Once upon a time there was a Dynamics class freighter. This type of ship had been out of production for a very long while. Spare parts had become harder and harder to find. Over the many years this ship had been bustling around the galaxy many a crew member had retrofitted new parts to replace the aging systems. Inside that freighter there was a computer core. Originally a simple design, lacking even the personality of a cleaning droid, the core was now a mess of jury rigged circuit board and ribbon cables. One day, an enterprising engineer had fitted a new co-processor of unknown origin. While it is impossible to say just what became of that engineer and the rest of her crew, given that the next time the ship turned up it was drifting without power into J space, the answer is probably not healthy. The J system lord probed the computer for answers, but found it unusually uncooperative. The ramshackle core obscuring any relevant data. Eventually the freighter was stored in one of the lord's vast hangers, waiting for the day when just the right search parameters would select it as being useful. This is the story of how Leslie met Jaina.
