At the Naboo inbound jump point, around fifteen minutes after the arrival of the earlier diplomatic message the personal prestige vessel of Chief Brand Officer Kruus slid into realspace. The vessel was the first armed Trade Federation ship to be seen in the system for a decade but as its shields were down the Naboo sensors would be able to detect that the weapons were not charged.
The Heavy Munitions Cruiser opened communications to the Naboo. "This is Captain Tay Lofine of the Trade Federation Hauler 'Acquisitive' here carrying a member of the Directorate of the Trade Federation and his retinue, to speak to the Queen or her appointed delegates regarding restoring amity between your world and our company."
The ship continued along the normal approach vector toward Naboo at a fairly ponderous pace. On the hull were projected a number of friendly symbols and joyous celebrations of shared sentience and cooperation.
Aboard the bridge there was gentle murmuring as Kruus paced by the forward viewing port. There was still a good deal of bad feeling toward the Naboo and the bridge crew would sooner be here for battle than to redress the wrongs of the past. The Neimoidian flight officer cadre was a small one (as the ships had relatively few flight crew each) and a couple of those aboard the bridge had trained with those who had been aboard the
Vuutun Palaa which the Naboo had so callously destroyed.
While they were not overtly in preparation for battle, there were regardless the thirty Vulture Droids who inhabited their niches in the roof of the main hangar that were completing pre-flight checks and being loaded with fuel cells and armed in the event they might be required. As they approached, Luneray Kruus moved over to the active holographic communications by the bridge blast doors and opened the channel, awaiting the Naboo response.
