uses the force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.