"TTC Nova Sun" lost in Naboo system

Date: 130808
Planet: Naboo system

Story: (Written by the Galactic News Agency, Ramona doesn't write IC).

The Tatooine Trading Company, commonly known as TTC, announced today that last night, they lost their new YT-2400 class freighter "TTC Nova Sun" to a pirate attack in the Naboo system. The ship, chartered by Dr. Votin Serkual of the Theed University for an extended archeological expedition, arrived at the hyperspace jumppoint "Royal Way" on schedule, but then was waylaid by a pirate ship. According to the last comm transcriptions of the "Nova Sun", the attacker was a Nova Courier using Corellian Beamrail cannons. Despite resistance, the freighter was disabled and boarded. A patrolling TIE Oppressor reacted to the distress call, but arrived too late to stop the pirates from getting away.

The YT-2400 was damaged beyond repair during the attack. The bodies of three of the four crew members - captain Dal Sunstar, burned to death due to a plasma leak in the cockpit with crewman Leli Fiore, and crewman J'zk Fren, suffocated in the dorsal turret after a hull breach, were recovered - but the fourth crewmember, Klus Egata, as well as the passenger, Dr. Votin Serkual, are still missing, their fates unknown.

Dr. Votin Serkual, a historian, recently published his latest work, "Memories of a spacer in the war", based on the diary of Jun Helok from the Clone Wars, and is poised to get a tenure as professor after his next research project. The Theed University announced the hope of the entire faculty that Dr. Serkual will be found alive and unhurt, but fears the worst.